Friday, July 05, 2024

Playlists Like to Sport Too: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 178

Screenshot from a 1974 performance on Soul Train showing Teddy Pendergrass in a suit and big bow tie, ruffled white shirt (very ’70s), holding the mic and singing with a smile.
Mr. Pendergrass good-luck-charming.

Coffeetime, July 5, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out! / Steppin’ Out! / Blue Note / 5.27.63 
Red Mitchell & Harold Land / Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! / Somara / Atlantic / San Francisco 10.14.61 
Harry James & his Orchestra / Sharp as a Tack / Columbia / 1941
Jack Gardner’s Orchestra / Ponjola / Okeh / Dallas 10.24
George Belshaw & his KFAB Orchestra / You’ll Recognize My Baby / Brunswick / Chicago 4.26.29 / vocal = Frank Sylvano
Jimmy “T99” Nelson / Married Men Like to Sport Too / RPM / LA 1953
Dorothy Dandridge / The Touch of Your Lips / Verve [unissued] / Hollywood 1.20.58 / Oscar Peterson celeste!!!, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

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

set 2
Don Ewell / Take It in Stride / A Hundred Years from Today / Chiaroscuro / 1971
Sam Most / Musically Yours / Body and Soul / Bethlehem / 1956
Cappy Lewis / Get Happy with Cappy / Imagination / Hi Fi Jazz / Hollywood 2.60 
Augusto Coén & his Golden Casino Orchestra / The Music Goes ’Round and ’Round / Brunswick / 1.17.36
Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake Seven / The Music Goes ’Round and ’Round / Victor / 12.9.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright (& TD)
Black Cats & the Kitten / Step It Up and Go / Okeh / 1940 / lead vocal = Valda Buggs
Three B’s & a Honey / Hit That Jive, Jack / DC / fall 1947 

set 3
Big John Patton / Oh Baby! / Each Time / Blue Note / 3.8.65 
Jimmy Smith / Home Cookin’ / Come On Baby / Blue Note / 6.16.59 
Dodo Marmarosa / Dodo’s Dance / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 12.3.47 / Marmarosa p, Harry Babasin b, Jackie Mills d
Jane Harvey / I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night / Victor / Hollywood 1.7.47 / with Page Cavanaugh Trio (PC p, Al Viola g, Lloyd Pratt b plus strings 
Four Rockets / Little Red Wagon / Aladdin / Hollywood 1948
Jackie Paris / Jackie Paris Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin / Fun to Be Fooled / Time / 2.23.60 

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Cherry / Mode / Hollywood 6.57 / Rosolino tb, Richie Kamuca ts, Vince Guaraldi p, Monty Budwig b, Stan Levey d
Wessel Ilcken / The Goofer / Philips / Hilversum, The Netherlands 10.29.56 
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 4.17.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Liza Morrow / I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful) / V-Disc #884A / Hollywood 1949 / with Joe Bushkin & Group
James Brown / Soul on Top / It’s Magic / King / Hollywood 11.69 
The Chosen Gospel Singers / When I Get Home / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / Bad Luck / Soul Train / live, Philadelphia 1974