Kangaroo Playlist

Your geometry is perfect, Bobby.

Coffeetime, February 6, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / A Shade of Brown / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / Doug’s Minor B’OK / Savoy / 11.7.56
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Sepia Jazz / radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1937
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Heartaches / Victor / 1.19.31 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio: Elmer Feldkamp, Paul Mason, & Max Ceppo
Laurel Watson / Kangaroo Blues / Apollo / 10.15.45 / with the Tab Smith Septette
Billie Holiday / All or Nothing at All / Ill Wind / Verve / LA 8.14.56

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

set 2 Wes Montgomery / Full House / I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face / Riverside / live, Tsubo, Berkeley 6.25.62
Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Riverside / 9.59
Teddy Wilson & his Trio / Mr. Wilson and Mr. Gershwin / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Columbia / 1959
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Pretty Trix / Okeh / 6.14.28
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / It’s Murder / Decca / Chicago 10.27.35
Luther Henderson & his Orchestra / Overwork Blues / Victor / 10.8.47 / vocal = Etta Jones
Little Sylvia / Ain’t Gonna Do It / Jubilee [unissued] / 1952 / with Buddy Lucas & his Band of Tomorrow
Bobby Darin / medley: This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Just in Time / live, Ed Sullivan Show 1962

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / T’Ain’t No Use / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Lem Winchester / Winchester Special / Down Fuzz / New Jazz / 9.25.59
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Many Dreams Ago / Bluebird / 9.28.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Basin Street Boys / Vootnay on the Votnay / Exclusive / LA circa 06.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Charles Aznavour / Sings his Love Songs in English / Don’t Say a Word [Aprés L’amour] / Reprise / 1965 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Dickie’s Dream / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Chet Baker / Big Band / V-Line / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56
Peggy Lee / That Old Gang of Mine / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’ll Never, Never Let You Go / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 
Buddy Greco / Let’s Love! / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Epic / 9.61
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soulful song
The Valentines / Breakaway / Sound Stage 7 / 1970

You Keep Coming Back Like a Playlist

Handsome Georgie Auld photographed by the amazing William Gottlieb.

Coffeetime, January 30, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones / Together! / Le Roi / Atlantic / 2.2.61 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World / The Opener / Blue Note / live, Birdland 7.61 
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Mahogany Hall Stomp / Okeh / 3.5.39 
Philip Lewis & the Rhythm Maniacs (Arthur Lally) / My Kinda Love / Decca / London 6.20.29 / vocal = Maurice Elwin
Marvin Johnson & his Orchestra / Mercy Mercy / G&G / Hollywood 1946 / vocal = Joe Lewis g
Dinah Washington / The Swingin’ Miss “D” / I’ll Close My Eyes / EmArcy / 12.6.56 / with Quincy Jones & his Orchestra; with celeste! 

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Today and Now / Don’t Love Me / Impulse! / 9.9.62 
Red Garland / [Red Garland Revisited!] / You Keep Coming Back Like a Song / Prestige / 5.24.57 
Sonny Stitt / New York Jazz / Body and Soul / Verve / 9.14.56 
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan / Columbia / London 1933
Walter Fuller / Closer to My Heart / Kicks / LA 1954 / with the Club Royale Band, Fuller t 
Doris Day & Frank Sinatra / Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk / Columbia / LA 5.6.49 / with The Ken Lane Singers & orchestra arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Wham of Sam / Let There Be Love / Reprise / LA 2.61 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich 

set 3
Lou Donaldson / Here ’Tis / A Foggy Day / Blue Note / 1.23.61 
Horace Parlan / Up & Down / Fugee / Blue Note / 6.18.61 
Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers / The Flat Foot Floogie / Decca / 6.10.38
Mal Hallett & his Orchestra / The Life of the Party / Decca / 2.26.37 / vocal = Teddy Grace
Mel Tormé / It's a Blue World / It's a Blue World / Bethlehem / LA 8.55 

set 4
Joanne Grauer / Joanne Grauer Trio / Dancing Nitely / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 
Georgie Auld / Good Enough to Keep / A Smooth One / Top Rank / Hollywood 9.5.59 
Jo Stafford / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 2.28.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Little Esther & Mel Walker / Ring-a-Ding Doo / Federal / 11.8.51
Tom Jones / Along Came Jones / I’ve Got a Heart / Decca / London 1964
The Soul Stirrers / It Won’t Be Very Long [alt take 3] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 2.22.52

last soulful song
Margie Joseph / One More Chance / Volt / Memphis 1969
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Philips / Brazil 1963

You’re the Playlist in My Coffee

Barbara: a beautiful, talented woman with a guitar.

Coffeetime, January 23, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Locomotion / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Lee Morgan / Leeway / Nakatini Suite / Blue Note / 4.28.60
Jan Garber & his Orchestra / Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down / Columbia / 2.17.28 / Harry Goldfield (aka Goldie) t & voc
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Orchestra / They Raided the Joint / Continental / 9.45
Sarah Vaughan / With Clifford Brown / Embraceable You / EmArcy / 12.54

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Imperial / LA 7.31.56
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Porgy / Capitol / 2.63
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Sunset / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Sol Hoopii & his Novelty Quartette / An Orange Grove in California / Brunswick / 1934
Cleo Brown / The Stuff is Here and It's Mellow / Decca / 3.12.35
The Ink Spots / That Cat Is High / Decca / 3.25.38 
Buddy Clark / A Dreamer’s Holiday / Columbia / 9.6.49 / with The Girl Friends; orchestra conducted by Ted Dale
Pee Wee Crayton / Do Unto Others / Imperial / New Orleans 4.29.54

set 3
Harold Mabern / Rakin’ and Scrapin’ / Rakin’ and Scrapin / Prestige / 12.23.68
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Ma – He’s Makin’ Eyes at Me / Riverside / 5.9.60
Morris Lane / Down the Lane / Savoy / 1.24.47
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / That Old Gang of Mine / Decca / 10.4.39 / vocal = Perry Como
4 Deep Tones / Just in Case You Change Your Mind / Coral / 1951 
Johnny Hartman / All of Me / I Could Make You Care / Bethlehem / 11.56

set 4
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Yardbird Suite / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh / Donna Lee / Atlantic / 6.14.55
Noel Coward / I’m Old Fashioned / HMV / London 7.6.43
King Cole Trio / You’re the Cream in My Coffee / radio transcription, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time, NBC Network, AFRS edition / Cincinnati 12.6.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Ann Cole / Brand New House / Sir / 1960
Golden Gate Quartet / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Barbara Lynn / (Daddy Hot Stuff) You’re Too Hot to Hold / Atlantic / 1972
Ruby Johnson / I'm Hooked / Neb’s / Washington DC 1964

A Winter’s Playlist

More like kitties and a tiple, amirite?

Coffeetime, January 16, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Tarriff / Blue Note / 3.13.56
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Blue Lights / Prestige / 5.19.54
Jack Winn & his Dallas Dandies aka Irving Mills & his Hotsy-Totsy Gang / Loved One [2nd take] (aka I Like That) / Melotone / 6.6.30
Irene Beasley / Baby’s Back Today / Victor / 4.10.29 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Blue Moon / Victor / 11.20.34 / vocal = Dick Robertson
The Cats & the Fiddle / Part of Me / RCA Victor / 10.17.41 
Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Why Try to Change Me Now / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

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

set 2
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / Flamingo / Blue Note / 2.25.58
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Laura / Contemporary / 12.4.56 / duet with Kessel g & Red Mitchell b
Wardell Gray / Easy Living [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49
The Three Keys / I’ve Found a New Baby / Vocalion / 9.8.33
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
T-Bone Walker / Life is Too Short / Imperial / LA 8.15.51
Louis Jordan / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Birdland Betty / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Wynton Kelly / Kelly Blue / Green Dolphin Street / Riverside / 3.10.59
Charlie Parker / Max Making Wax / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
Geraldo & his Orchestra / I’m Old Fashioned / Parlophone / London 3.20.43 / vocal = Beryl Davis
Mills Brothers / After You / Decca / 5.29.47 
Frank Sinatra / The Moon Was Yellow / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.58

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / A Winter’s Tale / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Cheerful Little Earful / Contemporary / 10.15.56
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Swing Man / Black & White / LA 11.47 / vocal = Sammy Yates
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 9.63
The Trumpeteers / Handwriting on the Wall / Score / Baltimore 9.12.47

last soulful song

Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes / Wake Up Everybody / live, Soul Train / 1975

Eddie Holman / A Free Country / Parkway / Philadelphia 1965

Playlist in B Flat

I like this guitar, too, Frank.

Coffeetime, January 9, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Don’t Walk / Blue Note / 1.13.57
Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis [alt take] / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.21.61
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Savage Rhythm / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Here’s a Little Package / Bluebird [unissued] / 6.23.32 / vocal = Chris Fletcher
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Ain’t Got No Blues Today / Capitol / 9.11.46 / vocal = Bob Merrill
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Strong Man / Riverside / 10.28.57

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

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Paul Smith / Paul Smith Quartet / All for You / Skylark / Hollywood 11.13.53 / celeste!
Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny / I Had the Craziest Dream / New Jazz / 11.13.59
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky [alt take] / Brunswick [unissued] / 2.19.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / I Need Ya Like a Hole in the Head / Columbia [10”] / 1947
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Blue Skies / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / It’s Getting Dark / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Sonny Clark / Sonny’s Crib / News for Lulu / Blue Note / 10.9.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Fool Am I / Okeh / 3.12.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Four Buddies / Just to See You Smile Again / Savoy / 10.12.50
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / Beaux Arts / Fantasy / The Cellar, Vancouver, Canada 9.16.61
George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Sonny Boy / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Blues in B Flat / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Kay Starr / So Tired / Capitol / Hollywood 11.2.48
King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Equinox / Só Danço Samba / A&M / Hollywood 1967
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Detroit 8.14.51 / celeste!

last soulful song
Irma Thomas / Ruler of My Heart / Minit / 1963
The Sapphires / Your True Love / Swan / 1963

Walkin’ Away with My Playlist

Mr. King’s gotta pretty red guitar!

Coffeetime, January 2, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Curro’s [aka French Spice] / Warwick / 3.2.61 
Benny Golson / Gone with Golson / Staccato Swing / New Jazz / 6.20.59 
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Life Is a Song (Let’s Sing It Together) / Bluebird / 1935 / vocal = Skeeter Palmer
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / New Year’s Resolution / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47
Max Bennett / Hence! / Do You Know Why? / Bethlehem / 1956 / vocal= Helen Carr

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

set 2
Sonny Criss / Mr. Blues Pour Flirter / Once in A While / Brunswick / Paris 4.22.63 
Stan Getz / At Large / Amour / Verve / live, Kildevæld Church, Copenhagen, Denmark 1.60 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays Harry Warren / Would You Like to Take a Walk / Clef / LA 11.15.54 / Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b
Spike Hughes & his Orchestra / Donegal Cradle Song / Decca / 5.19.33 / Hughes, Benny Carter, Henry Red Allen, Wayman Carver, Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Dicky Wells, Nick Rodriguez, Lawrence Lucie, Sid Catlett
Leon Belasco & his Orchestra / There’s a Lull in My Life / Brunswick / 1947 / vocal = Patty Andrews (of the Andrews Sisters); celeste!
The Four Southerners / Dan, the Back Door Man / Decca / 3.18.37
Suzi Miller & The Johnston Brothers / That’s All I Want from You / Decca / 1955 / with Johnny Douglas & his Orchestra and The Tony Kinsey Trio
Freddie King / Takin’ Care of Business / Federal / 1962

set 3
Gene Ammons / Angel Eyes / Gettin’ Around / Prestige / 6.17.60 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Park Avenue Patter / Black Velvet / Golden Crest / 4.11.57
Harry “Sweets” Edison / Sweets / Love Is Here to Stay / Clef / LA 9.4.56 / Herman Leonard, cover 
Kenny Clarke & his 52nd Street Boys / Bebop / Royal Roost / Victor / 9.5.46 
The Pied Pipers / Walkin’ Away with My Heart / Capitol / Hollywood 1946 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Four Blues / Bell Bottom Trousers / DeLuxe / 1945 
Bob Dorough / Devil May Care / I Had the Craziest Dream / Bethlehem / 10.56 / Dorough p & voc, Warren Fitzgerald t, Bill Takus b, Jerry Segal d

set 4
Dave Brubeck / Time Out / Kathy’s Waltz / Columbia [unissued] / 1959 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(album)
Sal Salvador / I’ve Got a Feelin’ You’re Foolin’ / Bethlehem / 1957 / Salvador g, Phil Woods as, Eddie Bert tb, Eddie Costa vib, Johnny Williams p, Sonny Dallas b, Jimmy Campbelll d
Pauline & her Perils [Six Hits and a Miss minus two Hits] / My Blue Heaven / Keystone transcription / 4.30.39 / with the King Cole Trio (a little celeste by Nat King Cole, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b) and vocal = Pauline Byrns with Vince Degen, Howard Hudson, Mack McLean, & Bill Seckler 
The Four Vagabonds / Move It Over / Standard Transcription / 1942
Chuck Willis / My Baby’s on My Mind / Columbia / 6.27.51
Willie Jones / Where’s My Money / Mr. Peacock Records / 1961
Golden Gate Quartet / Bones, Bones, Bones (Ezekiel in the Valley) / Columbia / 1946

last soulful song
The Esquires / Get On Up and Get Away / My Sweet Baby / Bunky / Chicago 1967

Hello, Mister Playlist

In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 19, 2025, 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