Friday, January 13, 2023

For This Is My Playlist to Love: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 139

Screenshot of Donna Hightower performing on Belgian TV in 1963.
Maybe there’ll be the gorgeous Donna Hightower.

Coffeetime, January 13, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Carmell Jones / Business Meetin’ / Hip Trolley / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.25.62 
Ray Bryant / Gotta Travel On / Bag’s Groove / RCA Victor / 2.17 & 18/66 
Illinois Jacquet / The Kid and the Brute / Jacquet’s Dilemma / Clef / 12.13.54 
The Chocolate Dandies / Star Dust / Columbia / 10.13.28 
Frank Auburn & his Orchestra aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / One Little Quarrel / Velvet Tone / 1.12.32 / vocal = Dick Robertson 
Brownie McGhee / My Fault / Savoy / 1948 / with Hal Singer ts
Donna Hightower / Take One! / Maybe You’ll Be There / Capitol / 1958 

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Alone (Again) / People / Fantasy / 12.16-18.75 
Yusef Lateef / Psychicemotus / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Impulse! / 7.21-22.65 
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Maybe You’ll Be There / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time, Starring Bing Crosby (3rd season) / Hollywood 12.13.48 (aired 12.29.48) / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires  
Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers / Sidney’s Blues / Victor / 2.5.40
Helen Carroll & the Satisfiers / Raggedy Ann / Victor / 1947 / with Russ Case & his Orchestra
Yves Montand / Dans les plaines du Far-West / Odeon / Paris 1945

set 3
Donald Byrd / Slow Drag / The Loner / Blue Note / 5.12.67 
Harold Vick / Straight Up / A Rose for Wray / RCA Victor / 10.3 & 4.66 
John Hardee / Nervous from the Service / Blue Note / 5.31.46 
Jay Jay Johnson’s Be-Boppers / Jay Bird / Savoy / 6.25.46 
The Four Vagabonds / There Are Such Things / Standard Transcription / 1942 
Kay Starr / Ichabod / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Johnny Hodges / Dance Bash / For This Is My Night to Love / Norgran / San Francisco 7.17.52 / vocal = Al Hibbler

set 4
Paul Horn / Profile of a Jazz Musician / What Now? / Columbia / 8.15-17.62 
Stan Getz / More West Coast / Crazy Rhythm / Norgan / 8.22.53 / Getz ts, Bob Brookmeyer tb, John Williams p, Teddy Kotick b, Frank Isola d
King Cole Trio / Vom, Vim, Veedle / Excelsior / Hollywood 10.11.42 / with Red Callender on bass instead of Johnny Miller
Jewel Paige / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / AFRS Jubilee #22 / Hollywood c. 3.43 / with MC Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman, with Henry “Red” Allen and his Orchestra plus Barney Bigard, clarinet 
Blossom Dearie / Blossom Dearie, Soubrette, Sings Broadway Hit Songs / Rhode Island Is Famous for You / Verve / Hollywood 2.60 / with Russell Garcia & his Orchestra
The Canaanites / Lead Me to That Rock / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949 / with Joe Van Loan

last soulful song
Jimmy Hughes / Dilly Dilly / Vee Jay [unissued] / 1964