Friday, June 30, 2023

Calling Dr. Playlist

Screenshot of Nancy Wilson in a tight, gold, sequined gown singing at a microphone in front of a stage curtain on a 1966 episode of I Spy. She has a bouffant hairdo and has her arms raised up as she sings.
I’ll never stop loving Nancy Wilson.

Coffeetime, June 30, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café, Volume 1 / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 11.11.60 / announcer = deejay & wife of Blue Note owner Alfred Lion, Ruth Mason 
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Moods / Vocalion / 8.8.34
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Pu-leeze Mr. Hemingway / Columbia / London 11.22.32 / vocal = Elsie Carlisle
Etta Jones / This Is a Fine Time / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his Orchestra
Nancy Wilson / Hollywood – My Way / I’ll Never Stop Loving You / Capitol / LA 11.30.62

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Missing You / Riverside / 1.5.59 
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Handful of Stars / Riverside / LA 7.3.57 
Benny Goodman / The Goodman Touch / Sweet Lorraine / Capitol / Hollywood 2.12.47 
Ruth Etting / Me! / Imperial / 9.9.31
Bobby Darin / The Shadow of Your Smile / The Breaking Point / Atlantic / Hollywood 12.14.65 

set 3
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Mr. Soul / Prestige / 4.10.62 / Marshall also uses bow on his bass 
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / So What / Contemporary / LA 8.30,31 & 9.1.60
The Basin Street Boys / Jumpin’ at the Jubilee / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Fourtet: Beal p, Lucky Thompson ts, Al Norrisg, Charlie Drayton b, Stan Levey d 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / I’ve Been in Love Before / Decca / 10.23.40 / vocal = Roy Felton
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / So What / Bethlehem / 1.60

set 4
Barney Kessel / Plays Carmen / Swingin’ the Toreador / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58 / second group
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Take It from Me / Contemporary / LA 1.56
King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44
The Andrew Sisters / It’s a Pity to Say Goodnight / Decca / Hollywood 7.22.45 / with Les Paul and the Vic Schoen Orchestra 
B.B. King / Paying the Cost to Be the Boss / Bluesway / 1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_on_Top_of_Blues
The Bronzemen / My Lord Is Writing All the Time / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 9.39

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Puppy Love / Atlantic / 1963
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971