Friday, April 17, 2015

Clownin' the Playlist

April showers bring…Guétary!
Coffeetime, April 17, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Joe Henderson / Mode for Joe / Granted / Blue Note / 1.27.66
Jackie McLean & John Jenkins / Alto Madness / Windy City / Prestige / 5.3.57
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Poor Little Rich Girl / radio transcription / 1947 
Noël Coward / The Dream Is Over / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 5.15.28 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Linda Hopkins / Three Time Loser / Crystalette / LA 1954 / with the Red Callender Orchestra
Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / The Ballad of the Sad Young Men / Verve /10.16.61 

set 2
Chet Baker / In Milan / My Old Flame / Jazzland / Milan 9.25.59
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / A Room with a View / Fantasy / 1957
Cozy Cole All Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44
Julia Lee / Won’t You Come Over to My House / Brunswick / Kansas City 11.8.29 / with = George Lee’s Novelty Singing Orchestra 
Boots [Clifford "Boots" Douglass] & his Buddies / Sweet Girl / Victor / San Antonio 2.25.36
Georges Guétary / Mon P’tit Bouquet de Fleurs / Pathé / Paris 1949
Flairs / (Why Do) I Love You? / Crown / LA 1963 

set 3
Gene Ammons / The Happy Blues / Can’t We Be Friends / Prestige / 4.23.56
The Ink Spots / Stairway to the Stars / radio broadcast, NBC affiliate WFIL / Philadelphia 7.12.39 
Jo Stafford & her Men of Jazz / I’m Comin’ Virginia / V-Disc 895A / 1945
Fred Astaire / Easy to Dance With / I Used to Be Color Blind / Verve / LA 3.27.57 / with Buddy Bregman’s Orchestra 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / It’s Not for Me to Say / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Clownin’ the Frets / Okeh / 4.6.28
Oscar Alemán Trio / Dear Old Southland / Swing / Buenos Aires 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers
Kay Starr / Betcha I Getcha / Standard transcription/ 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio and Joe Venuti
Elvis Presley / Elvis for Everyone! [also Elvis By Request] / Summer Kisses, Winter Tears / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.8.60 / unused song from 20th Century Fox movie Flaming Star 
The Sallie Martin Singers / He’s Able to Carry Me Through / Specialty / Hollywood 12.15.50

last soulful song
Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Bright Lights and You, Girl / Mercury / 1970