Friday, February 21, 2025

The Most Beautiful Daisy in the World

Screenshot from Pinocchio trailer showing Jiminy Cricket singing, holding his top had aloft, and about to enter the red door to the hole in the wall.
Thank you, dear Jiminy, for leading the way across the threshold.

Coffeetime, February 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / Prestige / 5.24.56 
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56 
Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker with Strings / I'll Remember April / Clef / 7.5.50 
Walter Pidgeon / What'll I Do? / Bluebird / 7.15.24 / with Lester Hodges on piano
King Cole Trio / I'm Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book / Over the Rainbow / Verve / LA 1.14.61 / with Billy May & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
John Coltrane / Duke Ellington & John Coltrane / Little Brown Book / Impulse! / 9.26.62
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch: Tadd Dameron Orchestra / Dial “B” for Beauty / Prestige / 6.11.53
Eddie Lang / I’ll Never Be the Same / Parlophone / 9.27.28 / with Rube Bloom p
Noel Coward / I’ll See You Again / HMV / London 3.24.38
Delta Rhythm Boys / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / RCA Victor / 1952
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / We’ll Be Together Again / Impulse! / 4.3.63 
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ceora / Blue Note / 9.18.65 
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Calling Dr. Jazz / Savoy / 12.18.46 
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra
Bing Crosby / It’s Easy to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 2.21.35 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, The Rhythmettes & Three Shades of Blue
Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard Transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Oscar Moore / I'll Remember You / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / My One and Only Love / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s
King Cole Trio / What’ll I Do / Capitol / Hollywood 8.6.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / soundtrack to Pinocchio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Disney [Buena Vista] / Hollywood 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers and Victor Young & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song
The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967