Friday, November 18, 2005

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.

Thursday, November 17, 2005

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

Coffeetime, November 17, 2005

bed

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!]

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

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.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

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

Sunday, November 06, 2005

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)

Thursday, November 03, 2005

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.