I’m Proud of a Playlist Like You

Happiness is a Gatemouth and a white guitar.

Coffeetime, April 26, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Booker Little / The Defiant Ones / Milestones / United Artists / 10.58
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Arbee [alt take] / Fontana [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Brick Fleagle’s Orchestra / Pastiche / HRS / 7.45
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / I’m Proud of a Baby Like You / Victor / 1.28.27 / vocal = The Keller Sisters & Al Lynch 
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Guitar in My Hand / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Body and Soul / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Candy / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 11.18.57
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Eye View / Everything Happens to Me / Transition / Cambridge, MA 12.2.55
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Fado do Amor / Decca / Paris / 1934 
Mildred Bailey / Is That Religion? / Brunswick / 4.8.33 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Central Avenue Boogie / AFRS Jubilee #82 / Hollywood spring 1944 / vocal = Anna Mae Winburn (leader), with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Robins / There Ain’t No Use Beggin’ / National / LA 2.13.50 / with Johnny Otis Band
Jesse Belvin / Baby Don’t Go / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52

set 3
Jerome Richardson / Roamin’ with Richardson / Candied Sweets / New Jazz / 10.21.59
James Moody / Another Bag / The Day After / Cadet [Argo] / Chicago 1.30.62
Melvin “Sax” Gill / Mel’s Jump / Gotham / Philadelphia 2.49
Mills Brothers / ’Long About Midnight / Decca / London 9.10.36 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / (There’s a New Side to) An Old Love Story / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Emma Lou Welch & the Enchanters
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / Speak Low / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.1.66

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Godchild / Verve / LA 1959 
Mundell Lowe / Blues for a Stripper / Coffee, Coffee / Charlie Parker Records[MGM] / LA 1962
King Cole Trio / Laguna Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 8.27.47 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Hattie McDaniel / A Little Bird Told Me / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time #89 / Hollywood i1.2.49 / with Ernie Whitman & Bing Crosby & Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires 
Bing Crosby / Drifting and Dreaming (Sweet Paradise) / Decca / Hollywood 2.13.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Keith Carridine / Nashville, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / I’m Easy / ABC / Hollywood 1975 
Coleman Brothers / Plenty of Room in the Kingdom / Manor / 12.44 

last soulful song
Ruby & the Romantics / Hey There Lonely Boy / Kapp / 1963
The Sapphires / I Found Out Too Late / Swan / Philadelphia 1964

Playlist Is So Peculiar

Peggy gets all the fun.

Coffeetime, April 19, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (5066) / Love for Sale / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Chet Baker / Groovin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Tan Gaugin / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / My Blue Heaven / Bluebird / 4.28.40
New Cumberland Dance Orchestra / I Idolize My Baby’s Eyes / Filmophone / London c. 1.32 / vocal = Al Bowlly 
Mabel Smith (Big Maybelle) / Bad Dream Blues / King / 1948
Toni Harper / Toni / Love for Sale / Verve / LA 12.29.55

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / Born to Be Blue / Prestige / 5.18.60
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Black Coffee / Prestige / 10.21.66
Lonnie Simmons / I Can’t Get Started / Parrot / Chicago 1954 / celeste!
Buster Crabbe & Betty Grable / Sweetheart Time / soundtrack, Paramount movie Thrill of a Lifetime / Hollywood 1937 
Liz Tilton / Comin’ Thru the Rye / radio, AFRS Jubilee #200 / Hollywood 9.46 / with Bobby Sherwood & his Orchestra and master of ceremonies Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman
T-Bone Walker / I’m Still in Love with You / Rhumboogie / Chicago prob. 5.45 / with Marl & his Orchestra 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Life Is So Peculiar / Decca / 8.23.50 / with Louis Armstrong

set 3
Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / Watermelon Man / Blue Note / 5.28.62
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Blue Room / Everest / 1960 
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Let’s Jump / Musicraft / 10.23.45
The Charioteers / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Columbia / 7.20.39
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / You’re Blasé / Musicraft / 6.14.46 / vocal = Sarah Vaughan
Joe Mooney / Crazy She Calls Me / Carousel / 5.26.51 / Mooney hammond org, Bucky Pizzarelli g, Bob Carter b

set 4
Chico Hamilton / South Pacific in Hi-Fi / Honey Bun / Pacific Jazz / LA 1958
Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / S’posin / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58
Kay Starr / Stormy Weather / Lamplighter / 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
King Cole Trio / I’m a Little Ashamed / Capitol / Hollywood 8.28.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / Talk to Me Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 7.1.64 
The Bailey Gospel Singers / Jesus Is the Searchlight / Okeh / 1.27.51

last soulful song
The Shirelles / His Lips Get in the Way / Scepter / 1964
Maxine Brown / Oh No Not My Baby / Wand / 1964

Playlist of Dreams: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 138

Ella wowing the Swedes.

Coffeetime, April 12, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Julian Priester / Spiritsville / Excursion / Jazzland / 7.12.60 
Curtis Amy & Frank Butler / Groovin’ Blue / Very Frank / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1.10.61 
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / Kitten / EmArcy / 1.3-4.55 
Kansas City Seven / Harmony Blues / Decca / 11.18.40 
Bennie Krueger & his Orchestra / Same Old Moon / Brunswick / 3.11.31 / vocal = Paul Small
Jesse Price & his Blues Band / Frettin’ for Some Pettin’ / Capitol / LA 10.46 
Ella Fitzgerald / Like Someone in Love / You’re Blasé / Verve / Hollywood 10.15.57 

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

set 2
Doug Watkins / Watkins at Large / Tracey aka Panonica / Transition / 12.8.56 
Dick Twardzik / Russ Freeman & Richard Twardzik / ’Round About Midnight / Pacific Jazz / Paris 10.27. 54 
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Irving Berlin Song Book / How Deep Is the Ocean / Verve / Chicago summer 1959 
California Ramblers aka Golden Gate Orchestra / Shake [That Thing] / Edison / 4.16.26 
Woody Herman & his Orchestra / This Time the Dream’s on Me / Decca / LA 9.10.41 / vocal = Herman & ensemble
Melvin Moore / I’m Still in Love with You / National / 1951 / composed by T-Bone Walker; orchestra arranged & conducted by Budd Johnson
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Bran’ New Dolly / RCA Victor / 4.11.49 / vocal = Bobby Troup
Fred MacMurray & Lesley Ann Warren / soundtrack: The Happiest Millionaire / What’s Wrong with That / Buena Vista / Hollywood 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happiest_Millionaire

set 3
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56 
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / Catwalk / Bethlehem / 12.60 
Fats Navarro & his Bop Boys / Everything’s Cool, parts 1 & 2 / Savoy / 9.6.46 
Art Pallan & the Satisfiers / Land of Dreams / Abbey / 1951 / with Dick Jacob’s Orchestra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Pallan
The Cats ’n Jammer Three / I Cover the Waterfront / Mercury / Chicago 9.15.45 / Adam Lambert g 
Dick Haymes / Look at Me Now! / This Time the Dream’s on Me / Hollywood Records / Hollywood 1957 / with Cy Coleman p 

set 4
Victor Feldman / Vic Feldman on Vibes [Mallets a Fore Thought] / Evening in Paris / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 
Eddie South / Black Gypsy / Swing / Paris 1938
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Chubby Newsome / I’m Still in Love with You / Regal / New Orleans 12.19.49 / with Howard Bigg’s Orchestra
Bonnie Raitt / Bonnie Raitt / Since I Fell for You / Warner Brothers / Enchanted Island, Lake Minnetonka, MN 8.71 
Selah Jubilee Singers / The Downward Road Is Crowded / Decca / 6.23.49 

last soulful song
The Friends of Distinction / I Really Hope You Do / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1969 

Playlist Fantasie

That staircase is dreamy….

Coffeetime, April 5, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame /Open Sesame / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Art Farmer / Farmer’s Market / Farmer’s Market / New Jazz / 11.23.56
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Phantom Fantasie / Victor / 3.6.34
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / You’re My Everything / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / That’s Why We Can’t Agree / Transcription / Hollywood spring 1948
Etta Jones / Don’t Go to Strangers / Something to Remember You By / Prestige / 6.21.60

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

set 2
Elvin Jones / Elvin! / Shadowland / Riverside / 12.27.61
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Thanks for the Memory / Capitol / LA 3.14.56
Red Norvo / Red Plays the Blues / The Night Is Blue / RCA Victor / LA 1.18.57 / with Ben Webster ts
Billy Cotton & his Band / Why Did She Fall for the Leader of the Band? / Regal Zonophone / London 1.17.36 / vocal = Alan Breeze
The Four Clefs / When I’m Low I Get High / Bluebird [unissued] / Chicago 2.26.45
Doris Browne / Why Don’t You Love Me Now / Gotham [alternate take] / Philadelphia 6.53 / with Doc Bagby Band
Ricky Nelson / More Songs by Ricky / Make Believe / Imperial / LA 4.12.60

set 3
Jimmy Forrest / Most Much! / Robbins’ Nest / Prestige / 10.19.61
Budd Johnson / Let’s Swing! / Uptown Manhattan / Prestige Swingville / 12.2.60
Martha Raye / I’m Gonna Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in her Stocking / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
The Ravens / Get Wise Baby / National / 8.1.49 
Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / If You Are But a Dream / RCA Victor / 1957

set 4
Jerry Dodgion / Modern Music from San Francisco / The Groove / Fantasy / San Francisco 8.55
Benny Carter / Aspects / I’ll Remember April / United Artists / LA late summer 1958
King Cole Trio / Dark Rapture / Standard Transcription / Hollywood c. 10.38 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b, all three on vocals with Oscar Moore probable lead vocal
Eddie Cantor / In My Arms / radio broadcast, Eddie Cantor show / Hollywood spring 1943 / with Peter Van Steeden’s Orchestra
Etta James / Tell It Like It Is / Chess / Chicago 12.71
Alphabetical Four / The Book of the Seven Seas / Decca / 1.25.40

last soulful song
Syl Johnson / Same Kind of Thing / Twinight / Detroit 1971