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.
“Popular Song On the Picket Lines” features “social significance” music from the 1930s and 40s that alluded in humorous, poignant, or politically overt ways to issues and problems of the times. Featured artists include Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, and Ethel Waters.
Break out the hot dogs, your favorite movies, and a cold drink of your choice–it’s Independence Day this week on Afterglow. We’ll celebrate with music from a recently-reissued album of duets from Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong, and patriotic popular song from Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Paul Robeson, Peggy Lee, Margaret Whiting, and more.
Afterglow marks this Memorial Day weekend with a program that looks at the tragic, triumphant, and ultimately uncertain year of 1945. News clips, interviews with historian Jim Madison and American homefront civilians, and music from Bing Crosby and others retell the story of the end of the war and the change and expectations that followed.
The dream’s the theme on this edition of Afterglow, as “Street of Dreams” takes a look at popular songs that evoke an ethereal drift of mind, with music from Bing Crosby, Chet Baker, Lee Wiley, Nat King Cole, Dianne Reeves, Frank Sinatra, and many more, including a full set of dream-related songs written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
Our annual tribute to the cold-weather months features music from Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan, the Buselli-Wallarab Orchestra, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall and Bing Crosby. For more winter-weather music, check out previous shows Let It Snow On Afterglow and Look Out the Window!.
Afterglow continues a long-standing holiday tradition this week with “Songs of the Season: Christmas,” featuring music from Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, Stan Kenton, Dianne Reeves, and many more. “Songs of the Season: Christmas” airs Friday, December 19 at 10:05 p.m. EST on WFIU. Check out our 2007 and 2006 Christmas songs-of-the-season programs as well.
“Holidays on Film” takes a look at seasonal song in the movies and on TV specials, with music from Meet Me in St. Louis, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Scrooge, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lemon Drop Kid and more, performed by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and others. “Holidays on Film” airs Friday, December 12 at 10:05 p.m. EST on WFIU.
This week on Afterglow it’s “Havin’ Fun With Bing and Louis,” as we feature circa-1950 radio broadcasts of Bing Crosby’s CBS Chesterfield program, with special guests that include Peggy Lee, Jack Teagarden, Ella Fitzgerald, and Crosby’s good friend Louis Armstrong. Crosby and Armstrong enjoyed a natural, easygoing chemistry that’s reflected in some of the banter we’ll hear, as well as musical performances of “Blueberry Hill,” “I Get Ideas,” and a rendition of W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues” on which the two are joined by Ella Fitzgerald.
This week on Afterglow it’s “Jazz Impressions of Showboat,” we pay tribute to the 80th anniversary of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical’s launch with performances from trumpeters Kenny Dorham and Clifford Brown, singers Margaret Whiting and Bing Crosby, drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Jimmy Raney, and many more artists, including Paul Robeson and his showstopping, anthemic rendition of “Ol’ Man River.”
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The dream’s the theme on this edition of Afterglow, as “Street of Dreams” takes a look at popular songs that evoke an ethereal drift of mind, with music from Bing Crosby, Chet Baker, Lee Wiley, Nat King Cole, Dianne Reeves, Frank Sinatra, and many more, including a full set of dream-related songs written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
Our annual tribute to the cold-weather months features music from Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan, the Buselli-Wallarab Orchestra, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall and Bing Crosby. For more winter-weather music, check out previous shows 
Afterglow continues a long-standing holiday tradition this week with “Songs of the Season: Christmas,” featuring music from Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, Stan Kenton, Dianne Reeves, and many more. “Songs of the Season: Christmas” airs Friday, December 19 at 10:05 p.m. EST on WFIU. Check out our 
“Holidays on Film” takes a look at seasonal song in the movies and on TV specials, with music from Meet Me in St. Louis, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, Scrooge, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Lemon Drop Kid and more, performed by Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and others. “Holidays on Film” airs Friday, December 12 at 10:05 p.m. EST on WFIU.
This week on Afterglow it’s “Jazz Impressions of Showboat,” we pay tribute to the 80th anniversary of the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein musical’s launch with performances from trumpeters Kenny Dorham and Clifford Brown, singers Margaret Whiting and Bing Crosby, drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Jimmy Raney, and many more artists, including Paul Robeson and his showstopping, anthemic rendition of “Ol’ Man River.”