Friday, June 17, 2016

Was That the Playlist Thing to Do

Mae eyes some candy

Coffeetime, June 17, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Freedom Rider / Blue Lace / Blue Note / 5.27.61
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Free Flight / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56
Glen Gray Orchestra / Casa Loma Stomp / Victor / 2.17.33 
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Was That the Human Thing to Do / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Bill Moreing
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Orchestra / Why’d You Do It, Baby / Hollywood 12.8.47
Ella Fitzgerald / These Are the Blues / You Don’t Know My Mind / Verve / 10.29.63

set 2
King Curtis / The New Scene of King Curtis / Willow Weep for Me / New Jazz / 4.21.60
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Friday’s Child / Jazzline / 1.12.62
Secco Selichson / Gyspy Violin / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 2.38
Mae West / A Guy What Takes his Time / Brunswick / Hollywood 2.7.33 / from the Paramount Picture, She Done Him Wrong
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I Used to Be Color Blind / radio broadcast / live, Blue Room at the Lincoln Hotel 12.6.38 / vocal = Tony Pastor
Danny Kaye / Let’s Not Talk about Love / Columbia / 1941 / from the Broadway musical Let’s Face It
Jackie Wilson & Count Basie / Manufacturers of Soul / Uptight / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.3-4.68

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Fever / Verve / 7.25.63
Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / No Heat / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58  
Max Roach Quartet / Maximum / Vogue / Paris 5.15.49
Basin Street Boys / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson Orchestra
Margaret Whiting / You’re an Old Smoothie / Capitol / LA 11.25.47 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra
Matt Monro / Blue and Sentimental / My Old Flame / London [Decca] / Glasgow 1957 / with Malcolm Lockyer & his Orchestra

set 4
Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large  / Land’s End / HMV / Copenhagen 1.14-15.60
Herb Geller / That Geller Feller / An Air for the Heir / Bel Canto / LA 3.14.57
Ethel Waters / I Surrender Dear / radio transcription /  12.15.32
B.B. King / The B.B. Jones / soundtrack to Palomar Pictures, For Love of Ivy / ABC Records / LA 3.68
The Charioteers / In My Savior’s Care / radio transcription / Hollywood early 1940s

last soul song
Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes / To Be True / Where Are All My Friends / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1974