You Don't Know What Playlist Is

Coffeetime, January 31, 2014 Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Billie’s Bounce / Blue Note / 3.3.57 

John Coltrane / Soultrane / Russian Lullaby / Prestige / 2.7.58 

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Swing Out / Bluebird / 4.8.39

Little Jack Little / June in January / Columbia / 10.29.34

Slim Gaillard / Laguna / Bee-Bee / LA 1945

Dinah Washington / You Don't Know What Love Is / EmArcy / 3.15.55 

set 2

The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Fantasy / 
“The Cellar”, Vancouver, Canada 9.16.61 

Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / How Deep Is the Ocean / Contemporary / LA 5.13.57 

Oscar Alemán / Whispering / HMV / Copenhagen 12.5.38

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me / Victor / 4.25.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby 

Vivian Blaine / Singing Selections from Pal Joey/Annie Get Your Gun / I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning / Mercury / 1958 

set 3

Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / The Moors / Savoy / 7.9.57 

Cecil Payne / Performing Charlie Parker Music / Cool Blues / Charlie Parker Records / 3.61 

Gene Sedric Orchestra / Forget It / Harmonia / 8.46

The 5 Red Caps / Mary Had a Little Jam / Joe Davis / LA 4.44 

Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Know How to Do It / Queen / 12.20.45
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Man Wanted / Savoy / 1.2.46 / vocal = Etta Jones 

Sammy Davis Jr / Sings Forget-Me-Nots for First Nighters / Wait Till You See Her / Decca / LA 7.29.55 

set 4

Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / Star Eyes / Capitol / 1958

Benny Carter / Swingin’ the ’20s / Thou Swell / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58 

Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Blow Mr. Jackson / Exclusive / LA 1944

King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 2.39

Sophie Tucker / One Sweet Letter from You / Okeh / 4.15.27 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra 

Wynonie Harris / Sittin’ on It All the Time / King / Cincinnati 10.19.49

Anthony Newley / Newley Recorded / Run, Run, Run / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1966

Dixie Hummingbirds / Every Knee Surely Must Bow / Apollo / 2.46

last soulful song

Alton Ellis / Sings Rock and Soul / I’m Just a Guy / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1967

Beyond the Blue Playlist

Ann Sothern & Charles Ruggles contemplate how to send spring to Cambridge, with or without a melody.

Coffeetime, January 24, 2014 Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Kenny Dorham / 2 Horns, 2 Rhythm / Lotus Blossom  / Riverside / 11.13.57 

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Bud Study / Prestige / 11.9.56 

Chick Webb & his Orchestra / Harlem Congo / Decca / 11.1.37

Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / It’s Psychological / Bluebird /3.19.34 / vocal = Joey Nash / from Paramount film Melody in Spring

Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Orchestra / They Raided the Joint / Continental / 9.45 

Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Lonelyville / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59 

set 2

Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / I Wished I Knew / Blue Note / 11.6.60 

Don Byas Ree-Boppers / Laura / Blue Star / Paris 1.27.47 

Eddie Durham & his Band / I Want a Little Girl / Decca / 11.11.40

Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play-Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.10.45 / with Sgt. Sy Oliver & his Orchestra 

Jack McVea & his All Stars / Open the Door, Richard / Black & White / Hollywood 9.46  

The Four Aces / Richard Ain’t Gonna Open That Door / Trilon / Oakland 1947 

set 3

Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Goin’ Down / Blue Note / 1.30.61 

The Guitars, Inc. / Soft & Subtle / It Don’t Mean a Thing / WB / LA 1959 / guitar = Howard Roberts, Tom Tedesco, Al Hendrickson, Bobby Gibbons, bass = Bill Pitman; H.R. is identified as Bob Howe 

Howard McGhee / Donna Lee / Blue Star / Paris 5.18.48 

The Andrew Sisters / Rumors Are Flying / Decca / Hollywood 7.22.46 / with Les Paul, Vic Schoen & his Orchestra

The Charioteers / The Cowboy Serenade (When I’m Rollin’ My Last Cigarette) / Okeh / 7.7.41 

Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / Moonlight in Vermont / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4

Phineas Newborn Jr / A World of Piano! / Daahoud / Contemporary / 10.16.61 

Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / A Romantic Guy / Pacific Jazz [unissued]  / LA 2.18-19.58

Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus Quintet with Strings / Cross Walk / Contemporary / LA 3.30.55 

Ruth Etting / If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight / Columbia / 9.13.30 / with Larry Adler on harmonica

Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

Otis Rush / My Baby is a Good ’Un / Cobra / Chicago 1958 / with Ike Turner & Willie Dixon in the band 

The Bronzemen / De Gospel Train / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soulful song

Ann Peebles / This Is Ann Peebles / Make Me Yours / Hi / Memphis 1969

The World Is Waiting for the Playlist

Coffeetime, January 17, 2014 Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Speakin’ My Piece / Blue Note / 7.14.60 

Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2 / All the Things You Are / Blue Note / 4.6.57 

Whispering Jack Smith / Sunshine / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 3.2.28 / with Joe Brannelly on guitar, unknown band

Jimmy Rushing / My Baby’s Business / Excelsior / Hollywood 9.13.45 / with Johnny Otis, his Drums & his Orchestra  

Julie London / You’re Blasé / Bethlehem / mid-1950s 

set 2

Dexter Gordon / A Swingin’ Affair / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Blue Note / 8.29.62 

Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch / Fountainbleau / Riverside / 3.9.62 

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Prelude to a Kiss / V-Disc #823 / c. 8.46 

Bert Lown & his Loungers / Big City Blues / Velvet Tone / 4.5.29

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / There, I've Said It Again / Decca / 1.21.41 / vocal = Roy Felton

The Larks / The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise / Apollo / 5.13.54 

Ruby & the Romantics / Greatest Hits Record / How Deep Is the Ocean / Kapp / 1966 

set 3

Buddy Rich / Buddy Rich in Miami / Topsy / Verve / The Dream Bar, Johnina Hotel, Miami 5.57 or winter 57-58 

Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Short Circuit / transcription / 3.28.44

Five Jinks / Dirt Dishing Daisy / Bluebird / 2.20.37

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / That's What You Think / Columbia / 2.26.42 / vocal = Anita O'Day

Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / I Don't Know Why / Musicraft / 4.30.46 / vocal = Georgie Auld

set 4

Art Pepper / Modern Art / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56 

Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks! / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Contemporary / LA 9.16.57 

Una Mae Carlisle / The Rest of My Life / Joe Davis / 10.20.44 / with Cedric Wallace and His Orchestra

B.B. “Blues Boy” King / Dark Is the Night, part 1 / RPM / LA 1956

Peggy Lee / I Like Men! / It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House / Capitol / Hollywood / 1959

Jubalaires / You Better Run / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Mary Wells / You Beat Me to the Punch [stereo] / Motown

Need Playlist So Bad

Coffeetime, January 10, 2014 Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / Indeed! / Roccus / Blue Note / 11.4.56 

Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / Bingo Domingo / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61 

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Shipyard Ramble / Bluebird / 5.15.41

Annette Hanshaw / Would You Like To Take A Walk? / Harmony / 1.20.31 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / It’s a Great, Great Pleasure / Decca / 8.18.50

Sarah Vaughan / I’m Glad There Is You / EmArcy / 12.16.54 

set 2

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Mobley’s Musings / Blue Note / 1.13.57 

Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / I Should Care / RCA Victor / 9.28.61

Jimmy Cleveland & his Orchestra / Cleveland Style / A Jazz Ballad / EmArcy / 12.12.57  

Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson / Foot Pedal Boogie / radio transcription, AFRS Mail Call #65 / Hollywood 11.17.43 / spoken intro = Fred MacMurray 

Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / radio transcription, WNEW Saturday Night Swing Session / 3.1.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio, emcee = Bob Bach

Little Willie John / Need Your Love So Bad / King / 9.20.55

John Cullum / Come Back to Me / Broadway score from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / RCA Victor / 1965

set 3

Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Sunset / Blue Note / 1.15.61 

Serge Chaloff / Four Brothers / unknown recorder / Celebrity Club, Providence 9.3.50 / emcee = Carl Henry

Delta Rhythm Boys / It Was Wonderful Then / transcription / 1941

Ella Mae Morse / Cow Cow Boogie / AFRS Mail Call #87 / Hollywood 4.19.44 / with AFRS Orchestra conducted by Captain Meredith Wilson and Myrna Loy (?)

Louis Jordan / Only Yesterday / Decca / LA 2.23.52 / orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle

set 4

Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Four Brothers / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57 

Maxwell Davis / Strange Sensation / Aladdin / LA 7.3.52

Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #5 / Isn’t This a Lovely Day? / Clef / LA 12.29.53 

The Three Keys / That Doggone Dog of Mine / Brunswick / 1.9.33

Shirley & Lee [Shirley Goodman & Leonard Lee] / That’s What I’ll Do / Aladdin / New Orleans 12.55

Dusty Springfield / The Look of Love / Come Back to Me / Philips / 1968

Highway QC’s / I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song

The Chi-Lites / Stoned Out of My Mind / Brunswick / 1973

Playlist Becomes You

Another great Burt Goldblatt cover design. (Wish I owned a dog-eared original.)

Coffeetime, January 3, 2014 Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / From this Moment On / Prestige / 5.17.57 

Lee Morgan / Volume 3 [1557] / Mesabi Chant / Blue Note / 3.24.57 

Ziggy Elman & his Orchestra / You Took Advantage of Me / Bluebird / 8.29.39 

Russ Columbo / I Don’t Know Why / Victor / 9.3.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra 

The Ink Spots / Your Feet’s Too Big / Victor 1.4.35 

Cats & the Fiddle / Start Talking Baby, part 1 / Gotham / Philadelphia 9.49 

Paula Castle / Lost Love / Lost Love / Bethlehem / 1955

set 2

Booker Little / The Defiant Ones / Moonlight Becomes You / UA / 10.58 

Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Blues-A-Plenty / Don’t Take Your Love from Me (alt take) / Verve / 4.5.58 

Gene Ammons / My Foolish Heart / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 5.2.50

Django Reinhardt / Vous et Moi / Brunswick / Brussels 4.16.42

Seven Little Polar Bears aka Jimmy Johnston’s Rebels aka Harry Reser & his Orchestra / I Love Her! / Cameo / 6.5.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks

Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Every Second / King / 1956

Sam Cooke / Encore / Someday / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 3

Mel Rhyne / Organ-izing / Blue Farouq / Jazzland / 3.31.60 

Charlie Parker / Now’s the Time / WHDH radio broadcast / live, Storyville, Boston 9.22.53 

Sarah Vaughan / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Musicraft / 7.18.46

Melody Masters / Subway Cutie / Apollo / 1947 

Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Blue Prelude / Dawn / 1956

set 4

Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / One for Pat / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56

Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / Sparkling Burgundy / Blue Note / 3.20.55 

Les Paul Trio / Way Down Yonder in New Orleans / V-Disc / mid-1940s

King Cole Trio / I Realize Now / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44

Little Milton / Nothing Beats a Failure / Checker / Chicago c. 10.67 

The Alphabetical Four / I’m Gonna Walk Right In and Make Myself at Home / Decca / 11.18.43

last soulful song

The Lovelites / My Conscience / Uni / LA 1970