Friday, December 26, 2014

Playlist Hoot



Coffeetime, December 26, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Parlan / On the Spur of the Moment / Skoo Chee / Blue Note / 3.18.61
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Wake Up! / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / That’s Right, I’m Wrong / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Charlie Fisher
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Jitterbug / Bluebird / 1.22.34
Joe Swift / Crazy ’Bout Your Cookin’ / Exclusive / LA 1948 / with Johnny Otis Band
Nancy Wilson / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 11.11.63

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Where Are You? / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Joe Wilder / Wilder ’n‘ Wilder / Mad About the Boy / Savoy / 1.19.56
Larry Adler Plays Paris Pops / Genevieve / Angel / 1953 
Pee Wee Russell / By Appointment Only / Missy / Storyville / featuring George Wein’s Mahogany Hall All Stars / Boston 1952
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Let It Roll Again / King / 5.50 / vocal = Big John Greer & ensemble 
Hermione Gingold & Maurice Chevalier / Yes, I Remember It Well  / MGM movie Gigi / Hollywood fall 1957
Mickey Rooney / Merry Merry Micklemas / Mickey’s New Year / Mickey [Timic] / Hollywood 1979

set 3
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / 63rd Street Theme / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Bob Brookmeyer / Bob Brookmeyer and Friends / Jive Hoot / Columbia / 5.26, 27.64
Ruby Braff / Flaky / Storyville / Boston 1955
Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947  
The Ravens / Count Every Star / National / 3.50
Billy Eckstine / Temptation / MGM / Hollywood 1949

set 4
Shelly Manne / My Fair Lady / Show Me / Contemporary / LA 8.17.56
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Sunday Jazz á la Lighthouse, Vol. 1 / Morgan Davis / Contemporary / live, The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, CA 1953
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Georgia Carr / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol [unreleased] / Hollywood mid-1950s
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Blue Moon / Duke / Memphis 1962
Golden Gate Quartet / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Columbia / 6.5.46

last soulful song

The Incredibles / I’ll Make It Easy  (If You’ll Come On Home) / Audio Arts! / Hollywood 1966 

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Wanted, $10,000.00 Playlist

Toy box: ready to play.

Burnt Biscuits, December 20, 2014, Angelynn Grant, filling in for John Funke

set 1
Larry Williams / You Bug Me, Baby / Specialty
Jesse Lee Turner / Shake, Shake, Shake / Carlton
Bobby Darin / Bullmoose / Atco
Beginners Guitar / Don Rainey / none on label
Ricky Nelson / Waitin' in School / Imperial
David Seville / Almost Good / Liberty
Ernie Freeman / Puddin' / Imperial
Charlie Drake / She's My Girl / United Artists

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans / Annette / Philles / bed

set 2
Chubby Checker / Popeye the Hitchhiker / Parkway
Ernie K-Doe / Wanted $10,000.00 Reward / Minit
Ronnie & the Hi-Lites / Twistin' and Kissin' / Joy
Faye Adams / It Hurts Me to My Heart / Warwick
Baby Cortez / Getting Right / Chess
The Drifters / Rat Race / Atlantic

The String-A-Longs / Wheels / Warwick / bed

set 3
Maxine Brown / My Life / ABC-Paramount
The Van Dykes / You're Shakin' Me Up / Mala
France Gall / Et des Baisers / Philips
The Ventures / 007-11 / Dolton
Steps of Stone / Keep Away from Me / Hope

Edwin Starr / Agent Double-O-Soul [instr] / Ric-Tic / bed

set 4
The Flamingos / Boogaloo Party / Philips
The Sandpebbles / Forget It / Calla
The Raeletts, featuring Vernita Moss / Leave My Man (Woman) Alone / TRC
Ray Agee / Your Precious Love / Celeste

last joyful song
The Penguins / Jingle Jangle / Mercury

Friday, December 19, 2014

The Playlist Waltz


I love this album cover so much!

Coffeetime, December 19, 2014, Angelynn Grant

bed  
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 
Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48
Clarence Williams & his Orchestra / Christmas Night in Harlem / Vocalion / 3.23.34 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble
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 / Sleigh Ride / 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
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

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 http://youtu.be/PKpW7SdxhRE
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 
Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965 

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 / LA 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 12, 2014

Merry Olde Playlist

Coffeetime, December 12, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / High and Flighty / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 5.17.57 
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 1937 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Winter Weather / Okeh / Hollywood 11.27.41 / duet = Peggy Lee & Art Lund 
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / I Thought About You / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Namely You / Riverside / 12.23.57
The Ramblers / 13th December Stomp / Decca / London 5.23.33
Gene Autry & The Pinafores / He’s a Chubby Little Fellow / Columbia / Hollywood 6.27.49 
Slim & Slam / It’s Gettin’ Kinda Chilly / Vocalion / 11.9.38
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 / 1964 / vocal = Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles 

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Sweet Honey Bee / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Turista / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3, 4, 5 & 7.16.63
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Sidewalks of New York / Atlantic / 3.16.49
Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes
The Larks / Christmas to New Years / Apollo [unreleased] / 10.18.51 
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
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / The Man I Love / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Les Brown & his Orchestra / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / It’s a Marshmallow World / CBS radio broadcast / Hollywood 11.29.50

Friday, December 05, 2014

My Fine, Feathered Playlist

A real entertainer saluting a real entertainer


Coffeetime, December 5, 2014, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Taylor / Taylor’s Tenors / Rhythm-A-Ning / New Jazz / 6.3.59
Sonny Rollins / The Sound of Sonny / Just in Time / Riverside / 6.11, 12, & 19.57
Cee Pee Johnson & his Orchestra / Swing Crazy; Theme: One O’Clock Jump / AFRS Jubilee #61 / Hollywood c. 12.44 
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / I’ll Be Getting Along / HMV / London 10.24.29 / vocal = Billy Milton, directed by Carroll Gibbons
Floyd Dixon / Real Lovin’ Mama / Aladdin / LA 10.26.50 / duet with Mari Jones; with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers 
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Weak for the Man / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Buddy Collette / Calm, Cool, & Collette / Johnny Walks / ABC-Paramount / LA 1.24.57
George Wallington / I Married an Angel / Prestige / 5.25.53
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / My Fine, Feathered Friend / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38 / vocal = Greta Keller
Jack Teagarden / Puttin’ and Takin’ / Brunswick / 7.19.39 
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / I’m Fer It / Urban / LA spring 1946
Otis Rush / Double Trouble / Cobra / Chicago 1958

set 3
Jackie McLean / Marney / Blue Note [unissued] / 2.11.63
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson / Wonder Why / Prestige / 5.20.55
Machito & his Afro Cubans / 5: Roost Anniversary, volume 1 / Cubop City, part 1 / Roost / live broadcast, Royal Roost 1949
Delta Rhythm Boys / Do You Care / transcription / 1941
Una Mae Carlisle / You’re Gonna Change Your Mind / Joe Davis / 8.8.44
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / Wives and Lovers / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor / Tune for Tex / Urania / c. 10.54 
Johnny Smith / Nice Work if You Can Get It / Roulette / 11.52
Ray Charles / I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now / Swing / LA 11.24.50
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Manhattan / RCA / LA 1957
Earl Gaines / The Door Is Still Open / DeLuxe / Hollywood 1968
Pilgrim Travelers / Gonna Walk Right Out / Specialty / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
The Lovettes / I Need a Guy / Carnival / 1967