Just For Fun 5

Tuesday, August 18, 2026 #2295


It wasn't all ballads and swing instrumentals in the Big Band Era. Some recordings were sure to bring a smile to your face.

Playlist

The hut-sut song
Freddy Martin
The love bug will bite you
Teddy Hill
”Murder,” he says
Duke Heitger
Three little fishies
Harry Roy
Civilization
Danny Kaye/Andrews Sisters
B-I-Bi
Horace Heidt
Flat foot floogie
Slim and Slam
The merry-go-round broke down
Jimmie Lunceford
A-huggin’ and a-chalkin’
Hoagy Carmichael
Jumpin’ jive
Glenn Miller
Who threw the whisky in the well?
Lucky Millinder
Sam, you made the pants too long -
Vaughn Monroe
Josephine, please no lean on da bell
Louis Prima
Please no squeeze da banana
Tony Pastor
Pass the biscuits, Mirandy
Spike Jones
Nyow! Nyow! Nyow!
Louis Prima
Don’t go in the lion’s cage tonight
King Sisters