Crackerjack Playlist

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Coffeetime, December 11, 2015, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Reunion / Riverside / 12.23.57

John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Limehouse Blues / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59

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 

Sparky with music by Billy May / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 

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

Bucky Pizzarelli / After Thoughts, part 2 / Monmouth Evergreen / early spring 1974
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61 

Secco Selichson / Gyspy Violin / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 2.38

Gene Autry & The Pinafores / He’s a Chubby Little Fellow / Columbia / Hollywood 6.27.49

The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950

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 (ends, “I don’t weigh very much.”)

Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1964 / vocal = Janet Orenstein

set 3

Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / My Favorite Things / Cadet / 10.66 / Orchestra arranged & conducted by Richard Evans

Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Here I Am / Blue Note / 5.31.59 

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 

Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53

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

June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 1952

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

The Mad Lads / Don’t Have to Shop Around / Volt / Memphis 1965