Program:
Sweethearts on Parade; Just A Gigolo
I'm A Ding Dong Daddy
Ooh-Oh-Boom!; Always and Always; Make Believe; The Blue Room
Sweet Lorraine; The Blues In My Flat
Shine; You're Driving Me Crazy
My Melancholy Baby; Dizzy Spells
Exactly Like You
Vibraphone Blues
I Cried For You
Ring Dem Bells; Don't Be That Way; Shoe Shiner's Drag; Memories of You; When Lights Are Low; I've Found a New Baby
Lost Love; Bogo Jo; Now That You're Mine
Million Dollar Smile; The Lamplighter; Overtime; Tempo's Boogie
Star Dust
Rag Mop; Sad Feeling; Hamp's Gumbo
Real Crazy; More Crazy; More and More Crazy
Pig Ears & Rice; Imagination; Air Mail Special; Midnight Sun; The Blues Ain't News To Me; Swingin' On C
Jumping At the Woodsie; Cherokee; Ballad Medley
What is This Thing Called Love; I'll Never Be the Same; Makin' Whoopee
'Round Midnight; But Beautiful; Just You, Just Me
Cute; Swingle Jingle; Taste of Honey
I'll Get By; Four Once More
Air Mail Special; As Time Goes By; Avalon; Flyin' Home
Today's subject was Lionel Hampton, legendary jazz vibraphonist. The show surveyed his early work as percussionist and vibraphonist in big bands, through his playing in Benny Goodman's small groups, to his career as bandleader and frequent collaborator.
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