I Got a Playlist for Every Day of the Week

Kenny! Barney! Green!

Coffeetime, February 28, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Live at The Jazz Corner of the World, vol 2 / Art’s Revelation / Blue Note / 4.15.59
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Oleo / Riverside / 12.15.58
Benny Goodman Sextet / A Smooth One / Columbia / 3.13.41
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Here Comes the Sun / Victor / 9.25.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio
Amos Milburn / My Baby’s Boogying / Aladdin / LA 9.12.46
Chris Connor / Chris / A Good Man Is a Seldom Thing [alt take] / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note / 3.12.56
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / You Are Too Beautiful / Dawn / 6.12.56
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers and his Giants / Bunny / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.12.53
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Diga Diga Doo / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.7.47
Boswell Sisters / Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On / Brunswick / 4.23.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers
Big Joe Turner / I Got a Gal for Every Day of the Week / Decca / Chicago 10.30.44 / with the Pete Johnson Trio
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / Wind ’Round My Heart / Decca [5453] / 12.30.47

set 3
Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / EmArcy / Hollywood 9.19.56
Red Norvo Sextet / Easy on the Eye / X / LA 1.16.57
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby / Bob White / Decca / Hollywood 9.25.37
The Ravens / Mamselle [take 2] / Columbia / 3.29.51
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Gerry Mulligan & Stan Getz / Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi / A Ballad / Verve / LA 12.12.57
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Maria / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Billie Holiday & her Orchestra / Getting Some Fun Out of Life / Vocalion / 9.13.37
Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Manhã de Carnaval / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone
Alphabetical Four / What a Friend We Have in Jesus / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Little Johnny Truitt / Just the Other Day / A-Bet / Nashville 1968

The Playlist of Scromph

I stand accused of loving the Butler brothers.

Coffeetime, February 21, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / Calgary / United Artists / 11.17.58
Joe Wilder / Wilder ‘n’ Wilder / My Heart Stood Still / Savoy / 1.19.56
Gigi Gryce / Oh Yeah! / Savoy / 3.7.55
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Take My Word / Columbia / 8.16.34
Helen Morgan / Bill / Victor / 2.14.28
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Spring Cleaning (Getting Ready for Love) / Victor / 3.18.37
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Just Friends / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Body and Soul / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Hank Jones / Bluebird / How High the Moon / Savoy / 11.1.55
Sedric & his Honey Bears / The Wall of Scromph / Vocalion / 11.23.38
Cleo Brown / When / Decca / LA 11.20.35
Charles Brown / A Long Time / Aladdin / LA 1.21.49
Tom Jones / This Is Tom Jones / I’m a Fool to Want You / London / 1969

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Fried Pies / Blue Note / 6.3.64
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream: The Guitar of Al Caiola / You Are Too Beautiful / Savoy / 10.6.55
Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / Singing in the Rain / radio broadcast transcription / live, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 12.5.45
The Robins / I Made a Vow / Crown / LA 12.53
Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. “B” / Something I Dreamed Last Night / Mercury / 1960

set 4
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Picture of Heath / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Lands End / EmArcy / 2.24.55
Martha Raye / I Can’t Get Started with You / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
Hoagy Carmichael / Eventide / private recordings / Hoagy’s home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Pat Carroll & Barbara Ruick / Stepsisters Lament / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64/ premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65
Esther Phillips / From a Whisper to a Scream / Home Is Where the Hatred Is / Kudu / 1972
Zion Travelers / I Want to Go to Heaven and Rest / Dooto / LA 1962

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / 1967

Give a Little Playlist

Lee, ponying up the grooviest moves.

Coffeetime, February 14, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / [Infinity] / Growing Pains / Blue Note / 11.16.65
Harold Land / [Take Aim] / As You Like It / Blue Note / LA 7.25.60
Jackie Souders & his Orchestra / Gonna Get a Girl / LA 2.17.27 / vocal = Walton McKinney
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43
Betty Roché / Singin’ & Swingin’ / Day By Day / Prestige / 6.3.60

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Traneing In / Slow Dance / Prestige / 8.23.57
Chet Baker / Chet / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Riverside / 12.30.58
Gene Ammons / You Go to My Head / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 5.2.50
Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / Little Buttercup (I’ll Never Be the Same) / Okeh / 6.10.31
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Lovable / Victor / 3.15.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Kay Starr / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Touch of the Blues / Road of Broken Hearted Men / Duke / 1967

set 3
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / Okay Blues / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / I Guess I’ll Have to Dream the Rest / radio transcription / 1941 / vocal = Jimmy Brown
Modernaires / One Sunday Afternoon / Columbia / 10.16.46 / with Buddy Clark & the Skylarks
The Ink Spots / To Each his Own / Decca / 7.8.46

set 4
Stan Getz / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars, Volume 3 / Bronx Blues / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Give a Little Whistle / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Mildred Bailey / Don’t Take Your Love from Me / Columbia / 1.25.40
Frankie Lymon / At the London Palladium / Fools Rush In / Roulette / London 1957
Alice Ghostley & Kay Ballard / Stepsisters Lament / live on CBS / 3.31.57
Spiritualaires / Heaven How Do You Do / United [unreleased] / Chicago 10.14.54

last soulful song
Lee Dorsey / Cynthia / Amy / New Orleans 1968

You Took the Playlist Right Out of My Heart

The original hot priest!

Coffeetime, February 7, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Lex / Prestige / 8.2.61
Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Blue Note, 11.11.60
Paul Baron & his Orchestra / Hallelujah / radio broadcast, CBS Music in the Air / 9.4.44
B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orchestra / Hello Sweetie / Edison / 3.19.29
Floyd Dixon / Rockin’ at Home / Aladdin [originally Peacock] / Houston late 1949
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee! / The Party’s Over / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

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

set 2
John Lewis & Svend Asmussen / European Encounter / Lonely Woman / Stockholm 7.2 & 3.62
Count Basie & his Orchestra / E=MC2 / Lil’ Darlin’ / Roulette / 1957
Hubert Rostaing – Aimé Barelli et leur Orchestre / Indécision / Swing / Paris 10.22.40
The Piccadilly Revels / Deep River Blues / Columbia / London 10.28.27 / vocal = Ray Starita
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Rose of the Rockies / Decca / 1.28.41 / vocal = Perry Como
Shelly Lee Alley & his Alley Cats / Low Down Blues / Globe / Houston late 1945
The Orioles / Gettin’ Tired Tired Tired / Jubilee / 1.17.52

set 3
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Alma-Ville / Fantasy / LA 1962
Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean / Inta Somethin’ / It Could Happen to You / Pacific Jazz / live, The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 11.61
Roy Fox & his Orchestra / You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart / radio transcription / London 1938 / vocal = Denny Dennis
The Charioteers / The Cowboy Serenade / Okeh / 6.6.41
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Black Coffee / Atco / 5.12.59

set 4
The Trio / The Trio / Groove Yard / Riverside / 6.61
Gerry Mulligan / Bread and Wine / soundtrack to MGM movie The Subterraneans / LA 1960
Cliff [Ukelele Ike] Edwards / Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky / Columbia / 6.5.28
The Chordettes / Basin Street Blues / Columbia / 1955
Dinah Washington / Wishing Well / Mercury / 11.17.54
Laura Lee / Wanted: Lover, No Experience Necessary / Chess / 1967
Rugged Cross Gospel Singers / The Bible Tells Me So / Gotham [unissued] / 1955

last soulful song
The Carlettes / Lost Without Your Love / BR / 1970

Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Playlist)

Listen to Ethel’s big pink dress, Donald!

Coffeetime, January 31, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ping Pong / Blue Note [unissued] / live, Renaissance Club, Hollywood 3.62
Benny Golson / Benny Golson’s New York Scene / Capri / Contemporary / 10.14.57
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Crying Myself to Sleep / Victor / 11.24.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio
Joe Swift / Lovin’ Baby Blues / Exclusive / 1948 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra
Sarah Vaughan / Sarah Sings Soulfully / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Roulette / 1963

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

set 2
Chet Baker / Groovin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Lonely Star / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Fantasy / The Cellar, Vancouver 9.16.61
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / Rose Room / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1.40
Bill Robinson / Just a Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi) / Brunswick / 5.27.31
The Andrews Sisters / Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka) / Decca / Hollywood 12.12.47 / with Vic Schoen & his Orchestra
Dave “Dizzy” Dixon / Soup Line [alt take] / Vee-Jay [unissued] / Chicago 11.55

set 3
Hank Mobley / The Feelin’s Good / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.7.63
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / Slowly / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Ella Mae Morse / The Thrill Is Gone / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
The Ravens / I’m Afraid of You / National / 12.22.47
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Renúncia / RCA Victor / c. 1956

set 4
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / Oh Lady Be Good / Clef / LA late fall 1952
The Creed Taylor Orchestra / Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat / Lonelyville / ABC-Paramount / 1959
Shorty Rogers / The Fourth Dimension in Sound / You’re Just in Love / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 11.10.61
The Comedian Harmonists [Comedy Harmonists] / Wenn Die Sonja Russisch Tanzt (When Sonja Does a Russian Dance) / HMV / Berlin 1934
Ethel Merman & Donald O’Connor / You’re Just in Love / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie “Call Me Madam” / Hollywood 1953
Earl Gaines / Tell Me Tonight / Hollywood / Nashville 7.20.67
Jubalaires / Ezekiel / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Patti Labelle / I’m in Love Again / If Only You Knew / Philadelphia International / Philadelphia 7.28.82

Listen to My Playlist

Gertrude: dress, pearls, eyeshadow… song

Coffeetime, January 24, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / A Sure Thing / Blue on Blue / Riverside / 3.28.62
Sam Jones / The Soul Society / Home / Riverside / 3.10.60
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / The Quota / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Dream Lullaby / Vocalion / 12.13.34
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / How Am I to Know? / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew, from movie “Dynamite”
Gay Crosse & his Good Humor Six / Light Up and Relax / Capitol / Hollywood 1.18.49
Billie Holiday / Deep Song / Decca / 2. 13.47

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

set 2
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / When Sunny Gets Blue / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61
Sonny Clark / Dial “S” for Sonny / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Mildred Bailey / Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) / Columbia / 1.5.40 / duet with Roy Eldridge
Etta Jones / Salty Papa Blues / Black & White / 12.29.44 / with Barney Bigard & his Orchestra
Memphis Slim & his Orchestra / Live Like a King / Peacock / Houston 1952

set 3
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Hampton’s Pulpit / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56
Camille Howard / Old Baldy Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52
Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / Listen to My Heart / transcription / Hollywood 1940 / vocal = Dorothy Brandon
Delta Rhythm Boys  / 9:20 Special / Mercury / Stockholm 8.24.51 / with Andrew Burman’s Band
Frank Sinatra / No One Ever Tells You / Capitol / Hollywood 4.9.56 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing (Vol. 3) / Midnight Sun / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Dinah / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.18.56
King Cole Trio / It Could Happen to You / Capitol / Hollywood 7.14.55
Gertrude Lawrence / Do Do Do / Decca / 10.29.26
Les McCann / Sings / Next Spring / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.61 / with orchestra arranged & directed by Gerald Wilson
Alphabetical Four / He Sees All We Do and Hears All We Say / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song
Freddie Hughes / We Got to Keep On / Wand [unissued] / San Francisco

I Want a Little Playlist

Love your poms, Dolly!!!

Coffeetime, January 10, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Big Six / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
Cecil Payne / Patterns / Groovin’ High / Savoy / 5.22.56
Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Sugar / Decca / 10.23.34
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / In a Blue and Pensive Mood / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Johnny Otis Band / Alimony Boogie / Excelsior / LA 1947 / vocal = Cathy Cooper
Joni James / Let There Be Love / You’re Mine You / M-G-M / LA 1953

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

set 2
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Portrait of Cannonball / Nardis / Riverside / 7.1.58
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Dardanella / Victor / 2.9.28
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol / The Mood that I’m In / Bluebird / 3.4.37
Venuti-Lang & their All-Star Orchestra / Beale Street Blues / Brunswick / 10.22.31 / vocal = Jack Teagarden
Delta Rhythm Boys / Dry Bones / East of the Sun and West of the Moon / RCA Victor / 1946
Big Maybelle / I Understand / Savoy / 8.13.59

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Groovin’ the Blues / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Jack McDuff / The Honeydripper / I Want a Little Girl / Prestige / 2.3.61
Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers Souvenir Album / Paper Doll / Decca [9-172] / 1944
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Not Mine / Okeh / 12.10.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Sy Oliver / Sentimental Sy / Stardust / Dot / 5.12,13,15.58 / vocal = Dave Vogel

set 4
Howard McGhee / Dusty Blue / Groovin’ High / Bethlehem / 6.13.60
[Åke] Stan Hasselgard / Who Sleeps / Capitol / Hollywood 12.18.47
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Groovin’ Boogie / Black & White / LA fall 1946
Noel Coward / It’s Only You / HMV / 7.28.41
Pee Wee Crayton / Runnin’ Wild / Imperial / New Orleans 10.21.54
Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans / Energy & Motion / Motion, Motion Everywhere / Motivation Records / 1961
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Deep River / Varsity / 12.47

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha in Paris / Groovin’ / Atlantic / Olympia Theatre, Paris 5.7.68