Friday, January 10, 2025

I’m the Playlist Who Loves You

This cover – photo, typography, the works – is outstanding. Who was the designer?

Coffeetime, January 10, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Way Down / Liza / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.5.62 
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Rhodesian Rhapsody / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Louis Smith / Smithville / Bakin’ / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.30.58 
Harry James & his Orchestra / Duke’s Mixture / Columbia / 3.26.41
Tom Clines & his Music / Somebody Mighty Like You / Brunswick / 7.10.29 / vocal = Chester Gaylord
Floyd Dixon / Pretty Baby / Aladdin / Hollywood 9.6.49 / vocal = Sonnie Parker; Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Al Grey tb, Wes Montgomery g, Roy Johnson b, Ellis Bartee d
Blossom Dearie / My Gentleman Friend / Someone to Watch Over Me / Verve / 5.21 & 22.59 

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

set 2
Stan Getz / Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio / Ballad Medley: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; I Don't Know Why (I Just Do); How Long Has This Been Going On?; I Can't Get Started; Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57 
Freddie Redd / Shades of Redd / Just a Ballad for My Baby / Blue Note / 8.13.60 
The Red Heads (aka Red Nichols & the Five Pennies) / Here or There / Pathé Actuelle / 1.18.27 / vocal = Frank Gould
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Coffee Time / Columbia / 1945 / Michael Douglas & Lucyann Polk
Albinia Jones / I Have a Way of Lovin’ / Decca / 1.48 
Eddie Bo / Roll ’Em Back / Ace [unissued] / 1956

set 3
Lou Donaldson / The Natural Soul / People Will Say We’re in Love / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.9.62 
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Passionova / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Jack McVea & his Band / Flying (All the Way) Home / Rhythm Records [unissued] / San Francisco 1944 
Art Kassel & His Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra / I’ll Be Around / radio transcription / 1944 / vocal = Gloria Hart
Chris Powell & The Five Blue Flames / My Love Has Gone / Columbia / 5.51
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Jenny / Coral / 1.22.62 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / The Chinook That Melted My Heart / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d 
Una Mae Carlisle / I’m the One Who Loves You / Victor / 10.3.41 / Charlie Shavers t, William Bailey cl, Russell Procope ts, Billy Kyle p, John Kirby b, O’Neil Spencer d 
Fred Astaire / Pick Yourself Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.26.36
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do) / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / We’re Living Humble / Decca / 5.23.46 

last soulful song
Orthea Barnes / Your Picture on the Wall / Mickay’s Records / 1962