Playlist Hoot

Coffeetime, December 26, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Horace Parlan / On the Spur of the Moment / Skoo Chee / Blue Note / 3.18.61

Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Wake Up! / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57

Blue Barron & his Orchestra / That’s Right, I’m Wrong / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Charlie Fisher

Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Jitterbug / Bluebird / 1.22.34

Joe Swift / Crazy ’Bout Your Cookin’ / Exclusive / LA 1948 / with Johnny Otis Band

Nancy Wilson / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 11.11.63

set 2

Ben Webster / Soulville / Where Are You? / Verve / LA 10.15.57

Joe Wilder / Wilder ’n‘ Wilder / Mad About the Boy / Savoy / 1.19.56

Larry Adler Plays Paris Pops / Genevieve / Angel / 1953 

Pee Wee Russell / By Appointment Only / Missy / Storyville / featuring George Wein’s Mahogany Hall All Stars / Boston 1952

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

Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Let It Roll Again / King / 5.50 / vocal = Big John Greer & ensemble 

Hermione Gingold & Maurice Chevalier / Yes, I Remember It Well  / MGM movie Gigi / Hollywood fall 1957

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

set 3

Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / 63rd Street Theme / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61

Bob Brookmeyer / Bob Brookmeyer and Friends / Jive Hoot / Columbia / 5.26, 27.64

Ruby Braff / Flaky / Storyville / Boston 1955

Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947  

The Ravens / Count Every Star / National / 3.50

Billy Eckstine / Temptation / MGM / Hollywood 1949

set 4

Shelly Manne / My Fair Lady / Show Me / Contemporary / LA 8.17.56

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Sunday Jazz á la Lighthouse, Vol. 1 / Morgan Davis / Contemporary / live, The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, CA 1953

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

Georgia Carr / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol [unreleased] / Hollywood mid-1950s

Bobby “Blue” Bland / Blue Moon / Duke / Memphis 1962

Golden Gate Quartet / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Columbia / 6.5.46

last soulful song

The Incredibles / I’ll Make It Easy  (If You’ll Come On Home) / Audio Arts! / Hollywood 1966 

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Burnt Biscuits, December 20, 2014, Angelynn Grant, filling in for John Funke

set 1

Larry Williams / You Bug Me, Baby / Specialty

Jesse Lee Turner / Shake, Shake, Shake / Carlton

Bobby Darin / Bullmoose / Atco

Beginners Guitar / Don Rainey / none on label

Ricky Nelson / Waitin' in School / Imperial

David Seville / Almost Good / Liberty

Ernie Freeman / Puddin' / Imperial

Charlie Drake / She's My Girl / United Artists

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans / Annette / Philles / bed

set 2

Chubby Checker / Popeye the Hitchhiker / Parkway

Ernie K-Doe / Wanted $10,000.00 Reward / Minit

Ronnie & the Hi-Lites / Twistin' and Kissin' / Joy

Faye Adams / It Hurts Me to My Heart / Warwick

Baby Cortez / Getting Right / Chess

The Drifters / Rat Race / Atlantic

The String-A-Longs / Wheels / Warwick / bed

set 3

Maxine Brown / My Life / ABC-Paramount

The Van Dykes / You're Shakin' Me Up / Mala

France Gall / Et des Baisers / Philips

The Ventures / 007-11 / Dolton

Steps of Stone / Keep Away from Me / Hope

Edwin Starr / Agent Double-O-Soul [instr] / Ric-Tic / bed

set 4

The Flamingos / Boogaloo Party / Philips

The Sandpebbles / Forget It / Calla

The Raeletts, featuring Vernita Moss / Leave My Man (Woman) Alone / TRC

Ray Agee / Your Precious Love / Celeste

last joyful song

The Penguins / Jingle Jangle / Mercury

The Playlist Waltz

I love this album cover so much!

Coffeetime, December 19, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

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

Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70

set 1

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

Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48

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

Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble

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 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]

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

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

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

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters http://youtu.be/PKpW7SdxhRE

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

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

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

Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965 

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 / Hollywood 12.4.43

King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / LA 6.14.46

Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town (Capitol Promo)  / Capitol / LA 9.17.47 / with the Pied Pipers

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 2.67

Merry Olde Playlist

Coffeetime, December 12, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / High and Flighty / Blue Note / 2.9.58

Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 5.17.57 

Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 1937 / vocal = Walter Cummins

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Winter Weather / Okeh / Hollywood 11.27.41 / duet = Peggy Lee & Art Lund 

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

Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters

set 2

Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / I Thought About You / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62

Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Namely You / Riverside / 12.23.57

The Ramblers / 13th December Stomp / Decca / London 5.23.33

Gene Autry & The Pinafores / He’s a Chubby Little Fellow / Columbia / Hollywood 6.27.49 

Slim & Slam / It’s Gettin’ Kinda Chilly / Vocalion / 11.9.38

Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / 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

Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964 / vocal = Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles 

set 3

Lee Morgan / Charisma / Sweet Honey Bee / Blue Note / 9.29.66

Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Turista / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3, 4, 5 & 7.16.63
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Sidewalks of New York / Atlantic / 3.16.49

Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes

The Larks / Christmas to New Years / Apollo [unreleased] / 10.18.51 

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

Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4

Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / The Man I Love / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61 

Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65

Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers

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

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

Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song

Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / It’s a Marshmallow World / CBS radio broadcast / Hollywood 11.29.50

My Fine, Feathered Playlist

A real entertainer saluting a real entertainer

Coffeetime, December 5, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Rhythm-A-Ning / New Jazz / 6.3.59

Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / Just in Time / Riverside / 6.11, 12, & 19.57

Cee Pee Johnson & his Orchestra / Swing Crazy; Theme: One O’Clock Jump / AFRS Jubilee #61 / Hollywood c. 12.44 

The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / I’ll Be Getting Along / HMV / London 10.24.29 / vocal = Billy Milton, directed by Carroll Gibbons

Floyd Dixon / Real Lovin’ Mama / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / duet with Mari Jones; with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 

Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Weak for the Man / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2

Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 2.26.58

Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Collette / Johnny Walks / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57

George Wallington / I Married an Angel / Prestige / 5.25.53

The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / My Fine, Feathered Friend / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38 / vocal = Greta Keller

Jack Teagarden / Puttin’ and Takin’ / Brunswick / 7.19.39 

Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / I’m Fer It / Urban / LA spring 1946

Otis Rush / Double Trouble / Cobra / Chicago 1958

set 3

Jackie McLean / Marney / Blue Note [unissued] / 2.11.63

Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson / Wonder Why / Prestige / 5.20.55

Machito & his Afro Cubans / 5: Roost Anniversary, volume 1 / Cubop City, part 1 / Roost / live broadcast, Royal Roost 1949

Delta Rhythm Boys / Do You Care / transcription / 1941

Una Mae Carlisle / You’re Gonna Change Your Mind / Joe Davis / 8.8.44

Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / Wives and Lovers / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 4

Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor / Tune for Tex / Urania / c. 10.54 

Johnny Smith / Nice Work if You Can Get It / Roulette / 11.52

Ray Charles / I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now / Swing / LA 11.24.50

Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Manhattan / RCA / LA 1957

Earl Gaines / The Door Is Still Open / DeLuxe / Hollywood 1968

Pilgrim Travelers / Gonna Walk Right Out / Specialty / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song

The Lovettes / I Need a Guy / Carnival / 1967