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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
SUN, SURF AND SOUL: SEA BREEZE BEACH AND SAN DIEGO SURFERS
It’s summertime, and the living is easy on American Routes, where we’ve got cool tunes from Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Beach Boys to help you beat that summer heat. We’ll hear memories of Sea Breeze, NC, a historically Black resort community that was an early site of integration in the Jim Crow South… And visit with some surfers at Mission Beach, San Diego.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Summertime Miles Davis
Porgy and Bess, Columbia/Legacy - Summertime James Brown and Martha High
Duets, Polydor - In the Heat of the Night Nancy Wilson
Welcome to My Love, Capitol Jazz - Ode to Billie Joe Tammy Wynette
I Don't Want to Play House, Koch - You Are My Sunshine Ray Charles
Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection, Rhino - Instrumental: Summertime Sidney Bechet
1938-1940, Classics - Dog Days of August Cephas and Wiggins
From Richmond to Atlanta, Rounder - Summertime Doc Watson
Elementary Doctor Watson!, Tomato - Having a Party Sam Cooke
Portrait of a Legend 1951-1964, ABKCO - (Love is Like a) Heat Wave Martha and the Vandellas
The Best of Martha Reeves & the Vandellas, Motown - Hot Fun in the Summer Time Sly and the Family Stone
Greatest Hits, Epic - Instrumental: The In Crowd Ramsey Lewis
Bar-B-Que Soul-a-Bration!, Rhino - SEGMENT: Sea Breeze Beach (Brenda Freeman, Malcolm "Chicken" Hicks, Elder Alfred Mitchell)
Listen - Cantaloupe Island Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles , Blue Note - Deep Blue Sea John Mayall
USA Union, Polydor - End Bed: Southern Nights Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint-- American Tunes, Nonesuch
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Love-In (live) Charles Lloyd
Love-In (Live), Atlantic - SEGMENT: San Diego Surfers
Listen - Surf Medley Junior Brown
Semi Crazy, Curb - Don't Worry Baby Beach Boys
Endless Summer, Capitol - Surfer Girl Beach Boys
Endless Summer, Capitol - Lucinda Randy Newman
12 Songs, Reprise - Love Letters in the Sand Jerry Lee Lewis
Classic, Bear Family - Instrumental: Summertime Mongo Santamaria
Skin on Skin: The Mongo Santamaria Anthology, Rhino - Rosa Maria Flaco Jimenez
Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio, Arhoolie - The Tide is High The Paragons
Roots of Reggae Vol. 2: Rock Steady, Rhino - Under the Boardwalk The Drifters
20th Century Rocks Vol. 6: 60's Rock 'N Roll Tossin' & Turnin', Dominion - The Dolphins Fred Neil
Everybody's Talkin' Theme from Midnight Cowboy, Capitol - Sea of Love Cat Power
The Covers Record, Matador - Instrumental: Sea of Love John Fahey
Return of the Repressed: The Anthology, Rhino - Sea of Love Cookie & the Cupcakes
Swamp Gold Vol. 3, Jin - Stars on the Water Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell, Warner Bros. - Valse de Holly Beach Nathan Abshire
The Best of Nathan Abshire, Swallow - Red Sails in the Sunset Bobby Jay
Sound of the Swamp: The Best of Excel Records, Vol. 1, Excello - Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet
Hot Jazz on Blue Note, Blue Note - End Bed: Red Sails in the Sunset The Hawaiians
Hawaiian Beach Party: 50 Songs for the Summer, Disembogue
