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Friday, September 12, 2008
His Playlist Gets in the Way
Coffeetime, September 12, 2008, Angelynn Grant
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 1
Bennie Green / With Art Farmer / Gone with the Wind / Prestige / 4.13.56
Johnny Gilbert / That's All / Imperial / LA 1963
Artie Shaw & his Orch / Let's Walk / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45
Al Bowlly / When My Little Pomeranian Met Your Little Pekinese / HMV / London 5.10.33 / duet with Frances Day, with Ray Noble & his Orch
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Let Your Hair Down / radio transcription / Hollywood autumn 1943
Dakota Staton / At Storyville / Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61
set 2
Gigi Gryce / GG and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Geraldine / Riverside / 2.27.57
John Coltrane / Coltrane Jazz / I'll Wait and Pray [CD bonus alternate take] / Atlantic / 11.24.60
Bobby Smith & his Orch / Night Watch / Ruby / c. 1951
Benny Goodman Trio / Who? / Victor / Chicago 4.24.36
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Honey, Just for You / Brunswick / Chicago 10.9.30 / vocal = Billy Massey
Walter Huston / from movie"Knickerbocker Holiday" / September / United Artists / Hollywood 1944
Gene Phillips / See See Rider / Modern / Hollywood 1950 / with Jack McVea & his Orch
Bobby Darin / The Bobby Darin Story / Bill Bailey / Atco / LA 1960
set 3
Hank Mobley / A Slice of the Top / Cute 'n' Pretty / Blue Note / 3.18.66
Hal Singer / Easy Living / Savoy / 3.6.53
Howard McGhee & his Band / Intersection / Dial / LA Tuesday 9.4.45
Les Brown & his Orch / Sentimental Journey / radio transcription / 10.2.44 / vocal = Doris Day
The Charioteers / I've Got My Heart on My Sleeve / Josie / 1955
Nat "King" Cole / The Very Thought of You / Cherchez la Femme / Capitol / LA 5.2, 6, 8.58 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orch
set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, vol 3 / Whisper Not / Contemporary / live at the Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.23.59
Lula Reed / Boy-Girl-Boy / I'm a Woman (But I Don't Talk Too Much) / King [Federal] / 1961
Gene Kelly / soundtrack to MGM film Brigadoon / Almost Like Being in Love / Hollywood 1954
Sammy Davis Jr / Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow (Baretta's Theme) / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood 1974
Hightower Brothers / To the End / Nashboro / Nashville 1961
last soul song
The Shirelles / His Lips Get in the Way / Scepter / 1964