Friday, October 30, 2009

Pack Up Your Playlist in Your Old Kit-Bag



Coffeetime, October 30, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / Mighty Moe & Joe / Blue Note / 6.23.57
André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Jessie's Idea / French Columbia / summer 1956
George Gerswhin / Someone to Watch Over Me / Columbia / 11.8.26
Freddie Rich & his Orch / Nobody's Sweetheart / CBS radio transcription, Fred's Friendly Five / fall 1931 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp or Paul Smalle, announcer = David Ross
Helen Humes / Rock Me to Sleep / Discovery [unissued] / LA 5.9.50 / with Marshall Royal & his Orch
Floyd Dixon & his Band / Let's Dance / Peacock [Aladdin] / Houston 1949
Ann Sothern / Sothern Exposure / Last Time I Saw Paris / Tops / LA 1957

set 2
Art Farmer / To Sweden with Love / Kristallen den Fina (The Fine Crystal) / Atlantic / Stockholm 4.30.64
Red Garland / Mr. Wonderful / Prestige / 8.12.59
Joe Venuti / Autumn Leaves / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Ruth Etting / Stay as Sweet as You Are / Columbia / 11.21.34
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / You Can Fool Some of the People / 9.14.39 / vocal = Jimmie "Trummy" Young
T-Bone Walker / I Got the Blues / Imperial / LA 1951-52

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / The Prayer; Taking a Chance on Love / Impulse! / 4.25.62
Jerome Richardson / Midnight Oil / Delerious Trimmings / New Jazz / 10.10.58
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / Bean and the Boys aka 39"-25"-39" / RCA Victor / 1.18.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orch
Mills Brothers / Paper Doll / Soundie / Hollywood early 1942
Ella Mae Morse / Robin Hood / AFRS Swingtime #36 / Hollywood 1946 / with the AFRS orch, arranged & conducted by Murray McEachern
Bobby Darin / Winners / When Day is Done / Atco / 1964

set 4
Benny Carter / Swingin' the '20s / Mary Lou / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Hunt and Peck / Ricordi / 1961
Lionel Hampton & his Orch / I Know That You Know / Bluebird / 4.26.37
Dean Martin / Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk / radio transcription / 1950s
Anthony Newley / Tony / Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag / London / 1961 http://www.anthonynewley.com/recordings.html
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Sometimes You Gotta Cry a Little / Duke / 1963
Unknown Detroit Female Group / Are You Ready? / Gotham [unissued] / Detroit late 1950, early 1951

last soul song
Betty Everett / Chained to Your Love / Vee Jay / 1963