Friday, October 29, 2010

On a Clear Playlist You Can See Forever

Coffeetime, October 29, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Phil Woods & Gene Quill / Phil & Quill / A Night at St. Nicks / Prestige / 3.29.57
Jackie McLean / Jackie’s Bag / Appointment in Ghana / Blue Note / 9.1.60
Cee Pee Johnson & his Orch / Sherman Shuffle / AFRS Jubilee #61 / Hollywood c. 12.44
Jack Jackson & his Band / Roll Along, Prairie Moon / Vocalion / London mid-30s / vocal = Fred Latham
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Detour Ahead / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

set 2
Buddy Collette / Everything Happens to Me / Milan / 1961
Tadd Dameron / Fontainebleau / Fontaienbleau / Prestige / 3.9.56
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa [Neighborhood] / Manhattan / Savoy / 2.26.55
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Original Dixieland One-Step / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 4.26.37
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby / Everything Happens to Me / radio broadcast / Hollywood 6.12.41
Billy Taylor / So You Think You’re Cute? / HRS / c. 6.47
Sherman Booker & the Blue Notes / You Must Be Crazy / Coco [unissued] / LA mid-1950s
Phil Harris / That's What I Like About the South / The Preacher & the Bear / RCA Victor / 1958

set 3
David Fathead Newman / Fathead / Hard Times / Atlantic / 11.5.58
Ronnie Mathews / Doin' the Thang! / Ichi-Ban (Number One) / Prestige / 12.17.63
Jimmy Jones’ Big Four / Sunny Side Up / HRS / c. 8.47
Brick Fleagle / Swamp Mist / HRS / 5.45 / vocal = Annette Warren
The Rockets aka The Trumpeteers / Little Brown Jug / Aladdin / 1949
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / Hands Across the Table / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / Easy Living / Contemporary / 11.2.59
Quincy Jones / Go West, Man! / Blues Day / ABC-Paramount / LA 2.57
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Lazy Blues aka Johnny's After Hours / Recorded In Hollywood/Modern [unissued] / Hollywood 1950
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Everything Happens to Me / Victor / 1941 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / I Can’t See for Lookin’ / Decca / 5.26.44 / vocal = Judy Carol
John Cullum / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / Broadway score from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / RCA Victor / 1965
Golden Gate Quartet / The Preacher and the Bear / Bluebird / Charlotte 8.4.37

last soul song
Lulu / What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One / Decca / 1961

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Alex fills in for me… Again!

Thanks once more to Alex for sitting in for me on Coffeetime. What a show he did! I love it. I'll be taking care of CT myself for the new few weeks.

Below is his playlist:

Today's focus was on vocal versions of the TV themes known mainly in their instrumental incarnations.
Vocals are marked with (v).
01. Laurindo Almeida - Theme from Route 66
02. Teri Thornton - Theme from Route 66 (Open Highway) (v)
03. Les Brown with Pam Garner, vocal - The Thin Man (v)
04. James Darren - This Is the Naked City [first theme from series] (v)
05. Teri Thornton - Naked City [second theme] (Somewhere in the Night) (v)
06. Nelson Riddle - New Naked City Theme [third theme]
07. Stanley Wilson - Wide Country
08. Marian & Jimmy McPartland - Bat Masterson
09. Al Caiola & Orch. - Bonanza
10. Johnny Cash - Bonanza (v)
11. Stanley Wilson - Theme from the Virginian
12. Gary Clarke - Theme from the Virginian (Lonesome Tree) (v)
13. Sons of the Pioneers - Wagon Train [first theme] (v)
14. Johnny O'Neill - Wagon Train [second theme - Roll Along Wagon Train] (v)
15. NBC Orch. - Wagon Train [third theme - agons Ho]
16. Jack Valentine - Gunsmoke (Gunsmoke Trail) (v)
17. Henry Mancini - Mr. Lucky
18. George Chakiris - Mr. Lucky (v)
19. Felicia Sanders - Blue Star (Theme from Medic) (v)
20. Richard Chamberlain - Three Stars Will Shine Tonight (Theme from Dr. Kildare) (v)
21. Chris Connelly - For Those Who Are Young (Theme from Peyton Place) (v)
22. Maynard Ferguson - Straightaway
23. Theme from I Love Lucy
24. Desi Arnas - I Love Lucy (v)
25. Theme from The Andy Griffith Show
26. Andy Griffith - The Fishin' Hole (Andy Griffith Theme) (v)
27. Theme from Bewitched
28. Frankie Randall - Bewitched (v)
29. Theme from I Dream of Jeannie
30. Hugo Montenegro Orch. & Chorus - Jeannie (v)
31. Theme from Hogan's Heroes
32. Hogan's Heroes Cast - Hogan's Heroes March (v)
33. Sally Field - Who Needs Wings to Fly (theme from The Flying Nun) (v)
34. Neal Hefti - The Odd Couple (v)
35. Nelson Riddle - Dick Van Dyke/The Alvin Show
36. Theme from Star Trek
37. Judy Roberts - Star Trek (v)
38. Theme from Mission: Impossible
39. Kane Triplets - Mission Impossible
40. Theme from Mork & Mindy
41. Sunburst - Mork and Mindy (v)
42. Barry Manilow - Bandstand Boogie (theme from American Bandstand) (v)
43. Nelson Riddle - I'm Dickens, He's Fenster March
44. Geoffrey Burgon - Brideshead Revisited
45. Laurindo Almeida - Mr. Lucky
46. Theme from Huckleberry Hound (v)
47. Edwin Astley - The Saint

Monday, October 18, 2010

Alex fills in for me

Hi Sleepies, Alex McNeil of Lost & Found filled in for me last Friday and will do so again this week. I'll be back at it the Friday before Halloween. Until then, here's Alex's playlist from this past show. It was another stellar turn by him.

Coffeetime, Friday October 15, 2010 -- Alex McNeil

01. Johnny Williams - Checkmate (CD)
02. Johnny Williams - The King Swings (from Checkmate soundtrack) (CD)
03. Johnny Williams - The Time Tunnel (CD)
04. Barry Gray Orch. - Thunderbirds (LP)
05. Laurie Johnson - The Avengers (LP)
06. Theme from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (LP)
07. Garry Miller - Stingray (LP)
08. Bernard Herrmann - Twilight Zone (first opening theme) (LP)
09. Al Hirt - Green Hornet Theme (LP)
10. Johnny Gregory - Cheyenne (LP)
11. Bud Wattles - The Lone Ranger (LP)
12. CBS Orch. - Gunsmoke Theme (CD)
13. Herchel Burke Gilbert - Wanted Dead or Alive (first theme) (LP)
14. Bud Wattles - Wanted Dead or Alive (second theme) (LP)
15. Frankie Laine - Rawhide (CD)
16. Al Caiola - The Rebel (LP)
17. Johnny Gegory - Sugarfoot (LP)
18. Johnny Western - The Ballad of Paladin (CD)
19. Mary Martin & Noel Coward - Together With Music (LP)
20. Bud Shank & Bob Cooper - Dinah (LP)
21. Buddy Morrow - Parade of the Chessmen (Racket Squad Theme) (CD)
22. Hugo Winterahlter - Coca-Cola Company Theme (LP)
23. Richard Gleason Orch. - Leave it to Beaver (LP)
24. Buddy Morrow - Highway Patrol (CD)
25. Mundell Lowe & His All-Stars - The Thin Man (LP)
26. Nelson Riddle - The Untouchables (LP)
27. Johnny Gregory - Tightrope! (LP)
28. Pete Rugolo - Nervous (from The Dick Powell Theater) (LP)
29. Si Zentner - The Fugitive (CD)
30. Jack Costanzo - Naked City (second theme) (LP)
31. Nelson Riddle - Naked City (third theme) (LP)
32. Warren Barker & Frank Comstock - 77 Sunset Strip (LP)
33. Carl Brandt - New Sunset (second theme for 77 Sunset Strip) (LP)
34. Liberty Soundtrack Orch. - Burke's Law Suite (CD)
35. Warren Barker & Frank Comstock - Peter Gunn (LP)
36. Carl Brandt - Arrest and Trial (LP)
37. Kenyon Hopkins - East Side, West Side (LP)
38. Herb Ellis & Ray Brown - The Flintstones (LP)
39. Tony Mottola - Danger (1960 version) (LP)
40. Roger Kellaway - Remembering You (closing theme from All in the Family) (LP)
41. Mariachi Brass with Chet Baker - Dating Game Theme (LP)
42. Johnny Williams - The Isolated Pawn (from Checkmate soundtrack) (CD)

Friday, October 08, 2010

That Lucky Old Playlist

Coffeetime, October 8, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Blues in a Quandary / Candid / 9.27.60
Joe Gordon / Lookin' Good / A Song for Richard / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61
Lester Young / You’re Driving Me Crazy / Aladdin / LA 8.46
Cootie Williams & his Orch / Salt Lake City Bounce / Capitol / 7.17.45
Gene Austin / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Victor / 11.25.29 / with Fats Waller on piano
Louis Jordan & his Typany Five / Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand’s Doin’ / Decca / 1940
Jo Stafford / Autumn in New York / Capitol / 1950

set 2
Tal Farlow / The Aritstry of Tal Farlow / Autumn in New York / Verve / LA 11.15, 16.54
Cannonball Adderley / Know What I Mean? / Goodbye / Riverside / 2.27.61
Tab Smith & his Orch / All My Life / United / Chicago c. 2.52 (1953?)
Joe Haymes & his Orch / He’s a Curbstone Cutie / Bluebird / 8.33 / vocal = John Riley Scott
Barrie Sisters / Basin Street Blues / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44 / with the King Cole Trio
Joe Thomas & his Orch / My Baby Left Me / King / Cincinnati 5.21.49
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer / Two of a Kind / East of the Rockies / Atco / LA 1961 / orch arranged & conducted by Billy May

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Tender Moments / Man from Tanganyika / Blue Note / 12.1.67
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / Barbados / Fantasy / "The Cellar", Vancouver, Canada 9.16.61
Charlie Parker / Chasin’ the Bird / Savoy / 5.8.47
Cabineers / Sweet Louise / Decca / 12.11.40
June Hutton & the Pied Pipers / The Trolley Song / V-Disc 316A [Capitol] / Hollywood 5.19.44
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Two Sleepy People / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.11.56

set 4
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Plays The Composition Of Bill Holman, Bob Cooper And Jimmy Giuffre / Exaktamo / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54
Chubby Jackson & his Orch / Conception / So What / Prestige / 3.15.50
The Hot Club Swing Stars / Daphné / Swing / Paris 12.14.38
Chuck Foster & his Orch / She Don’t Wanna / V-Disc 239B / 1944
Sammy Davis Jr / Sings and Impersonates / That Lucky Old Sun / Reprise / LA c. 6.20.61
Mount Eagle Quartet / He’s a Friend to Us All / Apex / c. 11.48

last soul song
The Montclairs / Dreaming Out of Season / Unwanted Love / Paula / 1972

Friday, October 01, 2010

Playlist (With the Naturally Curly Hair)



Coffeetime, October 1, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / Modal Mood / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / / Tarriff / Blue Note / 3.13.56
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Esquire Jump / live, 2nd annual Esquire award winners concert, live, LA 1.17.45 / announcer = Danny Kaye
Ambrose & his Orch / Reaching for Someone / Decca / Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London 7.9.29 / vocal = unknown
Mabel Scott / Somebody Goofed / Coral / 5.22.51
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / LA 7.23.57

set 2
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Room with Skies / Ricordi / 1961
Gigi Gryce / The Hap’nin’s / Lover Man / New Jazz / 5.3.60
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Junk Man / Capitol / 1958
Bert Lown & his Loungers / Here Comes My Ball & Chain / Harmony / 4.5.29
Alice Faye / Nasty Man / Bluebird [from 20th Century Fox movie George White’s Scandals] / Hollywood 1934 / with Freddy Martin & his Orch
The Four Aces / Garbage Man / Trilon / 12.46
Ann Cole / Easy, Easy, Baby / Baton / 1956
Nat King Cole / Cole Español / Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps) / Capitol / Havana 1958

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Softly As a Summer Breeze / One for Philly Joe / Blue Note / 10.14.58
Bennie Green / Bennie Green / Sometimes I’m Happy / Time / 9.27.60
Jesse Price & his Jump Jivers / Creepin’ and Peepin’ (Tippin’ Out) / Capitol / LA 1948
Maxine Sullivan / Ill Wind / Victor / 8.22.39
The Ravens / Deep Purple / National / 1.27.49
Yves Montand / Paris Recital / L’Enfant de Paris / Philips / live at Le Theatre D'Etoile, Paris 1964

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Plays Jazz Themes from Sweet Smell of Success / Goodbye Baby / Decca / LA 1957
Vince Guaraldi / A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Freda (With the Naturally Curly Hair) / Fantasy / San Francisco 1964
Floyd Dixon / Come Back Baby / Aladdin / 5.12.52
Peggy Lee / Hallelujah, I Love Him So / Capitol / LA 1959
Carolyn Franklin / Baby Dynamite! / There I Go (Se per te c’e’ soltanto quell ‘uomo) / RCA / 1969
Jubalaires / Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song
The Five Stairsteps / The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / Bad News / Buddah / Chicago 1967