It’s the Playlist in Me

How great was Teddy Pendergrass?!

Coffeetime, December 6, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Mustang / Fly Little Bird Fly / Blue Note / 6.24.66
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble / Three Little Words / Keynote / 5.21.44
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / So Tired / Victor / 12.12.27 / vocal = Hoagy Carmich;;ael
Joseph “Mr. Google Eyes” August & his 4 Bars / Rock My Soul / Coleman Records / c. 1946
Elaine Delmar / Swinging the Bard / Live with Me and Be My Love / Atco / 1964 / with The Elizabethan Consort of Viols & Geoffrey Emmott’s Recorder Consort

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Just Squeeze Me / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Blackbirds Revue Finale: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Doin’ the New Low Down; I Must Have that Man; Baby; Dixie; Diga Diga Doo; Porgy; I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (reprise) / Brunswick  / 2.17.33
Ethel Merman / It’s the Animal in Me / from Paramount film The Big Broadcast of 1936 / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.17.35
Georgia Carr / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol [unreleased] / Hollywood mid-1950s
T-Bone Walker / News for You Baby / Imperial / LA 12.51

set 3
Illinois Jacquet / The Soul Explosion / The Soul Explosion / Prestige / 3.25.69
Art Farmer / To Sweden with Love / Kristallen den Fina (The Fine Crystal) / Atlantic / Stockholm 4.30.64
Mills Brothers / Diga Diga Doo / Columbia / 12.27.32 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Begging for Love / Decca / 4.11.47 / vocal = Paul Breckinridge
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Make Me a Present of You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Adderley & the Poll-Winners / Never Will I Marry / Riverside / LA 6.5.60
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons) / Capitol / 8.22.46
Dinah Washington / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Chicago 12.55
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood  1968
Highway QC’s / I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This; I’ll Trust His Word / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / Wake Up Everybody / Keep on Lovin’ You / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1975

Got a Playlist with an Angel

Dance your Emotions!

Coffeetime, November 29, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Giant Steps (alt take) / Atlantic / 5.5.59
Lee Morgan / Volume 3 [1557] / Hasaan’s Dream / Blue Note / 3.24.57
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Stampede / Vocalion / 3.22.37
Bert Lown & his Orchestra / I’ll Build a Nest / Bluebird /  5.18.33 / vocal = Ted Hold
Wally Mercer / Sad & Blue / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54
Helen Carr / Got a Date with an Angel / Bethlehem / LA 11.11.55

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Down With It! / Alone, Alone and Alone / Blue Note / 7.14.65
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson / The Nearness of You / Prestige / 5.20.55
Ben Webster / Memories of You / Commodore / 3.18.44
Kay Kyser & his Gentlemen from the Carolines / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me / radio broadcast / 1934 / duet with Sully Mason
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Cabin in the Sky / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / vocal = Earl Warren; master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Wynona Carr / What Do You Know (About Love) / Specialty / Hollywood 1957

set 3
Red Garland / Solar / I Just Can’t See for Looking / Jazzland / 1.30.62
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Lateef Minor / Riverside / 5.9.60
Gene Ammons / Don’t Do Me Wrong / Chess / Chicago 2.28.49
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle De Bop Bop (Adi Eedi Idio) / Decca / 7.19.37
Anita O’Day / I Apologize / London / 12.27.50 / with Ben Homer & his Orchestra
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Willow Weep for Me / Verve / LA 1.11.57

set 44
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Wail Street / Contemporary / LA 3.28.55
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / Contemporary / 4.21.58
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / You Need Coachin’ / Commodore / 9.29.44
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / That’s My Desire / Columbia / 1957 / with Billy May & his Orchestra
Little Milton / Blues ’n‘ Soul / Sweet Woman of Mine / Stax / Memphis 1974
Soul Stirrers / The Love of God (alt take 4) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58

last soulful song
The Emotions / Flowers / No Plans for Tomorrow / Columbia / Chicago 1976

A Woman Alone with the Playlist

Long-fingered, sharp-dressed Desi, even

Coffeetime, November 22, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Santa Tecla / Ricordi / 1961
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / It’s You Or No One / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Expubidence / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra / Glad Rag Doll / Okeh / Hollywood 1.17.29 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Cats & the Fiddle / Gang Busters / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / The Way You Look Tonight / Verve / LA 1.63

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

set 2
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / Before Dawn / Riverside / 5.57
Hank Mobley / Introducing Lee Morgan / P.S. I Love You / Savoy / 11.5.56
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Autumn Leaves / Roost / 12.5.52
Golden Gate Orchestra / Miss Annabelle Lee / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.27
Paul Robeson / Lonely Road / HMV / London 1936
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Goody Goody / Coral / 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio
Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia in the US) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia! / Manhattan / Warner Brothers / 1967

set 3
Paul Horn / Something Blue / Something Blue / Hifi Jazz / 3.60
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / On the Trail / Verve / 3.19.61
Five Red Caps / Somebody’s Lyin’ / Beacon / 3.44
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Swing Time Up in Harlem / Victor / 10.16.40 / vocal = Connie Haines
Frank Sinatra / Nice ‘n’ Easy / Nevertheless / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1960

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Easy Living / Verve / LA 1959
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Triton / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / La Cumparsita / RCA / LA 1947
Amos Milburn / Hard Luck Blues / Aladdin / LA 5.18.50
Amos Milburn / Sad and Blue / Aladdin / LA 4.26.47Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / A Woman Alone with the Blues / Verve /10.16.61
Zion Harmonizers / Working the Road / Gotham / 1958

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye and his Girls / I Want You ’Round / Motown / Detroit 1969

Playlist at Twilight

Lovely Savannah wants to be loved: she is!

Coffeetime, November 15, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
James Clay & David “Fathead” Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / Figger-ation / Riverside / 4.26.60
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Just for the Love / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Chu Berry & his Jazz Ensemble / Blowing Up a Breeze / Commodore / 8.28.41
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / I’m So Afraid of You / Brunswick / Chicago 1.7.31
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / All for the Love of Lil / Decca / 10.10.46
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / If Love Is Good to Me / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Ballads / I Wish I Knew / Impulse! / 11.13.62
Gerry Mulligan / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / World Pacific, Pacific Jazz / 12.14.54
Sarane Ferret et le Swing Quintette de Paris / Cocktail Swing / Odeon / Paris 6.23.41
Cliff Edwards / Pennies from Heaven / Syndicated Radio Transcription Disc / 1936 / with Freddy Rich Orchestra, MC = Harry Richman
Gene Autry / The Old Trail / Okeh / Hollywood 6.23.38
Don Heitgerd & ensemble / The Prince Is Giving a Ball / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64 / premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / ’Round Midnight / Impulse! / 3.4.63
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Blues at Twilight / Tampa / LA 11.23.56
Preston Love Sextet / Strictly Cash / Federal / LA 1.22.52
Savannah Churchill & the Sentimentalists / Foolishly Yours / Manor / 12.46 / The Sentimentalists were comprised of the Brown Dots and later became the Four Tunes
Matt Monro / Blue and Sentimental / A Cottage for Sale / London [Decca] / London 1957 / with Malcolm Lockyer & his Orchestra

set 4
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / Stairway to Steinway / Bethlehem / 3.55
Fats Waller / Down Home Blues / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Dick Powell & the Four Mills Brothers / Out for No Good / radio transcription / 1934
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / Money Blues / Atlantic / 7.27.58
Soul Stirrers / There’s Not a Friend Like Jesus / Specialty / Hollywood 2.4.59

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / I’m Thankful for What I Got / Atlantic / 1968

Put Some Money in the Playlist, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low

Mr. Milton says WMBR’s listeners are number one!

Coffeetime, November 8, 2019, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Hildegarde / I’m Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Chubby Newsome / Where’s The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 5
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 6 (10) (no later than 3:41 !!!!)
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

It’s the Talk of the Playlist

Oscar is rapturous… as are we all.

Coffeetime, November 1, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Messengers / ’S Make It / Waltz for Ruth / Limelight / Hollywood 11.64
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night in Tunisia / Kozo’s Waltz / Blue Note / 8.60
Teddy Wilson Quintet / Memories of You / Musicraft / 1.15.45
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Got a Date with an Angel / Zonophone / London 10.14.31 / vocal = Pat O’Malley
Jesse “Tiny” Kennedy / Early in the Mornin’, Baby / Trumpet / Memphis 9.25.52 / with Elmer, The Disc Jockey Rooster
George Shearing / The George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson / The Nearness of You / Capitol / Hollywood 6.29.60 / vocal = Nancy Wilson

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

set 2
Barry Harris / Preminado / It’s the Talk of the Town / Riverside / 1.19.61
Jon Eardley / Jon Eardley 7 / There’s No You / Prestige / 1.13.56
Lester Young & Harry Edison / It’s the Talk of the Town / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55
Connee Boswell / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Decca [alt take] / Laren, the Netherlands 8.26.35 / with The Ramblers
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / You’re Everything I Love / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / vocal = Sonny Woods, with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Eligibles / Dearly Beloved / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

set 3
Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Tali / Atlantic / 1962
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Sweet Georgia Brown / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Howard McGhee / Up in Dodd’s Room / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
Maxine Sullivan / I Can’t Get Started with You / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National [unissued] / 12.13.49
Frank D’Rone / In Person / My One and Only Love / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi Fi / Takin’ a Chance on Love / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / Hollywood 1.4.56
Pete Brown / Jazz Kaleidoscope / Tea for Two / Bethlehem / 11.16.54
Les Paul / It’s the Talk of the Town / V-Disc 751B / Hollywood 1947
Georgia White / I’ll Keep Sittin’ on It (If I Can’t Sell It) / Decca / Chicago 5.12.36 / with Les Paul
Fred Astaire / I Love Louisa / from MGM movie, The Band Wagon / Hollywood 1953 / with Oscar Levant
Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968
Jubalaires / My Trouble is Hard / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Sapphires / Who Do You Love? / Swan / 1963

Just Like a Dog (Barking Up the Wrong Playlist)

Dreamy Hadda and her dreamy shoulders and dreamy diamonds.

Coffeetime, October 25, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Consequence] / Slumber / Blue Note / 12.3.65
Prestige All Stars / Olio / Potpourri / Prestige / 2.16.57
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Schubert’s Serenade / V-Disc 756 / c. fall 1941
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Collegiana / Brunswick / 3.2.28 / vocal = Skinny Ennis
The Four Buddies / Sweet Slumber / Savoy / 1.13.51
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Detour Ahead / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

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

set 2
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / I’ve Never Been in Love Before / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Theater 12.4.54
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Hadda Brooks / Schubert’s Serenade in Boogie / Modern / Hollywood 1951
Larry Adler & his Orchestra / Solitude / Regal Zonophone / London 6.35
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / South of the Border / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 5.9.39 / vocal = Hal Yates
Shirley Booth / I’m in the Mood for Love / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1945 / The Danny Kaye Show on CBS
Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton / Just Like a Dog (Barking Up the Wrong Tree) / Peacock / Houston 1957

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator / Soft Touch / Blue Note / 10.14.69
Milt Jackon & Ray Charles / Soul Brothers / Blue Funk / Atlantic / 9.12.57
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Sweet Slumber / Decca / 10.19.43 / vocal = Trevor Bacon
Dixiaires [Dixieaires] / Keep Me With You / 20th Century Records / 1948

set 4
Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / You Go to My Head / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / Riviera / Prestige / 12.3.54
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Braggin’ / V-Disc 215B / 1944
Mabel Robinson / Me and My Chauffeur / Decca / 1.20.42
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / You’re a Grand Old Flag / RCA / LA 1957
Dixieaires / Let Me Fly / Exclusive [unissued] / c. 1948

last soulful song
Jay Wiggins / Sad Girl / IPG / 1963