Thursday, April 21, 2005

Didja miss me?

I’m back “and better than evah,” baby. Here’s the playlist for today’s show:

Coffeetime, April 21, 2005

bed

Red Garland Trio / Moodsville volume 1 / Prestige / 12.11.59

set 1
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Miss Hazel / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Clarion Call / Blue Note / 3.31.59
Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble / Battle of the Saxes / Keynote / 5.24.44
Whispering Jack Smith / The Song is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1.10.28
Dinah Washington / A Slick Chick (On the Mellow Side) / Mercury / 8.77.46 / with Tab Smith & his Orch
Toni Harper / Lady Lonely / I Love the Blues / RCA / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
Hank Mobley / The Turnaround / My Sin / Blue Note / 2.4.65
Howard McGhee / That Bop Thing / You’re Teasing Me / Bethlehem / 10.22.55
Howard McGhee’s Korean All Stars / Jazz: South Pacific / Man with the Horn / Hi-Lo / Guam 1.17.52 / discography of Skeeter Best
John Kirby & his Orch / Bugler’s Dilemma / Victor / 1.25.41
The Five Breezes / Return, Gal O’ Mine / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40 / some info at the excellent Vocal Group Harmony Website
Seymour Rechtzeit & Sam Medoff / Surrey mit a Fringe Afn Top with Oy, S’Iz a Sheyne Fremorgn / radio transcription WEVD / 1948 / from the excellent CD, “Music from the Yiddish Radio Project”
Ann Cole / I’ve Got a Little Boy / Baton / 2.57 / with The Surburbans

set 3
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Exotique / Blue Note / 8.77.64
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Musa’s Vision / Blue Note / 12.27.47
Savannah Churchill / The Things You Do to Me / Columbia / fall 1948 / with The Four Tunes
Mabel Scott / Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train / Coral / 5.22.51
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / The Grape Vine / Federal? / 6.28, 29.51 / vocal = Melvin Moore & the Millinderites
Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / It’s Easy to Remember / Capitol / 1957

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Sad Sack / Contemporary / LA 12.3.54
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / GNP / I Can’t Get Started / LA 6.27.56
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / Everyone But Me / Bluebird / Hollywood? 1942 / vocal = Harriet Hilliard
Little Milton / Friend of Mine / Glades 45 / 1976
Sammy Davis Jr / When the Feeling Hits You! / When the Feeling Hits You / Reprise / Hollywood 4.30.64 / with Sam Butera & the Witnesses, “Recorded Wild in Las Vegas”
Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Lord I’ve Tried / Columbia / 12.49

last soul song
Major Lance / Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um / Gypsy Woman / Okeh / 1964 / with The Impressions on back up; subtitled “The Great Songs of Curtis Mayfield” {I played off of my original mono LP, a recent, “vacation,” used record store find, like many others in this week’s show.}