Friday, February 23, 2007

One, Two, Button Your Playlist

Coffeetime, February 23, 2007, Angelynn Grant, 15th Anniversary Show

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Charlie Rouse / Takin' Care of Business / Weirdo / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / One Mo' / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Period of Adjustment / Capitol / 2.20-22.63
Ruth Etting / At Twilight / Columbia / 8.20.29
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / After I Say I'm Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
Delta Rhythm Boys / Long Gone Baby / Victor / 1.31.53 / with Jack Pleis Orch
Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / So Long, My Love / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2
Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery / In Your Own Sweet Way / Riverside / 1.26.60
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Don't Blame Me / Savoy / 7.18.56
Lucky Thompson & his Orch / Over the Rainbow / Triumph / 1950
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Moonglow / Brunswick / 9.18.34
Ella Mae Morse / Thank Your Lucky Star / radio transcription AFRS Command Performance #82 / 9.9.43
Bing Crosby / Medley from "Pennies from Heaven": One, Two, Button Your Shoe; And So Do I; Skeleton in the Closet / radio transcription of Kraft Music Hall show on V-Disc / Hollywood 11.16.44 / with Eugenie Baird, The Ken Lane Singers, the Charioteers, John Scott Trotter & his Orch
Edna McGriff / Why Oh Why / Jubilee / 1952
Magic Sam / Give Me Time / I'm So Glad / home recordings [Delmark] / Chicago 1.68

set 3
Baby-Face Willette / Behind the 8 Ball / Song of the Universe / Argo / Chicago 11.30.64
Art Tatum / Here's Art Tatum / After You've Gone / Brunswick / 1955
Charlie Parker / Quasimodo / Dial / 11.17.47
Savannah Churchill and The Four Tunes (aka The Sentimentalists) / I Want to Cry / Manor / 7.47 (4.48?)
Jo Stafford / Ridin' on the Gravy Train / Capitol / LA 3.28.46 / with Nat King Cole on piano
Al Hibbler / Ain't Nothin' Wrong with that Baby / Decca / 1.17.58

set 4
Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / Without a Song / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
John Kirby & his Orch / No Blues at All / Victor / 2.11.42
Modern Mountaineers / Loud Mouth / Texas Hotel, San Antonio 3.1.37
Andrew Tibbs / I Made a Mistake / M-Pac! / 1965
Dusty Springfield / What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? / Atlantic (?) / 1970
The Radio Four / How Much I Owe / Republic [Nashboro] / Nashville 1951-52

last soul song
Rufus & Chaka Khan / Street Player / Stay / ABC / 1978

Friday, February 16, 2007

I Dig Playlists!

Coffeetime, February 16, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Groovy / Prestige / 1956-57

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Witch Doctor / Lost and Found / Blue Note / 3.14.61
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Effendi / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Georgie Auld / Jump, Georgie, Jump / Musicraft / 5.24.45
The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Hart to Get Gertie / Okeh / LA 4.6.28
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Do You Believe in Love at Sight? / Victor / 9.8.31 / vocal = unknown
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / They Can't Take That Away from Me / Bluebird / 3.20.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Dakota Staton / At Storyville / The Show Must Go On / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61

set 2
Roy Eldridge / soundtrack to Les Tricheurs / Phil's Tune / Barclay / Paris 5.1.58
Cannonball Adderley / Jump for Joy / If Life Were All Peaches and Cream / Mercury / 8.20.58
Lester Young / The Master's Touch / Exercise in Swing / Savoy / 4.18.44
Bill Coleman / Bill Street Blues / Disques Swing / Paris 12.12.37
Leo "Snub" Mosley & his Band / Ol' Man River / Decca / 3.11.40
Big Maybelle (Mabel Smith) / Little Miss Muffett / King / 1949
Roy Milton / Along the Navajo Trail / Specialty / LA 12.47

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Someone to Watch Over Me / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Kenny Drew / It Might as Well Be Spring / Blue Note / 4.16.53
Buddy Johnson & his Orch / Walkin' / Gone Walkin' / Mercury / 8.15.55
Five Jones Boys / Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere / Standard transcription / 1937
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / AFRS Jubilee 91 transcription / 6.44
Maxine Sullivan / L'Amour, Toujours, L'Amour / 6.29.38 / Victor / with Claude Thornhill & his Orch
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / A Hundred Years from Today / Columbia / 1954 / with Paul Weston & his Orch

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 4: Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / LA 9.56
Quincy Jones & Band / I Dig Dancers! / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Paris 2.27.60
Lynn Hope / She's Funny That Way / Premium [later, Chess] / 8.20.51
Tony Mottola & Carl Kress / Fun on the Frets / radio transcription / 1941
Frank Sinatra / Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are / V-Disc (CBS broadcast dress rehearsal of "The Vimms Vitamins Show") / 5.17.44 / with Alex Stordahl & his Orch
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Good Time Charlie, part 1 / Duke / Houston / 1.14.66
Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / Speak Low / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)
The Silvertone Singers / Since Jesus Came into My Heart / Nashboro / 1952

last soul song
The Independents / Chuck, Helen, Eric, Maurice / Lucky Fellow / Wand / Chicago 1973

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

That Funny Playlist

Backwoods (filling in for John), February 10, 2007

set 1
Treniers / Rockin' is Our Business
Red Prysock / Blow Your Horn
The Marquees / Rock My Blues Away
Four Aces / Whose Arms Are You Missing

bed 1
Ferrante & Teicher / Westminster Pop Sampler / Mississippi Boogie

set 2
Jessie Price / That's the Way She Feels
Gene Ammons / Jug
Bullmoose Jackson / Time Alone Will Tell
Mills Brothers / Swing It, Sister
Frankie Laine / By the River Saint Marie

bed 2
Leo Addeo & his Orch / More Hawaii in Hi-Fi

set 3
Sons of the West / Sally's Got a Wooden Leg
The Original Hoosier Hotshots / Meet Me By the Icehouse, Lizzie
Bonnie Lou / Tennessee Wig-Walk
Webb Pierce / High Geared Daddy
Merle Travis / Saturday Night Shuffle
Clay Hart / Flowers on the Wall
Chet Atkins & Dolly Parton / Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Carl Story & His Ramblin' Mountaineers / I've Found a Hiding Place

bed 3
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Speak Low

set 4
Young Jesse / Pretty Soon
The King Bees / Lovely Love
Jimmy Nolen / The Way You Do
Clyde McPhatter / Deep Sea Ball
Shirley & Lee / Rock All Night
Lula Reed / Rock Love
Bo Diddley / Bo Diddley (live on Ed Sullivan)
Wally Mercer / Hey! Miss Lula

bed 4
Bill McElhiney & his Orch / Instrumental Golden Giants

set 5
5 Royales / What's That
Cousin Joe / You'll Never Get Nothing
Dayton Selby / Blues #3
Larry Williams / She Said "Yeah"
Chuck Berry / Our Little Rendez-Vous
Curtis Johnson / Headin' for the High School Hop
Ricky Nelson / Everlovin'

bed 5
The Cinema Stage Orch / Academy Award Winners / Walk on the Wild Side

set 6
Esther Philips / Burnin' / Cry Me a River Blues
Mighty Sparrow / Under My Skin
Tom Jones / Soul Man

bed 6
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. / Shall We Gather at the Boat Dock

set 7
The Supreme Angels / I Want to be Just Like Him
Bobby Long & the Satellites / Mojo Workout

last song
Bobby Darin / That Funny Feeling

Friday, February 09, 2007

Mighty Mouse

I'm swooping down and filling in for John Funke on Backwoods tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 10 at 10am-noon). He is a bit under the weather. I'll be flying by the seat of my pants, to coin a term. Wingin' it.

Tune in to the destruction!

Great Big Bundle of Playlist

Coffeetime, February 9, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Make the Man Love Me / Vee Jay / 7.20, 21.61
Cozy Cole All-Stars / Blue Moon / Keynote / 2.22.44
Slats Randall / Skirts / 3.30
Benny Carter & his Orch / (There's a New Side to) An Old Love Story / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Emma Lou Welch & the Enchanters
Smiley Lewis / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Imperial / New Orleans 4.53
Toni Harper / Lady Lonely / Love Has Come, Love Has Gone / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59 / with orch arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Ike Quebec / It Might As Well Be Spring / Lover Man / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Terry Gibbs / Michelle, parts 1 & 2 / New Jazz / 3.14.49
Blind Willie Dunn & his Gin Bottle Four (aka Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson) / Blue Guitars / Okeh / 5.8.29
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Jeep Rhythm / radio transcription of Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands / Jefferson Barracks, Missouri 11.23.45
Cootie Williams & his Orch / I Want to Be Loved / Majestic / early 1947 / vocal = Billy Matthews
Little Willie John / Mister Little Willie John / A Little Bit of Loving / King / Cincinnati 9.21.56

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Luana / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Groovin' Boogie / Black & White / LA fall 1946
Bernard Hilda Y Su Orquestra / Infiniment / Columbia / Barcelona 8.14.47
The Robins / If I Didn't Love You So / Savoy / LA 12.1.49
Nat King Cole / Tell Me All About Yourself / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Capitol / LA 10.30.58

set 4
Herbie Harper Quintet / Five Brothers / Godchild / Tampa / Hollywood 6.15.55
Barney Kessel / Workin' Out! / My Funny Valentine / Contemporary / LA 1.9.61
Pauline & her Perils (aka The Six Hits and a Miss) / Crazy Rhythm / transcription / LA 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Frankie Laine / I'm Gonna Live Til I Die / Mercury / 1950
Tyrone Davis / A Woman Needs to Be Loved / Dakar / 1969
Barbara McNair / What a Day / Motown / Detroit 1966
The Pilgrim Travelers / What Are They Doing (My Lord) [take 2, unissued] / Specialty / Hollywood / 12.24.47

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Great Big Bundle of Love / Double Shot / 1970

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