Friday, December 16, 2011

Wish You the Playlistiest




Coffeetime, December 16, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Phil Woods / Pairing Off / Pairing Off / Prestige / 6.15.56 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' on C / Columbia / 1940
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You're All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 2
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Man / Atlantic / LA 8.17.55 
Dick Stabile / Plays for You / Man with a Horn / Bethlehem / 1955 
Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Sequence / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955
Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / Blue Rhythm Fantasy / Vocalion / 5.4.36 
Amos Milburn / Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby / Aladdin / LA 10.4.49
Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Santa’s Other Reindeer / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3zsEYMoVI
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We're a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Swingin’ at Sugar Ray’s / Blue Note / 1.30.61 
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 
Charlie Parker / Perhaps / Savoy / 9.24.48 
Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959 
Ravens / For You / National / 4.24.47
Billy Eckstine / Blue Christmas / MGM / 1950

set 4
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 
Ted Weems & his Orch / Winter Wonderland / Columbia / Chicago 11.11.34 / vocal = Parker Gibbs 
Johnny Desmond & the Ray Charles Singers / Sleigh Ride / MGM / 1950
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards / Happy Birthday & Songs for Every Holiday / Kris Kringle / Disneyland / LA 1958 
Les Brown & his Orchestra / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Paul Parnes / A Hap-Hap-Happy Christmas from Yogi Bear / Golden Records / 1961
Heavenly Gospel Singers / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.26.38

last soulful song
Carla Thomas / The Original Soul Christmas / All I Want for Christmas Is You / Atco [Atlantic; Stax] / 9.26.63