Friday, April 28, 2023

A Playlist with a View

screenshot from White Christmas of Rosemary Clooney, in her red pajamas with her white coat over them, looking towards Bing Crosby while they sing Count Your Blessings
I won’t pass up this opportunity to show Rosemary looking so lovely with Bing.

Coffeetime, April 28, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Three Way Split / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Toots Sweet / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swing Orchestra / The Bridegroom Special / radio transcription from the WHN radio show Yiddish Melodies in Swing / 1940
[Gene] Sedric & his Honey Bears / The Wall of Scromph / Vocalion / 11.23.38
Noël Coward / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Joe Thomas, his Sax & his Orchestra / You’re Just My Kind / King / 4.26.51
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56 

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

set 2
Curtis Fuller / It’s Magic / medley: It’s Magic; My One and Only Love; They Didn’t Believe Me / Regent / 9.5.57 
Thomas “Fats” Waller / Numb Fumblin’ / Victor / 3.1.29 
Knites of Rhythm (aka The Southern Sons) / Baby Won’t You Fall in Love / Bluebird / 10.29.41 
Louis Jordan / Somebody Up There Digs Me / Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby / Mercury / 10.22.56 / Louis Jordan as & vo, Ernie Royal tp, Jimmy Cleveland tb, Sam “The Man” Taylor ts, Budd Johnson ts, bs, Ernie Hayes p, Mickey Baker g, Wendell Marshall b, Charlie Persip ds, Quincy Jones arr & dir
Rosemary Clooney & Bing Crosby / Fancy Meeting You Here / You Came a Long Way from St. Louis / RCA Victor / Hollywood 8.11.58

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / High ’n Low / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Budd Johnson / Let’s Swing! / Uptown Manhattan / Prestige Swingville / 12.2.60
Ted Nash Quintet / Holiday in Sax / Wick’s Kicks / EmArcy / 1.25.46 
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Ooh, Hot Dawg / V-Disc 543B / 8.45 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Ravens / You Foolish Thing / Okeh / 3.29.51
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Won’t Cry Anymore / Vee Jay / Hollywood 7.64 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Oscar Moore / We’ll Remember You, Nat / That’s All / Horizon/Surrey / Burbank 4.65
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Abstract Art / Tampa / 2.20.57
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney Visits Paris / Cherokee / Dawn / Paris 2.10.54
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / Hollywood 7.14.55 / Cole p, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Lee Young d
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47 / Cole p & vo, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Noël Coward / At Las Vegas / A Room with a View / Columbia / live, Wilber Clark’s Desert Inn, Las Vegas 6.7.55 / with Carlton Hayes & his Orchestra
Southern Sons / I’m Free at Last / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Debbie Taylor / Never Gonna Let Him Know; Let’s Prove Them Wtong  / GWP / 1969