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