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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

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