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set 1
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Siam / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62
Frank Socolow / Sounds by Socolow / I Love You / Bethlehem / 11.56
Buster Bailey & his Seven Chocolate Dandies / Shanghai Shuffle / Columbia / 12.28.34
The Kansas City Six / Good Mornin’ Blues / Commodore / 3.18.38
Jack Pettis & his Band / That’s My Hap-Hap-Happiness / Banner / c. 2.11.27 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert & Billy Hillpot
Ann Cornell / Mad About You / Sterling / 8.47 / with Skippy Williams Orchestra; more about Ann Cornell from Marv Goldberg
Teal Joy / Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy / That Ole Devil Called Love / Bethlehem [AAMCO] / 1955
bed
Bucky Pizzarelli / Flashes - Solo 7-String Guitar, Volume 3 / Arbors Jazz / 2004
set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.20.62
Bill Evans / Explorations / I Wish I Knew / Riverside / 2.2.61
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette Du Hot Club De France / De Nulle Part (Out of Nowhere) / Swing / Paris 9.11.41
Chicago Loopers aka Willard Robinson & his Orchestra / Three Blind Mice / Perfect / 10.20.27
Edgar Hayes Quintet / Old King Cole / Brunswick / 10.11.37 / vocal = Bill Darnell
Bing Crosby & Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Your Socks Don’t Match / Decca / LA 7.26.44
Sammy Davis Jr. & Carmen McRae / Boy Meets Girl / I Go for You / Decca / 2.18 & 19.57
set 3
Roland Alexander / Pleasure Bent / Lil’s Blues / New Jazz / 6.17.61
Big John Patton / The Way I Feel / The Rock / Blue Note / 6.19.64
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Can’t We Take a Chance / United / Chicago 10.24.51
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / On Treasure Island / Victor / 9.26.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright
Delta Rhythm Boys / How High the Moon / radio broadcast / c. 1948
Al Hibbler / Al Hibbler’s Favorites / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Norgran / 9.30.53
set 4
Quincy Jones / I Dig Dancers / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Paris 4.21.60
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Moon Song / Bethlehem / 1955 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliott vb, Vinnie Burke b, Teddy Sommer d
Jo Stafford / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 2.28.47 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
King Cole Trio / This Will Make You Laugh / Decca / Hollywood / 7.16.41 / with Wesley Prince b (“Of all the fools, I break the rules”)
Pearl Bailey / Pearl’s Pearls / A House Is Not a Home / RCA Victor / 1971 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; arranged by Benny Carter
Ever Ready Gospel Singers / I Can See My Savior / Sittin’ in With / 1948 / Willie Caston, Charles Graves, Elbert Green, & Frank Edwards
last soulful song
The Vogues / Five O’Clock World / Co & Ce Records / Pittsburgh 1965
