Sing! Sing! Sing! (some recent shows)
A July 4th Bonus Post for Everyone!
Big news! We are now up to 155 episodes of my regular radio show, Sing! Sing! Sing!, heard on Saturdays on KSDS Jazz 88.3 San Diego - but also anytime you like on the Podbean app and any other podcast platform. (And they said it wouldn’t last!) Every once in a while, here on Substack, I send out a “bonus” posts listing mostly recent episodes of the show. More details below. I’m going to keep updating this page with all future episodes, so feel free to keep checking back here! (And in case you were wondering, there’s at least 75-80 other shows I’ve done that I haven’t listed here…)
Sing! Sing! Sing! : My tagline is, “Celebrating the great jazz - and jazz-adjacent - singers, as well as the composers, lyricists, arrangers, soloists, and sidemen, who help to make them great.”
A production of KSDS heard Saturdays at 10:00 AM Pacific; 1:00PM Eastern.
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SING! SING! SING!
The Oscar Peterson Centennial - Oscar Meets the Swinging Singers!
(SSS #157 2025-07-19)
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Bastille Day - Cole Porter in Paris
(SSS #156 2025-07-12)
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July 4 Special: Every State in the 48 is Great
(SSS #155 2025-07-05)
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With Seth McFarlane: “Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements”
(SSS #154 2025-06-28)
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INSIDE ART Dave Drexler interviews Will Friedwald re NIGHTS AT THE RED STEINWAY (2025-06-22)
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG: International Satch (“A Wonderful World”)
(SSS #153 2025-06-21 - 2025 LOUIS ARMSTRONG BIRTHDAY SPECIAL)
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Father's Day (“My Old Man”)
(SSS #152 2025-06-14)
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Nelson Riddle
(SSS #29 2023-01-14)
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Let's Spring One! (Sing Sing Sing goes Spring Spring Spring!)
(SSS #149 2025-05-24 - Spring 2025, Part 2)
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The Charles Strouse Jazz & Pop Mixtape (RIP 1928-2025)
(SSS #062 2023-09-02)
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Mother's Day - Mama I Wanna Make Rhythm!
(SSS #148 2025-05-17)
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Cinco de Mayo 2025 - Swinging Singers Go Latin!
(SSS #147 2025-05-10)
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The Bing Crosby Birthday Special - Call of the South
SSS #146 2025-05-03.
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In the Garden with Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
(SSS #145 2025-04-26 Spring Show #1)
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Pop! Goes The Ella - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Great Hits of Today
(SSS #144 2025-03-19)
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Religion In Rhythm - Book 3 (Songs of Faith)
(SSS #143 2025-04-12)
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April Fool's Day Special - Great Jazz Novelty Songs
(SSS #142 2025-04-05)
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Female Songwriters of the Swing Era part 2 w Professor Michael G. Garber
(SSS #141 2025-03-29 Women's History Month)
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Female Songwriters of the Swing Era Part 1 w Professor Michael G. Garber
(SSS #140 2025-03-22 Women's History Month)
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The NAT KING COLE birthday Special - Nat & Nelson swing the Standards
(SSS #139 2025-03-15)
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The DON COSTA Centennial Special!
(SSS #138 2025-03-08)
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Ella Fitzgerald: "Ella's Race Problem" with Judith Tick
(BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2025-02-24)
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Nat King Cole: "We Are Americans Too" (“Assault on a King”)
(BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2025-02-18)
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THE REAL AMBASSADORS with special guest Ricky Riccardi
(Black History Month 2025-02-17)
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The Don Redman Songbook
(SSS #135 2025-02-15 Black History Month)
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Pioneering African American Female Songwriters w Dr. Michael Garber
(BLACK HISTORY MONTH - SSS #134 2025-02-08)
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“Strange Fruit”: Billie Holiday | Abe Meeropol | Earl Robinson
(BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2025-02-05)
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Louis Armstrong: Satchmo's Race Problem (with Ricky Riccardi)
(BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2025-02-03)
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: The Black Experience in WW2
(SSS #133 2025-02-01)
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Bobby Hackett Meets the Great Singers
(SSS #132 2025-01-25)
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Salute to Fruit, Part 1 - Stealin' Apples
(SSS #131 2025-01-18)
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Get Happy! The Harold Arlen-Ted Koehler Songbook
(SSS #130 2025-01-11)
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The Buzz! (Jazz Journalists Association)
Neal Tesser interviews Will Friedwald
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Let's Have a Party! NEW YEAR’S PARTY SPECIAL
(SSS #129 2025-01-04 )
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Best of 2024 Jazz Vocals
(SSS #128 2024-12-28)
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Dylan Goes Eclectic! Bob Dylan Jazz & Pop Mixtape w ELIJAH WALD
(SSS #127 2024-12-21)
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Sinatra! Frank Conversation with very special guest, MR. BILL BOGGS
(FS 2024 11 2024-12-16)
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Sinatra! “The Man With The Golden Arm Revisited”
Guest-starring:
KURT ELLING, MELISSA ERRICO, & ALLAN HARRIS
(SSS #126 2024-12-14)
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Sinatra! Highlights from the ABC TV Series, 1957-'58
(FS 2024 07 2024-12-10)
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Sinatra! Sings Cahn & Van Heusen
(SSS #125 2024-12-07)
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Sinatra! Sings Burke & Van Heusen
(Day #2 of the 12 Days of Sinatra FS 2024 02 2024-12-03)
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John Kander & Fred Ebb - The Jazz & Pop MixTape
(SSS #124 2024-11-30)
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The Harry Warren & Johnny Mercer Songbook, Part 1 -
with Vanessa Racci & Robert Lamont
(SSS 123 2024-11-23 )
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"Uncle Sam Blues - The Best of V-Discs"
(SSS #122 2024-11-16 )
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Poetry and All That Jazz
(SSS 119 2024-10-26)
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The BOBBY SHORT Centennial Special: "Afro Centric"
(SSS #116 2024-10-05)
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The Money Song {619-388-3000} Pledge Week Special
(SSS #114 2024-09-21)
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Mel Torme In Hollywood
(SSS #113 2024-09-14)
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Lerner & Loewe - The Jazz & Pop MixTape
(SSS #112 2024-09-07 )
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Songs in the Key of Sea - Nautical But Nice
(SSS #111 2024-08-31)
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Dinah Washington @ 100 - Back to the Blues
(SSS #110 2024-08-24)
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Fat Daddies & Skinny Mamas - The Body Positive Show
(SSS #109 2024-08-17)
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A Little Moonlight & A Little Tenderness - The Harry Woods Songbook
(SSS #108 2024-08-10)
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Tony Bennett sings the Cole Porter Songbook
(SSS #107 2024-08-03)
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"Calypso Blues" or "It's the new Calypso Bebop"
(SSS #106 2024-07-27 )
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Great Songs with Great Verses
(SSS #54 2023-07-08)
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ALAN BERGMAN at 97: A Birthday Present!
(SSS #011 2022-09-10)
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PS: I have playlists (usually in excel form) for most of these shows, so write me if interested! Yes!
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Will-- Enjoyed your July 4th show Every State in the 48 is Great. You mentioned it was hard to find a song about Montana. On your next show of this type you could cheat and include "Rhode Island if Famous for You" which includes the lines:
Cotton comes from Lou-siana
Gophers from Montana
And spuds from Idaho
They plow land
In the cow land of Missour-a
Where most beef meant
For roast beef seems to grow
There are many recordings including those by Blossom Dearie, Nancy LaMott and Blossom Dearie. The song may also include every other state at the time it was written by Dietz and Schwartz in 1948.
Another possibility is the song "Montana Moon" a fairly obscure country western tune at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywsHL0xK5E8&list=RDywsHL0xK5E8&start_radio=1
I came across it when looking for Montana related songs from the 1930 Joan Crawford film "Montana Moon". You Tube also has a song from that film "Montana Call"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKrJ5fTywg&list=RDETKrJ5fTywg&start_radio=1
At least this one if by someone well known, Roger Wolfe Kahn with Dick Robertson vocal.
None of these are jazz or jazz-adjacent but in a pinch they might do.--David
Will like you I am over the moon to have the new Ella “Alfie”. I don’t know if you caught it, (it took me the 4th listening) when she sings the word Alfie the final time, she sings it on the same 2 notes as Porgy. Her connect-the-dots musical mind never flags! Peter Coppock