March 31 playlist

Coffeetime, March 31, 2005

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville

set 1
Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Everywhere / Blue Note / 03.03.57
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / EmArcy / Bus Bier / 9.3, 8.55
The Capitol Jazzmen / Clambake in B Flat / MacGregor transcriptons / Hollywood 11.16.43
Dick Todd / Lazy River / Bluebird / 8.17.39
Marl Young & his O / Sail On Boogie / Rhumboogie / Chicago possibly May 1945 / featuring T-Bone Walker vocal & guitar (naturally) { }
Helen Humes / Songs I Like to Sing the Most / Every Now and Then / Contemporary / 9.8.60

set 2
Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Over the Rainbow / Candid / 9.27.60
Jimmy Jones Big Four / Weeta / HRS / fall 1946
The Savoy Orpheans / Hang on to Me / Savoy Hotel, London {Hayes, Middlesex} 3.19.26
Red Norvo & his O / Polly Wolly Doodle / 1.6.36 / voc = trio from the band, most likely including Stew Pletcher who also was on trumpet
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / I’m Fer It / spring 1946
Bobby Darin / Beyond the Sea / live in LA 3.11.73 / mucho ad libs; you can see the video of the first half (the song half) here

set 3
Lester Young & Roy Eldridge/ The Jazz Giants / Gigantic Blues / Verve / 1.12.56
Crystal Spring Ramblers / Fort Worth Stomp / Dallas 6.19.37
Ivory Joe Hunter / Jumping at the Dew Drop / San Francisco 1947
Barbara Long / The Trolley Song / Savoy / 1.5.61 / with Booker Ervin on tenor

set 4
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Pee Jay / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56
Rube Bloom / Soliloquy / Harmony / 3.21.26
Jack Hylton & his O / Oh, Lady Be Good / Vocalion? / 3.29.26
Otis Rush / Keep On Loving Me Baby / Cobra / 1956-58
Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell / soundtrack to film “Gentleman Prefer Blondes” / Bye Bye Baby / 1953
Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / transcription / between July 1 and December 31, 1941

last soul song
José Feliciano / And the Feeling’s Good / Golden Lady / RCA / 1974

March 24th show is now online!

Happy Easter. I hope you got that chocolate bunny you were hoping for. I loved the little baskets w/ that cellophane “grass” when I was a kid. I loved the promise of speckled candy eggs, jelly beans (the real old fashioned kind that had a much fresher sweetness than the modern sort), the eggs we'd colored ourselves the night before, and our brand new white ankle socks. We'd open a pack before dawn, when it was still dark out, getting ready for sunrise services. It hurt, getting up out of a warm bed that early, but it did make the multi-colored sugary day to come that much sweeter. Ankle socks, patent leather mary janes, navy coats with peter pan collars, little hats that gripped our heads, white gloves, and pretty dresses in pastel colors (mine, usually blue) with poofy petticoats underneath so the skirts stuck straight out at 45 degree angles.

SOoooo, check the Coffeetime Archive for the mp3's of the show. And, also, for those who dig this sort of thing, I've added an Atom link (It's at the bottom of the righthand sidebar). I can use it w/ the built in RSS subscribing in Firefox for the Mac. Let me know what you think, if you use it, that is.

March 24 playlist -- lickety-split, baby!

Coffeetime, March 24, 2005

bed
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / Prestige / 8.17.56

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / The Shadow of Khan / New Jazz / 3.13.62
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Soul Finger / Freedom Monday / Limelight / 5.12-13.65
Count Basie & His O / Basie in London / Flute Juice / Sweden 9.7.56
Isham Jones & his O / What’s the Use / Brunswick / 1930 / voc = Frank Sylvano
The Mills Brothers / soundtrack to Broadway Gondolier / Lulu’s Back in Town / LA early 1935
Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington & his O / Blue Rose / Hey Baby
/ Columbia / RC: LA 2.8, 11.56; DE & O: NYC 1.23, 27.56

set 2
Thad Jones / Olio / Embraceable You / Prestige / 2.16.57
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly Piano / Strong Man / Riverside / 1.31.58
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Swingtime in the Rockies / transcription / live Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1.29-2.6.37
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress / Feeling My Way / Okeh? / 1932
Theo Uden Masman & The Ramblers / Liedje van Hawaii / HMV? / 1945 / voc = Marcel Thielmanns & ensemble
Wynonie Harris / Down Boy Down / King / 9.11.53
Jo Ann Greer [dubbing for Rita Hayworth, who does the spoken intro] / soundtrack to Pal Joey / Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered / Capitol / 1957 {tip of the blog to this article on dubbing for the info on Rita & Jo Ann}

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Travelin’ / Verve / 1.16, 25, 29.63
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / Star Eyes / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Wardell Gray / Bright Boy / Prestige / LA 1.21.52
King Cole Trio / Rhythm Serenade / Standard transcription / 6.39
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / You Ain’t Got it No More / Capitol / 4.49
Artie Simms / Call the Police / Apollo / 10.46
Dean Martin / Dream With Dean / Fools Rush In / Reprise / 8.4.64

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Louisiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Shelly Manne & His Men / Vol. 1 / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Contemporary / LA 9.13.55
Gene Krupa & his O / I Take to You / Okeh / 4.11.41 / voc = Anita O’Day
Chuck Jackson / They Don’t Give Medals (to Yesterday’s Heroes) / Sceptor-Wand / early 60s
Barry Sisters / At Home with the Barry Sisters / Eishes-Chiyell / Roulette / 1959 / with Abe Ellstein & his O
The Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama / Marching Up to Zion / Specialty /11.19.53 / RIP George Scott 03.09.05

last soul song
Willie Hutch / soundtrack to the film The Mack / Slick / Motown / 1973

One more fixed link!

Yikes, I guess I've been out o' it. I have now fixed the link to the hi-bandwidth version of last week's show. Guess no one really cared, boo hoo. Although, Eric in Arlington (a sharp-eyed part of metro Boston, I must say!) was the one who alerted me to it.

Also noticing, as I type this, that Firefox on OS X is very hinky for wwriting posts. EEEEEEks -- this is typing mayhem!

I love me some Firefox, but I guess I'll have to Safari thhesee babeeeez from hereon in.

whoo heeee, does htis post look like garbaaaaaage. (but you get the gist o' it, riiight????)

Whee! Titles to the posts

Um, now my posts have titles. Not sure how this will affect things, but why not?

Also, I'm now hating these colors…makeover must happen soon.

Ooopsies: the link to the archive in the previous post was wrong (the code, that is). I have fixed it. It now takes you to coffeetimearchive.org (ORG, Angelynn!), which, maybe, perhaps, possibly, is where you wanna go?

Thx to eagle eye Eric for alerting me to the bum link!

March 17 show is now up on the Archive.

:-)

March 17 playlist, baby. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Coffeetime, March 17, 2005

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

set 1
Sam Jones / The Chant / Four / Riverside /1.13, 26.61
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / All or Nothing at All / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Hot Lips Page & his O / Skull Duggery / Victor? / 4.27.38
Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines / Weather Bird / Okeh / Chicago 5.5.28
The Savoy Orpheans / Someone to Watch Over Me / Savoy Hotel, London {Hayes, Middlesex} 8.12.27 / voc = The Hamilton Sisters & Fordyce, with Carroll Gibbons on piano {we love Carroll Gibbons}
Basin Street Boys / Ain’t Got No Loot / Exclusive / LA 1947 / perhaps Lucky Thompson & his O {we love Lucky Thompson}
Helen Humes / You Played on My Piano / LA 1.14.52 / with Gerald Wiggins O
Bing Crosby / Shillelaghs and Shamrocks / The Donovans / Decca / 1956 / with Jeff Alexander Chorus and Victor Young O

set 2
Bill Evans / Danny Boy / Riverside / 4.10.62
The Woody Herman Herd / I’ll Never Be the Same / Capitol / early 50s
Adrian Rollini & his Tap Room Gang / Jazz-O’ Jazz / RCA / 6.14.35 / voc = Jeanne Burns with spoken intro by Putney Dandridge and Adrian Rollini
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Sing, Sing, Sing / Pathé Marconi / Paris 10.15.36 / voc = ensemble
Doris Day / film soundtrack “Love Me or Leave Me” / Everybody Loves My Baby / Columbia / 1955
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Hoje quem paga sou Eu / RCA / 50s, 60s? {the LP is clearly from the late 60s/early 70s}

set 3
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Roulette / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Frank Foster Quartet / Fat Shoes / Vogue / Paris 4.4.54
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Rhythm Cocktail / Juke Box / 12.22.45
King Cole Trio / Don’t Cry, Cry Baby / live Hollywood 1944 / voc = Nat King Cole
Artie Shaw & his O / Ghost of a Chance / Musicraft / Hollywood 11.16.45 / voc = Hal Stevens
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Reminiscing / Prestige / 3.2 - 6.8.56

set 4
Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca / Tenors Head On / Just Friends / Pacific Jazz / 10.29.56
Lee Konitz & The Gerry Mulligan Quartet / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Sextet / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood late 1.52
Edgar Blanchard & the Gondoliers / Bopsody in Blue / Ric / New Orleans spring 1959
Will Bradley-Ray McKinley O / Love Me a Little Little / Columbia / 1941 / voc = Lynn Gardner
Mercy Baby [Jimmy Mullens] / Country Baby [Don’t Lie to Me] / Ric / New Orleans 1957 / {I know, I know, two Rics almost in a row…}
Peggy Lee / Raindrops / Let’s Get Lost in Now / Capitol / May 1971 / {I have an LP copy that was made issued by Creative Products as a promo for some drug; on the back it reads: “Placidyl…when sleep is a part of the therapy”}
The Stars of Virginia / All These Things to Me / Chalice / Memphis c. 1965

last soul song
The Rude Boys aka The Wailing Wailers aka Bob Marley & the Wailers / I'm Still Waiting / Studio One / 1964 / accompanied by The Soul Brothers

I changed the look of the blog again. Ha ha. Must be spring!

What this blog really needs are pictures. I'll get working on that.

The March 10 show with Bob as guest deejay is now available to stream at the Coffeetime Archive.

The playlist for Bob’s guest turn on Coffeetime this year can be found in PDF form here.

I’m having some troubles uploading the mp3’s to the archive, but I’ll keep trying and let you know when we have lift off.

Thanks once more to Bob for his generous support of Coffetime and WMBR, and for his sweet spins when he sits behind the controls.

Big thanks to Bob Biletch who was the guest deejay on Coffeetime yesterday. Bob is a friend as well as a supporter of Coffeetime and WMBR; he’s contributed generously to our fundraiser for 6 years now. He’s always my top pledger. But he’s also a great guy and we always have a good time when he stops by. And I know Coffeetime listeners enjoy the mix he brings to the show.

I’ll post his playlist sometime this weekend, as well as put up the mp3’s on the Coffeetime Archive.

This week’s show is now up on the Coffeetime Archive.

Do you like the new look? A gal likes to try on new clothes now and then!

It’s okay, but I’ll probably fiddle with the code a bit over the next few weeks.

Playlist: Coffeetime, March 3, 2005

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville 9 / 5.18.60

set 1
Mal Waldron / Impressions / With a Song in My Heart / New Jazz / 3.20.59
Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Filidé / Riverside / 9.4.58
Mound City Blue Blowers / If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight / Victor / 11.14.29
Noel Coward / We Were Dancing / HMV / London 2.13.36 / with the Phoenix Theatre Orch
Camille Howard / I Ain’t Got the Spirit / Specialty / 8.2.50
Betty Roché / Singin’ & Swingin’ / When I Fall in Love / Prestige / 6.3.60

set 2
Kenny Burrell / [Introducing Kenny Burrell, Blue Note 1523] / But Not for Me / Blue Note / 5.29.56 / not included on original album
Jimmy Forrest / Soul Street / That’s All / New Jazz / 9.1.61
Django Reinhardt et La Quintette du Hot Club de France / La Mer (Beyond the Sea) / RCA / Rome 1.49-2.49
King Cole Trio / With Plenty of Money and You / Standard transcription / 10.38
California Ramblers / ’Cause I Feel Lowdown / Columbia ? / 8.30.28 / voc = Ed Kirkeby
Lucky Millinder & his O / The Spider & the Fly / 4.11.47 / voc = Annisteen Allen & the ensemble
Sammy Davis Jr / Sammy (The Original Television Soundtrack) / Get It On / MGM / 1973 / plus narration over I Gotta Be Me

set 3
Boogaloo Joe Jones / Right On Brother / Brown Bag / Prestige / 2.16.70
Jo Jones / The Jo Jones Special / Caravan / Vanguard / 1955
Joe Thomas & his O / Tearing Hair / King / 5.21.49
The Caresser / Edward the VIII / 2.16.37 / with Gerald Clark & his Caribbean Serenaders
Geraldo & his O / South American Way / Columbia ? / London mid 40s / voc = Dorothy Carless
Billie Holiday / God Bless the Child / Decca / 3.8.50 / orch & chorus arranged, conducted by Gordon Jenkins

set 4
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Sweet Georgia Brown / World Pacific / 11.29.56
Art Farmer / Art Farmer Septet Plays the Arrangements and Compositions of Gigi Gryce and Quincy Jones (whew!) / Elephant Walk / Prestige / 6.7.54
Red Norvo & his O / Decca Stomp / Decca / 1.8.36
Marshall Royal Orch / He May Be Yours / Discovery / 5.9.50 / voc = Helen Humes
Tommy Ridgely / Jam Up Twist / Atlantic / 1954
Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / The Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / Liberty / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Pure Religion / Bluebird / Charlotte 1.24.38

last soul song
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson / It’s Your World / It’s Your World / Arista / 1976

Show mp3 to be appearing on the archive soon.