Friday, October 04, 2024

Osculate Me, Playlist

Screenshot from the movie Royal Wedding showing Fred Astaire dancing in a gym with a coat rack.
Fred setting the pace.

Coffeetime, October 4, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / [Cool Struttin’] Royal Flush / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.5.58
Sonny Clark / My Conception / Some Clark Bars / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.29.59
Billy Cotton & his Band / What a Diff’rence a Day Made / Regal Zonophone / London 1.19.35 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Jack McVea & his All Stars  / Lonesome Blues / Black & White / LA 1946 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / There’s No You / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Lucky Thompson / A Sunkissed Rose / Swing / Paris 3.29.56 
Joe Venuti / Autumn Leaves / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Lester Young Trio / I Cover the Waterfront (take 2: master) / Clef / Hollywood spring 1946 
Gloria Swanson / Gotta Feelin’ for You / soundtrack: MGM movie The Hollywood Revue of 1929 / Hollywood 1929 / with the MGM Studio Chorus
Etta Jones / Osculate Me, Daddy / Victor / 6.11.46 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra 
King Odom Four / Lover Come Back to Me / Derby / 1.50 
Matt Dennis / She Dances Over Head / Give Her a Kiss / RCA / 1955

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Prophet Jennings / Blue Note / 10.10.62
Chet Baker / Chet / ’Tis Autumn / Riverside / 1.19.59 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Hard Tack / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945 / Johnny & Oscar Moore [latter with solo] g, Charles Brown p, Eddie Williams b
Una Mae Carlisle / Beautiful Eyes / Victor / 3.10.41 / with Lester Young’s Orchestra 
The Ravens / Mahzel (Means Good Luck) / National / 4.47 / their debut on National 
Fred Astaire / A Foggy Day / Verve / Hollywood 12.52 / Oscar Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d, with Flip Phillips ts

set 4
Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside  10.6.59
Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / You Go to My Head / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58
Kay Starr / What a Difference a Day Made / Standard Transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / The Jumping Jack / RCA Victor / 5.12.50 / Billy Valentine p & vocal, Johnny & Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, Philly Joe Jones d (!) 
Anthony Newley / The Roar of the Greasepaint / A Wonderful Day Like Today / RCA / 1965
Highway QC’s / I’ll Trust His Words / Vee Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song
Hal Frazier / No Man Is an Island / She’s Good to Me [Paul Williams & Roger Nichols] / VMC / Hollywood 1969
Mary Wells / He’s a Lover / 20th Century Fox Records / 6.65