Friday, April 14, 2023

This Is a Very Special Playlist… Again: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 151

Screenshot of the Aug 7, 1956 episode of the Rosemary Clooney Show showing guest Joe Bushkin smiling at Clooney while they sing.
Special day for Joe on Peggy’s TV show!

Coffeetime, April 14, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Blue Stride / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s 2nd Message / The Latest / Prestige / 7.27.56 
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Trombonology / Victor / Hollywood 7.1.47 
Helen Morgan / Why Was I Born? / Victor / 10.16.29  
Harry Roy & his Orchestra / You’re an Eyeful of Heaven / Parlophone / London 1936 / vocal = Billy Currie
T-Bone Walker / You're My Best Poker Hand / Capitol / Hollywood 12.29.47
Dinah Washington / I Want to Be Loved / Mercury / spring 1947 / with Chubby Jackson’s Quartet 

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

set 2
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Why Was I Born? / Jazzland / 11.30.61 
Johnny Lytle / Happy Ground / When I Fall in Love / Jazzland / 3.23.61 
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Trio + One / They Didn’t Believe Me / Verve / LA 8.17.64 
Larry Adler / Larry Adler and His Harmonica, vol. 2 / Stardust / Decca / 1.25.44 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra / original 78 album has a portrait of Larry Adler by Al Hirschfeld 
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / Just an Echo in the Valley / Columbia / London 1933
Al Bowlly & The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / Shout for Happiness / HMV / London 2.19.31 
James Barton / Paint Your Wagon (Original Broadway Cast Album) / In Between / 1951 
Totie Fields / Put on a Happy Face / CBS TV broadcast, Ed Sullivan Show / 3.27.66

set 3
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 
John T. Williams / The John Towner Touch / Zigeuner / Kapp / Hollywood 10.3.56 
The Montgomery Brothers / Groove Yard / Bock to Bock (Back to Back) / Riverside / 1.3.61 
Lucky Thompson’s Quartet / Slam’s Mishap / Down Beat / Hollywood 9.13.46 
Raymond Scott & his New Orchestra / Half Way Down the Street / Columbia / 9.10.40 / vocal = Clyde Burke
The Four Tunes / Don’t Blame My Dream / Arco / c. 1945 [1950] 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52 

set 4
Bob Keene / Solo for Seven / A Lonesome Cup of Coffee / Andex / Hollywood 5.21.57 / Bob Keene cl, Milt Bernhart tb, Bill Hood bs, Red Norvo vb, Paul Moer p, Red Mitchell b, Shelly Manne d
Mel Powell / The Mel Powell Bandstand / Ezz-May / Vanguard / LA 12.1.54 
King Cole Trio / Naughty Angeline / NBC radio broadcast, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time / Hollywood 7.5.47 / guest = Woody Herman
Joe Bushkin / I Love a Piano / Atlantic / 1950 
Peggy Lee / This Is a Very Special Day / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.52 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & Chorus 
Golden Gate Quartet / Won’t There Be One Happy Time / Bluebird / Charlotte NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
The Dramatics / Joy Ride / Richest Man Alive / ABC / 1976