Friday, January 25, 2008

The Best Playlists Don't Always Win

Coffeetime, January 25, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / Get Out of the Road / Mode / 7.57
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / This I Dig of You / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Sam Donahue & his Navy Dance Band / Last Party / V-Disc 573 / 4.45
Helen Kane / If I Knew You Better / Victor / Hollywood 7.2.30 / from the movie Head's Up!
Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Marie / Victor / 1.29.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Dinah Washington / Blue Gardenia / EmArcy / 3.15.55

set 2
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Stardust / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Mundell Lowe & his All Stars / Porgy & Bess / I Love Porgy / RCA Camden / 1954
John Kirby & his Orch / Night Whispers / Victor / 10.7.41
Orquesta Típica Victor / Lloro El Gaucho / Victor / Buenos Aires, Argentina late 1920s
Roy Brown / Bar Room Blues / Deluxe / Cincinnati 6.22.50
Frank Sinatra / Nice 'n' Easy / Capitol / Hollywood 4.13.60 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 3
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / A-Lue-Cha / Mercury / LA 1959
Leo Parker / Rollin' with Leo / Talkin' the Blues / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Charlie Parker / Charlie's Wig / Dial /12.17.47
Benny Goodman & his Orch / You're a Sweet Little Headache / RCA Victor / 9.12.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton
The Orioles / It Seems So Long Ago / Jubilee / 2.49
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Say It Isn't So / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Billy Taylor / Billy Taylor with Four Flutes / Oh Lady, Be Good / Riverside / 7.24.59
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Jeepers Creepers / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Meade Lux Lewis / Fast Boogie / Clef [JATP] / Embassy Auditorium, LA 4.22.46
Peggy Lee / For Me and My Gal / transcription (radio show) / Hollywood 1952 / Sonny Burke & his Orch / duet with Johnny Desmond
Lloyd Price / Hello Little Girl / KRC / 1957
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / If Love Is Good to Me / Capitol / LA 1962
[Unknown] / Come On Over Here / Gotham / Detroit winter 1950-51

last soul song
Betty Wright / The Best Girls Don't Always Win / Alston / 1969