Station Archive

On tonight’s show:

• Rex Stewart & His 52nd Street Stompers, Love In My Heart (a/k/a "Swing Baby Swing")
• Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, Muskrat Ramble (Live, 1947)
• Artie Shaw, Smooth 'n' Easy
• Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
• Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter, I Still Love Him So
• Betty Carter & Ray Bryant, Gone with the Wind
• Betty Carter, Let's Fall in Love
• The Chico Hamilton Trio (with Howard Roberts & Jim Hall), Blues on the Rocks
• Rosemary Clooney, Sophisticated Lady
• Wynton Kelly, Come Rain or Come Shine
• Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis, Clementine
• Eddie Jefferson, I've Got the Blues (Lester Leaps In)
• Buddy Rich, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
• Jimmy Scott, I'll Be Around
• Charlie Byrd, Favela
  

This fall’s annual movie show with Derrick Bang arrives with a few extras. To note his 50 years as a movie critic, he reads — and critiques! — the first paragraph of the first movie review he wrote, in 1974 for the California Aggie at UC Davis. We also hear from a film director who worried Derrick might not like his film. Plus we get Derrick’s usual take on movies to see and avoid this holiday film season, although he could only find a few, for reasons rooted in the current ambiguous state of filmmaking. Please, have a seat. We’re pulling back the curtains.

The photo, by Jim Mitchell, shows Derrick Bang at the California Aggie in April 1976.