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