Friday, February 25, 2011

Playlist the Pirate



Coffeetime, February 25 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Toots Sweet / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Hank Mobley / Another Workout / Hello Young Lovers / Blue Note / 12.5.61
Jimmie Lunceford / [Lunceford Special] / Chopin's Prelude No. 7 / Columbia / 5.9.40
Freddie Rich & His Orchestra / Bend Down Sister / radio transcription from Fred's Friendly Five / 1931-32
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Don't Get Salty, Sugar / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 10.47
Patti Page / I’ve Heard That Song Before / Don't Take Your Love From Me / Mercury / 1955

set 2
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / My Romance / Prestige / 8.17.56
Victor Feldman / With Mallets A Fore Thought / Sweet and Lovely / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / How Deep Is the Ocean Dawn / 1956
Fats Waller / Rediscovered Early Solos [piano rolls] / Squeeze Me / [Riverside] / c. 2.26
Benny Morton & His Orchestra / Get Goin' / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Jerry Blake
Alice Faye / Yes To You / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie 365 Nights in Hollywood / Hollywood 9.12.34
Cats & the Fiddle / One Is Never Too Old To Swing / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Cottie Williams & His Savoy Ballroom Orchestra / Available Lover / RCA Victor / 5.15.57 / vocal = Wini Brown

set 3
Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Morgan the Pirate / Blue Note / 2.15.64
Ray Charles / Ray Charles in Person / Frenesi / Atlantic / Atlanta 5.28.59
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Fracture / Savoy / 12.18.46
Constance Moore / I'm Only Teasin' / from the movie Delightfully Dangerous / Hollywood 1945
Four Tunes / I'm the Guy / RCA Victor / 6.49
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / The Way You Look Tonight / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / March Wind / United Artists / 9.58
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / It's So Peaceful in the Country / Columbia / 12.3.58
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Handful of Keys / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Ella Mae Morse / Tess's Torch Song / AFRS Personal Album #395 / Hollywood 1944
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / S'posin' / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Touch of the Blues / Sweet Lips of Joy / Duke / 1967
Paramount Singers / Let the Healing Waters Move / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soul song
Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic [Nola] / New Orleans 1965

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)

Friday, February 04, 2011

Playlist-Frantic

Coffeetime, January 7, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Red Rodney / Red Arrow / Signal / 11.24.57
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Hard to Find / Contemporary / 8.1.62
Harry James & his Orch / Rose Room / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Gene Kardos & his Orch / Freddy the Freshman / Victor / 11.13.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Mabel Smith (Big Maybelle) / Bad Dream Blues / King / 1948
Doris Day / Show Time / They Say It’s Wonderful / Columbia / 1960 / arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl

set 2
Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Motor City Scene / Stardust / Bethlehem / 1960
Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Midnight Sun / Bethlehem / late 1958
Joe Haymes & his Orch / Modern Melody / Bluebird / 7.11.33 / vocal = Mike Doty
Blu Lu Barker / He Caught That B&O / Decca / 8.11.38
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / The Yodeling Goldfish / Decca / 12.30.47
Johnny "Guitar" Watson / Lonely Girl / Modern / 1955 / vocal = Cordella de Milo

set 3
Bill English / Bill English / Rollin' / Vanguard / 1963
Sergio Mendes / The Great Arrival / Don't Go Breaking My Heart / Atlantic / Hollywood 6.6.66
Cy Coleman / Cool Coleman / Isn't It Romantic / Westminster / 1958
Eddie Safranski's Poll Cats / Sa-Frantic / Atlantic / 12.20.47
Monica Lewis & her V-Disc Friends / I'm an Old Cowhand / V-Disc 560B / 1945
James Quintet / Pleasing You (As Long As I Live) / Coral / 1949
Mel Tormé / My Kind of Music / A Stranger in Town / Verve / London 1961

set 4
Bob Cooper / The Music of Bob Cooper - Coop! / 3rd Variation: Night Stroll / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Ralph Sharon / Easy Jazz / There's a Small Hotel / London / 5.27.55
Eddie Cantor & chorus / Keep Young and Beautiful / soundtrack to United Artists movie Roman Scandals / Hollywood 1933
Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich / The Sounds of '66 / What the World Needs Now Is Love / Reprise / 12.66
Southern Sons / Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air / Bluebird / 7.21.41

last soul song
The Foundations / Baby, Now That I've Found You / Jerking the Dog / Uni / London 1968