Friday, December 09, 2016

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