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Friday, December 26, 2008
Do the Playlist
Coffeetime, December 26, 2008, Angelynn Grant
bed
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