Friday, May 20, 2022

A Certain Smile, A Certain Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 108

Danny Kaye and a ventriloquist's dummy that looks like him from the movie Knock on Wood
Yes. I *am* featuring yet another photo of Danny Kaye. So?

Coffeetime, May 20, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Howard McGhee / The Return of Howard McGhee / Rifftide / Bethlehem / 10.22.55 
Conte Candoli All Stars / Big Jazz / Zizanie / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60 
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements / Giuff / Verve / LA 2.16.59 
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Don’t Be That Way / Decca / 3.16.38 
Bob Causer & his Cornellians / I’m Playing with Fire / Melotone / 1.10.33 / vocal = Chick Bullock
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / [My Feet Are Killing Me, Marching In] The Infantry Blues / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee 41 / Hollywood summer 1943
Amos Milburn & his Aladdin Chicken-Shackers / Walking Blues / Aladdin / LA 1950
Dinah Washington / Since I Fell for You / Mercury / Chicago 11.13.47 / with the Rudy Martin Trio

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

set 2
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Since I Fell for You / Fantasy / San Francisco 11.61
Paul Desmond / Easy Living / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / RCA Victor / 7.14.64
Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Squeeze Me / HRS [Hot Record Society] / 4.6.40
Bing Crosby / Paradise / Brunswick / 3.15.32 / with Victor Young & the ARC Brunswick Studio Orchestra
Billie Holiday / On the Sentimental Side [take 1] / Columbia / 1.12.38 
The Larks / Lucy Brown / Apollo / 3.27.51
Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley / A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness / Voce Ja Foi Bahia / Verve / 9.20-23.66 

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Favela / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya / Savoy / 6.28.55 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Deep Purple / Camel Caravan broadcast / Detroit 2.28.39 / vocal = Martha Tilton
The Marshall Brothers / I Won't Believe You Anymore / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / Night and Day / Clef / LA 12.52 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Martians, Come Back! / Planetarium / Atlantic / LA 10.26.55 
Bud Shank / Bud Shank – Shorty Rogers / Paradise / Pacific Jazz / LA 5.2.55 
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Rosetta / Bluebird / 3.6.35 / with celeste! 
Peggy Lee / Goody Goody / Capitol transcription / Hollywood 7.4.8.49 / with the Dave Barbour Four 
Gwen Verdon / The Girl I Left Home For / Find Me a Primitive Man / RCA Victor / 1956
Danny Kaye / All About You / Decca / 2.26.54 / from the Paramount movie Knock on Wood  
The Southern Harmonizers / What Are They Doing in Heaven Today? / Specialty / Hollywood late 1947

last soulful song
The Isley Brothers / The Heat Is On / For the Love of You (Part 1 & 2) / T-Neck / Burbank 1975