Friday, December 28, 2007

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?