Thursday, December 29, 2005

The Windmills of You're Mine

This show is now online at the Archive:

Coffeetime, December 29, 2005

bed

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

Friday, December 23, 2005

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.

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Merry Christmas, Baby!

Coffeetime, December 22, 2005

bed

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

Thursday, December 15, 2005

A Serenade to an Old Fashioned Playlist

Coffeetime, December 15, 2005

bed
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?

Thursday, December 08, 2005

I'm Just a Vagabond Playlist

Coffeetime, December 8, 2005

bed

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!]

Thursday, December 01, 2005

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

bed
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