Friday, October 27, 2023

Heigh Ho! Playlist Heigh-Ho!

Screenshot from black & white TV broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show showing Jackie Wilson, in a suit and tie, singing in front of the stage curtain and his right hand is over his chest. He has a smiling face as he sings.
Hand to heart: we love you, Jackie!

Coffeetime, October 27, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Cabu / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Salute to the Bandbox [aka Salute to Birdland] / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Stomp / Victor / 2.8.37 
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh Ho! Ev’rybody, Heigh-Ho! / Victor / 6.3.29
Mabel Scott / Have You Ever Watched Love Die? / King [unissued] / 1950
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / Hollywood summer 1957 

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

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / Nancy (With the Laughing Face) / Blue Note / 1.20.62 
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / Julie Ann / Blue Note / 3.20.55
Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out On a Limb / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / EmArcy / LA 7.9.56 
Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) & his Hot Combination / Sunday / Perfect / 10.21.26
Ella Mae Morse / Cow Cow Boogie / radio transcription, AFRS Command Performance #27 / Hollywood 8.18.42 / with host Cary Grant and Freddie Slack & his Orchestra
Irene Reid / It’s Too Late / Big Spender / Verve / 1966 / arranged & conducted by Frank Foster

set 3
David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Scufflin’ / Atlantic / 12.9.61 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Pete Johnson & Hadda Brooks / Swings the Boogie / Boogie Celeste / Crown / 1958
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Gloomy Sunday / Victor / 3.3.40 / vocal = Pauline Byrne
The Ravens / Leave My Gal Alone / National / 1.27.49
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Four Brothers / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Frenesi / Victor / 3.3.40
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby / Basin Street Blues / Brunswick / Hollywood 9.25.37 
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Oh, But I Do / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Jackie Wilson / Lonely Teardrops / The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS / live 5.27.62 
R.H. Harris & the Soul Stirrers / Does Jesus Care? / Aladdin / 12.48  

last soulful song
Dusty Springfield / Spooky / Philips / London 1970 

Friday, October 20, 2023

With the Wind and the Rain in Your Playlist

Screenshot from the boxing ring scene in the movie It's Always Fair Weather showing Cyd Charisse sitting on the edge of the boxing ring singing and counting with her fingers while the male actors stand nearby. One is dressed in a old leather boxing helmet.
Cyd’s helping them count the votes for Speaker.

Coffeetime, October 20, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Bronze Dance / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Sonny Clark / Dial S for Sonny / Sonny’s Mood / Blue Note / 11.10.57 
Freddie Rich & his Orchestra / Too Late / CBS radio transcription from Fred’s Friendly Five radio show / 1931-32 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp; announcer = David Ross
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’m Gonna Leave You on the Outskirts of Town / Decca / 7.21.42
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / My Romance / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Red Garland / Mr. Wonderful / Prestige [unissued] / 8.12.59
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Apple Blossoms / Okeh / 10.18.29
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Take My Heart / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 8.14.36 / vocal = Greta Keller
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Don’t Get Salty, Sugar / Exclusive / Hollywood 10.47 / vocal = Charles Brown 
Cyd Charisse [singing dubbed by Carol Richards), & MGM Studio Chorus / soundtrack to It’s Always Fair Weather / Baby, You Knock Me Out / MGM / Hollywood 1.5.55 

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / Dee Dee / Bethlehem / 12.60 l
Budd Johnson / Blues à la Mode / Foggy Nights / Felsted / 2.11.58
George Shearing / Midnight on Cloud 69 / Four Bars Short / Savoy / 1.31.49 / Shearing on accordion
Savannah Churchill / When You Came Back to Me / Regal / 12.24.50 / with The Striders 
The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950 
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé with The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / Keepin’ Myself for You / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.20.56 

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Pemba / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Lennie Niehaus / Zounds! / With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair / Contemporary / Hollywood 8.23.54 
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / You Started Something / Regent / 1947 / with Ellis Larkin’s Trio
King Cole Trio / I Wanna Turn Out the Light / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / AFRS Jubilee #91  / c. 1944 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ Let It Be Me / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67
The Coleman Brothers / One Day / Coleman / c. 1.48 

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday Night (Baby I’m Yours) / Blue Rock / 1.65

Friday, October 13, 2023

There Won’t Be a Shortage of Playlist

Screenshot from The Dean Martin Show on NBC on January 25, 1968 showing Dean and Orson Welles standing in front of a dark stage set, both wearing tuxedos and bow ties, smiling and talking about the upcoming magic skit.
When you wish for a skit with Dean and Orson…

Coffeetime, October 13, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / City Lights / City Lights / Blue Note / 8.25.57
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / Hard Groove / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Eleanor / EmArcy / 5.20.54
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Plain Dirt / Victor / 11.5.29
Justin Ring & his Orchestra / True Blue Lou / Okeh / 8.16.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert
Myra Taylor / Tell Your Best Friend Nothing / Mercury / Kansas City 10.31.46 / with Jimmy Keith’s Kansas City Orchestra
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / Let Me Love You / United Artists / LA 7.58 / Chuck Wayne g, Ernie Furtado b, Johnny Cresci d

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

set 2
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Body & Soul / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Golden Gate Orchestra [California Ramblers] / Sweet Man / Edison / 9.15.25 
Lil Green / You’re Just Full of Jive / Bluebird / Chicago 7.23.41
Otis Rush / Violent Love / Cobra / 1956
Dean Martin / Beau James / Capitol / Hollywood 5.22.57

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / The Murphy Man / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Apothegm / Prestige / 8.2.61
Dizzy Gillespie & his Quintet / Afro Paris / Vogue / Paris 3.27.52
The Charioteers / Calliope Jane / from the United Artists movie Road Show / Hollywood 1941 
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol Orchestra / There Won’t Be a Shortage of Love / Elite / 2.42 
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet (just rhythm section here)

set 4
Cal Tjader & Stan Getz / My Buddy / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Flute Diet / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58
King Cole Trio / Live at the Circle Room / Everyone Is Sayin’ Hello Again (Why Must We Say Goodbye?) / radio transcription, WEMP / Hotel LaSalle, Milwaukee 9.25.46
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Every Second / King / 1956
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / In the Name of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 6.26.64 / Lou Levy p, Bob Bain, John Pisano, Howard Roberts g, Chuck Berghofer b, Stan Levey d, Francisco Aguabella bongos, congas )
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Get Away Jordan / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 7.25.52

last soulful song
Maxine Brown / Do It in the Name of Love / [unissued] / live in Central Park, 8.67



Friday, October 06, 2023

You Don’t Have to Drop a Playlist to Break It

Screenshot from 1974 video showing BB King holding up his guitar Lucille, with light flares from the stage lights looking like he has fairy bubbles around him. He's singing with a big smile. The camera angle is from below looking up at him and his guitar.
Joyful Lucille and her bf!

Coffeetime, October 6, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Doin’ the Thing / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.19 & 20.61
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Mad Lad Returns / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Harry Shalson / She’s Wonderful / Brunswick / London 5.8.29
Johnny Otis Band / Gee Baby / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = Mel Walker 
Dinah Washington / Blue Gardenia / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Mad About the Boy / New Jazz / 10.12.54
Freddie Hubbard / Goin’ Up Up Up / I Wished I Knew / Blue Note / 11.6.60
Zach Whyte’s Chocolate Beau Brummels / West End Blues / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 2.26.29
Babe Mathews / He’s Got So Much / HRS / 2.15.46 / with Joe Thomas’ Big Six
Pearl Bailey / Fifteen Years (And I’m Still Doing Time) / V-Disc 527B / 4.24.45 / with orch conducted by Mitchell Ayres; identical to Columbia recording
B.B. King / Early Every Morning / RPM / LA 1957

set 3
Tommy Flanagan / Overseas / Delarna / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Borderline / Blue Note / 7.14.60 
Serge Chaloff Sextette / Pumpernickel / Savoy / 3.5.47
Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / If You Believed in Me / MGM / 1.9.47 / vocal = Henry Wells tb
The Ravens / You Don’t Have to Drop a Heart to Break It / Columbia / 10.19.50 / lead = Maithe Marshall; celeste!
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / My One and Only Love / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / You Make Me Feel So Young / Riverside / 11.16.60
Buddy Collette / Soft Touch / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Earle Hagen / soundtrack to Columbia movie The New Interns / Sutura Self / Colpix / Hollywood 1962
Dodo Marmarosa Trio / Remember I Knew You When / IRRA / Hollywood autumn 1947 / vocal = Miss Danna
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / WMGM, NYC 3.29.49 / NKC p, voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Laurence Naismith / Here’s Love, Original Broadway Cast Recording / Expect Things to Happen / Columbia / 1963 
Golden Gate Quartet / Little Wheel A Turning in My Heart / radio transcription, NBC Thesaurus 986 / 1941

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lads / I’ve Never Found a Girl / Volt / 1969