Friday, July 21, 2023

I’m a Stationary Mama (Lookin’ for a Permanent Playlist): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 160

Black & white photo of Billie Poole looking up in a studio setting, perhaps recording, wearing a sequined gown with straps.
The radiant (other) Billie.

Coffeetime, July 21, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bill Hardman / Saying Something / Capers / Savoy / 10.18.61 
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Smoothie / Jazzline / 1.12.62 
Muggsy Spanier & his Ragtime Band / Relaxin’ at the Touro / Bluebird / 11.22.39 
The Captivators aka Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Somebody to Love Me / Brunswick / 10.22.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert 
Lloyd Glenn & his Joymakers / That Other Woman’s Gotta Go / Imperial / LA 12.47 / vocal = Geraldine Carter; Jake Porter t, Marshall Royal as, Gene Porter ts, Glenn p, Gene Phillips g, Art Edwards b, Bill Street d
Billie Poole / Confessin’ the Blues! / God Bless the Child / Riverside / 1962 / Junior Mance p, Kenny Burrell g, Bob Cranshaw b, Mickey Roker d

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

set 2
Billy Bauer / Plectrist / It’s a Blue World / Norgran / 1.23.56 / Bauer g, Andrew Ackers p, Milt Hinton b, Osie Johnson d
Oscar Peterson / We Get Requests / My One and Only Love / Verve / 10.20.64 
Howard McGhee / The Man with a Horn / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52 / feature for Rudy Williams ts 
Yale Hawaiian Trio / One Summer Night / Brunswick / 4.23.27 
Lena Wilson / I’m a Stationary Mama (Lookin’ for a Permanent Man) / Diva [Columbia] / 2.6.30 / Cliff Jackson p
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Dance with Les Brown / Rock Me to Sleep / Columbia / 1954 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Sam Cooke / At the Copa / Try a Little Tenderness; (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; You Send Me / RCA Victor / live, Copa Copacabana 7.7 & 8.64 

set 3
Roland Alexander / Pleasure Bent / Dorman Road / New Jazz / 6.17.61 
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / Morning of the Carnival (from Black Orpheus) / Philips / fall 1962 
Randy Hall / Sweet Sue, Just You / AFRS Jubilee #70 / Hollywood 3.13.44 / Hall on tin whistle with the Armed Forces Radio Trio aka Les Paul Trio; master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 
Griff Williams & his Orchestra / You’re Wonderful / radio broadcast / 1946 / vocal = Bob Kirk
The Syncopators / River Stay Away from My Door / National / 10.49 
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock & Count Basie / I Could Have Told You / Verve / 1965 

set 4
Herbie Mann / Mann in the Morning / Hurry Burry / Prestige / Stockholm 10.10.56 / Mann fl, Åke Persson tb, Knud Jorgenson p, George Riedel b, Joe Harris d 
Lyle “Spud” Murphy / New Orbits in Sound / Slightly Off Center / GNP / Hollywood 9.30.57 / Milt Bernhart, Dick Nash tb, Russ Cheever ss, Buddy Collette as, Morrie Crawford ts, Bill Ulyate bs, Curtis Counce b and Larry Bunker d
King Cole Trio / Bedtime / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 11.40 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
King Cole Trio / My Lips Remember Your Kisses / Premier / Hollywood 11.2.43 / now Johnny Miller b
Johnny Mercer / Candy / Capitol / Hollywood 12.6.44 / with Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Ray Walston, Thurl Ravenscroft, & the Ken Darby Singers / There Is Nothing Like a Dame / soundtrack to the 20th Century Fox movie South Pacific / Hollywood 1958 / Ravenscroft dubs for Ken Clark playing Stewpot
The Detroiters / Ride On King Jesus / Specialty [unissued alt take] / Detroit 8.14.51 / celeste!

last soulful song
Cilla Black / Images / Make It with You / Parlophone / London 1971

Friday, July 14, 2023

The Playlist Next Door

Screenshot from the movie Words and Music showing Perry Como and Cyd Charisse sitting at a white grand piano that he's playing while he sings to her. Both are wearing white: he's in a white suit and tie and she is in a white gown with a lace collar and a white gem necklace. They are sitting in a room with a blue glow of light.
Perry tries the words and the music on Cyd.

Coffeetime, July 14, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Minor Apprehension / Blue Note / 5.2.59 
Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Lover / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.5.58 
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra / Alone in the Rain / Victor / Chicago 12.6.29 / vocal = Joe Sanders (lead) & Carleton A. Coon 
Annisteeen Allen & her Home Town Boys / More More More / Queen / Cincinnati 12.19.45 / Bull Moose Jackson & his Orchestra 
Ella Fitzgerald / Bewitched / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62 

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

set 2
Red Garland / Red Alone / I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) / Prestige Moodsville / 4.2.60 
George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / The Boy Next Door / Columbia / LA 8.15.56
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Summertime / Dawn / 2.3.56 / Mathews accordion, Oscar Pettiford b, Kenny Clarke d
Charlie Ventura & his Bop for the People / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / RCA Victor / 4.7.49
Paul Robeson / Summertime / HMV / London 1.14.38
Dinah Washington / Mellow Mama Blues / Apollo / LA 12.45
Wally Mercer / If You Don’t Mean Business / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54
Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Say Hello to Miss Brown / Atlas / LA c. 1948 / vocal = Joe Alexander; Red Mack t, Jones as, Betty Hall Jones p, Chuck Barksdale b, George Vann d, & an unknown sax player 
Debbie Reynolds / A Lady Loves / soundtrack to MGM movie I Love Melvin / Hollywood 4.18.52 / with the MGM Studio Chorus

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Bone & Bari / Again / Blue Note / 8.4.57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_%26_Bari
Lee Morgan / The Best Of Birdland: Volume 1 / A Bid for Sid / Roulette / 6.60 / Symphony Sid’s series for Roulette
Charlie Parker / The Charlie Parker Story / Thriving on a Riff (“new take 1”) aka Anthropology / Savoy / 11.26.45
Spirits of Rhythm / Junk Man / Decca / 9.14.34 
Perry Como / That Feeling in the Moonlight / V-Disc 541A / 1945 / with Russ Case & his Orchestra and The Satisfiers
Joe Mooney / On the Rocks / Lazy Countryside / Decca / 7.28.47

set 4
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / All the Things You Are / Contemporary / LA 11.26.56
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / Figure 8 / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54 
King Cole Trio / If Yesterday Could Only Be Tomorrow / MacGregor transcription / 5.24.44
Maxine Sullivan / Skylark / International / 1947 / with Ellis Larkins Trio
Sammy Davis Jr / As Long As She Needs Me / (Love Is) The Tender Trap / Reprise / LA 2.6.61 
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soulful song
5˚ Farenheit / Vibrations / Abet / Nashville 1970
Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

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Friday, July 07, 2023

The Wildest Playlist in Town

Blonde Ella Mae Morse wearing a white blouse, smiling while looking into the TV camera, with an orchestra seated behind her and a large microphone aimed at the orchestra.
Ella Mae and her smile

Coffeetime, July 7, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56 
Gigi Gryce / And the Jazz Lab Quintet / Minority / Riverside / 2.27.57 
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Honey / Columbia / 4.9.29 / vocal = Larry Murphy 
Little Esther / Bring My Lovin’ Back to Me / Federal / LA 1.4.52 
Anita O’Day / At Mister Kelly’s / The Wildest Gal in Town / Verve / Chicago 4.27.58

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

set 2
Doug Watkins / Soulnik / Imagination / New Jazz / 5.17.60 
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Last Night When We Were Young / Riverside / 8.10.60 
Larry Adler / My Melancholy Baby / Columbia / Paris 5.31.38 / with The Quintette du Hot Club de France: Larry Adler har, Stephane Grappelly p, Django Reinhardt g, Joseph Reinhardt, Eugene Vees g, Roger Grasset b
Lee Wiley / You Came to My Rescue / live radio show from Club Richman (possible) in NYC 1936 / with Freddie Rich & his Orchestra and introduction by Harry Richman
The Cats & the Fiddle / Just a Roamer / Victor / Chicago 12.7.39 
The Ray-O-Vacs / Start Lovin’ Me / Jubilee / 1952 / with Herb Millner on lead vocal
Gilbert Grenier / L'île Aux Chimères/ La Vieille Dame et le Jeune Homme / La Voix de Son Maître (HMV) / Paris 1966 

set 3
Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / Whisper Not / Riverside / 10.6.59
Modern Jazz Quartet / Concorde / Ralph’s New Blues / Prestige / 7.2.55
Jimmy Forrest / Calling Dr. Jazz / United / St. Louis (prob) 9.7.53  
The Mills Brothers / Sweet Sue, Just You / Brunswick / 4.14.32
Ella Mae Morse / Thank Your Lucky Star / radio transcription AFRS Command Performance #74 / 7.10.43 / introduction by Ronald Colman
Buddy Greco / Hang Your Hat at Mister Kelly’s / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Lester Young & Harry Edison / Pres & Sweets / Pennies from Heaven / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55 
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Verve / LA 1959 Roberts g, Pete Jolly p, Red Mitchell b, Stan Levey d  
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43
Peggy Lee & Woody Herman / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along / radio transcription/ Hollywood summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra and Eddie Bracken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bracken
Frank Gorshin / Jimmy [Original Broadway Cast Recording] / What’s Out There for Me? / RCA Victor / 1969
The Trumpeteers / Milky White Way; Blind Barnabas / Score / 1948

last soulful song
The Five Stairsteps / Ooh Child / Buddhah / 1970