Thursday, January 05, 2006

Sweet Happy Playlist

Coffeetime, January 5, 2006

bed
Johnny Costa / Piano Solos / Coral / 1955

set 1
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, volume 1 / Poinciana / Contemporary / 9.22.59
Don Redman & his Orch / Down Home Rag / Bluebird / 12.6.38
Noel Coward / World Weary / HMV / Small Queen's Hall, London 9.11.29 / with Carroll Gibbons, piano
Kay Starr / Stormy Weather / Lamplighter / 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
Mel Tormé / Sings Fred Astaire / Top Hat, White Ties & Tails / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 2
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Jug's Blue Blues / Prestige / D.J. Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Sonny Criss / I'll Catch the Sun / I Thought About You / Prestige / 1.20.69
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith / Guitar Boogie / transcription / 1945
Jack Hylton & his Orch / Clap Yo' Hands / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 3.29.26
Mabel Scott / Give Me a Man / King? / LA 12.48
Melody Masters / Fox and the Crow / Apollo / 1948
Marlene Dietrich / An Evening with Marlene Dietrich / Allein in Einer Grossen Stadt / soundtrack from BBC TV show / New London Theatre, London 11.23-24.72 [CD says "Queen's Theatre, London 12.12.64"?]

set 3
Elmo Hope / Informal Jazz / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Prestige / 5.7.56
Emmett Berry Sextet / Minor Romp / Savoy / 1.8.48
Cleo Gibson & her Hot Three / I've Got Ford Movements in My Hips / Okeh / Atlanta 3.14.29
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47
Esther Williams / I Got Out of Bed on the Right Side / soundtrack to MGM film Dangerous When Wet / Hollywood 8.28.52 and 3.6.53 / with William Demarest, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Whiting, Donna Corcoran
Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald / Dream a Little Dream of Me / Decca / 8.25.50

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Samson and Delilah / Tampa / LA 1954
Pete Rugolo / Out on a Limb / Repetitious Riff / EmArcy / LA 10.29.56
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Just a Mood / Pathé Marconi / Studio de l'avenue de la Grande-Armée, Paris 1.19.36
Roy Brown / Good Man Blues / Deluxe / Cincinnati 6.15.50
Peggy Lee / Guitars a là Lee / Sweet Happy Life / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Dixie Hummingbirds / Dear Lord Look Down Upon Me / Gotham / 1949

last soul song
Jean Plum / I'm Gonna Stay / Hi / late 70s