Friday, December 08, 2023

The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Playlist That I’ve Got): Coffeetime Homebrew ep 168

Screenshot from the 1962 animated film Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol showing Scrooge's scraggly servants at the rag picker/junk collector's store selling Scrooge's possessions.
WMBR deejays after returning to the basement of Walker Memorial.

Coffeetime, December 8, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / C.T.A / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.56 
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / A Night in Tunisia / Club Française du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d
Sonny Stitt / The Hard Swing / I Got Rhythm / Verve / 2.9.59 
The Rhythmic Eight aka Bert Firman Orchestra / Faces at the Window / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 5.24.28
Lee Morse / Something in the Night / Columbia / 8.26.32 / Bob Downey p 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.19.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Dorothy Dandridge / How Long Has This Been Going On / Verve [unissued] / Hollywood 1.20.58 / Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

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

set 2
Jack Wilson / The Two Sides of Jack Wilson / The Good Life / Atlantic / LA 5.13.64 
René Thomas / René Thomas et son Modern Group / ’Tis Autumn / Polydor / Paris 3.22.56 
Eddie Heywood / Eddie Heywood / Tenderly / EmArcy / 7.55 / Heywood p, Wendell Marshall b, Jimmy Crawford d
Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France / Manoir de Mes Rêves / Swing / Paris 2.17.43 
Abe Lyman & his Californians / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Decca / Chicago 11.26.28 / vocal = Phil Neely 
Bing Crosby / You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Brunswick / 1.12.33 / with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians, featuring Lebert Lombardo on trumpet
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill 
Kenny Dorham / This Is the Moment! / Make Me a Present of You / Riverside / 7.7.58 

set 3
Bennie Green / Bennie Green / Sonny’s Crip / Time / 9.27.60 
John Coltrane / Blue Train / I’m Old Fashioned / Blue Note / 9.15.57 
Charlie Parker Septet / A Night in Tunisia / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46 
The Ink Spots / I Wish You the Best of Everything / Decca / 5.19.38 
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / A Gal in Calico / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Eve Young
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Conte Candoli Sextet / Leonard Feather Presents: Best from the West, Vol. 2, Modern Sounds From California / Burbank Bounce / Blue Note / Hollywood 12.30.54 / Conte Candoli t, John Graas frh, Charlie Mariano as, Marty Paich p, Monty Budwig b, Stan Levey d; a blindfold test record
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d
Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir” 
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock & Count Basie / Don’t Go to Strangers / Verve / 1965 
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Highway QC’s / I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song
Jan Bradley / Mama Didn’t Lie / Chess / Chicago 1963