Friday, February 18, 2011

There's Nothing Like a Playlist in Love

Thanks one more once to Alex McNeil for sitting in for me last week. I've posted his playlist below today's. Alex is a peach… but you know that already.

Coffeetime, February 18, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins Plus 4 / I Feel a Song Comin’ On / Prestige / 3.22.56
Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Curro’s [aka French Spice] / Warwick / early 1961
Paul Baron & his orch / The Baron Riffs / Army V-Disc 373A / mid-1940s
Lupino Lane / cast recording of The Golden Toy / An Elephant Never Forgets / Decca / London 1934 / orch conducted by Henry Hall
Gotham’s Four Notes / Away / Gotham / 1948
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / Nobody Home but the Blues / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / Movin’ Along / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Clark Terry / In Orbit / Very Near Blue / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabiel) & his Orch / Gin Mill Special / Bluebird / 7.18.39
Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / After You've Gone / radio transcription / 1945
Isham Jones & his Orch / Don’t Tell Her What Happened to Me / Brunswick / Chicago 9.8.30
Eddy Howard / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Majestic / 1947
Pee Wee Crayton / Every Dog Has Its Day / Imperial / New Orleans 6.54

set 3
Grant Green / Am I Blue / I Wanna Be Loved / Blue Note / 5.16.63
Sonny Stitt / Move On Over… / A Natural Fox / Cadet / Chicago 6.7.63
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Bananas / Gotham [unissued] / late 1950
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / T’Ain’t Me / radio broadcast / Chattaanooga, Tenn 3.2.45 / vocal = Doris Day
The Ravens / There’s Nothing Like a Woman in Love / National / 7.49
Bobby Darin / Love Swings / Something to Remember You By / Atco / 1961

set 4
Phineas Newborn Jr / The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr / Way Out West / Contemporary / LA 11.21.61
Cy Coleman / Pianorama / Here I’ll Stay / Capitol / 1961
Bing Crosby & Olga San Juan / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / (I’ll See You in) C-U-B-A / Hollywood August to November 1945
Smiley Lewis / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Imperial / New Orleans 4.53
Frank D'Rone / After the Ball / Will You Still Be Mine / Mercury / Hollywood c. 1960 / with Billy May & his Orch
Martha Carter / Then I’ll Believe / Ron / New Orleans spring 1962
Golden West Singers / Jesus Is Everywhere / Ajax / San Francisco 1949

last soul song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / S.O.S. / Atco / 1966


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Coffeetime, February 11, 2011 <-- Alex McNeil fills in for me

I. A request from Angelynn:
01. Nat King Cole Trio – (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (CD)

II. The Peter Gunn Suite
02. Henry Mancini – Peter Gunn (CD, 1959)
03. Jimmy & Marian McPartland – Peter Gunn (Design LP, 1959)
04. Sarah Vaughan – Peter Gunn (vocal version) (Mercury LP, 1965)

III. TV Themes (focusing on shows involving an element of romance, or a married couple as central characters)
05. (no artist credited) – I Love Lucy (TVToons v. 1, CD)
06. Desi Arnaz – I Love Lucy (Rhino LP, 1953)
07. Longines Symphonette Orch. – Love Nest (Burns & Allen) (Longines LP)
08. (no artist credited) – I Married Joan (TVToons v. 2, LP)
09. Jackie Gleason Orch. – You’re My Greatest Love (The Honeymooners) (LP)
10. (no artist ctedited) – Father Knows Best (TVToons v. 4, CD)
11. (no artist credited) – The Donna Reed Show (TVToons v. 1, CD)
12. (no artist credited) – Ozzie & Harriet (TVToons v. 4, CD)
13. (no artist credited) – Leave It to Beaver (TVToons v. 1, CD)
14. Jud Canlon’s Rhythmaires – Dobie Gillis (Rhino LP)
15. Lionel Newman – Theme from Dick Van Dyke Show (20th Cent. LP, 1963)
16. Herb Ellis & Ray Brown – The Flintstones (Concord LP, 1974)
17. (no artist credited) – The Jetsons (TVToons v.1, CD)
18. Frank DeVol – The Addams Family (ABC LP, 1965)
19. Jack Marshall – The Munsters (CD)
20. Frank DeVol – Bewitched (ABC LP, 1965)
21. Eddie Albert – Green Acres (Rhino LP, 1966)
22. (no artist credited) – I Dream of Jeannie (TVToons v.1, CD)
23. Hugo Montenegro Orch. & Chor. – Jeannie (vocal version of I Dream of Jeannie) (45)
24. (no artist credited) – That Girl (TCToons v. 2, LP)
25. Chuck Barris – Dating Game Theme (Friends LP, 1975?)
26. Chuck Barris – Newlywed Game Theme (Friends LP)
27. (no artist credited) – Seattle (Here Come the Brides) (TVToons v. 5, CD)
28. (no artist credited) – The Brady Bunch (TVToons v. 2, LP)
29. Charles Fox Singers – Love, American Style (LP, 1973)
30. (no artist credited) – Happy Days (TVToons v. 3, CD)
31. 101 Strings – Those Were the Days (All in the Family) (Alshire LP, 1975)
32. (no artist credited) – The Bob Newhart Show (Home to Emily) (TVToons v. 3, CD)
33. Danny Davis & Nashville Brass – The Waltons Theme (Pickwick LP, 1975)
34. Jack Jones – The Love Boat (45)
35. (no artist credited) – Mork & Mindy (TVToons v. 6, CD)
36. 101 Strings – Little House on the Prairie (Alshire LP)
37. (no artist credited) – My Three Sons (TVToons v.1, CD) [by request]

38. Frank Sinatra – Love and Marriage (Married with Children) (Capitol CD)
39. Lee Holdridge – Beauty and the Beast (LP)
40. Danny Elfman – Main Title Theme from the Simpsons (CD)
41. Mundell Lowe & the All Stars – The Thin Man (RCA Camden LP)
42. Marti Webb – Moonlighting (BBC LP)
43. (no artist credited) _ Who’s the Boss (TVToons v. 6, CD)
44. John Gregory – McMillan and Wife (Mercury LP, 1978)
45. Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams – Without Us (Family Ties) (CD)
46. B. J. Thomas & Dusty Springfield – As Long as We’ve Got Each Other (Growing Pains) (Reprise LP, 1988)
47. James Galway & Henry Mancini – The Thorn Birds (RCA 45)