The Windmills of You're Mine

This show is now online at the Archive:

Coffeetime, December 29, 2005

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Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Bronze Dance / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley's Second Message / The Latest / Prestige / 7.27.56
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Jazz Song Book / King Phillip Stomp / Coral / 1959 / Don Fagerquist discography
Freddy Martin / When Tomorrow Comes / Brunswick / 2.1.34 / vocal = male trio including Elmer Feldkamp
Amos Milburn & his Aladdin Chickenshackers / Sax Shack Boogie / Aladdin / LA 1.4.50
Nancy Wilson / But Beautiful. / I'll Walk Alone / Capitol / 1971

set 2
Elvin Jones / Elvin! / You Are Too Beautiful / Riverside / 1.3.62
Julius Watkins / New Faces - New Sounds: Julius Watkins Sextet, volume 1 / Linda Delia / 8.8.54
Stan Getz / Chamber Music / Fools Rush In / Roost / 5.5.52
Bob Crosby & his Orch / You're Easy to Dance With / soundtrack to Paramount film Holiday Inn / Hollywood spring 1942
Maxine Sullivan / Moments Like This / RCA? / 3.1.38 / with Claude Thornhill & his Orch
Snub Mosley & his Band / Swampland / Decca / 10.21.41 / vocal = Mosley & ensemble
Gene Ammons / 'Round About 1 AM / Prestige / 1.16.59
Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / Nevertheless / Capitol / 1.57

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Backlash / The Return of the Prodigal Son / Atlantic / 1967
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / It Ain't Necessarily So / Clef / LA late fall 1952
Cootie Williams & his Band / 'Gator Tail / radio transcription Voice of America - Jazz Club, USA / Savoy Ballroom, NYC 1950-51 (probable)
The Mills Brothers / Sixty Seconds Got Together / Decca / 7.19.38
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP "Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production"] / Oh Me! Oh My! / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 3.2.56

set 4
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Septet [Grey December] / Little Old Lady / Pacific Jazz / LA 12.22.53
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / Teacher, Teacher / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Sonny Stitt / Stitt's It / Prestige / 2.25.52 (or 3.25.52)
Hot Lips Page / He's Pulling his Whiskers / Decca 3.10.38
Little Esther / Somebody New / Federal / LA 1.4.52
Tom Jones / Sings She's a Lady / Puppet Man / Parrot London / Hollywood 1971
Hightower Brothers / Alone with My Lord / Nashboro [unreleased] / Nashville 1960 (?)

last (from the soul) song
Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / Windmills of Your Mind / Atlantic / Memphis 1969

Flawed But Festive

Hey all,

The latest episode of Coffeetime, the Christmas episode, is now online at the Coffeetime Archive. I warn you, though, this show had one mishap after another. There's a noticeable buzz for the first two songs plus the theme song. To avoid that, I moved to another control room. After Joan Hathaway of Three Ring Circus (a tech and production wiz), poked around to find the cause of the buzz, I decided to move back to that control room. I got more than a bit frazzled. And I was in hyper-verbal-foot-in-mouth mode. In sum: it's a mess of a show.

Tim Kelly of Late Risers Club did make me laugh at the end though with a zinger, so that made it all seem pretty okay. I hope that, despite all the flaws, you can still enjoy the show.

I'll start a new thing with this post: whenever I get a show uploaded, I'll go to the post that contains the playlist and link the title to the archive. But, you can always check the archive periodically to see if a show is available. (On the other hand, if you use Payton's nifty podcast link, your RSS client, whether it's iTunes or some other app, will just know when a new show has been uploaded. Thus the beauty of podcasting.)

Anyhoooooooo, merry merry & happy happy to one and all. I wish you all sweet cookies and fluffy socks.

Merry Christmas, Baby!

Coffeetime, December 22, 2005

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Duke Pearson / Merry Ole Soul / Blue Note / 2.29.65

set 1
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Hallelujah / Prestige / 11.15.57
Stephen Scott & Mark Whitfield / Jazz for Joy / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Verve / fall 1996
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / radio transcription / Hollywood 1953
Ted Weems & his Orch / Winter Wonderland / Columbia / Chicago 11.11.34 / vocal = Parker Gibbs
Dan Grissom / Wonderful Christmas Night / Jewell / LA 10.5.48
Amos Milburn / Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby / Aladdin / LA 10.4.49
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / White Christmas / Verve / LA 8.5.60

set 2
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / Christmas Time is Here; O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Carousel / Capitol / LA 1960
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

set 3
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46
Bing Crosby / White Christmas / Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter / Christmas Eve / Verve / LA fall 1986

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Frank Sinatra / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / 7.3.47 / with Alex Stordahl & orch
Dean Martin / Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow! / Capitol / LA 11.16.59
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orch
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.57

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.57

A Serenade to an Old Fashioned Playlist

Coffeetime, December 15, 2005

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Vince Guaraldi / A Flower is a Lovesome Thing / Fantasy / early 1957

set 1
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe, volume 1 / Child's Play / Blue Note / 11.11.60 /
Charlie Rouse / Oh Yeah! [Unsung Hero] / Rouse's Point / Epic [Columbia] / 12.21.60
Sandy William's Big Eight / Tea for Me / HRS / fall 1946
Al Bowlly & his Orch / Every Day's a Holiday / Bluebird / 12.3.37
Toni Harper / Peppermint Stick / Columbia / LA 5(?).49 / with Herb Jeffries
Clora Bryant / ...Gal with a Horn / Man with a Horn / Mode / Hollywood 5.57

set 2
Herbie Hancock / Takin' Off / Alone and I / Blue Note / 5.28.62
Chet Atkins / Christmas with Chet Atkins / Medley: The Coventry Carol, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / RCA / 1961
Frank Wess / Pretty Eyes / Commodore / 8.12.54
Pete Johnson / My New Gown, Untitled Piano Duet / soundtrack to film Boogie Woogie Dream (?) / Hollywood 9.41 / vocal = Lena Horne
Louis Armstrong & Jack Teagarden / Jack-Armstrong Blues / radio transcription / AFRS 12.47, recorded 6.47
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Three Beaus and a Peep and Billy Butterfield Quintet

set 3
Cannonball Adderley / Know What I Mean? / Toy / Riverside / 2.21.61
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Go Where I Send Thee / Cadet / 10.66
Clifford Brown Sextet / Goofin' with Me / Vogue / Paris 9.29.53
Bing Crosby / Who Calls? / Decca / LA 5.23.41 / with John Scott Trotter's Orch
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio transcription / LA 1947 / with the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orch
Danny Kaye / White Christmas / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

set 4
Bill Smith Quartet / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 2.16 and 11.24.59
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midget / My Dog Friday / RCA / 7.8.56
Don Redman & his Orch / I've Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 6.30.32
Joan Caulfield / A Serenade to an Old Fashioned Girl / soundtrack from Blue Skies (Paramount) / Hollywood fall 1945 / with Male Quartet
Little Johnny Taylor / Please Come Home for Christmas / Stax / 1974 (?)
Nancy Wilson / That's What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / 1963
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soul song
Irma Thomas / Turn My World Around / Imperial? / late 60s? early 70s?

I'm Just a Vagabond Playlist

Coffeetime, December 8, 2005

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Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Fantasy / 1964

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / Clear the Dex / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Joe Gordon / Lookin' Good / Terra Firma Irma / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61
Benny Moten's Kansas City Orch / Lafayette / Victor / 12.13.32
Rudy Vallee / I'm Just a Vagabond Lover / from film Vagabond Lover / Victor / 4.1.29
Red Mack & his Orch / If You Love Me Baby / Atlas / late 40s
The Ravens / Leave My Gal Alone / National / 1.27.49
Felicia Sanders / I Wish You Love / When the World was Young / Time / 8.18.54

set 2
Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Come Rain or Come Shine / Pacific Jazz / 1961
McCoy Tyner / Today and Tomorrow / When Sunny Gets Blue / Impulse! / 6.4.63
Dick Hyman Trio / Swingin' Double Date / If I Had You / Lion (subsidiary of MGM) / 1958
Lionel Hampton & his Orch / Hot Mallets / Bluebird / 9.11.39
Bing Crosby / Twilight on the Trail / Decca / LA 3.24.36 / with Victor Young's Orch
Mannie Klein & his Swing-a-Hulas / Hoohihi Oe Ke Ike Mai (You Will Like Me I Know) / 1937
Chuck Willis / Be Good or Be Gone / Okeh / 1.26.51
Aretha Franklin / Aretha / Right Now / Columbia / 1960 / with the Ray Bryant Combo

set 3
Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa / Jazz Samba Encore! / Um Abraca No Getz (A Tribute to Getz) / Verve / 2.8.63
Coleman Hawkins / Hawk Eyes / I Never Knew / Prestige / 4.3.59
Tiny Grimes & his Rockin' Highlanders / 125th Street Sunrise / Gotham (?) / fall 1953
The Smoothies / Love for Sale / Bluebird / 5.19.39
Kay Starr / My Future Just Passed / Standard transcription/ 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio and Joe Venuti
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / Down in the Depths / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee

set 4
Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / S'posin / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58
Wes Montgomery Trio / Jingles / Riverside / 10.5, 6.59
Cee Pee Johnson & Orch / AFRS Jubilee #61 / Signoff & Theme (One O'Clock Jump) / transcription / Hollywood c. 12.43 / with Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman emcee
Wilbert Baranco & his Rhythm Bombardiers / Everytime I Think of You / Black & White / LA 1.46 / vocal = WB
James Fountain / Burning Up for Your Love / Peachtree / mid 70s
Pat Carroll & Barbara Ruick / Stepsisters' Lament / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella / 2.22.65
The Southern Sons / Lead Me to that Rock / Bluebird / 7.25.41


last soul song
Reggie Saddler Revue / I've Been Trying / De-Lite / 1972 [started this without enough time left in the November 16 show; finally played in full!]

Ol' Man Playlist

First, thanks, big thanks, to Leigh Cochran for filling in for me last week on Thanksgiving and to Yves Dehnel for helping her do that.

Here's today's playlist, kittycats:

Coffeetime, December 1, 2005

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Goin' Up Up Up / Asiatic Raes (aka Lotus Blossom) / Blue Note / 11.6.60 /
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Takes Charge / If This Isn't Love / Riverside / 4.12.59 /
Benny Carter & his Orch / Cuddle Up, Huddle Up / Bluebird / 1.21.41
The Pickens Sisters / Samanco / radio transcription WOR Dedication of the Fifty Kilowatt Transmitter / Carnegie Hall 3.4.35 / celebrating when NYC increased its power output to fifty thousand watts
Leslie "Jiver" "Hutch" Hutchinson / Let There Be Love / mid-40s
Etta James / Lover Man / Chess / Chicago 9.65

set 2
Bill Evans / New Conversations / Reflections in D / WB / 1.26, 28, 30 & 2.13-16.78 /
Milt Jackson / Bags Meets Wes / Stairway to the Stars / Riverside / 12.18, 19.61
Russell's Procope's Big Six / Opera in Blue / HRS / fall 1946
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / That's Where the South Begins / Brunswick / 9.27.34 / vocal = Louis Prima
Fred Astaire / You're Easy to Dance With / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Paramount / Hollywood spring 1942 / accompanied by "Male Octet"
The Nightingales / Baby, Don't Do It & I'm With You / Stax / early 70s

set 3
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / And What If I Don't / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Bobby Timmons / Easy Does It / Pretty Memory / Riverside / 3.13.61 /
Clyde Hart's Hot Seven / Shoot the Arrow to Me Cupid / Savoy / 12.19.44 / vocal = Joe Gregory /
Una Mae Carlisle [beware pop-ups with this link!] / The Rest of My Life / Joe Davis / 10.20.44
Loumell Morgan / Ol' Man River / Apollo / 8.9.46
Mel Torme with The Meltones / Back in Town / Hit the Road to Dreamland / Verve / LA 4.23, 28 & 29.59

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Featuring Oscar Pettiford, Volume 2 [Tricotism] / NR #2 / ABC-Paramount / 12.12.56
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Hermosa Summer / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54 /
Johnny Mandel / soundtrack to I Want to Live / End Title / MGM / Hollywood 1958
Joe Turner / Low Down Dog / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #52 / with Pete Johnson on piano, Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman emcee
Otis Rush / All Your Love / Cobra / Chicago 1958
Pilita / This is Pilita / Special People / Astor / Australia mid-60s / thanks to Belly Bongo LP Sharity
The Soul Stirrers / I'm Gonna Build On That Shore & How Far Am I from Canann? / Specialty / 3.1.51

last soul song
The Sweet Inspirations / What the World Needs Now is Love / You Really Didn't Mean It / Atlantic / 1968

Come and get your loooove... uh, Coffeetime, that is.

Hey ho, yesterday's Coffeetime is now up on the Coffeetime Archive.

As I announced on the show, the irrepressible Leigh Cochran will be filling in for me on Thanksgiving. I may or may not be sitting in the room with her; only time will tell. But whether I hear her show there or from afar, I am definitely looking forward to hearing what she'll be spinning. I hope you are too.

I've been trying... trying your patience! Playlist!

Coffeetime, November 17, 2005

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Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Jazzland / 7.19.61

set 1
Bill Hardman / Jackie's Pal / Sweet Doll / Prestige / 8.31.56 / tone arm issues - this skips a bit
Blue Mitchell / Smooth as the Wind / Smooth as the Wind / Riverside / 2.29, 30.61
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Walkin' and Swingin' / Decca [or Columbia?] / 3.2.36
Gus Arnheim & his Orch / Weary / radio transcription /1931 / vocal = Donald Novis
Slim Gaillard & his Peruvians / Laughing in Rhythm / Mercury / 3.5.51
Billie Holiday / Music for Torching / Isn't It a Lovely Day / Clef / 8.22, 23, 25.55

set 2
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin' Together! / I Surrender Dear / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet / The Nearness of You / Everest / 1960
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Marie / Gotham / Philadelphia 1950
Teddy Bunn / Guitar in High / Blue Note / 3.28.40
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Knock, Knock, Who's There? / Pathé Marconi / Paris 10.15.36 / vocal = orch
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Mama Don't Allow / Capitol / LA 6.16.47
Jimmy Nolen / The Way You Do / Federal / LA 5.14.56

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator [Sonic Boom CD bonus track] / Free Flow / Blue Note / 10.10.69
The Guitars, Inc. / Soft & Subtle / It Don't Mean a Thing / WB / LA 1959 / guitar - Howard Roberts, Tom Tedesco, Al Hendrickson, Bobby Gibbons, bass - Bill Pitman. H.R. is identified as Bob Howe
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Nostalgia / Calling Dr. Jazz / Savoy / 12.18.46
Jimmy Lunceford & his Orch / Bust Out / radio transcription 1941-43
Golden Gate Quartet / My Walking Stick / Bluebird / 12.26.39
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Remember Me? / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Johnny Otis & his Orch / Feel Like Crying Again / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker
Peggy Lee / Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee / But Beautiful / Capitol / 1.12.61

set 4
Lou Stein Quartet & Octet / Eight for Kicks, Four for Laughs / Wailin' the Blues / Jubilee / 1956
Quincy Jones / Go West, Man / No Bones at All / ABC-Paramount / LA 2.57 / tone arm issues - this skips a bit
Art Tatum Trio / Tea for Two / transcriptioin / Basin Street East, NYC 10.55
Blue Barron & his Orch / Love of My Life / Bluebird? / 1939 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
Elmore James / Coming Home / Vee Jay / Chicago 1957 /
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / What Happened to the Hair (on the Head of the Man I Love?) / Coral / LA 1957 / arrangements by Don Redman
Argo Gospel Singers with The Southern Sons / Whisper a Prayer / Trumpet / Chicago 1.51

last soul song
Reggie Saddler Revue / I've Been Trying / De-Lite / 1972 [started this without enough time left in the show, so it's only partial; I'll play it in full in a few weeks!]

Up, up, and away in my beeyooteefull radio show

Hey, sorry I didn't post sooner -- last week's Coffeetime is now up on the Coffeetime Archive. (Actually, it's been up since Saturday.)

I highly encourage everyone to take advantage of our new podcasting link. You can find it at the top of the right hand column. Read a simple explanation on how subscribing to podcasts is a groovy thing at MyPods.net. I subscribe to several, including the excellent WNYC show On the Media which, before iTunes enabled podcast subscribing, I had to manually download each week. If you have the latest version of iTunes, you probably are aware of podcasts.

I love podcasts.

I feel like a biiiirrrd.. and a playlist!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2005

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Blakey / Simplicity / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Nat Adderley / To the Ivy League from Nat /Hayseed / EmArcy / 7.12.56
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and his Little Band, Vol. 2 / Paris the Beautiful / Blue Note / Paris 9.26.53
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Creole Rhapsody, parts 1 & 2 / Brunswick / 1.20.31
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orch / Here Comes My Ball and Chain / Victor / Chicago 11.27.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders
The Boswell Sisters / When It's Sleepytime Down South / soundtrack from film of same name / summer or early fall 1932 / check out David Meeker's excellent article Jazz on the Screen on the Library of Congress website
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook / You're Laughing at Me / Verve / LA 3.17.58 / with Paul Weston's Orch, trombone = Juan Tizol

set 2
David "Fathead" Newman / House of David / I Wish You Love / Atlantic / 1967
James Moody's Modernists / Cu-Ba / Blue Note / 10.25.48
Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / Barbaric / Brunswick / 1.6.30
Frank Sinatra & Skitch Henderson / nostalgic medley: Pagan Love Song, You Go to My Head, Star Dust / transcription from radio show Songs by Sinatra, AFRS #28 / LA(?) 3.27.45
T-Bone Walker / Life is Too Short / Imperial / LA 8.15.51
Lavern Baker / Sings Bessie Smith / There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight / Atlantic / 1.28.58

set 3
Lee Morgan / Dizzy Atmosphere / DDT / Specialty / Hollywood 2.18.57
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ceora / Blue Note / 9.18.65 /
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Jack's Boogie / Black & White / LA 2.46
Basin Street Boys / Jumping at the Jubilee / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
The Griffin Brothers / Stormy Night / Dot / Gallatin, Tennessee 1952 / vocal = Margie Day
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Come On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11/ Donna Lee [CD bonus alternate take] / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Howard Mcghee / The Return of Howard McGhee / Tahitian Lullaby / Bethlehem / 10.22.55 /
Camille Howard / Schubert's Serenade Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51
Chubby Newsome / Little Fat Woman with the Cocoanut Head / Regal / 2.23.51
Little Milton / Loving You / Checker / Memphis 3.4.66
Bobby Darin / soundtrack to film That Funny Feeling / That Funny Feeling / Capitol / Hollywood 9.18.54
Golden Gate Quartet / Born Ten Thousand Years Ago / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 8.4.37

last soul song
The Charmels / I'll Never Grow Old / Volt / late sixties


This image of BN 5050 thanks to the excellent site Vintage Vanguard and I believe it was designed by Gil Melle. The cover of Bethlehem BCP 42 at the top of this post is just one of the many thrilling album cover designs by Burt Goldblatt.

Enfin! Last week's playlist!

It was rough, people, but I managed to figure out the playlist for last week's fundraising show mess. Let me take a second to thank everyone who pledged either by phone or by the WMBR website! You guys are the best! Also, thanks a heap to my stellar phone answerers, CD unscramblers, and chair fixers: longtime friend & supporter of WMBR and Coffeetime Lynn M; Charlie of Research & Development; Ed of Biologue; Chris, Larry, Mark, and The Mighty Slim of Lost & Found; and anyone else I've spaced out on remembering!

Coffeetime, November 3, 2005 -- Fundraiser Show

(There were so many breaks where we talked on mic, that I won't break this playlist down into "sets" as I usually do, except for the last set, which got planned and played as a whole. The list below is however, in order of first song to last, as usual.)

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Blakey / Salute to the Bandbox [aka Salute to Birdland] / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Lee Morgan / Dizzy Atmosphere / Rite of Swing / Specialty / Hollywood 2.18.57
Erskine Hawkins & his Orch /Raid the Joint / Bluebird / 4.8.39
Dinah Washington / Rich Man Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10-13.45 / with Lucky Thompson & others
Nat Adderley / To the Ivy League from Nat / Hoppin' John / EmArcy / 7.12.56
Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / High and Dry / Brunswick / 1.6.30 / vocal = Hoagy Carmichael
Lavern Baker / Sings Bessie Smith / Money Blues / Atlantic / 1.28.58
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson with Gerard Pochonet & his Quartet / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Lil Green / I Won't Sell My Love / Bluebird / Chicago 1.21.41
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orch) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / La 7.27.42
Mildred Bailey / It All Comes Back To Me Now / transcription from The Mildred Bailey show on CBS radio / early 1940s, most likely 1943
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia / 1948 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra
David "Fathead" Newman / House of David / One Room Paradise / Atlantic / 1967
James Moody's Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.25.48 / Note that this most excellent Jazz Discography Project website refers to Jimmy Forman as having the nickname/pseudonym "Men Gates" (ha!) when, it was actually "Hen Gates" -- check out lots of other Jazz Pseudonyms
The Charioteers / Swing For Sale / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51
T-Bone Walker / Alimony Blues / Imperial / LA 8.15.51
The Treniers / This is It / Okeh / 1.9.52
Howard Mcghee / That Bop Thing / Transpicuous / Bethlehem / 10.22.55
Bing Crosby / Buy Buy Bonds / soundtrack from short film All Star Bond Rally / Hollywood late 1944 / with Harry James & his Musicmakers
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

last set
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11/ Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / 1961
Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / 1959 / http://www.bobbydarin.net/bdlpthats.html
Swan Silvertones / Sinner Man / Vee-Jay / 1957

last soul (thank you) song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Memphis 3.4.66

Embarrassing fundraising show now online!

Get it while it's hawt -- the 2005 fundraising meltdown by yours truly, now up on the Coffeetime archive! No, no -- no Jerry Lewis telathon style meltdown. Actually, it was all very sweet; once again, I am humbled by all the calls that came in. I will be thanking everyone, including the wonderful pals that helped me out answering the phones and trying to fix my sitting appartus, and I'll be putting up some sort of mangled playlist -- eventually!

Big news is: Coffeetime listener and supporter and, now, Tech Guru Payton has provided us all with a podcast-able RSS link: http://foolord.com/rss/coffeetime.xml!

If you know what to do with it -- go to it! Whoopee! Thanks, P!


update: this Nov 3 show is no longer online (but others still are)

Fundraising is here!

Hey, my groovy friends. WMBR's annual fundraising week began yesterday at dawn. Today is the Coffeetime fundraising episode. WHoo hoo!

If you feel like you can make a pledge, I'd love to hear from you between 2 and 4 pm. It's so great to hear the phones ring and have a laugh with my listeners. The phone number is 617-253-8810. (We're gonna be saying THAT a lot today. Bleh.)

Every pledge, no matter how big or small, will receive a special compilation CD from me: Romantic Coffeetime. (Last year's was such a hit! But I promise that this year's will have all new make-out music to swoon by.)

And there are tons, TONS, of goodies we are giving away for various pledge amounts: books, commercial CDs, WMBR T-shirts, thermoses, movie tix, music event tix, on and on and on. If you phone in, don't forget to ask the phone answerer (who might be me!) to rattle off all the swag we have to offer you.

Many of you are working at a job that prevents you from phoning, even to a hip station like WMBR. If that's your predicament, you can pledge online at the WMBR website. If you take that option and make a pledge before 4 pm today, could you take a second to drop me an email at coffee@wmbr.org?

If you phone in or email me before 4 pm, I can include your pledge in my boastful Wall Tally. (We have a giant wall poster up at the station where everyone writes down how much was pledged during their show.)

And, no matter what, I love and appreciate ALL my listeners. I've had years when I can donate and years I can't. So, no worries, baby, if your cash flow prevents you from jumping in to the fray. You'll always have my heart.

The latest Coffeetime is now online. BOO!

Hey all. Happy Halloween. Last thursday's Coffeetime is now up on the Coffeetime archive.

Hope you have a candy-licious good time today.

(Take Me to) the Playlist!

Coffeetime, October 27, 2005

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Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still & Beef Blues Stew / Blue Note / 3.12.56 & 8.26.59

John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57
Sonny Rollins / A Night at the Village Vanguard / Old Devil Moon / Blue Note / 11.3.57
Al Bowlly / Adeline / Imperial / London 10.30 / with Jay Wilbur & his Band
Mildred Bailey / More Than Ever / Columbia / Hollywood 2.10.38 / with Red Norvo & his Orch
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Lavender Coffin / King / 1949?
Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader / Time for 2 / It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream / Hollywood 2.26-28.62

set 2
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Left Alone / Bethlehem / 11.57
Johnny Smith / [Moonlight in Vermont] / Lullaby of Birdland [cd bonus] / Roost / 8.53
Art Tatum / She's Funny That Way / V-Disc / LA 1945/46
Mezz Mezzrow & his Orch / Sendin' the Vipers / Victor / 5.7.34
Fred Astaire / soundtrack from film Swing Time / Never Gonna Dance / Brunswick / 7.26.36 / with Johnny Green & his Orch
Johnny Mercer / Glow Worm / Capitol / Hollywood 1949 / with the Pied Pipers, Paul Weston & his Orch
Billy "The Kid" Emerson / The Whip, part 2 / M-Pac! / Chicago 1963

set 3
Gene Ammons / Groove Blues / Jug Handle / Prestige / 1.3.58
King Porter & his Orch / Russell Street Hustle / King / Detroit 1948
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / The Bouncing Ball / Victor / 2.16.34 / featuring Frank Trumbauer
The Spirits of Rhythm / From Monday On / Decca / 9.11.34
Bill Johnson & Musical Notes / Let's Be Sweethearts Again / RCA / 1947
Amos Milburn / Sorrowful Heart / Aladdin / 6.30.53

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Mean to Me / Contemporary / 3.18-19.57
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Mood for Mendes / Argo / Chicago 11.17.57
Sunshine Boys / Gonna Get Tight / Okeh / Dallas 3.13.41
B.B. King / Mean Ole Frisco / Kent / 1960
Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone
The Zion Travelers / Two Little Fishes / Dootone / LA 1956

last soul song
The Mad Lads / Did My Baby Call / Volt / Memphis 1972

Take a tip, get this week's show online

Hey, yep, this week's show is now up on the Coffeetime Archive.

I hope it keeps you warm, along with a hot cup of coffee and a handful of candy corn and candy pumpkins. Mmmmm.

Update: this show is no longer available at the archive. If you want to hear it, email me.

The Soft Land of Playlist

Coffeetime, October 20, 2005

bed
Wes Montgomery / A New Dynamic Sound / Riverside / 10.5, 6.59

set 1
Horace Silver / Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet / Safari / Blue Note / 1.13.58
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Theory of Art / A Night at Tony's / Bluebird / 4.2.57
Joe Marsala and his Orch / Romance / Black & White / 1945
Helen Kane / from film Young Men of Manhattan / I've Got "It," But It Don't Do Me No Good / Victor / Hollywood 7.1.30
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / The Green Grass Grows All Around / Decca / Chicago 11.22.41
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Sweet Lorraine / radio transcription [Capitol] / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / Mountain Greenery / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.8.56 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orch

set 2
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Blues for Del / Verve / 7.16, 25, 29.63
Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Strictly Occidental / Rama / 1.9, 10.57 & 2.5, 7.57
Benny Carter & his Orch / Tree of Hope / RCA / 10.16.41
The Dorsey Brothers Orch / Stay on the Right Side of the Road / Brunswick (?) / 3.14.33 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra / Don't Forget Tonight Tomorrow / CBS broadcast dress rehearsal for Songs by Sinatra radio show / 10.31.45 / with the Pied Pipers and orch arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / The Soft Land of Make Believe & Knowbody Knows / Bethlehem / 1959

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Fried Pies / Blue Note / 6.3.64
Fats Navarro-Tadd Dameron Septet / Tadd Walk / live at the Royal Roost / 8, 9.48
Thelma Cooper / Let's Try Again / Gotham / 1949
Miss Rhapsody [Viola Wells] / The Night Before Judgement Day / Savoy / 5.15.45 /
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Rénuncia / Som Livre / 1950s? early 60s?

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Early Bird / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Howard Roberts / All-Time Great Instrumental Hits / Autumn Leaves / Capitol / 1966
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' Uptown / Bluebird / 3.20.34
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers / soundtrack to film The Barkleys of Broadway / Bouncin' the Blues / Hollywood / 8.13.48 / no vocals, just tap dancing
Maxine Sullivan / Restless / radio transcription? Apollo? / 1948 / with Larry Johnson & his Orch
Sammy Davis Jr / The Goin's Great / The Goin's Great / Reprise / LA 1969
The Original Gospel Harmonettes / Deliver Me / Specialty / Hollywood 7.24.52 / with Dorothy Love Coates on lead

last soul song
William Bell / Crying All by Myself / Stax / 7.65

The archive has been revived! It's ALIVE!

Oh, sorry -- with Halloween coming on, I just had to channel Doc Frankenstein. Anyhoo, I renewed the domain name for the Coffeetime Archive and all is well with clicking those links. Whew!

Also I bought the name coffeetimeblog.org which will point to this very page you're reading. I've gone domain name crazy!

Oops! Coffeetimearchive.org link down for a day or two

So sorry, I forgot to renew the domain name coffeetimearchive.org. So it will be down for a day or so. I'll put up a post here when it's live again.

Boy, is my face red...

This week's show online now, warm from the oven

Hi,this week's Coffeetime is now up on the Coffeetime Archive. All cuddly and cozy like. Makes me want a cuppa joe.

Playlist Dynamite!

Coffeetime, October 13, 2005

bed
Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Prestige / 10.9.62

set 1
Kenny Dorham / 'Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia / Mexico City [alternate cd bonus take] / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Trio / Lady Bird / King [Bethlehem] / 2.2, 3.56
Clark Terry Sextet / More (Theme from Mondo Cane) / Blues Fr'ell / Cameo / 1962
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Rug Cutter's Swing / Decca / 9.25.34
Jeanne Aubert & the Four Admirals / score to Anything Goes / Anything Goes / Columbia / London 7.35 / with the Palace Theatre Orch, conducted by Francis Collinson
Ivory Joe Hunter / S.P. Blues / MGM / 10.21.49
Sarah Vaughn / With Clifford Brown / Embraceable You / EmArcy / 12.16, 18.1954

set 2
Wilbur Harden & John Coltrane / Tanganyika Strut / Once in a While / Savoy / 5.13.58
Willie Dixon / Willie's Blues / Go Easy / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / The Way I Feel Today / Victor / 11.6.29 / vocal = Don Redman
Chick Daniels & his Royal Hawaiians / Buckin' Horse Hula / Brunswick / Honolulu fall 1935 / with 1920 Olympian Pua Kealoha
Ella Mae Morse / Tennessee Saturday Night / Capitol / 1952
Otis Rush / My Baby is a Good 'Un / Cobra / Chicago 1958 / with Ike Turner & Willie Dixon in the band

set 3
The Latin Jazz Quartet & Eric Dolphy / Caribé / First Bass Line / New Jazz / 8.19.60
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Earmon Jr. / Blue Note / 4.9.61
The Four Vagabonds / That Old Gang of Mine / Apollo / 7.47
Kay Starr / A Woman Always Understands / Standard transcription / circa 1946 / with Buzz Adlam Orch
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / Someone to Watch Over Me / World Pacific / LA 2.28.55

set 4
Stan Getz / Getz Age / These Foolish Things / Roost / 12.19.52 /
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Bossa Nova Petite / Capitol / 2.20, 21, 22.63
Skip Martin / soundtrack The Music from Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer / Summer Mood / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1959
Howard McGhee Sextet / High Wind in Hollywood / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
The Three Keys / Anything for You / Brunswick / 12.12.32
Peggy Lee / Big $pender / I Must Know / Capitol / Hollywood 10.29.65 / an amazing Peggy Lee disc- and videography
The Soul Stirrers / All Right Now / Specialty / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soul song
Carolyn Franklin / Baby Dynamite! / I Don't Want to Lose You / RCA / 1969 / produced by Jimmy Radcliffe

If you feel frustrated about the lack of news from the earthquake zone in Kashmir, Pakistan, and India and want to see what you can do to help, take a look at Mercy Corps, who are on the scene and doing great relief work.

Wahoo! the latest show is online...

Yes, indeedy-doody, this week's episode of Coffeetime is now online at the archive.

Found a nice new site dedicated to old movies, ModernTimes.com and they have a still from one of my favorite movies, His Kind of Woman. Blogger's being a bad boy today and won't let me post the photo, sigh. So take a clicky trip over there and get all weak in the knees over Robert Mitchum or Jane Russell (depending upon what floats your tugboat).

A playlist, comin' down on YOU!

Coffeetime, October 6, 2005

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

set 1
Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Shoutin' on a Riff / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Art Taylor / Taylor's Tenors / Fidel / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Cootie Williams & his Orch / Unidentified Instrumental / soundtrack from film "Cootie Williams, His Hot Trumpet and Orchestra" / mid 1944 / with tap dancing by the Douglas Brothers
Little Jack Little / A Dew Dewey Day / radio transcription (?) / 1940
Annisteen Allen / Lies, Lies, Lies / Federal / 1.5.51
Anita O'Day / Cool Heat / It Had to be You / Verve / Hollywood 4.59

set 2
Buddy Collette & his Swinging Shepherds / At the Cinema / The Bad and the Beautiful / Mercury / 1959
Barry Harris / Preminado / I Should Care / Riverside / 12.21.60, 1.19.61
Mary Lou Williams - Don Byas Quartet / Why / Vogue / Paris 12.2.53
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Savage Rhythm / Brunswick / 7.30.31
Gene Austin / Git Along, Ramble On / radio transcription from the Joe Penner Show / 1938 /
Hadda Brooks / Romance in the Dark / Modern / 1947
Preston Love & his Orch / Twilight Blues / Federal (?) / Cincinnati 5.16.51 / vocal = Charles Maxwell
Nat King Cole / Love is the Thing / When Sunny Gets Blue / Capitol / Hollywood 12.19, 28.56 / arranged & conducted by Gordon Jenkins

set 3
Quincy Jones & Orch / soundtrack to film They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / Blues for Mister Tibbs / UA / Hollywood 1970
Henry Mancini & Orch / soundtrack to film The Party / Party Poop / RCA / Hollywood 1968 / with Jimmy Rowles, on piano (wink wink)
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Wham-a-Lam / King / 11.28.49
Trixie Smith / My Unusual Man / Decca / 5.26.37
Artie Shaw & his Orch / I Got the Sun in the Morning / Musicraft / Hollywood 4.30.46 / vocal = The Mel-Tones
Billy Eckstine / Once More with Feeling / Stormy Weather / Roulette / LA 1960 / arranged & conducted by Billy May

set 4
George Shearing & the Montgomery Brothers / No Hard Feelings / Jazzland / LA 10.9 & 10.61
Shorty Rogers / [The Playboy Jazz All Stars double LP compilation] / Play, Boy! / RCA / Hollywood 7.15.57
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Saving Myself for You / radio transcription / 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain
Roy Brown / New Rebecca / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 4.19.50
Cilla Black / Is it Love? / You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To / Capitol / 1965
Swan Silvertones / Singing in My Soul / Where Shall I Go / Vee Jay / 1960

last soul song
Debbie Taylor / Comin' Down On You / Second to None / Today / 1972

Hear ye, hear ye: fresh show now online

Well, folks, it's that time of the week when a new Coffeetime is posted up on the Coffeetime Archive for your listening pleasure.

As last week, I'm linking each show to the exact playlist postingg here on the blog. But, new this week: the end of the low-bandwidth streams. I haven't heard from any dial-up listeners in a long time (since my mom now has broadband), so I've removed the low-bandwidth streaming option. However, if you want that option back, just holler! The Coffeetime Archive crew aims to please. All one of us.

update: this show is no longer online; email me if you want to hear it

Little Red Playlist

Coffeetime, September 29, 2005

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Junior Cook / Junior's Cookin' / Myzar / Jazzland / 12.4.61
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Eesom / EmArcy / 11.4, 5, 9.59
The Savoy Orpheans / Barcelona (One Step) / HMV / Savoy Hotel, Savoy, England 4.19.26
The Comedian Harmonists / Perpetuum Mobile / HMV / 1932
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / Casey Jones Blues / Victor / Camden 23.2.31
Frank Sinatra / Somebody Loves Me / public service transcription (March of Dimes 1946) / 12.45 (probable) / with The Pied Pipers
Dakota Staton / Softly / Close Your Eyes / Capitol / 196

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.14.58
John Coltrane / Ballads / I Wish I Knew / Impulse / 11.13.62
Tony Scott / Lullaby of Birdland / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / 9.28.54
Jimmie Lunceford & his band / It's Time to Jump and Shout / transcription or Columbia / 1.5.40
The Charioteers / Braggin' / [Columbia?] / early 1940s [2.16.41?]
Helen Humes / All Night Long / LA 1.14.52 / Modern? / with Gerald Wiggins Orch
Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Little Red Rooster / Abkco / LA 2.23.63

set 3
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / The Man I Love / Prestige / 5.25.59
Bobby Hackett / Hawaii Swings / Soft Sands / Capitol / 1959
The Mills Brothers / Goodbye Blues / commercial for their radio show / 1932
Helen O'Connell / Blue Moon / radio transcription / 1953 / with Page Cavanaugh Trio
Big Mama Thornton / Willie Mae's Trouble / Peacock (unreleased) / c. 1953
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe / Laughing Boy / Bethlehem / 1959

set 4
Shelly Manne / "The Three" & "The Two" / Everything Happens to Me / Contemporary / LA 9.14.54 / from "The Two" - Manne & Russ Freeman
Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / Goodbye / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58
Fats Waller / Tea for Two / transcription [Associated] / 8.7.39
The Barrie Sisters / I've Heard that Song Before / transcription [MacGregor] / 11.21.44 / with the King Cole Trio
Goree Carter & his Hep Cats / Come On Let's Boogie / Freedom / Houston c. 4.50
Dinah Washington / Drinking Again / On the Street of Regret / Roulette / 1962
The Hightower Brothers / This Little Light of Mine / Nashboro / 1962

last soul song
The Leaders / Which Way / Volt / 1972

New show(s) online; Bend a little my way...

Hey, the latest episode of Coffeetime is now up on the Coffeetime Archive.

Also, by request for zenigeba of the Hot 'n' Cool blog, I've uploaded an old episode of In the Margin of the Other, from January 2, 2002, when I was filling in for Sue Schardt. I hope to be uploading other old shows, either Coffeetime shows or other fill-ins that I've done. Let me know if you have any ones in particular you want to hear.

I'd also like to find out if anyone is using the low-bandwidth streams anymore. If you are, could you email me at coffee at wmbr dot org? (Even my mom now has broadband and uses the high-bandwidth links!)

I've Found a New Playlist

Because we still don't have a national system for ensuring the safety of pets and other animals in our care during natural disasters like hurricanes (there is, though a bill now before Congress), the various animal welfare organizations need our help. Katrina Pets Need Help has a nice list of both national groups as well as local groups in the Gulf Coast area. As always, I also highly recommend the Doris Day Animal League.

Coffeetime, September 22, 2005

bed
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Jazzland / 7.19.61

set 1
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Orient / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56
Zoot Sims All Stars with Kai Winding & Al Cohn / The Brothers / The Red Door / Prestige / 9.8.52 /
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Let's Go Home / Columbia / 4.24.41
Tom Dorsey / It's Right Here for You / Okeh / 11.10.28 (or 6.13.29?) /
Lud Gluskin & his O / Sweet Music / Columbia / 11.30.34 / vocal = Buddy Clark
The Four Blazes / Man, That's Groovy / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #136 / Hollywood 5.44
The Griffin Brothers / Stubborn as a Mule / Dot / Gallatin, Tennessee 1950-51 / vocal = Margie Day
Nancy Wilson / Today, Tomorrow, Forever / The Good Life /Capitol / LA 2.18, 19.64

set 2
Curtis Fuller / New Trombone / Namely You / Prestige / 5.11.57
Georgie Auld / I Can't Get Started / transcription? / 5.22.44
The Carolina Dandies [aka Sunny Clapp & his Band O' Sunshine] / Come Easy, Go Easy Love / Victor / 7.1.31 / vocal = Hoagy Carmichael
Red McKenzie & his Orch / You're Out of this World (to Me) / Vocalion / 11.1.37 [11.16.37?] / vocal = Red McKenzie
Jimmy T-99 Nelson / Sweetest Little Girl / RPM / early 50s
Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney / Fancy Meeting You Here / On a Slow Boat to China / RCA /Hollywood 1958 / with Billy May & his Orch

set 3
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Foot Tappin' / Prestige / live at the DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Street of Tears / Capitol / 2.10-12.58
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Maureen / Atlas / LA 1944 / vocal = Frankie Laine, flip of Nightfall,
Kay Starr / Fool, Fool, Fool / Capitol / LA 1952 / with the Lancers; B side of Kay's Lament
Buddy Greco / Soft and Gentle / The Easy Way / Columbia / 1963

set 4
Cal Tjader / San Francisco Moods / Triple T Blues / Fantasy / 1958
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / Cerebellum / Bethlehem / 11.54
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I've Found a New Baby / V-Disc #175 / 11.22.43
Wini Brown / An Ordinary Guy / National [unissued track] / 11.27.48 / overdubbed with previously recorded band
Pet Clark / My Love / If I Were a Bell / Vogue / 1966
Georgia Peach [Clara Hudman (Gholston Brock)] / Do Send Me / Columbia?? / 10.17.42 / with unknown male quartet; I also have a broadcast recording from 1946 with The Harmonaires
Wright Brothers Jubilee Singers / Gospel Train / Oakland, Calif late 40s

last soul song
Lee Williams & the Cymbals / Please Say it Isn't So / Carnival / 1967 / flip of Shing-a-Ling USA

New show and a pipsqueak online now

Hey

I've uploaded last Thursday's show (finally!) up onto the Coffeetime Archive. And there's a pipsqueak of a fill-in I did just prior to my show on Alex's Lost & Found. I mostly played requests he'd collected, but I threw a couple of songs in there that I'd picked out. (Guess which...) I'm putting the mini-playlist below.

Also, don't forget to consider donating to help the lost, abandonned, and injured pets. There's a nice list of organizations at Katrina Pets need Help.


Lost & Found, My Little Last Half Hour, September 15, 2005

Bloomfield, Kooper, & Stills / Stop
Linda Scott / Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed
Dick & DeeDee / Say to Me
Shelby Flint / Cast Your Fate to the Wind
Ten Years After / Over the Hill
Chambers Brothers / Funky
Emotions / Love Ain't Easy One-Sided
The Exciters / Just Not Ready
Fifth Dimension / Save the Country

Relaxin' with a Playlist

We can't forget the poor pets and other animals lost or abandoned during Katrina. The website Katrina Pets Need Help (katrinapetsneedhelp.com) has a great list of organizations big and small that can use help, whether it's a money contribution, supplies, or the ability to foster or adopt one of the pets.

Coffeetime, September 15, 2005

bed
Johnny Mandel / soundtrack to I Want to Live! // John Lewis / soundtrack to Odds Against Tomorrow // Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from I Want to Live

set 1
Kenny Drew / This is New / This is New / Riverside / 3.8.67
Johnny Griffin / The Congregation / It's You or No One / Blue Note / 10.13.57
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orch / Baltimore Bounce / Bluebird / 12.20.39
Esther Walker / Ya Gotta Know How to Love / Brunswick / 6.26 / with the Brunswick Studio Orch
Pearl Bailey / Fifteen Years (and I'm Still Serving Time) / V-Disc / 4.24.45
Big Joe Turner / Whistle Stop Blues / Savoy / Chicago 12.9.47
Doris Day / Day By Day / Autumn Leaves / Columbia / 1.57

set 2
Sonny Criss / Portrait of Sonny Criss / God Bless the Child / Prestige / 1957
Wes Montgomery / Fusion! / Somewhere / Riverside / 4.18-19.63
Charlie Parker / I'm in the Mood for Love / Verve / 10.50
International Sweethearts of Rhythm / She's Crazy with the Heat / AFRS Jubilee broadcast / early 1945
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Got Your Love in My Heart / LA 4.20.45 / vocal = Herb Jeffries
The Striders / Five O'Clock Blues / Apollo / 3.20.50 / flip side of Cool Saturday Night
Eartha Kitt / What is This Thing Called Love? / Disques Swing/Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.21.50 / with Doc Cheatham & his Trio
Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman / Tatoo Women / National / 1965

set 3
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / My Secret Passion / Blue Note / 7.18, 8.9.63
William Donati / Tampa Sampler [A Piano Concert in Ultra High Fidelity?] / Firefly / Tampa / mid 50s
Ella Mae Morse / The Thrill is Gone / Capitol / 7.20.42
The Marquees / I Don't Want Your Love / Gotham / early 50s
Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / I Don't Know Why / Capitol / 1957

set 4
Buddy DeFranco / Closed Session / Softly As in a Morning Sunrise / Verve / Hollywood 10.30.57
Sandy Mosse / Relaxin' with Sandy Mosse / I'm Old Fashioned / Argo / 1959
Jean Goldkette & his Orch / Don't Be Like That / Victor / Chicago 11.23.28 / vocal = Harold Strokes
Etta James / Etta James Rocks the House / Woke Up this Morning / Argo / live at The New Era Club, Nashville 9.27, 28.63
The Dixie Nightingales / I Don't Know + Hush, Hush / Chalice / 1965?

last soul song
Irma Thomas / It's Raining / Minit / 1963

Deep in a Playlist

Coffeetime, September 8, 2005

bed
Carl Kress & George Barnes / Two Guitars / Stash / 1962

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Bearcat / The Middle of the Block / Jazzland / 12.28.61 & 1.10.62
Phineas Newborn Jr / A World of Piano! / Lush Life / Contemporary / LA 10.16.61
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / I Like That / Okeh / 4.30.29
Ray Noble & his Orch / Rhythm is Our Business/ radio transcription / 1935-36 / vocal = The Freshmen
Cats & the Fiddle / Crawlin' Blues / Bluebird / 1.20.41 / reissued by Montgomery Ward with inferior quality, see Marv Goldberg
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gershwin / Maybe / Decca / 9.12.50

set 2
Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk / Autumn Nocturne / Blue Note / 7.28.58
Oscar Pettiford All Stars / Winner's Circle / If I'm Lucky / Bethlehem / 10, 11, 12.57
Chocolate Dandies / Krazy Kapers / Okeh / 10.10.33
Lil Armstrong & her Swingsters / Brown Gal / transcription? / 10.27.35
Dinah Washington / I'll Wait / Mercury / 8.25.48 / with Mitch Miller & his Orch
Lucky Millinder / The Right Kind of Lovin' / Apollo / 6.28.51 / vocal = Annisteen Allen, Melvin Moore, & John Sellers
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Fool on the Hill / Lapinha / A&M / 1968

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Sixth Sense / Mickey's Tune / Blue Note / 9.13.68
Camille Howard / Unidentified Boogie #1 / Specialty / Hollywood 7.8.48
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Drifting and Dreaming / radio transcription / 1945
Cleo Brown / Never Too Tired to Love / Decca / 6.8.35
Annie Laurie / Don't Marry Too Soon / demo / Regal / New Orleans 1949-50
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks / Say It Isn't So / Signature / 1950-51

set 4
Stan Getz / Split Kick / The Best Thing for You / Roost / 3.1.51
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Airegin / Contemporary /LA 3.14, 28 and 5.12.59
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream: The Guitar of Al Caiola / You Are Too Beautiful / Savoy / 10.6.55
Tab Smith Septette / Kangaroo Blues / Apollo / 10.15.45 / vocal = Laurel Watson
The Treniers / Bug Dance / Okeh / 9.9.53
Nat King Cole / Bend a Little My Way / Capitol / 1959
The Zion Travelers / Jesus Said / Dootone / 1962

last soul song
Mary Wells / Stop Takin' Me for Granted / 20th Century Fox /1964

New show online; please help the pets hurt by Katrina

The latest Coffeetime is up on the Coffeetime Archive.

Also, when your thinking about your donations to help with the hurricane relief effort, please give a hand to the organizations helping pets lost or left behind; I'm putting the link to HSUS Disaster Relief pages here and on the banner on the archive page.

Also, you can give through the American Humane Association. So many pets had to be left behind or got frightened and lost during the storm.

Me & Louie: Goodnight My Playlist

Coffeetime, September 1, 2005

bed
Red Garland / Moodsville 6 / Prestige / 11.21.58

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Lover Come Back to Me / Blue Note / 12.2.58
Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Dorian / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orch / Jubilee Stomp / Victor / 3.26.28
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Ha Cha Cha / Victor / 9.7.34 / background vocals = The Debutantes (Betty Noyes, Dorothy Compton, and Marjorie Briggs)
King Cole Trio / I'm Through with Love / radio transcription / King Cole Room, Trocadero Night Club, LA 1945
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / Wonder Why / Hi Fi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings, volume 1 / Crown / 1960
Jimmy Cleveland & his Orch / Cleveland Style / A Jazz Ballad / EmArcy / 12.13.57
Dave Tarras Orch / Music from the Yiddish Radio Project / Second Avenue Square Dance / 1950
Frankie Trumbauer's Orch / Way Down Yonder in New Orleans / Okeh / 5.13.27 /
Jimmy Cagney & Ruby Keeler / soundtrack from film Footlight Parade / Shanghai Lil / Paramount / Hollywood 1933
Phil Harris & his Orch / Buds Won't Bud / Victor / 1.40
Tom Jones / Live in Las Vegas / Bright Lights and You Girl / Parrot / Las Vegas 1969

set 3
Ike Quebec / Later for the Rock / Blue Note / 7.1.59
James Moody / James Moody's Moods / Faster James / Prestige / 1.28.55
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Rides Again / Dexter Rides Again / Savoy / 1.29.46
Larry Clinton & his Orch / You Got to My Head / radio transcription / 1937-38 / vocal = Bea Wain
The Dixieaires / Keep Me with You Baby / Gotham / late 40s / with Tiny Grimes on guitar
Billie Holiday / Big Stuff / Decca / 11.8.44
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / New Orleans / Pacific Jazz / Forum Theater, LA 9.10.56

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus,Volume 1: The Quintets / Whose Blues / Contemporary / LA 7.9.54
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney Visits Paris / Trés Chouette / Dawn / 2.10.54
Leith Stevens / soundtrack from the film The Interns / Intern Bash / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
Noble Sissle & his Orch / Camp Meeting Blues [Day] / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex 9.10.29
Ann Cole / I've Got Nothing Working Now / Baton / 1957 / http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/anncole.htm
Jesse Belvin / Goodnight My Love / Modern / LA 1956
Golden Gate Quartet / My Lord Is Ridin' All the Time / radio transcription from NBC Thesaurus 1000 / 1941

last soul song
The Shirelles / You're Under Arrest / Scepter / early 60s

Double the Fun: This week's Coffeetime and Lost and Found online now!

Whew! Two new shows are now up on the Coffeetime Archive for your listening pleasure. (It would be pleasure, right??) Coffeetime Aug 25, 2005 and Lost and Found Aug 26, 2005 -- I worked my you-know-what off this week.

I need to upload some pix for youz guyz and give you some more tasty links from around the world wiiiiide web. But, not tonight, dear. I need my beauty sleep.

Somebody's Watching...BOO!: Playlist for L&F today

Lost & Found, August 26, 2005

opening song
Little Sister / Somebody's Watching You / Stoneflower 45 (flip is Stanga) / 1970

bed 1
Isaac Hayes / soundtrack to film Tough Guys / Hung Up On My Baby / Enterprise LP / 1974

set 1
Stacy Lane / No Brags Just Facts / Excello  / 1969
Lulu / Melody Fair / Move to My Rhythm / Atco / 1970
Small Faces / There Are But Four Small Faces / Talk to You / Immediate LP / 1968
Major Lance / Since You've Been Gone / Dakar / 1969
The Duals / Stick Shift (instrumental) / Sue / 1961
The Young Rascals / Groovin' / You Better Run / Atlantic LP / 1967
Elvin Spencer / Lift This Hurt / TwiNight/ 1971

bed 2
Hubert Laws Group / soundtrack to film A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich / School's Out (Benji's Theme) + I'm Your Fool (Butler's Theme) (partial) / Columbia LP / 1978

set 2
The Fleetwoods / Little Miss Sad One / Dolton 45 (flip is Tragedy) / 1961
Del Shannon / Jody / Big Top 45 (flip is Runaway) / 1961
The Platters / Sleep Lagoon / Mercury 45 (flip is Harbor Lights) /
Garnet Mimms / Until You Were Gone / UA / 1963-64
Leroy & the Drivers / Don't Ever Leave Me / Coral / unknown date
Brothers of Soul / I Guess That Don't Make Me a Loser / Boo 45 (flip is Hurry, Don't Linger) / 1967
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / One Dozen Roses / Satisfaction / Tamla / 1971

bed 3
Bobby Womack with JJ Johnson & his Orch / soundtrack to film Across 110th Street / If You Don't Want My Love (instrumental) / UA / 1972

set 3
Wendy Rene / Gone for Good / Stax / 1964-65 / background vocals = The Drapels
Barbara Lewis / Think a Little Sugar / Chess / 1962 / background vocals = The Dells / because she sings, "don't want to hear no radio, don't want to hear no jazz..."
The Impressions / Greatest Hits / Grow Closer Together / ABC-Paramount / 1963
Aretha Franklin / Runnin' Out of Fools / I Can't Wait to See My Baby's Face / Columbia / 1964
Leroy & Junior / Break Up to Make Up / Treasure Isle / 1974
Gorgeous George (Odell) / You Can't Stop a Woman / Peachtree Records / late 70s?
Jackie De Shannon / New Image / I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do / Imperial LP / 1967

bed 4
The Cha Cha Rythm [sic] Boys / Cha Cha for Two / Fiesta 45 (flip is Lisbon Antigua (Cha Cha Cha)) / unknown date

set 4
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / Mowest / 1972
Leroy Hutson / Feel the Spirit / Lovers Holiday / Curtom / 1976
Ecstasy, Passion & Pain / I Wouldn't Give You Up / Roulette 45 (flip is Don't Burn Your Bridges Behind You / 1974
Jerry Butler / Offering the Spice of Life / One Night Affair / Mercury / 1972

bed 5
Billy Preston / soundtrack to film Fastbreak / Books and Basketball (Montage) / Motown / 1979

set 5
The Uniques / Not Too Long Ago / Paula 45 (flip is Fast Way of Living) / 1965
The String-a-Longs / Am I Asking Too Much / Warwick 45 (flip is Wheels) / 1960
Betty Everett / You're No Good / Hands Off / Vee-Jay LP / 1964
Barbara George / You Talk About Love / AFO 45 (flip is Whip O Will) / 1962
The Gees / It's All Over / Benell (?) / 1966
Eddie Holman / It's All in the Game / ABC 45 (flip is Hey There Lonely Girl) / 1969

bed 6
Curtis Mayfield / soundtrack to film Claudine / Claudine Theme / Buddah Records / 1974

set 6
The Five Stairsteps / Come Back / Windy C / 1966
The Toys / Try to Get You Out of My Heart / Musicor / 1968?
Buffalo Springfield / Buffalo Springfield / Flying On the Ground is Wrong / Atco / 1966
Soul Generation / Ray of Hope / Ebony Sounds Records 45 (flip is Young Bird) / 1972
Earl Gains / Don't Take My Kindness for a Weakness / HBR 45 (flip is I Have Loved and I Have Lived) / 1966
Little Milton / Friend of Mine / Glades 45 (flip is the instrumental version) / 1976
Brenton Wood / Lovey Dovey Kinda Lovin' / Double Shot / 1968

last song
Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Bright Lights and You, Girl / Mercury / 1970

Thanks to Alex for inviting me back into the L&F chair. It's been a few years since I last did it; and it felt groovy.

Hey, heeeyyy, gonna be a playlist...

Well, tomorrow, I'll be deejaying the 12 noon show, Lost & Found. Noon to 2, babycakes. Please join me; we'll have a blast and a half.

In the meanytimey, here's today's playlisty:


Coffeetime, August 25, 2005

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

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / One Second, Please / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Horace Silver / 6 Pieces of Silver / Enchantment / Blue Note / 11.10.56
Joe Thomas Big Six / Riff Street / HRS / 2.15.46
Claude Hopkins & his Orch / Who? / 9.19.34 / vocal = Orlando Robertson
Gene Krupa's Swing Band / Mutiny in the Parlor / Victor / Chicago 2.29.36 / vocal = Helen Ward
The Crickets / Fine as Wine / Jay-Dee / 4.24.53
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Love is a One Way Street / Bethlehem / 1955

set 2
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / If Someone Had Told Me / Cadet / 4.66
Bobby Timmons / In Person / Goodbye / Riverside / live at Village Vanguard 10.1.61
Harry "Sweets" Edison, et al / Sweet Lorraine / Clef / LA summer 43 or 44 / I announced this as Lester Young on Norgran on air, more proof that I'm just a moron
Django Reinhardt / Ou Es-Tu Mon Amour? / Victor / Rome 1, 2.49
The Ink Spots / My Prayer / Decca / 9.19.39
Lionel Hampton & his Orch / I'd be Lost without You / Bluebird / Hollywood 5.10.40 / vocal = Helen Forrest
The Heartbreakers / Rockin' Daddy-O / RCA / 3.25.52

set 3
Charles Earland / Black Talk! / The Mighty Burner / Prestige / 12.15.69 / happy birthday, Virgil Jones
Illinois Jacquet Big Band / The Soul Explosion / The Soul Explosion / Prestige / 3.25.69
Willie "Blip" Thompkins / Everything's Been Done Before / Aristocrat? / Houston late 40s / vocal = Percy Henderson
The Dinning Sisters / Fun and Fancy Free / Capitol / 1947 / also sung in Disney's animated feature of the same name
Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped by to Say Hello /I Just Dropped by to Say Hello / Impulse / 10.9, 17.63

set 4
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It! / My Heart Stood Still / Contemporary / LA 1961
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Out of Somewhere / Contemporary / LA 7.22.52
Johnny Otis & his Orch / Good Ole Blues / Modern / LA 8.49
Peggy Lee, Dave Barbour, & Woody Herman / The Lady from 29 Palms / radio transcription from "The Electric Hour" (?) / LA 7.27.47
Lula Reed / Sample Man / King / Cincinnati 8.21.56
Aretha Franklin / Aretha / Who Needs You? / Columbia / 1961 / her secular debut
The Bailey Gospel Singers / Jesus is the Searchlight / Columbia/Okeh / 1.27.51
The Mello-Tones / Rough and Rocky Road / Columbia/Okeh / 10.50

last soul song
Archie Bell & the Drells / (There's Gonna be a) Showdown / Atlantic / 11.68

Aug 18, 2005 show online, toot-de-dee-doooo!

Ah, the clarion call of another episode of Coffeetime ready for downloading or streaming at the Coffeetime Archive.

Doggy days of summer, the air's so thick you gotta chew it, clothes won't dry on the line, mushrooms popping up all over the place. The sort of days when you use the chilled sweat on the side of a glass of iced whatever to cool your forehead. Ah.

Learning to love you is easy...

Coffeetime, August 18, 2005

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / Wake Up / Pacific Jazz / 2.11.57
Phil Woods, et al / Four Altos / Staggers / Prestige / 2.9.57
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / Memories of You / Decca / 40s (?) / featuring Sonny Dunham on trumpet
Whispering Jack Smith / Sunshine / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 3.2.28 / with Joe Brannelly on guitar, unknown band
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / Sweethearts on Parade / Decca / 5.1.40
King Porter / Charlie the Boogie Man / Imperial / LA 12.19(?).47 / vocal = ensemble
Inez Jones / Have You Met Inez Jones / Since I Fell for You / Riverside / Berkeley 3.27.57

set 2
Wynton Kelly / Piano Interpretations / Blue Note / 8.1.51 / celeste opening or just the high, high keys?
Clifford Brown /[bonus track on CD Memorial Album] / Brownie Eyes / with Gigi Gryce on both alto sax and flute / 6.9.53
Tiny Grimes & his Highlanders / That Old Black Magic / Atlantic / 12.29.47
Rico's Creole Band de la Coupole (sous la Direction de Moïses Simons) / Les Trois Coups (Los Tres Golpes) / Gramophone / Paris approx 11, 12.31
Dorothy Lamour / from Paramount film Moon Over Burma / Moon Over Burma / 1940
Johnny Otis & his Orch / It Ain't the Beauty / Savoy / 3.19.51 / vocal = George Washington
Mickey Rooney & Judy Garland / from the first episode of The Judy Garland Show on CBS / You're So Right for Me / 6.24.63 (aired on 12.8.63)

set 3
Stan Getz / Getz Á Go Go / Summertime / Verve / Café á Go Go, Greenwich Village 8.19.64
Charlie Parker / At Storyville / Now's the Time / transcript from WHDH broadcast / Storyville, Boston, 9.22.53 / announcer = John McLellan
King Cole Trio / Just Another Blues / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood approx 1944
The Rivals / Rival Blues / Apollo / 4.14-5.9.50
Bobby Parker / Blues Get Off My Shoulder / Vee-Jay / 1958

set 4
Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Prohibido / Impulse! / LA 3.2.66
Buddy Collette / Jazz Loves Paris /C'est Si Bon / Specialty / LA 1.24.58
Lou Preager & his Band / It Jumps Like Mad / Vocalion (?) / live recording at The Locarno Ballroom, Streatham, London 1940s
T.J. Fowler & his Band / Red Hot Blues / National / Detroit 1949 / vocal = ensemble
Irma Thomas / Hip Shaking Mama / live at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4.76 / with Tommy Ridgely's Band
Ricky Nelson / I Wanna be Loved / Imperial /LA 10.20.59
The Helen Robinson Youth Choir / Sit Down Children / Specialty / 7.15.59 / with Jeanette Robinson Jones on lead vocal

last soul song
The Dells / Learning to Love You Was Easy (It's So Hard Trying to Get Over You) / Cadet / 1974 / from single, but also appears on LP The Mighty Mighty Dells

Late Breaking News

I've been called up to do my dooty at jury duty tomorrow. ACK. So, luckily, Charlie Kohlhase of WMBR's fine fine Research & Development fame has kindly agreed to cover my ass and treat you to his stylings on Coffeetime. Should be a treat for everyone. Be gentle with him…

Drum roll, please: Aug 4 show is online!

Yes, indeedy: the August 4 episode of Coffeetime is now online at the Coffeetime Archive. Guaranteed to quench thirst better than a medium Del's (with a handful of pretzel rods on the side).

Ooooo, there's a lull in my playlist…

Coffeetime, August 4, 2005

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

set 1
Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Renita's Bounce / Candid / LA 9.27.60
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Bells and Horns / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61
Gigi Gryce Jazz Ensemble / La Rose Noire / Vogue /Paris 9.26.53
Carroll Gibbons & The Savoy Orpheans / On the Avenue – Part 2: This Year's Kisses, I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm, The Girl on the Police Gazette / Columbia / London 7.12.37 / vocal = George Melachrino (probable)
The Spirits of Rhythm / Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes (take 1) / Decca / 9.14.34
Dean Martin / Take Your Girlie to the Movies / transcription, probably from Martin & Lewis radio show / early 50s (?)
Martha Davis and Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Blue Turning Grey Over You / ABC-Paramount / 50s (?) / spouse = Calvin Ponder on bass & vocals

set 2
Oscar Pettiford / The Oscar Pettiford Orch in Hi-Fi / Deep Passion / ABC-Paramount! / 6.11.56 / song written, arranged, and featuring the great Lucky Thompson, who, sad to report, passed away over the weekend
Booker Little / Booker Little / The Grand Valse / Time / 4.13-15.60 / aka Booker's Waltz and Waltz of the Demons
Willie Smith, et al / The Jazz Scene: Willie Smith Sides / Tea for Two (alt take) / Norgran / Hollywood 11.47
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Variety Stomp / Bluebird / 4.27.27
Mildred Bailey / Georgia on My Mind / Bluebird / Chicago 11.24.31 / probably with sextet comprised of members of Paul Whiteman's Orch, led by Matty Malneck, vn; an NPR salute to Mildred Bailey and, in particular, this song
Mickey Rooney & Bill Lee / Manhattan / from soundtrack to MGM film, Words and Music / Hollywood 4.26, 9.24.48 / Bill Lee dubbing for Tom Drake; Roger Edens on piano

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough 'n' Tumble / Feeling Good / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It Could Happen to You / Riverside / 3.7, 4.10.57
Bobby Smith & Orch / Jazz at the Apollo / Tippin' In / Apollo / 5.16.50
Pauline & her Perils (aka The Six Hits & a Miss) / I Can't Get Started / Standard transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio; solo by Pauline Byrns
The Cats & the Fiddle / Killer Diller Man from the South / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Mabel Scott / Fine, Fine Baby / King / 3.25.50 / with, among others, Milt Buckner
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Isn't this a Lovely Day / Verve / 1.11, 3.19.57

set 4
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis Sextet / Jazz Goes to Siwash / Mode/ Hollywood 6.57 / with the Eva Diana cover painting
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Quintet / Lover Come Back to Me / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 / also with the Eva Diana cover painting
Boots & his Buddies / The Goo / Bluebird / San Antonio 9.17.37
Johnny Moore's Blazers / Freeway Comin' Thru / Aladdin (?) / Hollywood 1950 (51?) / vocal = Lex Nelson
Anita O'Day / Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day / There's a Lull in my Life / Verve / LA 12.19.56 / with Buddy Bregman's Orch
Sensational Saints of Ohio / Come On / Jobete / 12.60

last soul song
The Sapphires / Gonna Be a Big Thing / ABC-Paramount / 1965

May I Present: This Week's Show

The July 28th show is now up on the Coffeetime Archive.

Doing okay? Feeling good? Look up at this summer sky: the blue and the wispy clouds are lovely…

The Picture Was You (& Me)

Coffeetime, July 28, 2005

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Jazz Poet / Alfa / 1.17, 19.89

set 1
Hank Mobley / [released in 1985 as Another Workout ] / Gettin' and Jettin' / Blue Note / 12.5.61
Sonny Clark / Leapin' and Lopin' / Melody for C [cd alternate track] / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Wilbert Baranco & his Rhythm Bombardiers / Weeping Willie / Black & White / LA 1.46
Blue Barron & his O / Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider / Bluebird / c. 1941 / vocal = Three Blue Notes
Wynonie "Blues" Harris / Papa Tree Top / Apollo / LA 12.45 / with Johnnie Alston & his All Stars
Annie Ross / Everytime / Dee Gee (and Regent) / 4.1.52

set 2
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / If Someone Had Told Me / Blue Note / 7.14.56
Flip Phillips & his O / Swinging with Flip Phillips & his O / Someone to Watch Over Me / Clef / 3.21.52
Milt Bernhardt / Modern Brass / What is There to Say / RCA / 3.4.55
The Boswell Sisters / Heebie Jeebies / Okeh / LA 10.3.30
Dick Haymes / I Still Get a Thrill / radio transcription AFRS #333 / LA 10.9.50 / with Hal Kemp & his O
T-Bone Walker / She's the No Sleepin'est Woman / Black & White / LA 12.18.47
The Falcons / Come on Home / Vee-Jay / Chicago 9.26.57 / with Al Smith's Orch

set 3
Max Roach / Award-Winning Drummer / Sadiga / Time / 11.25.59
Miles Davis / soundtrack to Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud / Nuit sur les Champs-Élyssées (take 4) / Paris 12.4, 5.57
Red Callender Trio / Be Happy Pappy / Black & White / LA 6.46
Mildred Bailey / That Ain't Right / radio transcription WNEW's Saturday Night Swing Session / 3.1.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio, intro patter with emcee Bob Bach
Walter Jackson / Funny (Not Much ) / Okeh / Chicago 1966

set 4
Art Pepper / Cool Bunny / Aladdin / LA 1.14.57
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midgets / Scooter / RCA / 1956
Georgie Auld / Manhattan with Strings / Harlem Nocturne / UA / 1959 / with Don Costa & his O
Paul Gayten / For You My Love / Regal / 1949 (?) / a hit for Larry Darnell
Barbara Stanwyck / soundtrack to Lady of Burlesque (aka The G String Murders) / Take it Off the E String (Play it on the G String) / 1943 / with sassy dialogue with co-star Michael O'Shea
Sammy Davis Jr. / I've Gotta Be Me / Somebody / Reprise / LA 2.7.67 or 3.4.68
Highway QC's / Walk with Me / Vee-Jay / 1962

last soul song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / The Picture Was You / Studio One / Kingston, Jamaica 1969

Salute to John Hermansader

Sad to report that one of Blue Note's first great cover designers/artists, John Hermansader, recently passed away. I was honored to be interviewed by writer Bob Miller for a July 17 tribute article, The Art of Jazz in the Danbury News Times. Unfortunately, this article has already been archived by the NewsTimes and one has to pay at least $3.49 in order to read it. If you opt out of that, you can take a look at some of Hermansader's wonderfully modern and expressionistic covers on this page at Vintage Vanguard, (which is where I got the image above). Hermansader preceded the better known Reid Miles and, although Miles did make the "Blue Note look" we all can recognize and nicely highlighted Francis Wolff's photos, it's safe to say that Hermansader, who was the jazz fan and aficionado that Miles wasn't, was more successful, by combining both abstracted marks and photographs, at creating a visual jazz.

On the Vintage Vanguard page I've linked here, you can also see his work in BN 5021-5024, 5028-5032, 5037-9, 5041-2, 5045, in addition to those on this page and a few others. (If you click on them, you can sometimes pick out his name along the side of the larger images that opens up in a new window.) These are all 10" records. The other great designer/artist represented on this page is Paul Bacon, and it's not always easy to distinguish who did which without a credit somewhere on the cover.

In any case, hats off to John Hermansader: his early designwork on jazz album covers surely influenced many of those that came after him and helped set jazz apart as the single genre best represented by its distinctive packaging. No other music form has ever had such a cohesively fertile visual component as 1940s-60s jazz.

All hail Mr. Francis

Thanks so much to Mark Francis of alternating Monday Lost & Found fame for filling in for me this past Thursday on Coffeetime. I just finished listening to the show from the archive. (Don't forget you can listen to all the shows on WMBR for up to two weeks after they air, anytime that's convenient for you.) It was a really fab show; don't miss it.

He's put up the playlist and some nifty images on his nifty blog.

Sorry I haven't posted sooner; a biz trip to NYC in the high broil days of late July, full moon and all, was far more exhausting than I ever imagined. I was there to cover (Jimmy Olson style) TypeCon, a conference about type and type design.

Soup's on!

That is to say, the July 14th Coffeetime is now up on the archive. Because a bowl of hot soup is not really a great summertime image!

On the other handyman, though, this soup is always a welcome tasty. [Erm, scroll down on this page to see my disclaimer…]

Day Old Playlist: still yummy

Coffeetime, July 14, 2005

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

set 1
Thad Jones / Detroit-New York Junction / Zec / Blue Note / 3.13.56
Conte Candoli / Fine & Dandy / Night Flight / Bethlehem / LA 11.29.54
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Taps Miller / Musicraft / 5.22.44
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orch / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
The Basin Street Boys / Josephine / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson on tenor, no doubt
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) / Verve / 1.57

set 2
Sonny Rollins / Work Time / There Are Such Things / Prestige / 12.2.55
Jack McVea & his All Stars / O-Kay for Baby / Black & White (?) / LA 1945
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Shufflin' Sade / Bluebird / 3.11.27
Sol Hoopii & his Novelty Trio / Hawaii Nei / Columbia / LA 4.16.28
Frances Langford / Young and Healthy / transcription of NBC radio show (?) / 1935 / introduction = Lum and Abner
Yves Montand / En Balade / Battling Joe / Columbia / early 60s (?)

set 3
Willie Bobo / A New Dimension / Grazing in the Grass / Verve / 12.23.68
Al Caiola & his Orch / Guitars, Woodwinds, and Bongos / Gypsy in My Soul / UA / LA 60s (?) / Ultra Audio Wall to Wall Stereo series
Kai Winding / Trombone by Three / A Night on Bop Mountain / Prestige / 8.23.49
Fats Waller & his Orch / Skrontch / Victor / 4.12.38
Anita O'Day / Memories of You / Capitol / LA 1.18.45
Sam Cooke / Nothing Can Change This Love / RCA / Hollywood 8.23.62 / orchestra conducted by Rene Hall; check out the Songs of Sam Cooke website

set 4
Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan / Two of a Mind / The Way You Look Tonight / RCA / 8.13.62
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / Really Blue / Victor / 10.7.30
The Maxim Trio / Ain't That Fine / Downbeat / LA 1949
Paul Revere & the Raiders / Have Love, Will Travel / Columbia / 1964
Esther Phillips / Burnin' (Live at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper) / Don't Let Me Lose This Dream / Atlantic / LA 1970
Golden Gate Quartet / On a Mornin', Take Your Time MIss Lucy, and Oh, Noah / radio transcription, Groves Show / early 40s

last soul song
Carolyn Montgomery / Gonna Make a Change / Jewel / late 60s

It's Here! This week's show, that is…

The July 7th show is now up on the Coffeetime archive.

Are you doing okay and feeling good? How about keeping cool?

Wake Up & Dream

I was sad to read today in the NY Times online (you need to register to read it) that June Haver passed away. She sang "Give Me the Simple Life" so beautifully in one of my favorite (in the sweet category) movies, Wake Up and Dream. (Love John Ireland and John Payne {and Clem Bevans!} in that movie too.) I wish I could buy a copy, but it's not out on DVD yet, that I know. If it comes on TV, be sure to catch it.

Diary of a July 7th Show

Coffeetime, July 7, 2005

bed
Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Prestige / 10.9.62

set 1
Curtis Fuller / Sliding Easy [Mosaic Box of Complete UA] / CTA / UA [Mosaic] / 3.9.59 / arr. by Gigi Gryce
Herbie Mann / Just Wailin’ / Minor Groove / New Jazz / 2.14.58
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / Sir Walter’s Serenade / radio transcription / 1940-42
Ben Selvin & his Orch / Little Mary Brown / Okeh / 10.8.31 / vocal = The Wallace Trio
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Decca / 4.2.36 / vocal = Pha Terrell
Lewis Bronzeville Five / Oh! Mabel! Oh! / Bluebird / Chicago 5.9.40
Buddy Clark / Just One More Chance / Columbia / 12.26.47

set 2
McCoy Tyner / Today and Tomorrow / When Sunny Gets Blue / Impulse / 6.4.63
Lucky Thompson / & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Kansas City Five / Good Mornin’ Blues / Commodore / 3.18.38
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Stampede / Vocalion / 3.22.37
Ethel Waters / (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue / Columbia / 4.1.30
Betty Grable / Fidgety Joe / radio transcription / 1939 / introduced by Don Wilson
Amos Milburn & his Chickenshackers / One, Two, Three, Everybody / Aladdin / LA 6.23.54
Irene Reid / soundtrack to MGM film Once a Thief / Once a Thief / Verve /4, 5.65 / a Lalo Schifrin sdtrack

set 3
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, volume 5 / How Deep Are the Roots / Contemporary / San Francisco 9.23.59
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / LA Hop / Specialty / Hollywood 12.27.47
The Rhythmakers / I Would Do Anything for You / Melotone / 7.26.32
Peggy Lee / When a Man Loves a Woman / Capitol / LA 4.4, 8.49
The 3 Riffs / Driftin / Apollo / 5.9.50

set 4
Cal Tjader / Plays Harold Arlen / Over the Rainbow / Fantasy / summer 1960 / arr. by Clare Fischer
Cy Touff / Cy Touff, his Octet & Quintet / Groover Wailin’ / Pacific Jazz / LA 12.4.55
Nick Travis / The Panic Is On / They All Laughed / RCA / LA 1954
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Got to Go When the Wagon Comes / Decca / 3.13.40 / vocal = Daisy Winchester
The Platters / Dance with Me Henry / live on The Ed Sullivan Show / 8.12.56
Dinah Washington / Dinah! / Look to the Rainbow / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55
The Hightower Brothers / Jesus Will Fix It / Nashboro / 1963

last soul song
The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / You Make Me So Mad / Buddah / Chicago 1968 / featuring James III on lead