Hello, Mister Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 137

Coffeetime, December 23, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Dick Robertson / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39 
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 / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

bed
Dexter Gordon / The Panther! / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 7.7.70 

set 2
Charles Schultz /[A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack] / dialogue snippet / [Buena Vista] / LA 1965 [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 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
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
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess
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 / Chicago 10.66 / with Charles Stepney, piano; Cleveland Eaton, bass; Morris Jennings, drums
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal =Joey Nash 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The Three Sisters 
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / LA 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 / Hollywood 6.14.46 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé 
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / 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 soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 136

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 16, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57 
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / So Far / Dawn / 6.12.56 
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Jimmy Witherspoon / How I Hate to See Christmas Come Around / Swing Time / LA 1951
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May 
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters 

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66 
John Graas / Sweet Saxophones [aka My Buddy] / Decca / LA 1.23.57 / Jack Montrose ts, Bill Perkins, ts, Paul Moer p, Paul Chambers b, Philly Joe Jones d
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / That Christmas Feeling; I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duets with Gary and Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus] 
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 / / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“I don’t weigh very much.”) 
Janet Orenstein / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1964 / with the Videocraft Chorus
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Big John Patton / The Way I Feel / Jerry / Blue Note / 6.19.64 
Illinois Jacquet / Jazz by Jacquet / Heads / Clef / 1954 
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49 
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires  
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s
Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Pzazz / 1968 / written, arranged, with Teddy Edwards

set 4
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / LA 10.38
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Pzazz / 1968 / written, arranged, with Teddy Edwards
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Patti Hamilton & the Lovelites / My Baby Loves Me / Lovelite / Chicago 1971

Long Skirt Playlist Blues: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 135

WMBR members finally returning to the basement of Walker Memorial.

Coffeetime, December 9, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + Four / Ezz-Thetic / EmArcy / 9.19.56 
Tommy Potter / Tommy Potter’s Hard Funk / The Imp / East-West / Stockholm 9.10.56 
Mickey Alpert [aka Ben Selvin] & his Orchestra / Rain on the Roof / Columbia / 2.4.32 / vocal = Paul Small 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Barbara Lea / A Woman in Love / Love Is Here to Stay / Riverside / 3.15.55 

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Wrapped Tight / Beautiful Girl / Impulse! / 3.1.65 
Horace Parlan / Us Three / I Want to Be Loved / Blue Note / 4.20.60 
Ernie Royal / Accent on Trumpet / Stardust / Urania / 11.26.55 
Andy Iona & his Orchestra / When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop / Princess Aloha Soundie / Hollywood 1941
T-Bone Walker / Long Skirt Baby Blues / Black & White / LA 11.6.47
Delta Rhythm Boys / Domaredansen / Metronome / Stockholm 9.8.50 / with the Metronome All-Stars
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill 

set 3
Richard “Groove” Holmes & Gene Ammons / Groovin’ With Jug / Morris the Minor / Pacific Jazz / live at the LA club The Black Orchid, afternoon 8.15.61 
Jack Montrose / Blues and Vanilla / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore / RCA Victor / 1956 
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now / Columbia / 3.47 / vocal = Snooky Lanson & the Sportsmen 
The Ink Spots / I Wish You the Best of Everything / Decca / 5.19.38 
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sextet (10”)/ Dot’s Groovy / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.9.54 / Baker t, Bob Brookmeyer tb, Bud Shank bs, Russ Freeman p, Carson Smith b, Shelly Mann d, arranged by Jack Montrose
Bob Brookmeyer / The Street Swingers / Arrowhead / Pacific Jazz / 12.57 
Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir” 
The Charioteers / The General Jumped at Dawn / radio broadcast, Kraft Music Hall #339 / Hollywood 6.29.44 
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
The Chosen Gospel Singers / No Room in the Hotel / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song
The Vel-Vetts / You Really Never Know Till It’s Over / Doré / LA 1966

It’s a Most Unusual Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 134

Let it be gorgeous Vivian Reed with Mr. Butler.

Coffeetime, December 3, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / On Children / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Philly Joe Jones / Philly Joe’s Best / That’s Earl, Brother / Atlantic 5.20.60 
Stan Levey / This Time the Drum’s on Me / Tune Up / Bethlehem / LA 9.27 & 28.55
Ben Bernie & his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Brunswick / 3.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert; a Fats Waller tune 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Juke Box Lil / Exclusive / LA 1947 / Charles Brown p & voc, Johnny Moore g, Eddie Williams b
Beverly Kelly / Sings with the Pat Moran Trio / I’m Glad There Is You / Audio Fidelity / Chicago 12.57 

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

set 2
Jimmy Smith / A Date with Jimmy Smith, Volume Two / I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You / Blue Note / 2.12.57 
Lee Konitz & Jimmy Giuffre / Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre / Moonlight in Vermont / Verve / 5.12,13.59 
Joe Newman / I Feel Like a Newman / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Storyville / 4.56 
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Stardust / Odeon / Buenos Aires 8.30.44 f
Noël Coward / The Party’s Over / HMV / London c. 9.19.32
Cleo Brown / Slow Poke / Decca / LA 4.4.36 
Mindy Carson / I Want a Television Christmas / RCA Victor / 1950 / with Charles Hale & his Orchestra, side B with bells & celeste! 
Robert Clary / Seventh Heaven (Original Cast Album) / Happy Little Crook / Decca / 1955  

set 3
Jackie McLean / Destination… Out! / Riff Raff / Blue Note / 9.20.63 
Blue Mitchell / Boss Horn / Tones for Joan’s Bones / Blue Note / 11.17.66 
George Wallington / Leonard Feather Presents Bop / Crazeology [Little Benny] / Mode / 8.57 
Sonny Kendis & his Orchestra / My Blue Heaven / Columbia / 4.21.41 / vocal = Jimmy Saunders
The James Quintet / I’m Just a Fool / Derby / early 11.49 
Jackie Paris / Skylark / I’m Through with Love / Brunswick / 1954

set 4
Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca / Zenobia / Pacific Jazz (unissued) / LA 12.11.56 
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Diablo’s Dance / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.15.53 
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / It’s a Most Unusual Day / Columbia / 12.47 / vocal = Anita Gordon & the Noblemen
King Cole Trio / Bring Another Drink / Capitol / Hollywood 11.28.44
Vivian Reed / Vivian Reed / I’ve Gotta Be Me / Epic / 1968 
The Four Blue Jackets / Rock-A My Soul / Mercury / Chicago 1946 

last soulful song
The Emotions / Untouched / Nothing Seems Impossible / Volt / Muscle Shoals 1971 

Let a Playlist Be Your Umbrella on a Rainy Day: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 133

Why don’t we have TV shows with Lucky Thompson and Kenny Clarke anymore?

Coffeetime, November 18, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Al Cohn / Al Cohn’s Tones / That’s What You Think / Savoy / 6.23.53 
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor Sax / Tune for Tex / Urania / 1954 / arranged by Jimmy Hamilton; Lucky Thompson ts, Jimmy Hamilton cl, Billy Taylor p, Sidney Gross g, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / The Count / Decca / 11.7.40  
Paul Specht & his Orchestra / Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella on a Rainy Day / Columbia / 1.4.28 / vocal trio = Johnny Morris, Charlie Spivak t, & Frank Leitner p 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober / Decca / 7.21.42
Carmen McRae / Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics / My Man / Columbia / summer 1961 

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

set 2
Hal Singer & Charlie Shavers / Blue Stompin’ / With a Song in My Heart / Prestige / 2.20.59 
Bill Evans / Portrait in Jazz / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 12.28.59 
Billy Butterfield / The Mellow Moods of Jazz / Pastel Blue / RCA Victor / 1956 / Billy Butterfield t, Urbie Green, Lou McGarity tb, Hal McKusick as, Moe Weschler p, Barry Galbraith g, Milt Hilton b, Osie Johnson d
Scott Wood & his Orchestra / Who Walks in When I Walk Out? / Regal Zonophone / London 1.4.34 / vocal = Sam Browne
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / I Go for That / Vocalion / 1939 
Doris Day / Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) / Columbia / LA 1950
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / You Wanna Bet / Columbia / 1967

set 3
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p / thanks to longtime listener David for this suggestion
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook / Long Ago (And Far Away) / Verve / Chicago summer 1959 
Joe Roland / Joltin’ Joe Roland / I’ve Got the World on a String / Savoy / 5.10.54 
The Be Bop Boys / Moody Speaks / Savoy / 1948 
Chico Marx & his Orchestra / Here You Are / Hit / 6.42 / vocal = Skip Nelson 
The Jones Boys Sing Band / Swing As You Work / MGM short film Streamlined Swing directed by Buster Keaton / Hollywood 1938  
Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones / At Basin Street East / I’m Falling for You; Fool That I Am; Everything I Have Is Yours / EmArcy / live 10.1.61 

set 4
Oscar Pettiford / Burt’s Pad / Vogue / Paris 3.21.54 
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / I Need Ya Like a Hole in the Head / Columbia [10”] / 1947
King Cole Trio / It’s Only a Paper Moon / AFRS Jubilee Show #207 / Hollywood 3.45 / with Benny Carter & his Orchestra and MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Kay Starr / Who Hit Me? / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 1947
C.B.S. Trumpeteers / Lord Ease My Weary Mind / Nashboro / Nashville 1966

last soulful song
Jerry & Billy Butler / I Stand Accused / The Soul! Show / live 1970 https://youtu.be/xgetdF_7Ijw


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Playlist Why Pick on Me: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 132

Josephine agrees: Steve Gibson & the 5 Red Caps are toppers.

Coffeetime, November 11, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / Minor Mishap / New Jazz / 4.18.57 
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / The Countess / EmArcy / 1.3-4.55 
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / Falling Leaves / Bluebird / 9.3.40  

Don Redman & his Orchestra / Trouble Why Pick on Me / Brunswick / 9.24.31 / vocal = Louis Deppe 
Lil Hardin Armstrong / Born to Swing / Decca / 4.15.37 
Helen Carr / … Why Do I Love You / My Kind of Trouble Is You / Bethlehem / 11.11.55 / Cappy Lewis t, Howard Roberts g, Red Mitchell b

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

set 2
Yusef Lateef / The Centaur and the Phoenix / Ev’ry Day (I Fall in Love) / Riverside / 10.4, 6.60 
Curtis Amy & Frank Butler / Groovin’ Blue / Beautiful You / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 12.10.60 
Morris Lane / Ghost Town / Robin / 11.51
Aileen Stanley / Who Walks in When I Walk Out? / Brunswick / London 2.12.34
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Where or When? / Columbia / 12.24.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis / When You Love a Fella / Trend / live, Tally-Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 / with Virginia (Ginny) Maxey
The Du Droppers / Can’t Do Sixty No More / Robin / 1952 / with Ben Smith’s Quintet

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Blues-ette / Twelve-Inch / Savoy / 5.21.59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues-ette
Stan Getz / And the Cool Sounds / Serenade in Blue / Verve / Hollywood 8.19.55 
Teddy Wilson / I Got Rhythm / Stars Fell on Alabama / Verve / Chicago 3.5.56 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / It’s the Talk of the Town / Decca / 1.15.42 / vocal = Kenny Sargent & ensemble 
The 5 Red Caps / I’m Crazy ’Bout You / Beacon / LA 3.44 
The Modernaires with Paula Kelly / Autumn Serenade / Columbia / 8.22.45
Johnny Hartman / And I Thought About You / And I Thought About You / Roost / early 1959

set 4
[Mel Lewis] / [Gettin’ Together] / There Will Never Be Another You / Vee Jay / LA 1.22-23.57 / Jack Montrose ts, Bill Perkins, ts, Paul Moer p, Paul Chambers b, Philly Joe Jones d
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Look for the Silver Lining / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / Hall g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b
King Cole Trio / I’m a Shy Guy / Capitol / Hollywood 4.13.45
Sammy Davis Jr. / As Long as She Needs Me / Step Out of That Dream / Reprise / LA late 1962 
The Pilgrim Travelers / The Life You Save May Be Your Own (The Safety Song) / Specialty [unissued take 3] / Hollywood 1.13.55

bed for thank yous
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / You Go to My Head / Prestige / 5.18.60 

last soulful song
James Lately / Love, Friends and Money / Temple / Detroit 1964

Money Burns a Hole in My Playlist… Again: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 131

Mr. Milton says WMBR’s listeners are number one!

Coffeetime, November 4, 2022, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / Terrible T / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Columbia / 7.3.28
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53
Doris Day / Hooray for Hollywood / Pennies from Heaven / Columbia / LA 1958 / with celeste!

set 3
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley [alternate take] / Blue Note / 12.22.47
Dizzy Gillespie & his All-Star Quintet / Shaw ’Nuff / 5.11.45 
King Cole Trio / With Plenty of Money and You / Standard transcription / 10.38
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / With Plenty of Money and You (Oh Baby, What I Couldn’t Do) / Brunswick / 10.26.36 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Bing Crosby / Pennies from Heaven / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.36 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Peggy Lee / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / Atco / LA 12.19.58
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

Message from the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 130

Neither spooky nor dusty, just pretty.

Coffeetime, October 28, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57 
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s 2nd Message / Message from the Border / Prestige / 7.27.56 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Farewell Blues / Swing / Paris 3.7.38 
George Olsen & his Music / The Girl Friend / Victor / 4.22.26 / vocal = trio from members of the orchestra 
Jack McVea / Lonesome Blues / Black & White / LA 1946 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Sarah Vaughan / Trouble Is a Man / Musicraft / 10.10.47 / with Ted Dale Orchestra 

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

set 2
Donald Byrd / Royal Flush / I’m a Fool to Want You / Blue Note / 9.21.61 
Dizzy Gillespie / Sittin’ In / Medley: I'm Thru with Love; Without a Word of Warning; Sweet Lorraine; Love Walked In; September Song / Verve / 6.26.57 
Louise Brooks & Rina Ketty / J’Attendrai / Pathé / 1938
Bing Crosby & Mary Martin / Lily of Laguna / Decca / Hollywood 3.13.42 / with John Scott Trotter Orchestra 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43 / vocal = Savannah Churchill
Dean Martin / This Time I’m Swingin’ / Heaven Can Wait / Capitol / Hollywood 5.17.60 

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Soul Finger / Buh’s Bossa / Limelight / 5.12.65 
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 
Morris Lane / Ghost Town [partial] / Robin / 11.51

Fats Navarro & Eddie Davis / Stealing Trash / Savoy (Petit Savoy) / Paris 12.18.46 

Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / That Old Black Magic / Victor / 7.15.42 / vocal = Skip Nelson & the Modernaires 
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / LA 5.14.47
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / It’s Always You / World Pacific / LA 7.23.56

set 4
Joe Puma / East Coast Jazz 3 / How About You? / Bethlehem / 11.30.54 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliot vib, Vinnie Burke b, Ted Sommer d 
Lennie Niehaus / The Octet #2 / Blue Room / Contemporary / Hollywood 1.26..55 
Conte Candoli / Cool Gabriels / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Groove [RCA Victor subsidiary] / 6.56 / cover design by Andy Warhol 
King Cole Trio / I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do) [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 3.15.46
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / If You Really Love Me, Really Love Me / Atlantic / 1966
Frank Sinatra & The Charioteers / Jesus Is a Rock in the Weary Land / Columbia / Hollywood 5.16.45 

last soulful song
Dusty Springfield / Spooky / Philips / London 1970 

How Big Can You Get, Little Playlist?: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 129

I’m just trying to look like Paul Williams.

Coffeetime, October 21, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1540] / Mobleymania / Blue Note / 11.25.56 
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / With Apologies to Oscar / Savoy / 7.14.55 
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Moten Swing / Columbia / 3.2.36 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Louise / Decca / 7.9.29 / vocal = Eddie Gross-Bart
Seger Ellis / It’s a Lonesome Old Town / Brunswick / 12.22.30 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Them There Eyes / Specialty / Hollywood 7.47 / slightly slower version released earlier, 10.46, on Miltone 
Dinah Washington / Accent on Youth / EmArcy / 11.12.55 

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

set 2
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Cookbook, volume 2 / Stardust / Prestige / 12.5.58 
Max Albright / Mood for Max / That’s All / Motif / Hollywood 11.23.56 
Lester Young / Lester Young & The Oscar Peterson Trio / Stardust / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Hoagy Carmichael & his Pals / Stardust / Gennett / 10.31.27 
Six Jumping Jacks / She’s Got “It” / Brunswick / 7.7.27 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / How Big Can You Get, Little Man? / Decca / 2.26.46 / vocal = Annisteen Allen 
Pee Wee Crayton / I Got News for You / Imperial / New Orleans 1.28.55

set 3
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Howard Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Elmo Hope / Sounds from Rikers Island / Three Silver Quarters / Audio Fidelity / Rikers Island, NY (?) 8.19.63 / Hope p, Ronnie Boykins b, Philly Joe Jones d 
Red Garland / [Red Garland Revisited!] / Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool / Prestige / 5.24.57 

The Four Vagabonds / Choo-Choo / Apollo / 7.47 
Alice Babs / Kiss Me Sweet / Cupol / Södra flickläroverket [Southern Girls’ Education Agency], Stockholm 1.27.50 / with Putte Wickman & his Orchestra
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Some Fine Day / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Art Pepper / Two Altos / Deep Purple / Regent / LA 8.25.54 
Hampton Hawes / Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes, vol. 3 / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 1.25.56 / Cover drawing and design by Robert Guidi/Tri-Arts 
King Cole Trio / Look What You've Done to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44
Paul Williams / Life Goes On / I Won’t Last a Day Without You / A&M / Hollywood 1972 / Danny Kortchmar g 
Ink Spots / Somebody Bigger than You and I / Decca / 2.15.51 

last soulful song
The Pretenders / Broken Heart / Carnival [unissued] / 1971

Playlist in the Hay: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 128

Jane sings one of my favorite songs in one of my favorite movies.

Coffeetime, October 14, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Frank Strazzeri / Yvette / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 1.63 / Carmell Jones t, Hadley Callman ts, Frank Strazzeri p, Red Mitchell b, Nick Martinis d
Cannonball Adderley / Plus / Lisa / Riverside / 5.11.61 
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / That Naughty Waltz / Decca / 3.24.37 
Roy Fox & his Orchestra / You Have Taken My Heart / Decca / London 3.9.34 / vocal = Denny Dennis 
Six Jumping Jacks / Piccolo Pete / Brunswick / 7.22.29 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Camille Howard / My Heart Goes Out to You / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 9.24.51
Jane Russell / How Long Has This Been Going On? / MGM / Hollywood 1958

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

set 2
Thad Jones / Sonny Rollins Plays / Ballad Medley: Flamingo; If You Were Mine; I’m Through with Love; Love Walked In / Period / 12.24.56 / Thad Jones t, Frank Foster ts, Jimmy Jones p, Doug Watkins b, Jo Jones d
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / Autumn Leaves / Atlantic / summer 1960 
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Imperial / 11.28.56
Joe Venuti & his New Yorkers / Doin’ Things / Okeh / 10.4.28 
Alice Faye / Slumming on Park Avenue / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.27.37 / for the 20th Century Fox movie On the Avenue 
T-Bone Walker / First Love Blues / Capitol / LA 11.12.47
Tab Smith / Baby, Please Don’t Go / United [unissued] / Chicago 1954 / vocal = Ray King; Tab Smith ts, Sam Malone org, Lefty Bates g, Vernon King b, Walter Johnson d 

set 3
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / Tangerine [alt take] / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Freddie Hubbard / High Blues Pressure / High Blues Pressure / Atlantic / 11.13.67 
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / I Cover the Waterfront / Atlantic / Paris 12.56 
Bob Crosby & his Orchestra / Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street / Decca / 12.6.39 / vocal = Eddie Miller & Nappy Lamar 
The Dixiaires / Joe Louis Is a Fightin’ Man / Sittin’ in With / 12.47 
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Beverly / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Gerald Wiggins / The Loveliness of You / That Old Gang of Mine / Tampa / LA 1958 / Wiggins p, Eugene Wright b, Bill Douglass d
Gus Viseur / Ménilmontant / Barclay / Paris 5.3.55 / Gus Viseur accord; Boulou Ferré g, Roger Paraboschi d
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / Lying in the Hay / Columbia / London 1933 
King Cole Trio / I Want to Thank Your Folks / NYC 12.18.46
Pat Moran / The Pat Moran Quartet / Two Sleepy People / Bethlehem / Hollywood 5.56 / Moran p & voc, John Doling b & voc, Johnny Whited d & voc, Bev Kelly voc, cover design = Leichman & Seide 
Bobby Rydell / Rydell at the Copa / Homesick That’s All / Cameo / live, Copacabana Club 7.4.61
Dixiaires / The Greatest Spirituals / Jesus Gave Me Water / Time / 1959

last soulful song
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968

My Playlist Back Home: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 127

Diahann with the stunning side-eye.

Coffeetime, October 7, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Child’s Play / Jazzline / 1.12.62 
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Basheer’s Dream / Blue Note / 1.29.55 
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch / Our Delight / Riverside / 3.9.62 
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / I Cried for You / Decca / 3.29.38
Henry Biagini / Accent on Youth / Melotone / 8.20.35 / vocal = Clyde Rogers
Martha Davis / What Good Am I Without You? / Coral / LA 12.10.51 
Diahann Carroll / I’m Through with Love / Peter Gunn, episode S02E03 (“Sing a Song of Murder”) / Hollywood 3.7.60 (air date)

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

set 2
Ben Webster / The Warm Moods / Accent on Youth / Reprise / LA 1.18 
Les McCann / Pretty Lady / Doreen Don’t Cry / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 3.13 & 15.61 
Dave Pell / Love Story / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.21.56 
Mary Osborne / A Girl & Her Guitar / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Warwick / 1959 
Cliff Edwards / I’ll See You in My Dreams / Columbia / 2.5.30 
Trixie Smith / Jack, I’m Mellow / Decca / 5.26.38 
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis / We Belong Together / Trend / live, Tally-Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 / with Virginia (Ginny) Maxey
Lola Albright / Lola Wants You / Do What You Gotta Do / Kern / Hollywood 5.16.57 

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Rearin’ Back / Bunny Rabbit / Argo / Chicago 9.24.62 
Larry Young / Young Blues / Something New, Something Blue / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
The Mills Brothers / I’ve Found a New Baby / Decca / 9.14.34 
Ella Fitzgerald & her V-Disc Boys / I'll See You in My Dreams / V-Disc 730A / 10.12.45 
Jimmy Witherspoon / ’Spoon / Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / Reprise / Hollywood 12.8-9.59 

set 4
Joe Puma / East Coast Jazz, Vol. 3 / Liza / Bethlehem / 1955
Dave Pell / Love Story / I’ve Found a New Baby / Atlantic / Hollywood 2.21.56
Gerry Mulligan / Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Vol. 1 / Disc Jockey Jump / Pacific Jazz / 12.4 & 5.57 
King Cole Trio / Can You Look Me in the Eyes (And Say We’re Through) / Capitol / Hollywood 12.30.46
Bill Lee (dubbed in for John Kerr) & Mitzi Gaynor / My Girl Back Home / soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox movie South Pacific / Hollywood 1958  
The Kings / I’m a Little Liar / Gotham [unissued] / Baltimore 2.4.55 
The Trumpeteers / Babylon’s Fallen / Score [subsidiary of Aladdin] / Hollywood 1949

last soulful song
Thee Midniters / Making Ends Meet / Whittier / LA 1967

Put It There, Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 126

Finding joy in dance with beautiful Miriam Makeba.

Coffeetime, September 30, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / Rip De Boom / Vee-Jay / 4.26.60 
Tina Brooks / [Minor Move] / Star Eyes / Blue Note / 3.16.58 
Alix Combelle / Onze Heures Vingt / Swing / Paris 12.18.40
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Am I Wasting My Time on You / Columbia / 7.19.26 / vocal = Franklyn Baur
Private Cecil Gant / Watch That Stuff / Gilt-Edge / LA 1945
Billie Holiday / All or Nothing / Sophisticated Lady / Verve / LA 8.18.56 

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

set 2
Cannonball Adderley / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / I Can’t Get Started / Capitol / 8.23 & 24.61 
Erroll Garner / Erroll Garner Gems / I Cover the Waterfront / Columbia / 1.11.51
Charlie Parker / Loverman / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46 
Golden Gate Orchestra (California Ramblers) / Up and at ’Em / Edison / 8.10.26 
Bob Hope & Bing Crosby / Put It There, Pal / Decca / Hollywood 1945 / with Vic Schoen & his Orchestra; from the Paramount movie Road to Utopia
The Robins / I Found Out My Troubles / Savoy [unissued] / LA 1.11.50 / with Johnny Otis Band 
Miriam Makeba / Pata Pata / Reprise / 1967 

set 3
Hank Mobley / Third Season / An Aperitif / Blue Note / 2.24.67 
Sonny Stitt & Paul Gonsalves / Salt and Pepper / S’posin / Impulse! / 9.5.63 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Disc Jockey Jump / Columbia / 1.22.47 
The Ink Spots / A Lovely Way to Spend the Evening / AFRS Jubilee Show #78 / Hollywood 5.2.44
The Modernaires / I’m Late / Coral / 1951
Perry Como / We Get Letters / S’posin / RCA Victor / 1957 / with Como’s Little Combo aka subset of Mitchell Ayres & his Orchestra

set 4
André Previn & his Pals / Gigi / À Toujours / Contemporary / LA 4.7-8.58 
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Django / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56 
King Cole Trio / Let’s Pretend / Premier / LA 11.2.43 / Nat King Cole p & vocals, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Tom Jones & Sammy Davis Jr. / What the World Needs Now / from the ABC TV show This Is Tom Jones / Hollywood 1969
Southernaires / Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho / Decca / 6.13.39 

last soulful song
The Stoppers / Come Back / Jubilee / 1966

Why Is a Good Playlist So Hard to Find?: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 125

Julie’s happy shoulders.

Coffeetime, September 23, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Undercurrent / Blue Note / 12.11.60 
Kenny Burrell / [Midnight Blue] / Kenny’s Sound [take 10] / Blue Note / 1.8.63 
Jacques Renard & his Orchestra / Come to Me / Brunswick / 4.19.31 / vocal = Paul Small 
Luis Russell & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 10.24.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson 
Betty Hall Jones / Frustration, Frustration / Combo / Hollywood 1951 
Dinah Washington / Dinah! / More Than You Know / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Art / Goodbye, Old Girl / Argo / 9.21-23.60 
Blossom Dearie / Autumn in New York / Barclay / Paris 1.16.56 
Art Blakey / A Night in Birdland / Once in A While / Blue Note / live, Birdland 2.21.54 
Lee Morse & Her Bluegrass Boys / Don’t Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Columbia / 6.25.28 
Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Why Is a Good Man So Hard to Find? / Decca / 3.18.40 
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Blue Afterglow / Columbia / 2.7.39 / vocal = Dan Grissom 
Julie London / Swing Me an Old Song / Cuddle Up a Little Closer / Liberty / LA spring 1959 

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Psychicemotus / First Gymnopedie / Impulse! / 7.21-22.65 
Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / The Gigolo / Blue Note / 7.1.65 
Howard McGhee Sextet / Midnight at Minton’s / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46 
Bobby Hackett & his Orchestra / That Old Gang of Mine / Vocalion / 1940 / vocal = The Tempo Twisters
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Stardust / Victor / 11.11.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers
Joe Derise / Joe Derise Sings / My Romance / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
The Trombones, Inc. / They Met At The Continental Divide / Impossible / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 12.5.58  
Stan Getz / Stan Getz Plays / ’Tis Autumn / Clef / 12.12.52 
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b, with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra
T-Bone Walker / Don’t Give Me the Runaround / Black & White / 12.46 / with Al Killian Quintet
Kaye Ballard, Jack Cassidy, & Joan Roberts / Cast Recording of Broadway show “Jerome Kern’s Roberta” / I Won’t Dance / Columbia / 1956
Golden Gate Quartet / Born Ten Thousand Years Ago / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
Willie Hutch / Foxy Brown / Ain’t That (Mellow, Mellow) / Motown / Hollywood 1974

You’re Not the Only Playlist on the Apple Tree: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 124

Walter’s telling Ruth about September.

Coffeetime, September 16, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bennie Green / Soul Stirrin’ / Black Pearl / Blue Note / 4.28.58 
Joe Newman / Counting Five in Sweden / The Sleeper / Metronome / live, Konserthuset Stockholm (Concert Hall) 10.13.58 
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Way Cross Town / Dootone / LA 1955 
Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / A Faded Summer Love / Columbia / London 12.4.31 / vocal = Jack Plant
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / I’ve Had the Blues All Day / United / Chicago 4.23.53 / vocal = Johnny Harper & Tab Smith 
Morgana King / Sings the Blues / Something to Remember You By / Mercury / 1958 / with celeste!

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

set 2
Café Pierre Trio / My Ship / Monmouth Evergreen / 8.25 & 26.82 / Bucky Pizzarelli g, Russ Kassoff p, Jerry Bruno b
Don Wilkerson / Shoutin’ / Easy Living / Blue Note / 7.29.63 
Barney Wilen / Jazz Sur Seine / Vamp / Philips / Paris 2.13 & 14.58 
Django Reinhardt / The Great Artistry of Django Reinhardt / September Song / Clef / Paris 3.10.53 / Reinhardt’s last recording session
Harry Bidgood’s Broadcasters / Should I? / Broadcast [Vocalion for the UK] / London c. 1928 / vocalist (probable) = Webster Booth
Walter Huston / September Song / Brunswick / 1938 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Matt Dennis / Dennis Anyone? / Relax / RCA Victor / 1955 / Dennis p, Bill Pitman g, Ray Leatherwood b, Alvin Stoller d

set 3
Don Wilkerson / Preach Brother! / Jeanie-Weenie / Blue Note / 6.18.62 / Wilkerson ts, Sonny Clark p, Grant Green g, Butch Warren b, Billy Higgins d
Clark Terry / The Happy Horns of Clark Terry / In a Mist / Impulse! / 3.13.64 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / Autumn in Rome / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Charlie Parker / Star Eyes / Clef / 1.17.51 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Romeo Smith and Juliet Jones / Columbia / 10.6.41 / vocal = Ginny Simms & Harry Babbitt, from the RKO movie Playmates 
The Master Keys / You’re Not the Only Apple on the Apple Tree / Top / 7.45 
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine’s Imagination / A Faded Summer Love / EmArcy / 1958 / with Pete Rugolo & His All Stars

set 4
Max Bennett / Max Bennett, vol. 2 / Johnny Jaguar / Bethlehem / 12.14.55 / Nick Travis t, Charlie Mariano as, Jack Nimitz bs, Carl Fontana tb, Dave McKenna p, Bennett b, Mel Lewis d; composed by Lennie Niehaus
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Look for the Silver Lining / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / Hall g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b 
Red Nichols Five Pennies / The Peanut Vendor / Brunswick / 1.23.31 / vocal = Paul Small 
King Cole Trio / All for You / Excelsior / Hollywood 10.11.42 / NKC p, voc, Oscar Moore g, Red Callender b
Eartha Kitt / Sentimental Eartha / Once We Loved (Se Acabo) / Spark / 1970
Gospel Vocalaires of Norfolk, VA / Call Him Anytime [unedited take] / Gotham / Norfolk 8.53 / Eastern Virginia Gospel by the Virginia Folklife Project 

last soulful song
5 Stairsteps & Cubie / Love’s Happening / I’m the One Who Loves You / Curtom / Chicago 1968

When Playlist Gets Blue: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 123

What's it all about?

Coffeetime, September 9, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Warne Marsh / Warne Marsh / It’s All Right with Me / Atlantic / 12.12.57 
Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Deep Night / Blue Note / 1.5.58 
The Rhythmic Eight aka Bert Firman Orchestra / Is She My Girl Friend? / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 11.29.27 / vocal = Eddie Kollis d 
Benjamin “Bull Moose” Jackson / Just in Case You Change Your Mind / Queen / 12.20.45
Dakota Staton / Dynamic! / When Sunny Gets Blue / Capitol / 1958

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67 
Bill Evans / [Time Remembered] / Like Someone in Love / Milestone / live, Shelly’s Manne-Hole, Hollywood 4.10.62 
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Apple Blossoms / Okeh / 10.18.29 
Bing Crosby / Lazy Day / Brunswick / Chicago 4.24.32 / with Isham Jones’ Orchestra
Joe Williams / ‘Round the Clock Blues, parts 1 & 2 / Cincinnati / Cincinnati fall 1944 / with the Three Chocolates
The Spaniels / I Like It Like That / Vee-Jay / 1959

set 3
Marty Paich / Jazz for Relaxation / Lullaby of the Leaves / Tampa / Hollywood 1956 
Herb Geller / While the Cigarette Was Burning / RTF Studio, for the “Jazz aux Champs Elysées” Radio show / Paris spring 1962 / Geller as, Jack Dieval p, Jacques Hess b, Franco Manzecchi d
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / P.S. — Tony Pastor Plays And Sings Shaw / Frenesi / Everest / 1959
Johnny Ingram & his Rhythm Czars / Ridin’ Hi / Trilon / Oakland 1946 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Not Mine / Columbia / 12.10.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee 
The Basin Street Boys / Near to You / Exclusive / Hollywood late 1946 / with Lucky Thompson’s Orchestra 
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Black Coffee / Atco / 5.12.59

set 4
Jazz Modes / The Jazz Modes Play Excerpts from the Frank Loesser Musical The Most Happy Fella / Happy to Make Your Acquaintance / Atlantic / 11.11.57 
Stan Getz / More West Coast / Tangerine / Norgan / 8.22.53
King Cole Trio / It Only Happens Once / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
Jerry Orbach & Company / Cast Recording of “The Fantasticks” / Try to Remember / MGM / 6.13.60
Cilla Black / Alfie / Capitol / London (Abbey Road) 2.22.66  The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha / Over the Rainbow / Columbia / 8.1.60 

Play, Playlist, Play: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 122

Milton, you’re TOO good!

Coffeetime, September 2, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Study in Brown / Swingin’ / EmArcy / 2.23-25.55 
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57 
Barry Harris / Preminado / Play, Carol, Play / Riverside / 1.19.61 
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Frenesi / Victor / Hollywood 3.3.40 
Al Katz & his Kittens / I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful) / Columbia / 8.30.29 / vocal = Bill Brookins 
Elmore Nixon / A Hepcat’s Advice / Peacock / Houston 1951 
Sylvia Syms / Songs by Sylvia Syms / Lonely Woman / Atlantic / 1952 / with the Barbara Carroll Trio

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

set 2
David “Fathead” Newman / Straight Ahead / Summertime / Atlantic / 12.21.60 
Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Old Folks / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.59
Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / EmArcy / 1.30.52 
Lonnie Johnson / Mr. Johnson Blues / Okeh / St. Louis, MO 11.4.25 
Peg La Centra / Big Mouth Minnie / Bluebird / 10.20.38 / with Jerry Sears p
Al Bowlly / It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow / HMV / London 2.15.40 
The Four Flames aka The Hollywood Flames / Wheel of Fortune / Specialty / Hollywood 1.52 

set 3
Don Wilkerson / Shoutin’ / Happy Johnny / Blue Note / 7.29.63 
Benny Carter / New Jazz Sounds / Frenesi / Verve / 11.12.54 / Carter as, Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Bobby White d 
Kenny Clarke & his Fifty-Second Street Boys / Confirmation / Swing / 9.5.46 / Kenny Dorham, Fats Navarro, trumpet; Sonny Stitt, as; Ray Abrams ts; Eddie DeVerteuil bs; Bud Powell p; John Collins g; Al Hall b; Clarke d
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Deep Purple / HMV / London 5.26.39 / vocal = Bruce Trent
The Cats & the Fiddle / I’m Singing (So Help Me) / Bluebird / 1.20.41 
The Charioteers / The Gaucho Serenade / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Don Elliott / Don Elliott Sings / Ev’ry Time / Bethlehem / 2.22.55 

set 4
Henry Mancini & his Orchestra / The Return of the Pink Panther [soundtrack album] / The Wet Look / RCA Victor / 1975
Lou Levy / A Most Musical Fella / Angel Eyes / RCA Victor / LA 1.57 / Levy p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d, produced by Shorty Rogers
Oscar Pettiford / Oscar Pettiford / Golden Touch / Bethlehem / 1.54 
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Julie London / Latin in a Satin Mood / Frenesi / Liberty / LA 1962
Little Milton / Blues ’n’ Soul / You’re No Good / Stax / Memphis 1974 / “Milton, you’re no good.”
Southern Sons / Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
Diane Ray / My Summer Love (Is Heading for an Early Fall) / Mercury / 1963