Brother, Can You Spare a Playlist

I'm always indebted to my fellow deejays and dear friends during fundraising, but never more so this year as you hear me fight my battle with H1N1. (Past shows are streamable for 2 weeks at wmbr.org and available for download at coffeetimearchive.org for a bit longer.) My deepest thanks to Rich Bee, John Funke, Jesse Kaminsky, Keith Sawyer, and Bruce Sylvester. And thanks to all who have donated or pledged so far, those who will in the future, and those who want to but can't, but still are out there for me every week. I'm very blessed in so many ways.

Coffeetime, November 6, 2009 -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, 'Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 2
James Moody's Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orch
Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour / Why Don't You Do Right / Columbia / 7.27.42

set 3
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money's Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47

set 4
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orch
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 5
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45

set 6
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942
Ella Mae Morse / I'll Get By / AFRS Personal Album #395 / Hollwood 1944

set 7
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / Sinner Man / Vee Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James

Pack Up Your Playlist in Your Old Kit-Bag

Coffeetime, October 30, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / Mighty Moe & Joe / Blue Note / 6.23.57
André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Jessie's Idea / French Columbia / summer 1956
George Gerswhin / Someone to Watch Over Me / Columbia / 11.8.26
Freddie Rich & his Orch / Nobody's Sweetheart / CBS radio transcription, Fred's Friendly Five / fall 1931 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp or Paul Smalle, announcer = David Ross
Helen Humes / Rock Me to Sleep / Discovery [unissued] / LA 5.9.50 / with Marshall Royal & his Orch
Floyd Dixon & his Band / Let's Dance / Peacock [Aladdin] / Houston 1949
Ann Sothern / Sothern Exposure / Last Time I Saw Paris / Tops / LA 1957

set 2
Art Farmer / To Sweden with Love / Kristallen den Fina (The Fine Crystal) / Atlantic / Stockholm 4.30.64
Red Garland / Mr. Wonderful / Prestige / 8.12.59
Joe Venuti / Autumn Leaves / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Ruth Etting / Stay as Sweet as You Are / Columbia / 11.21.34
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / You Can Fool Some of the People / 9.14.39 / vocal = Jimmie "Trummy" Young
T-Bone Walker / I Got the Blues / Imperial / LA 1951-52

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / The Prayer; Taking a Chance on Love / Impulse! / 4.25.62
Jerome Richardson / Midnight Oil / Delerious Trimmings / New Jazz / 10.10.58
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / Bean and the Boys aka 39"-25"-39" / RCA Victor / 1.18.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orch
Mills Brothers / Paper Doll / Soundie / Hollywood early 1942
Ella Mae Morse / Robin Hood / AFRS Swingtime #36 / Hollywood 1946 / with the AFRS orch, arranged & conducted by Murray McEachern
Bobby Darin / Winners / When Day is Done / Atco / 1964

set 4
Benny Carter / Swingin' the '20s / Mary Lou / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Hunt and Peck / Ricordi / 1961
Lionel Hampton & his Orch / I Know That You Know / Bluebird / 4.26.37
Dean Martin / Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk / radio transcription / 1950s
Anthony Newley / Tony / Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag / London / 1961 http://www.anthonynewley.com/recordings.html
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Sometimes You Gotta Cry a Little / Duke / 1963
Unknown Detroit Female Group / Are You Ready? / Gotham [unissued] / Detroit late 1950, early 1951

last soul song
Betty Everett / Chained to Your Love / Vee Jay / 1963

Playlist Confidential

Coffeetime, October 23, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / Sassy Ann /Vee Jay / 4.30.60
John Coltrane / Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette / Sunday / Prestige / 5.17.57
Georgie Auld & his Orch / Poinciana / transcription / 3.28.44
Ambrose & his Orch / Walking with Susie / Decca / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 6.13.29 / vocal = Phil Arnold
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson / High Class Baby / Mercury / 1947
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the George and Ira Gerswhin Song Book, vol. 3 / Boy Wanted / Verve / LA 1.5,7, 8.59 / with Bernard Buffet cover art

set 2
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / The Pleasure is Mine / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Bill Hardman / Jackie's Pal / It Could Happen to You / Prestige / 8.31.56
Bobby Hackett & his Orch / Singin' the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home) / Parlophone / 2.1.40
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / Waiting thru the Night / Radiex / 2.27.30
Cleo Brown / Pinetop's Boogie Woogie / Decca / 3.12.35
Joe Morris & his Orch / You're My Darling / Atlantic / 11.20.50 / vocal = Laurie Tate (not Teddy Smith)
Frank Sinatra & Shelley Winters / A Good Man is Hard to Find / soundtrack to Universal Pictures film Meet Danny Wilson / Hollywood 1951

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / Strictly Confidential / Prestige / 2.1.57
Jimmy Hamilton / Can't Help Swinging / Lullaby of the Leaves / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Erskine Butterfield / Movin' Along / Davis / 6.20.56
Maxine Sullivan / Cry, Buttercup, Cry / Apollo / 1948 / possibly with Larry Johnson & his Orch
The Four Buddies / My Summer's Gone / Savoy / 1.31.51
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I Didn't Know What Time It Was / Decca / 1954

set 4
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / 2nd Variation: Happy Changes / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Jim's Tune / Tampa / LA 6.15.55
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Sweet Georgia Brown / AFRS Jubilee No. 82 radio broadcast / Hollywood 5.44 recording, 6.5.44 dubbing / with announcer Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Maxwell Davis & his Band / When I'm in My Tea / Aladdin / LA 6.11.46 / with Jo-Jo Adams

Big "T" Tyler / King Kong / Aladdin / LA 4.25.57
Original cast score to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / Been a Long Day / RCA Victor / 1961 / with Robert Morse, Bonnie Scott, & Claudette Sutherland
The Mello-Tones / Cool by the Riverbanks / Okeh / 10.24.50

last soul song
The Entertainers IV / Temptation Walk (People Don't Look No More) / Doré / Hollywood 1966

Oh Ho Doodle Playlist

Coffeetime, October 16, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messenger / A Night at Birdland, vol 1 / Mayreh / Blue Note / 2.21.54
Joe Newman / At Count Basie's / The Midgets / Mercury / live, Count Basie's Lounge 1961
Neal Hefti / The Band with Young Ideas / Sure Thing / Coral / early 1950s
The Ramblers Dance Orch / Alabama Swing / Decca [unreleased] / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, The Netherlands 11.33
Little Jack Little / I'm Shooting High / Columbia / 12.23.35
Mr. "Google-Eyes" August / Oh Ho Doodle Lu / Duke / Houston 7.14.54 / with Johnny Otis Band
Betty Carter / Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant / Moonlight in Vermont / Epic / 5.13, 16.55

set 2
Shelly Manne / My Fair Lady / With a Little Bit of Luck / Contemporary / LA 8.17.56
Russ Freeman / Quartet / Lush Life / Pacific Jazz / 11.6.56
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / Annabelle / radio transcription / 1939
Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians / If You're Thinking of Me / Brunswick / Chicago 7.25.29
Alice Faye / Sittin' Up, Waitin' for You / radio broadcast / 12.21.33
Orquesta America del 55 / Clases de Cha-Cha-Cha / Poco Pelo / Panart / Havana 1955
Barbara George / I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) / Since I Fell for You / A.F.O. / 1962

set 3
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Mid-Nite Oil / Prestige / 9.15.64
Prestige Blues-Swingers / Outskirts of Town / Blue Flute / Prestige / 8.29.58
Vido Musso Orch / Checkerboard / Trilon / LA 8.47
Sarah Vaughn / I'm Crazy to Love You / Columbia / 12.21.49
Steve Gibson & the Red Caps / Wedding Bells are Breaking up That Old Gang of Mine / Mercury / 9.47
Frank D'Rone / In Person / My One and Only Love / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Strike Up the Band / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Autumn in New York / GNP / 6.27.56
Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra / medley: Among My Souvenirs; September Song; As Time Goes By / radio broadcast: General Electric Presents The Bing Crosby Show / LA 3.21.54
Little Milton / Sings Big Blues / Fever / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66
Pilgrim Travelers / I Never Knew Joy Before / Specialty / Hollywood 12.21.51

last soul song
Gene Chandler / River of Tears / Checker / Chicago 1968

A Playlist is a Wish Your Heart Makes

The Annex, September 4, 2009, Angelynn Grant

bed
Michel Legrand / soundtrack to A Matter of Innocence aka Pretty Polly / Decca / Hollywood 1967

set 1
Boris Karloff / The Ugly Duckling and Other Tales of Hans Christian Andersen / The Fir-Tree / Caedmon TC 1109 / 1959

set 2
Hugo Peretti & his Orch / 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / Childcraft Records no. 55 (Mercury) / narrated by Gilbert Mack
Patti Page / Nobody Likes a Crybaby / Playcraft Records no. 28 (Mercury) / with Jack Rael & his Orch
unknown / They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii / Little Wonder no, 495
Patti Page / The Froggie Love Song / Playcraft Records no. 28 (Mercury) / with Jack Rael & his Orch
unknown / At the Ball That's All / Little Wonder no, 61

set 3
Uncle Lumpy with Fred Waring & his Pennsylvanians / Little Orley, his Adventures with The Bubble Gum, The Cricket, The Haunted House, The Bull Fiddle / Decca 88013 / stories and music by Lumpy Brannum aka Mr Green Jeans from Captain Kangaroo

last kiddie record
unknown / The City Mouse and the Country Mouse / Victor 212A



The Annex, August 14, 2009, Angelynn Grant

bed
Michel Legrand / soundtrack to A Matter of Innocence (aka Pretty Polly) / Decca / 1967

Art Gentry / Play-a-Long Songs, side 1 / Caravan Records / with orch & sound effects; arranged & edited by Hecky Krasno & Peter Steele / 1949 / Art Gentry was in The Four Eton Boys and was the grandfather of Matt Lauer
Susan Reed / Mary Doodle, side 1 / Children's Record Guild ("For Creative Children Whose Parents Want Them to Love, Understand and Grow with Good Music") / early 1950s
Art Gentry / Play-a-Long Songs, side 2 / Caravan Records
Susan Reed / Mary Doodle, side 2 / Children's Record Guild / early 1950s
B. Landeck [Beatrice Landeck] / Grandfather's Farm, side 1 / Children's Record Guild / early 1950s / not too coincidentally, I own Landeck's book More Songs to Grow On because it has illustrations by renowned album cover artist David Stone Martin; DSM, however, did not do the illustrations for any of my CRG kiddie records
Unknown / Cinderella See-Read-Hear book + record / A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes / Disneyland / 1965
Eugene Lowell Singers / Pinocchio, sides 1, 2, & 4 / Children's Record Guild / early 1950s
Jack Gilford / Winnie the Pooh: 17 Songs from The Pooh Song Book / Cottleston Pie; Lines Written By a Bear with a Very Little Brain / Golden Records / 1952
Thurl Ravenscroft / Barnaby's Songs [from Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland] / Castle in Spain / Disneyland / 1961
Unknown / Barnaby's Songs [from Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland] / Just a Whisper Away / Disneyland / 1961
Thurl Ravenscroft / Barnaby's Songs [from Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland] / We Won't Be Happy Till We Get It / Disneyland / 1961
Unknown / Barnaby's Songs [from Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland] / I Can't Do the Sum / Disneyland / 1961
Mitch Miller & the Sandpipers / Romper Room Do Bee Songs, side 1 / Golden Records
Gene Autry / Where Did My Snowman Go? / Columbia / 1953 / with the Mitchell Choirboys, orch conducted by Carl Cotner
Unknown / The Ugly Bug Ball / side B, Femininity / Disneyland / 1963

Poor Little Rich Playlist

Coffeetime, October 9, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor's Tenors / Cape Millie / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / South Side / Blue Note / 2.4.57
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Poor Little Rich Girl / radio transcription / 1947
Whispering Jack Smith / Miss Annabelle Lee / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1.12.28
Frank Haywood / Now or Never / Apollo [unissued] / 2.27.46 / with Monroe Tucker & his All Stars
Dinah Washington / I Remember Clifford / EmArcy / 10.4.57

set 2
Milt Jackson / Bags Opus / I Remember Clifford / United Artists / 12.28-29.58
Yusef Lateer / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / From Within / Riverside / 5.9.60
Big Jay McNeely / Serenade in Blue / radio transcription / live, Birdland 3.7.53
Fats Waller & his Rhythm & Orch / Really Fine / Bluebird / 3.16.42
Mildred Baily / Ain't That Good News / Vocalion / 9.21.39 / with Alec Wilder's Orch & the Charioteers
Gordon Macrae / [Sings with Walter Gross' Orch] / Oh, But I Do / Musicraft [Allegro] / 1946
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / It Ain't Necessarily So / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

set 3
Billy Taylor / Billy Taylor with Four Flutes / Back Home / Riverside / 7.20.59
Sonny Stitt / Thou Swell / Phoenix [unissued] / live , Hi Hat, Boston 2.11.54
Earl Hines Orch / Everything Depends on You / Bluebird / 1941 / vocal = Madeline Green & The Boys
Bob Zurke & his Delta Rhythm Band / [Tom Cat on the Keys] / Rhum-Boogie/ RCA Victor / 1940 [1955] / vocal = Evelyn Poe
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Stardust / Dawn / 1956

set 4
Chico Hamilton / South Pacific in Hi-Fi / This Nearly Was Mine / Pacific Jazz / LA 1958
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers / Mimi / RCA Victor / 1957
Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers / Dinah [take B] / soundtrack to The Big Broadcast / Hollywood 12.16.31
King Cole Trio / Flo and Joe / radio transcription / live, public concert, LA 1949
Valerie Carr / Ev'ry Hour Ev'ry Day of My Life / I'll Be Around / Roulette / 1959
The Chosen Gospel Singers / The Lifeboat is Coming / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soul song
Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye / Diana & Marvin / My Mistake / Motown / LA 1973

Playlist in the Rain

Coffeetime, October 2, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tina Brooks / Back to the Tracks / Ruby & the Pearl / Blue Note [unissued - Mosaic] / 10.20.60
Steve Allen / Jazz for Tonight / S'posin / Coral / LA 12.5.55
Eddie South / Fiddle Ditty / Chess [unissued] / Chicago 1956
Horace Henderson & his Orch / Ain't Cha Glad / Parlophone / Chicago 10.3.33
Geraldo & his Orch / Indian Summer / Columbia / London early 40s / vocal = Cyril Grantham
Peggy Lee / September in the Rain / MacGregor transcription / LA 1.45
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Walkin' / Exclusive / LA 1946
Doris Day / Day By Day / Autumn Leaves / Columbia / LA 1956 / with Paul Weston & His Music From Hollywood

set 2
Mile Davis / Blue Moods / Nature Boy / Debut / 7.9.55
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Blue Shadows / King / Cincinnati 3.20.50
Alex Combelle et son Orch / Deux Pieds Gauches / Swing / Paris 10.21.40
Blind Willie Dunn aka Eddie Lang/ (Norfolk) Church Street Sobbin' Blues / Okeh / 11.17.28 / Lang is without Lonnie Johnson, but joined by Frank Signorelli on piano and Justin Ring on chimes
Johnny Mercer / G. I. Jive / radio transcription AFRS #61 / Hollywood c. 12.43 / with Cee Pee Johnson & his Orch and master of ceremonies Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Miguel Aceves Mejía / Mexican Folk Songs / Serenata Hausteca / RCA Victor / 1955

set 3
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Falling in Love with Love / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
George Benson / It's Uptown / Clockwise / Columbia / 1965
Johnny Hodges & his Orch / Jump That's All / Vogue / Paris 4.15.50
Benny Carter & his Orch / Chilpancingo / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Bob Decker
The Syncopaters / Rivers Stay Away from My Door / National / 10.49
Sammy Davis Jr / California Suite / A Stranger in Town / Reprise / LA late 1963 / arranged by Marty Paich

set 4
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Phil's Blues / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.18.56
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus Quintet with Strings / Full House / Contemporary / LA 3.30.55
Machito & his Orch / Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite: Mambo II / Verve / 12.21.50 / with Charlie Parker
Casa Loma Orch / Washboard Blues / Brunswick / 3.16.32 / vocal = Connee Boswell
Ann Cole / That's Enough / Sir / 1959
The Elite Jewels / Ride On King Jesus / Cleveland late 1940s

last soul song
Tony Joe White / Black and White / Wichita Lineman / Monument / Muscle Shoals, Alabama 1969