The Playlist’s in Love with You

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

On a Misty Playlist

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

Tempête sur le Playlist

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

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