Friday, February 14, 2025

I Want the Waiter (With the Playlist)

Close up of Elvis singing with his big white sequined outfit and yellow Hawaiian lei singing into his handheld microphone while a superimposed image in the background shows a long shot of  Elvis on the stage.
Elvis and his mini-me… on Coffeetime!

Coffeetime, February 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [aka 1541] / His Sister / Blue Note / 12.2.56 
Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Monk’s Shop / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.1.59 / Pony Poindexter as, Buddy Montgomery p, Wes Montgomery g, Monk Montgomery b, and Louis Hayes d
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / Broadway / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_at_the_Vanguard
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Zozoi / Decca / 10.22.34 
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / vocal = Paul Small
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Inflation Blues / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.5.55 / Don Fagerquist t, Charlie Mariano as, Donn Trenner p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d

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

set 2
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / I Need You / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b [Nat Adderley sat out]
Bill Evans / Portrait in Jazz / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 12.28.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Why Was I Born / 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] / Crazy People / Brunswick / 4.6.32 / with The Californians
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / I Want the Waiter (With the Water) / Vocalion / 6.29.39 / vocal = Jimmie [Trummy] Young tb 
Cleo Brown / Baby, Let’s Make Some Love / Blue / 1949
Elvis Presley / Fever / Nashville 4.2.60 / RCA Victor [unissued] / with The Jordanaires 

set 3
Johnny “Hammond” Smith / All Soul / Easy Like / New Jazz / 9.11.59 
Nat Adderley / Branching Out / I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ / Riverside / 9.58 
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Half Step Down, Please / Victor / 12.11.47 / written by Tadd Dameron 
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Honey / Decca / 4.21.37 / vocal = Beverly (Baby) White
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Standard transcription / 1943 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / Down in the Depths / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee 

set 4
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / My Shining Hour / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
King Cole Trio / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / I Like That Kind of Carrying On / Cook / New Orleans late 1954
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Look to the Rainbow / Verve / 12.65
The Alphabetical Four / The Sun Didn’t Shine / Decca / 11.18.43

last soulful song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Hurting Me / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1969