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Friday, February 02, 2007
Playlist in My Soul
Coffeetime, February 2, 2007, Angelynn Grant
bed
Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Prestige / 10.9.62
set 1
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / La Villa / Riverside / 5.21.57
Cannonball Adderley / Them Dirty Blues / Del Sasser / Riverside / 2.1.60
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / I'm Coming, Virginia / Columbia / 5.11.27
Sophie Tucker / Foolin' with the Other Woman's Man / London 11.18.38 / Columbia / with Ted Shapiro & Orch
Roy Fox & his Orch / College Swing / radio transcription / London 1938 / vocal = Mary Lee
Amos Milburn / Blue and Lonesome / Aladdin [unreleased] / LA 7.13.49
Patti Page / I've Heard That Song Before / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / 1955
set 2
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That's All / Prestige / 4.18.61
Bennie Green / Glidin' Along / Stardust / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Vilia [from the operetta The Merry Widow] / Roost / 4.52
Sam Donahue & the Navy Dance Band / Convoy / V-Disc / 5.45
Betty Grable / The Snake Dance / rehearsal check from MGM film Student Tour /LA 1934
Joe Morris & his Orch / Crazy Mixed Up World / Herald / 4.54 / vocal = Faye Adams
The Spaniels / I Like It Like That / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 / lead vocal by James "Dimples" Cochran
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee / Heart / Capitol / LA 1960 / orch arranged & conducted by Jack Marshall
set 3
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / Blueing Boogie / Mercury / LA 1959
Grant Green / I Want to Hold Your Hand / Corcovado / Blue Note / 3.31.65
Gene Ammons / More Moon [originally Full Moon] / Chess / Chicago 1.8.50
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire / radio transcription / LA early 1940s / duet = Ozzie & Harriet Hilliard
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.4.47
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Capitol / 1957
set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, "The Quintets" / Inside Out / Contemporary / LA 1.20.56
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Snap the Whip / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55 /
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / Pretty Trix / Okeh / 6.14.28
Singing Sam (The Ol' Barbasol Man) [aka Harry Frankel] / Gypsy in My Soul / radio transcription / 1939 / a nice repository of Singing Sam ephemera and audio at Morrison-Reeves Library
BB King / You Don't Know / RPM / late 1950s
Jerry Butler / Make It Easy on Yourself / Vee-Jay / 6.62
Golden Gate Quartet / Run On / Okeh / 3.25.42
last soul song
Dee Dee Warwick / Girls Need Love / Mercury / 1.68