Playlist For My Louie

Coffeetime, April 22, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Miles Davis / Volume 1 / Tempus Fugit / Blue Note / 4.20.53
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / Blue Moon / Columbia / 12.1.58
Benny Carter & his Orch / Lullaby to a Dream / Victor / 4.1.41
Walter Pidgeon / What'll I Do? / Bluebird / 7.15.24 / with Lester Hodges on piano
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52
Billie Holiday / Lady Sings the Blues / I Thought About You / Clef / LA 9.3.54

set 2
Art Pepper & George Cables / Tête-à-Tête / Over the Rainbow / Galaxy / 4.14.82
Oscar Moore / Beautiful Moons Ago / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / Little Buttercup (I'll Never Be the Same) / Parlophone / 6.10.31
Louis Armstrong / Laughin’ Louie / Bluebird / 4.24.33
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Bright Eyes / Brunswick / 12.26.34
Wynonie Harris / Playful Baby / Apollo / 12.45
Peggy Lee / Lady & the Tramp soundtrack / What a Dog; He’s a Tramp / Disneyland / Hollywood 1955

set 3
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / We’ll Be Together Again / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Charlie Parker / Star Eyes / Clef / 1.17.51
Mildred Bailey / I'll Never Be the Same / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / I'll Never Be the Same / Clef / 9.13.54
Burt Bacharach / Make It Easy on Yourself / Pacific Coast Highway / A&M / LA 1967
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards aka Ukelele Ike / soundtrack to Pinocchio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Disney [Buena Vista] / Hollywood 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers and Victor Young & his Orch
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood /8.22.46
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961
Bobby Darin / Moon River / weekly radio broadcast “Milk Recordings” for the American Dairy Association / Hollywood 1973
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soul song
The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Playlist Me

Coffeetime, April 15 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Bill Hardman / Jackie's Pal / Just for Marty / Prestige / 8.31.56
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / I Love You / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Ernie Henry / Lasts Chorus / Like Someone in Love (alt take) / Riverside / 9.3.57
Benny Carter & his Orch / Blues in My Heart / Decca / Den Haag 8.17.37
Arthur Askey / Only a Glass of Champagne / HMV / London 1.7.40
Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / Heat Wave / Victor / Hollywood 3.9.34
Floyd Dixon / Lovin’ / Aladdin / LA 12.15.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Dinah Washington / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / EmArcy / 10.2.57 / with Ernie Wilkins’s Orch

set 2
Johnny Hodges & Earl Hines / Swing’s Our Thing / One Night in Trinidad / Verve / San Francisco 11.14.67
Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Don’t Blame Me / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Taj Mahal / Everest / 1960
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Deep Henderson / Victor / Kansas City, MO 3.9.26
Butterbeans & Susie / Times Is Hard / Okeh / Chicago 8.11.30
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Medley: Who Stole the Jam; You Can’t Have Everything; In Old Chicago / radio broadcast / 1937 / vocal = Alice Faye
Sonny Til & the Orioles / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / Jubilee / 2.53

set 3
Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / Driftin’ / Blue Note / 3.28.62
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Everybody Blow! / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Jack McVea & his All Stars / New Deal / Melodisc / Hollywood 8.7.45
Dorothy Carless / There Goes That Song Again / HMV / London 6.25.41 / with Geraldo & the Savoy Hotel Orch
The Blenders / Don’t Play Around with Love / Jay-Dee / 3.27.53
Buddy Greco / On Stage! / Dreamy / Epic / live, Columbia Record’s 30th Street Studio 6.30.64

set 4
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Blue Lou / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Tune for Tex / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Mugsy Spanier & his V-Disc Dixielanders / You Took Advantage of Me / V-Disc [unissued] / 10.22.45
Vido Musso Orch / The Day I Left Alsace-Lorraine / Trilon / LA 8.47 /
vocal = Honey Dreamers
Beny Moré / Dolor Carabali / RCA / Cuba or Mexico 1950 / with Pérez Prado
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / Make Believe Dreams / Atlantic / 1966
Southern Wonders / Thank You Jesus / Memphis 9.1.53

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Four Walls / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

The Big Playlist Express

Coffeetime, April 8 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Gigi Gryce / And the Jazz Lab Quintet / Minority / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins / Perpetuation / Blue Note / 8.8.54
Harry James Orch / Flash! / radio air check / Hollywood spring 1952
B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orch / It Must Be Love / Edison / 9.13.28 / vocal = Theo Alban
Jimmy Higgins & his Drops of Joy / I Can't Stop It / Specialty / Hollywood 9.9.47
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Once There Was You / ABC-Paramount [Impulse!] / 12.12.56
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / For Heaven's Sake / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Buck Clayton & his Big Four / On the Sunny Side of the Street / radio air check / 6.26.46
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / You’re Everything I Love / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / vocal = Sonny Woods, with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Changes / Victor / Chicago 11.23.27 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948
Playboys / My Buddie Stole My Chippie / Atlantic [unreleased] / 12.9.54

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / What Could I Do Without You? / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / Introducton + Blue ’n’ Boogie / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 3.31.51
Sarah Vaughn / Trouble Is a Man / Musicraft / LA 1948 / with Ted Dale Orch
Jubalaires / Rockin’ Chair / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / September Song / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with

set 4
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Blues Express / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56
Delta Four / Farewell Blues / Decca / 12. 20.35
Wingy Manone & his Orch / If I Could Be with You / radio air check / 7.25.44 / vocal duet with Kay Starr
King Cole Trio / I Feel So Smoochie / Capitol / 11.4.47
Marge Dodson / New Voice in Town / Dearly Beloved / Columbia / 1960
Evangelist Singers of Detroit / I’m Tired / Bullet / Detroit 1948

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Four Walls / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

Gonna Take a Playlist

Coffeetime, April 1, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Parisian Thoroughfare / At this Time aka Off to the Races / Brunswick / L'Olympia Theatre, Paris 10.22.58
Don Byas / Lover Come Back to Me / Vogue / Paris 5.19.55
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / Manhattan Rag / Columbia / 10.10.29
Leslie A. “Hutch” Hutchinson / The Best Things in Life are Free / HMV / London 7.1.41
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orch
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

set 2
Modern Jazz Quartet / Concorde / Gershwin Medley: Soon; For You, For Me, Forevermore; Love Walked In; Our Love Is Here to Stay / Prestige / 7.2.55
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Shades of Blue / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Blue Harlem / Atlantic / 12.29.47
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / I’m Gonna Clap MyHands / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 4.29.36 / vocal = Topy Glerum
Helen Humes / Stop Jivin’ Around [Pleasing Man Blues] / Philo [Aladdin] / LA 12.22.45
Red Rodney / Dig This Menu, Please / Okeh / 5.52 / vocal = Morty Perry
Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Anatole of Paris / Decca / Hollywood 12.20.47

set 3
Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / 63rd Street Theme / Riverside / 8.59
JJ Johnson / Dial JJ 5 / In a Little Provincial Town / Columbia / 5.31.57
Little Johnny Griffin / Chicago Riffin’ / Okeh / c. 1954
Chick Webb & his Orch / McPherson Is Rehearsin’ (To Swing) / Decca / 6.9.38 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald
Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / I Know / Decca / 11.27.45 / vocal = Jubalaires
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / I’m Confessin’ / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Satin Doll / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Wild Bill Davis / April in Paris / Okeh / 1.8.53
Fats Waller / My Very Good Friend, the Milkman / Bluebird / 6.21.35
Etta Jones / Blues to End All Blues / Victor / 6.11.46 / with J. C. Heard & his Orch
Anthony Newley / Pure Imagination / Best of All Worlds / MGM / Hollywood 1971
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soul song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Gonna Take a Miracle / Studio One / Jamaica 1970