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