1.21 gigawatts - 1957 Episode 36

Eisenhower, jazz and obscenity. 1957.

Playlist

  1. Troubles, troubles, troubles by BB King on The Blues (Virgin Records)
  2. Hey! Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley on Bo Diddley (Geffen)
  3. I'm walkin' by Fats Domino on Greatest hits: Walking to New Orleans (Capitol)
  4. Lucille by Little Richard on The Georgia Peach (Speciality)
  5. Just because by Lloyd Price on Lloyd Price greatest hits (UMG)
  6. There is something on your mind by Big Jay McNeely on Nervous (Big Jay McNeely masters)
  7. Freight train by Elizabeth Cotten on Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes (Folkways Records)
  8. Reet Petite - Original 1957 Version by Jackie Wilson on The ultimate Jackie Wilson (Brunswick Record Corp)
  9. Hallelujah I Love Her So by Ray Charles on Ray Charles (Atlantic)
  10. You send me by Sam Cooke on The man who invented soul (BMG)
  11. Dream a little dream of me by Doris Day on Day by night (Columbia)
  12. Body and soul by Billie Holiday on Body and soul (Verve)
  13. Imagination by Art Pepper on Art Pepper meets the rhythm section (Concord Music Group)
  14. 'Round midnight by Miles Davis on 'Round about midnight (GNP Crescendo Records)
  15. I'm an old cowhand by Sonny Rollins on Way out west (Concord Music Group)