Friday, March 28, 2025

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Playlist Me

Screen shot from 1962 TV show "Jazz Scene USA" showing host Oscar Brown, Jr. interviewing featured musician Teddy Edwards. Both men are smiling and dressed in suits and ties and seated facing each other with stage lights behind them.
I, too, would like to interview handsome Mr. Edwards.

Coffeetime, March 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Renita’s Bounce / Candid / 9.27.60
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59
Pete Johnson’s All Stars / Pete’s Blues / Back Room Blues / National / 1.2.46
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Put and Take / Okeh / 5.7.30
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh-Ho! Ev’rybody, Heigh-Ho! / Victor / 6.3.29
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Broken Hearted / Supreme / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon 
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play “Checkmate” / The Isolated Pawn / Contemporary / LA 10.61
Teddy Edwards / Together Again! / Misty / Contemporary / LA 5.61
Benny Morton & his All Stars / Conversing in Blue / Blue Note / 1.31.45
Helen Kane / Dangerous Nan McGrew / Victor / Hollywood 4.12.30 
Pete Johnson’s All Stars / Pete’s Blues / I May Be Wonderful / National / 1.2.46 / vocal = Etta Jones
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Pasadena / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945
Pee Wee Crayton / Wondering Why / Imperial / New Orleans 4.14.55 / with Dave Bartholomew’s Band

set 3
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / J. and B. Blues / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Lee Morgan / [Standards] / This Is the Life / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.13.67
Lester Young Trio / I Want to Be Happy / Clef / LA spring 1946
Ella Mae Morse / Buzz Me / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #155 / Hollywood 11.5.45 / with Sam Donahue Orchestra & Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Orioles / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / Jubilee / 12.31.52
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / A Foggy Day / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Sir Richard Face / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / I’m Thru with Love / Contemporary / LA 4.3.9
Les Paul Trio / Coquette / V-Disc 572B / Hollywood 5.17.45
Peggy Lee / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / MacGregor transcription/ Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 
Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire / A Couple of Song and Dance Men / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.46 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Earl Gaines / You Belong to Me / DeLuxe / 1970
Golden Gate Quartet / Daniel Saw the Stone / Okeh / 4.18.41

last soulful song
Arthur Adams / I’m Lonely for You / Modern / LA 1967