Friday, December 28, 2012

Playlist Freezes Red



Coffeetime, December 28, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor's Tenors / Dacor / New Jazz / 6.3.59 
John Coltrane / Dakar / Route 4 / Prestige / 4.20.57 
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Snowfall / radio transcription / 1947  
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / You’re My Everything / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Annette Stevens / When Sunny Gets Blue / personal recording [Marvelous Industries, Inc] / 1962 / with Barry Galbraith

set 2
Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Stardust / Bethlehem / late 1958 
Jackie McLean / The Jackie McLean Quintet / Lover Man / Jubilee / 10.21.55 
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Imagination / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55 
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Frankie and Johnny / Standard transcription [Stardust Records] / Hollywood 9.17.41 
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942
Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally 
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958

set 3
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / Soul Time / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60 
Lucky Thompson / Tricotism / The Plain but Simple Truth / ABC-Paramount [Impulse] / 12.11.56 
Fats Navarro / Ice Freezes Red / Savoy / 1.29.47 
Maxine Sullivan / Jackie Boy / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm 
The Mills Brothers / FDR Jones / Decca / 2.17.39
Heartbeats / After New Year’s Eve / Gee / 10.57 

set 4
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Quietly There / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66 
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Eesom / EmArcy / 11.4, 59 
Bob Crosby & his Bobcats / South Pacific Blows Warm / Younger Than Springtime / Dot / 1958
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Aretha Franklin / Laughing on the Outside / Skylark / Columbia / spring 1963 
Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / Stretch Out / Peacock / Chicago 1960

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday / Blue Rock / 1.65

Friday, December 21, 2012

Fum, Fum, Playlist


Coffeetime, December 21, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed  
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70 
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow / Coral / 1956
Clarence Williams & his Orchestra / Christmas Night in Harlem / Vocalion / 3.23.34 
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947  
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orchestra and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60  

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965 
Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Mitch Miller / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / vocal = Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers 
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964
Mickey Rooney / Merry Merry Micklemas / Christmas at Home / Mickey [Timic] / Hollywood 1979

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972 
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / LA 1973
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955
Julie London / I'd Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957
Kay Starr / (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag / Capitol / LA 1950

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / Hollywood 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Capitol Promo)  / Capitol / LA 9.17.47 / with the Pied Pipers
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra 
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

Friday, December 14, 2012

Walkin' My Playlist Back Home


Coffeetime, December 14, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Donna Lee / Riverside / 4.27.57 
Hank Mobley / Reach Out! / Up Over and Out / Blue Note / 1.19.68 
Harry James & his Orchestra / I’m Satisfied / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 1937 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You're All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Toyland / Columbia / 1955

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 1.20.62 
Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.12.56 
Joe Venuti / Jealousy (Jalousie) / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #17 / Palm Springs 1.24.53
Raymond Scott & his Orchestra / Send Me Your Love for Christmas / radio broadcast, Your Hit Parade / 1944 / vocal = Dorothy Collins
JB Summers / I Want a Present for Christmas / Gotham / Philadelphia 8.30.49 / with Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders 
Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / 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 
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
McCoy Tyner / Inception / There Is No Greater Love / Impulse! / 1.11.62 
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Invitation / Prestige / 9.15.64 
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / I Hear a Rhapsody / Standard transcription / Hollywood 1.15.41 / vocal = Herb Jeffries http://www.depanorama.net/41.htm
Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes
Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959 
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks! / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Contemporary / LA 9.23.57 
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / That Sound of Renown / The Nutcracker / Coral / 1956
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Phyllis Dillon / Perfidia / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1967

Friday, December 07, 2012

Playlist in the Sky

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 
Booker Little / Victory & Sorrow / Calling Softly / Bethlehem / fall 1961 
Oran “Hot Lips” Page / Rockin’ at Ryan’s / Commodore / 3.8.44 
Billy Cotton & his Band / Lazybones / Regal Zonophone / London 8.22.33 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Charles Brown / Gee / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50
Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / There Must Be a Way / Roulette / LA 1963

set 2
George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56 
Ike Quebec / All the Way / Blue Note [unissued, same session as BN1840] / 2.5.62 
Lester Young / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Aladdin / Chicago 10.46 
Kansas City Six / Countless Blues / Commodore / 9.27.38
Ray Charles & his Orchestra / I’ll Do Anything but Work / Swingtime / LA 5.26.50
The Enchanters / Housewife Blues / Jubilee / 11.51 
The Fascinators / Come to Paradise / Capitol / 1959 

set 3
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres & Sweets / Mean to Me / Verve [orig Norgran] / LA 11.1.55 
Dexter Gordon / Rosetta / Clef / LA late 1943 or c. 7.44 
Duke Daly & his Orchestra / Remember Pearl Harbor  / Elite / 12.41 
The Four Vagabonds / Rosie the Riveter / Bluebird / 2.43 
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / I Was There When You Left Me / V-Disc 500B / 11.17.45 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol
Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / One for My Baby / Epic / LA 1961

set 4
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Pee Jay / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56 
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Somebody Loves Me / GNP / 6.27.56
Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Dibblin' and Dabblin' / Bethlehem / 12.60 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / XYZ / Okeh / Chicago 10.6.39
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Cabin in the Sky / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / vocal = Earl Warren
Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. "B" / I Could Write a Book / Mercury / 1960
Pilgrim Travelers / Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior / Specialty [unissued] / LA 8.17.49

last soulful song
Willie Tee / Teasin’ You Again / Gatur / 1972

Friday, November 30, 2012

What Ev'ry Playlist Knows

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / You’re Not the Kind / United Artists / 11.17.58 
Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Filide / Riverside / 9.4.58 
Port of Harlem Seven / Pounding Heart Blues / Blue Note / 6.8.39 
Frances Williams / Try a Little Tenderness / Columbia / 1.10.33 / with Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti 
Leo “Snub” Mosley / I’m a Fool About Mama / Penguin / 4.21.49
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Kenny Drew / This is New / You’re My Thrill / Riverside / 3.28.57 
Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53
Howard McGhee / South Pacific Jazz / Stormy Weather / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52  
King Cole Trio / Body and Soul / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / With All My Heart and Soul / Decca / The Hague 8.13.35
Etta Jones / What Ev’ry Woman Knows / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his Orchestra
The Larks / Eyesight to the Blind / Apollo / 3.27.51 
Bing Crosby / In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening / Decca / Hollywood 6.20.51 / from the Paramount movie Here Comes the Groom; with Jane Wyman, Matty Matlock’s All Stars, and 4 Hits & a Miss 

set 3
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63 
Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Contours / RCA Victor / LA 3.26, 4.2.53 
Charlie Parker / Bird at the Roost / Hurry Home / Savoy / live, Royal Roost 3.5.49 / vocal = Buddy Stewart 
The Striders / Baby Don’t You Cry / Apollo [unreleased] / 11.14.49 
The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / Life Does a Man a Favor / MGM / 1958

set 4
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Brookside /  Mode / Hollywood 1957
Nat Adderley / "That's Nat" Adderley / Porky / Savoy / 7.26.55 
Wini Brown / Someone to Watch Over Me / National [unissued] / 8.1.49 
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / Lullaby of Broadway / Columbia / Hollywood 12.8.50 / with Norman Luboff Choir & the Buddy Cole Quartet
The Keynotes / In the Evening / Apollo / 1955 
Joshua White & his Carolinians / King Jesus Knows I’m Coming / Columbia / 8.6.40 [6.4.40] 

last soulful song
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1971

Friday, November 23, 2012

New Playlist Over My Shoulder



Coffeetime, November 23, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol 1 / Justice / Blue Note / live, Birdland 4.15.59 
Julian "Cannonball" Adderly / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / Teaneck / Capitol / 9.1.62 
Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / Corky Stomp / Brunswick / Kansas City, Missouri 11.11.29 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / Maybe It’s Because I Love You Too Much / Columbia / London 3.28.33
Ivory Joe Hunter / I Ain’t Got No Gal No More / MGM / mid-1951
Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / In Love in Vain / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson-arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2
Curtis Fuller / Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone / But Beautiful / Warwick / 12.60
Barry Harris / Listen to Barry Harris / It’s the Talk of the Town / Riverside / 1.19.61 
Larry Adler / Medley: I Won’t Dance, Lovely to Look At / Columbia / London 7.10.35 / with Henry Hall & BBC Dance Orchestra
Johnny Green & his Orchestra / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Columbia / Hollywood 8.13.33 / vocal = Bernice Park
Edna McGriff / I’ll Surrender Anytime / Jubilee / 1952
Dave Bartholomew & his Orchestra / My Ding-A-Ling / King / New Orleans 1.22.52
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / O Ganso / Verve / LA 5.25.65 

set 3
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / The Tenor Scene / Bingo Domingo / Prestige / live, Minton’s Playhouse, breakfast set 1.6.61 
Teddy Charles / Metronome Presents Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art / Cycles / Warwick / 1960
Burnie Peacock & his Orchestra / Charmaine / King / 11.9.51 
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Dreamer’s Holiday / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
The Ravens / Who’s Sorry Now? / National / 8.50 
Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Stairway to the Stars / Impulse! / 10.17.63 

set 4
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / The Princess / Jubilee / LA 1958
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Pacific Jazz / Phil Turetsky’s home studio, Hollywood 2.1.53 
Art Tatum / Yesterdays / radio broadcast, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood c. mid-1947
Kay Starr / Sharecroppin’ Blues / V-Disc 326B / Hollywood 7.13.44 / with Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 
Beny Moré / Tú Me Sabes Comprender / RCA / 1950s
Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song
The Dontells / I’m Gonna Tell the World / Vee-Jay / 1965

Friday, November 16, 2012

Ten Cents a Playlist


Coffeetime, November 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57 
Donald Byrd / Byrd's Eye View / Hank’s Other Tune (Late Show) / Transition / Cambridge 12.2.55 
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / In Swamplands / Bluebird / 12.2.40
Bert Maddison Dance Orchestra aka Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra / High Up in the Sky / Sterno / London c. 8.29 
Cats & the Fiddle / My Sugar’s Sweet to Me / Manor/Regis / early 1946 
Nancy Wilson / Like New, Like Swingin’, Like in Love / Passion Flower / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2
Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Sketch of Melba / New Jazz / 4.10.63 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Midnight Session with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mirage / Elektra [Savoy] / Carl Fisher Concert Hall, NYC 3.8&9.57 
Illinois Jacquet / I Surrender Dear / Aladdin [unissued] / Chicago 11.7.47
Ruth Etting / Ten Cents a Dance / Columbia / 3.4.30
Dean Martin / That Certain Party / Capitol / LA 9.9.48 / duet with Jerry Lewis, with Mario R. Armengol Orchestra
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55   

set 3
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Funny Time / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61 
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Hackensack / Blue Note / 2.26.58 
Charlie Parker / Carvin’ the Bird / Dial / LA 2.26.47 
Martha Raye / I’m Gonna Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in her Stocking / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
The Carols / Mighty Lak a Rose / Savoy [unissued] / Detroit 4.27.53 
Bill Henderson / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 10.14.58

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / Swingin’ in November / United Artists / LA  9.58
Stan Getz / Mosquito Knees / Roost / live, Storyville Club, Boston 10.28.51 
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Toselli’s Serenade / V-Disc 756 / c. fall 1941
The Toppers / Palace of Stone (I’m All Alone) / Savoy / 12.8.44 
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out / Atlantic / 1.29.58
Dixie Hummingbirds / My Record Will Be There / Apollo / 2.46

last (thankful) song
The Manhattans / Love Is Breaking Out All Over / Carnival / 1968

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Where's the Playlist, Honey?


Thanks so, so much for all the people who pledged during or in honor of Coffeetime. And thanks to all the listeners in general. Plus, I must thank my fellow WMBR members, especially those who helped me out during the show last Friday. As Hildy sings, I feel like a million.

Coffeetime, November 9, 2012, Angelynn Grant -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59 
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / For Minors Only / Riverside / 10.30.59 
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Here's Lee Morgan / Terrible "T" / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60 
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell 

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942
Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 4
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
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / It's a Woman's Prerogative / Savoy / 1947 

set 5
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Yvette / Roost / 8.15.51 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / 11.3.47

set 6
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / La 7.27.42
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 7
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Cojntemporary / 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
Swan Silvertones / My Rock / End of My Journey / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James

Friday, November 02, 2012

Got a Date with a Playlist


Coffeetime, November 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / Little Chris / Contemporary / LA 8.59 
Gene Ammons / Blue Gene / Scamperin’ / Prestige / 5.2.58 
Count Basie Band / Roseland Shuffle / Decca / 1.21.37
Slatz Randall & his Orchestra / I’m a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) / Brunswick / Minneapolis 3.30 / vocal = Joe Roberts 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober / Decca / 7.21.42
Helen Carr / Got a Date with an Angel / Bethlehem / LA 11.11.55 

set 2
Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66 
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / Fall Winds / Contemporary / LA 2.18.57 
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / Indian Summer / RCA Victor / 1955
Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Bluer than Blue / Decca / 4.15.37 
The Four Aces / This Little Chick Went to Market / Trilon / Oakland 7.47 
The Barry Sisters / Shalom / Nicht auf Zintug (Never on Sunday) / Roulette / 1960

set 3
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Lollipops and Roses / Capitol / LA 9.62 
Steve Allen / Jazz for Tonight / I Thought About You / Coral / LA 12.5.55
Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46 
Three Bits of Rhythm / Bronzeville Jump / Decca / 3.13.41
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / MGM / 4.1.47 / vocal = Henry Wells & Sy Oliver
Mose Allison / The Word from Mose / Lost Mind / Atlantic / 1965

set 4
Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56 
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / Chances Are / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Dancing in the Land of Hi-Fi / Sweet Sue / EmArcy / LA 1955
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / My Baby’s Cool / Gotham / c. 1949 / vocal = Claudine Clark
Pearl Bailey / The Songs of Academy Award Winner James Van Heusen / Second Time Around / Roulette / 1964
The Stars of Virginia / Wade in the Water / Chalice / c. 1965

last soulful song
The Pets / I Say Yeah / Carnival / 1964 

Friday, October 26, 2012

This Playlist is Haunted


Coffeetime, October 26, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin' the Thing / Kiss Me Right / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.20.61 
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / My Heart Belongs to Daddy / Verve / 2.17.59 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / My Sweet Tooth Says “I Wanna” / Columbia / 7.14.31
The Velvetones / Sweet Lorraine / Coronet / 3.46 
The Ebonaires / Bye Bye, Bye, Bye Bye / MGM / 1949
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / What More Can a Women Do / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Nocturne / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash / Easy Living / Verve / 7.26.63 
Stan Getz / Yesterdays / Roost / 1.23.51 
Meade Lux Lewis / DuPree Blues / Clef [JATP] / Embassy Auditorium, LA 4.22.46 
Winegar’s Penn Boys / My Gal Sal / Edison / 5.3.28 
Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / Forty-Second Street  / Victor / 1.13.33 / vocal = Dick Robertson or Jerry Baker
Delta Rhythm Boys / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / transcription / 1941
Bing Crosby / Holiday in Europe / Never on Sunday / Decca / LA 1961

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Blue Hour / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 12.16.60 
Shorty Sherock / C-Jam Blues / Clef [JATP; unissued] / Philharmonic Auditorium, LA 7.2.44 
Johnny Mercer / Candy / Capitol / LA 12.6.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra, Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers
The Basin Street Boys / Exactly Like You / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson & his Orchestra 

set 4
Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Stateside Panic / Rama / 1.9, 10 & 2.5, 7.57
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Crazy Rhythm / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins / Leete / Blue Note / 8.8.54 
King Cole Trio / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 4.44 / vocal = Anita Boyer
Big Maybelle / No More Trouble Out of Me / Columbia [Epic] / 1.20.54 
Jubalaires / The Preacher and the Bear / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Lee Jones & the Sounds Of Soul [The Masqueraders] / This Heart Is Haunted / Amy / 1968 

Friday, October 19, 2012

Poor Little Playlist

 Coffeetime, October 19, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 [bonus tracks; The Dealers] / Falling in Love with Love / Prestige / 4.19.57 
Curtis Counce / Vol. 1, Landslide / A Fifth for Frank / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56 
Jan Garber & his Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / Columbia / 2.17.28 / vocal = Mull Downey (aka Sonny Faircloth)
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / The Thrill is Gone / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.8.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra 

set 2
Lucky Thompson / A Lady’s Vanity / ABC-Paramount [Impulse!] / 12.12.56
Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / A Waltz for Fran / Jazzland / 1.24.62 
Johnny Guarnieri / Salute to Fats (take 3) / Savoy / 4.18.44
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Diga Diga Doo / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.7.47 
Eddie Cantor / Dinah / Decca / LA 10.31.44 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Ella Johnson / What a Day / Mercury / 6.5.56
Liz Lands / One Man’s Poison / One-derful! / Chicago 1967

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Worksong / Blue Note / 5.22.61 
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Lullaby in Rhythm / private recording [Xanadu] / Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach 12.27.51
Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Ben Rides Out / National / 1.31.46 
Earl Warren / Poor Little Plaything / Savoy [unreleased] / 4.18.44 
Melody Masters / My Baby / Apollo / 1946 
Sy Oliver / Sentimental Sy / Stardust / Dot / 5.12,13,15.58 / vocal = Dave Vogel

set 4
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / Why Not? / Fantasy / 1957 
Vinnie Burke / Bass by Pettiford/Burke / Yesterdays / Bethlehem / 1954 
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / In the Land of Hi Fi / Tippin’ In / EmArcy / LA 11.7.55 
Tina Dixon / Parrot Bar Boogie / King / 1948
The Rivals / Rival Blues / Apollo / spring 1950
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Pretty World / A&M / LA 1969
Echoes of Zion / Keep Still / Gerald [Modern] / Atlanta 1950

last soulful song
Timothy Wilson / Baby Baby Please / Buddha / 1967

Friday, October 05, 2012

About Rip Van Playlist


Coffeetime, October 5, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Dizzy Meets Sonny / Dizzy Meets Sonny / Norgran / 1.12.56 
Philly Joe Jones / Drums Around the World / Carioca (El Tambores) / Riverside / 5.4.59 
Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / Bill’s Downbeat / Apollo / early 1947
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Come a Little Closer / Victor / 11.18.30 / vocal = Quentin Jackson 
Cats & the Fiddle / Public Jitterbug No. 1 / Bluebird / Chicago 12.7.39 
Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Why Try to Change Me Now / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Soul Lament / Blue Note / 1.8.63 
Lee Morgan / Candy / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 11.18.57 
Wardell Gray / Easy Living [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49 
Benny Goodman Quartet / My Melancholy Baby / Victor / 11.18.36
Greta Keller / Say It Isn’t So / Brunswick / 11.10.32 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Annie Laurie / It Hurts to Be in Love / King / 1958
Bobby Darin / soundtrack to film That Funny Feeling / That Funny Feeling / Capitol / Hollywood 9.18.54

set 3
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / Groun’ Hog / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60 
Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Back Room Blues / National / 1.2.46 
Boswell Sisters / Nights When I Am Lonely / New Orleans 3.25.25 / with Vitaly Jaques “Vic” Lubowski on piano 
Don Redman & his Orchestra / About Rip Van Winkle / Bluebird / 1.17.40 / vocal = Bootsie Garrison, Don Redman, and ensemble
Du Droppers / How Much Longer / RCA / 3.18.54 
Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / How Insensitive / Reprise / LA 1967 / duet with Antonio Carlos Jobim

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Dickie’s Dream / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55 
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / The Way You Look Tonight / EmArcy / 2.8.57 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / You’re My Desire / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Bull Moose Jackson & his Orchestra / Oo-Oo-Bob-A-Lee-Bob / Queen / 12.45 / vocal = Annisteen Allen 
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do / Capitol / LA 1964
Golden Gate Quartet / Blind Barnabas / Okeh / 5.25.41

last soulful song
The 5 Stairsteps / The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / Find Me / Buddah / Chicago  1967

Friday, September 28, 2012

I Succumb to Playlist


Coffeetime, September 28, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane / Bags & Trane / Be-Bop / Atlantic / 1.15.59 
Joe Gordon / Lookin' Good / Mariana / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61  
Jack Jenney / Stardust [alt version] / Vocalion [Columbia] / 10.19.39
Freddie Rich & His Orchestra / Sweet & Lovely / radio transcription from Fred's Friendly Five / 1931-32 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp
Leo Watson & his Orchestra / It’s the Tune that Counts / Decca / 8.22.39
Sarah Vaughn / September Song / Musicraft / 1946 / with Teddy Wilson Quartet

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Heads Up! / The Folks Who Live on the Hill / Blue Note / 11.17.67 
Charles McPherson / From This Moment On! / The Good Life / Prestige / 1.31.68 
Charlie Ventura / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Norgran / 12.22.52 
Shelly Lee Alley & his Alley Cats / Women, Women, Women / San Antonio 11.4.37 
Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones / Try a Little Tenderness / Musicraft / LA 6.4.46 / with Sonny Burke & his Orchestra
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / This New Situation / Decca / 6.30.52 / vocal = Ella Johnson & Nolan Lewis
Wynonie Harris / Quiet Whiskey / King / 9.11.53

set 3
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / One Note Samba / Capitol / Hollywood 1963 
Oscar Pettiford & his Scandinavian Trio / I Succumb to Temptation / Debut / Copenhagen 8.22.59 
Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / But Not for Me / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake 7 / (If I Had) Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes / Victor / 12.9.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright
The Ravens / September Song / National / 9.47 
Beny Moré / Y Hoy Como Ayer [And Today as Yesterday] / RCA / late 1950s

set 4
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Musso Amor / Fantasy / LA 1962 
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Red Eyes / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55
Machito & his Afro-Cubans / Vacilando / live at the Royal Roost 3.19.49 / intro by Symphony Sid
Elsie Carlisle / Never Took a Lesson in My Life / Vocalion / London 10.9.40
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / After You’ve Gone / Columbia / 6.18.53 / duet with Carl Fischer, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra 
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Loan a Helping Hand / Duke / Memphis 1958
The Bronzemen / Let’s Go ‘Round the Wall / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soulful song
Jesse Anderson / Let Me Back In / Thomas / 1970

Friday, September 21, 2012

Madam, I Love Your Playlist

Coffeetime, September 21, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note / 4.6.57 
Cecil Payne / The Connection: New Original Score / Sister Carol / Charlie Parker Records / 3.14-16.62
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Sometimes I’m Happy / radio transcription / 1947  
Red Norvo & his Orchestra / What’s the Name of the Song / Decca / 3.16.36 / vocal = Stew Pletcher
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / Crying Won’t Help You None / Modern / LA late 1940s
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Fool That I Am / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59 

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / Ernie’s Tune / Blue Note / 5.9.61 
Andre Previn / Let's Get Away from It All! / London in July / Decca / 1951
Nat Pierce – Dick Collins Nonet / I’ll Never Be the Same / Fantasy / San Francisco 1.27.54 
Freddie Jenkins & his Harlem Seven / Toledo Shuffle / Bluebird / 8.26.35 / also listed under Bernard Addison 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Don’t Give Up the Ship / Victor / 11.7.35 / vocal = Cliff Weston
The Treniers / Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) / Okeh / 7.15.54 / with Willie Mays of the New York Giants
Cilla Black / Is it Love? / This Empty Place / Capitol / 1965

set 3
Grant Green / I Want to Hold Your Hand / This Could Be the Start of Something / Blue Note / 3.31.65 
Bennie Green / Glidin' Along / Milkshake / Jazzland / 3.22.61 
TJ Fowler & his Band / Harmony Grits / National / Detroit 1948 
Maxine Sullivan / The Same Old Story / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
Delta Rhythm Boys / What Would It Take / Decca / Hollywood 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Herb Jeffries / Herb Jeffries / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Harmony [Columbia] / 1950s

set 4
Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / Raincheck / Contemporary / 11.2.59 
Frankie Ortega & Sy Oliver / 77 Sunset Strip / Spencer Stakes Out / Jubilee / 1959 
Quincy Jones / The Birth of a Band! / The Birth of a Band / Mercury / 6.16.59 / solos = John (Zoot) Sims & Jerome Richardson 
Una Mae Carlisle / I Speak So Much about You / Joe Davis / 5.23.44
Georgia Carr / Rocks in My Bed / Love Is Somethin’ Else / Vee-Jay / 1964
Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Madam, I Love Your Suzette / Decca / Hollywood 9.17.55 
Dixie Hummingbirds / Ezekiel Saw the Wheel / Apollo / 1.47

last soul song
The LTG Exchange / My Love Part 1 / Wand / 1974

Friday, September 14, 2012

Big Fat Playlist


Coffeetime, September 14, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Red Rodney / Ubas / Signal / 11.24.57 
Sonny Clark / Royal Flush / Blue Note / 3.29.59 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Maybe / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Trees / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.30 
Julie London / London By Night / Pousse Café / Liberty / Hollywood  12.55

set 2
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Ill Wind / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / I Cover the Waterfront / Jazzland / 12.20.60 
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / Harbor Lights / Columbia / 12.3.58
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / The Terror (a) / Grey Gull, Radiex / 2.27.30 
Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / A Wee Deoch an’ Doris / Columbia / Hollywood 10.14.34
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / Way Back in 1939 AD / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
Flap McQueen & the Ray-O-Vacs / All About Daddy / Josie / 1954 / vocal = Babe Hutton  
Jerry Colonna & the Dixie All Stars / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party/ Big Fat Minnie / Bravo! / 1959

set 3
Dupree Bolton / Katanga / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Machito / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58 
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Battle of the Saxes / Prestige / 4.8.49 
Thelma (Dolly) Cooper / Let’s Try Again / Gotham / 1949
Delta Rhythm Boys / Sweetheart of Mine / Atlantic / c. 3.1.49 
Yves Montand / En Balade / Le Musicien / Columbia / Paris late 1950s / avec Bob Castella et ses Rythmes

set 4
Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Passport to Pimlico / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Benny Carter / Aspects / September Song / United Artists / LA  9.58
Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum / Just Like a Butterfly That's Caught in the Rain / Clef [Verve] / LA 1953
Gene Austin / Git Along, Ramble On / radio transcription / 1938
Billie Holiday / I Cover the Waterfront / radio transcription / live, Carnegie Hall 5.25.47
Earl Gaines / The Door is Still Open / DeLuxe / 1968
Tom Jones / Promise Her Anything / Parrot / 2.66
Soul Stirrers / Until Then / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58

last soulful song
Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore / Atlantic / Memphis 1968 

Friday, September 07, 2012

Drifting Down the Dreamy Playlist




 Coffeetime, September 7, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Sam Jones / The Soul Society / Home / Riverside / 3.10.60 
Barry Harris / Bull’s Eye / Oh So Basal / Prestige / 6.4.68 
Roy Eldridge & his Orchestra / Stardust / Decca [World transcription] / Chicago 11.16.43 
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Birmingham Bertha / Victor / Chicago 7.27.29 / vocal = Kay Palmer
Ernie Fields & his Orchestra / T-Town Blues / Regal / 11.29.49 / vocal = Teddy Cole 
Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / If I Had You / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 2 / It’s You or No One / Blue Note / 9.24.54 
Lonnie Simmons / I Can’t Get Started / Parrot / Chicago 1954
Bert Lown & his Loungers / Here Comes My Ball and Chain / Diva / 4.5.30
King Cole Trio / Speak Low / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.12.44 / vocal = Ida James
Dave Young's Orchestra / Drinking Ink Splink / Aristocrat / Chicago 1947 / vocal = Andrew Tibbs
Chuck Berry / St. Louis to Liverpool / You Two / Chess / Chicago 1964

set 3
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Jay Hawk Talk / Prestige / 5.8.65 
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / A Taste of Honey / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65 
Etta Jones / So Tired / Black & White / 1945 / with Cyril Haynes Quartet
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / You Didn’t Want My Love / RPM / LA 1951 
Frank D'Rone / In Person / My One and Only Love / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Art’s Opus / Tampa / LA 11.23.56 
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / Bottoms Up / Contemporary / LA 7.2.54
Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Drifting Down the Dreamy Ohio / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #330 / Hollywood 8.20.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Ruben / RPM / LA 1956 
Morgana King / Wild is Love! / I Thought of You Last Night / Reprise / LA 1966
Highway QC’s / Jesus is Waiting / Working on the Building / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 

last soulful song
Commands / No Time for You / Dynamic / San Antonio 1966

Friday, August 31, 2012

What Kind of Playlist Am I

Coffeetime, August 31, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Chet Baker / In New York / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Riverside / 9.58 
Art Taylor / Taylor's Wailers / Exhibit A / Prestige / 2.25.57 
Paul Specht & his Orchestra / That’s What I Call Sweet Music / Columbia / 1.14.29
Jubalaires / Casey Jones / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Margie Anderson / The Blues / My Funny Valentine / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / 1959

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / I Waited for You / Blue Note / 11.23.55 
Gene Ammons / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Prestige / 2.8.55 
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Mozeltov / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Utt-Da-Zay / Vocalion / 7.17.39
Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters / Lucille / Atlantic / 6.23.53 
Lee “Shot” Williams / You’re Welcome to the Club / Federal / Cincinnati 1964

set 3
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Cat Walk / Bethlehem / 11.57
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Tempo de Brazilia / Everest / 1960
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Rides Again / Dexter’s Minor Mad / Savoy / 12.11.47 
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Mary Ann McCall / On Time / Okeh / LA 06.19.47 / with Ralph Burns Orchestra 
Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / It Wasn’t the Stars that Thrilled Me / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 

set 4
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55 
Billy Taylor / Billy Taylor with Four Flutes / The Song Is Ended / Riverside / 7.20.59 
Arnett Cobb / I’m in the Mood for Love / Okeh / 8.7.51 
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something / Majestic / 10.47
Chuck Willis / My Baby’s Coming Home / Okeh / 11.19.52
Anthony Newley / Original Broadway Cast Recording: Stop the World I Want to Get Off / What Kind of Fool Am I / London / 1961
Southern Sons / Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Gotta Let You Go / Uni / LA 1970

Friday, August 24, 2012

I Can't Wait Until I See My Playlist's Face

Coffeetime, August 24, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin / Griff & Lock / Hey, Lock! / Jazzland / 11.4, 10.60 
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones [1527] / If I Love Again / Blue Note / 7.14.56 
The Hot Club Swing Stars / Singing at the Sugar Bowl / Swing / Paris 12.14.38 
Noël Coward / I Travel Alone / HMV / London 1934 / with Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / ’Tain’t Me / Specialty / LA 12.30.47 / with Camille Howard
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Love Affair / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / These Foolish Things / Blue Note / 10.14.58 
Gigi Gryce / Jazz Lab / Imagination / Jubilee / 8.9.57 
Fats Waller / Waiting at the End of the Road / Bluebird / 8.29.29 
Bing Crosby / Who Calls? / Decca / Hollywood 5.23.41 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!) / Capitol / Hollywood 12.15.48 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra / for Rick, John, & The Scientist Kittens
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / Blues Get Off My Shoulder / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69 / for George!

set 3
Grant Green / Matador / Green Jeans / Blue Note / 5.20.65 
Kenny Burrell - Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Close Your Eyes / Prestige / 3.5.57 
Mills Brothers / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Brunswick / 11.19.31
Mabel Scott / Just Give Me a Man / Exclusive / LA c.12.48
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / Let’s Face the Music and Dance / Belthlehem / Hollywood 11.56 

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / El Cerrito / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
Benny Carter / Swingin' the ’20s / In a Little Spanish Town / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58 
King Cole Trio / These Foolish Things / MacGregor transcription #71 / LA 11.21.44
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Weeping Willow Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Martha Raye / Sugar (That Baby of Mine) / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Herb Alpert Presents / The Joker / A&M / LA 1966
Swan Silvertones / Get Your Soul Right / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1963

last soulful song
The Monticellos / I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face / Red Cap / 1967

Friday, August 17, 2012

Luck Be a Playlist



Coffeetime, August 17, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Lazy Bird (alt take) / Blue Note / 9.15.57 
Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / With a Song in My Heart (alt take) / Blue Note / 9.1.57 
Cicely Courtneidge / The Moment I Saw You / from movie “The Soldiers of The King,” HMV / London 4.3.33 / with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Guitar in My Hand / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orchestra 
Dinah Washington / Make the Man Love Me / EmArcy / 3.15.55 

set 2
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Carolyn (alt take) / Blue Note / 10.2.63 
Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / What Is There to Say / Riverside / 6.11-12.57 
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Am I Blue / Gotham [unissued] / 1951 
Alix Combelle et son Orchestre / Hangover Blues / Swing / Paris 10.4.37 / featuring Bill Coleman on trumpet
Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / Somebody Loves Me / Perfect / 8.27.24
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Dulce Mujer / Decca Paris c. late 1934 
The Orioles / Drowning Every Hope I Ever Had / Jubilee / 5.54 

set 3
Bennie Green / Bennie Green / It’s Time / Time / 9.27.60 
Cy Coleman / Pianorama / Luck Be a Lady / Capitol / 1961
Sonny Thompson / Long Gone, part 2 / King [orig Miracle Records] / Chicago 1948 / with The Sharps & Flats, featuring Eddie Chamblee on tenor sax
Spirits of Rhythm / Shoutin’ in the Amen Corner / Brunswick / 9.14.34 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / (Gotta Get Some) Shut Eye / RCA Victor / 2.1.49 / vocal = Martha Tilton 
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Don’t Dream of Anybody but Me / Atco / 5.12.59 

set 4
Al Caiola & his Orchestra / Guitars, Woodwinds, and Bongos / Bernie’s Tune / UA / LA 1960 / Ultra Audio Wall to Wall Stereo series 
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of "Things to Come" / Mother’s Whistler / Liberty / LA 9.55
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Darn That Dream / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56 
The Ravens / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / National / May 1948 
Little Esther / Better Beware / Federal / LA 1.4.52 
Peggy Lee / Big $pender / Come Back to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 10.29.65 
Golden West Singers / Life of Jesus / Ajax / San Francisco 1949

last soulful song
Orpheus / Can’t Find the Time to Tell You / MGM / 1968

Friday, August 03, 2012

The Keeper of the Eddystone Playlist

Coffeetime, August 3, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Thad Jones / Thad Jones / One More / Debut / 3.10.55
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Plenty for Kenny / Savoy / 3.30.55
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Para Vega Me Voy / V-Disc 266B / 9.11.44
Little Jack Little & his Orchestra / Where Am I / Columbia / 10.16.35
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / Harlem on a Saturday Night / Decca / 9.9.38
June Christy / The Misty Miss Christy / I Didn’t Know About You / Capitol / Hollywood 1.26.55

set 2
Yusef Lateef / Jazz Mood / Morning / Savoy / 4.6.57
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / Lost Tears / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / I’m Alone with You / V-Disc 266A / 1944
Herb Jeffries / Flamingo / V-Disc 212B/Victor / Hollywood 9.28.40 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
T-Bone Walker / West Side Baby / Black & White / LA 12.29.47
Lavern Baker / Whipper Snapper / Atlantic / 12.18.57

set 3
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Birdland Betty / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Makin’ Whoopee / Contemporary / LA 8.6.56
Dexter Gordon & his Boys / Nostalgia / Dextivity / Savoy / 12.22.47
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / This Heart of Mine / V-Disc 399B / 7.44 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol
The Ravens / It’s Too Soon to Know / National / 11.48
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Caravan / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Conte Candoli / Westcoasting with Conte Candoli and Stan Levey / Everything Happens to Me / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Junior / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Flip Phillips / Jumping Moods with Flip Phillips / If I Had You / Clef / LA 10.10.52
Richard Dyer-Bennett / The Keeper Of the Eddistone [Eddystone] Light / V-Disc 47A/RCA Victor / 9.43
King Cole Trio / After Midnight / The Lonely One / Capitol / LA 9.21.56 / with Juan Tizol
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Tristeza / Verve / LA 5.27.65
The Southern Sons / Two Wings / V-Disc 147A / 1944

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / I Ain’t Gonna Stop / AGP Records / 1968

Friday, July 27, 2012

Coffee in the Morning and Playlist at Night


Coffeetime, July 27, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Smack Up / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58 
Victor Feldman / Transatlantic Alliance / Four / Tempo / London 1.3.57 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Frenesi / V-Disc / Hollywood 1.15.41
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / Coffee in the Morning and Kisses at Night / Bluebird / Hollywood 12.12.33 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track Baby (But You’re Goin’ the Wrong Way) / Decca / Hollywood 12.8.47 / vocal = Martha Davis 
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Cal Tjader / Jazz Confidential [Jazz at the Blackhawk] / Crown [Fantasy] / Journey’s End [Land’s End] / live at the Blackhawk, San Francisco 1.20.57 
John Lewis & his Orchestra / A Milanese Story, Original Soundtrack / Finale / Atlantic / Turin 1.17.62 / with Quartetto di Milano 
Bennie Green / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / Stardust / Prestige / Chicago 5.13.52 
The Ramblers / Black Heaven / Decca / London 11.8.32
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Unlucky Girl / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / vocal = Mari Jones 
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / I Want to Be Happy / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with the Ken Lane Singers and Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Spaniels / 100 Years from Today / Vee-Jay / 8.27.59 

set 3
James Moody / Great Day / Opales’ Que / Argo [Cadet] / Chicago 6.17, 18.63 
Oliver Nelson / Screamin’ the Blues / Three Seconds / New Jazz / 5.27.60 
Lynn Hope / Tenderly / Premium / Chicago 4.50 
Maxine Sullivan / Red River Valley / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
The Charioteers / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Columbia / 6.6.47
Buddy Greco / Buddy’s Back in Town! / You Better Go Now / Epic / LA 1961

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Just Friends / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Groovin’ High / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56 
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / I Didn't Like It the First Time / Capitol / LA 11.13.47
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / The Lady Is a Tramp / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.7.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra  
Jubalaires / Swing Down Chariot / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew [originally on Bullet] / 1969

Friday, July 20, 2012

Playlistenium


Coffeetime, July 20, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Jodie’s Cha Cha / Riverside / 9.4.58 
Thad Jones / The Fabulous Thad Jones / Elusive / Debut / 8.11.54 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / I Get a Kick Out of You / Victor / 4.4.50 
Larry Adler & his Orchestra / The Continental / Columbia / London 12.34
Turner Layton / I Get Along Without You Very Well / radio transcripton? / 7.8.39
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / You Lovely You / Decca / 5.10.44 / vocal = Trevor Bacon 
Dakota Staton / At Storyville / This Is the Beginning of the End / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57 
Herbie Mann's Californians / Blues for Tomorrow / A Sad Thing / Riverside / LA 7.3.57 
Dizzy Gillespie / Stardust / Savoy / 10.25.51 
Ethel Waters with the Hermann Chittison Trio / Heat Wave / Columbia / 10.10.33 
“Female Vocal Quartet” / How Deep Is the Ocean / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / Hollywood 1945
Denny Dennis / Stardust / Rex / 5.2.40 
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) / Don’t Fence Me In / Victor / 4.49

set 3
Eddie Harris / Jazz for Breakfast at Tiffany's / Breakfast at Tiffany's / Vee Jay / 1961 
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings, volume 1 / Cloudy / Crown / 1960
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Mush Mouth / Mercury / 9.53 
Connee Boswell / Sand in My Shoes / Decca / Hollywood 6.28.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
The Quintones / Harmony in Harlem / Vocalion / 1940
Mel Tormé / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Capitol / Hollywood 5.49 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra & female vocal

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Warm Up / Tampa / LA 1954
Gerry Mulligan / Mulligan Plays Mulligan / Mullenium / Prestige / 8.27.51 
Herb Pomeroy Orchestra / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Blue Grass / Roulette / 6.3-4.57
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / Summertime / Mercury / 1954 
Nellie Lutcher / St. Louis Blues / Okeh / LA 8.25.53
Albert King / Had You Told Me It Like It Was (It Wouldn’t Be Like It Is) / King / 1963
Golden Gospel Singers / How I Got Over / Decca / 1951

last soulful song
Helene Smith / Pot Can’t Talk About the Kettle / Blue Star / Miami 1963 

Friday, July 13, 2012

Reina (My Lovely Playlist)




Coffeetime, July 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Cliff Craft / Blue Note / 11.10.57 
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / No Crooks / New Jazz / 5.18.57 
Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra / Moten Swing / Victor / 12.13. 32 
Russ Columbo & his Orchestra / Living in Dreams / Victor / 6.16.32
Joe Thomas / Got to Have Her Lovin’ / King / Cincinatti 6.28.50
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / Don’t Explain / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958 / vocal = Ginny Byrd 

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Time After Time / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Goin Home / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Paul Robeson / Lazy Bones / Victor / 1933
Mabel Scott / No More Cryin’ Blues / Coral / 5.22.51 
Sergio Franchi / Sings in Italian: Il Fantastico! / Gringo / 4 Corners of the World / Italy 1962

set 3
Lee Morgan / [Sonic Boom] / The Mercenary / Blue Note / 10.10.69 
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Gut Soul / Prestige Swingville [unissued] / 3.7.60
Jimmy Forrest / Coach 13 / United / 11.27.51 
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / You’ll Never Know / Standard transcription / 1943 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Reina (My Lovely Queen) / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = The Enchanters
Jimmy Witherspoon / The Day Is Dawning / Federal [unissued?] / LA 9.30.52

set 4
Lennie Neihaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Take It from Me / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56 
Jimmy Raney / Visits Paris / Have You Met Miss Jones / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
Hoagy Carmichael / Memphis in June / V-Disc 550 / Hollywood 8.13.45 
Anita O'Day / This is Anita / Fine and Dandy / Verve / LA 12.6.55 / with Buddy Bregman & his Orchestra 
Wynona Carr / Act Right / Specialty [unissued] / LA 8.55 
Golden Gate Quartet / Gospel Train / NBC Thesaurus radio program #979 / 1941

last soulful song
The Fuzz / Leave It All Behind Me / Calla / 1971