Friday, February 01, 2008

The Days of Playlist and Roses

Coffeetime, February 1, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / One for Mort / Prestige / 6.30.64
Krupa and Rich / Sweethearts on Parade / Clef / 11.1.55
Ray Noble & his Orch / You Have Taken My Heart; You Ought to Be in Pictures / HMV; Decca / London 4.5.34; 4.9.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
The Cats & the Fiddle / Life's Too Short (To Worry About That) / Bluebird / 10.41
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Weak for the Man / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / All the Way / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Stan Getz / Groovin' High / Body and Soul / Crown [Modern] / Civic Auditorium, Pasadena 6.23.47
Billy Taylor's Big Four / My Mind's Made Up on You / HRS / 9.19.47
Ciro Rimac's Rumba-Orchester / Tabu / Telefunken / Berlin 11.18.37 / vocal = Ciro Rimac
[The Four] Ink Spots / radio show The Home Cookin' Boys from Up Harlem Way, on NBC affiliate, WFIL Philadelphia / A Stairway to the Stars / transcription / Philadelphia 7.12.39
Bing Crosby & the Charioteers / Dear Old Girl / V-Disc / Hollywood mid-1940s (exact date unknown) / with John Scott Trotter & Orch, James Sherman on piano, announcer Bob Burns

set 3
Mel Rhyne / Organ-izing / Things Ain't What They Used to Be / Jazzland / 3.31.60
Charlie Parker / Swedish Schnapps / She Rote / Clef / 1.17.51
Ella Mae Morse / AFRS Mail Call #87 / Tess's Torch Song / Hollywood 4.19.44 / with AFRS Orch conducted by Captain Meredith Wilson and Myrna Loy (?)
The Clovers / Wonder Where My Baby's Gone / Atlantic / 3.18.52 / lead = Buddy Bailey
Bobby Darin / Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie / The Days of Wine and Roses /Capitol / LA 9.17.64

set 4
Sam Most / Just Tutshen / Vanguard / 12.3.54
Ralph Sharon / Easy Jazz / Slightly Oliver / London / 5.27.55
Coleman Hawkin's Swing Four / Get Happy / Signature / 12.23.43
John Kirby & his Orch / There I Go / 1940-41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
BB King / Bye Bye Baby / RPM / mid-1950s
Lulu / New Routes /Dirty Old Man / Atco / Muscle Shoals 1970
The Zion Travelers / Bye and Bye / Dooto / 1962

last soul song
Mad Lads / Whatever Hurts You / Volt / Memphis 1968