The Best Playlists Happen While You're Dancing

Coffeetime, December 11, 2009, Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981

set 1
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Pot Pie / New Jazz / 10.12.54
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet /Rainy Afternoon / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow/ Coral / 1956
Cliff Edwards / Me and the Man in the Moon / Columbia / 10.28
Chuck Willis / I Rule My House / Okeh / 6.51
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / I Thought About You / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Eddie Safranski / Loaded / Spellbound / Savoy / 2.26.46
Sidney Bechet / Dear Old Southland / Blue Note / 3.27.40
Nestor Mesta Chayres / La Paloma / V Disc / mid 1940s
Billy Eckstine / Blue Christmas / MGM / 1950
Kay Starr / (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag / Capitol / LA 1950
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We're a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1969
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen h

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Stop and Listen / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Lester Young and Harry "Sweets" Edison / Pres & Sweets / One O'Clock Jump / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55
Charlie Parker / Perhaps / Savoy / 9.24.48
Dick Powell / Roses in December / Decca / 11.5.37
Ravens / For You / National / 4.24.47
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You're All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Roulette / Tampa / LA 1954
Jack Teagarden & his Orch / Pickin' for Patsy / Brunswick / 5.5.39
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' on C / Columbia / 1940
Bing Crosby / Gotta Be This or That / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood 8.8.45 / with Count Basie & his Orch, Lena Horne, and announcer Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song
Solomon Burke / Soul Christmas / Presents for Christmas / Atco / 11.8.66