When My Little Playlist Met Your Little Pekinese

I love Bobby Van even if Tommy Rall doesn’t!

Coffeetime, June 12, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / Karioka / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / Thadrack / Blue Note / 2.2.57
Zack Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, IN 2.11.29
Al Bowlly / When My Little Pomeranian Met Your Little Pekinese / HMV / London 5.10.33 / duet with Frances Day, with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / When I Meander in the Meadow / RCA Victor [unissued] / 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes / Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Dinah Washington / Crazy He Calls Me / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54 / with Clifford Brown All Stars

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Rainy Night / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Paul Desmond / Imagination / RCA Victor [unissued] / 3.15.62
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips – Buddy Rich Trio / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Clef / 12.14.52
Hoagy Carmichael / Stardust / V-Disc 536A / Hollywood 8.13.45
Don Redman & his Orchestra / The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring / Victor / 3.23.39 / Eddie Williams voc & ts
The Charioteers / The Cowboy Serenade (When I’m Rollin’ My Last Cigarette) / Okeh / 7.7.41 
T-Bone Walker & his Band / The Hustle Is On / Imperial / LA 4.5.50
Ann Miller, Bob Fosse, Bobby Van, & Tommy Rall / From this Moment On / MGM / Hollywood 6.18.53 / from film “Kiss Me Kate”

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Backlash / On the Que-Tee / Atlantic / 10.19.66
Hank Jones / Bluebird / Alpha / Savoy / 11.1.55
Julian Dash / Goin’ Along / Mello-Roll / 12.50
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Knows / transcription / 1938 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
Savannah Churchill / That's My Affair / Victor / 12.51 / with The Striders
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Memphis in June / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 / Jimmy Rowles celeste!

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Thou Swell / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / S’Wonderful / Savoy / LA 4.18.50
King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & celeste!, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Larks / I Live True to You / Apollo / 2.18.52
Vikki Carr / It Must Be Him / Alfie / Liberty / LA 1967
The Soul Stirrers / He’ll Make a Way / Specialty / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soulful song
Gladys Knight & the Pips / Neither One of Us / Soul / 12.72

My Fine, Feathered Playlist

Doris, s’wonderful when you sing… or act!

Coffeetime, June 5, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Freddie Redd / San Francisco Suite / Minor Interlude / Riverside / 10.2.57
Sydney Kyte & his Piccadilly Hotel Band / Me / Regal / 1931 / vocal = The Three Ginx
Mel Walker / Sunset to Dawn / Savoy / LA 8.12.50 / with Johnny Otis Orchestra
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Verve / LA 1.4.57

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

set 2
Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / What Is There to Say / Riverside / 6.57
The 3 Sounds / Feelin’ Good / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 6.28.60
Django Reinhardt et Le Quintette Du Hot Club De France / Django’s Dream (Rêverie) / Vogue / Paris 1950
Erskine Butterfield / Part Time Boogie / radio transcription / 8.17.44
The Ramblers / My Fine, Feathered Friend / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38 / vocal = Greta Keller
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / I Want a Tall Skinny Papa / Decca / 2.18.42 / vocal = Sister Rosetta Tharpe & ensemble
Inez Jones / Have You Met Inez Jones? / Happy / Riverside / Berkeley 5.27.57 / with Oscar Moore g
Yves Montand / Yves Montand Sings / Tournesol / Decca / 1951

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Stanley Turrentine with The 3 Sounds / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 12.16.60
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Oz – The Wizard / Savoy / 3.30.55
Allen Eager / All Night All Frantic / Savoy / 7.15.47
Golden Gate Quartet / Shoo Shoo Baby / AFRS Jubilee radio broadcast / c. 1943
Doris Day & Buddy Clark / My Darling, My Darling / Columbia / 9.22.48

Stan Getz & João Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / O Grande Amor / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = João Gilberto

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / Be Deedle Dee Do / Contemporary / LA 8.58
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / Sweet Lorraine / Bethlehem / 3.55 
King Cole Trio / Monday Again / Capitol [unissued] / 12.29.47 / NKC p, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b

Bill Johnson & his Musical Notes / Pretty Eyed Baby / RCA Victor / 1947 

Little Milton / Blues ’n’ Soul / Hard Luck Blues / Stax / Memphis 1974
Golden Gate Quartet / NBC Thesaurus radio broadcast / Show Me the Way / radio transcription / fall 1941

last soulful song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978

In the Playlist of Forget-Me-Nots

Such a gentleman, Fred… averting your eyes from Cyd’s undies.

Coffeetime, May 22, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / Sevens / Bethlehem / 4.2.60 
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / Stablemates / United Artists / 11.17.58 
Juan Tizol & his Orchestra / Keb-Lah / Keynote / LA 4.2.46
Jack Jackson & his Orchestra / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.25.34 / vocal = Fred Latham
Charles Brown & Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / I Want to Fool Around with You / Aladdin / LA 12.18.53
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / I’ll String Along with You / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

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

set 2
Mal Waldron / Impressions / All the Way / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Cocktails for Two [unissued track] / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Stan Getz / Groovin’ High / Body and Soul / Crown [Modern] / Civic Auditorium, Pasadena 6.23.47
Joe Venuti / Laura / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular) / with guest Jack Benny
Bandanna Girls [Mozelle France &  Mae Hopkins] / Baby Would You Dare / Decca / 1.24.39
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Dinner for Two / In the Garden of Forget-Me-Nots /RCA Camden / 1956 / vocal = Russ McIntyre
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Good Man / King / Cincinnati 5.24.51 / vocal = Kitty Stevenson

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Blue Bash / Verve / 7.16, 25, 29.63
Cal Tjader / A Night at the Blackhawk / I Hadn’t Anyone Till You / Fantasy /San Francisco winter 1959  cover design by Ed Renfro 
Lucky Thompson’s All Stars / Why Not / Exclusive / LA 9.45
Ella Mae Morse / The Thrill Is Gone / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
The Robins / I Found Out My Troubles / Savoy [unissued] / LA 1.11.50 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Dancing in the Dark / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Bobby Scott / Bobby Scott and Two Horns / Myrt / ABC-Paramount / 10.56
Jimmy Rowles / Let’s Get Acquainted with Jazz / Tea for Two / Tampa /LA 1957
Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Colette / Perfidia / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57
Johnny Mercer / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Capitol / Hollywood 7.25.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Old Man River / Signature / 1961
The Jubalaires / Sampson and Delilah / Standard Transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Lee Jones & the Sounds of Soul [The Masqueraders] / Poor Boy’s Dream / La Beat [unissued] / Detroit 1967

A Favor for a Girl (With a Love Sick Playlist)

I like your suit and ruffled blouse, Mabel!

Coffeetime, May 15, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / A Caddy for Daddy / 3rd Time Around / Blue Note / 12.18.65
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / The Back Beat / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Glen Island Hop / radio broadcast / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY 1937
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Blue Eyes / HMV / London 5.11.28 / vocal = Paul England
The Four Aces / Cherie / Trilon / 7.47 
Martha Davis / Martha Davis and Spouse / Blue Turning Gray Over You / ABC-Paramount / 1958 

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 9.15.64
Rene Thomas / Guitar Groove / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Jazzland / 9.7-8.60
Sonny Stitt / Burnin’ / Lover Man / Argo / Chicago 1960
Georgia White / Trouble in Mind / Decca / Chicago 5.12.36 / with Les Paul
Mabel Scott / Good Lookin’ Fella / Exclusive / LA 1947
Ella Fitzgerald with the Mills Brothers / I Gotta Have My Baby Back / Decca / 1949
Dean Martin / You Can’t Love ’Em All / You Can’t Love ’Em All / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

set 3
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Brill’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Johnny Costa / Introducing… Johnny Costa / Manhattan / Savoy / 2.26.55
Geraldo & his Orchestra / Just Let Me Look at You / HMV / London 8.9.38 / vocal = Cyril Grantham
Mills Brothers / Rhythm Saved the World / Decca / 6.23.36
Bobby Troup / Stars of Jazz / I’m Thru with Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1958

set 4
Howard Roberts / Color Him Funky / Days of Wine and Roses / Capitol / Hollywood 2.12, 13.63 
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Seismograph / Contemporary / LA 8.16.55
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers Courts the Count / Jump for Me / RCA Victor / LA 2.2.54
​​Steve Gibson & the Original Red Caps / Shame / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.1.51
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / The Sound of the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Love Is a Simple Thing / RCA Victor / 1954 / vocal = Joe Mooney & the Doodlers [Sally Sweetland & Lillian Clark]
The Royal Sons Quintet (The 5 Royales) / Come Over Here / Apollo / 1952

last soulful song
Brenda Holloway / A Favor for a Girl (With a Love Sick Heart) / Tamla / Detroit 1964

Major Lance / Hey Little Girl / Okeh / 8.14.63

Give Me a Playlist for Tomorrow

Don Barreto knew that lacy ruffles on the end of sleeves would be top fashion in 2026.

Coffeetime, May 8, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / The Fox / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Grasshopper / EmArcy / 9.8.54 
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Toy / Riverside / 8.10.60
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Lonely Troubadour / Victor / 8.21.29
Dinah Washington / Chewin’ Mama Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45 / with Lucky Thompson’s All Stars
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / I Had a Little Sorrow / Capitol / LA 1959 / from the poem The Penitent by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

set 2
Wes Montgomery / Guitar on the Go / Dreamsville / Riverside / 10.10.59
Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Someone to Watch Over Me / Riverside / early 1964
Max Roach / The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley / I’m a Fool to Want You / Debut / 4.21.53
Adolph Hofner & his Texans / I’ll Keep My Old Guitar / Bluebird / Blue Bonnet Hotel, San Antonio 10.25.38
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’m Afraid of You / Manor / 1948 
Anita O’Day / Key Largo / Signature / LA winter 1947-48 / with Benny Carter & his Orchestra
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / They All Laughed / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3
Jack McDuff / The Honeydripper / Blues and Tonic / Prestige / 2.3.61
Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / West Coast Blues / Imperial / LA early 1956
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Crew Cut / EmArcy / 1.30.52 
Frank Sinatra / The Song Is You / V-Disc 689A / 2.13.46 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra; introduction by Bob Hope
The Four Rockets / Loch Lomond / Aladdin / 1948
Mel Tormé / At The Red Hill / In Other Words / Atlantic / live, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ 3.62

set 4
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Manne-Hole, volume 1 / Love for Sale / Contemporary / live, Shelly’s Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61

Dick McDonough / Honeysuckle Rose /private recording / late 1934

Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Ojos Verdes / Decca / London 7.15.32
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / Give Me a Kiss for Tomorrow / Columbia / 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Sam Cooke / Encore / Oh, Look at Me Now / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra
Soul Stirrers / Touch the Hem of His Garment / Specialty / Hollywood 2.2.56

last soulful song
Honey & the Bees / Help Me (Get Over My Used to Be Lover) / Josie / Philadelphia 1970

She’s Just Another Playlist

Buddy’s excited by his groovy sweater combo.

Coffeetime, May 1, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / The Cooker / Just One of Those Things / Blue Note / 9.29.57
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Hymn to the Orient / Riverside / 12.19.57
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Wang-Wang Blues / Victor / 8.9.20 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Dear Little Café / Decca / London 7.30.29 / vocal = Eddie Grossbart
Ivory Joe Hunter & his Orchestra / Boogin’ in the Basement / Pacific / San Francisco/Oakland 1946
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / What’s New? / Riverside / 1.10.61

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

set 2
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / What’s New / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
Red Garland / Volume 1 / Prestige Moodsville / Stella by Starlight / 12.11.59 / with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, who sits out on this tune
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Stairway to the Stars / Capitol / LA 3.4.56
Taft Jordan & The Mob / If the Moon Turns Green / Vocalion / 2.21.35
Buck & Bubbles / Breakfast in Harlem / Columbia / London 10.5.36 / Buck p & celeste!, Bubbles voc & d, David Raskin cl
The Three Peppers / Oo-Mommy-O / Gotham / Philadelphia 12.1.49
The Flamingos / You Ain’t Ready / Chance / Chicago 1953 / with Red Holloway’s Orchestra 
Anthony Newley / The Genius of Anthony Newley / She’s Just Another Girl / London / 1966

set 3
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Strut / Prestige / 4.10.62
Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / Driftin’ / Blue Note / 3.28.62
Ivory Joe Hunter / Siesta with Sonny / King / Cincinnati 12.5.47
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / I Guess I’ll Have to Dream the Rest / radio broadcast / 1941 / vocal = Jimmy Brown
The Five Breezes / My Buddy Blues / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40 
Buddy Greco / Hang Your Hat at Mister Kelly’s / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Coral / live at Mister Kelly’s, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack’s Groove / I’m Also a Person / GNP / LA 7.57
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Pick Yourself Up / Tampa / LA 6.15.55 / Harper tb, Bob Enevoldsen ts & v.tb, Don Overburg g, Red Mitchell b, Frank Capp d
Les Paul Trio / I’ve Found a New Baby / V-Disc 751B / Hollywood 1947
The Modernaires / Dig-Dig-Dig for Your Dinner / Columbia / 6.14.50 / with Les Brown & his Band of Renown
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP “Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production”] / I Know That You Know / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”) & the Page Cavanaugh Trio (Cavanaugh p, Al Viola g, Lloyd Pratt b) & the Ken Lane Singers
Otis Rush / All Your Love (I Miss Loving) / Cobra / Chicago 1958 / with Willie Dixon 
Flying Clouds of Detroit / Journey to the Sky / JVB / Detroit early 1950s

last soulful song
Jackie Wilson / You Got Me Walking / Brunswick / 1972

Give Me a Playlist

Louie making happy sounds because Pearl’s on the show, too!

Coffeetime, April 24, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Come Back to Me / Atlantic / 8.17.55
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Joy Spring / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54
Zelma O’Neal / Do Something / Brunswick / 3.29 / with Al Goodman & his Orchestra
Julia Lee / Doubtful Blues / Capitol / LA 6.16.47
Toni Harper / Toni / Can’t We Be Friends / Verve / LA 1.3.56 / celeste!

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

set 2
Bennie Green / Back on the Scene / You’re Mine You / Blue Note / 3.23.58
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars, Vol. 6 / Mad at the World / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Lester Young / She’s Funny That Way / Aladdin / Chicago 10.46
The Rhythmic Eight / Heartbreaking Baby / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1928
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Leo “Snub” Mosley & his Band / Ol’ Man River / Decca / 3.11.40
Mabel Scott / Give Me a Man / Exclusive / LA 12.48
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey + Louis Bellson = Happy Sounds / That Certain Feeling / Roulette / 1962 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Look Out! / Minor Chant / Blue Note / 6.18.60
James Moody / Flute ’n‘ The Blues / Flute ’n‘ The Blues / Argo / Chicago 1956 

Howard McGhee / Bass C Jam / Savoy / Chicago 2.48

Savannah Churchill and the Four Tunes / Time Out for Tears / Manor / 6.47

The Basin Street Boys / This Is the End of a Dream / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet

Joe Mooney / Lush Life / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Just One of Those Things / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Stéphane Grappelli / If I Had You / Barclay / Paris 2.14.56
The Ravens / Ol’ Man River / National / 4.24.47
Sammy Davis Jr. / Sammy Davis Jr. Sings What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers / What Kind of Fool Am I / Reprise / LA 7.18.61 / with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette
The Alphabetical Four / Rock My Soul / Decca / 1.25.40

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / I Think You’ve Got Your Fools Mixed Up / Double Shot / 1967

Lee Williams & the Cymbals / It’s Everything About You (That I Love) / Carnaval / 1968