A first! The fastest uploading of a show ever!

Yes, today’s show is now available on the Coffeetime Archive.

:: she curtsies::

Now, the playlist… that’s another story. That may take me a few days to get online here on the blog.

In the meantime, thanks to all who called to wish me a Merry Christmas today. And I wish all of you the merriest of Merries and the happiest of Happies.

Hey again. In record time, this week’s show is now up on the archive.

Have a little bit of chocolate to celebrate!

Hey ya doin’? Here’s the playlist from today’s show. It will be available for your ears on the Coffeetime Archive soon soon soon, baby. [edited: This show is now online.]

Coffeetime, December 16, 2004

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Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Kenny Burrell & Donald Byrd / All Day Long / AT / Prestige / 1.4.57
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / at Basin Street / The Scene is Clean / EmArcy / 2.16.56
Erskine Hawkins (The 20th Century Gabriel) & his Orch / Uptown Shuffle / RCA / 10.2.39
Rudy Vallée / Vieni Vieni / RCA / 7.2.37 / with the Gentlemen Songsters
Toni Harper / Cinderella Baby / Columbia / LA 2.49 / with Eddie Beal & his Orch
Ivory Joe Hunter / She’s a Killer / Four Star Records ? / SF 1947
Julie London / I'd Like You for Christmas / Liberty / late 50s?

set 2
Chet Baker / Chet / If You Could See Me Now / Riverside / 12.30.58
Cozy Cole All Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44 / featuring Coleman Hawkins
King Cole Swingsters / Two Against One / Standard (transcription?) / 2.39 / with Nat King Cole on piano & celeste
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Romance á la Mode / RCA / 7.13.42 / vocal = Deep River Boys
Marge & Gower Champion / soundtrack to film “Everything I Have is Yours” / Seventeen Thousand Telephone Poles / MGM / 1952?
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, Trudy Stevens / White Christmas (not the soundtrack to the film, but a recording of the score) / Snow / Decca / 1958
Sam Cooke / Encore / Oh, Look at Me Now / Keen / 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orch

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Morning / Someone to Watch Over Me / Blue Note / 2.26.58
The Mexicali Brass / Jingle Bells / White Christmas / Custom / 1967?
Fats Navarro / The Fabulous Fats Navarro / Jahbero / Blue Note / 9.13.48
The Charioteers / Swing Madness / Columbia / early 1940s
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Fat Like That / Hollywood, Spring 1948 / radio transcription
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / 1950s / radio transcription

set 4
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet / Wintersong / Verve / 8.57
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Nagasaki / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Cab Calloway & his Cab Jivers / I Beeped When I Should Have Bopped / RCA / 11.29.48
Larry Williams & Johnny Watson / Two for the Price of One / Okeh / 1967
Dinah Washington / Ole Santa / Mercury / 1959
Rugged Cross Singers of Baltimore, Maryland / Try God / Gotham / 1955

last soul song
Stevie Wonder / Merry Christmas from Motown / What Christmas Means to Me / Motown / 1968

Last week’s show, December 9, 2004, is now up on the archive. Unfortunately, I've reached the server limit and it means that i'll be deleting a show for every one I put up, at least for the near future. Today, I deleted the September 28 show. If anyone ever wants a particular show that isn't up on the archive, you only have to email me at coffee@wmbr.org.

Here’s the playlist for today’s show. It will be up on the archive soon. [edited: This show is now online.]

Coffeetime, December 9, 2004

bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Live at The Jazz Corner of the World, vol 2 / M & M / Blue Note / 4.15.59
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / St Louis Blues / Verve / 2.17,18.59
Hadda Brooks (with Count Basie & his Orch) / Schubert’s Serenade in Boogie / Modern / 1951
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orch / Love Thy Neighbor / Bluebird / 3.19.34 / voc = Joey Nash
Una Mae Carlisle / Stop Going Through the Motions / RCA? / 12.47
The Trenier Twins (Cliff & Claude) / Hey, Sister Lucy! / Mercury / 5.15.47
Sophia Loren / Almost in Your Arms (Love Theme from “Houseboat”) / Paramount? / 10.8.57 / with Frank de Vol & his Orch

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Second Genesis / The Albatross / Vee Jay / 10.11.60
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / I've Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 7.14.56
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Three O'Clock in the Morning / 8.25.26
Ivy Anderson / Empty Bed Blues / Black & White / 5.46? / with Buck Clayton’s All Stars?
Trio Los Panchos / Sing Songs of Augustin Lara (South of the Border) / Maria Bonita / Tico / 50s?
Jackie Wilson / Lonely Teardrops (live) / “The Ed Sullivan Show” / 5.27.62

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Hello There / Atlantic / 6.6.63
Bobby Timmons / This Here Is / My Funny Valentine / Riverside / 1.13, 14.60
Luke Jones & his Orch / Say Hello to Miss Brown / Atlas / mid-40s / voc = Joe Alexander
Big Mama Thornton / The Big Change / Peacock / 1953 / with Johnny Otis Orch?
Buddy Greco / At Mister Kelly’s / But Not for Me / Coral / 7.24.55

set 4
Bud Shank Quintet / Lotus Bud / Pacific Jazz / 1955
Charlie Parker / With Strings / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Norgran / 7.5.50
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Little Buttercup (I’ll Never Be the Same) / 6.10.31
The Opals / My Heart’s Desire / Apollo / 5.13.54
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Ain’t Nothing You Can Do / Duke / 1964
Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes / Waiting for Me / Specialty / 8.14.53

last soul song
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee Jay / 9.61

The last show, December 2, 2004, is now up on the Coffeetime Archive, both for streaming and for download. To make room for it, I finally deleted the November 4th fundraising show. (As always, let me know if there are any problems listening to the shows on the archive.)

The playlist for the December 2 show is in the entry below.

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. Here's the playlist for today's show. I'll upload the mp3 onto the archive sometime this weekend. [edited: This show is now online.]

Coffeetime, December 2, 2004

bed
Barney Kessel / People, George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Lou Donaldson Sextet / Caracas / Blue Note / 8.21.54
Eddie Duran / Eddie Duran – Jazz Guitarist / Taking Life Easy / Fantasy / 1957
Count Basie & His Orch / Mutton-Leg / Columbia / 7.31.46
Al Jolson / Let Me Sing and I'm Happy / 2.30
Andy Kirk & His 12 Clouds of Joy / All the Jive is Gone / radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio 1.29-2.6.37
The Clovers / Skylark / Atlantic / Apex Studios, NYC 2.22.51
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late Show / Moon Ray / Capitol / 1957

set 2
Jon Eardley / In Hollywood / Indian Spring / New Jazz / LA 12.25.54
Kenny Drew Trio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Riverside / 9.20,26.56
Coleman Hawkins & Art Tatum / My Ideal / V-Disc / Metropolitan Opera House / 1.18.44
Carl Kress / Peg Leg Shuffle / Decca / 2.13.39
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch / Annie Laurie / RCA / 1.27.38 / voc = Edythe White & the Jack Leonard Quartet
Little Esther / I'm a Bad, Bad Girl / Federal / 3.21.51
The Young Rascals / Slow Down / Atlantic / 1966

set 3
Bill English / 7th Avenue Bill / Vanguard / 1963
Ike Quebec / Me 'n' Mabe/ Blue Note / 9.25.60
Butterbeans & Susie / Jelly Roll Queen / 9.24.27
Billy Eckstine / The Jitney Man / 11.17.41
Maxine Brown / Do It in the Name of Love / live in Central Park, 8.67 / [Wand-Sceptor]

set 4
Chico Hamilton Quintet / Jazz Swings Broadway / I'm a Funny Dame / Pacific Jazz - World Pacific / 1.58
Chet Baker / In Milan / Look for the Silver Lining / Jazzland / Milan 10.59
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Someone Else's Love / Capitol / 2.10-12.58
Neal Hefti, et al / Solace / Savoy / 3.6.46
Ella Logan & The Spirits of Rhythm / From Monday On / Columbia / 9.4.41
The Nazty / I Got to Move / ABet / 1972? 76?
Michelle Lee / soundtrack to film "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" / I Believe in You / United Artists / 1967
Kansas City Gospel Singers / I Know the Lord / Swing Time / 1950

last soul song
Al Green / Let's Stay Together / I've Never Found a Girl / Hi / 2.72