Yes, just ahead of our Swingin’ Xmas Party, here’s an hour of swingin’ Xmas tunes for you to play over the festive period, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee and many more!

We’re also announcing the winner of our Grand Xmas Giveaway competition. Is it you?

Hot Ginger Xmas Swing Special

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 39

TX date: 12 December 2010

This week, to commemorate a year since of the birth of Hot Ginger’s retro nights at The Cross in Moseley, we decided to record the show during a celebratory dinner party. Stephen, Kerstin, Andy and Lorna cracked open a couple of bottles of wine and cooked up some delicious treats to complement the sweet sounds of swing. The recording could have been a disaster, but we think it went rather spiffingly.

We also included an interview with Anna and Tony from AYD Balboa in Gloucester. Visit their site for more details on Balboa and the classes and workshops they are running: www.aydbalboa.co.uk

Hot Ginger First Birthday Dinner Party

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 38

TX date: 28 November 2010

01. Lucky Millinder – Savoy
02. Fats Waller – I Simply Adore You
03.  Ambrose & his Orchestra – Goodnight
04. Duke Ellington – Perdido
05. Lester Young, featuring Billie Holiday – When You’re Smiling
06. Bettie Hutton – Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree
07. Cozy Cole All Stars – Joshua
08. Ella Mae Morse – Jumpin’ Jack
09. Benny Goodman (v. Helen Ward) – You’ve Turned the Tables on Me
10. Glenn Miller – Keep ‘em Flyin’
11. Johnny Mercer – My Sugar is So Refined
12. Lew Stone & his Band (v. Nat Gonella) –  My Old Dog
13. Benny Goodman – Sing, Sing, Sing (with a Swing)

This week we’re presenting a re-run of our first ever  ‘special’ where we devoted an entire show to one artist:  a band we think are the best kept secret of the swing era: Andy Kirk and his 12 Clouds of Joy, featuring the amazing Mary Lou Williams.

Hot Ginger: Return of the Andy Kirk Special

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 37 [ANDY KIRK SPECIAL]

TX date: 22 November 2010

Track listing:

If you enjoyed our free Balboa taster class at last night’s Hot Ginger Birthday Party, here’s a re-run of our Balboa beats radio show. It’s an hour of  non-stop Balboa tunes. 20 Bal-Swing classics to practice your dance steps to. Just come back here and press play every time you want to practice!

Hot-Ginger Non-Stop Balboa Beats Special

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 36

TX date: 19 September and 14 November 2010

Track listing:

01 – Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy – Puddin’ Head Serenade
02 – Billie Holiday – Nice Work If You Can Get It
03 – Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – All The Cats Join In
04 – Cats and the Fiddle – Gang Busters
05 – Al Bowlly (with Lew Stone And His Monseigneur Band) – My Woman
06 – Bob Howard & His Orchestra – You Fit Into The Picture
07 – Eddy Duchin – Anything Can Happen [1936]
08 – Dorsey Brothers (v. Smith Ballew & Chorus) – Button Up Your Overcoat (1929)
09 – Mildred Bailey – Lover, Come Back to Me
10 – Slim Gaillard – Tutti Frutti
11 – Henry Hall’s BBC Dance Orchestra – One, Two, Button Your Shoe
12 – Lani McIntire – Hula Blues
13 – Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra – Big John’s Special
14 – Django Reinhardt – Minor Swing [1937]
15 – Duke Ellington – Love in Swingtime
16 – Lil Armstrong – Let’s Get Happy Together
17 – Count Basie – Topsy [1939]
18 – Nat King Cole – Just You, Just Me
19 – Charlie Barnet Orchestra – Night and Day
20 – Mills Blue Rhythm Band – Savage Rhythm

Today, Andy celebrates the 70th anniversary of the legendary Duke Ellington concert at Fargo, recorded on 7 November 1940, and the first anniversary of Hot Ginger, playing a selection of tunes played on our Grand Opening night last year, including tracks by Benny Goodman, Ambrose, Glenn Miller and Louis Jordan.

Hot Ginger Radio Show #35 (The Duke at Fargo)

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 35
TX date: 07/11/10

Track listing:

01 – Duke Ellington Orchestra – Never No Lament (7 Nov 1940)
02 – Benny Goodman – Benny Rides Again (1940)
03 – Ambrose Mayfair Hotel Orchestra – Moaning For You (1930)
04 – Red Norvo Orchestra (v. Mildred Bailey) – Smoke Dreams (1937)
05 – Duke Ellington Orchestra – On The Air (7 Nov 1940)
06 – Duke Ellington Orchestra – There Shall Be No Night (7 Nov 1940)
07 – Eddy Duchin – It’s de-Lovely (1937)
08 – Glen Miller – Jeep Jockey Jump (1943)
09 – Fats Waller – Your Feet’s Too Big (1939)
10 – Duke Ellington Orchestra – Star Dust (7 Nov 1940)
11 – Duke Ellington Orchestra – Bojangles (7 Nov 1940)
12 – Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra (v. Ginger Rogers) – Let Yourself Go (1936)
13 – Louis Jordan – Fat Sam From Birmingham (1951)
14 – Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – C Jam Blues (1999)
15 – Duke Ellington Orchestra – Rockin’ In Rhythm (7 Nov 1940)

Today Stephen plays a fine selection of swing from the likes of Fletcher Henderson, Glenn Miller, Ella Mae Morse and many more, plus he announces the winner of our Perfect Swing! CD competition!

‘Tidal Wave’ – Hot Ginger Radio Show #34

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 34
TX date: 24/10/10

Track listing:

01 – Fletcher Henderson – Tidal Wave (1934)
02 – Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra – Casa Loma Stomp
03 – Ray Noble (v. Al Bowlly) – Shout For Happiness
04 – Heinz Muller – So SchÅ¡n Wie Heut’
05 – Glenn Miller – SNAFU Jump
06 – Bob Crosby – Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Girl)
07 – Bud Freeman & His Summa Cum Laude Orchestra – The Eel
08 – Lester Young – It’s Only A Paper Moon
09 – Coleman Hawkins – Chicago
10 – Django Reinhardt – Djangology
11 – Eddie Lang – Walkin’ the Dog
12 – Ella May Morse – Jumpin’ Jack
13 – Fats Waller – That’s What The Well-Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear
14 – Freddie Slack – Furlough Fling
15 – Carroll Gibbons – From The Top Of Your Head
16 – Benny Goodman – All The Cats Join In

To coincide with Andy’s  Top 10 desert island swing tunes being published in this month’s Radar Magazine, he spins them here for your delight. Lorna joins him and starts off the show with a few of her own current faves.

To get your copy of Radar Magazine, go to theradarmagazine.co.uk and check out their list of outlets. It’s only £2.50 and is a cracking read.

Jazz Andy’s Top Ten – Hot Ginger Radio Show #33

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 33 – Jazz Andy’s Top Ten (in association with Radar Magazine)
TX date: 17 October 2010

Track listing:

This week, Stephen put together a one-hour special featuring the best vocalists of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, featuring Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Bowlly and many more…

‘Sing It Way Down Low’ – Hot Ginger Radio show #32

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 32 – Vocalist Special
TX date: 10/10/10

Track listing:

01 – Cab Calloway – Hey Now, Hey Now
02 – Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Hotel Orpheans (v. Al Bowlly) – A Great Big Bunch of You
03 – Django Reinhardt (v. Freddy Taylor) – Nagasaki
04 – Teddy Wilson (v. Billie Holiday) – Sugar
05 – Tommy Dorsey (v. Edythe Wright) – On The Beach at Bali Bali
06 – Oscar Rabin And His Band (v. Dinah Miller) – Woe Is Me
07 – Nat Gonella And His Georgians – Oh! Mo’nah
08 – Mildred Bailey – When The Day Is Done
09 – Louis Prima – Sing It Way Down Low
10 – Hoagy Carmichael – Rockin’ Chair
11 – Fats Waller – The Sheik of Araby
12 – Ella Fitzgerald – Moon Ray
13 – Dorsey Brothers (v. Frank Sinatra) – East of the Sun
14 – Ella Mae Morse – No Love
15 – Helen Humes & The Bill Doggett Octet – Be Baba Leba
16 – Al Bowlly and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans – Snuggled on Your Shoulder
17 – Billie Holiday – All Of Me
18 – Bert Firman & his Orchestra – My Pet
19 – Bunny Berigan (v. Bernie Mackay) – Flat Foot Floogie
20 – Jack Payne And His Orchestra – It’s A Hap-Hap-Happy Day

Our first radio show to come with a content warning. Today, Andy and Lorna present a selection of the rudest and most controversial songs from the Roaring 20s, Dirty 30s, Naughty 40s and Shifty 50s.

Every track contains coded (and sometimes not so coded) references to either sex or getting tremendously high on drugs. We’ve got double entendres, single entendres and euphemisms galore. Big ones! So send the kids outside and get a load of this…

Sex and drugs and jelly roll! – Hot Ginger Radio Show #30

Hot Ginger Radio Show no. 30

TX date: 26 September 2010

Track listing:

01 – Mills Blue Rhythm Band – Reefer Man (1932)
02 – Bessie Smith – I Need a Little Sugar in my Bowl (1931)
03 – The Ink Spots – Java Jive (1940)
04 – Cats & The Fiddle – Killin’ Jive (1939)
05 – Elsie Carlisle – My Man O’ War (1930)
06 – Fats Waller – All That Meat and No Potatoes (1941)
07 – The Meltone Boys – Mary Jane
08 – Harry Roy & his Band – She Had To Go And Lose It At The Astor (1939)
09 – Harry Roy & his Bat Club Boys – My Girl’s Pussy (1931)
10 – Georgia White – Hot Nuts (Get ‘Em from the Peanut Man) (1931)
11 – Stuff Smith and his Onyx Club Boys (v. Rosetta Howard) – You’re a Viper (1936)
12 – Louis Armstrong – Sweet Sue, Just You (1932)
13 – Elsie Carlisle – My Handy Man (1931)
14 – Julia Lee – I Didn’t Like It The First Time (1949)
15 – Roy Brown – Butcher Pete, Pt. 1 (1950)
16 – Chick Webb (v. Ella Fitzgerald) – When I Get Low I Get High (1937)
17 – Bull Moose Jackson – Big Ten Inch (1952)
18 – Connee Allen – Rocket 69 (1951)