Friday, February 07, 2025

A Playlist Kissed an Angel

Screenshot from TV of Pat Carroll in a sequin pantsuit sitting on a stage set of a skyscraper site, presumably high up on one of the beams with her sequined lunchbox by her side.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pat and her cheekbones on a steel beam!

Coffeetime, February 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / Sassy Ann / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Nat Adderley cor, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b
Art Farmer / Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce / Sans Souci / Prestige / 10.21.55
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Tune Up / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / non sequitor: Ipana Toothpaste 
Tom Clines & his Music / Sweetheart’s Holiday / Brunswick / 8.29 / vocal = Jack Carney
Ressie Mae Jones [aka Bessie Mae Jones] & her Combo / Automatic Daddy / Tone [Dootone subsidiary] / 1952 / Dootsie Williams 
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / Moonlight in Vermont / Cook / New Orleans late 1954

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / I’m a Fool to Want You / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Warm Valley / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Someone to Watch Over Me / 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] / Night Owl / Brunswick / 1933
Kay Thompson & her Boys / You Let Me Down / Brunswick / 11.11.35 
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Inflation Blues / Exclusive / LA 12.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Little Milton / Sings Big Blues / Fever / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66

set 3
Little Brother Montgomery / Tasty Blues / Tasty Blues / Prestige Bluesville / 7.1 60 
Larry Young / Young Blues / Young Blues / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / Sentimental Feeling / NBC radio show One Night Stand / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 1944 / vocal = Don Darcy
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / More Than Anything in The World / Standard transcription / 1943 
Dick Haymes / Look at Me Now! / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Hollywood Records / Hollywood 1957 / with Cy Coleman p 

set 4
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / I Remember You / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
Curtis Counce / Exploring the Future / Race for Space / Dooto / LA 4.8.58 
King Cole Trio / Chant of the Blues (Dog-gone Unlucky Blues) / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Pied Pipers / Katrina / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 1949 / song from Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; with Paul Weston & His Orchestra
Pat Carroll / (Down in the Depths) On the 90th Floor / TV broadcast, The Red Skelton Show / 2.18.64  
The Alphabetical Four / I Can’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore / Decca / 4.7.41

last soulful song
Little Ann / What Should I Do / Ric-Tic [unissued] / Detroit 1969



Friday, January 31, 2025

The Playlist Song (’Round An’, ’Round An’, Round)

Close up of Nancy Wilson singing with a white gown and her hair in a 60s bouffant hairdo.
Face it, girl… you’re amazing!

Coffeetime, January 31, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clark Terry / Top and Bottom Brass / Mili-Terry / Riverside / 2.59 
Red Garland / Red’s Good Groove / Excerent! / Prestige / 3.22.62 
Jean “Toots” Thielemans / Man Bites Harmonica / Fundamental Frequency / Riverside / 12.30.57 
Henry Busse & his Orchestra / When Day Is Done / radio broadcast / 1935 / Busse t
Will Osborne & his Orchestra / Perhaps / Columbia / 8.21.29
Mel Walker / The Last Mile / Mercury [unissued] / 6.11.52 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra 
Thelma Gracen / Night and Day / I’ll Get By / EmArcy / 1956

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / Angel Eyes / It’s the Talk of the Town / Prestige / 9.5.62 
Nat Adderley & the Big Sax Section / That’s Right! / Night After Night / Riverside / fall 1960 
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Don’t Blame Me / Dawn / Paris 3.56
The Dixie Stompers [Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra] / Panama / Harmony / 12.22.25 
Revelers / Dinah / Warner Brothers Vitaphone short / 1927
Teddy Bunn / Bachelor Blues / Blue Note / 2.28.40
Four Chicks and a Chuck / The Turntable Song (’Round An’, ’Round An’, Round) / MGM / 1947 / with Jack Miller & his Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No) / Decca / 8.25.50 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra

set 3
Mal Waldron / Mal/3: Sounds / Ollie’s Caravan / New Jazz / 1.31.58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal/3:_Sounds
Tricky Lofton & Carmell Jones / Brass Bag / Angel Eyes / Pacific Jazz / LA 3.26.62 
Mel Powell / Hallelujah / Capitol / 12.10.47
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / It’s a Blue World / Victor / Chicago / 12.29.39 / vocal = Anita Boyer
The Charioteers / Only Forever / Columbia / 9.40
Bobby Darin / Winners / What a Difference a Day Makes / Atco / 2.60 

set 4
Terry Gibbs / A Jazz Band Ball, Second Set / Where or When / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / subtitled “The Poor People of Beverly Hills” / cover cartoon by William Box 
Lee Konitz / Very Cool / Movin’ Around / Verve / 5.12.57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Cool
Eartha Kitt / New Faces of 1952 / Monotonous / RCA Victor / 1952 / book co-written by Mel Brooks 
Nancy Wilson / Face It, Girl, It’s Over / live, The Ed Sullivan Show / 11.24.68
The Charioteers / Oh! Dem Golden Slippers / radio broadcast, Bing Crosby’s Kraft Music Hall / 12.17.42

last soulful song
The Jelly Beans / I’m Hip to You / Eskee / 1965 / Charles Thomas, Alma Brewer, Diane Taylor, Elyse Herbert, & Maxine Herbert



Friday, January 24, 2025

Pretty Little Playlist

Screenshot from 1960 video of Stan Getz and John Coltrane on stage in Germany, both in bow ties and formal suits holding their tenor saxophones. At this moment in the video, Getz is playing and Coltrane is looking down.
When our heroes ride in on their saxophones.

Coffeetime, January 24, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Howard McGhee / The Return of Howard McGhee / I’ll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.22.55 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / [Just Coolin’] / Close Your Eyes / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.8.59 / Hank quotes It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
Johnny Marvin / At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home) / Okeh / 3.28.27 / Marvin ukulele
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / In a Little Second Hand Store / Columbia / London 1933 
Cecil Gant Trio / It’s the Girl / Bullet / Nashville / 1947
Lorez Alexandria / Alexandria the Great / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 1964 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Traneing In / You Leave Me Breathless / Prestige / 8.23.57 
Jimmy Cleveland / A Map of Jimmy Cleveland / A Hundred Years from Today / Mercury / 12.58 
Johnny Hodges / Not So Dukish / The Last Time I Saw Paris / Verve / 9.10.58 
Stan Getz / Stan Gets Plays / Body and Soul / Clef / 12.52
Josephine Baker / Pretty Little Baby / Odeon/ Paris 1927 / with Jacob’s Jazz Band
Soul Stirrers / Mean Old World / Specialty / Hollywood 4.10.57 / Paul Foster, Sam Cooke, S. Roy Crain, R.B. Robinson, Jesse J. Farley, T.L. Bruster; Willie Webb org, L.C. Cook d
Albert King / Born Under a Bad Sign / Oh, Pretty Woman / Stax / Memphis 1966 

set 3
Grant Green / Street of Dreams / Somewhere in the Night / Blue Note / 11.16.64 
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / That’s Where It’s At / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Charlie Parker / Cool Blues / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47
Les Brown & his Orchestra / You’re Different / radio transcription / 1950 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Goldie Boots & The Falcons / You’re the Beating of My Heart / Savoy / 8.20.51 
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Wham of Sam / Blame It on My Youth / Reprise / LA 2.61 

set 4
John Graas / Montrose aka Westlake Bounce / Decca / LA 1.23.57 / Jack Montrose ts, Bill Perkins, ts, Paul Moer p, Paul Chambers b, Mel Lewis d
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / You Go to My Head / Club Français du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) / Don’t Fence Me In / Victor / 4.49
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Philips / Brazil 1963
Soul Stirrers / He’s My Guide [alt take 4] / Specialty / Hollywood 8.17.55 / Sam Cooke, Paul Foster, S. Roy Crain, R. B. Robinson, Jesse J. Farley

last soulful song
The Superbs / One Bad Habit / Doré / LA 1968

Friday, January 17, 2025

Don’t Let that Playlist Get Away

Close up of young June Christy singing in 1945 at the microphone with the Stan Kenton Band in back. She's smiling as she sings.
Lovely June in January

Coffeetime, January 17, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / Hidden Channel / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Ronnie Mathews / Doin’ the Thang! / Let’s Get Down / Prestige / 12.17.63
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, volume 2 / The Prophet / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.31.56
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Dinah / Victor / 1.28.26
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / A New Shade of Blue / RCA / Hollywood 4.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
June Christy / Love Turns Winter into Spring / Capitol / Hollywood 7.2.57 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Serves Me Right / Riverside / 10.28.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Room with Skies / Ricordi / 1961
Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53 / quotes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Tea for Two
Jesse Crawford / Dinah / Victor / 2.26.26 / Wurlitzer pipe organ
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don’t Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
Bonnie Lake & her Beaus / Thirteen Black Cats / 1.5.56 / Decca / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra
BB King [BB “Blues Boy” King & his Orchestra / Did You Ever Love a Woman / RPM / 1956
Chuck Willis / Search My Heart / Okeh [unissued alt take] / 4.15.55

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / So Do It! / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Cascades / Impulse! / 2.23.61
Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46
Mills Brothers / Tiger Rag / Brunswick / 11.5.31
Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / radio transcription, WNEW Saturday Night Swing Session / 3.1.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio, emcee = Bob Bach
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / You Are Too Beautiful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Rondo / Contemporary / LA 3.16.55
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Fascinatin’ Rhythm / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Honeysuckle Rose / Impulse! / 11.13.61
Phil Harris & Orchestra / One-zy Two-zy / Ara / Hollywood c. 11.45 / duet with 3 year-old Alice Faye Harris
Barrie Sisters [Barry Sisters] / Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Guitars a là Lee / Sweet Happy Life / Capitol / Hollywood 7.18.66 
The Zion Travelers / Jesus Said / Dootone / 1962

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / The Oogum Boogum Song / Double Shot / LA 1967



Friday, January 10, 2025

I’m the Playlist Who Loves You

This cover – photo, typography, the works – is outstanding. Who was the designer?

Coffeetime, January 10, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Way Down / Liza / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.5.62 
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Rhodesian Rhapsody / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Louis Smith / Smithville / Bakin’ / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.30.58 
Harry James & his Orchestra / Duke’s Mixture / Columbia / 3.26.41
Tom Clines & his Music / Somebody Mighty Like You / Brunswick / 7.10.29 / vocal = Chester Gaylord
Floyd Dixon / Pretty Baby / Aladdin / Hollywood 9.6.49 / vocal = Sonnie Parker; Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Al Grey tb, Wes Montgomery g, Roy Johnson b, Ellis Bartee d
Blossom Dearie / My Gentleman Friend / Someone to Watch Over Me / Verve / 5.21 & 22.59 

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

set 2
Stan Getz / Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio / Ballad Medley: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; I Don't Know Why (I Just Do); How Long Has This Been Going On?; I Can't Get Started; Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57 
Freddie Redd / Shades of Redd / Just a Ballad for My Baby / Blue Note / 8.13.60 
The Red Heads (aka Red Nichols & the Five Pennies) / Here or There / Pathé Actuelle / 1.18.27 / vocal = Frank Gould
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Coffee Time / Columbia / 1945 / Michael Douglas & Lucyann Polk
Albinia Jones / I Have a Way of Lovin’ / Decca / 1.48 
Eddie Bo / Roll ’Em Back / Ace [unissued] / 1956

set 3
Lou Donaldson / The Natural Soul / People Will Say We’re in Love / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.9.62 
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Passionova / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Jack McVea & his Band / Flying (All the Way) Home / Rhythm Records [unissued] / San Francisco 1944 
Art Kassel & His Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra / I’ll Be Around / radio transcription / 1944 / vocal = Gloria Hart
Chris Powell & The Five Blue Flames / My Love Has Gone / Columbia / 5.51
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Jenny / Coral / 1.22.62 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / The Chinook That Melted My Heart / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d 
Una Mae Carlisle / I’m the One Who Loves You / Victor / 10.3.41 / Charlie Shavers t, William Bailey cl, Russell Procope ts, Billy Kyle p, John Kirby b, O’Neil Spencer d 
Fred Astaire / Pick Yourself Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.26.36
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do) / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / We’re Living Humble / Decca / 5.23.46 

last soulful song
Orthea Barnes / Your Picture on the Wall / Mickay’s Records / 1962



Friday, December 20, 2024

Hello, Mister Playlist

Album cover of Christmas Songs and Carols on Golden Records label, illustrated by Lowell Hess, showing Victorian carolers on a snowy evening near a gas street lamp with a wooden sign with Santa Claus's face on it.
In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 20, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39 
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 / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60 / studio orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank DeVol ​
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

bed
Dexter Gordon / The Panther! / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 7.7.70 

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]; “besides, I think it needs me”
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 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess 
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

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

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 / Chicago 10.66 / Burrell g, Charles Stepney p; Cleveland Eaton b, Morris Jennings d
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973 / Allen p, Paul Rostock b, Ira Saylor d
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The Three Sisters 
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep: Darlene Zito, Phil Scott, Lester Brush, & Jimmy Leyden
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / LA 1957
Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965

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

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 / Hollywood 6.14.46 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé 
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / 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 soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

Friday, December 13, 2024

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing

Scan of the cover for the 78 rpm Golden Record, Winter Wonderland and Mr. Snow, showing a cartoon illustration of children smiling on a sled and building a snowman.
Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 13, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55  
Rouse-Watkins Jazz Modes / Jazzville / Legend / Dawn / 6.56 / Rouse ts, Watkins fh, Gildo Mahones p, Paul West b, Art Taylor d
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Felix Gross & his Orchestra / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49 / Joe Howard ts, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Minor Robinson d
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May 
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra and The Starlighters 

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66 
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duet with Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus  
Bob Keeshan & Lumpy Brannum / 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 / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“I don’t weigh very much.”) 
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49 
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires  
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Harris g, unknown bongos
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / Moore g, Gerald Wiggins p, Joe Comfort b 
King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra and The Boys Next Door
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.9.52
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atco / Chicago 1970