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

bed
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