Happy New Playlist, Baby

Coffeetime, December 28, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Johnny's Blue / Blue Note / 8.14.60
Cecil Payne / Performing Charlie Parker Music / Shawnuff / Charlie Parker Records / 1961
John Kirby & his Orch / Arabian Nightmare / transcription [Lang-Worth] / 1940-41
Ray Miller & his Orch / Just a Little Drink / Brunswick / 3.13.25 / vocal = Frank Bessinger & Frank Wright
Peggy Lee / You Can Depend on Me / radio transcription / LA mid-1940s
Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally
Kay Starr / Movin' / Lazy River / Capitol / LA 7.8.59

set 2
Les Spann / Gemini / Afterthought / Jazzland / 12.8.60
Barney Kessel / Feeling Free… / This Guy's in Love with You / Contemporary / LA 2.13.69
Henry Mancini / soundtrack to film Charade / Latin Snowfall / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1963
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Montparnasse Jump / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Lucille Ball / soundtrack to RKO film Dance, Girl, Dance / Oh Mother, What Do I Do Now? / Hollywood 1940
Desi Arnaz / Babalu / RCA / Hollywood late 1940s
Dinning Sisters / Homesick - That's All / Capitol / LA 5.9.45 / with vocal by Skip Farrell
Bing Crosby/ White Christmas / What Can You Do with a General? / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Little Willie John / Talk to Me, Talk to Me / King / 1.4.58

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Burnin' / Reed and a Half / Argo / Chicago 1960
Bunky Green / My Babe / Counter Punch / Vee Jay [Exodus] / Chicago 10.28.60
Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Cherokee / Savoy / 5.17.46
Five Breezes / Minute and Hour Blues / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Blue Barron & his Orch / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / radio transcription / 1938-41 / vocal = The Three Blue Notes
Mel Tormé / Blue Moon / Capitol / LA 9.48 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orch

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Chanel #5 / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957
Gerry Mulligan Sextet / Jazz West Coast, Volume 3 / There Will Never Be Another You / Jazz West Coast [Pacific Jazz] / Hoover High School, San Diego 12.14.54
The Nicholas Brothers / Keep a Twinkle in Your Eye / HMV? / London 9.15.36
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / It Might As Well Be Spring / I Believe in You / Reprise / LA 1964
The Charioteers / Amen / transciption / 1942

last soul song
The Raelettes [Raelets] / If You Wanna to Keep Him / Tangerine / 1971?

Make Me a Playlist of You

Coffeetime, December 21, 2007

bed
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 1.31.60
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / That Sound of Renown / The Nutcracker / Coral / 1956
Harry Reser & his Orch / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Decca / 10.24.34 / vocal = Tom Sacks
Frank Sinatra / Songs by Sinatra radio show (CBS) / White Christmas / transcription / LA 12.19.43
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 8.5.60 /

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / LP side 2: Christmas Time is Here (vocal); Skating; Hark, The Herald Angels Sing; Christmas is Coming; Für Elise; Christmas Song / Fantasy / LA 1965
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 / lyrics by Peggy Lee, music by Cy Coleman, written for Cary Grant's daughter
Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66
Skitch Henderson & his Orch / A Very Merry Christmas, Volume Two, Columbia Special Products For Grants CSS-788, a record made by Columbia for Grants department store / We Need a Little Christmas / Columbia / 1968
Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Louis Armstrong / Christmas Night in Harlem / Decca / LA 9.8.55 / with Benny Carter Orch
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, & Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Bing Crosby / White Christmas / Decca / Hollywood 3.18.47
Bing Crosby/ White Christmas / Count Your Blessings / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Nancy Wilson / That's What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / LA 6.13.63

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Capitol Promo) / Capitol / LA 9.17.47
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orch /
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.57

Winter Wonderplaylist

Coffeetime, December 14, 2007

bed
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / 'Tis Autumn & Stormy Weather / Prestige / 11.27.58

set 1
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / From this Moment On / Prestige / 5.17.57
Richard Wyands Trio / An Uptown Christmas / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Uptown / 9.6.85
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Snowfall / Columbia / 5.26.41
Putney Dandridge & his Swing Band / Santa Claus Came in the Spring / Vocalion / 10.21.35 / written by Johnny Mercer
Bob Crosby & his Orch / Let It Snow, Let It Snow / ARA / LA c.1944-45
Julie London / I'd Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / LP side 1: sO Tannenbaum; What Child is This; My Little Drum; Linus and Lucy; Christmas Time is Here (instrumental) / Fantasy / LA 1965 /
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio transcription / LA 1947 / with the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orch
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / The Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / White Christmas / Cadet / 10.66
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / radio transcription / Hollywood 1953
Charlie Parker / White Christmas / Savoy / live at the Royal Roost 12.25.48
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947 /
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Doris Day / Here Comes Santa Claus / Columbia / LA 1949
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Christmas Dreams / Hollywood [King] / 1955 / vocal = Frankie Ervin & Linda Hayes
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 / Wintersong / Verve / Hollywood 8.2.57
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midget / My Dog Friday / RCA / 7.8.56
Fred Astaire / You're Easy to Dance With / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Paramount / Hollywood spring 1942 / accompanied by "Male Octet"
Bing Crosby & Majorie Reynolds / White Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1942
Amos Milburn / Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby / Aladdin / LA 10.4.49
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There's Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1969 / another Rankin & Bass Rudolph cartoon site (pop-up warning)
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soul song
Emotions / What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas? / Volt / 1973

Alex McNeil's Coffeetime fill-in playlist

Thanks so much to Alex McNeil for covering Coffeetime for me this past Friday when I needed a break. Below is the list of tunes he played. As always, it was a great show and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

01. Mundell Lowe & Jazz All-Stars - Riff Blues (theme from Mike Hammer)
02. Harry Betts - Theme from Adventures in Paradise
03. Hugo Winterhalter - Smoke Dreams (theme from Chesterfield Supper
Club)
04. Red Nichols - Gobelues
05. Frank Chacksfield - Dragnet
06. Boston Pops Orchestra - Look Sharp, Be Sharp (theme from Gillette
Cavalcade of Sports)
07. Tex Beneke - Mr. Peepers
08. Tony Crombie - Man From Interpol
09. Mundell Lowe & Jazz All-Stars - 77 Sunset Strip
10. Johnny Williams - Checkmate
11. Count Basie - M Squad Theme
12. Johnny Williams - The Isolated Pawn (from Checkmate soundtrack)
13. Harry Betts - Joanna (from Hong Kong TV series)
14. Lalo Guerrero - Mickey Mouse Mambo
15. Collegium Musicum de Paris - Mouret's Rondeau (Theme from
Masterpiece Theatre)
16. South Bank Orchestra - Lillie
17. Geoffrey Burgon - Brideshead Revisited
18. Ken Howard - The Flame Trees of Thika
19. David Fanshawe - Flambards
20. Alexander Faris - Upstairs, Downstairs (first theme)
21. Alexander Faris - Upstairs, Downstairs (second theme)
22. Kenyon Emrys-Roberts - To Serve Them All My Days
23. Ron Grainer - The Prisoner
24. Marcus Dods - I, Claudius
25. George Fenton - The Jewel in the Crown
26. Hans Salter - Maya
27. Shelly Manne - Daktari
28. Bernard Herrmann - Twilight Zone (first theme)
29. Shorty Rogers - Jonny Quest
30. Nelson Riddle - Supercar
31. Harry Lubin - Fear (theme from One Step Beyond)
32. Nelson Riddle - The Dickens & Fenster March
33. Vic Mizzy - The Addams Family
34. Original Cast - Zoom
35. Nelson Riddle - The Rogues
36. Nelson Riddle - McHale's Navy March
37. King Curtis - Melancholy Serenade (from The Jackie Gleason Show)