Friday, October 16, 2015

Zing Went the Strings of My Playlist

Hey Patti! Don’t buy. Adopt!
Coffeetime, October 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / Rhumba Nhumba / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Blows Hot and Cool / Bonna Rue / Dootone / LA 11.11-12.55
Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / On the Alamo [take 2] / Brunswick / 4.18.29 
Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra / Crazy Rhythm / Victor / 4.12.28 / vocal = Franklyn Baur
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / I Would Do Anything for You / Decca / 1.23.40
Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / The Nearness of You / Mercury / 1956

set 2
Earl Anderza / Midnite Lament / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.30.63 
Billy Taylor / The New Billy Taylor Trio / There Will Never Be Another You / ABC-Paramount / 12.16, 17.57
Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang / Royal Garden Blues / Okeh / 10.5.27
Bud Freeman & his Famous Chicagoans / Jack Hits the Road / Columbia / 7.23.40 / vocal = Jack Teagarden 
Martha Raye / That Old Feeling / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Buffalo Nickel, part 1 / Apollo / 1949
Chuck Willis / Loud Mouth Lucy / Okeh / 3.52

set 3
Johnny Richards / Something Else By Johnny Richards / Dimples / Bethlehem / Hollywood 8.56
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orchestra / The Spirit of ’67 / This Is It / Impulse! / 2.15.67
Howard McGhee All Stars / South Pacific Jazz / Harvest Time / Savoy / USO tour, Guam 1.17.52
Virginia Four [aka Norfolk Jazz Quartet] / Dig My Jelly Roll / Decca / 8.23.39
Connee Boswell / You Forgot to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 4.16.38 / with Harry Sosnik & his Orchestra 
Matt Dennis / Plays and Sings Matt Dennis / Angel Eyes / Kapp / live, Tally Ho, Hollywood 1958

set 4
Pete Rugolo / New Sounds / When You’re Smiling / Harmony / LA 1957
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Sauter-Finegan Memories of Goodman and Miller / Superman / RCA Victor / 1958 / arranged by Eddie Sauter
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Five Brothers / Prestige / 4.8.49
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / My Baby / United / Chicago 4.15.53 
Dinah Washington / Since My Man Has Gone and Went / Mercury / summer 1953
Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks /  Zing Went the Strings of My Heart / Signature / 1961
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi / Tide of Life / Peacock / Houston 1962

last soul song
Barbara Lynn / Nice & Easy / Atlantic / 1971