Friday 5/17 - Tuesday 5/21

    This Friday 5/17 @ 9pm EST is Jan Eberle's Swing Museum.

Jan Eberle presents the life & music of the great Ella Fitzgerald LIVE!

            Here's Jan about this weeks program:                

   Swing Museum Program Archive Page

Immediatly followed by a weekly Bing Crosby live radio broadcast anywhere from the 1930's to the 1950's with big name guest stars and naturally lots of great music.

 'Ronnie Allen Presents Your Hit Parade' is the 2nd Friday monthly. 

  This Saturday 5/18 @  9pm EST is Chris Valenti's Big Band Broadcast.

The ONLY 'All Request' Live Big Band Radio Show in the World!

Here's Chris about The Big Band Broadcast:

Our Historians also make an occasional visit. Big Band Broadcast Historian for over 30 years Bill Wallace along with Historian Specialists Chuck Henry and Bill Cwiklo help bring it up a few more notches. 

The last Saturday features The Top Five Countdown with Ronnie Allen. The top five requests of the month from around the world are tabulated by Ronnie Allen who worked with Casey Kasem and his Top 40. The next Top Five Countdown is 5/25.

The Top 5 Countdown opener:

Big Band Broadcast Program Archive Page

 1st & 3rd Sundays @7pm EST

   with hosts Harry & Edna from the UK

The next edition of Harry and Edna On The Wireless is 5/19

From the U.K. is Harry and Edna on the Wireless. It is an hour long bi-weekly radio show hosted by husband & wife team Harry & Edna. Their Website describes the program as a look At The Current British 1930's -1940's scene through a steamed-up monocle. Harry & Edna On The Wireless is set to a back drop of 'tip top' recorded gramophone music while stylish guests and big band artists help ensure a sense of old fashioned well-being. Inside knowledge of this greatest generations lifestyles and music as lived today in the UK cannot be heard anywhere else.

This Monday 5/20 @ 9pm EST is Don Kennedy's Big Band Jump has been preempted by the bi-monthly Miller on Mondays, see below.

 Big Band Jump is a 2 hour weekly program 20 years in syndication. It's all about the Big Bands as presented by legendary DJ Don Kennedy. We are proud to present Big Band Jump here on WYYR.com

Here's Don about this special Big Band programming:

This Tuesday 5/14 @ 9pm EST is David Miller's Swinging Down The Lane

  Legendary DJ David Miller with his popular radio program Swinging Down The Lane keeps the Big Band sound alive with his accumulation of over 9,000 recordings. His weekly radio program went on the air in 1983 and is now carried by over 40 National Public Radio stations. We are proud to present Swinging Down The Lane here on WYYR.com.

 Immediately followed by:

Hosted by one of Americas great Big Band leaders Horace Heidt Jr., America Swings offers not only the music we love, but candid interviews with many stars of the entertainment industry!  

"Peggy Kings Off The Cuff, the backstage stories that were never told!"

Next 'Off The Cuff' is 5/26 Sunday @ 7pm EST

Very Special Guest Carleton Carpenter

Carleton Carpenter's Wikipedia Page

 ExecutiveProducer and moderator Chris Valenti. Associate Producer and archivist Anthony DiFlorio III

Off The Cuff Program Archive Page

The 2nd Sunday Monthly @ 7PM EST is Ronnie Allen's YesterYear Countdown

The 'Countdown Man' Ronnie Allen also has a very special program entitled The YesterYear Countdown on the 2nd Sunday of each month. This program will always be a very special 25 Countdown of a special week within the years of 1950 to 1955 based on the charts and particularly the pop standards of the day.

Here's Ronnie about this special programming:

Next Program is this Sunday 5/12