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Friday, August 13, 2010
O, There's a Playlist in My Life
Thanks so much once again to Alex McNeil of Lost & Found for filling in for me last week! He played an awesome show of theme music from medical-type TV shows in honor of my collar bone saga.
Coffeetime, August 13, 2010, Angelynn Grant
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 1
Thad Jones / Mad Thad [?] / Jumpin' for Jane / Period / 12.12.56
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / Potpourri / Prestige / 4.19.57
Artie Shaw & his Orch / The Glider / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45
Annette Hanshaw / You're Just Too Sweet for Words, Honey o' Mine / Clarion / 2.20.31
The Ravens / How Could I Know / National / 12.22.47
Patti Page / Indiscretion / We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye / Mercury / 1955
set 2
Sonny Clark / Leapin' and Lopin' / Deep in a Dream / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Ike Quebec / I Surrender Dear / Blue Note / 7.17.45
Irving Mills & his Hotsy Totsy Gang / Loved One (first take) / Vocalion / 6.6.30
Alice Faye / There's a Lull in My Life / Brunswick / Hollywood 3.18.37 / orch arranged & conducted by Cy Feuer / from 20th Century Fox movie Wake Up and Live
Amos Milburn / Rocky Mountain / Showtime at the Apollo telescription / c. 1954 / with Willie Bryant announcing
Lord Melody / Again! Lord Melody Sings Calypso / Sparrow's Sister / Cook / Trinidad 1957 / with the Frankie Francis Orchestra and the March of Dimes Quartette
Frank Sinatra / Come Fly with Me / Brazil / Capitol / Hollywood late 1950s / with Billy May & his Orch
set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Desafinado / I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover (Jazz Samba) / Impulse! / 9.12.62
Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Honeydew / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Tal Farlow / Tal / Chuckles / Verve / 1956
Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker / Popity Pop [orig take 1] / Savoy / 12.29.45 / vocal = Slim Gaillard and Bam Brown
Madeline Greene and the Three Varieties / Sally Won't You Come Back / Bluebird / 1941 / with Earl Hines Orch
Basin Street Boys / Summertime Gal / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson Orch
Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / Tenderly / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57
set 4
Chico Hamilton / South Pacific in Hi-Fi / There Is Nothing Like a Dame / Pacific Jazz / LA 1958
Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfa / Jazz Samba Encore! / Ebony Samba / Verve / 2.7.63
Fats Waller / Numb Fumblin' / Victor / 3.1.29
Benny Carter & his Orch / Hurry, Hurry / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43 / vocal = Savannah Churchill
Ella Logan & Donald Richards / Broadway cast recording of Finian's Rainbow / Old Devil Moon / Columbia / 6.48 [rel]
[Unknown] / Lonesome for Mother's Prayer / Gotham / Detroit winter 1950-51
last soul song
Gene Chandler / There Was a Time! / Cowboys to Girls / Brunswick / 1968