Alex fills in on Coffeetime

While I spent time with family over Thanksgiving, Alex kindly filled in for me on Coffeetime. Here's his playlist:

01. Stan Kenton - Dragnet (1967)
02. Les Baxter - The Medic (1955)
03. Alex North - Theme from Playhouse 90 (1956)
04. Ray Anthony - Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
05. Boston Pops Orchestra - Look Sharp, Be Sharp (1954)
06. Karen Chandler - Love Is the $64,000 Question (1956)
07. Alan Dale - Robin Hood (1955)
08. Frank Ortega Trio - 77 Sunset Strip (1959)
09. Buddy Morrow - Highway Patrol (1959)
10. Buddy Morrow - Bourbon Street Beat (1960)
11. SurfSide 6 (1960)
12. Buddy Morrow - Hawaiian Eye (1960)
13. Ralph Marterie - Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959)
14. Johnny Gregory - The Roaring Twenties (1960)
15. Nelson Riddle - The Untouchables (1960)
16. Edwin Astley - Theme from The Saint (1965)
17. Si Zentner - The Fugitive (1965)
18. Carl Brandt - Burke's Law (1964)
19. Nelson Riddle - The Defenders (1962)
20. Laurie Johnson - The Avengers (1968)
21. Nelson Riddle - The Rogues (1965)
22. Billy May - Mannix (1967)
23. Lester Lanin - Mr. Clean/Chase & Sanborn/Pepsodent (1961)
24. Jerry Van Dyke - My Mother the Car (1966)
25. The Alvin Show Theme (1961)
26. Spencer Ross - Theme from My Three Sons (1962)
27. Chordettes - Zorro (1959)
28. Spin & Marty - The Triple R Song (1955)
29. Stan Jones - Elfego Baca (1958)
30. Jack Valentine - Gunsmoke (1955)
31. Marty Gold - Black Saddle (1960)
32. Lawman Theme (1960)
33. Branded Theme (1965)
34. Sunset Singers - Wild Bill Hickok (1956)
35. Ron Goodwin - Wagon Train (first theme) (1958)
36. Marty Gold - Wagon Train (Wagons Ho, second theme) (1960)
37. David Fanshawe - Flambards (1977)
38. Tex Beneke - Mr. Peepers (1954)
39. Pete Rugolo - Richard Diamond (1959)
40. Pete Rugolo - Ben Casey (1962)
41. Kane Triplets - Mission Impossible (1968)
42. John Barry - The Persuaders (1971)
43. Roger Kellaway - Remembering You (closing theme from All in the Family)
44. John Williams - The Isolated Pawn (from Checkmate) (1961).

Show Your Playlist, Miss Grant

Coffeetime, November 21, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame /Open Sesame / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Booker Ervin / The Song Book / All the Things You Are / Prestige / 2.27.64
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Drumology / Victor / 1946
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / The Moon is a Silver Dollar / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Gliff Grass
Kay Starr / Betcha I Getcha / Standard transcription/ 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio and Joe Venuti
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Buzz Me / Decca / 1.19.45
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / Blue Moods / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / My Foolish Heart / Bethlehem / 12.60
Shelly Manne & his Men / The West Coast Sound / Afrodesia / Contemporary / 7.20.53
Bennie Morton / Holiday in Trombone / Once in A While / EmArcy / 5.30.44
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Hootie Boogie / Capitol / LA 1945
Emilio Caceres / What's the Use? / Victor / 11.5.37
Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / Once is Enough for Me / Decca / 3.2.39
La Verne Ray / Rock and Roll / Jubilee / 2.1.50 / with the Rene Hall Sextet

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Makin' Whoopee / Blue Note / 1.4.60
BB King / soundtrack to For Love of Ivy / Messy but Good / ABC / LA 3.68
Cozy Cole All-Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44
Mills Brothers / Lazy Bones / Decca / London 1934
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Show Your Linen, Miss Richardson / Victor / 4.7.39 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Comes Love / Verve / LA 1.11.57

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Louisiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Disc Jockey Jump / Columbia / 1.22.47
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Tozo / Columbia / 1.21.27 / vocal = Don Redman
King Cole Trio / Sunday / radio transcription King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio / Hollywood 3.6.48
Wynona Carr / I'm Mad at You / Specialty / Hollywood 1957
Soul Stirrers / He'll Make a Way / Specialty / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soul song
Soul Children / Who is She and What is She to You? / Stax [unreleased] / 1973

Playlist Gonna Make It

Coffeetime, November 14, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60
Milt Jackson / Invitation / The Sealer / Riverside / 10.31.62
Sandy Williams' Big Eight / Sandy's Blues [alt take] / HRS / 6.3.46
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / Coffee in the Morning and Kisses at Night / Bluebird / Hollywood 12.12.33
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / She's Just Old Fashioned / Freedom / Houston c. 8.49
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings The Gershwin Song Book / (I've Got) Beginner's Luck / Verve / LA 1.5, 7, 8.59

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulmates / Too Late Now / Riverside / 9.20.63
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa [Neighborhood] / Honeysuckle Rose / Savoy / 2.26.55
Charlie Ventura Septet / Gene Norman Presents a Charlie Ventura Concert / If I Had You / Decca / live, Pasadena Civic Aud 4.49
Louis Armstrong & his Stompers / Chicago Breakdown / Columbia / Chicago 5.9.27
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Happy Feet / Columbia / Hollywood 2.10.30 / vocal = Original Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris)
The Cats & the Fiddle / Left with the Thought of You / Bluebird / 12.7.39
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton / The Two of Us / Baby (You've Got What It Takes) / Mercury / 1959

set 3
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / You Turned the Tables on Me / Riverside / 3.7.57
Ernie Felice / Cocktail Time / Sweet Sue, Just You / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Charlie Parker / Blues for Alice / Clef / 8.8.51
Benny Carter & his Orch / I Heard You Cried Last Night / vocal = Savannah Churchill
The Four Vagabonds / The Pleasure's All Mine / Apollo / 11.13.46
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Ballad in Blue / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56

set 4
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / Straight Life / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Victor Feldman / Mallets A Fore Thought / Evening in Paris / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57
Joe Venuti's Rhythm Boys / Now that I Need You, You're Gone / Columbia / 9.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen
Gene Phillips / I Owe Everybody / Combo [unissued] / LA 1953 / with Jack McVea & his Orch
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / I'm Gonna Keep on Doin' (What I'm Doin') / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orch
Golden Gate Quartet / Lead Me On and On / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last (so thankful) soul song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

Thank you

Thanks to everyone who has pledged so far in WMBR's 2008 fundraiser. Special thanks to everyone who has pledged so far for Coffeetime. If you haven't yet, you can still do so (and receive some of our nice thank you gifts) at wmbr.org. (I really like the eco-combo premium set of the green grocery tote plus eco-friendly USB flash drive for a pledge of $100. Several people took advantage of this during Backwoods yesterday.)

And thanks to the WMBR deejays who helped me during Coffeetime: Jesse Kaminksy, John Funke, Larry Azrin, Bruce Sylvester, Ben Shanks, and Keith Sawyer for phone duty, laughs, and encouragement and Joan Hathaway and Doug Gesler for smiles and sweetness post-show.

When it comes down to it, WMBR is a nice group of people, listeners and station members -- one big family together. And I can say this as a station member for 17 years and, before that, as a very dedicated listener. We've got a special thing going here.

Fundraising week continues up to Wednesday night. I'll be helping Julia with Africa Kabisa today, Charlie with Research & Development tomorrow, and Jesse with The Intercontinental on Wednesday. It's one of my favorite times of the year.

I Sold My Heart to the Playlist

Coffeetime, November 7, 2008 -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

The songs listed below are probable, but not predictable. Things may change on the fly.

set 1
Hank Mobley / 5066 / Hank's Prank / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, 'Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 2
James Moody's Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orch
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orch

set 3
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Mildred Bailey / It All Comes Back to Me Now / radio transcription, CBS, The Mildred Bailey Show / LA c. 1943
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942

set 4
David "Fathead" Newman / House of David / One Room Paradise / Atlantic / 1967
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / Hoppin' John / Mercury / 2.7.57
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orch
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

middle scattered set(s)
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45

set 5
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11/ Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That's All / unaired BBC tv show / live, London Palladium 7.26.67
Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Run On for a Long Time / Columbia / 12.49

last (thankful) soul song
Emotions / Rejoice / Best of My Love / Columbia / Hollywood 1977

WMBR Fundraising begins this week…

Hi you dreamies,

As you may know already, WMBR's 2008 fundraising week begins this Thursday at 6 am (with the Pontoon Palace).

So I'll be fundraising this Friday on Coffeetime. New this year is a new capability on the WMBR.org fundraising pages to (almost) instantly alert on air deejays when a listener has made an online pledge.

This might be great for some of my listeners -- those who time shift and those who do listen from 2-4, but who cannot use the phone to call in their pledge. If you can't phone me while I'm on the air, but you can go to wmbr.org and you were planning on pledging (thank you!), then please do go online between 2 and 4 and do the online pledging then. I'll see it and be able to thank you on air in real time. (Note that the online pledge pages don't go "public" until Thursday.)

But, if you *can* phone in, please do call me. It adds to the party! If you can drop down to the station to make your pledge in person between 2 and 4, do that too -- that too will add to the party.

And, if you can listen, but have no access to phone or web, but still want to pledge, no worries. Your generosity will be welcome any time.

One last thought: heaven knows, this is a rough economic time. If you can't afford to pledge, do not worry about it. Your presence as a listener is still support indeed.

Thanks in advance to all!