Friday, December 22, 2023

Hello, Mister Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 170

Album cover of Christmas Songs and Carols on Golden Records label, illustrated by Lowell Hess, showing Victorian carolers on a snowy evening near a gas street lamp with a wooden sign with Santa Claus's face on it.
In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 22, 2023, 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 / studio orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank DeVol ​
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 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]; “besides, I think it needs me”
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 / Burrell g, Charles Stepney p; Cleveland Eaton b, Morris Jennings d
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973 / Allen p, Paul Rostock b, Ira Saylor d
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: Darlene Zito, Phil Scott, Lester Brush, & Jimmy Leyden
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
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

Friday, December 15, 2023

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 169

Scan of the cover for the 78 rpm Golden Record, Winter Wonderland and Mr. Snow, showing a cartoon illustration of children smiling on a sled and building a snowman.
Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 15, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / Spiritus Parkus / New Jazz / 3.13.62 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Blue Jazz / Brunswick / 7.25.32 
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
Felix Gross & his Orchestra / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49 / Joe Howard ts, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Minor Robinson d
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 Paul Weston & his Orchestra and The Starlighters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_Trails

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 
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duet with Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus  
Bob Keeshan & Lumpy Brannum / 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.”) 
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Blue Samba / Blue Note / 10.5.62 
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61 
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  
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Harris g, unknown bongos
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / Moore g, Gerald Wiggins p, Joe Comfort b King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
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 and The Boys Next Door
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.9.52
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atco / Chicago 1970



Friday, December 08, 2023

The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Playlist That I’ve Got): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 168

Screenshot from the 1962 animated film Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol showing Scrooge's scraggly servants at the rag picker/junk collector's store selling Scrooge's possessions.
WMBR deejays after returning to the basement of Walker Memorial.

Coffeetime, December 8, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / C.T.A / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.56 
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / A Night in Tunisia / Club Française du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d
Sonny Stitt / The Hard Swing / I Got Rhythm / Verve / 2.9.59 
The Rhythmic Eight aka Bert Firman Orchestra / Faces at the Window / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 5.24.28
Lee Morse / Something in the Night / Columbia / 8.26.32 / Bob Downey p 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.19.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Dorothy Dandridge / How Long Has This Been Going On / Verve [unissued] / Hollywood 1.20.58 / Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

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

set 2
Jack Wilson / The Two Sides of Jack Wilson / The Good Life / Atlantic / LA 5.13.64 
René Thomas / René Thomas et son Modern Group / ’Tis Autumn / Polydor / Paris 3.22.56 
Eddie Heywood / Eddie Heywood / Tenderly / EmArcy / 7.55 / Heywood p, Wendell Marshall b, Jimmy Crawford d
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Manoir de Mes Rêves / Swing / Paris 2.17.43 
Abe Lyman & his Californians / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Decca / Chicago 11.26.28 / vocal = Phil Neely 
Bing Crosby / You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Brunswick / 1.12.33 / with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians, featuring Lebert Lombardo on trumpet
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 
Kenny Dorham / This Is the Moment! / Make Me a Present of You / Riverside / 7.7.58 

set 3
Bennie Green / Bennie Green / Sonny’s Crip / Time / 9.27.60 
John Coltrane / Blue Train / I’m Old Fashioned / Blue Note / 9.15.57 
Charlie Parker Septet / A Night in Tunisia / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46 
The Ink Spots / I Wish You the Best of Everything / Decca / 5.19.38 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / A Gal in Calico / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Eve Young
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Conte Candoli Sextet / Leonard Feather Presents: Best from the West, Vol. 2, Modern Sounds From California / Burbank Bounce / Blue Note / Hollywood 12.30.54 / Conte Candoli t, John Graas frh, Charlie Mariano as, Marty Paich p, Monty Budwig b, Stan Levey d; a blindfold test record
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d
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” 
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock & Count Basie / Don’t Go to Strangers / Verve / 1965 
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Highway QC’s / I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song
Jan Bradley / Mama Didn’t Lie / Chess / Chicago 1963



Friday, December 01, 2023

A Woman Alone with the Playlist, Redux

A screenshot from a black and white film of Desi Arnaz and two of his bandmates playing congas while Desi sings. Desi is in a black formal suit and the bandmates have on white shirts with multi-ruffled sleeves.
Long-fingered, sharp-dressed Desi, even

Coffeetime, December 1, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Santa Tecla / Ricordi / 1961
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / It’s You Or No One / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Expubidence / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra / Glad Rag Doll / Okeh / Hollywood 1.17.29 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Cats & the Fiddle / Gang Busters / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book / All Too Soon / Verve / 6.27.57 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / Before Dawn / Riverside / 5.57
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / P.S. I Love You / Savoy / 11.5.56 / Hank sits out
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Autumn Leaves / Roost / 12.5.52
Golden Gate Orchestra (California Ramblers) / (Who’s Wonderful, Who’s Marvelous?) Miss Annabelle Lee / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.27
Paul Robeson / Lonely Road / HMV / London 1936
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Mama Don’t Allow / Capitol / Hollywood 6.16.47   
Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia in the US) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia! / Manhattan / Warner Brothers / 1967

set 3
Paul Horn / Something Blue / Something Blue / Hifi Jazz / 3.60
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / On the Trail / Verve / 3.19.61
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Annie Laurie / Victor / 2.3.38 / vocal = Jack Leonard Quartet 
Five Red Caps / Somebody’s Lyin’ / Beacon / 3.44
Frank Sinatra / Nice ‘n’ Easy / Nevertheless / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1960

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Easy Living / Verve / LA 1959
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Triton / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / La Cumparsita / RCA / LA 1947
King Cole Trio / The Best Man / Capitol / 8.19.46 / NKC p & vocal, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, Jack “The Bear” Parker d
Amos Milburn / Sad and Blue / Aladdin / LA 4.26.47 / Maxwell Davis ts
Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / A Woman Alone with the Blues / Verve /10.16.61
Zion Harmonizers / Working the Road / Gotham / 1958

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye and his Girls / I Want You ’Round / Motown / Detroit 1969
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / When We’re Together / Motown / Detroit 1969

Friday, November 17, 2023

Keep a Twinkle in Your Playlist

Robert Morse, Kay Reynolds, & Michelle Lee with their heads close while singing. Morse is in a suit, Reynolds is wearing a green dress, orange pillbox hat, and glasses with thick black frames, and Lee is wearing a pink polkadot hat.
Matchmaking is tough work!

Coffeetime, November 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Strut Time / Riverside / 11.12.58
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wicks Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / I Never Knew / Columbia / 12.9.40
John [Jack] Jackson / I’m Playing with Fire / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Rabon Tarrant with Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 8.45
Martha Wright / Censored: Sings Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, and Others / Love for Sale / Jubilee / 1956 / with Joe Harnell Trio

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Jerome Kern Song Book / Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man / Verve / LA summer 1959
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Chartreuse / Debut / 9.55
Lonnie Johnson / I’m Nuts About That Gal / Okeh / 8.12.32
The Nicholas Brothers / Keep a Twinkle in Your Eye / HMV / London 9.15.36 / vocal = Fayard Nicholas, tap dancing = Harold Nicholas
Jimmy Witherspoon / Miss Miss Mistreater / Federal / Cincinnati 12.24.52 
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Gypsy in My Soul / Bethlehem / 1955

set 3
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Unforgettable / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57
The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Down By the Riverside / Prestige / 10.25.57
Charlie Parker / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 
Dick Haymes / Begin the Beguine / AFRS #333 / Hollywood 9.10.50
The Blenders / Please Take Me Back / MGM / 3.27.53 / lead vocal = Ollie Jones
Joe Mooney / September Song / Decca / 11.8.46 / Mooney accordion, Jack Hotop g, John “Gate” Frega b, Andy Fitzgerald d 

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / You and the Night and the Music / Tampa / 2.20.57 
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Soft as Spring / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55 / composed by Alec Wilder
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / I Only Have Eyes for You / Metronome / Stockholm 3.24.51
Jo Stafford / I Remember You / V-Disc 328B / rehearsal recording for NBC radio, Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop, Hollywood 7.20.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / When You Walk Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / (NYC) 11.4.47 / NKC piano & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Robert Morse, Michelle Lee, & Kay Renolds / Been a Long Day / soundtrack to the United Artists movie How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / United Artists / 1967
Golden Gate Quartet / Let the Liar Alone / Bluebird / 8.10.38

last soulful song
Lee Charles / I Never Want to Lose My Sweet Thing / Bamboo / Chicago 1969



Friday, November 10, 2023

Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Playlist

Screenshot from the 1938 movie "Rawhide" showing Smith Ballew singing and looking into a hand mirror while dressed in sweats after practicing boxing with a punching bag.
You ARE pretty, Smithy!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / The End of a Love Affair / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Clark Terry / In Orbit / In Orbit / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58
The Chocolate Dandies / Once Upon a Time / Decca / 10.10.33 / Benny Carter on trumpet & alto 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Love Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home / Aladdin / Hollywood 1954 / with Mickey Baker g
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / All Too Soon / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Can You Tell By Looking At Me / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Thad Jones / [The Magnificent Thad Jones] / Something to Remember You By / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.9.56 / duet between Jones t & Kenny Burrell g
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / I’ve Found a New Baby / Okeh / 11.12.30 
Sophie Tucker / If Your Kisses Can’t Hold the Man You Love / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with The Winter Gardens Theatre Orchestra and Ted Shapiro p
Benny Morton & his Orchestra / The Gold Digger’s Song (We’re in the Money) / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Henry “Red” Allen
Martha Raye / The Voice / Miss Otis Regrets / Discovery / 1950
Jimmy Rushing / Five Feet of Soul / Just Because / Colpix / 1.22-23.63

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / The Pot’s On / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Loves / Okeh / 11.13.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.24.47
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / The End of a Love Affair / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / I Want to Be Happy / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 11.29.56
King Cole Trio / Russian Lullaby / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.39 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / Smokey Joe / Davis & Schwegler Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
John Cullum / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Broadway Cast Recording / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / RCA Victor / 1965
The Trumpeteers / Live the Life I Sing About / Score / 4.13.49

last soulful song
George Tindley / So Help Me Woman / Wand / 1969

Friday, November 03, 2023

We’re Gonna Make It: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 167

photo Little Milton performing on The Beat tv show in 1966 wearing a blue suit, holding a microphone in one hand, holding up his index finger with the other hand, and with three back up singers in the background.
Mr. Milton says WMBR’s listeners are number one!

Coffeetime, November 3, 2023, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
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
The Knickerbockers aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Columbia / 6.1.28 / vocal = Vaughn De Leath
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
Oliver Nelson & Steve Allen / Soulful Brass #2 / Soulful Strut / Flying Dutchman / LA 2.22.69 
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley [alternate take] / Blue Note / 12.22.47 
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

Friday, October 27, 2023

Heigh Ho! Playlist Heigh-Ho!

Screenshot from black & white TV broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show showing Jackie Wilson, in a suit and tie, singing in front of the stage curtain and his right hand is over his chest. He has a smiling face as he sings.
Hand to heart: we love you, Jackie!

Coffeetime, October 27, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Cabu / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Salute to the Bandbox [aka Salute to Birdland] / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Stomp / Victor / 2.8.37 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh Ho! Ev’rybody, Heigh-Ho! / Victor / 6.3.29
Mabel Scott / Have You Ever Watched Love Die? / King [unissued] / 1950
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / Hollywood summer 1957 

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note / 1.20.62 
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / Julie Ann / Blue Note / 3.20.55
Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out On a Limb / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / EmArcy / LA 7.9.56 
Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) & his Hot Combination / Sunday / Perfect / 10.21.26
Ella Mae Morse / Cow Cow Boogie / radio transcription, AFRS Command Performance #27 / Hollywood 8.18.42 / with host Cary Grant and Freddie Slack & his Orchestra
Irene Reid / It’s Too Late / Big Spender / Verve / 1966 / arranged & conducted by Frank Foster

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Scufflin’ / Atlantic / 12.9.61 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Boogie Celeste / Crown / 1958
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Gloomy Sunday / Victor / 3.3.40 / vocal = Pauline Byrne
The Ravens / Leave My Gal Alone / National / 1.27.49
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Four Brothers / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Frenesi / Victor / 3.3.40
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby / Basin Street Blues / Brunswick / Hollywood 9.25.37 
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Oh, But I Do / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Jackie Wilson / Lonely Teardrops / The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS / live 5.27.62 
R.H. Harris & the Soul Stirrers / Does Jesus Care? / Aladdin / 12.48  

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

Friday, October 20, 2023

With the Wind and the Rain in Your Playlist

Screenshot from the boxing ring scene in the movie It's Always Fair Weather showing Cyd Charisse sitting on the edge of the boxing ring singing and counting with her fingers while the male actors stand nearby. One is dressed in a old leather boxing helmet.
Cyd’s helping them count the votes for Speaker.

Coffeetime, October 20, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Bronze Dance / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Sonny’s Mood / Blue Note / 11.10.57 
Freddie Rich & his Orchestra / Too Late / CBS radio transcription from Fred’s Friendly Five radio show / 1931-32 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp; announcer = David Ross
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’m Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town / Decca / 7.21.42
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / My Romance / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Red Garland / Mr. Wonderful / Prestige [unissued] / 8.12.59
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Apple Blossoms / Okeh / 10.18.29
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Take My Heart / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 8.14.36 / vocal = Greta Keller
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Don’t Get Salty, Sugar / Exclusive / Hollywood 10.47 / vocal = Charles Brown 
Cyd Charisse [singing dubbed by Carol Richards), & MGM Studio Chorus / soundtrack to It’s Always Fair Weather / Baby, You Knock Me Out / MGM / Hollywood 1.5.55 

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / Dee Dee / Bethlehem / 12.60 l
Budd Johnson / Blues à la Mode / Foggy Nights / Felsted / 2.11.58
George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Four Bars Short / Savoy / 1.31.49 / Shearing on accordion
Savannah Churchill / When You Came Back to Me / Regal / 12.24.50 / with The Striders 
The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950 
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / Keepin’ Myself for You / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.20.56 

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Pemba / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54 
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / You Started Something / Regent / 1947 / with Ellis Larkin’s Trio
King Cole Trio / I Wanna Turn Out the Light / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / AFRS Jubilee #91  / c. 1944 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ Let It Be Me / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67
The Coleman Brothers / One Day / Coleman / c. 1.48 

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday Night (Baby I’m Yours) / Blue Rock / 1.65

Friday, October 13, 2023

There Won’t Be a Shortage of Playlist

Screenshot from The Dean Martin Show on NBC on January 25, 1968 showing Dean and Orson Welles standing in front of a dark stage set, both wearing tuxedos and bow ties, smiling and talking about the upcoming magic skit.
When you wish for a skit with Dean and Orson…

Coffeetime, October 13, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / City Lights / City Lights / Blue Note / 8.25.57
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / Hard Groove / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Eleanor / EmArcy / 5.20.54
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Plain Dirt / Victor / 11.5.29
Justin Ring & his Orchestra / True Blue Lou / Okeh / 8.16.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert
Myra Taylor / Tell Your Best Friend Nothing / Mercury / Kansas City 10.31.46 / with Jimmy Keith’s Kansas City Orchestra
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / Let Me Love You / United Artists / LA 7.58 / Chuck Wayne g, Ernie Furtado b, Johnny Cresci d

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Body & Soul / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Golden Gate Orchestra [California Ramblers] / Sweet Man / Edison / 9.15.25 
Lil Green / You’re Just Full of Jive / Bluebird / Chicago 7.23.41
Otis Rush / Violent Love / Cobra / 1956
Dean Martin / Beau James / Capitol / Hollywood 5.22.57

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / The Murphy Man / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Apothegm / Prestige / 8.2.61
Dizzy Gillespie & his Quintet / Afro Paris / Vogue / Paris 3.27.52
The Charioteers / Calliope Jane / from the United Artists movie Road Show / Hollywood 1941 
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol Orchestra / There Won’t Be a Shortage of Love / Elite / 2.42 
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet (just rhythm section here)

set 4
Cal Tjader & Stan Getz / My Buddy / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Flute Diet / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Every Second / King / 1956
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / In the Name of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 6.26.64 / Lou Levy p, Bob Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts g, Chuck Berghofer b, Stan Levey d, Francisco Aguabella bongos, congas )
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Get Away Jordan / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
Maxine Brown / Do It in the Name of Love / [unissued] / live in Central Park, 8.67



Friday, October 06, 2023

You Don’t Have to Drop a Playlist to Break It

Screenshot from 1974 video showing BB King holding up his guitar Lucille, with light flares from the stage lights looking like he has fairy bubbles around him. He's singing with a big smile. The camera angle is from below looking up at him and his guitar.
Joyful Lucille and her bf!

Coffeetime, October 6, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Doin’ the Thing / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.19 & 20.61
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Mad Lad Returns / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Harry Shalson / She’s Wonderful / Brunswick / London 5.8.29
Johnny Otis Band / Gee Baby / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker 
Dinah Washington / Blue Gardenia / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / I Wished I Knew / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 2.26.29
Babe Mathews / He’s Got So Much / HRS / 2.15.46 / with Joe Thomas’ Big Six
Pearl Bailey / Fifteen Years (And I’m Still Doing Time) / V-Disc 527B / 4.24.45 / with orch conducted by Mitchell Ayres; identical to Columbia recording
B.B. King / Early Every Morning / RPM / LA 1957

set 3
Tommy Flanagan / Overseas / Delarna / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Borderline / Blue Note / 7.14.60 
Serge Chaloff Sextette / Pumpernickel / Savoy / 3.5.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / If You Believed in Me / MGM / 1.9.47 / vocal = Henry Wells tb
The Ravens / You Don’t Have to Drop a Heart to Break It / Columbia / 10.19.50 / lead = Maithe Marshall; celeste!
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / My One and Only Love / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / You Make Me Feel So Young / Riverside / 11.16.60
Buddy Collette / Soft Touch / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Earle Hagen / soundtrack to Columbia movie The New Interns / Sutura Self / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
Dodo Marmarosa Trio / Remember I Knew You When / IRRA / Hollywood autumn 1947 / vocal = Miss Danna
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / WMGM, NYC 3.29.49 / NKC p, voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Laurence Naismith / Here’s Love, Original Broadway Cast Recording / Expect Things to Happen / Columbia / 1963 
Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A Turning in My Heart / radio transcription, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lads / I’ve Never Found a Girl / Volt / 1969

Friday, September 29, 2023

To To Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 166

Screenshot from the 1949 movie On the Town showing Vera Ellen standing in front of an upright piano while Gene Kelly in a navy uniform stands behind it looking at her.
Vera, realizing that Gene is one handsome navy man!

Coffeetime, September 29, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Pal Joey / The Lady Is a Tramp / Riverside / 10.15.57 
Tina Brooks / [The Waiting Game] / One for Myrtle / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.2.61 
Henri Renaud & Bobby Jaspar / Play Gigi Gryce Compositions With Jimmy Gourley / Schabooz / Vogue / Paris 11.2.53 
The Chocolate Dandies / Krazy Kapers / Okeh / 10.3.33 
Lew Stone & his Band / Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / Decca / London 12.29.33 / vocal = Joe Grossman & ensemble
Camille Howard / Sundays with You / Specialty / Hollywood 1948
Ruth Price / Ruth Price with Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne-Hole / I Know Why / Contemporary / live, The Manne-Hole, Hollywood 3.3-5.61 

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Plays Porgy & Bess / Oh Bess, Where’s My Bess? / Verve / LA 10.12.59 
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / My Foolish Heart / Bethlehem / 12.60 
Coleman Hawkins Quartet / Imagination / Keynote / 2.17.44 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / (I Wanna Go Where You Go) Then I’ll Be Happy / RCA Victor / 4.8.46
Jack Pettis & his Pets / Spanish Dream / Victor / 7.3.28 
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Don’t Let It Bother You / Victor / 8.17.34 / vocal repartee with drummer Harry Dial
Dean Hudson & his Orchestra / Once in Love with Amy / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1948 / vocal = The Sherry Sisters 
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / I’ll Buy You a Star/ Columbia / 1960

set 3
Joe Alexander / Blue Jubilee / Blues Jubilee / Jazzland / 6.20.60 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World / Hi-Fly / Blue Note / live, Birdland 4.15.59 
Charlie Parker / Ornithology / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Imagination / Victor / 3.25.40 / vocal = Frank Sinatra 
The Dixieaires / Keep Me with You / Gotham / late 1940s / with Tiny Grimes on guitar
Cal Bostic / Two Cities / CKPR – Lakehead Guest / Thunder Bay, Ontario 1964

set 4
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / You Go to My Head / Club Française du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d 
Frank Socolow / Sounds by Socolow / How About You / Bethlehem / 11.56 / Socolow ts, as, Eddie Bert tb, Eddie Costa p, Sal Salvador g, Bill Takus b, Jimmy Campbell d 
Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / To To Blues / Parlophone / 9.10.31 / Jimmy Dorsey cl, as, bari, Joe Venuti vln, Lennie Hayton p, cel, Eddie Lang g, Paul Graselli d 
King Cole Trio / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.46 / / NKC p, voc, Oscar Moore g, Red Callender b
Gene Kelly & Vera-Ellen / Main Street / from the MGM movie On the Town / Hollywood 1949 
The Dixie-Aires / Movin’ Up King’s Highway / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
Patti Drew / He’s the One I Love / Capitol / 1969

Lost & Found: How? (When My Playlist Belongs to You)

Screenshot from a video of Curtis Mayfield holding a microphone, performing The Makings of You in the 1970s, with his guitarist in the background.
The great Curtis Mayfield on “the makings.”

Lost & Found, September 29, 2023, Angelynn Grant

intro: Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1
The Epsilons / Mind in a Bind / Hem / Washington, DC 1967
Billy Keene / Wishing and Hoping / Vault / LA 1968
Dandeliers / Walk On with Your Nose Up / Midas / Chicago 1967 / cha cha
The Admirations / Wait ’Til I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1967 / sounding like the 5 Stairsteps
LaBrenda Ben / Just Be Yourself / Gordy / Detroit 1963 / with The Andantes / cha cha
Barbara West / Congratulations, Baby / Ronn Records / Shreveport 1967
The Love Potion / This Love / Kapp / 1969 / cha cha

bed
Leith Stevens & Stu Phillips / Soundtrack to the Columbia Pictures movie The Interns / Pitcher of Martinis / Colpix / 1962

set 2
Tutti Hill / He’s a Lover / ARock / 1964 / cha cha
Mary Wells / Sings My Guy / How? (When My Heart Belongs to You) / Motown / Detroit 1964 / cha cha
The Stoppers / Come Back / Jubilee / 1966 / cha cha
Diane Ray / My Summer Love (Is Heading for an Early Fall) / Mercury / 1963 / cha cha
Ketty Lester / Please Don’t Cry Anymore / RCA Victor / 1964 / cha cha

bed
David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1967

set 3
Wee Willie Walker / I Don’t Want to Take a Chance / Goldwax [unissued] / Memphis 1967
Thee Midniters / Giving Up on Love / Whittier Records / LA 1966
Syl Johnson / Diamond in the Rough / Could I Be Falling in Love / Hi Records / Memphis 1974
The Spinners / There’s No One Like You / Atlantic / Philadelphia 1974
Jackie DeShannon / Medley: You Keep Me Hangin’ On; Hurt So Bad / Imperial / LA 1970

bed
Santi Latora / Mo'plen Bacharach [La Douce] / The Look of Love / Durium / 1970

set 4
Willie Tee / Reach Out for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1970
James Phelps / The Look on Your Face / Apache / Chicago 1971
Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin / Show Me the Way to Go / Brunswick / 1968
Black Heat / Black Heat / Time Is Going to Catch You / Atlantic / 1972
The Vel-Vetts / You Really Never Know Till It’s Over / Doré / LA 1966
Joyce Kennedy / Does Anybody Love Me / Blue Rock / Chicago 1965

bed
Little Milton / Friend of Mine [instrumental] / Glades / 1973

set 5
James Brown / Say It Loud – I’m Black and I'm Proud / Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye / King / 1968
James Dee & A Peace Of The Action & The Primettes / Jealous Over Love / Enrica / late-1960s
Henry Caldwell / A New World Is Just Beginning / Carnival / 1970
Curtis Mayfield / Curtis/Live! / The Makings of You / Curtom / recorded live at the Bitter End 1.71

bed
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 6
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / McWest / LA 1972
The Natural Four / Heaven Right Here on Earth / Baby Come On / Curtom / 1975
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan / Sweet Thing / ABC Records / Chicago 1975
Lakeside / Something About That Woman / Solar / LA 1981

bed
Isaac Hayes / Tough Guys (soundtrack to Three Tough Guys) / Kidnapped / Enterprise (Stax) / 1974

set 7
Sebastian Williams / Get Your Point Over / Ovide / Houston 1969
The Four Shades / My World / Ronn / 1972
Crystal Motion / You’re My Main Squeeze / Sound Gems / Philadelphia 1975

last found soulful song
Major Lance / Sweet Music / Okeh / Chicago 11.27.63
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

Friday, September 22, 2023

Oh, Chuck It (In a Playlist)

Screenshot up very close to Harry "Sweets" Edison's hands while he plays his trumpet in a black and white filmed concert in England in 1964.
The sweets hands of Mr. Edison.

Coffeetime, September 22, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Curtain Call / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.18.57
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Brother ’Ball / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40
Little Jack Little / I'm Going Shopping with You / Columbia / Hollywood 1.28.35
Goree Carter, his Guitar & his Rocking Rhythm Orchestra / Is It True / Freedom / Houston 1949
Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Someday Sweetheart / Vee-Jay / Las Vegas 1964 / Harry “Sweets” Edison t, Eric Dixon ts, Don Abney p & arr, Wyatt Ruther b, J.C. Heard d

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

set 2
Harold Mabern / Rakin’ and Scrapin’ / Such Is Life / Prestige / 12.23.68
The Jazztet & John Lewis / Featuring Art Farmer & Benny Golson / New York 19 / Argo / 12.20-21.60
The Three Keys / Mood Indigo / Columbia / 8.29.32
Adrian & his Tap Room Gang / Nagasaki / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Putney Dandridge & ensemble
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Oh, Chuck It (In a Bucket) / Capitol / Kansas City 4.49 
Bobby Darin / Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie / Sunday in New York / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.64

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Sunday in New York / Blue Note / 6.3.64
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / A Smooth One / Prestige / 5.25.59
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Red Pepper / Savoy / 12.20.46
Mills Brothers / My Gal Sal / Decca / 9.13.34
Abbey Brown & his Cool Cats / Poor Simple Simon / Gem / LA 9.11.49 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Lazy Afternoon / MGM / 1962

set 4
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / September Song / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53 
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Sunday Afternoon / RCA Victor / 7.26.52
King Cole Trio / All for You / Excelsior / Hollywood 10.11.42 / NKC p, voc, Oscar Moore g, Red Callender b
Anthony Newley / This is Tony Newley / I’ll Walk Beside You / London / London 1962
The Dixie-Aires / Time’s Winding Up / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / The Truth Is Free / Stairway / Dallas 1972
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971


Friday, September 15, 2023

Tell Me Your Playlist and I Will Tell You Mine: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 166

Walter Huston sitting in a chair by a fireplace with a lit pipe in his hand, dressed for his role in the 1939 movie The Light That Failed set in the late 1800s.
Walter considers September over a pipe by the fire.

Coffeetime, September 15, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Smith / Smithville / Wetu / Blue Note / 3.30.58 
John Coltrane / Giant Steps / Mr. P.C. / Atlantic / 4.5.59 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Warm Valley / Victor / Chicago 10.17.40 
Harry Reser & his Orchestra / Just the Same / Okeh / 4.13.27 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Chuck Willis / I Tried (To Get Along with You) / Okeh / 6.27.51 
Billie Holiday / Billie Holiday Sings / You Go to My Head / Clef / 3.26.52 

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

set 2
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Warm Valley / Warner Brothers / LA 7.2.59 
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Going for Myself / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me [alt] / Verve / 2.7.58 
Smith-Glamann Quintet / Poinciana / September Song / Bethlehem / 8.1.54 
Charley Straight & his Orchestra / Minor Gaff / Vocalion / Chicago 5.28.26
Midge Williams & her Jazz Jesters / In Any Language / Vocalion / 11.23.37 
Maggie Hathaway & her Bluesmen / Nobody’s Business What I Do / Black & White / LA 3.22.47  
Dick Haymes / Richard, The Lion-Hearted – Dick Haymes, That Is! / Playboy Theme / Warwick / 1960

set 3
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / Do It / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton in Hi Fi / Topsy / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.56 
Flip Phillips / Collates / Cheek to Cheek / Clef / 1952 
The Four Vagabonds / Heart of My Heart / Apollo / 7.47  
Jo Stafford / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Capitol / Hollywood 11.9.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine’s Imagination / I Cover the Waterfront / EmArcy / 12.27.57 / with Pete Rugolo & his All Stars

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Playboy’s Theme / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.60 / Johnny Williams harpsichord, Dick Nash tb, Larry Bunker on marimba, and cover design by Don Peters o
René Thomas / If I Had You / Barclay / Paris 1954 / Thomas g, André Ross ts, René Urtregger p, Benoît Quersin b, Jean-Louis Viale d
Walter Huston / September Song / Decca / 1944
King Cole Trio / That’s a Natural Fact / Capitol / Hollywood 8.28.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / She’s the No Sleepin’est Woman / Black & White / LA 12.18.47
Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich / The Sounds of ’66 / Once in Love with Amy / Reprise / 12.66 / from musical (and movie) Where’s Charley? (1952) starring Ray Bolger, music & lyrics by Frank Loesser
The Bronzemen / Every Time I Feel the Spirit / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 9.39

last soulful song
The Manhattans / Love Is Breakin’ Out (All Over) / Carnival / 1969



Friday, September 08, 2023

Breezin’ Along with the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 165

Screenshot of Art Pepper playing his saxophone on the 1964 TV show Jazz Casual. He's wearing a suit and tie.
The amazing – and handsome, not that that matters – Mr. Pepper.

Coffeetime, September 8, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Straight Ahead / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Sonny Red / Breezing / Breezing / Jazzland / 11.3.60 / quotes Happy Days Are Here Again 
Edgar Hayes & his Orchestra / Help Me / Brunswick / 2.17.38 
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / In My Merry Oldsmobile / Victor / 5.23.27 / vocal = Stanley “Doc” Ryker sax, Howdy Quicksell bj, & Ray Lodwig t 
Hot Lips Page Trio / Evil Man’s Blues / Victor / 12.10.40 / Page t & Teddy Bunn g & voc, Ernest Hill b 
Barbara Lea / Lea in Love / Will I Find My Love Today / Prestige / 4.26.57 / [Johnny Windhurst tp,] Dick Cary p, [Ernie Caceres cl,] Al Casamenti g, Al Hall b, Osie Johnson d

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

set 2
Bucky Pizzarelli / Green Guitar Blues / The Summer Knows / Monmouth Evergreen / spring 1972 / Bucky [& Mary] Pizzarelli g, George Duvivier b, [Don Lamond d] 
Coleman Hawkins / Wrapped Tight / Indian Summer / Impulse! / spring 1965 
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue Moon / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d
Seattle Harmony Kings / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze / Victor / 8.2.26 
Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / Victor / 2.20.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Beverly Peer b 
Wally Mercer / If You Don’t Mean Business / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54 
Bing Crosby / That’s What Life Is All About / Breezin’ Along with the Breeze / United Artists / London 2.75 

set 3
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / Indian Summer / Atlantic / 8.29.60 
Sonny Stitt / Now! / Lester Leaps In / Impulse! / 7.10.63 
Babe Russin / 5054 Whitsett / Keynote / LA 3.8.46 h
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra / Heart and Soul / Victor / 9.1.38 / vocal = Bea Wain 
The Four Buddies / My Summer’s Gone / Savoy / 1.13.51 / Leon “Larry” Harrison, lead tenor vocal; Gregory Carroll, 2nd tenor vocal; Bert Palmer, baritone vocal; Tommy Smith, bass vocal; with Harry Van Walls p, Rene Hall g, Carl Wilson b
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / Between an Old Love and a New Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet: Paich cel, [Herb Geller as & cl, Ronnie Lang bs & cl], Bob Enevoldsen tb, Vince De Rosa fh, Jack Sheldon t, Max Bennett b, Mel Lewis d

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Pepper Returns / Jazz: West / Hollywood 8.6.56 / Pepper as, Jack Sheldon t, Russ Freeman p, Leroy Vinnegar b, Shelly Manne d 
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin’ Country / Steve Allen Theme / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18.58 / Bud Shank as, Bob Cooper ts, Claude Williamson p, Don Prell b, Chuck Flores d 
Gus Viseur / Chansons de Paris / Paris je t’aime (I Love Paris) [Cole Porter] / Barclay / Paris 5.55 / Viseur accordion, Boulou Ferré g, Roger Paraboschi d, others unknown
King Cole Trio / How Does It Feel / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Beny Moré / Paré… Que Llego el Bárbaro [Stop… The Barbarian Has Arrived] / Como Arrullo de Palma [Like the Lullaby of the Palm) / Discuba / Cuba 1958
Little Milton [Campbell] / Blind Man / Checker / Chicago 1963
Golden Gate Quartet / Do Unto Others / Columbia / 10.47

last soulful song
Ann Peebles / This Is Ann Peebles / Make Me Yours / Hi Records / Memphis 1968

Friday, September 01, 2023

Gravels in my Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 164

Screenshot from a 1959 episode of Playboy Penthouse showing Cy Coleman sitting at the piano singing with Charlie Shavers alongside playing his muted trumpet. Also at the piano stands Hugh Hefner and a woman; Hugh is lighting his pipe.
Lighting it up with Cy and Charlie!

Coffeetime, September 1, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Automation / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Lou Donaldson / Swing and Soul / Groove Junction / Blue Note / 6.9.57 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Jam Session / Victor / 11.5.36 
Irene Taylor / I Did Wanta, But I Don’t Wanta Now / Okeh / Dallas 9.25 / with Jack Gardner’s Orchestra 
Charles Brown & his Band / Soothe Me / Aladdin / New Orleans 9.4.56 / with Ernie Freeman’s Combo: Freeman p, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b, Ray Martinez d 
Al “Cake” Wichard Sextet / Gravels in My Pillow / Modern / LA 12.47 / vocal = Duke Henderson; Wichard d
Sarah Vaughan / The Divine One / Somebody Else’s Dream / Roulette / 10.60 

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

set 2
Jimmy Forrest / [Black Forrest] / These Foolish Things / [Delmark] / Chicago 12.59 
Wardell Gray / Sweet Lorraine / New Jazz / 11.11.49 
Slim Gaillard Trio / Tip Light / MGM / 12.12.49 / Gaillard g, rest unknown
Phil Ohman & Victor Arden / Manhattan / Brunswick / 11.11.25 / Ohman p & Arden bj, with the Regent Club Orchestra 
Chick Bullock & his Levee Loungers / There’s a Cabin in the Pines / Perfect / 4.13.31
Marlene Dietrich / You Go to My Head / Decca / Hollywood 12.15.39 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Frankie Laine / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Mercury / 1946 / with Carl Fischer’s Swingtet

set 3
Frank Foster / Soul Outing! / Chiquito Loco / Prestige / 7.11.66 
Lee Morgan / The Best Of Birdland: Volume 1 / Minor Strain / Roulette / 6.60 / Morgan t, Wayne Shorter ts, Bobby Timmons p, Jimmy Rowser b, Art Taylor d; Symphony Sid’s series for Roulette
Sir Charles Thompson & his All Stars / Tunis / Apollo / 1947 
Una Mae Carlisle / Blitzkrieg Baby (You Can’t Bomb Me) / Bluebird / 3.10.41 / Shad Collins tp, Lester Young ts, Clyde Hart p, John Collins g, Nick Fenton b, Doc West d
The Charioteers / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Columbia / 6.3.47
Bobby Short / Bobby Short / Bedelia / Atlantic / 1956

set 4
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Cool and Crazy / Chiquito Loco / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.53 / so many cool West Coast players 
Zoot Sims / In Hollywood / Toot No. 2 / New Jazz / 1954 / Sims ts, Stu Williamson t, valve tb, Kenny Drew p, Ralph Pena b, Jimmy Pratt d
King Cole Trio / The Man I Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1.17.44 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
King Cole Trio / I Tho’t You Ought to Know / Capitol / Hollywood 5.23.45
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Columbia / 1967 / composed by Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields; for Broadway musical Sweet Charity 
Harmonizing Four / Farther Along / Vee-Jay / 1957

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Gimme Little Sign / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967