Friday, January 31, 2020

Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Playlist)

Listen to Ethel’s big pink dress, Donald!

Coffeetime, January 31, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ping Pong / Blue Note [unissued] / live, Renaissance Club, Hollywood 3.62
Benny Golson / Benny Golson’s New York Scene / Capri / Contemporary / 10.14.57
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Crying Myself to Sleep / Victor / 11.24.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio
Joe Swift / Lovin’ Baby Blues / Exclusive / 1948 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra
Sarah Vaughan / Sarah Sings Soulfully / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Roulette / 1963

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

set 2
Chet Baker / Groovin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Lonely Star / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Fantasy / The Cellar, Vancouver 9.16.61
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / Rose Room / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1.40
Bill Robinson / Just a Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi) / Brunswick / 5.27.31
The Andrews Sisters / Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka) / Decca / Hollywood 12.12.47 / with Vic Schoen & his Orchestra
Dave “Dizzy” Dixon / Soup Line [alt take] / Vee-Jay [unissued] / Chicago 11.55

set 3
Hank Mobley / The Feelin’s Good / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.7.63
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / Slowly / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Ella Mae Morse / The Thrill Is Gone / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
The Ravens / I’m Afraid of You / National / 12.22.47
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Renúncia / RCA Victor / c. 1956

set 4
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / Oh Lady Be Good / Clef / LA late fall 1952
The Creed Taylor Orchestra / Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat / Lonelyville / ABC-Paramount / 1959
Shorty Rogers / The Fourth Dimension in Sound / You’re Just in Love / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 11.10.61
The Comedian Harmonists [Comedy Harmonists] / Wenn Die Sonja Russisch Tanzt (When Sonja Does a Russian Dance) / HMV / Berlin 1934
Ethel Merman & Donald O’Connor / You’re Just in Love / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie “Call Me Madam” / Hollywood 1953
Earl Gaines / Tell Me Tonight / Hollywood / Nashville 7.20.67
Jubalaires / Ezekiel / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Patti Labelle / I’m in Love Again / If Only You Knew / Philadelphia International / Philadelphia 7.28.82