Happy New Playlist, Baby

Over here, Dean, over here!

Coffeetime, December 30, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Four Strings [alt take] / Blue Note / 5.19.57
John Coltrane & Paul Chambers / High Step / Transition [unissued] / Cambridge 4.20.55
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Swing / Paris 7.7.37
Helen Kane / Dangerous Nan McGrew / from the soundtrack to the Paramount movie of same name / Hollywood 4.12.30
Peggy Lee / Song at Midnight / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3.49 / with the Jud Conlon Singers
Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally
Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson / Double Exposure / Happy New Year / Atlantic / 12.5.60

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Candy / All the Way / Blue Note / 11.18.57
Bud Powell / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 5.1.51
Guy Lombardo / Guy Lombardo in Hi Fi / Auld Lang Syne / Capitol / Hollywood 1956
Red Norvo & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Decca / 3.16.36
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars with Jack Teagarden / Jack-Armstrong Blues / AFRS radio broadcast / Hollywood c. 6.47

set 3
Lem Winchester & Benny Golson / Winchester Special / The Dude / New Jazz / 9.25.59
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / How Long Has This Been Going On / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Bud Powell / 52nd Street Theme / Blue Note / 8.9.49
Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Dixieaires / Soon Now / Coleman / 1948
Dean Martin / A Winter Romance / Capitol / Hollywood / 8.4.59

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Knights at the Castle / Dawn / 2.3.56
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Phil’s Blues / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.18.56
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Debbie Reynolds / You Are My Lucky Star / outtake from MGM movie Singing in the Rain / Hollywood 6.13.51
Little Milton Campbell / I Need Somebody / Checker / St. Louis / 1961
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958
Pilgrim Travelers / Good News / Specialty / Hollywood 12.24.47

last soulful song
Berna-Dean / One Gal in Town, Five Men Around / Imperial / LA 1962

Merry Playlist, I Love You

I just love this cover. It’s part of my Xmas decorations.

Coffeetime, December 23, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58

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 / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra

The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther 

Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60

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

bed  

Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 

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

bed  

Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64

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

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters http://youtu.be/PKpW7SdxhRE

Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / LA 1973

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 

bed

Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70

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

The Best Things Happen While You're Playlisting

I love Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 16, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / High and Flighty [alt take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Donna Lee / Riverside / 4.27.57
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
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May
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
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 1.20.62
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
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 / Chicago 10.66 / Orchestra arranged & conducted by Richard Evans
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Turista / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3, 4, 5 & 7.16.63
Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / It’s a Marshmallow World / CBS radio broadcast / Hollywood 11.29.50
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
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
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks! / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Contemporary / LA 9.23.57
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
Yogi Yorgesson / I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood10.18.49 / with the Johnny Duffy Trio
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
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
Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Pzazz / 1968 / written, arranged, with Teddy Edwards

My Playlist Wants a Millionaire

Let's be groovy, baby.

Coffeetime, December 9, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / Sims A-Plenty / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / Wheelin’ and Dealin’ / Prestige / 1967
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Junction Blues / Bluebird / 6.10.40
Rudy Vallée & his Yale Collegians / Dream Sweetheart / Harmony / 8.29.28
Bob Mitchell / My Girl Wants a Millionaire / Derby / LA 1950
Sarah Vaughan / September Song / EmArcy / 12.16.54

set 2
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Our Waltz / Prestige / 4.10.62
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Left Alone / Bethlehem / 11.57
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres and Sweets / That’s All / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / It’s a Lonesome Old Town (When You’re Not Around) / Victor / 2.12.39 / vocal = Lois Deppe
The Smoothies / Easy Does It / Bluebird / 1.3.40
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers featuring Frankie Ervin / Dragnet Blues / Modern / LA 1953
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Make Me a Present of You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 3
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / Looptown / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Afro-Jaws / Tin Tin Deo / Riverside / 5.4, 12.61
Charlie Parker Quintet / Dexterity / Dial / 10.28.47
Maxine Sullivan / How Do I Know It’s Real? / Decca / 3.19.42
The Four Tunes (aka The Brown Dots aka The Sentimentalists) / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love / Manor / late 1946
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / Stella By Starlight / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Pete & Conte Candoli / Bell, Book & Candoli / Hey, Bellboy! / Dot / LA 12.58
Barney Kessel / Barney Kessel, vol. 1,  "Easy Like" / That’s All / Contemporary / LA 11.14.53
Lil Armstrong & her Chicago Boys / Joogie Boogie / Gotham / Chicago 4.4.50
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Salt Water Cowboy / CBS broadcast / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 9.2.44 / vocal = Doris Day
Doc Pomus / Naggin’ Wife Blues / Apollo / late 1947 or early 1948
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood / 1968
The Trumpeteers / John De Revelator / WOR radio broadcast / 6.22.49

last soulful song
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / Make It Happen / Dancing's Alright / Tamla / Detroit 1967

 

I Still Get a Playlist (Thinking of You)

Handsome man. Tenor saxophone. Can I have both, please?

Coffeetime, December 2, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night in Tunisia / Sincerely Diana / Blue Note / 2.4.65
Pepper Adams / 10 to 4 at the 5-Spot / The Long Two/Four / Riverside / live, Five Spot Café 4.15.58
Annette Hanshaw / Don’t Blame Me / Banner / 9.1.33
Big Maybelle / A Little Bird Told Me / Savoy / 4.13.57 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / I Can’t Get Started / BBC TV show, Jazz 625 / live, London 3.7.65
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Red Norvo’s Nine / Under a Blanket of Blue / Capitol / Hollywood 10.14.47
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / In the Evening / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Cleo Brown / Never Too Tired to Love / Decca / 6.8.35
The Ravens / Time Is Marching On / National / 3.50
Cy Coleman / Witchcraft / live, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy’s Penthouse TV show / 1956  

set 3
Wynton Kelly / Smokin’ at the Half Note / Four on Six / Verve / 9.22.65
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Swingin’ at Sugar Ray’s / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Teddy Reig’s All Stars / Mr. Dues / Savoy / 1.22.47
The Charioteers / Sweet Lorraine / Columbia / 6.3.47
Frank Sinatra / The Concert Sinatra / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Reprise / Hollywood 2.63

set 4
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / Li’l Darlin’ / Contemporary / LA late summer 1960
Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / Almost Like Being in Love / Riverside / 7.22.59
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / It’s an Old Southern Custom / Melotone / Hollywood 2.15.35 / with The Four Blackbirds
Dick Haymes / I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You) / Decca / Hollywood 1.16.49 / with Four Hits and a Miss
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / What Happened to the Hair (on the Head of the Man I Love)? / Coral / LA 1957 / arrangements by Don Redman
The Detroiters / Angels Watching Over Me / Specialty [unissued] / Detroit 8.14.51

last soulful song
Tommie Young / That’s All a Part of Loving Him / Soul Power / Shreveport 1973