Platters Kay Would Spin for Her Listeners -- Garbo

 My Tuesday posts for this blog are currently focused on my creative history-based project, which you can find at the Facebook Page "Kay Kemble: The Lady with the Gold Baton."

Kay did a number of short stints as a radio disk jockey -- very unusual for a woman to do in the 1940s. She hosted a program called "Boogie Woogie Baton" on a low-power radio station which did its broadcasting from a Black-owned nightclub in East Saint Louis. A real joy for Kay was that the owner gave her carte blanche to play the records she liked, as long as there was a promo for the club four times per hour. I thought it would be fun to do a little series of posts with records by bandleaders, singers, and instrumentalists Kay played often on "Boogie Woogie Baton." 

Today, Mabel Scott, best-known for her huge 1948 hit "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus."

 

 

Here's "Baseball Boogie," from 1950.

I would enjoy going past floors three, four, five with a mellow jive. Here's "Elevator Boogie," from 1949.

And to finish, my favorite Mabel Scott song, which is "Subway Blues":  "In and out, with the mob/Miss your train and lose your job..."