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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