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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