Friday, February 05, 2010

Mr. Playlist Knocks Twice

Coffeetime, February 5, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Roll Call / My Groove Your Move / Blue Note / 11.13.60
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, volume 1 / Blue Daniel / Contemporary / 9.22.59
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / Broad Jump / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Maurice Winnick & his Orch / Love is a Dancing Thing / Vocalion / London 1936 / vocal = Sam Costa
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Leaping Boogie / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Marge Dodson / New Voice in Town / Angel Eyes / Columbia / 1960

set 2
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Brown and Roach Incorporated / Darn That Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.2.54
Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66
Golden Gate Orch {The California Ramblers} / Stockholm Stomp / Edison Diamond Disc / 12.9.26
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / The Stuff's Out / Decca / 7.5.39
The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald / I'm Making Believe / Decca / 8.30.44
Charles Aznavour / His Love Songs in English / Just You (Avec) / Reprise / LA 1965

set 3
Barney Kessel / Let's Cook! / Jersey Bounce / Contemporary / LA 8.6.57
Andre Previn Trio / California Clipper / Sunset / LA 10.13.45
Margaret Whiting / Someone to Watch Over Me / Capitol / 1945
The Striders / If I Only Knew / Apollo / 11.14.49
Nat "King" Cole (King Cole Trio) / You Can Depend On Me / Capitol / LA 8.15.56 / with Harry "Sweets" Edison

set 4
René Thomas / Meeting Mister Thomas / Wonderful, Wonderful / Barclay / Paris 1963
Benny Carter / Swingin' the '20s / Who's Sorry Now / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Mr. Clarinet Knocks Twice / National / 1.2.46
Doris Day / Again / Columbia / Hollywood 1949 / with Page Cavanaugh & the Ken Lane Singers ?
Solomon Burke / Stupidity / Atlantic / 1963
Nancy Wilson / Today, Tomorrow, Forever / Wives and Lovers / Capitol / Hollywood 1964
The Larks / Honey in the Rock / Apollo / 1.52

last soul song
French Coffey featuring Rozlin / Nothing from Nothing / Pick-A-Hit / LA late 1960s

Friday, January 29, 2010

Playlist in the Land of Hi Fi



Thanks so much to longtime WMBR pledger/supporter Bob Biletch for doing such an excellent guest deejaying on Coffeetime last week. If you'd like his playlist, which is in Excel format, let me know and I'll email it to you.

Coffeetime, January 29, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Cannnonball Adderley / In the Land of Hi Fi / Casa de Marcel / EmArcy / 6.18.56
Bill Holman / Jive for Five / Jive for Five / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Pagan Star / Victor / 11.7.35
Joe Haymes & his Orch / Hummin' to Myself / Victor / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Last Call for Alcohol / Capitol / Kansas City 7.2.52
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / I Didn't Know About You / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.7.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orch

set 2
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ill Wind / Blue Note / 9.18.65
Les Cinq Modernes / Continental Jazz / Blanc sur Blanc (White on White) / Somerset / 1960
Fats Waller & his Orch / In the Gloaming / Victor / 4.12.38
King Cole Trio & Anita O'Day / I Can't Give You Anything But Love / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.26.45
Billy Eckstine & his Orch / Rhythm in a Riff / Soundie / summer 1946
Johnny Mercer / Personality / Capitol / Hollywood 1946

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Funk-Cosity / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Jack Marshall / Soundsville! / The Third Man Theme / Capitol / Hollywood 1959
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / Backslider's Ball / King / 6.25.52
Maxine Sullivan / I Must Have That Man / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
Four Vagabonds / My Heart Cries for You / Miracle / 10.49
Frank D'Rone / After the Ball / Warm All Over / Mercury / Hollywood c. 1960 with Billy May & his Orch

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi / Star Eyes / HiFi / LA 1959
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / My Inspiration / Fantasy / 1957
Willie Bryant & his Orch / A Viper's Moan & Throwin' Stones at the Sun / Victor / 1.4.35
The Merry Macs / Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside) / Decca / Hollywood 1946
José Feliciano / And the Feeling's Good / Hard Times in El Barrio / RCA / LA 1974
Selah Jubilee Singers / We Shall All Meet in Heaven / Decca / 11.16.39

last soul song
Leroy Hutson / Closer to the Source / Everybody's a Masterpiece / Curtom / 1978


Friday, January 15, 2010

Say It With A Playlist



Coffeetime, January 15, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Under Paris Skies / New Jazz / 4.10.63
John Coltrane / Winner's Circle / Love and the Weather / Bethlehem / 10.57
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40
Little Jack Little / Like Two Little Flies on a Lump of Sugar / Columbia / 2.8.34
Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest / Long Ago and Far Away / Decca / 1944
Ella Fitzgerald / Twelve Nights in Hollywood / Baby, Won't You Please Come Home / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.20.61

set 2
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Theodora / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Buck Clayton, et al / I Can't Get Started / Verve [Jazz at the Philharmonic] / 5.27.46
Django Reinhardt / Django Reinhardt et Stéphane Grapelly avec le Quintette du Hot Club de France /Please Be Kind / Decca / London 9.1.38
Kay Starr / You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love) / Capitol / Hollywood 8.28.48
The Vocaleers / Lovin' Baby / Red Robin / 1954
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Pig Latin Blues / King / Cincinnati 7.1.52 / vocal = LaVern Baker

set 3
Julian "Cannonball" Adderly / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / Never Say Yes / Capitol / 9.1.62
Lester Young & Harry Edison / One O'Clock Jump / Verve [Norgran] / Hollywood 11.1.55
Lennie Tristano / Crosscurrent / Capitol / 3.4.49
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / The Hour of Parting / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Bette McLaurin & The Four Fellows / Grow Old Along with Me / Glory / 1955
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / You Couldn't Tell the Tear Drops from the Rain / RCA / LA 1957

set 4
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Bright Eyes / Coral / Hollywood 4.25.57
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Laurilou / Savoy / LA 3.52
Larry Adler / Body and Soul / Columbia / Paris 3.31.38 / avec le Quintette du Hot Club de France
Hadda Brooks / Say It with a Kiss / Modern [unrelease] / 1948
Wynona Carr / Should I Ever Love Again / Specialty / LA 1955
Noel Harrison / Noel Harrison / Nothing But a Fool / London / LA 1966
The Bronzemen / My Lawd's Writin' All the Time / Standard transcription / circa 9.39

last soul song
Doris Duke / I Don't Care Anymore / Canyon / 1969

Friday, January 08, 2010

A Playlist Am I

Coffeetime, January 8, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Minor Apprehension / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Junior Cook / Junior's Cookin' / Sweet Cakes / Jazzland / 4.10.61
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Sleep / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38
Isham Jones & his Famous Orch / Good Evenin' / Brunswick / Chicago 9.12.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Miss Rhapsody / Bye Bye / Savoy / 7.6.44
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / Mighty Rumblin' Blues / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

set 2
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Sunset / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / These Foolish Things / Atlantic / The Sing-Song Room, Confucius Restaurant 6.11.55
Pat Flowers & his Rhythm / How Many Kisses / Victor / 6.4.47
Lil "Brown Gal"Armstrong & his Dixielanders / Riffin' the Blues / Decca / 3.17.40
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orch / Redskin / Vitaphone [Harmony] (from 1929 film Redskin) / 2.11.29 / vocal = Irving Kaufman aka Tom Frawley
Juanelda Carter & Swingsters aka King Cole Trio / You're So Different / Standard transcription / LA 1.14.39
Lulu Reed & Freddy King / Boy-Girl-Boy / You Can't Hide / Federal [King] / 1962

set 3
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds / Improvisation (with Conga) / EmArcy / LA 3.7.58
Milt Jackson / Big Bags / You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To / Riverside / June or July 1962
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / The Nearness of You / Prestige / 8.2.61
Wardell Gray / Blue Gray / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
The Five Jones Boys / Doin' the Suzy-Q / Variety / 1937
Georgie Auld & his Orch / It Had to Be You / Musicraft / 10.16.45 / vocal = Lynn Stevens
Nat King Cole / Songs by Nat "King" Cole 7" EP / A Fool Was I / Capitol / Hollywood 12.30.52 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars / Moto / Liberty / LA 2.14.57
Sammy Davis Jr & Count Basie / Our Shining Hour / Bill Basie, Won't You Please Come Home / Verve / 8.31 & 9.2-5.64
John Kirby & his Orch / Royal Garden Blues / V-Disc / early 1941
El Pauling and Royal Abbit aka Lowman Pauling and Royal Abbit / Send Me Somebody / Federal / 9.17.59
Pearl Bailey / Sings Porgy & Bess (and Other Gerswhin Melodies) / A Woman Is a Sometime Thing / Roulette / Hollywood 1959
Astrud Gilberto / Love Is Far Stronger Than We / Verve / 11.17.69
Dixie Hummingbirds / My Record Will Be There / Apollo / 7.44

last soul song
Gene Chandler / Tell Me What I Can Do / Brunswick / 1967

Friday, January 01, 2010

Mélange While Filling in on 3RC

Three Ring Circus, January 1, 2010, Angelynn Grant

bed
Boogaloo Jones / Brown Bag / Prestige / 2.16.70 // George Feyer / Echoes of Paris / Vox

set 1
Lloyd Simmons / Calypso Party / Yellow Bird / Oleander
The Famous Gabor Radics & his Family / Play Gypsy / The Celebrated Kolo / Regent
Nat King Cole / Cole Español / Acércate Más / Capitol
Voices of Walter Schumann / Serenade / Paradise / Capitol
Diane Adrian / Caribbean Nights / Ayaman Ibo Lele / RCA Victor
The Free Movement / I've Found Someone of My Own / The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get) / Columbia

set 2
Madeleine / Dietrich medley / Art
Walter Eriksson & his Orch / Holiday in Scandinavia / Vaasa Waltz / Colonial
Bobby Jay & the Hawks / Everybody's Doing It, Vol. 1: The Watusi / La Kookoo Watusi / Warner Brothers
Miguel Aceves Mejia / Mexican Folk Songs / A Jorge Negrete / RCA Victor
Trio Los Panchos / South of the Border / Lara / Tico
Sergio Franchi / Wine & Song / Statte Vicino A Mme / RCA Victor
Carlo Buti / Stornelli Fiorentini
Tommie Young / She Don't Have to See You (To See Through You) / Soul Power

set 3
Nelson Gonçalves / Normalista / Sigia [RCA Victor]
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Look Around / Tristeza / A&M
Conny Stuart, Freddy Albeck, et al / Tomatensap; Een Vrouw Zoals Jij / Heerlijk Duurt Het Langst / Philips
Professor Liang Tsai-Ping & his Group / China's Instrumental Heritage / Flowers on Brocade / Lyrichord
Akoni Lani & his Islanders / Song of the Island / Tops
Al Green / Explores Your Mind / School Days
Edith Sitwell / Façade / Country Dance / Columbia
Pat Williams / Shades of Today / Cinnamon and Clove / Verve
Jimmy Cliff / Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Hard Road to Travel / A&M

last soulful song
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Dichoso / Verve

Playlist Speaks



Coffeetime, January 1, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown Memorial Album / Brownie Speaks / Blue Note / 6.9.53
Sonny Stitt & Zoot Sims / Inter-Action / Katea / Cadet / Chicago 1.25.65
Billy May & his Orch / Naughty Operetta! / One Kiss / Capitol / Hollywood 1953
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Dardanella / Victor / 2.9.28
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orch / With Every Breath I Take / Victor / 10.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Lolly Pop Jones & Ethel Morris / Aviator Papa / DeLuxe / New Orleans 1948
Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley / Save Your Love for Me / Capitol / 6.27 & 29,61

set 2
Joe Gordon / Body & Soul / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Bud Shank / Ballads for Backgrounds [The Bud Shank Quartet] / Nature Boy / Pacific Jazz / LA 1956
Bobby Sherwood & his Orch / The Man I Love / radio transcription / Yale University 8.11.43
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orch / Egyptian Shimmy / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / announcer = Walter Bunker, Jr
Bing Crosby / From the Top of Your Head (To the Tip of Your Toes) / Decca / Hollywood 8.14.35 / for the Paramount movie Two for Tonight, with the Dorsey Brothers Orch
T-Bone Walker / Don't Leave Me Baby / Black & White / LA 9.30.46 / with Jack McVea's All Stars
Teresa Brewer / Music, Music, Music / A Good Man is Hard to Find / Coral / 1955

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / The Soul of Stanley Turrentine [Look Out!] / Minor Chant / Blue Note / 6.18.60
Bill Evans / Moon Beams / Very Early / 5.29.62
Red Prysock / Red Speaks / Mercury / 9.13.54
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle De Bop Bop (Adi Eedi Idio) / Decca / 7.19.37
The Dinning Sisters / My Adobe Hacienda / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / Never Leave Me Sugar / Epic [Columbia] / LA 1961

set 4
Cy Touff / Cy Touff, His Octet & Quintet / Prez-Ence / Pacific Jazz / LA 12.5.55
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / The Creed / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.23.55
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Hallelujah / radio transcription / 1941-2
Johnny "Guitar" Watson / Too Tired / RPM / LA 1955
Dionne Warwick / Promises, Promises / Where Is Love? / Scepter / 1968
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / You Better Run / Decca / 8.23.39

last soul song
Jackie Moore / Sweet Charlie Babe / Darling Baby / Atlantic / Jackson, Mississippi 1973

Monday, December 28, 2009

Alex McNeil fills in on Coffeetime for Xmas

Thanks so much to Alex McNeil of Friday's Lost & Found for filling in for me on Coffeetime on Christmas day. He sent me the playlist below:

01. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
02. Gayla Peevey - I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
03. Barry Gordon - Nuttin' for Christmas
04. Kay Starr - (Everybody's Waiting for) The Man with the Bag
05. Louis Jordan - Santa Claus, Santa Claus
06. Lionel Hampton - Swingle Jingle
07. Stevie Wonder - Someday at Christmas
08. Temptations - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
09. Supremes - My Christmas Tree
10. Kim Weston - Wish You a Merry Christmas
11. Smokey Robinson & Miracles - Deck the Halls/Bring a Torch
12. Funk Brothers - Winter Wonderland
13. Jack Webb - Dragnet - The Christmas Story
14. Basil Rathbone & Johnny Desmond - Humbug (from The Stingiest Man in Town)
15. Cyril Ritchard & cast - We Wish the World a Happy Yule (from The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood)
16. Stan Freberg & Daws Butler - Christmas Dragnet
17. Beatles - 1964 Fan Club Christmas Message
18. Dora Bryan - All I Want for Christmas Is a Beatle
19. Christine Hunter - Santa Bring Me Ringo
20. Brenda Lee - Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day
21. Derrik Roberts - There Won't Be Any Snow (In the Jungle)
22. Platters - Come Home for Christmas
23. Browns - Blue Christmas
24. Jan Bradley - Christmas Time
25. Jackie DeShannon - Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown
26. Bob Seger & Last Herd - Sock It to Me Santa
27. Turtles - Santa and the Sidewalk Surfer
28. Kinks - Father Christmas
29. Steve Irvings - The Twelve Daze of Christmas
30. Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
31. Johnny Cash - The Little Drummer Boy
32. Lou Monte - Dominick the Donkey
33. Harry Belafonte - The Gift They Gave
34. Norman Bergen - It's Christmas Day

Friday, December 18, 2009

A Great Big Playlist Entirely Made of Snow



Coffeetime, December 18, 2009

bed
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64
Junior Mance Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / White Christmas / LA 1994

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 1.31.60
Duke Ellington & his Orch / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show aired 12.47 / Ring Dem Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 7.11.46
Harry Reser & his Orch / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Decca / 10.24.34 / vocal = Tom Sacks
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, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera-Ellen / soundtrack to Paramount movie White Christmas / Snow / Hollywood 1953
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve / 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
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / It's Christmas Time Again / Capitol / LA 1963
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 / lyrics by Peggy Lee, music by Cy Coleman, written for Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

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
Fats Waller / Swingin' them Jingle Bells / Victor / 11.29.36
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
[Bull] Moose Jackson / I'll Be Home for Christmas / King / 1951
Louis Armstrong / Christmas Night in Harlem / Decca / LA 9.8.55 / with Benny Carter Orch
Bing Crosby / White Christmas / Count Your Blessings / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

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 / 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 Orch
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