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