Friday, April 18, 2025

The Playlist’s in Love with You

Screenshot from the November 13, 1960 Ed Sullivan Show showing Dick Van Dyke singing to a little girl performer who is putting on a sad face.
Dick will get her to smile… I *know* he will!

Coffeetime, April 18, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Teddy Charles / Metronome Presents Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art / Scoochie / Warwick / 1960
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / No Crooks / New Jazz / 5.18.57
Bert Firman’s Quintuplets of Swing / Blue Strings / Odeon / London 9.20.37
Hotel Commodore Dance Orchestra (Ben Selvin & his Orchestra) / Lucille / Columbia / 10.21.31 / vocal = Robert Wood
Jesse (Belvin) & Marvin (Phillips) / Daddy Loves Baby / Recorded in Hollywood / Hollywood 1.6.52 / arranged by Red Callender; Maxwell Davis ts, Callender b
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Angel Eyes / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / At Last / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Red Norvo / Russian Lullaby / Keynote / 10.10.44
Leo Parker & his Mad Lads / Solitude / Gotham / 12.28.50 
Maurice Chevalier / Louise / Victor / 3.14.29 / for the Paramount movie The Innocents of Paris 
The Nephews (The Spirits of Rhythm) / My Old Man / Brunwsick / 12.6.33 / lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Bernie Hanighen 
The Sultans / Blues at Dawn / Jubilee / 2.52
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Easy Street / Command / Hollywood 1963 / with the Ray Charles Singers

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 7.1.65
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / The Lady’s in Love with You / Clef / 9.13.54
Maxwell Davis / Hot Point / Aladdin / LA 2.18.53
The Ramblers / Sunday in the Park / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 6.24.38 / vocal = Freddy Johnson
The Ink Spots / Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat / Decca / 10.13.41
Willie Bobo / Feelin’ So Good / Dichoso / Verve / 9.27.66

set 4
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Quietly There / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66
Bob Brookmeyer / Brookmeyer & Guitars [The Street Swingers] / Street Swinger / Kimberly [World Pacific] / 12.13, 16.57
Anita O’Day / Tennessee Waltz / London / 10.26.50 / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Pretty World / A&M / LA 1968
Rising Star Gospel Singers / John the Revelator / Trilon / Berkeley 3.46

last soulful song
T.S.U. Toronadoes / Got to Get Through to You / Atlantic / 1969
Darrell Banks / Open the Door to Your Heart / Revilot / Detroit 1966

Friday, April 11, 2025

On a Misty Playlist

Screenshot from the movie Back in the Saddle from 1941 showing Gene Autry sitting next to Mary Lee and as she sings, he lassos her foot. They're both smiling and singing, I'm an Old Cowhand.
Lasso me next, Gene!

Coffeetime, April 11, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / This I Dig of You / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Tree of Hope / Victor / 10.16.41 
Al Bowlly / Falling in Love / Filmophone / London c. 1.32 / with New Cumberland Dance Orchestra
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Drifting Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.12.45 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Why Was I Born? / Verve / LA 1.6.63

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

set 2
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Lydia’s Lament / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / When Sunny Gets Blue / Blue Note / 11.11.60
Gene Ammons / It’s the Talk of the Town / Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Annette Hanshaw / It’s the Talk of the Town / Banner / 9.1.33
Gene Autry / Blue Hawaii / Okeh / 10.11.37
The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love? / Manor / c. 1947 
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To? / Where Would You Be Without Me? / RCA / 1965

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Sunset / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery / Gone with the Wind / Riverside / 1.28.60
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa / Begin the Beguine / Savoy / 2.26.55
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National [unissued] / 12.13.49 
Kay Starr / A Woman Always Understands / Lamplighter / Hollywood 6.15.46 / with The Lamplighter Five
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Try to Remember / MGM / 1962

set 4
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Love Walked In / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Kenya / Tampa / LA 1954
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something / Majestic / 10.47 / with the Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Eddie Safranski b
Pearl Bailey / Naughty but Nice / They’re Either Too Young or Too Old / Roulette / 1960
The Soul Stirrers / I Have a Right to the Tree of Life / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song
LeRoy Hutson / Hutson II / I Think I’m Falling in Love / Curtom / Chicago 1976

Friday, April 04, 2025

Tempête sur le Playlist

Screenshot from music video showing a close up of Candi Staton smiling in a pink satin gown with the city billboards and neon signs behind her. One sign is for a cigarette ad.
Candi! Watch out for that lit ciggy!

Coffeetime, April 4, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / Groove / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / I’ll Remember April / EmArcy / 3.6.58
Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman / Three Trumpets / Diffusion of Beauty / Prestige / 1.26.57
Gene Austin / Ain’t She Sweet / Victor / 3.15.27 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Move Out Baby / Specialty / Hollywood 12.27.47
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / At Dawning / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / Days of Wine and Roses / Impulse! / 3.4.63
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Mule / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Michel Warlop & Son Orchestre / Tempête sur les Cordes / Swing / Paris 6.18.41
Comedy [Comedian] Harmonists / Tea for Two / HMV / Berlin 12.17.34 
Frank Sinatra / Exactly Like You / radio broadcast, Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 11.28.45 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC voc & p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Griffin Brothers / Stubborn as a Mule / Dot / Gallatin, Tennessee 1950-51 / vocal = Margie Day

set 3
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Li’l Darlin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 1963 
Horace Silver / The Tokyo Blues / Too Much Sake / Blue Note / 7.14.62
Miles Davis All Stars / Milestones / Savoy / 8.14.47 
Dick Todd / How About You? / Bluebird / 11.26.42 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra
The Three Flames / Nicholas (Don’t Be So Ridiculous) / Columbia / 1947
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / They Say It’s Wonderful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Mediolistic / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Fascinatin’ Rhythm / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
Johnny Sparrow & his Bows & Arrows / Indiana / Gotham [unissued] / Philadelphia 1952
King Cole Trio / I Can’t See for Looking / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 4.10.44 / vocal = Ida James; NKC voc & p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Beny Moré / Maracaibo Oriental / RCA Victor / 1950s
Jubalaires / What Did Jesus Say / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1970
The Ambassadors / I Dig You Baby / Arctic / 1969

Friday, March 28, 2025

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Playlist Me

Screen shot from 1962 TV show "Jazz Scene USA" showing host Oscar Brown, Jr. interviewing featured musician Teddy Edwards. Both men are smiling and dressed in suits and ties and seated facing each other with stage lights behind them.
I, too, would like to interview handsome Mr. Edwards.

Coffeetime, March 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Renita’s Bounce / Candid / 9.27.60
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59
Pete Johnson’s All Stars / Pete’s Blues / Back Room Blues / National / 1.2.46
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Put and Take / Okeh / 5.7.30
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh-Ho! Ev’rybody, Heigh-Ho! / Victor / 6.3.29
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Broken Hearted / Supreme / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon 
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play “Checkmate” / The Isolated Pawn / Contemporary / LA 10.61
Teddy Edwards / Together Again! / Misty / Contemporary / LA 5.61
Benny Morton & his All Stars / Conversing in Blue / Blue Note / 1.31.45
Helen Kane / Dangerous Nan McGrew / Victor / Hollywood 4.12.30 
Pete Johnson’s All Stars / Pete’s Blues / I May Be Wonderful / National / 1.2.46 / vocal = Etta Jones
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Pasadena / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945
Pee Wee Crayton / Wondering Why / Imperial / New Orleans 4.14.55 / with Dave Bartholomew’s Band

set 3
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / J. and B. Blues / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Lee Morgan / [Standards] / This Is the Life / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.13.67
Lester Young Trio / I Want to Be Happy / Clef / LA spring 1946
Ella Mae Morse / Buzz Me / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #155 / Hollywood 11.5.45 / with Sam Donahue Orchestra & Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Orioles / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / Jubilee / 12.31.52
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / A Foggy Day / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Sir Richard Face / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / I’m Thru with Love / Contemporary / LA 4.3.9
Les Paul Trio / Coquette / V-Disc 572B / Hollywood 5.17.45
Peggy Lee / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / MacGregor transcription/ Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 
Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire / A Couple of Song and Dance Men / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.46 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Earl Gaines / You Belong to Me / DeLuxe / 1970
Golden Gate Quartet / Daniel Saw the Stone / Okeh / 4.18.41

last soulful song
Arthur Adams / I’m Lonely for You / Modern / LA 1967



Friday, March 21, 2025

That Ole Playlist Called Love

Screenshot from animated film showing Betty Boop dressed in a racing car driver's outfit standing on the racetrack in front of cars lined up getting ready to race.
Betty will race into your heart… with Mae’s help.

Coffeetime, March 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenor Favorites / Blue Lou / Jazzland / 2.5.62
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Jamila / Savoy / 7.9.57
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Four Strings / Blue Note / 5.19.57
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / Lafayette / Brunswick / 11.11.40 
Mae Questal (“The Betty Boop Girl”) / The Music Goes ’Round and Around / Decca / 1.8.36 / with Red Norvo & his Orchestra
Gene Phillips / I Wonder What the Poor Folks Are Doing / Modern / LA 1.50 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / That Ole Devil Called Love / United Artists / 7.58 / celeste!

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

set 2
Howard McGhee / Sharp Edge / Ill Wind / Fontana / 12.8.61
Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Come Rain or Come Shine / Pacific Jazz / 1961
James Moody / I Cover the Waterfront / Royal Roost / Paris 7.27.51 
Paul Davis & his Orchestra / Black and Tan Fantasy / Champion / 11.25.32 / celeste!
Georgia White / Daddy Let Me Lay It on You / Decca / Chicago 5.11.36 / with Les Paul
Alice Faye / It’s Swell of You / Brunswick / Hollywood 3.18.37 / with Cy Feuer & his Orchestra
Billy Williams / Billy Williams Quartet / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / MGM / 1956

set 3
Sonny Criss / I’ll Catch the Sun / Blue Sunset / Prestige / 1.20.69
Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Kachin / Savoy / 12.17.59
Gene Ammons / Harold the Fox / Mercury / Chicago 10.23.47
John Kirby & his Orchestra / That Lonely Tune / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Dixiaires / Until You Say You Are Mine / Continental / 1948 
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Moon River / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Perdido / Contemporary / LA 8.16.55
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Indiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Lester Young / Indiana / Aladdin / LA 7.15.42
T-Bone Walker / I’m Waiting for Your Call / Black & White / LA 11.7.47
The Robins / I’m Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / lead vocal = Bobby Nunn; with Johnny Otis Band 
The Dixie-aires / My Trouble Is Hard / Exclusive / 1948

last soulful song
Otis Leavill / You Babe / Dakar [unissued] / Chicago 1970 / written by Curtis Mayfield

Friday, March 14, 2025

Le Playlist

Screenshot from the movie "Lets Make Love" showing Yves Montand pretending to dance with and imaginary partner.
Okay, okay, Monsieur Montand, I guess I’ll dance with you.

Coffeetime, March 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Another Night at Birdland / It’s You or No One / Roost / live at Birdland, 4.10.57
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / Theme: A Gem from Tiffany / Contemporary / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.23.59
The Mason-Dixon Orchestra aka Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Alabammy Snow / Columbia / 5.15.29
Little Jack Little / My Heart and I / Columbia / 12.23.35
The Cats & the Fiddle / Please Don’t Leave Me Now / Bluebird / 6.27.39 [flip of Gangbusters]
Beverly Kenney / Beverly Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith / Stairway to the Stars / Roost / 1955 / with celeste!

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

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Riverside / 10.62
Kenny Burrell / If You Could See Me Now / Blue Note / live, Five Spot Café 8.25.59
Jack Sheldon / The Trumpet of Jack Sheldon / There’s No You / Reprise / Hollywood 5.61 / Sheldon t, Marty Paich organ!, Joe Mondragon b, John Markham d
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / I Got Rhythm / Odeon / Buenos Aires 10.14.41 
The Boswell Sisters / Time on My Hands / Brunswick / 11.2.31 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / I Was Here When You Left Me / V-Disc 500B / 5.17.45 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol
Jimmy Durante / I’m As Ready As You Are / TV broadcast / 1.1.51 / duet with Sophie Tucker

set 3
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Yesterdays / Atlantic / 4.3, 5.57
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Dark Eyes / Riverside / 1.31.58
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / The Lion’s Roar / Blue Note / 10.20.61
The 5 Jones Boys / My Gal Mezzanine / Variety / 1937
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / That’s Life I Guess / Brunswick / 1.12.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Yves Montand / En Balade / Le Musicien / Columbia / Paris 1958 / avec Bob Castella et ses Rythmes

set 4
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / Is It True What They Say About Dixie? / Riverside / LA 7.3.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Dizzy Dialogue / Contemporary / LA 8.16.55
Oscar Moore with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me / Atlas / Hollywood 1945 / vocal = Charles Brown
Peggy Lee / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription/ Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Wynona Carr / Please Mr. Jailer / Specialty / Hollywood 1956 / with Bumps Blackwell Band
Unknown Detroit Male Group / Come On Over Here / Gotham [unissued] / Detroit 1951

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Love Grows Bitter / Brunswick / Chicago 1967

Friday, March 07, 2025

Pool-Playing Playlist

Screenshot from the movie My Friend Irma Goes West showing Dean Martin on stage singing to a glamorous woman in a white gown. He's trying to get her attention as he holds her arm gently, but she has her back to him and looks uninterested.
You can tickle *my* inner arm, Dean.

Coffeetime, March 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Fuego / Bup A Loup / Blue Note / 10.4.59
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Davis Cup / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / A-Lue-Cha / Mercury / LA 1959
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Decca / 5.3.38
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / She’s My Slip of a Girl / London 12.4.29 / vocal = Pat O’Malley; directed by Ray Noble
Amos Milburn / Pool-Playing Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.11.47
Dinah Washington / Make the Man Love Me / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Time On My Hands / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Art Farmer / Perception / Blue Room / Argo / 10.61
Stéphane Grappelli / Time After Time / Barclay / Paris 2.6.56 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree / Mutual Broadcasting System radio broadcast, V-Disc 610A / New Zanzibar Club 10.10.45
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / There’s Rhythm in the River / Victor / Camden, NJ 3.2.31
Martha Raye / Sam’s Got Him / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
The Rhythm Kings / Why My Darling Why / Apollo / 1951 / with Isaac Royal & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / No Blow, No Show / Duke / Houston 1952

set 3
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / Stella B. / Riverside / 8.60
Joe Newman / Jive at Five / Jive at Five / Prestige / 5.4.60
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / 125th Street Sunrise / Red Robin [unissued] / c. 11.53 
The Mills Brothers / Smoke Rings / Columbia / 1.25.33
Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / You’re Getting to be a Habit with Me / radio broadcast transcription / 1948
Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet (just rhythm section here)

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Eesom / EmArcy / 11.4, 59
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It’s a Grand Night for Swinging / Riverside / 3.7.57
Hildegarde / Can I Forget You? / Columbia / London 9.4.37 / with Carroll Gibbons p
Martha Davis & the Esquires / Same Old Boogie / Urban / LA 11.46 / Davis p & voc, Leo Blevins g, Buzz Johnson b, & Charles Gray d 
Dean Martin / I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.28.50 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra; from Paramount movie My Friend Irma Goes West 
Alphabetical Four / Shake My Mother’s Hand / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song
Belita Woods / That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You / Karen / Detroit 7.69