So many thanks to everyone who pledged in this year's WMBR fundraiser, to all the WMBR deejays who helped me out (Jesse, Larry, Bruce, Zoë, Keith), and to all my listeners everywhere. We do it together and it's fun.
Coffeetime, November 4, 2011 -- Fundraiser Show
no bed
set 1
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / This I Dig of You / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Futurity / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, 'Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54
set 2
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / La 7.27.42
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transcription / 1942
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
set 3
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51
set 4
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orch
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53
set 5
Stan Getz / Penny / Roost / 1.23.51
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
set 6
Johnny Moore's 3 Blazers / COD / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1945
Jack Mcvea / My Business Is COD / Black & White / LA 1.46 / vocal = Estelle Edson
set 7
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Jubalaires / Moses Smote the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s
last (thankful) soul song
Natural Four / Count on Me / Curtom / Chicago 1975