hey... i've just rescued two old Xmas show playlists (both from 1997) from the old Coffeetime website. why not just put it them here?


Coffeetime, December 16, 1997
artist / album title / song title (composer) / label (note: vocals usually come off compilations, so I'll omit the album title in those instances)

[bed = Tommy Flanagan / ?]

set one:
McDuff, Jack (w/ Gene Ammons) / Brother Jack meets the Boss / Watch Out (McDuff) / Prestige
McDuff, Jack (w/ Lem Winchester) / Yeah, Baby / Tough 'Duff (McDuff) / Prestige
Wyands, Richard / Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (Coots, Gillespie) / Uptown Christmas / Uptown
Hawkins, Coleman / Greensleeves / Prestige
Waters, Ethel (w/ Duke Ellington) / I Can't Give You Anything But Love / ?
Grissom, Dan / Wonderful Christmas Night / Savoy

set two:
Guaraldi, Vince / Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, side one / Fantasy
Fitzgerald, Ella / Pure Ella / I'm Glad There is You (Dorsey) / Decca
Little Esther (w/ Johnny Otis) / Far Away Christmas Blues / Savoy

set three:
Burrell, Kenny (w/ Coleman Hawkins) / Bluesy Burrell / Tres Palabres (Farras) / Prestige Moodsville
Hawkins, Coleman / At Ease with ... / At Dawning / Prestige Moodsville
Burrell, Kenny / Have Yourself a Soulful Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby (Moore) / Cadet
Delta Rhythm Boys / Jingle Bells / Christmas Jubilee (AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show, 1945) / VJC
Count Basie & Orch / One O'Clock Jump / Christmas Jubilee (AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show, 1945) / VJC
Christian, Charlie / The Genius of ... / Benny's Bugle / Columbia

set four:
Benny Carter / Aspects / Roses in December / United Artists
Burrell, Kenny/ Bluesy Burrell / I Thought About You (Mercer, Van Heusen) / Prestige Moodsville
Flanagan, Tommy / Uptown Christmas / A Christmas Waltz / Uptown
Delta Rhythm Boys / Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' / Christmas Jubilee (AFRS 1945) / VJC
Harper, Toni / Jingle Bells / Columbia
Blanc, Mel / Jingle Bells / Christmas Jubilee (AFRS 1947) / VJC

last song:
Thomas, Carla / Gee Whiz, It's Christmas / Stax


Coffeetime, December 22, 1997
[bed = Garland, Red / Winter Wonderland / Milestone]

set one:
Reece, Dizzy / Asia Minor / The Story of Love / New Jazz
Nelson, Oliver (w/ Lem Winchester) / Nocturne / In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington) / Prestige Moodsville
Lionel Hampton / Boogie Woogie Santa Claus / ?
Johnson, Buddy (Ricky Harper, vocal) / A Pretty Girl (A Cadillac and Some Money) / Mercury
Washington, Dinah / Make Me a Present of You (1957 version) / Mercury
Crosby, Bing / Jingle Bells / AFRS 1944 / VJC?

set two:
Guaraldi, Vince / Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, side two / Fantasy
Boswell Sisters / Gee, But I'd Like to Make You Happy / (?transcriptions)
Golden Gate Four / Cheer the Weary Traveller / RCA Bluebird
Trumpeteers / Don't Miss That Train / ?

set three:
Burrell, Kenny / Have Yourself a Soulful Christmas / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Cadet
Jones, Quincy / I Dig Dancers / The Midnight Sun Will Never Set / Mercury
Webster, Ben / In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve
Wilson, Nancy / That's What I Want for Christmas / Capitol
Armstrong, Louie (w/ Benny Carter) / Christmas Night in Harlem/ ?
Grimes, Tiny (J B Summers, vocal) / I Want You for Christmas / Gotham ?
Waller, Fats / Swingin' Them Jingle Bells / ?
Fitzgerald, Ella / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Verve

set four:
Richardson, Jerome / Midnight Oil / Delicious Trimmings / New Jazz
Byron, Don / Bug Music / Bounce of the Sugar Plum Fairies / Nonesuch
Brown, Charles (Johnny Moore & Three Blazers) / Merry Christmas, Baby (1947 version) / ?
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song (early 1946 version - no strings) / Capitol (Mosaic)
Milburn, Amos / Let's Make Christmas Merry (1949) / ?

last song:
Garland, Judy / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / "Meet Me in St Louis" soundtrack



those were pretty good shows -- maybe i'll get lazy and copy them this year. we'll see!