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Friday, June 20, 2008
Swinging on a Playlist
Coffeetime, June 20, 2008, Angelynn Grant
bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville 9 / 5.18.60
set 1
Elmo Hope / Homecoming / Moe, Jr / Riverside / 6.22.61
Trigger Alpert / Trigger Happy! / Looking at You / Riverside / 11.23.56
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Humoresque / Victor / 5.26.37
Whispering Jack Smith / Blue Skies / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Hazel Scott / Nightmare Blues / Columbia / 1947
Wynonie Harris / Everybody's Boogie / Apollo / LA fall 1945 / with Oscar Pettiford & his All Stars
Etta Jones / Don't Go to Strangers / If I Had You / Prestige / 6.21.60
set 2
Gene Ammons / Groove Blues / It Might As Well Be Spring / Prestige / 1.3.58
Oscar Aleman / Swinging on a Star / HMV? / Buenos Aires 3.12.45
June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, Nancy Walker / soundtrack to Best Foot Forward / The Three B's / MGM / Hollywood 12.21.42 / with The Music Maids (Denny Wilson, Dotty Messmer, Pat Hyatt, & Alice Sizer), the MGM Studio Chorus, and Harry James & his Orch
Camille Howard / You Lied to Me Baby / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51
Lucky Thompson & his Orch / Stay in There / Triumph / 1950 / vocal = Lucky Thompson
set 3
Wynton Kelly / It's All Right! / Not a Tear / Verve / 3.10.64
Jimmy Smith / I'm Movin' On / I'm Movin' On / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Joe Houston / Houston's Hot House / Modern / Houston early 1952
The Mel-Tones / A Stranger in Town / Decca / LA 10.5.44
Barrie Sisters / Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44 / with the King Cole Trio
Moonglows / When I'm with You / Chess 7.56
set 4
Herbie Mann's Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / Is It True What They Say About Dixie? / Riverside / LA 7.3.57
Herb Pomeroy & his Orch / Band in Boston / Where's Charlie? / United Artists / 1958
Fats Waller / Hallelujah / V-Disc / 9.27.43
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.23.44
Jackie Wilson / That's Why / broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / 1962
The Stars of Virginia / Son of God / Chalice [unissued] / c. 1965
last soul song
The Emotions / Flowers / Don't Wanna Lose Your Love / Columbia / LA 1976