Afterglow Jazz and American Song with host David Brent Johnson

Afterglow is a weekly one-hour radio program of jazz and American popular song hosted by David Brent Johnson and produced by WFIU Public Radio. Afterglow airs Friday at 10 p.m. on WFIU HD1.

June 3, 2006

Songs of the Season: Summer

By David Brent Johnson

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Woody Herman
June Comes Around Every Year

Album: Comp. Columbia Recordings 1945-47
Label: Mosaic (1945)
Notes: Woody Herman on vocals.

Lester Young
June Bug

Album: Immortal Lester Young
Label: Savoy (1949)

Hoagy Carmichael
Memphis in June

Album: Hoagy Sings Carmichael
Label: Pacific Jazz (1956)

Wynton Kelly
June Night

Album: Kelly Great
Label: Vee Jay (1959)
Notes: With Lee Morgan on trumpet and Wayne Shorter on tenor sax.

Nat King Cole
Summer Is a Comin' In

Album: Lush Life
Label: Capitol (1952)
Notes: Pete Rugolo leading the big band. Song co-written by Alec Wilder.

Nat King Cole
This Morning It Was Summer

Album: Stardust: 1955-1959
Label: Bear Family (1958)

Nat King Cole
Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

Album: The Classic Singles
Label: Capitol (1963)

Nat King Cole
That Sunday, That Summer

Album: The Classic Singles
Label: Capitol (1963)

Peggy Lee/Bing Crosby
Watermelon Weather

Album: Black Coffee and Other Delights
Label: Decca (1952)

Bing Crosby/Louis Armstrong
Gone Fishin'

Album: Back Through the Years
Label: Decca (1951)

Louis Armstrong/Dave Brubeck
Summer Song

Album: Real Ambassadors
Label: Columbia/Legacy (1961)

Astrud Gilberto
Once Upon a Summertime

Album: Look to the Rainbow
Label: Verve (1965)
Notes: With Gil Evans.

Frank Sinatra
Something Wonderful Happens in Summer

Album: Complete Capitol Singles Collection
Label: Capitol (1957)

Paul Desmond
Bossa Antigua

Album: Bossa Antigua
Label: RCA (1964)
Notes: With Jim Hall on guitar.

Herbie Harper
Summertime

Album: Complete Nocturne Recordings
Label: Fresh Sound (1954)

Dick & Kiz Harp
The Great Indoors

Album: Again! Dick & Kiz Harp at the 90th Floor
Label: 90th Floor Records (1960)
Notes: Cole Porter song.

Dick & Kiz Harp
County Fair

Album: At the 90th Floor
Label: 90th Floor Records (1960)

Hampton Hawes
The Green Leaves of Summer

Album: The Green Leaves of Summer
Label: Contemporary (1964)

Shirley Scott
Heat Wave

Album: Talkin' Verve
Label: Impulse/Verve (1966)
Notes: With Clark Terry on trumpet.

Oscar Brown Jr.
Summer in the City

Album: Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes to Washington
Label: Verve (1964)

Art Pepper
The Summer Knows

Album: The Trip
Label: Contemporary (1976)
Notes: From the movie SUMMER OF '42.

Monika Herzig
Once Upon a Summer Day

Album: In Your Own Sweet Voice
Label: Acme Records (2004)

Bobby Hutcherson
Summer Nights

Album: Stick-Up!
Label: Blue Note (1966)

Frank Sinatra
Summer Wind

Album: The Reprise Collection
Label: Reprise (1966)

Woody Herman
Summer Sequence Parts 1-4

Album: Comp. Columbia Recordings 1945-47
Label: Mosaic (1947)
Notes: Entire

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June 3, 2006

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By David Brent Johnson

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