A blog companion to the jazz show Coffeetime on WMBR, 88.1 fm in Cambridge, Mass (MIT's radio station). Listen to the show live at WMBR.org, Fridays 2–4 p.m., or to the two most recent shows on the WMBR Archive! This blog offers musings, playlists, favorite foods, and more!
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Monday, November 13, 2006
If I Had a Million Playlists
Coffeetime, November 10, 2006
Fundraising show
Coffeetime theme song playing out in full:
Carmen Mccrae / soundtrack to The Subeterraneans / Coffeetime / MGM / Hollywood 1960
set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
James Moody's Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.25.48
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
set 2
Sonny Stitt / Cool Mambo / Prestige / 3.25.52
Erskine Hawkins & his Orch / Raid the Joint / Bluebird / 4.8.39
The Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars / Brunswick / 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier's Orch
set 3
Lucky Thompson / With Gerard Pochonet & his Quartet / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orch
Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour / Why Don't You Do Right? / soundie off of YouTube / mid-1940s
Chubby Newsome / Where's the Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51
set 4
Little Milton / We're Gonna Make It / from The Beat TV show off of YouTube / 1966
set 5
Charioteers / Swing for Sale / radio transcription / 1942
The Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
set 6
Mae West / Put Off Until Tomorrow / 1935 / with Joseph Chernivasky Orch
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis / The Money Song / radio transcription / 1950s
Bull Moose Jackson & his Bearcats / We Can Talk Some Trash / 9.15 or 17.47 / members of Lucky Millinder's Orch
Bing Crosby / Buy Buy Bonds / soundtrack to film short All Star Bond Rally / 20th Century-Fox / Hollywood late 1944
set 7
The Ink Spots / With Plenty of Money and You / soundtrack to Gold-Diggers of 1937 / Hollywood 1937
set 8
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Man Wanted / Savoy / 1.2.46 / vocal = Etta Jones
The Velvetones / Reverse the Charges / Sonora / 1946
set 9
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shawnuff / Contemporary / 3.28.59
King Cole Trio / Give Me Twenty Nickels for a Dollar / King Cole Trio Time radio transcription / Chicago 3.1.47 / with Pearl Bailey intro
The Basin Street Boys / Ain't Got No Loot / Exclusive / Hollywood 1947
set 10
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / 1961
Swan Silvertones / Sinner Man / Vee-Jay / 1957 /
last soul song
The Emotions / Rejoice / Best of My Love / Columbia / 1977