Singing a Vagabond Playlist

Coffeetime, December 5, 2008, Angelynn Grant

bed
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