Hello, Mister Playlist

In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 19, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39 
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60 / studio orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank DeVol ​
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

bed
Dexter Gordon / The Panther! / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 7.7.70 

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]; “besides, I think it needs me”
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal) / Fantasy / LA 1965 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess 

Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

bed
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / Chicago 10.66 / Burrell g, Charles Stepney p; Cleveland Eaton b, Morris Jennings d
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973 / Allen p, Paul Rostock b, Ira Saylor d
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The Three Sisters 
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep: Darlene Zito, Phil Scott, Lester Brush, & Jimmy Leyden
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / LA 1957
Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965

bed
Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70 

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / Hollywood 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.46 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé 
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Note: the first break at 2:30 is misaligned for my back announcing only. All the rest of the show it aligned properly. That was for those listening over the radio and from the archive for the first 48 hours. Now (5 pm Sunday), a corrected version is on the archive. 

Coffeetime, December 12, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55  

Rouse-Watkins Jazz Modes / Jazzville / Legend / Dawn / 6.56 / Rouse ts, Watkins fh, Gildo Mahones p, Paul West b, Art Taylor d

Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Felix Gross & his Orchestra / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49 / Joe Howard ts, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Minor Robinson d
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May 
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra and The Starlighters 

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66 
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duet with Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus  
Bob Keeshan & Lumpy Brannum / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“I don’t weigh very much.”) 
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49 
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires  
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Harris g, unknown bongos
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / Moore g, Gerald Wiggins p, Joe Comfort b 

King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra and The Boys Next Door
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.9.52
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atco / Chicago 1970

The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Playlist That I’ve Got)

Me and my WMBR pals at the station. :P

Coffeetime, December 5, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (5066) / Love for Sale / Blue Note / 3.27.55 

Jay Jay [J.J.] Johnson / Get Happy / Blue Note / 6.22.53 / Jimmy Heath ts 

Miff Mole’s Molers / Davenport Blues / Okeh / 3.7.27 

Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Winter Weather / Bluebird / 12.26.41 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.19.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / Moonlight in Vermont / Columbia / 4.10.56 / with Paul Weston & his Music 

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

set 2
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Philips / fall 1962 
Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Blue & Sentimental/ Blue Note / 12.23.61 
Hank D’Amico / Holiday with Hank / Tomorrow / Bethlehem / 1955 / D’Amico cl, Billy Triglia p, Milt Hinton b, Charlie Smith d; cover photography & design by Burt Goldblatt

Mills Brothers / The Yam / Decca / 8.23.38

Sammy Kaye (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye) / (Don’t Wait ’Til) The Night Before Christmas / Victor / 11.11.38 / vocal = The Three Barons
Yogi Yorgesson / I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 10.18.49 / with the Johnny Duffy Trio 
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill

set 3
Bill Smith / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Stablemates / Prestige / 11.9.56 

Georgie Auld / Autumn in New York / Roost / 1.24.51 

Howard McGhee’s All Stars / Fluid Drive / Blue Note / 1950 

Raymond Scott & his Orchestra / Send Me Your Love for Christmas / AFRS Raymond Scott Show / 10.44 / vocal = Dorothy Collins 

Delta Rhythm Boys / Jingle Bells / radio broadcast, Christmas Jubilee, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood 1945

The Orioles / (It’s Gonna Be A) Lonely Christmas / Jubilee / 1948

Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d

Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Button Up Your Overcoat / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d

Blossom Dearie / Old Devil Moon / Barclay / Paris 1.16.56 / Dearie p, Bobby Jaspar fl, Benoit Quersin b, Christian Garros d 

Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir”
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song
Lou Rawls / Merry Christmas. Ho! Ho! Ho! / Christmas Is / Capitol / Hollywood 7.17.67

Booker T. & The MG’s / In the Christmas Spirit / Santa Claus Is Coming to Town / Stax / 1966

Tell Me Your Playlist and I Will Tell You Mine

Pretty guy, pretty guitar… and he plays it pretty, too.

Coffeetime, November 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / Plus / Lisa [alt take] / Riverside [unissued] / 5.11.61 
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Cool Eyes / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Village Gate / 5.61 
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / Carvin’ the Rock / Blue Note / 6.9.53
George Olsen & his Music / Who / Victor / 11.6.25 / vocal = Olsen, Bob Rice, Fran Frey, & Jack Fulton
Helen Humes / It’s Better to Give Than to Receive / Philo / LA 12.22.45 
Blossom Dearie / Once Upon a Summertime / Manhattan / Verve / 9.58

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

set 2
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / The Wind / Atlantic / summer 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Shout
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Octet / Paich-Ence / GNP / Hollywood 2.55 
Jutta Hipp & Zoot Sims / Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims / These Foolish Things / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.28.56 
Bing Crosby / I’m Thru with Love / Brunswick / 6.12.31
Savannah Churchill & her All Star Seven / Tell Me Your Blues and I Will Tell You Mine / Gennett / 1942 / Jimmy Lytell & his All Star Seven: Lytell cl, Russ Case t, Will Bradley tb, Frank Signorelli p, Carmen Mastren g, Haig Stevens b, Chauncey Morehouse d
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Love Is a Wonderful Thing / United / Chicago 9.51
Rosemary Clooney / Tenderly / The Lady Is a Tramp / Columbia / 1955

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / The Tender Gender / Cadet / 4.66 
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / Cherry Point / Blue Note / 10.21.63 
Sacha Distel / Nuages / French TV / 1959 
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / No Love No Nothin’ / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1943 / vocal = Phyllis Lane
The Du Droppers / Chain Me, Baby (Blues of Desire) / Robin / 8.52 
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / That Old Feeling / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, [Tommy Flanagan p,] Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Conrad Gozzo / Goz the Great! / Do That Again Daddy / RCA Victor / LA 3.7.55 / Gozzo t, Murray McEachern tb, Paul Smith p, Tony Rizzi g, Sam Cheifetz b, Alvin Stoller d
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / Marooned in a Monsoon / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d
Herbie Mann & Sam Most / Herbie Mann – Sam Most Quintet / Let’s Get Away from It All / Bethlehem 10.55 / Herbie Mann, Sam Most fl, Joe Puma g, Jimmy Gannon b, Lee Kleinman d
King Cole Trio / On the Sunny Side of the Street / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / vocal = The Barrie Sisters; NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Margie Day / One Steady Date / Dot / 3.51 / with the Griffin Brothers Orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / ’Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966
Highway QC’s / There’s Something on My Mind / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968

Undisputed Truth / Girl You’re Alright / Gordy / Detroit 1972

If I Give My Playlist to You

Django, you couch potato, you!

Coffeetime, November 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / Metamorphosis / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Phinupi / Blue Note / 5.14.58
Sam Lanin & his Orchestra / Don’t Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Okeh / 6.11.28 / vocal = unknown
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track, Baby / Decca / LA 12.8.47 / duet with Martha Davis
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Perception / Nobody’s Heart / Argo / 10.61
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 6.9.53 
The Guitars, Inc / Soft and Subtle / Nature Boy / Warner Brothers / LA 1959 
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) / RCA / Rome winter 1949 [Paris, April 16, 1947]
Fannie May Goosby / Fortune Teller Blues / Brunswick / Atlanta 4.28 / Goosby p
Maxine Sullivan / I Must Have That Man / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I Couldn’t Be More in Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55 

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Pug Nose / Vee Jay / 9.9.59
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Talkin’ Care / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56
Harry James & his Orchestra / Stardust / radio broadcast transcription / Roseland Ballroom, NYC 7.8.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
The Four Bars / If I Give My Heart to You / Josie / 1954 / with Billy Mure’s Orchestra [aka Sebastian Mure] 
Mel Tormé / At The Red Hill / Early Autumn / Atlantic / live, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ 3.62

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Will You Still Be Mine / Verve / LA 1959
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Cherry / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Jesse Price & his Blues Band / Jump It with a Shuffle / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.47
Bette McLaurin / Do You Know Why / Coral / 12.9.52 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / Baby, Don’t You Quit Now / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; with Charlie Shavers t
The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / What Do You Know (About Jesus) / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood prob. 8.55 / with Arthur Crume on guitar

last soulful song
The Opals / You Can’t Hurt Me No More / Okeh [unissued alt take] / Chicago 5.26.64

When My Heart Beats Like a Playlist

BB can still smile despite his lost thrill.

Coffeetime, November 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Cute / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 6.30.32
George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / Infatuation / Victor / 3.12.34 / vocal = Barry Wells
Pete Brown’s Band / Sunshine Blues / Savoy / 8.1.44 / vocal = Pete Brown
Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Good for Nothin’ (But Love) / Atlantic / 4.8.58

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

set 2
The Trio / The Trio / For Heaven’s Sake / Riverside/ 6.61
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar’s New Jazz / So Easy to Love / Swing / Paris 10.14.54
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust [alt take] / Decca [unissued] / Hollywood 10.26.44
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Pardon Me Pretty Baby / Parlophone / 6.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen
The Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34
B.B. King / When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer / Kent / Memphis 1962

set 3
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / I Never Knew / New Jazz / 3.7.58
Wes Montgomery / Born to Be Blue / Riverside [unissued] / live at Tsubo's, Berkeley 6.25.62
Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.45
The Ravens / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / National / May 1948
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / That’s All / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / Autumn Leaves / Contemporary / LA 11.23.60
George Jenkins & his All Stars / Drum Magic / Antipathy / Tampa / LA 1955
Peggy Lee / I Get the Blues (When It Rains) / V-Disc 682 / LA 1946 / with Les Paul Trio
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / My Time Is Expensive / Peacock / Houston 1.49 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / A Woman with Soul / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963
The Southern Sons / I Heard Zion Mourn / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
Bettye Swann / The Soul View Now! / Tell It Like It Is / Capitol / 1969

By the Light of the Silvery Playlist

Lovely necklace on a lovely woman.

Coffeetime, November 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Klactoveedsedstene / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17, 18.60
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Beepdurple / Prestige / 5.8.65
Noël Coward / The Dream Is Over / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 5.15.28 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Albinia Jones / Evil Gal Blues / Savoy / 4.15.45 / with Don Byas’s Swing Seven
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / My Old Flame / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Sophisticated Lady / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Adrian Rollini / Georgia on My Mind / private recordings / early 1937 / with Carl Kress and Dick McDonough on guitars, vocal = Barry McKinley
Evelyn Knight / South Pacific / A Cock-Eyed Optimist / Decca / Hollywood 4.25.49
Viviane Greene / A Picture of You / Decca / LA 6.24.50
Danny Kaye / Mad Dogs and Englishmen / Decca / Hollywood / 12.14.47
Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / Same Old Saturday Night / RCA Victor / 1957

set 3
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Princess / New Jazz / 7.26.57
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Blue Farouq / Jazzland / Long Beach, CA 4.10.61
Serge Chaloff Sextette / A Bar a Second / Savoy [unissued] / 3.5.47
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Marie / Victor / 1.29.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Laugh’s on Me / Atlantic / 1949
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ The Darkest Hour / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Morning After / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Oh! Look at Me Now / Liberty / Hollywood 11.25, 29.55
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / In the Land of Hi Fi / Swingin’ in the Moore Park / EmArcy / LA 11.7.55
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Victor / 7.13.42 / with the Deep River Boys
Hadda Brooks / Don’t You Think I Ought to Know / Modern / Hollywood 1947
Etta James / Etta James Sings for Lovers / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / Argo / Chicago 6.62
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / The Atomic Telephone / King / Cincinnati 8.14.51

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / You’re All I Need / I Can’t Help But Love You / Tamla / Detroit 1968
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / If This World Were Mine / Tamla / Detroit 1967

That Old Devil Playlist

Love the goatee, Cy.

Coffeetime, October 31, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Marc V / Blue Note / 10.21.56
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Each Time I Think of You / Blue Note / 5.2.61 / 1.10.45

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Tippin’ In / Victor / 1.10.45

Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Don’t Be Like That / Victor / 1.27.27 / vocal = Harold Strokes
Bixie Crawford / I Got Your Water On / King [unissued] / LA 1949 / with Buddy Banks Sextet 
Julie London / London By Night / My Man’s Gone Now / Liberty / Hollywood 12.55

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Mobley’s Musings / Blue Note / 1.13.57
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / But Beautiful / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Vince Guaraldi / A Flower is Lovesome Thing… / Autumn Leaves / Fantasy / LA 1957
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / My Hi-De-Ho Man / Decca / 10.27.36
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Walkin’ / So Good / Mercury / 1.3.57 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Cy Coleman / Witchcraft / live, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy’s Penthouse TV show / 1956 

set 3
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Rastus / Blue Note / 7.14.60
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57
Charlie Parker / Bird’s Nest / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47 / Parker as, Erroll Garner p, Red Callender b, Doc West d
Mills Brothers / Sweet Lucy Brown / Decca / 2.20.35
Marie Greene & her V-Disc Merry Men / It Had to Be You / V-Disc #629A / 11.45 / duet with Joe Dosh
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / My Melancholy Baby / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Cy Coleman / Cool Coleman / Witchcraft / Westminster / 1958
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Susie’s Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 3.4.56
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / I See Your Bass Before Me / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Pauline & her Perils (aka Six Hits & a Miss) / I Can’t Get Started / Keystone transcription / circa 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Kay Starr / It’s Whatcha Do with Whatcha Got / Standard Transcription / LA 1946 / with Buzz Adlam & orchestra
Peggy Lee / Jump for Joy / Old Devil Moon / Capitol / Hollywood 12.20.57 
Golden Gate Quartet / Our Father / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39 

last soulful song
Gino Washington / I’ll Be Around (When You Want Me) / Mala / 1968 / with The Altrasonics & The Versatones
The Sapphires / Who Do You Love? / Swan / 1963

I’m Sitting on Top of the Playlist

Move star handsome Steve Gibson, his pretty guitar, & The Toppers

Coffeetime, October 24, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Hill’s Edge / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Checkmate / Riverside / 8.23.56
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Decca / 9.21.37 
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Hummin’ to Myself / Victor / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood
Dinah Washington / Blues for a Day / Apollo / LA 12.45
Buddy Collette / Detour Ahead / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962 / vocal = Irene Kral

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Carolyn / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / You Go to My Head / Dawn / Paris 3.56
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt / Yesterdays / Roost (Royal Roost) / 12.15.55
Bing Crosby / I’ve Got the World on a String / Brunswick / 1.26.33
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / C.O.D. / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945
Camille Howard / I Ain’t Got the Spirit / Specialty / Hollywood 8.2.50
Bobby Darin / I’m Sitting on Top of the World / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 9.4.62 / with Billy May & orchestra

set 3
Gene Ammons / Funky / Stella by Starlight / Prestige / 1.11.57
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Easy Living / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moodamorphosis / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / The Moon is a Silver Dollar / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Gliff Grass
The Toppers / I'm Living for You / Savoy / 12.8.44
Jimmy Ricks / Vibrations / Willow Weep for Me / Mainstream / 1965

set 4
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Pacific Jazz / Phil Turetsky’s home studio, Hollywood 2.1.53
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Opus de Funk / Contemporary / LA 3.14.59
King Cole Trio / Dream a Little Dream of Me / Capitol / Hollywood 10.28.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Ken Nordine / Colors / Olive / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Alphabetical Four / Live Humble / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Love Makes the World Go Round / Atco [Carla] / 1965

Put Some Money in the Playlist

If Milton says we’re gonna make it, then I guess we are!

Coffeetime, October 17, 2025, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.45

set 2
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.25.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43

Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet

Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra

Dinah Washington / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Mercury / 6.8.48

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49

Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, & Johnny Mercer voc

Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 5
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 6
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / live / LA 1958
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

Barbara Lewis / I’m Thankful for What I Got / Atlantic / 1968

Playlist in Hand

Dinah, can you teach me how to get that glamorous eyeliner?

Coffeetime, October 3, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Groovin’ Higher / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
J.J. Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 3 / Viscosity / Blue Note / 6.6.55
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Oh, Lady Be Good / Columbia / 12.9.40
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Wanderer / HMV / London 1.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Hot Lips Page / I Got What It Takes / Savoy / 9.12.44 / with celeste!
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / Little Girl Blue / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.61

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
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 2.62 / Quebec ts, Sir Charles Thompson org, Milt Hinton b, J.C. Heard d
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Melody Man’s Dream / Okeh / 10.21.27
Willard Robison & his Levee Loungers / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Columbia [unissued] / 3.12.29 / Robison p & voc, rest unknown
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash; with celeste!
Martha Davis & her Spouse (Calvin Ponder) / Martha Davis and Spouse / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / ABC-Paramount / 1957
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Don’t Want No Woman / Duke / Memphis 1957 / with Bill Harvey Orchestra

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / Ugetsu / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Cozy Cole / Concerto for Cozy / Old Man River / Savoy / 1944
The Four Southerners / Dan, The Back Door Man / Decca / Chicago 3.18.37
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know About You / V-Disc 393B / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / Autumn Serenade / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / That Old Feeling / Liberty / LA 9.55
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Walkin’ Home / Tampa / LA 1954
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton / The Two of Us / A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) / Mercury / 3.60 / orchestra conducted by Belford Hendricks
The Jubalaires / Before this Time Another Year / Decca / 3.13.44

last soulful song
Monique / If You Love Me (Show Me) / Maurci / Chicago 1966
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971

Happy Playlist Stomp

Wonder what Jimmy and Frank said to you, Bobby…

Coffeetime, September 26, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Roy Brooks / Beat / Soulsphere / Workshop Jazz / 1964 / Blue Mitchell t, Junior Cook ts, George Bohanon tb, Hugh Lawson p, Eugene Taylor b, Brooks d
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Something Easy / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals / Happy Pal Stomp / Okeh / Richmond, VA 8.15.29
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra (also issued under pseudonyms Chester Leighton & his Sophomores and Golden Terrace Orchestra) / Makin’ Faces at the Man in the Moon / Okeh / 6.18.31 / vocal = Eddie Walters
Rabon Tarrant / Opus Boogie / Apollo / LA 8.45 / with Jack McVea & his All Stars: Teddy Buckner t, Jack McVea ts, Bob Mosley p, Gene Phillips g, Frank Clarke b, Tarrant d & voc
Peggy Connelly / It Never Entered My Mind / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56 / with Russ Garcia & the Wigville Band; fabulous cover design by Burt Goldblatt (as with many Bethlehem records in this show) 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Soultrane / Theme for Ernie / Prestige / 2.7.58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soultrane
Dorothy Ashby / Hip Harp / Moonlight in Vermont / Prestige / 3.21.58 
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / When a Woman Loves a Man / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Walter Huston / September Song / Brunswick / 1938 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, & Bobby Long / I Believe / from the MGM movie It Happened in Brooklyn / Hollywood 1947 
Frankie Laine / One for My Baby / Necessary Evil / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Brother Jack McDuff & David Newman / Double Barrelled Soul / Sunny / Atlantic / 8.9.67 
John Wright / South Side Soul / South Side Soul / Prestige / 8.30.60 
Charlie Parker / Crazeology / Dial / 12.17.47 
Frank Masters & his Orchestra / Harbor of Dreams / Okeh / 1941 / vocal = Phyllis Myles
The Four Knights / A Few Kind Words / Capitol / 1953 / solo = Gene Alford 
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / How Long Has This Been Going On / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet: Paich cel, Herb Geller as & cl, Ronnie Lang bs & cl, Bob Enevoldsen tb, Vince De Rosa fh, Jack Sheldon t, Max Bennett b, Mel Lewis d

set 4
Max Bennett / Max Bennett / Rubberneck / Bethlehem / 12.14.55 / Charlie Mariano as, Frank Rosolino tb, Claude Williamson p, Bennett b, Stan Levey d; composed by Rosolino
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Pumatic / Bethlehem / 1955 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliott vb, Vinnie Burke b, Teddy Sommer d
Russ Garcia / Wigville / Then the Lid Blew Off / Bethlehem / 1955 
Peggy Lee / The Way You Look Tonight / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with celeste!; with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole cel, Tommy Romersa d 
King Cole Trio / Too Marvelous for Words / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Sam Cooke / My Kind of Blues / Exactly Like You / RCA Victor / 5.61
The Southland Jubilee Singers (aka The Four Knights) / You Go, I’ll Go with You / Lang-Worth Transcription / c. 1945

last soulful song
The Montclairs / Hung Up on Your Love / Paula / 1973

Lost & Found: Drowning in the Playlist of Love

Not many sparkle like Chaka Khan.

Lost & Found, September 26, 2025, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters / A Quiet Place / United Artists / 1964
Stacy Johnson / Remove My Doubts / Sony / 1963 / produced by Ike & Tina Turner; written by Ike
The Contours / That Day When She Needed Me / Gordy / 1964
Major Lance / Please Don’t Say No More / Okeh / 1964
The Ethics / Sad, Sad, Story / Vent / 1969
Ralfi Pagan / El Hijo De Mamá / Fania / 1969

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

set 2
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / I Want You ’Round / Tamla / 1964
The Lollipops / Step Aside Baby / Impact / 1966
Mary Wells / Your Old Stand By / Motown / 1963
The Joys of Life / Good Times Are Over / Columbia / 1967
The Independents / Lucky Fellow / Wand [unissued] / 1973

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

set 3
Lori & Lance / I Don’t Have to Worry / Federal / 1969
The Soul Children / Give ’Em Love / Stax / 1968
Willie Mitchell / It’s Dance-Time With Willie Mitchell / Fever / Hi / 1965
The Marvellos / Don’t Play With My Heart / Warner Brothers / 1967
William Bell / I’ll Show You / Stax / 1963
The Presidents / I Want My Baby / DeLuxe / 1969

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

set 4
Ponderosa Twins + One / Bound / Astroscope / 1971
Charlene & the Soul Serenaders / Love Changes / Volt / 1970
The Dramatics / In the Rain / Volt / 1972
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / More Love / Tamla / 1967

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

set 5
Smokey Robinson & Mary Wells / I Want You ’Round / Tamla [unissued] / 1963
Friday, Saturday and Sunday / There Must Be a Better Way / Dig / 1971
Satisfaction Unlimited / Think of the Children / Let’s Change the Subject / Hot Wax / 1972
Darrow Fletcher / Those Hanging Heartaches / Revue / 1968
The Free Movement / I’ve Found Someone of My Own / Decca / 1971

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

set 6
The Constellations / I Don’t Know About You / Gemini Star / 1968
The Innersection / Let Me Love Yuh / Group 5 Records / 1975
The Friends of Distinction / Whatever / Check It Out / RCA Victor / 1969 / Tavares had the hit with this in 1973
The Independents / I Love You, Yes I Do / Wand / 1972

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

set 7
Jesse Anderson / Let Me Back In / Thomas / 1970
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good / Philadelphia International Records / 1975 / featuring Sharon Paige; written & produced by Kenneth Gamble And Leon Huff
Joe Simon / Drowning in the Sea of Love / Spring Records / 1971
Rufus / Street Player / Street Player / ABC Records / 1978 / featuring Chaka Khan

last found soulful song
Gene Chandler / Simply Call It Love / Mercury / 1970

Blame It on My Playlist

Billy, can I borrow those cool slacks sometime?

Coffeetime, September 19, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bill English / Bill English / 222 / Vanguard / 1963
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce / Modern Jazz Perspective / Stablemates / Columbia / 9.5.57
Eddie Cole’s Solid Swingers / Thunder / Decca / Chicago 7.28.36
The Revelers / Lucky Day / Victor / 7.14.26
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Want a Man (Who’s Gonna Do Right) / Queen / 12.20.45
Anita O’Day / At Mister Kelly’s / I Have a Reason for Living / Verve / Chicago 4.27.58

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

set 2
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / Willow Weep for Me / Atlantic / Paris 12.56
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / The Infants Song / Prestige / 5.26.55
Jo Jones / The Jo Jones Special / Lover Man / Vanguard / 1955
Peggy Lee / Aren’t You Glad You’re You / Capitol / Hollywood 4.49
T-Bone Walker / I’m Still in Love with You / Comet / LA 12.29.47 / Walker g, Jack Trainor t, Bumps Myers ts, Willard McDaniel p, Billy Hadnott b, Oscar Lee Bradley d
Dean Martin / I’d Cry Like a Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 12.24.53 / with Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Me ’n’ You / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Bill Harris / Jazz Guitar [The Harris Touch] / Midnight Blue / Mercury [EmArcy] / 5.2.57 / composed by Harris & James Moody; Hank Jones celeste!
James Moody / Bootsie / Royal Roost / Paris 7.27.51
The Basin Street Boys / Nothing Ever Happens to Me / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / CBS radio show, The Carnation Contented Hour (AFRS Melody Hour #332) / Hollywood 9.3.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Reminiscing / Prestige / 6.8.56

set 4
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Fourth Variation: Saturday Dance / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Quincy Jones / Go West, Man! / No Bones at All / ABC-Paramount / LA 2.57
Billy Taylor Quartet / I Don’t Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun / HRS / 6.47 / vocal = Taylor
Nat King Cole & his Trio / After Midnight / Blame It on My Youth / Capitol / Hollywood 9.21.56
Swan Silvertones / The Swan Silvertones / Come Out of the Wilderness / Vee Jay / 1959

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / 1967

I’m the Lonesomest Playlist in Town

Nat, where’s Oscar?

Coffeetime, September 12, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / Shoutin’ Out / Epic / 7.17.56 
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [1541] / Latin Hangover / Blue Note / 12.2.56
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / Soubrette / Grey Gull / 2.27.30
Little Jack Little / With Every Breath I Take / Columbia / 10.25.34
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hey! Now Let's Live / Decca [unissued] / 3.1.44
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / The Thrill Is Gone / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Max Roach / Max / That Ole Devil Love / Argo / Chicago 1.14.58 / produced by Holmes “Daddy-O” Daylie 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Goodbye / Dawn / 2.56
Gene Austin / (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You / Victor / 12.31.26 / with Abel Baer p
Ethel Merman / You’re a Builder Upper / Brunswick / 10.8.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orchestra
Ivory Joe Hunter / Mean Woman Blues / Pacific / San Francisco 2.47
Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party / I Came to Say Goodbye / Bravo! / 1959

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / A-Drift / New Jazz / 5.18.57
Barry Harris / Preminado / My Heart Stood Still / Riverside / 1.19.61
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Side by Side / Columbia / 1.23.42 / vocal = Anita O’Day

The Four Vagabonds / Ask Anyone Who Knows / Apollo / 3.24.47 
Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / Easy Come, Easy Go / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack’s Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Bob Enevoldsen Quintet [Reflections in Jazz] / Iron Works / Tampa / LA 8.8.55
Bud Shank / Blowin’ Country / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.21.58
The Charioteers / Careless Love / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 1942
Kay Starr / I’m the Lonesomest Gal in Town / Capitol / Hollywood 9.11.47
Nat King Cole / That Sunday, That Summer / BBC TV broadcast, An Evening With Nat King Cole / London 7.63 / with the Cliff Adams Singers and the Ted Heath Orchestra 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Keep On to Galilee / radio transcription / 1941

last soulful song
Fontella Bass / Sweet Lovin’ Daddy / Checker / Chicago 1967
Peggy Woods / You Better Be Good to My Baby / Kent [unissued] / LA c. 1968

New Playlist in the Sky

Mickey’s happy to see he’s the featured image on the blog again.

Coffeetime, September 5, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Somethin’ Special / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / Four / Prestige / 7.13.56
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Got a Feelin’ for You / Okeh / 3.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Little Esther / Other Lips, Other Arms / Federal / Cincinnati 1.27.51 / with Earle Warren Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins on piano

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

set 2
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / But Beautiful / Prestige / 12.13.66
Gigi Gryce / Reminiscin’ / Reminiscing / Mercury / 11.10.60
Garland Wilson / Tenderly / HMV / London 3.16.51
Bandanna Girls [Mozelle France & Mae Hopkins] / Part Time Papa / Decca / 1.24.39
Jo Stafford / Smoke Dreams / Capitol / Hollywood 3.26.47 / with the Starlighters & celeste!
Honey Brown / Lonesome and Mistreated / Derby / 1951 / with Freddie Mitchell Orchestra
Fred Astaire / New Sun in the Sky / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 / Oscar Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Juju / Yes or No / Blue Note / 8.3.64
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Lynn Hope / Tenderly / Premium / Chicago 4.50
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / One Umbrella for Two / Victor / 10.18.35 / vocal = Cliff Weston
The Ravens / You’re Always in My Dreams / Columbia / 10.30.50
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / Nina Never Knew / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers Courts the Count / Basie Eyes / RCA Victor / LA 2.2.54 / Rogers t & arr, Curtis Counce b, Bud Shank bs, 
Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / It’s All Right with Me / Contemporary / 11.2.59
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 – Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 9.25.54 / Bud Shank fl, Bob Cooper oboe, Claude Williamson p, Rumsey b, Max Roach d
King Cole Trio / I Thought You Ought to Know / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mickey Rooney, Bill Lee, & Marshall Thompson / Manhattan / soundtrack to Words and Music / MGM / Hollywood 1948 / with Roger Edens on piano; Bill Lee dubs for Tom Drake
Percy Mayfield & his Orchestra / Strange Things Happening / Specialty / Hollywood 1950
Golden Gate Quartet / Didn’t Old Pharaoh Get Lost / radio broadcast, NBC Thesaurus #1044 / c. 2.42

last soulful song

Barbara Lynn / I'm a One Man Woman / Atlantic / 1971

Who Do You Know (That Made You the Playlist You Are)

Bobby, check my profile next… pleeze.

Coffeetime, August 29, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Ghana / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Gigi Gryce / The Rat Race Blues / The Rat Race Blues / New Jazz / 6.7.60
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Found a New Baby / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37
Jack Jackson & his Orchestra / I’ve Found the Right Girl / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Jack Jackson
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Huggin’ Bug / Exclusive / LA 1946
Sylvia Syms / In a Sentimental Mood / In a Sentimental Mood / Movietone / 1965 / with Kenny Burrell g

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

set 2
Ben Webster / Wanted to Do One Together / How Long Has This Been Going On / Columbia / 6.7.62
Bill Holman-Mel Lewis Quintet / Jive for Five / 502 Blues Theme / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
Wynton Kelly / Plays Interpretations, New Faces, New Sounds / Moonlight in Vermont / Blue Note / 8.1.51 / with celeste!
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Two Sleepy People / Bluebird / 10.13.38
Victoria Spivey / Sweet Peas / Decca / Chicago 7.7.36 / with Dot Scott’s Rhythm Dukes
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47
Joya Landis / Moonlight Lover / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1968

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Lost in Sound / Blue Rocky / Charlie Parker Records / 8.14.61
Earl Zindars Sextet / The Soul of Jazz Percussion / November Afternoon / Warwick / spring 1960
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / For Heaven's Sake / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Coleman Hawkins / Skippy / Clef / 8.29.49 / Hawkins ts, J.J. Johnson tb, Cecil Payne bs, Al Haig p, John Collins g, Nelson Boyd d
The Smoothies / I Must Have One More Kiss Kiss Kiss / Bluebird / 8.23.39 / with Hal Kemp & his Orchestra
Dixieaires / Long Lean and Lanky / Gotham / 1948
Yves Montand / Dis-Moi Jo / Odéon / Paris 11.05.53

set 4
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Summer Evening / Savoy / 3.30.55
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Plays The Composition Of Bill Holman, Bob Cooper And Jimmy Giuffre / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Bob Is My Guy / Specialty / Hollywood 8.50 / vocal = Candy Rivers
King Cole Trio / Who Do You Know (That Made You the Angel You Are) / Capitol / 5.20.49 / with Alyce King’s Vokettes; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Bobby Darin / Twist with Bobby Darin / Irresistible You / Atco / 1961 / with Neil Sedaka p
Dixiaires [aka Dixieaires] / God Is the Greatest Creator / Sittin in With / LA 1951

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Baby I’m Yours / Stop That Girl / Atlantic / 1965
Aretha Franklin / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atlantic / 1971

Cuando Calienta el Playlist

Talented and handsome Sam, we don’t see you nearly enough.

Coffeetime, August 22, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, volume 1 / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Afrodisia / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Jersey Lightning / Okeh / 9.6.29
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / Brunswick / 6.30.32 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore
Mabel Scott / Don’t Cry Baby / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 12.47
Julie London / All Through the Night / At Long Last Love / Liberty / Hollywood 7.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

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

set 2
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Summertime / Prestige / 11.27.58
Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Melancholee / Blue Note / 2.15.64
Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] & Lonnie Johnson / Midnight Call (Blues) / Okeh / 10.9.29
Cleo Brown / Boogie Woogie / Decca / 3.12.35
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / That’s My Desire / Columbia / 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / I Diddle / Mercury / 3.17.55
Vikki Carr / Discovery Vol. II / Cuando Calienta el Sol / Liberty / LA 1964

set 3
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Blue Train / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Tina / Blue Note / 4.11.54
Mildred Bailey / Sunday, Monday, or Always / V-Disc 105B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson
The Millionaires [The Blenders] / Kansas Kapers / Davis / LA 4.17.53 
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Won’t Cry Anymore / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Little Fishes / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Cabaletto / Contemporary / London 9.21.55
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It! / My Heart Stood Still / Contemporary / LA 1961
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved / Majestic / early 1947 / vocal = Billy Mathews
King Cole Trio / I Can’t Get Sentimental Over Nothing / Capitol / 5.20.49 / with Alyce King’s Vokettes; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / It’s Bad for Me / MGM [unissued] / 4.60
Jubalaires / Moses Smote the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Theola Kilgore / This Is My Prayer / Serock / LA 1963
Aretha Franklin / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atlantic / 1971

(I’m Left With The) Playlist in My Heart

Oscar, can you order me a coffee?

Coffeetime, August 15, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Reunion / Riverside / 12.23.57
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Weirdo / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Nitwit Serenade / Columbia / 8.16.34
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Here Comes the Show Boat / Victor / Biltmore Hotel, Kansas City MO 12.14.27 / vocal = Raymond “Pink” Porter, Myron Schultz, Harold Stokes
Amos Milburn / Operation Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.13.46 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, rest unknown
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / He Was a Man / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.59 / with celeste!

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

set 2
James Clay & David “Fathead” Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / What’s New / Riverside / 4.26.60
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / The Boy Next Door / Columbia / 12.1.58
Clifford Brown / I Cover the Waterfront / Vogue / 9.29.53
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Where the Lazy Daisies Grow / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Kicking the Gong Around / Brunswick / 10.27.31
Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / A Wee Deoch an’ Doris / Columbia / Hollywood 10.14.34
Marion Hutton & the Modernaires / Johnny Zero / V-Disc #4A (radio broadcast) / summer 1943
Gene Kelly & Georges Guetary / soundtrack to An American in Paris / S’Wonderful / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 7.25.50

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Alfredo / Blue Note / 1.4.60
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / (I’m Left With The) Blues in My Heart / Prestige / 2.27.59
Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Bess’s Boogie / Apollo / 12.13.49
Mills Brothers / Rhythm Saved the World / Decca / 6.23.36
Ella Mae Morse / Captain Kidd / Andy Russell radio show / Hollywood 5.5.45 / with Lou Bring Orchestra
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Easy to Remember / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from MGM movie I Want to Live! / Frisco Club / United Artists / LA 1958
Trigger Alpert / Trigger Happy! / I Like the Likes of You / Riverside / 11.23.56
King Cole Trio / Laura / Capitol / Hollywood 7.18.52 / NKC p, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Bunny Shawker d
King Cole Trio / Laura / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / No Worry Blues / Black & White / LA 9.30.46 / with with Jack McVea & All-Stars
Rick Nelson / soundtrack to ABC TV production, On the Flip Side / It Doesn't Matter Anymore / Decca / LA 12.66
Alphabetical Four / Precious Lord, Hold My Hand / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Tyrone Davis / Was I Just a Fool / Dakar / 1972