What Ev'ry Playlist Knows

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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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

New Playlist Over My Shoulder

Coffeetime, November 23, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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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

Ten Cents a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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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

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

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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

Got a Date with a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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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