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Thursday, April 06, 2006
I Feel the Playlist!
Coffeetime, April 6, 2006
bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love
set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / Hub's Nub / Blue Note / 6.19.60
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Speak Low / Impulse! / 1.11.62
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Jada / Bluebird / 4.15.36
Sophie Tucker / He's Tall, Dark and Handsome / Okeh / London 6.15.28 / with Ted Shapiro on piano
Bob Range / I Can't Sleep / Apollo / 9.13.49
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings Duke Ellington / Love You Madly / Verve / LA 10.17.57
set 2
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / Flamingo / Blue Note / 2.25.58
Les Paul Trio / All of Me / V-Disc / mid 1940s
Charlie Shavers Quintet / Broadjump / Vogue / 1945
Red Nichols & his Kellogg Promenade / Let Me Be Born Again / radio transcription / 1935 / vocal = James Melton
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me / Columbia / 12.04.50 / with Frank Comstock & Orch
La Verne Ray / Rock on the Bop / Jubilee / 2.1.50 / with the Rene Hall Sextet
Stella Johnson / Yeah Baby / KRC [Kent Records Corp] / 1.20.58
set 3
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / It Might As Well Be Spring / Jubilee / LA 1958
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / LA Hop / Specialty / 12.27.47
The Ink Spots / Swing, Gate, Swing / Brunswick / 1.4.35
Tom Jones / Sings She's a Lady / Ebb Tide (The Sea) / Parrot / London 1971
set 4
King Cole Trio / [Mosaic box of Complete Capitol King Cole Trio] / Where or When / Capitol / live at The Sands, Las Vegas 6.14.60
Herb Pomeroy Orch / Life Is a Many Splendored Gig / No One Will Room With Me / Roulette / 6.3, 4.57
Casa Loma Orch / San Sue Strut / Okeh / 2.11.30
Carole Carr / Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief / radio transcription / London (?) 9.11.45 / with Geraldo & his Orch
The Modernaires / Dig-Dig-Dig for Your Dinner / Columbia / 6.14.50 / with Les Brown & his Band of Renown
Steve Gibson's Red Caps / Nuff of That Stuff / RCA / 12.17.45
Laura Lee / It's How You Make It Good / Chess / Chicago 1968
The Radio Four / I Feel the Spirit / Nashboro / Nashville 4.58
last (not really soulful, except that it touched my soul when I was a very little girl) song
Gene Pitney / Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen / Half Heaven - Half Heartache / Musicor / single recorded in 1962, LP came out in 1964 (and belonged to my big sister)