Playlist in Paradise

Coffeetime, January 20, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis / Blue Note / 8.21.61 

Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Smoke Signals / Verve / 12.17.57 

Randy Brooks & his Orchestra / Man with a Horn / The Man with the Horn / Decca / 7.14.47

Annette Hanshaw / When I am Housekeeping for You / Parlophone / 12.13.29 

Bob Howard & his Orchestra / If the Moon Turns Green / Decca / 7.10.35

Johnny Otis Band / I'm Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / vocal = The Robins
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / That Ole Devil Called Love / United Artists / 7.58

set 2

Tina Brooks / [Back to the Tracks (unissued)] / For Heaven's Sake / Mosaic [Blue Note] / 10.20.60 

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Trane Whistle [Stolen Moments] / You Are Too Beautiful / Prestige / 9.20.60 

Johnny Otis / Harlem Nocturne / Excelsior / 9.13.45 

Oscar Alemán / Russian Lullaby / HMV / Paris 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers 

Ciro Rimac's Rumba-Orchester / Passarinho / Telefunken / Berlin 11.18.37

Red Mack & his Orchestra / If You Love Me Baby / Atlas / LA early 1946

Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / So Finha de Ser Com Voce / Verve / 1.27, 28.65 

set 3

Harold Mabern / Workin' & Wailin' / I Can't Understand What I See in You / Prestige / 6.30.69 

"King Porter" & his Orchestra / Shuffling Boogie / JVB/King / Detroit 1948

Erskine Butterfield / Lighthouse / radio transcription / 8.17.44

Mills Brothers / You Rascal, You / Decca / 11.31

King Cole Trio / My Heart Tells Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.12.44 / vocal = Ida James

Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / When Your Lover Has Gone / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4

Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Stranger in Paradise / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56 

Milt Bernhart & his Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / 3.6.55

Cleo Brown / You've Got Me Under Your Thumb / radio transcription / c. late 1935, early 1936

Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Specialty / Hollywood 3.8.47

Nancy Wilson / How Glad I Am / It's Time to Go / Capitol / LA 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song

Tyrone Davis / Without You in My Life / Dakar / 1973

She Don't Have to See You to Playlist

Lost & Found, Monday, January 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

artist / song title / label / year

all songs on 45s, except when an LP title is listed first

opening song

Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1

Fats & the Chessman / Come On Everybody Let’s Do the Twist / Twistin’ USA / Somerset / 1960

Ronnie & the Hi-Lites / Twistin’ and Kissin’ / Joy / 1962

Dion & the Belmonts / Everything You Always Wanted to Hear By Dion and the Belmonts But Couldn’t Get! / Born to Cry / Laurie / 1962

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans / Annette / Philles Records / 1963

Ray Agee / Your Precious Love / Celestin / 1963

Shirley Ellis / The Puzzle Song / Congress / 1965

France Gall / Deux Oiseaux / Philips / 1965

Bob Kuban & the In-Men / Try Me Baby / Musicland USA / 1965 / vocal = Walter Scott

bed 1

Al Caiola / Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes / Underwater Chase / United Artists / 1965

set 2

Timmy Shaw / I’m a Lonely Guy / Wand / 1963

Jimmy Soul / Don’t Release Me / SPQR / 1963

Gerry & the Pacemakers / I’m the One / Chills / Capitol / 1964

BJ Thomas & the Triumphs / Candy Baby / Scepter / 1966

The Manhattans / I’m the One that Love Forgot / Carnival / 1965

Chris Bartley / Love Me Baby / Vando / 1967

bed 2

The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 3

Freddie & the Dreamers / What Have I Done to You / Tower / 1963

The Beau Brummels / Still in Love with You Baby / Autumn / 1964

The Cowsills / The Cowsills / Troubled Roses / MGM / 1967

The Dave Clark Five / Try Too Hard / Ever Since You’ve Been Away / Epic / 1966

The Box Tops / I See Only Sunshine / Mala / 1968

bed 3

David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1966

set 4

The Dells / There Is / Chess / 1967

The Sandpipers / Forget It / Calla / 1967

Brothers of Soul / Hurry, Don’t Linger / Boo / 1968

The Banana Splits / We’re the Banana Splits / Doin’ the Banana Split / Decca / 1968

Jan Bradley / You Gave Me What’s Missing / Chess / 1968

bed 4

Georgie Fame / Beware of the Dog / Epic / 1967

set 5

The Enchanters / I’ve Lost All Communications / Loma / 1966

Bobbie Gentry / Ode to Billie Joe / Sunday Best / Capitol / 1968

5º Farenheit / Daddy’s Home / Abet / 1970

Colin Blunstone / One Year / Say You Don’t Mind / Epic / 1971

Freddie North / Abet Review Volume I / Rainy Night in Georgia / Abet / 1973

Tom Jones / The Body and Soul of Tom Jones / Ain’t No Sunshine / 1973

bed 5

Little Milton / Friend of Mine / Glades / 1973

set 6

The Superbs / Baby’s Gone Away / Doré / 1965

Earl Gains / I Have Loved and I Have Lied / HBR / 1966

Mamie P. Galore / This Time Tomorrow / Imperial / 1968

bed 6

LJ Reynolds & Chocolate Syrup / Stay with Me / Law-Ton Records / 1971

set 7

Soul Generation / Young Bird / Ebony Sounds Records / 1972

The Love Generation / A Generation of Love / The Bummer (Guide Me Home) / Imperial / 1967

Betty Wright / It’s Bad for Me to See You / Alston / 1974

Tommie Young / She Don’t Have to See You (To See Through You) / Soul Power / 1972

last soulful song

Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971

The Bronze Playlist

Coffeetime, January 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Kenny Burrell - Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / This Way / Prestige / 3.5.57 

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Love for Sale / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43

Ronnie Munro & his Orchestra / Me and My Girl / HMV / London 1.1.38 / vocal = Jack Cooper

Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / She Lost her Re-Bop / Queen / Cinncinnati c. 4.46

Chris Connor / Mixed Emotions / Atlantic / 10.16.56 

set 2

Les Spann / Gemini / There Is No Greater Love / Jazzland / 12.16.60 

Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Hello Young Lovers / Roost / 3.18.57 

Billy Mitchell Quintet / [Swing Not Spring] / Alone Together / Dee Gee [Savoy] / Detroit 1948 

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Roodles / Victor / Chicago 12.25.27 

Emmett Matthews & his Orchestra / I'll Stand By / Vocalion / 4.10.36

Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / I Can't See for Lookin' / Decca /  5.26.44 / vocal = Judy Carol

Gene Kelly & ensemble / Les Girls / soundtrack MGM movie Les Girls / Hollywood 1957

set 3

Al Caiola / Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes / The Bronze Doll / United Artists / 1965

Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Toll Bridge (Rifftide) / EmArcy / 9.8.54 

Miles Davis - Tadd Dameron Quintet / Rifftide / Columbia / live, Festival de Jazz, Salle Pleyel, Paris 5.9.49 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Sometimes I'm Happy / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1948 / vocal = Peggy Thomas

Four Vagabonds / Taking My Chances with You / Mercury 2.46  

Buddy Greco / Songs for Swingin’ Losers / Blame It on My Youth / Epic / 1960

set 4

Curtis Counce / Carl's Blues / I Can't Get Started / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58 

Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / Blue Moon / Decca / Hollywood summer 1957 

Alice Faye / According to the Moonlight (soundtrack 20th Century Fox movie George White's 1935 Scandals) / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.26.35 

Sammy Davis Jr / What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Showstoppers / Thou Swell / Reprise / LA 2.7.61 

The Jubilee Hummingbirds / Our Freedom Song / Chalice / Memphis 1965

last soulful song

Ruby & the Romantics / Much Better Off than I’ve Ever Been / Kapp  / 1964