Friday, February 07, 2025

A Playlist Kissed an Angel

Screenshot from TV of Pat Carroll in a sequin pantsuit sitting on a stage set of a skyscraper site, presumably high up on one of the beams with her sequined lunchbox by her side.
Ladies and gentlemen, Pat and her cheekbones on a steel beam!

Coffeetime, February 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / Sassy Ann / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Nat Adderley cor, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b
Art Farmer / Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce / Sans Souci / Prestige / 10.21.55
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Tune Up / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / non sequitor: Ipana Toothpaste 
Tom Clines & his Music / Sweetheart’s Holiday / Brunswick / 8.29 / vocal = Jack Carney
Ressie Mae Jones [aka Bessie Mae Jones] & her Combo / Automatic Daddy / Tone [Dootone subsidiary] / 1952 / Dootsie Williams 
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / Moonlight in Vermont / Cook / New Orleans late 1954

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / I’m a Fool to Want You / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Warm Valley / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Someone to Watch Over Me / Roost / fall 1955 / Powell ts, Jimmy Nottingham t, Bob Alexander tb, Tony Aless p, Billy Bauer g, Arnold Fishkin b, Don Lamond d
Cliff Edwards [Ukulele Ike] / Night Owl / Brunswick / 1933
Kay Thompson & her Boys / You Let Me Down / Brunswick / 11.11.35 
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Inflation Blues / Exclusive / LA 12.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Little Milton / Sings Big Blues / Fever / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66

set 3
Little Brother Montgomery / Tasty Blues / Tasty Blues / Prestige Bluesville / 7.1 60 
Larry Young / Young Blues / Young Blues / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / Sentimental Feeling / NBC radio show One Night Stand / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 1944 / vocal = Don Darcy
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / More Than Anything in The World / Standard transcription / 1943 
Dick Haymes / Look at Me Now! / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Hollywood Records / Hollywood 1957 / with Cy Coleman p 

set 4
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / I Remember You / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
Curtis Counce / Exploring the Future / Race for Space / Dooto / LA 4.8.58 
King Cole Trio / Chant of the Blues (Dog-gone Unlucky Blues) / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Pied Pipers / Katrina / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 1949 / song from Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; with Paul Weston & His Orchestra
Pat Carroll / (Down in the Depths) On the 90th Floor / TV broadcast, The Red Skelton Show / 2.18.64  
The Alphabetical Four / I Can’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore / Decca / 4.7.41

last soulful song
Little Ann / What Should I Do / Ric-Tic [unissued] / Detroit 1969