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