Bewitched, Bothered, and Playlist

Coffeetime, December 29, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Horace Silver / 6 Pieces of Silver / Tippin' [CD bonus track] / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Bobby Timmons / This Here is Bobby Timmons / Lush Life / Riverside / 1.13-14.60
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / I'm Confessin' / Cadet / 4.66
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Down a Carolina Lane / Columbia / 2.15.33
Blue Barron & his Orch / Somebody Nobody Knows / Bluebird? / 1938 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
The Three Spades / Pan-Pan / Vocalion [unissued] / 1937
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Verve / LA 7.15-16.60

set 2
Ben Webster / Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve / 11.6.59
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It / One for My Baby / Contemporary / 1962
Tab Smith & his Orch / These Foolish Things / United / Chicago 4.18.52
Count Basie & his Orch / One O'Clock Jump and Jumping at Ten / radio transcription, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show 1945 / Hollywood 8.8.45 / with introduction by Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Ethel Merman / I Get a Kick Out of You / Brunswick / LA 12.4.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orch
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942
Little Milton / If You Love Me Baby / Sun [alt take] / Memphis 3.30.54

set 3
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Twice Around / Blue Note / 8.11.64
Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Once in Awhile / Mercury / 1960
Charlie Parker / Max Making Wax / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Deliver Me to Tennessee / Columbia / Chicago 4.2.42 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Four Blues (aka Golden Echo Quartet) / Missing You / Apollo / 4.10.50
Nat King Cole / Songs by Nat "King" Cole 7" EP / Pretend / Capitol / Hollywood 12.30.52 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Pick Yourself Up / Savoy / 3.52
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Aladdin / LA 12.28.56
Frank Sinatra / That Old Black Magic / radio transcription, Songs by Sinatra, CBS radio / 12.26.43
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Manha de Carnaval / Verve / 11.21.64 /
James Brown / Lost Someone / King / Cincinnati 2.9.61
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Deliver Me / Specialty / Hollywood 7.24.52

last soul song
Linda Jones / What Have I Done (to Make You Mad) / Loma / 1967

Have Yourself a Merry Little Playlist

Coffeetime, December 22, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.15.57 /
Johnny Costa / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / What Child is This? / Chiaroscuro / 9.5.91
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Greensleeves / Prestige / 9.7.58

set 1
Richard Wyands Trio / An Uptown Christmas / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Uptown / 9.6.85
Junior Mance Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / White Christmas / Chiaroscuro / 5.18.94
Harry Reser & his Orch / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Decca / 10.24.34 / vocal = Tom Sacks
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Merry Christmas, Baby / Exclusive / LA 1947 / vocal = Charles Brown
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter / Christmas Eve / Verve / LA fall 1986
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / 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 /
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 /
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / It's Christmas Time Again / Capitol / LA 1963
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66
Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / Marshmallow World / radio transcription from Bing Crosby show / 1940s
Louis Armstrong / Christmas Night in Harlem / Decca / LA 9.8.55 / with Benny Carter Orch
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, & Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Nancy Wilson / That's What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / LA 6.13.63

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Capitol Promo) / Capitol / LA 9.17.47
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 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You're Dancing

Coffeetime, December 15, 2006

bed
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Prestige / 11.27.58

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin' Time / Stretchin' Out [cd alternate take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / Canadian Sunset / Prestige / 6.16.60
Bert Firman's Quintuplets of Swing / Blue Strings / Odeon / London 9.20.37
Dick Robertson / I Want You for Christmas / Decca / 10.37
The Jackson Trio (aka The Ebonaires) / Love for Christmas / Hollywood (Swing Time?) / mid-50s
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why Try to Change Me Now / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / If Someone Had Told Me / Blue Note / 7.14.56
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / White Christmas / Cadet / 10.66
Chet Atkins / Christmas with Chet Atkins / Medley: The Coventry Carol, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / RCA / 1961
Duke Ellington & his Orch / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show aired 12.47 / Rock-a-Bye River / radio transcription /Hollywood 7.11.46
The Three Keys / You Can Depend on Me / Vocalion / 9.8.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Can't Get That No More / V-Disc 237 / 11.22.43
Etta James / Etta Sings for Lovers / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Argo / 7.27-29.62

set 3
Eddie Davis Trio / I Wanna Be Loved / King / 2.2-3.56
Wardell Gray, et al / Move / Prestige / live, Hula Hut, LA 8.27.50
The Five Jones Boys / You're So Appealing / Standard transcription / c. 1937 / thanks so much to Tony at the Vocal Harmony Group website
Wini Brown / I Met a Stranger / National [unissued] / 11.27.48
Danny Kaye / (songs from) 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
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet / Blues in Time / Wintersong / Verve / Hollywood 8.2.57
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky / Brunswick [unissued take A] / 2.5.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orch
Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There's Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Janet Orenstein / oodles and oodles of pix and info at TVParty.com's Rudolph pages (pop-up warning) / more on the Rankin-Bass website
Gospel Harmonette Specials [The Original Gospel Harmonettes] / Camp Meeting / Without You / Vee-Jay / 1963

last soul (Xmas) song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atlantic / 1978

The price of popularity!

Hey my sleepy pals,

I guess the link to the Coffeetime Archive got posted far and wide in the past week or so, because there was major bandwidth overload and my hosting company has shut the archive down for a few days. This blog will still be here, (thanks, Blogger/Google!), but the podcast-able show won't be accessable until early next week, I think. I'll only be able to keep a few shows in the archive at any given time. Streamable shows are available for a few weeks at wmbr.org.

We'll keep our eyes on these bandwidth problems. I appreciate all the attention out there in the web-universe, though!

What's It All About Playlist

Coffeetime, December 8, 2006

bed
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Let's Fall in Love / Command / 1963

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Phil Woods and Gene Quill / Bird Feathers / Airegin /Prestige / 3.29.57
Joe Marsala & his Orch / Zero Hour / Black & White / 11.29.44
Whispering Jack Smith / My Blue Heaven / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1.10.28
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / I Was Wrong / 11.44 / Tab Smith on alto, vocal = Trevor Bacon
Anita O'Day / Pick Yourself Up / Ivy [cd bonus track] / Verve / LA 12.19.56

set 2
Art Farmer / Art / I'm a Fool to Want You / Argo / 9.21-23.60
Red Garland / Moodsville 6 / T'ain't Nobody's Business / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Scratch Sheet / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Ernie Morris / In The Mood / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43 / intro by Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman; Ernie is seen with teh Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals in the images above
Lil Green & her Trio / What's the Matter with Love? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41 / with Big Bill Broonzy
Little Willie John / I'm Shakin' / King / Cincinnati? 1960

set 3
Lee Morgan / Gigolo / Yes I Can, No You Can't / Blue Note / 6.25.65
Preston Love & his Orch / Jumpin' for Charles / Spin Records / LA 1952
The Smoothies / You're an Old Smoothie / Bluebird / 4.25.36
The Four Blazes / Snag the Britches / United / 2.3.53
Sonny Rollins / Tour De Force / Two Different Worlds / Prestige / 12.7.56 / vocal = Earl Coleman

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / As Long As There's Music / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
Howard Roberts / Whatever's Fair! / Pussy Cat / Capitol / LA 1966
Coleman Hawkins / My Ideal / V-Disc / Esuire Metropolitan Opera House 1.18.44
Bing Crosby / Only Forever / Decca / LA 12.3.40 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orch
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Two Steps from the Blues / Lead Me On / Duke / Chicago 1961
Cilla Black / Alfie / Capitol / London (Abbey Road) 8.66
Southern Sons / Rest for the Weary / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soul song
Richard Caiton / I'm Gonna Love You More / Malaco / 1974

Love With a Capital Playlist

Coffeetime, December 1, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Jazzland / 7.19.61 /

set 1
Bill Hardman / Bill Hardman Quintet [Saying Something] / It Ain't Happened Yet / Savoy / 10.18.61
Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane / Mating Call / Super Jet / Prestige / 11.30.56
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / How 'Bout That Mess? / Bluebird / 9.1.41
Lew Stone & his Band / Pop! Goes Your Heart / Decca / London 1935 / vocal = Alan Kane
Johnny Otis & his Band / Three Magic Words / Savoy / 3.21.51 / vocal = Mel Walker
Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington / Blue Rose / Grievin' / Columbia / 1.23, 27.56 [Duke] and LA 2.8, 11.56 [Rosemary]

set 2
Cannonball Adderley / Takes Charge / I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Riverside / 4.12.59
Art Tatum / #5 / Without a Song / Clef [Verve] / LA 12.29.53
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Cocktails for Two [cd bonus track] / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Benny Goodman Trio / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Columbia / live, Jazz Concert no. 2, 1937-38
Issie Ringgold / Be On Your Merry Way / Columbia / 1.12.30
Kay Starr / Love With a Capital You / Bluebird / 7.26.39 / with Glen Miller & his Orch
Lula Reed / Three Men / King / Cincinnati 8.21.56
optional: Flairs / She Wants to Rock / Flair / 7.53

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / Lou's Good Dues / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Let's Fall in Love / Command / 1963
Charlie Parker / Merry-Go-Round / Savoy / 9.24.48
Cabineers / Let the Party Go On / Decca / 12.11.40
Mabel Scott / Yes! / Coral / LA 3.17.52
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Moon Song / Verve / 1.12.57

set 4
Stan Getz / Chamber Music / Lullaby of Birdland / Roost / 12.5.52 [12.19.52?]
Ralph Burns, et al / The Herdsman Play Paris / Embarkation / Fantasy / Paris 1954
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Midnight Special / Atlantic / Cincinnati [Cleveland?] 5.1.48
Dinah Washington / I Only Know / Mercury / 3.4.49 / with Teddy Stewart's Orch
Jimmy Nolen / How Fine Can You Be? / Federal / LA 5.14.56
Nancy Wilson / Naturally / Watch What Happens / Capitol / LA 1966
Pilgrim Travelers / How About You? and I'll Be There / Specialty / Hollywood 1.25.52

last soul song
Beverly Shaffer / Where Will You Be Boy? / One-derful! / Chicago 10.65