Hold Me, Thrill Me, Playlist Me

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

That Ole Playlist Called Love

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

Le Playlist

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

Pool-Playing Playlist

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

So Sweet My Little Playlist

I dig you, Jerry and Billy Butler.

Coffeetime, February 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / Double Exposure [complete recording] / Blue Note / 6.23.57
Booker Little / Booker Little 4 and Max Roach / Jewel’s Tempo / United Artists / 10.58
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Dream Lullaby / Vocalion / 12.13.34
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / It’s Psychological / Bluebird / 3.19.34 / vocal = Joey Nash / from Paramount film Melody in Spring
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / The Blues / Exclusive / LA 1946
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late, Show / Trust in Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1957

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

set 2
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / So Sweet My Little Girl / Blue Note / 8.9.63
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller, Volume 3 / It’s Too Late Now / Blue Note / 12.1.57 
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Blues / Gotham [unissued] / 1950
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Sunshine / Victor / 2.13.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Al Rinker, & Austin Young 
Fred Hartley & his Music / Little Old Lady / broadcast / London 9.11.38 / vocal = Gracie Fields
Thelma [Dolly] Cooper & her Boyfriends / Cute Poppa / Gotham / 1949

set 3
John Coltrane / Live at Birdland / I Want to Talk About You / Impulse! / live, Birdland 10.8.63
Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Tali / Atlantic / 1962
Tadd Dameron Sextet / Dameronia / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Boots & his Buddies / Do-Re-Mi / Victor / San Antonio 4.6.38 / vocal = Cora Woods
The Ravens / Always / National / 12.48
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / You Are Too Beautiful / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Hot Boy / Capitol / Hollywood 4.26.56
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / These Foolish Things / Roost / 8.15.51
King Cole Trio / I’ll Never Be the Same / Capitol / Hollywood 8.13.47 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mildred Bailey / It All Comes Back to Me Now / CBS radio, The Mildred Bailey Show / c. 1943
Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron
Pearl Bailey / Pearl’s Pearls / A House Is Not a Home / RCA Victor / 1971 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; arranged by Benny Carter
Golden Gate Quartet / Bye and Bye Little Children / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
Jerry Butler / I Dig You Baby / Mercury / 1966

The Most Beautiful Daisy in the World

Thank you, dear Jiminy, for leading the way across the threshold.

Coffeetime, February 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / Prestige / 5.24.56 
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56 
Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker with Strings / I'll Remember April / Clef / 7.5.50 
Walter Pidgeon / What'll I Do? / Bluebird / 7.15.24 / with Lester Hodges on piano
King Cole Trio / I'm Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book / Over the Rainbow / Verve / LA 1.14.61 / with Billy May & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
John Coltrane / Duke Ellington & John Coltrane / Little Brown Book / Impulse! / 9.26.62
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch: Tadd Dameron Orchestra / Dial “B” for Beauty / Prestige / 6.11.53
Eddie Lang / I’ll Never Be the Same / Parlophone / 9.27.28 / with Rube Bloom p
Noel Coward / I’ll See You Again / HMV / London 3.24.38
Delta Rhythm Boys / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / RCA Victor / 1952
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / We’ll Be Together Again / Impulse! / 4.3.63 
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ceora / Blue Note / 9.18.65 
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Calling Dr. Jazz / Savoy / 12.18.46 
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra
Bing Crosby / It’s Easy to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 2.21.35 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, The Rhythmettes & Three Shades of Blue
Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard Transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Oscar Moore / I'll Remember You / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / My One and Only Love / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s
King Cole Trio / What’ll I Do / Capitol / Hollywood 8.6.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / soundtrack to Pinocchio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Disney [Buena Vista] / Hollywood 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers and Victor Young & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song
The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967

I Want the Waiter (With the Playlist)

Elvis and his mini-me… on Coffeetime!

Coffeetime, February 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [aka 1541] / His Sister / Blue Note / 12.2.56 
Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Monk’s Shop / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.1.59 / Pony Poindexter as, Buddy Montgomery p, Wes Montgomery g, Monk Montgomery b, and Louis Hayes d
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / Broadway / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_at_the_Vanguard
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Zozoi / Decca / 10.22.34 
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / vocal = Paul Small
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Inflation Blues / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.5.55 / Don Fagerquist t, Charlie Mariano as, Donn Trenner p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d

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

set 2
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / I Need You / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b [Nat Adderley sat out]
Bill Evans / Portrait in Jazz / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 12.28.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Why Was I Born / Roost / fall 1955 / Powell ts, Jimmy Nottingham t, Bob Alexander tb, Tony Aless p, Billy Bauer g, Arnold Fishkin b, Don Lamond d
Cliff Edwards [Ukulele Ike] / Crazy People / Brunswick / 4.6.32 / with The Californians
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / I Want the Waiter (With the Water) / Vocalion / 6.29.39 / vocal = Jimmie [Trummy] Young tb 
Cleo Brown / Baby, Let’s Make Some Love / Blue / 1949
Elvis Presley / Fever / Nashville 4.2.60 / RCA Victor [unissued] / with The Jordanaires 

set 3
Johnny “Hammond” Smith / All Soul / Easy Like / New Jazz / 9.11.59 
Nat Adderley / Branching Out / I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ / Riverside / 9.58 
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Half Step Down, Please / Victor / 12.11.47 / written by Tadd Dameron 
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Honey / Decca / 4.21.37 / vocal = Beverly (Baby) White
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Standard transcription / 1943 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / Down in the Depths / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee 

set 4
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / My Shining Hour / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
King Cole Trio / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / I Like That Kind of Carrying On / Cook / New Orleans late 1954
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Look to the Rainbow / Verve / 12.65
The Alphabetical Four / The Sun Didn’t Shine / Decca / 11.18.43

last soulful song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Hurting Me / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1969