An hour of sounds from our trip to the fantastic Hepcats’ Holiday weekender in Weston Super Mare this month. We talk to organisers Robert and Claire Austin and lots of swingin’ holidaymakers and play an hour of non-stop tunes all heard over the weekend.

Hepcats’ Holiday Special – Hot Ginger Radio Show #21

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 21 (Hepcats’ Holiday Special]
TX date: 18 July 2010

Track listing:

01 – The Cats and the Fiddle – Hep Cats’ Holiday (1940)
02 – Glenn Miller Orchestra (v. Marion Hutton) – Wanna Hat With Cherries (1941)
03 – Little Maxie Bailey – Drive, Soldiers, Drive (1953)
04 – Dusty Brooks – (My Baby Loves) Chili Dogs (1952)
05 – Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra – Down South Camp Meeting (1934)
06 – Jimmy Lunceford & His Orchestra – Harlem Shout (1936)
07 – Count Basie Orchestra – Broadway (1940)
08 – Andy Kirk And His 12 Clouds Of Joy – Take It And Git (1942)
09 – The Cadets – I Want You (1956)
10 – Sydney Bechet – Blues My Naughty Sweety Gives to Me (1951)
11 – Teddy Hill & His NBC Orchestra – King Porter Stomp (1937)
12 – Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra – Let Me Off Uptown (1940)
13 – Slim Gaillard – The Jam Man (1946)
14 – Count Basie Orchestra – Red Bank Boogie (1943)
15 – Don Albert & his Orchestra – Rockin’ and Swingin’ (1936)
16 – Billie Holiday – Nice Work if You Can Get It (1956)
17 – The Swallows – It Ain’t the Meat (1951)
18 – Will Bradley – Scrub Me, Mama, With A Boogie Beat (1940)
19 – Duke Ellington Orchestra – Swingin’ On The Campus (1939)
20 – Louis Jordan – Caldonia (1945)
21 – Pete G & the Magnitones – Caldonia (2010)