Friday, May 12, 2023

Ring, Playlist, Ring: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 154

Black & white screenshot of Fran Jeffries singing on the Ed Sullivan show from April 23, 1961, standing near the camera with a triangle-pattered set design in back of her with a man in a suit standing way in the background.
Yes, he’s still back there, Fran…

Coffeetime, May 12, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Walter Benton / Out of this World / Azil / Jazzland / 9.19 & 21.60 
Ray Draper / Tuba Sounds / Mimi’s Interlude / Prestige / 3.15.57 
Bert Lown & his Loungers / The Jazz Me Blues / Columbia / 4.5.29 
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / My Baby Just Cares for Me / Victor / 7.25.30 / vocal = Arthur Jarrett 
Leo Watson & his Orchestra / It’s the Tune That Counts / 8.22.39 
Rabon Tarrant / Listen Baby Blues / Apollo / LA 9.10.45 / with Jack McVea & his All Stars 
Fran Jeffries / Fran Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Warwick / 1961 / arranged & conducted by Ralph Burns

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

set 2
Lee Konitz / The Real Lee Konitz / You Go to My Head / Atlantic / live, The Midway Lounge, Pittsburgh 2.15.57 
Billy Bauer / Plectrist / Night Cruise / Norgran / 1.23.56
Eddie South / Daybreak / Standard Transcription / c. 1944 http://abar.net/south.htm
Oscar Calle Cubana Orchestre / Au pays des rumbas / Odeon / Paris c. 1939
Baby Hines / This Is the End / Decca / 3.1.39 / with Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing
The Pied Pipers / In the Middle of May / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Kiss of Fire / Decca / Denver 3.19.52 

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Good Gravy! / Could You Forget / Contemporary / LA 8.23–25.61 / cover portrait painting by George Bartell 
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Angel Face / Verve / 5.10.66 
Allen Eager with the Be Bop Boys / Donald Jay / Savoy / 7.15.47 
The Ink Spots / Ring, Telephone, Ring / Decca / 12.23.40 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Coffee Time / Columbia / 1945 / Michael Douglas & Lucyann Polk
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine’s Imagination / I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance / EmArcy / 1958 / with Pete Rugolo & his All Stars

set 4
Chet Baker / Pretty/Groovy / But Not for Me / World Pacific / Hollywood 2.15.54 
Dave Brubeck / Lullaby in Rhythm / Fantasy / San Francisco 1950 
King Cole Trio / Just You, Just Me / Capitol Transcription [unissued take] / Hollywood 3.20.46
King Cole Trio / Chant of the Blues (Dog-gone Unlucky Blues) / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 3.20.46
Bing Crosby / Bing with a Beat / Some Sunny Day / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.19–20.57 / with with Bob Scobey’s Frisco Jazz Band; arranged by Matty Matlock; solos by Dave Harris ts & Matlock cl 
Swanee Quintet / Well Done / Nashboro / Nashville 1953

last soulful song
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1970