Friday, January 26, 2007

I'm a Good Good Playlist



Coffeetime, January 26, 2007

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60 /

set 1
Junior Cook /Junior's Cookin' / Field Day / Jazzland / 4.10.61
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet / Shadrack / Prestige / 12.17.51
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Honeysuckle Rose / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Benny Carter & his Orch / Cocktails for Two / Bluebird / 11.19.40
Noel Coward / Something to Do with Springtime / HMV / London 9.20.32
Toni Harper / Little Miss In Between Blues / soundtrack from soundie / LA 1949
Roy Brown / Too Much Lovin' Ain't No Good / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 6.15.50
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Weak for the Man / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / (I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance (With You) / Prestige /2.27.59
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / What's New / Savoy / 1.23.56
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Sleeping Beauty / 1940 / thanks to Jean-Pierre!
Bing Crosby / The Old Oaken Bucket / Decca / LA 6.14.41 / with The Music Maids, Hal Hopper, and John Scott Trotter's Orch
Four Blackamoors / Break It Up Charlie / Decca / 1941
Ella Mae Morse / I'll Get By / AFRS Command Performance #117 / LA 4.29.44
Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Fool's Paradise / Abkco / LA 1963

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Wes Montgomery Encores / The Trick Bag [alternate take from Boss Guitar] / Riverside / 4.22.63
Joe Newman / Joe Newman with Woodwinds / Star Eyes / Roulette / 1958
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet / Good Groove / transcription [on The Last Giant] / live, Birdland 6.13.51
Una Mae Carlisle / I'm a Good Good Woman / Joe Davis [during record ban] / 5.23.44
The Four Buddies / Just to See You Smile / Savoy / 10.12.50
Mel Tormé with The Meltones / Back in Town / I Hadn't Anyone Till You / Verve / LA 4.23, 28 & 29.59 /

set 4
Curtis Counce / Sonority / Sonor [bonus alternate take] / 10.15.56
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / There'll Never Be Another You / Savoy / 10.6.55
King Cole Trio / Now He Tells Me / Capitol / 7.3.47 / they perform this as the second selection in this great clip (from YouTube, below)
Betty Everett / Please Love Me / Renee/One-derful! / Chicago 1961
Dusty Springfield / The Look of Love / Come Back to Me / Philips / 1968
Highway QC's / Somewhere to Lay My Head / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1955

last soul song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978

Friday, January 19, 2007

Alex saves the day

Thanks so much to Alex McNeil of Lost & Found for filling in for me today. His 4 hour stint on air -- both Lost & Found and CT -- was just the medicine I needed to get me back on my feet. Next Friday, there'll be Alex at noon and me at 2, as usual.

In the meantime, here's his playlist:

1. Herb Ellis & Ray Brown - Flintstones Theme (1974)
2. Tony DeSimone Trio - Oriental Blues (from Ernie Kovacs Show) (1952)
3. Bernie Green - Mr. Peepers (1956)
4. Roger Kellaway - Remembering You (closing theme from All in the
Family) (1978)
5. Nelson Riddle - McHale's Navy (1964)
6. (no artist credited) - Family Affair (1966)
7. Vic Mizzy - Addams Family (1965)
8. Johnny Gregory - Bronco (1961)
9. Guy van Duser - The Great Western TV Medley (1977)
10. Johnny Gregory - The Deputy (1961)
11. Nelson Riddle - Ballad of Paladin (1964)
12. Johnny Gregory - Tales of Wells Fargo (1961)
13. Maynard Ferguson - Straightaway (1962)
14. Johnny Williams - Checkmate (1961)
15. Count Basie - M Squad (1969)
16. Pete Rugolo - Richard Diamond (1959)
17. Bob James - Theme from Taxi ("Angela") (1978)
18. Mike Post - Theme from L.A. Law (1988)
19. Dave Grusin - St. Elsewhere (1984)
20. (no artist credited) - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976)
21. Charles Paul - Another World (1975)
22. (no artist credited) - All My Children (1970)
23. Patrick Williams - Bob Newhart Show Theme ("Home to Emily")(1981)
24. Mike Post - Hooperman (1988)
25. John Cacavas - That Was the Week That Was (1966)
26. (no artist credited) - Cannon (1971)
27. Jackie Cooper - Hennesey (1959)
28. Bob Crane - F Troop (1966)
29. (no artist credited) - The Invaders (1967)
30. Nelson Riddle - The Rogues (1966)
31. Edwin Astley - The Saint (1965)
32. Ron Grainer - The Prisoner (1986)

Thursday, January 18, 2007

Poor butterfly




Hi my sleepy friends, reporting from my sick bed, I'm sorry to announce that I won't be able to do Coffeetime tomorrow. I got that bug that's going around. I'm on the mend, but still dragging my butt from room to room, all bedraggled.

Alex McNeil has kindly agreed to sit in for me. Thanks, Alex! I'll be enjoying the show from the comfort of my couch.

See you next week.

(Image thanks to Vintage Paperbacks at vintagepbks.com.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Playlist for a Stripper



Coffeetime, January 12, 2007

bed
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / Prestige / 8.17.56

set 1
Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / With a Song in My Heart [CD bonus alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.9.57 /
Clifford Brown / Minority (take 2) / Vogue / Paris 10.8.53
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / Featuring the Boys / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Paul Tremaine & his Aristocrats / Four Four Rhythm / Victor / 10.4.29 / vocal = Paul Tremaine
King Cole Trio / Blue Skies / Standard transcription / LA 11.38
Jesse Price / That's the Way She Feels / LA 3.20.47
Etta Jones / Don't Go to Strangers / Something to Remember You By / Prestige / 6.21.60

set 2
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Embraceable You / Prestige / 11.20.64
James Moody / This is Always / Vogue / Paris 7.27.51
Dick McDonough & Carl Kress / Danzon / 1.31.34
Mildred Bailey & her Alley Cats / Squeeze Me / Decca / 12.35
Dorothy Lamour / soundtrack to Johnny Apollo / This is the Beginning of the End / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood 1940
The Robins / All I Do is Rock / Crown / LA 12.53 / also see Marv Goldberg on the Robins
Rosemary Clooney & Bob Hope / Protection / RCA / Hollywood 3.25.59

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Kachin / Savoy / 12.17.59
Joe Morris Orch / Wilma's Idea / Manor / late 1947
The Five Jones Boys / Love is the Reason / Standard transcription / circa 1937 / the excellent Vocal Group Harmony site
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / I'll Drown in My Tears / King / 1956
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / It's Always You / World Pacific / LA 7.23.56

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Satin Doll / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Mundell Lowe / Blues for a Stripper / Coffee, Coffee / MGM / LA 1962
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / I'll Never Be the Same / Columbia / 6.1.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
The Barry Sisters / Yidel Mitn Fiedel / radio transcription, Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1946
Sammy Davis Jr / For Once in a Lifetime / Reprise / LA 1962
Radio Four / When He Calls / Nashboro / Nashville 10.59

last soul song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew [originally on Bullet] / 1969

Friday, January 05, 2007

I'll Plant My Own Playlist



Coffeetime, January 5, 2007

bed
Red Garland / Rediscovered Masters / It Might As Well Be Spring and Estrellita / Prestige / 6.27.58

set 1
Hank Mobley / Reach Out! / Up Over and Out / Blue Note / 1.19.68
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Django / Delauney's Dilemma / Prestige / 6.25.53
Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi-Hat / Wigwam / Phoenix [Roost] / live, Boston 2.11.54
Billy Kyle's Big Eight / Contemporary Blues / HRS / fall 1946
Ray Noble & his Orch / My Hat's on the Side of My Head / HMV / London 11.9.33 [11.27?] / vocal = Al Bowlly
Ernie Fields Orch / Ride Mr. Trombone / Regal / 11.29.49 / vocal = unknown
Dinah Washington / (No, No, No) You Can't Love Two / Mercury / 6.54
Tina Louise / It's Time for Tina / Baby Won't You Say You Love Me / Concert Hall / 1957

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Last Night When We Were Young / Verve / 12.4.64
Sonny Criss / At the Crossroads / I Got It Bad / Peacock / Chicago 3.59
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / 1958
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Glen Island Hop / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY1937-38
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / High Society / Victor / Chicago 1.26.33
Blue Lu Barker / I Got Ways Like the Devil / Decca / 11.22.38
Dick McIntire & his Harmony Hawaiians / I'm pau (I'm Through) / Decca / Hollywood circa 1940
Peggy Lee / Things Are Swingin' / Things Are Swingin' / Capitol / LA 5.16.58 / arranged & conducted by Jack Marshall

set 3
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / Jeannine / Blue Note / 11.11.60
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird? / Chicago 11.15.40
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… [CD bonus track] / Why Was I Born? / Savoy/Regent / 12.47

set 4
Howard McGhee / That Bop Thing / Get Happy / Bethlehem / 10.22.55
Lee Konitz / Conception / Yesterdays / Prestige / 3.8.51
Joe Venuti's Rhythm Boys / Tempo di Modernage / Columbia / 6.10.31
Gene Kelly / soundtrack to It's Always Fair Weather / I Like Myself / MGM / Hollywood spring, summer 1955
LLoyd Nolan / I Don't Know About You / King / Cincinnati 1962
Eileen Wilson [Susan Hayward's character] / soundtrack to Valley of the Dolls / I'll Plant My Own Tree / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood 1967
Stars of Harmony / Where Shall I Be? / Supreme [later Swing Time] / LA 5.49

last soul song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / I Need You / Wand / 1965