Do the Playlist

Coffeetime, December 26, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman / Three Trumpets / Diffusion of Beauty / Prestige / 1.26.57
Ken McIntyre / Looking Ahead / Curtsy / New Jazz / 1.28.60
Don Byas / Mohawk Special / Swing / Paris 10.18.46
Al Bowlly & his Orch / Every Day's a Holiday / Bluebird / 12.3.37
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Sure Had a Wonderful Time / Decca / 10.10.46
Eartha Kitt / An Englishman Needs Time / TV soundtrack / live 1962
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Verve / LA 8.15-16.60

set 2
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Medley: They Say It's Wonderful; How Deep is the Ocean; I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You; My Old Flame; Body and Soul / Atlantic / 4.3, 5.57
Russ Morgan & his Orch / Moonlight and Shadows / radio transcription / 1938
Joe Venuti's Blue Five / Four String Joe / Okeh / 11.15.27
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942
Jimmy Witherspoon / It / Federal / LA 6.4.53
Mouseketeer Ensemble / Happy Birthday and Songs for Every Holiday / Happy New Year / Disneyland / LA 1964

set 3
King Curtis / Soul Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Atco / 10.23.68 / with Duane Allman on guitar
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Afro-Jaws / Jazz-a-Samba / Riverside / 5.4, 12.61
Charlie Parker / Tico Tico / Clef / 3.12.51
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Pert Skirt / Gotham / Philadelphia 1950
The Mills Brothers / St. Louis Blues / Brunswick / 4.14.32
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Let It Be Me / Bluebird [unissued] / 12.18.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright
Frank Sinatra / As Time Goes By / radio transcription Songs By Sinatra, CBS / 12.26.43 / with Axel Stordahl & orch and The Bobby Tucker Singers

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Nagasaki / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Long Ago and Far Away / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Toni Harper / Rock A Bye Baby / Columbia / LA 1.3.50
The Sharpees / Do the 45 / One-derful! / St. Louis 1965
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 12.58
Christland Singers / Jesus Has a Blessing / Nashboro / Nashville mid-1950s

last soul song
The O'Jays / Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Year's Ain't New Year's Without the One You Love / Neptune / Philadelphia 1969

The Playlist Waltz

Coffeetime, December 19, 2008

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Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 1.31.60
Duke Ellington & his Orch / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show aired 12.47 / Ring Dem Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 7.11.46
Harry Reser & his Orch / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Decca / 10.24.34 / vocal = Tom Sacks
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera-Ellen / soundtrack to Paramount movie White Christmas / Snow / Hollywood 1953
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 8.5.60

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965
Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / It's Christmas Time Again / Capitol / LA 1963
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 / lyrics by Peggy Lee, music by Cy Coleman, written for Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66
Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48
Benny Carter & his Swing Quintet / Jingle Bells / Vocalion? / London 10.19.36
The Ravens / White Christmas / Savoy / Chicago 1948
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
[Bull] Moose Jackson / I'll Be Home for Christmas / King / 1951
Louis Armstrong / Christmas Night in Harlem / Decca / LA 9.8.55 / with Benny Carter Orch
Bing Crosby / White Christmas / Count Your Blessings / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Capitol Promo) / Capitol / LA 9.17.47
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orch
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.57

Singing a Vagabond Playlist

Coffeetime, December 5, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Tribute to Brownie / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Clifford Brown / Minority (take 1) / Vogue / Paris 10.8.53
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch / All the Things You Ain't / V-Disc / LA 7.20.44
Harry Richman / Singing a Vagabond Song / soundtrack to UA film Putting on the Ritz / Hollywood 1930
Jack McVea & his All Stars / No, No, You Can't Do Dot Mon / Black & White / LA 11.47 / vocal = Robin Tarrant & Sammy Yates
Peggy Lee / (songs from) White Christmas / (Love) You Didn't Do Right by Me / Decca / Hollywood 5.24.54 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

set 2
Cal Tjader / Tjader plays Tjazz / I've Never Been in Love Before / Fantasy / San Francisco 12.4.54
Kenny Drew / The Kenny Drew Trio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Riverside / 9.20, 26.56
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / Thanks for the Memory / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
The Kit-Kat Band / D'Ye Love Me? / Bluebird / London 9.21.26
Dorothy Lamour / Too Romantic / soundtrack to Paramount movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940
Tiny Bradshaw / Brad's Boogie / King / Cincinnati 6.8.50
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Inception / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / I'll Take Romance / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.18.57
Ivory Joe Hunter & his Orch / Siesta with Sonny / King / Cincinnati 12.5.47
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Blue Music / radio transcription / live Peacock Room, Baker Hotel, Dallas 8.9.45 / vocal = Doris Day
The Ravens / Without a Song / National [unissued] / 1950-51
Mel Tormé / The Tormé Touch / I Like to Recognize the Tune / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Too Close for Comfort / Contemporary / LA 4.22.57
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Then I'll Be Tired of You / RCA Victor / 10.2.61
Fred Astaire / You're Easy to Dance With /soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Paramount / Hollywood spring 1942 / accompanied by "Male Octet"
Little Willie John / Mister Little Willie John / You Got to Get Up Early in the Morning / King / Cincinnati 1.4.57
Bing Crosby / When It's Twilight on the Trail / soundtrack from The Bing Crosby Show, NBC TV / Hollywood 8.59 / with orch conducted by Nelson Riddle (CD bonus track on Fancy Meeting You Here, RCA)
The Southern Sons /I'll Fly Away / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 6.21.51

last soul song
Rufus & Chaka Khan / Rufusized / Stop on By / ABC / LA 1974

The Soft Land of Playlist

Thanks to Alex for filling in for me last week while I was away. I've been under the weather and have lost my voice. So, I try to keep the talking to the minimum on today's show -- for your sake, my dreamy friends.

Coffeetime, December 5, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Capers / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62 [4.11.62?]
Horace Silver / Blue Note Gems of Jazz (BLP2001) / Safari / Blue Note / 10.9.52
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Yesterdays / radio transcription / 1941-2 / featuring Freddy Webster on trumpet
Noel Coward / Most of Ev'ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Dizzy Gillespie / School Days / I Couldn't Beat the Rap / Savoy / 8.16.51 / vocal = Melvin Moore
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / LA 7.23.57

set 2
Hank Mobley / The Turnaround / The Good Life / Blue Note / 3.7.63
Herbie Mann's Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Handful of Stars / Riverside / LA 7.3.57
Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers / Dinah / HRS / 8.31.38
Ted Weems & his Orch / Walkin' My Baby Back Home / Victor / 1931
Lil Armstrong & his Swing Orch / I'm Knocking at the Cabin Door / Decca / 4.15.37
Chuck Willis / It's Too Late Baby / Atlantic / 1956

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Trompeta Toccata / Mamacita / Blue Note 9.14.64
Tadd Dameron Sextet / The Chase / Blue Note / 9.26.47
The Dreamers / Doin' the Bow Wow / Standard transcription / LA 8.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Bolero at the Savoy / CBS radio transcription / Hollywood Palladium 10.14.41 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / So What / Bethlehem / 1.60

set 4
Russ Freeman / Jazz West Coast, volume 5 / Invitation to the Blues / World Pacific / LA 1959
Dizzy Gillespie / The Swords / EmArcy / LA 9.62
Chu Berry "Little Jazz" Ensemble / Sittin' In / Commodore / 11.10.38
Ann Southern / soundtrack to Panama Hattie / I've Still Got My Health / Hollywood 1943
King Cole Trio / I Love You (for Sentimental Reasons) / Capitol / LA 8.22.46
Sammy Davis, Jr / All the Way… and Then Some! / They Can't Take That Away from Me / Decca / 2.20.57
The Gospel Songbirds / The Bible is Right / Nashboro / 1962

last soul song
Betty Wright / I Love the Way You Love / I'm Gettin' Tired Baby / Alston / 1972