Friday, August 26, 2011

Baubles, Bangles, and Playlist

Coffeetime, August 26, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / What Is This Thing Called Love? / Prestige / 5.8.65
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene / Stompin’ at the Savoy / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58
Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / 2.11.29
Cicely Courtneidge / The Moment I Saw You / HMV / London 3.4.33 / from movie Soldier's of the King
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Lemonade / Decca / LA 1950
Irene Reid / Once a Thief and Other Themes by Lalo Schifrin / The Right to Love / Verve / LA 4.23.65

set 2
Charlie Mariano / Darn That Dream / Bethlehem / 7.11.55
Art Farmer / Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce / Evening in Casablanca / Prestige / 10.21.55
Tiny Grimes / Howlin’ Blues / Gotham / 1951
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Night and Day / Musicraft / LA 6.19.46
Golden Gate Orchestra {The California Ramblers} / When The Moon Shines in Coral Gables / Edison Diamond Disc / 5.11.25
The Dinning Sisters / The Last Thing I Want Is Your Pity / Capitol / LA 1948
Little Willie John / Like Boy, Like Girl / King [unissued] / Cincinnati 4.12.61

set 3
Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones / Philly Joe & Elvin Together! / Beau-ty / Atlantic / 1964
Red Prysock & his House Rockers / Crying My Heart Out / Red Robin / 5.52
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / The Walls Keep Talking / Okeh / Chicago 8.20.41
Five Echoes / I Really Do / Vee Jay [unissued alt take] / 10.31.54 / with Al Smith Band
Bobby Darin / That's All / It Ain't Necessarily So / Atco / 12.19.58

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jazz West Coast, Vol 2 / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.18.55
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / One for Pat / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
King Nawahi Hawaiians / Under a Texas Moon / Columbia / Hollywood 3.11.30
Mel Tormé with The Meltones / Back in Town / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Verve / LA 4.23, 28 & 29.59
The Jubilee Hummingbirds / Give Me One More Chance / Chalice [unissued] / 1960s

last soul song
Jackie Wilson / (I Can Feel Those Vibrations) This Love Is Real / Brunswick / 1970

Friday, August 19, 2011

White Sails (Beneath a Yellow Playlist)



Coffeetime, August 19, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce; Vol 2, Councelation / Mean to Me / Contemporary / LA 9.3.57
Howard McGhee / Howard McGhee, vol 2 / Jarm / Blue Note / 5.20.53
Dick Hyman / Conversation Piece / You Were There (Tonight at 8:30) / Proscenium / 1956
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Heat Waves / Brunswick / 2.25.32
Leo Reisman & his Orchestra / What Is This Thing Called Love? / Victor / 1.20.30 / vocal = Lewis Conrad
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / Or Leave Me Alone / Decca / 10.27.36
Chris Connor / A Jazz Date with Chris Connor / Moon Ray / Atlantic / 12.17.56

set 2
Chet Baker / Chet / Alone Together / Riverside / 12.30.58
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Flamingo / Blue Note / 4.11.54
Slam Stewart / Time on My Hands / Continental / 5.28.45
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Love Nest / Victor / 2.10.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby & the Rhythm Makers
Jack Teagarden / White Sails (Beneath a Yellow Moon) / Brunswick / Chicago 5.5.39 / vocal = Linda Keene
Hoagy Carmichael / I Get Along without You Very Well / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Devil Mary Care / Riverside / 1.10.61

set 3
Stan Getz & Laurindo Almeida / Stan Getz with Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida / Winter Moon / Verve / 3.22.63
Howard McGhee / Maggie's Back in Town!! / Sunset Eyes / Contemporary / LA 6.26.61
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / 'Round Midnight / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 3.31.51 / announcer = “Symphony” Sid Torin
Ginger Rogers / I Used to Be Colorblind / Victor / Hollywood 10.6.38
King Curtis / Trouble in Mind / Nobody Wants You When You’re Down and Out / Tru-Sound / 4.25.61

set 4
Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca / The Brothers! / Kim’s Kaper / RCA Victor / 6.25.55
Steve Allen / Allen’s All Stars / Baby, But You Did / Mercury / Hollywood 3.24.58
Helen Humes / Do What You Did Last Night / Okeh / 11.26.27 / with J.C. Johnson on piano
June Christy / The Misty Miss Christy / Sing Something Simple / Capitol / Hollywood 1.26.55
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / I Don't Know / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69
Rising Stars / New Jerusalem / Cava-tone / San Francisco 1949

last (sorta, kinda) soulful song
The Love Generation / A Generation of Love / W.C. Fields / Imperial / LA 1967

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Alex fills in for me

I was at the beach. What a day I had! Thanks so much to Alex for filling in for me. Below is his playlist.


KIDS’ TV SHOWS
Part One – From the 1950s (mostly)
01. Buffalo Bob & kids – It’s Howdy Doody Time
02. Buffalo Bob & kids – Clarabell
03. Miss Frances – Come with Me (Ding Dong School)
04. Kukla, Fran & Ollie – Here We Are Again
05. Paul Tripp – All Aboard the Showboat (from Mr. I Magination)
06. Prairie Chiefs – Fury
07. Lassie – main theme
08. Jimmy Smith – Mickey Mouse
09. Mouseketeers – Merry Mouseketeers
10. Romper Room Do Bee Song
11. Josie Carey & Fred Rogers – The Why Hi Song/ I Found the Children’s Corner
12. Popeye
13. Heckle & Jeckle
14. Captain Midnight
15. Felix the Cat Song
16. Captain Kangaroo (Good Morning Captain)
17. Tom Terrific
18. The Gumby Show
19. Gil Mack & the Sandpipers – Ruff and Reddy
20. Huckleberry Hound
21. The Woody Woodpecker Song
22. Beany & Cecil

Part Two – From the 1960s (mostly)
23. Top Cat
24. Meet the Flintstones
25. The Alvin Show
26. The Jetsons
27. Yogi Bear
28. Soupy Sales – Soupy’s Theme
29. Flipper
30. Wally Gator
31. Mr. Magoo
32. Looney Toons
33. George Young – Supercar
34. Don Spencer – Fireball (from Fireball XL-5)
35. Barry Gray Orch. – Thunderbirds
36. Hector Heathcote
37. George of the Jungle
38. Superchicken
39. Tom Slick, Racer
40. Shorty Rogers & the Giants – Jonny Quest

41. Underdog
42. Banana Splits – Tra La La
43. Fred Rogers – Won’t You Be My Neighbor (from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood)
44. H. R. Pufnstuf
45. Sesame Street

Part Three – From the 1970s (mostly)
46. Electric Company
47. Big Blue Marble
48. Zoom
49. The Bugaloos
50. Spider Man
51. Get on Board (from Here Come the Double Deckers)
52. Groovy Goolies
53. Lidsville
54. Help! It’s the Hair Bear Bunch
55. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
56. Hong Kong Phooey
57. The Muppet Show
58. The Great Space Coasters
59. Land of the Lost
60. Villa Alegre
61. The Simpsons
62. Pryor’s Place
63. Josie and the Pussycats
64. New Zoo Revue
65. Smurfs
66. Fraggle Rock

Friday, August 05, 2011

Polly Wolly Playlist



Coffeetime, August 5, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Ande / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Gigi Gryce / The Hap’nin’s / Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / New Jazz / 5.3.60
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Mahogany Hall Stomp / Victor / Chicago 1.28.33
Whispering Jack Smith / Me and My Shadow / Victor / 4.28.27 / with Dave Dreyer on piano
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Walk ‘Em / Decca / 11.7.45
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / Do Nothing ’Til You Hear from Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

set 2
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Adoration / Riverside / 5.9.60
Phineas Newborn Jr / The Artistry of Phineas Newborn Jr / Newport Blues / Atlantic / 5.3, 4.56
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Strange / Capitol / 1958
Golden Gate Orchestra aka California Ramblers / Up and At ’Em / Edison Diamond Disc / 8.10.26
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Lamento Negro / Decca / Paris 1934 / Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s
Lucille Ball / soundtrack to RKO film Dance, Girl, Dance / Oh Mother, What Do I Do Now? / Hollywood 1940
Chuck Willis / Search My Heart / Okeh [alt take] / 4.15.55

set 3
Horace Silver / The Jody Grind / Mary Lou / Blue Note / 11.23.66
Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Summertime / Bethlehem / 12.60
The Smoothies / The Little Red Fox (N’Ya N’Ya You Can’t Catch Me) / Bluebird / 11.7.39
Golden Gate Quartet / Grove Show Intro; Polly Wolly Doodle; Stewball; Grove Show Signoff / radio transcription, The Groves Show / mid-1940s
Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / I Concentrate on You / Reprise / LA 1967 / duet w/ Jobim

set 4
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 - Oboe/Flute / Albatross / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 2.25, 26.54
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / S’ Wonderful / Savoy / LA 4.18.50
Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / The Bouncing Ball / Victor / 2.16.34
Sammy Harris Orchestra / Fatso / Freedom / 1950
Georgia Carr / Give Me the Simple Life / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 10.8.52
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Ye-Me-Le / Some Time Ago / A&M / Hollywood 1969
Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / You Ain’t Got Faith (Till You Got Religion) / Columbia / 12.49

last soul song
Aretha Franklin / I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You / Don't Let Me Lose This Dream / Atlantic / Muscle Shoals 1969