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?