Friday, August 30, 2024

Look at that Playlist

Screenshot from soundie of the very pretty Maxine Sullivan in a close up singing while, off to the side, piano player Billy Kyle looks on admiringly.
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



Friday, August 23, 2024

Jingle, Jangle, Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 183

Screenshot showing Bluto lying in a rowboat with his hands behind his head and a smile on his face and a sliy look in his eyes.
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

Friday, August 16, 2024

Just a Little Fond Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 182

Screenshot from 1969 TV showing Gracinha Leporace sitting on a piano smiling and singing into a microphone in her hand while others dance around her.
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

Friday, August 09, 2024

Put On a Happy Playlist!: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 181

The four members of the Delta Rhythm Boys sitting at a table smiling and singing and wearing white tuxes and bow ties.
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

Friday, August 02, 2024

Don’t Be Afraid of a Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 180

Screenshot from the movie Road to Morocco showing Bing and Bob singing while riding on the back of a camel in a close up.
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

Close up of Madeline Bell singing.
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