The Fish Fry with Neal Murray

Series produced by WHRV

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Two hours of Big Band music hosted by Neal Murray.

The "big bands" have always been with us, but during the 1930s and 1940s they virtually owned popular music. The Swing Era, in particular defined American popular music from about 1935 to 1945. This program presents highlights throughout this era, but ranges further afield to include singers, bands and musicians as they evolve from their swing roots into some of the most popular music stars in the world. PLEASE NOTE: This program is out of production. We hope you and your audiences enjoy the archive editions of Fish Fry.


269 Pieces

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Artie Shaw, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Woody Herman, Erskine Hawkins, and more...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:22
  • Purchases: 5
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Music from Roger Neumann's Rather Large Band, from Billy May, Bob CVVhester, Les Elgart, Bobby Hacket, Roy Eldridge, and more...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:10
  • Purchases: 5
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Music from Ellington, Glenn Miller, Buddy Morrow, Hal Kemp, James P. Johnson, Billy Eckstine, and others...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 3
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The Valentine / Sweetheart program

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:33
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Glenn Miller's AAF Band from 1944 and its successor some 60 years later. Also, Mel Powell, Will Bradley, Rex Stewart, Wingy Manone, Seth MacFarlan...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:06
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Music from Earl Hines, Jimmy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, and more. Plus, more than the usual number of contemporary bands, but they still mak...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Saluting all-women bands; big-band music from Germany; singers Carlotta Dale & Bea Wain; ragtime piano; Phil Harris at the Cocoanut Grove, and more...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:40
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This week, we'll put you in a 'green' mood so you can be ready for St. Patrick's Day; also, music from Bix Beiderbecke, Les Brown, Red Nichols, Qu...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:31
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, music from the 20s to the 90s, including Glenn Miller, the Boswell Sisters, Harry James, Nat King Cole, and others...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:47
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This week, some sidemen who seldom get their due--Johnny Guarnieri, Jimmy ****************************************** Blanton and Charlie Christian;...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:22
  • Purchases: 4
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The big bands of Artie Shaw, Sammy Nestico, Sauter-Finegan, Lew Stone; also, vocals from Nat Cole, Helen Forrest, Tiny Winters, the Boswells; an...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:41
  • Purchases: 2
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No particular theme this week--an assortment of bands from the 20s to the new millennium...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:49
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Some Goodman alumni with their own groups, as well as music from Charlie Barnet, Cab Calloway, Bob Crosby, Woody Herman and others...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:52
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, a couple of contemporary big bands, early Ella Fitzgerald recordings, Lester Young teaming up with Nat Cole, and Duke Ellington twenty y...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:10
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, Glen Gray, Bobby Sherwood, Mary Ann McCall, Tito Puente, Benny Carter, and beginning with a 'compare and contrast' exercise...

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  • Added: May 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, we're all over the place, from Western Swing to 'hep harmony' and many stops in between-with Tommy Dorsey, Red Nichols, Glenn Miller, Fl...

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  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:47
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, a wide assortment of bands and singers, including Woody Herman, Jimmie Lunceford, Will Bradley, Artie Shaw, Vincent Lopez, Joe 'King' O...

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  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:51
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This week, multiple versions of one song; also, music from Stan Kenton, Lindley Armstrong Jones, Erskine Hawkins, Humphrey Lyttelton, Sonny Dunham...

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  • Added: May 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:42
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This week, an assortment of artists and styles, from Art Landry in the 20s to Kit McClure some 80 years later; also, music from Tommy Dorsey, Ed...

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  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:24
  • Purchases: 1
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This week, spanning decades from the 20s to the 60s, including music from Basie, Jimmy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, Claude Thorn...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:16
  • Purchases: 1