Playlist in Paradise

Coffeetime, January 20, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis / Blue Note / 8.21.61 

Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Smoke Signals / Verve / 12.17.57 

Randy Brooks & his Orchestra / Man with a Horn / The Man with the Horn / Decca / 7.14.47

Annette Hanshaw / When I am Housekeeping for You / Parlophone / 12.13.29 

Bob Howard & his Orchestra / If the Moon Turns Green / Decca / 7.10.35

Johnny Otis Band / I'm Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / vocal = The Robins
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / That Ole Devil Called Love / United Artists / 7.58

set 2

Tina Brooks / [Back to the Tracks (unissued)] / For Heaven's Sake / Mosaic [Blue Note] / 10.20.60 

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Trane Whistle [Stolen Moments] / You Are Too Beautiful / Prestige / 9.20.60 

Johnny Otis / Harlem Nocturne / Excelsior / 9.13.45 

Oscar Alemán / Russian Lullaby / HMV / Paris 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers 

Ciro Rimac's Rumba-Orchester / Passarinho / Telefunken / Berlin 11.18.37

Red Mack & his Orchestra / If You Love Me Baby / Atlas / LA early 1946

Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / So Finha de Ser Com Voce / Verve / 1.27, 28.65 

set 3

Harold Mabern / Workin' & Wailin' / I Can't Understand What I See in You / Prestige / 6.30.69 

"King Porter" & his Orchestra / Shuffling Boogie / JVB/King / Detroit 1948

Erskine Butterfield / Lighthouse / radio transcription / 8.17.44

Mills Brothers / You Rascal, You / Decca / 11.31

King Cole Trio / My Heart Tells Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.12.44 / vocal = Ida James

Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / When Your Lover Has Gone / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4

Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Stranger in Paradise / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56 

Milt Bernhart & his Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / 3.6.55

Cleo Brown / You've Got Me Under Your Thumb / radio transcription / c. late 1935, early 1936

Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Specialty / Hollywood 3.8.47

Nancy Wilson / How Glad I Am / It's Time to Go / Capitol / LA 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song

Tyrone Davis / Without You in My Life / Dakar / 1973

She Don't Have to See You to Playlist

Lost & Found, Monday, January 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

artist / song title / label / year

all songs on 45s, except when an LP title is listed first

opening song

Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1

Fats & the Chessman / Come On Everybody Let’s Do the Twist / Twistin’ USA / Somerset / 1960

Ronnie & the Hi-Lites / Twistin’ and Kissin’ / Joy / 1962

Dion & the Belmonts / Everything You Always Wanted to Hear By Dion and the Belmonts But Couldn’t Get! / Born to Cry / Laurie / 1962

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans / Annette / Philles Records / 1963

Ray Agee / Your Precious Love / Celestin / 1963

Shirley Ellis / The Puzzle Song / Congress / 1965

France Gall / Deux Oiseaux / Philips / 1965

Bob Kuban & the In-Men / Try Me Baby / Musicland USA / 1965 / vocal = Walter Scott

bed 1

Al Caiola / Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes / Underwater Chase / United Artists / 1965

set 2

Timmy Shaw / I’m a Lonely Guy / Wand / 1963

Jimmy Soul / Don’t Release Me / SPQR / 1963

Gerry & the Pacemakers / I’m the One / Chills / Capitol / 1964

BJ Thomas & the Triumphs / Candy Baby / Scepter / 1966

The Manhattans / I’m the One that Love Forgot / Carnival / 1965

Chris Bartley / Love Me Baby / Vando / 1967

bed 2

The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 3

Freddie & the Dreamers / What Have I Done to You / Tower / 1963

The Beau Brummels / Still in Love with You Baby / Autumn / 1964

The Cowsills / The Cowsills / Troubled Roses / MGM / 1967

The Dave Clark Five / Try Too Hard / Ever Since You’ve Been Away / Epic / 1966

The Box Tops / I See Only Sunshine / Mala / 1968

bed 3

David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1966

set 4

The Dells / There Is / Chess / 1967

The Sandpipers / Forget It / Calla / 1967

Brothers of Soul / Hurry, Don’t Linger / Boo / 1968

The Banana Splits / We’re the Banana Splits / Doin’ the Banana Split / Decca / 1968

Jan Bradley / You Gave Me What’s Missing / Chess / 1968

bed 4

Georgie Fame / Beware of the Dog / Epic / 1967

set 5

The Enchanters / I’ve Lost All Communications / Loma / 1966

Bobbie Gentry / Ode to Billie Joe / Sunday Best / Capitol / 1968

5º Farenheit / Daddy’s Home / Abet / 1970

Colin Blunstone / One Year / Say You Don’t Mind / Epic / 1971

Freddie North / Abet Review Volume I / Rainy Night in Georgia / Abet / 1973

Tom Jones / The Body and Soul of Tom Jones / Ain’t No Sunshine / 1973

bed 5

Little Milton / Friend of Mine / Glades / 1973

set 6

The Superbs / Baby’s Gone Away / Doré / 1965

Earl Gains / I Have Loved and I Have Lied / HBR / 1966

Mamie P. Galore / This Time Tomorrow / Imperial / 1968

bed 6

LJ Reynolds & Chocolate Syrup / Stay with Me / Law-Ton Records / 1971

set 7

Soul Generation / Young Bird / Ebony Sounds Records / 1972

The Love Generation / A Generation of Love / The Bummer (Guide Me Home) / Imperial / 1967

Betty Wright / It’s Bad for Me to See You / Alston / 1974

Tommie Young / She Don’t Have to See You (To See Through You) / Soul Power / 1972

last soulful song

Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971

The Bronze Playlist

Coffeetime, January 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Kenny Burrell - Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / This Way / Prestige / 3.5.57 

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Love for Sale / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43

Ronnie Munro & his Orchestra / Me and My Girl / HMV / London 1.1.38 / vocal = Jack Cooper

Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / She Lost her Re-Bop / Queen / Cinncinnati c. 4.46

Chris Connor / Mixed Emotions / Atlantic / 10.16.56 

set 2

Les Spann / Gemini / There Is No Greater Love / Jazzland / 12.16.60 

Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Hello Young Lovers / Roost / 3.18.57 

Billy Mitchell Quintet / [Swing Not Spring] / Alone Together / Dee Gee [Savoy] / Detroit 1948 

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Roodles / Victor / Chicago 12.25.27 

Emmett Matthews & his Orchestra / I'll Stand By / Vocalion / 4.10.36

Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / I Can't See for Lookin' / Decca /  5.26.44 / vocal = Judy Carol

Gene Kelly & ensemble / Les Girls / soundtrack MGM movie Les Girls / Hollywood 1957

set 3

Al Caiola / Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes / The Bronze Doll / United Artists / 1965

Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Toll Bridge (Rifftide) / EmArcy / 9.8.54 

Miles Davis - Tadd Dameron Quintet / Rifftide / Columbia / live, Festival de Jazz, Salle Pleyel, Paris 5.9.49 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Sometimes I'm Happy / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1948 / vocal = Peggy Thomas

Four Vagabonds / Taking My Chances with You / Mercury 2.46  

Buddy Greco / Songs for Swingin’ Losers / Blame It on My Youth / Epic / 1960

set 4

Curtis Counce / Carl's Blues / I Can't Get Started / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58 

Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / Blue Moon / Decca / Hollywood summer 1957 

Alice Faye / According to the Moonlight (soundtrack 20th Century Fox movie George White's 1935 Scandals) / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.26.35 

Sammy Davis Jr / What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Showstoppers / Thou Swell / Reprise / LA 2.7.61 

The Jubilee Hummingbirds / Our Freedom Song / Chalice / Memphis 1965

last soulful song

Ruby & the Romantics / Much Better Off than I’ve Ever Been / Kapp  / 1964

Playlist & Peachy

Coffeetime, December 30, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56 

Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Venetian Breeze / Riverside / 12.23.57 

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Ballad in Blue / RCA Victor / 6.25.35

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Midnight, the Stars and You / HMV / London 2.16.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly

The Quintones / Midnight Jamboree / Vocalion / 1940

Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why Try to Change Me Now / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2

Jimmy Heath / The Quota / When Sunny Gets Blue / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61 

Joe Wilder / Wilder 'n' Wilder / Darn That Dream / Savoy / 1.19.56 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Warsaw Concerto, parts 1 & 2 / Modern / Hollywood 1946

Cleo Brown / Did You Mean It? / radio transcription / c. 1935

Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally 

Mouseketeer Ensemble / Happy Birthday and Songs for Every Holiday / Happy New Year / Disneyland / LA 1964

set 3

Grant Green / Blues for Lou / Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying / Blue Note / 2.20.63 

Wardell Gray / Donna Lee / Xanadu: personal recording: Bob Andrews Archive / live, The Haig, Hollywood 9.9.52

Delta Rhythm Boys / Conversation at Midnight / radio transcription / 1941

Sarah Vaughn / You’re Not the Kind / Musicraft / 5.7.46 / with Tadd Dameron Orchestra 

Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio

set 4

Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Sweet Sue / Contemporary / LA 3.30-31.59 

Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Brief Encounter / EmArcy / Stockholm 2.14.58 

Woody Herman & his Orchestra / Keen and Peachy / Columbia / Hollywood 12.24.47

Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942

Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids

Mickey Rooney / Merry Merry Micklemas / Mickey’s New Year / Mickey [Timic] / Hollywood 1979

Christland Singers / Where Could I Go (But to the Lord) / Nashboro / Nashville 1955

last soulful song

Julius Thomas / I Gotta Change My Ways (If I’m to Keep Her), part 1 / Wild / Boston 1976

Playlist to the Jingle

Coffeetime, December 23, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed  

Johnny Coles / I’ll Be Home for Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 2.11.85

Kenny Barron / The Christmas Song  / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 12.14.84

Jack Sheldon / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 2.25.86

set 1

Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58

Jay McShann & Ralph Sutton / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Joy to the Jingle / LA 1973

Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow/ Coral / 1956

Clarence Williams & his Orchestra / Christmas Night in Harlem / Vocalion / 3.23.34 

Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947  

The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther 

Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orchestra and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60  

set 2

Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977

Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965 

Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s

Mitch Miller / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / vocal = Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers 

Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

Mickey Rooney / Merry Merry Micklemas / Christmas at Home / Mickey [Timic] / Hollywood 1979

set 3

Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972 

Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66

Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / LA 1973

Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s

Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep

Dick Powell / Roses in December / Decca / 11.5.37

Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955

Julie London / I'd Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957

set 4

Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87

Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / 12.4.43

King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46

Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio transcription / LA 1940s / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers

Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Capitol Promo) / Capitol / LA 9.17.47

James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966

Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra 

Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song

Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.57

Wish You the Playlistiest

Coffeetime, December 16, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

Phil Woods / Pairing Off / Pairing Off / Prestige / 6.15.56 

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' on C / Columbia / 1940

Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41

Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You're All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950

Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 2

Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Man / Atlantic / LA 8.17.55 

Dick Stabile / Plays for You / Man with a Horn / Bethlehem / 1955 

Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Sequence / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955

Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / Blue Rhythm Fantasy / Vocalion / 5.4.36 

Amos Milburn / Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby / Aladdin / LA 10.4.49

Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Santa’s Other Reindeer / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum

Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3zsEYMoVI

Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We're a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles

set 3

Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Swingin’ at Sugar Ray’s / Blue Note / 1.30.61 

Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 

Charlie Parker / Perhaps / Savoy / 9.24.48 

Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959 

Ravens / For You / National / 4.24.47

Billy Eckstine / Blue Christmas / MGM / 1950

set 4

Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 

Ted Weems & his Orch / Winter Wonderland / Columbia / Chicago 11.11.34 / vocal = Parker Gibbs 

Johnny Desmond & the Ray Charles Singers / Sleigh Ride / MGM / 1950

Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards / Happy Birthday & Songs for Every Holiday / Kris Kringle / Disneyland / LA 1958 

Les Brown & his Orchestra / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951

Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s

Paul Parnes / A Hap-Hap-Happy Christmas from Yogi Bear / Golden Records / 1961

Heavenly Gospel Singers / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.26.38

last soulful song

Carla Thomas / The Original Soul Christmas / All I Want for Christmas Is You / Atco [Atlantic; Stax] / 9.26.63

I Feel a Playlist Comin' On

Coffeetime, December 9, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1

 Dexter Gordon / Doin' Allright / I Want More / Blue Note [cd bonus track] / 5.6.61 

Les McCann / This Is The Blues, Volume 1 / Oatmeal / Pacific Jazz / LA late 1960 

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / After You’ve Gone / transcription / mid-1940s 

Harry Leader & his Band / My Sweetie Went Away / Columbia / London 1936

Jimmy Witherspoon / Big Fine Girl / Modern / LA late 1949 

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Good for Nothin’ (But Love) / Atlantic / 4.8.58 

 Fee

set 2

Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / All Too Soon / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60 

Kenny Dorham / The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album / When Sunny Gets Blue / Xanadu / 1.10.60 

Jimmy Cleveland / Creed Taylor Presents: Know Your Jazz Vol 1 / Embraceable You / ABC-Paramount / 1956

Mound City Blue Blowers / Hello Lola / Victor / 11.14.29

Paul Baron Orchestra, Mildred Bailey, & Woody Herman / Finiculi-Fanicula, Blues, & Robin Hood / Mildred Bailey Show radio transcription / 1.12.45

Amos Milburn / Juice, Juice, Juice / Aladdin / LA 4.9.56 

set 3

Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Lonely Woman / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963

Barry Harris / Newer Than New / Burgundy / Riverside / 9.28.61 

Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Nostalgia / Stealin’ Trash / Savoy / 12.18.46 

Elisabeth Welch / These Foolish Things & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / HMV / London 10.14.40

Delta Rhythm Boys / Jack You’re Playin’ the Game / Soundie / LA 1941 

Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / New Orleans / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 

set 4

Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 8.26.57 

Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Come On Back / Impulse! / LA 3.2.66 

Georgie Auld / Dancing in the Land of Hi-Fi / Rosetta / EmArcy / April & May 1956

Beny Moré / Sin Razón Ni Justicia (Without Reason Nor Justice) / RCA / late 1950s

Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / I Feel a Song Comin’ On / Riverside / 1.10.61 

Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Natural Four / Count on Me / Curtom / 1975