Look at that Playlist

Like Billy Kyle, we find it hard to take our eyes off Maxine.

Coffeetime, August 30, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Ronnie Mathews / Doin’ the Thang! / The Orient / Prestige / 12.17.63
Art Farmer & Donald Byrd / 2 Trumpets / Contour / Prestige / 8.3.56
Larry Adler / Caprice Viennois / Columbia / London 3.35 / with Carroll Gibbons & Harry Jacobson on two pianos
Melle Weersma & his Red, White & Blue Aces / With My Eyes Wide Open, I’m Dreaming / Decca / Laren, The Netherlands 11.34 / vocal = Ab Witteboon
Mr. Google Eyes [Joseph August] & his 4 Bars / Poppa Stoppa’s Bebop Blues / Coleman / New Orleans c. 1946
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Something I Dreamed Last Night / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / A Time for Love / Riverside / Hollywood 11.23, 28, 30.66
Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / How Deep is the Ocean? / Contemporary / LA 5.13.57
Blossom Dearie / Jazz Sweet / The Boy Next Door / Barclay / Paris 1955
Noël Coward / Let’s Say Goodbye / HMV / London 9.20.32 / with Ray Noble & the New Mayfair Orchestra
Maxine Sullivan / Kinda Lonesome / Victor / 12.10.38 
Ray Charles / All to Myself Alone / Swing / LA 11.24.50 / Charles celeste (!), Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To? / Look at that Face / RCA / 1965

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Volume 3 / Two Quarters of a Mile / Blue Note / 12.1.57
Joe Newman / Good ’n‘ Groovy / Just Squeeze Me / Prestige Swingville / 3.19.61
Georgie Auld / Taps Miller / Royal Roost / 1951
Una Mae Carlisle / Walkin’ by the River / Victor / 11.13.39 / arranged by Benny Carter
The Charioteers / Stardust / radio transcription / 1942
The Four Vagabonds / Kentucky Babe / Apollo / 11.13.46 / their first session for Apollo
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / There’s a Small Hotel / MGM / 1962

set 4
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Solo for Guitar / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / A Nice Day / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58
Blind Willie Dunn’s Gin Bottle Four [Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson] / Guitar Blues / Okeh / 5.7.29
King Cole Trio / Beautiful Moons Ago / Capitol / Hollywood 4.25.46 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Ann Cole / Nobody But Me / Sir / 1959 
Bobby Darin / Beyond the Sea / live broadcast / c. 1960 
The Elite Jewels / Ride On, King Jesus / Cleveland late 1940s

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / One More Chance / La Beat / Detroit 1967

Jingle, Jangle, Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 144

Bluto finds Coffeetime very relaxing.

Coffeetime, August 23, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
James Moody / Cookin’ the Blues / Little Buck / Argo / live, Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 6.61 
Cecil Payne / The Connection: New Original Score / Mighty Fine Wine / Charlie Parker Records / 3.14-16.62 / Clark Terry t, Bennie Green tb, Cecil Payne bs, Duke Jordan p, Ron Carter b, Charlie Persip d
Jack Sheldon / Jazz West Coast - Vol.2 / Contour / World Pacific / Forum Theatre, LA 11.18.55 
Cliff Jackson & his Krazy Kats / Torrid Rhythm / Grey Gull / 1.30.30
Jack Gardner’s Orchestra / I Know She Does (Because She Told Me So) / Okeh / Dallas 10.24 / vocal = Stanton Crocker 
Cecil Gant / I’m Singing the Blues Today / Bullet / Nashville 1947
Beverly Kenney / Beverly Kenney Sings for Playboys / A Woman’s Intuition / Decca / 1958 / Ellis Larkins p & celeste, Joe Benjamin b

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Explorations / Haunted Heart / Riverside / 2.2.61 
Ben Webster / Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve / Hollywood 11.6.59 
Thelonious Monk / Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 7.23.51 
Herbie Mann / Flamingo / There’s No You / Bethlehem / 6.55 / Mann fl, Joe Puma g, Charles Andrus b, Harold Granowsky d; a fun cover design by Burt Goldblatt
Henry King & his Orchestra / A Garden in Granada / Decca / 4.13.38 / vocal = Sonny Schuyler
The Caldwells / My Man Friday (On a Saturday Night) / RCA Victor / 12.20.47  
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Jingle, Jangle, Jingle / Columbia / Hollywood 6.42 / vocal = Harry Babbit & Julie Conway & The Group
Bertice Reading / I’m Alone / RCA Victor / 11.30.53 
Bobby Troup / Bobby Troup Sings Johnny Mercer / I’m With You / Bethlehem / LA 1.28.55 

set 3
Jimmy Cleveland / A Map of Jimmy Cleveland / Jimmy’s Old Funky Blues / Mercury / 12.58 / Jerome Richardson fl 
Charlie Byrd / Byrd’s Word / Stompin’ at the Savoy / Riverside / 1958
Lucky Thompson & his Lucky Seven / Boppin’ the Blues / RCA Victor / 4.22.47 
Charlie Spivak & his Orchestra / Dreamsville, Ohio / Okeh / 11.24.41 / vocal = June Hutton
Dolores Brown & The Auditones / A Good Deal / Sterling / 1947 / with Bill Doggett’s Music [trio]; The Auditones did record on their own 
Arthur Prysock / Arthur Prysock and Count Basie / Where Are You? / Verve / 1965 

set 4
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie Picks the Winners / Volare / Verve / 1965 
Dave Pell / A Pell of a Time / Sandy Shoes / RCA Victor / LA 1.17.57 / Pell ts, Pepper Adams bs, Jack Sheldon tp, Bobby Burgess & Ray Sims tb, Paul Moer p, Tommy Tedesco g, Tom Kelly b, Mel Lewis d
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / Nat King Cole p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Bobby “Blue” Bland / I’ve Been Wrong So Long / Duke / Chicago 8.3.60 
Kenneth Nelson & Rita Gardner / Original Off Broadway Cast of The Fantasticks / Soon It’s Gonna Rain / MGM / 6.13.60
Dixiaires / My Dungeon Shook / Lenox / 1949 

last soulful song
Malo / Suavecito / Warner Brothers / LA 1971

Just a Little Fond Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 143

Gracinha, super voz!

Coffeetime, August 16, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Street Singer] / Melonae’s Dance / Blue Note / 9.1.60 
Nat Adderley / Introducing Nat Adderley / Crazy Baby / Wing / 9.6.55 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / live, Crescendo Club, Hollywood summer 1958 8
The Casa Loma Orchestra / I Never Slept a Wink Last Night / Brunswick / 6.13.34 / vocal = Pee Wee Hunt
Maggie Hathaway & her Bluesmen / You Have Fallen in Love / Black & White / LA 1948  
Sammy Davis Jr. & Carmen McRae / Boy Meets Girl / Things We Did Last Summer / Decca / 2.18 & 19.57

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

set 2
Lawrence Marable / Tenorman / Lover Man / Jazz:West / Hollywood 8.4.56 
Paul Gonsalves / Cookin’ / Impeccable / Argo / Chicago 8.6.57 
Buddy DeFranco / Pretty Moods by Buddy DeFranco / Tenderly / Norgran / 4.7.54 
Bechet & Spanier Big Four / Sweet Sue, Just You / HRS / 4.6.40 / Muggsy Spanier cor, Sidney Bechet ss/cl, Carmen Mastren g, Wellman Braud b
Ipana Troubadours / There’s Too Many Eyes (That “Wanna” Makes Eyes at Two Pretty Eyes I Love) / Columbia / 9.13.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew 
Lena Horne / Come to Baby, Do! / V-Disc 614B / Hollywood 1.46 / with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra
Jimmy Edwards & Tommy Steele / Cinderella [Original 1958 London Cast] / You and Me / Decca / London 1958 / Steele plays Buttons, a character added to the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical for London; Edwards plays Baron, another added character  

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Best Of Birdland: Volume 1 / Suspended Sentence / Roulette / 6.60 / Morgan t, Wayne Shorter ts, Bobby Timmons p, Jimmy Rowser b, Art Taylor d; Symphony Sid’s series for Roulette
Junior Mance / The Soulful Piano of Junior Mance / Swingmatism / Jazzland / 10.25.60 
Herbie Steward Quintet / Passport to Pimlico / Royal Roost / 1950 
Tyree Glenn & his Orchestra / Mad Monk / Blue Star / Paris 1.13.47 
Kate Smith / Just a Little Fond Affection / Columbia / 1945 / with Four Chicks and Chuck
The Orioles / Tell Me So / Jubilee / 4.49
David Allen / Let’s Face the Music and Dance! / You Send Me / World Pacific / Hollywood 1958 / with Bill Holman Orchestra / composed by Jimmy McHugh, lyrics by Harold Adamson for the 20th Century Fox movie Four Jills and a Jeep 

set 4
Sal Salvador / Shades of Sal Salvador / I Hadn’t Anyone Till You / Bethlehem / 1957 / Salvador g, Phil Woods as, Ralph Martin p, Dante Martucci b, Joe Morellol d
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet / Blues in Time / Standstill / Verve / Hollywood 8.57 
King Cole Trio / I’m Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Thurston Harris / Tell Me So / Aladdin [unissued] / late 1950s
Gracinha Leporace / Gracinha Leporace / A Saudade Fez Um Samba / Philips / Brazil 1968
Soul Stirrers / One More River / Specialty / Chicago 2.16.55

last soulful song
The Harvey Averne Dozen / Accept Me / Fania / 1968
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

Put On a Happy Playlist!: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 142

Handsome guys and bow ties.

Coffeetime, August 9, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet / Wake Up! / Riverside / 3.7.57
Carmell Jones / Business Meetin’ / Suearl / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.25.62 
Joe Venuti’s Blue Six / Sweet Lorraine / Columbia / 10.3.33 
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / How Was I to Know / Victor / 1.5.34 / vocal = Lew Sherwood 
Little Esther & Mel Walker / Deceivin’ Blues / Savoy / 6.20.50 / with Johnny Otis Orchestra
Thelma Gracen / Night and Day / I’ll Never Be the Same / EmArcy / 1956 

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

set 2
Johnny Hodges / Creamy / Ballad Medley: Whispering; Tenderly; Don’t Take Your Love From Me; Prelude to a Kiss/But Not for Me; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Passion Flower / Norgran / 9.8.55 
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / Willow Weep for Me / Columbia / London 2.2.33 
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / Shake Down the Stars / Victor / 2.19.40 / vocal = Ray Eberle 
Dan Grissom / So You’re Falling in Love / Jewel / Hollywood 1948
Dinah Washington / The Queen! / Bad Luck / EmArcy / 1959 / with Eddie Chamblee & his Orchestra

set 3
Johnny Lytle / Nice And Easy / 322-Wow! / Jazzland / 1.29.62 
Jack Montrose / The Horn’s Full / Dark Angel / RCA Victor / Hollywood 9.57 
Phineas Newborn Jr. / Here Is Phineas / Afternoon in Paris / Atlantic / 5.56 
Ella Fitzgerald & her Famous Orchestra / Shake Down the Stars / Decca / 5.9.40 
Delta Rhythm Boys / I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem / Minoco Productions Soundie / 1946
Louis Armstrong / Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson / What’s New / Verve / Hollywood 1957 

set 4
Lars Gullin / For F.J. Fans Only / Metronome / Stockholm 1955 / Gullin bs, Rolf Billberg as, Richard Johansson tb, Rolf Berg g, Georg Riedel b, William Schiöpffe d 
Bud Shank / Bud Shank and Three Trombones / Wailing Vessel / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1.22.54 / Shank as, Bob Enevoldsen, Maynard Ferguson, Stu Williamson tb, Claude Williamson p, Joe Mondragon b, Shelly Manne d
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / Come On, Get Up / radio broadcast / 1933 / duet with Leah Ray
King Cole Trio / You’re So Different / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 7.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Paul Petersen, James Darren, & Shelley Fabares / More Teenage Triangle / Put on a Happy Face / Colpix / Hollywood 1964
Golden Gate Quartet / Travelin’ Shoes / Bluebird / Charlotte, North Carolina 1.24.38

last soulful song
Thee Midniters / Dreaming Casually / Whittier / LA 1967

Don’t Be Afraid of a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 141

Bing & Bob & their camel pal… why not?

Coffeetime, August 2, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / Red’s Good Groove / Take Me in Your Arms / Jazzland / 3.22.62 
Lou Levy / A Most Musical Fella / Apartment 17 / RCA Victor / LA 1.57 
Clifford Jordan / Bearcat / The Middle of the Block / Jazzland / early 1962 
Jimmy Dorsey / Tiger Rag (take 1) / Decca / 1930 / with Spike Hughes & His Three Blind Mice
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Them There Eyes / Brunswick / 11.18.30 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Friendship / Decca / LA 1.11.47
Carmen McRae / Birds of a Feather / Baltimore Oriole / Decca / 8.58 / with Ben Webster (listed on album as “tenorman” 

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / Angel Eyes / You Go to My Head / Prestige / 9.5.62 
Bill Hardman / Saying Something / Angel Eyes / Savoy / 10.18.61 
Paul Moer / The Contemporary Jazz Classics Of The Paul Moer Trio / We’ll Be Together Again / Del-Fi / Hollywood 11.60 
Banjo Buddy / Let’s Misbehave / Brunswick / 3.7.28 
Herb Fisher / Cryin’ in My Sleep / Imperial / LA 1953
Noël Coward & Norman Wisdom / Androcles and the Lion: Original NBC TV Soundtrack / Don’t Be Afraid of an Animal / RCA Victor / 1967 

set 3
Eddie Chamblee / Chamblee Music / Sometimes I’m Happy / Mercury / Chicago 1957 
John Jenkins / John Jenkins with Kenny Burrell / From this Moment On / Blue Note / 8.11.57 
Charlie Parker / Parker’s Mood / Savoy / 9.18.48 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%27s_Mood 
The Toppers / I’m All Alone [Palace of Stone] / Savoy / 1945 / celeste! 
The Pied Pipers / ’S Wonderful / RCA Victor / LA 1949
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Baltimore Oriole / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Minority / Jazz: West / Hollywood 8.6.56 / Pepper as, Jack Sheldon t, Russ Freeman p, Leroy Vinnegar b, Shelly Manne d r
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Roulette / Tampa / LA 1954 
King Cole Trio / I Thought You Ought to Know / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Bing Crosby & Bob Hope / If I’d Known You Were Comin’ (I’d Have Baked You a Cake) / broadcast, Bing Crosby Show for Chesterfield Cigarettes / Hollywood aired
5.24.50, rec 4.12.50 / with The Rhythmaires, John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra 
Frank Sinatra / Nice ‘n’ Easy / Nice ‘n’ Easy / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1960
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Great Change / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38 

last soulful song
Tommie Young / That’s All a Part of Loving Him / Soul Power / Shreveport 1973

Lost & Found: I Guess That Don’t Make Me a Playlist

Madeline is all!

Lost & Found, August 2, 2024, Angelynn Grant

intro: Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1
Lesley Duncan / When My Baby Cries / Mercury / 1964
Claudine Clark / The Telephone Game / Chancellor / 1962
Honey and the Bees / Two Can Play the Same Game / Academy / 1965
Beverly Shaffer / Where Will You Be Boy? / One-derful / 1965
Irma Thomas / Two Winters Long / Minit / 1962

bed
Leith Stevens & Stu Phillips / Soundtrack to the Columbia Pictures movie The Interns / Pitcher of Martinis / Colpix / 1962

set 2
The Pretenders / I’m the One Love Forgot / Carnival / 1971 / lead singer extraordinaire Valerie Scott
Gene Chandler / I Fooled You This Time / Checker / 1966
Don Hart & The Fyve / I Can Make It / Cool School / 1966
Jerry Butler / Giving Up on Love / Vee-Jay / 1964

bed
David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1967

set 3
Debbie Taylor & The Hesitations / Never Gonna Let Him Know / GWP / 1969
The Whispers / As I Sit Here / Doré / 1965
The Informers / If You Love Me / J-Rude / 1965
Brothers of Soul / I Guess That Don’t Make Me a Loser / Boo / 1967
Skip Mahoney & The Casuals / Your Funny Moods / DC International / 1974

bed
Santi Latora / Mo'plen Bacharach [La Douce] / The Look of Love / Durium / 1970

set 4
Satisfaction Unlimited / Bright City Lights / Hot Wax / 1972
The Escorts / Look Over Your Shoulder / Alithia / 1973 
The Diplomats / Accept Me / Dynamo / 1969
Prince Conley / I’m Going Home / Satellite / 1961 
Tyrone Davis / Let Me Back In / Dakar / 1970

bed
Little Milton / Friend of Mine [instrumental] / Glades / 1973

set 5
The Chi-Lites / Too Late to Turn Back Now / Brunswick / 1973 / hit for Cornelius Bros & Sister Rose
The Temprees / Come and Get Your Love / We Produce Records / 1975 / hit for Redbone
Wilmer & The Dukes / But It’s Alright / Aphrodisiac [unissued] / 1969 / hit for JJ Jackson
Eddie Floyd / It’s Not Unusual / Stax / 1969 / hit for Tom Jones

bed
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 6
Madeline Bell / Love Is All / Pye / 1976 
Bobby Hebb / Good Morning World / Epic / 1970
The Esquires / Listen to Me / Bunky Records / 1967
Johnny Bristol / Do It to My Mind / Atlantic / 1976
The Natural Four / What Do You Do / Curtom / 1975

bed
Isaac Hayes / Tough Guys (soundtrack to Three Tough Guys) / Kidnapped / Enterprise (Stax) / 1974

set 7
L.T.D. / Holding On (When Love Is Gone) / A&M / 1978
Lakeside / The Urban Man / Solar / 1981
The Emotions / Flowers / No Plans for Tomorrow / Columbia / Chicago 1976

last found soulful song
Theresa Lindsay / Wonderful One / Correc-Tone / 1966
Sharon Forrester / Silly Wasn’t I? / Ashanti / Kingston, Jamaica 1973 / with the Now Generation Band