Keep a Twinkle in Your Playlist

Matchmaking is tough work!

Coffeetime, November 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Strut Time / Riverside / 11.12.58
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wicks Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I Never Knew / Columbia / 12.9.40
John [Jack] Jackson / I’m Playing with Fire / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 8.45
Martha Wright / Censored: Sings Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, and Others / Love for Sale / Jubilee / 1956 / with Joe Harnell Trio

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book / Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man / Verve / LA summer 1959
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Chartreuse / Debut / 9.55
Lonnie Johnson / I’m Nuts About That Gal / Okeh / 8.12.32
The Nicholas Brothers / Keep a Twinkle in Your Eye / HMV / London 9.15.36 / vocal = Fayard Nicholas, tap dancing = Harold Nicholas
Jimmy Witherspoon / Miss Miss Mistreater / Federal / Cincinnati 12.24.52 
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Gypsy in My Soul / Bethlehem / 1955

set 3
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Unforgettable / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57
The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Down By the Riverside / Prestige / 10.25.57
Charlie Parker / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 
Dick Haymes / Begin the Beguine / AFRS #333 / Hollywood 9.10.50
The Blenders / Please Take Me Back / MGM / 3.27.53 / lead vocal = Ollie Jones
Joe Mooney / September Song / Decca / 11.8.46 / Mooney accordion, Jack Hotop g, John “Gate” Frega b, Andy Fitzgerald d 

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / You and the Night and the Music / Tampa / 2.20.57 
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Soft as Spring / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55 / composed by Alec Wilder
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / I Only Have Eyes for You / Metronome / Stockholm 3.24.51
Jo Stafford / I Remember You / V-Disc 328B / rehearsal recording for NBC radio, Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop, Hollywood 7.20.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / When You Walk Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / (NYC) 11.4.47 / NKC piano & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, & Kay Renolds / Been a Long Day / soundtrack to the United Artists movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / United Artists / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Let the Liar Alone / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Lee Charles / I Never Want to Lose My Sweet Thing / Bamboo / Chicago 1969

Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Playlist

You ARE pretty, Smithy!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / The End of a Love Affair / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Clark Terry / In Orbit / In Orbit / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
The Chocolate Dandies / Once Upon a Time / Decca / 10.10.33 / Benny Carter on trumpet & alto 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g
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
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / All Too Soon / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Can You Tell By Looking At Me / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Thad Jones / [The Magnificent Thad Jones] / Something to Remember You By / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.9.56 / duet between Jones t & Kenny Burrell g
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / I’ve Found a New Baby / Okeh / 11.12.30 
Sophie Tucker / If Your Kisses Can’t Hold the Man You Love / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with The Winter Gardens Theatre Orchestra and Ted Shapiro p
Benny Morton & his Orchestra / The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re in the Money) / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Henry “Red” Allen
Martha Raye / The Voice / Miss Otis Regrets / Discovery / 1950
Jimmy Rushing / Five Feet of Soul / Just Because / Colpix / 1.22-23.63

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / The Pot’s On / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Loves / Okeh / 11.13.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.24.47
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / The End of a Love Affair / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 11.29.56
King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / Smokey Joe / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
John Cullum / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Broadway Cast Recording / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / RCA Victor / 1965
The Trumpeteers / Live the Life I Sing About / Score / 4.13.49

last soulful song
George Tindley / So Help Me Woman / Wand / 1969

We’re Gonna Make It: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 167

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

Coffeetime, November 3, 2023, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
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
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
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
The Knickerbockers aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Columbia / 6.1.28 / vocal = Vaughn De Leath
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53
Doris Day / Hooray for Hollywood / Pennies from Heaven / Columbia / LA 1958 / with celeste!

set 3

Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen / Soulful Brass #2 / Soulful Strut / Flying Dutchman / LA 2.22.69 

Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley [alternate take] / Blue Note / 12.22.47 
King Cole Trio / With Plenty of Money and You / Standard transcription / 10.38
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / With Plenty of Money and You (Oh Baby, What I Couldn’t Do) / Brunswick / 10.26.36 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Bing Crosby / Pennies from Heaven / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.36 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Peggy Lee / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
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

Heigh Ho! Playlist Heigh-Ho!

Hand to heart: we love you, Jackie!

Coffeetime, October 27, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Cabu / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Salute to the Bandbox [aka Salute to Birdland] / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Stomp / Victor / 2.8.37 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh Ho! Ev’rybody, Heigh-Ho! / Victor / 6.3.29
Mabel Scott / Have You Ever Watched Love Die? / King [unissued] / 1950
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / Hollywood summer 1957 

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note / 1.20.62 
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / Julie Ann / Blue Note / 3.20.55
Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out On a Limb / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / EmArcy / LA 7.9.56 
Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) & his Hot Combination / Sunday / Perfect / 10.21.26
Ella Mae Morse / Cow Cow Boogie / radio transcription, AFRS Command Performance #27 / Hollywood 8.18.42 / with host Cary Grant and Freddie Slack & his Orchestra
Irene Reid / It’s Too Late / Big Spender / Verve / 1966 / arranged & conducted by Frank Foster

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Scufflin’ / Atlantic / 12.9.61 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Boogie Celeste / Crown / 1958
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Gloomy Sunday / Victor / 3.3.40 / vocal = Pauline Byrne
The Ravens / Leave My Gal Alone / National / 1.27.49
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Four Brothers / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Frenesi / Victor / 3.3.40
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby / Basin Street Blues / Brunswick / Hollywood 9.25.37 
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Oh, But I Do / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Jackie Wilson / Lonely Teardrops / The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS / live 5.27.62 
R.H. Harris & the Soul Stirrers / Does Jesus Care? / Aladdin / 12.48  

last soulful song

Dusty Springfield / Spooky / Philips / London 1970 

With the Wind and the Rain in Your Playlist

Cyd’s helping them count the votes for Speaker.

Coffeetime, October 20, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Bronze Dance / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Sonny’s Mood / Blue Note / 11.10.57 
Freddie Rich & his Orchestra / Too Late / CBS radio transcription from Fred’s Friendly Five radio show / 1931-32 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp; announcer = David Ross
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’m Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town / Decca / 7.21.42
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / My Romance / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Red Garland / Mr. Wonderful / Prestige [unissued] / 8.12.59
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Apple Blossoms / Okeh / 10.18.29
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Take My Heart / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 8.14.36 / vocal = Greta Keller
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Don’t Get Salty, Sugar / Exclusive / Hollywood 10.47 / vocal = Charles Brown 
Cyd Charisse [singing dubbed by Carol Richards), & MGM Studio Chorus / soundtrack to It’s Always Fair Weather / Baby, You Knock Me Out / MGM / Hollywood 1.5.55 

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / Dee Dee / Bethlehem / 12.60 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornful_of_Soul
Budd Johnson / Blues à la Mode / Foggy Nights / Felsted / 2.11.58
George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Four Bars Short / Savoy / 1.31.49 / Shearing on accordion
Savannah Churchill / When You Came Back to Me / Regal / 12.24.50 / with The Striders 
The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950 
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / Keepin’ Myself for You / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.20.56 

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Pemba / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54 
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / You Started Something / Regent / 1947 / with Ellis Larkin’s Trio
King Cole Trio / I Wanna Turn Out the Light / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / AFRS Jubilee #91  / c. 1944 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ Let It Be Me / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67
The Coleman Brothers / One Day / Coleman / c. 1.48 

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday Night (Baby I’m Yours) / Blue Rock / 1.65

There Won’t Be a Shortage of Playlist

When you wish for a skit with Dean and Orson…

Coffeetime, October 13, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / City Lights / City Lights / Blue Note / 8.25.57
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / Hard Groove / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Eleanor / EmArcy / 5.20.54
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Plain Dirt / Victor / 11.5.29
Justin Ring & his Orchestra / True Blue Lou / Okeh / 8.16.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert
Myra Taylor / Tell Your Best Friend Nothing / Mercury / Kansas City 10.31.46 / with Jimmy Keith’s Kansas City Orchestra
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / Let Me Love You / United Artists / LA 7.58 / Chuck Wayne g, Ernie Furtado b, Johnny Cresci d

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Body & Soul / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Golden Gate Orchestra [California Ramblers] / Sweet Man / Edison / 9.15.25 
Lil Green / You’re Just Full of Jive / Bluebird / Chicago 7.23.41
Otis Rush / Violent Love / Cobra / 1956
Dean Martin / Beau James / Capitol / Hollywood 5.22.57

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / The Murphy Man / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Apothegm / Prestige / 8.2.61
Dizzy Gillespie & his Quintet / Afro Paris / Vogue / Paris 3.27.52
The Charioteers / Calliope Jane / from the United Artists movie Road Show / Hollywood 1941 
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol Orchestra / There Won’t Be a Shortage of Love / Elite / 2.42 
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet (just rhythm section here)

set 4
Cal Tjader & Stan Getz / My Buddy / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Flute Diet / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Every Second / King / 1956
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / In the Name of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 6.26.64 / Lou Levy p, Bob Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts g, Chuck Berghofer b, Stan Levey d, Francisco Aguabella bongos, congas )
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Get Away Jordan / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
Maxine Brown / Do It in the Name of Love / [unissued] / live in Central Park, 8.67

You Don’t Have to Drop a Playlist to Break It

Joyful Lucille and her bf!

Coffeetime, October 6, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Doin’ the Thing / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.19 & 20.61
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Mad Lad Returns / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Harry Shalson / She’s Wonderful / Brunswick / London 5.8.29
Johnny Otis Band / Gee Baby / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker 
Dinah Washington / Blue Gardenia / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / I Wished I Knew / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 2.26.29
Babe Mathews / He’s Got So Much / HRS / 2.15.46 / with Joe Thomas’ Big Six
Pearl Bailey / Fifteen Years (And I’m Still Doing Time) / V-Disc 527B / 4.24.45 / with orch conducted by Mitchell Ayres; identical to Columbia recording
B.B. King / Early Every Morning / RPM / LA 1957

set 3
Tommy Flanagan / Overseas / Delarna / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Borderline / Blue Note / 7.14.60 
Serge Chaloff Sextette / Pumpernickel / Savoy / 3.5.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / If You Believed in Me / MGM / 1.9.47 / vocal = Henry Wells tb
The Ravens / You Don’t Have to Drop a Heart to Break It / Columbia / 10.19.50 / lead = Maithe Marshall; celeste!
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / My One and Only Love / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / You Make Me Feel So Young / Riverside / 11.16.60
Buddy Collette / Soft Touch / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Earle Hagen / soundtrack to Columbia movie The New Interns / Sutura Self / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
Dodo Marmarosa Trio / Remember I Knew You When / IRRA / Hollywood autumn 1947 / vocal = Miss Danna
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / WMGM, NYC 3.29.49 / NKC p, voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Laurence Naismith / Here’s Love, Original Broadway Cast Recording / Expect Things to Happen / Columbia / 1963 
Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A Turning in My Heart / radio transcription, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lads / I’ve Never Found a Girl / Volt / 1969