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No more big bands remembered

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vchimpanzee

Jeff Rollins would do this around 9:30 Eastern each morning. Until two weeks ago. He'd play a song from the big band era, or one that sounded like it, and usually he would say something about the song, the artist, or big bands in general. I miss it.

The songs aren't in the usual playlist. "Satin Doll" by Duke Ellington (though I heard a vocal version this morning), "In the Mood" and "Pennsylvania 6-5000" by Glenn Miller, "Stompin' at the Savoy" and "Don't Be That Way" by Benny Goodman, "Hooked on Swing" by Larry Elgart, "You Made Me Love You" by Harry James, "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey, "Patricia" and "Cherry Pink" by Perez Prado ... that's just a few of the songs.
 
I was surprised to notice it was gone... just earlier this week. Yes there were some good pieces in that segment, but understandably it was getting a tad repetitive.
 
The Mambo King -- don't recall his name... which Jeff Rollins used to play during the BB Remembered segment -- was just heard on albanymagic.com with that song ... 'something - "cherry blossom", one of my favorites. :)
 
RBW said:
The Mambo King -- don't recall his name... which Jeff Rollins used to play during the BB Remembered segment -- was just heard on albanymagic.com with that song ... 'something - "cherry blossom", one of my favorites. :)
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Could have been "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" by Prez Prado.
 
That would be the one!
 
And the song set a record, according to Casey Kasem, for weeks at number one, which was tied by "You Light Up My Life" and "Physical" and broken by "End of the Road" and then immediately by Whitney Houston's version of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You".

Casey didn't recognize "Hound Dog"/"Don't Be Cruel", which broke the record only a couple of years later. I'm not sure why, unless in his statistics one of the two songs spent time at number one followed by the other one.
 
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