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Swear to Tell the Truth for Tuesday, November 10th, (1:00-2:30 pm).

Our plan for this week’s program changed as we put it together. What we have is a program of blues and R&B, some well-known recordings and some obscure. The R&B we have lined up to play ranges from 1941 to 1964, from an era when what was recorded was pretty much what the arrangement the band brought to the studio to the era when the music was as much the producer’s art or the studio band’s as it was the named artist.

Besides R&B we have some modern blues records a bit off the beaten path and several piano blues recordings from 1936. On the R&B side, there’s a rare track from Cleo Brown from a new compilation called Boogie Woogie Gals.

No overriding theme in this week’s program. A few longtime favourite tracks and other things we found when we were putting together the show.

On the Show:

Noble “Thin Man” Watts – Hot Lips Page – Buddy Johnson Orchestra – Marie Adams – Smiley Lewis – The Rockin’ Highliners – Jesse James – Ray Agee – Ted Taylor – Tiny Topsy – Little Willie John – a.o.

Listen to the program at FM 93.3 in Hamilton or on CFMU online at cfmu.msumcmaster.ca. The program will be available to stream or as a podcast until December 7th.

Contact Us:

To reach us with comments or queries, write us at sweartotellthetruth@gmail.com.

You can also follow the program at sweartotellthetruth@nosignifying on Twitter.

Next week (November 17th)

Next week, the station will play a repeat. We have to take a week off. Brand new show in two weeks.

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