Friday, April 19, 2024

Playlist Is So Peculiar

Close up from 1950 short film of Dave Barbor playing his guitar and Peggy Lee behind him fixing his collar while she sings. Both are smiling.
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