What Do the Playlists Do at Christmas?

Coffeetime, December 17, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Bronze Dance / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Elmo Hope / Hope Meets Foster / Wail Frank, Wail / Prestige / 10.4.55
Count Basie & his Orch / Basie in London / Flute Juice / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56
Ted Weems & his Orch / Winter Wonderland / Columbia / Chicago 11.11.34 / vocal = Parker Gibbs
Johnny Desmond & the Ray Charles Singers / Sleigh Ride / MGM / 1950
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Trouble Is a Man / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
James Moody / Great Day / One Never Knows / Argo [Cadet] / Chicago 6.17, 18.63
Benny Carter & his Swing Quintet / Jingle Bells / Vocalion / London 10.19.36
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Christmas Night in Harlem / 4.17.34 / vocal = Jack Teagarden & Johnny Mercer

Les Brown & his Orch / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951

Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Sleigh Ride / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orch and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen

Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Janet Orenstein

set 3
Hank Mobley / Thinking of Home / Talk about Gittin' It / Blue Note / 7.31.70
Charlie Parker / Perhaps / Savoy / 9.24.48
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959
Billy Eckstine / Blue Christmas / MGM / 1950
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
Ronnie Kole Trio / Merry Christmas, Baby / Winter Wonderland / Paula / New Orleans 1969
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' on C / Columbia / 1940
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards / Happy Birthday & Songs for Every Holiday / Kris Kringle / Disneyland / LA 1958
Kay Starr / (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag / Capitol / LA 1950
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song
Emotions / What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas? / Volt / 1973