Friday, April 18, 2025

The Playlist’s in Love with You

Screenshot from the November 13, 1960 Ed Sullivan Show showing Dick Van Dyke singing to a little girl performer who is putting on a sad face.
Dick will get her to smile… I *know* he will!

Coffeetime, April 18, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Teddy Charles / Metronome Presents Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art / Scoochie / Warwick / 1960
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / No Crooks / New Jazz / 5.18.57
Bert Firman’s Quintuplets of Swing / Blue Strings / Odeon / London 9.20.37
Hotel Commodore Dance Orchestra (Ben Selvin & his Orchestra) / Lucille / Columbia / 10.21.31 / vocal = Robert Wood
Jesse (Belvin) & Marvin (Phillips) / Daddy Loves Baby / Recorded in Hollywood / Hollywood 1.6.52 / arranged by Red Callender; Maxwell Davis ts, Callender b
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Angel Eyes / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / At Last / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Red Norvo / Russian Lullaby / Keynote / 10.10.44
Leo Parker & his Mad Lads / Solitude / Gotham / 12.28.50 
Maurice Chevalier / Louise / Victor / 3.14.29 / for the Paramount movie The Innocents of Paris 
The Nephews (The Spirits of Rhythm) / My Old Man / Brunwsick / 12.6.33 / lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Bernie Hanighen 
The Sultans / Blues at Dawn / Jubilee / 2.52
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Easy Street / Command / Hollywood 1963 / with the Ray Charles Singers

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 7.1.65
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / The Lady’s in Love with You / Clef / 9.13.54
Maxwell Davis / Hot Point / Aladdin / LA 2.18.53
The Ramblers / Sunday in the Park / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 6.24.38 / vocal = Freddy Johnson
The Ink Spots / Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat / Decca / 10.13.41
Willie Bobo / Feelin’ So Good / Dichoso / Verve / 9.27.66

set 4
Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Quietly There / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66
Bob Brookmeyer / Brookmeyer & Guitars [The Street Swingers] / Street Swinger / Kimberly [World Pacific] / 12.13, 16.57
Anita O’Day / Tennessee Waltz / London / 10.26.50 / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Pretty World / A&M / LA 1968
Rising Star Gospel Singers / John the Revelator / Trilon / Berkeley 3.46

last soulful song
T.S.U. Toronadoes / Got to Get Through to You / Atlantic / 1969
Darrell Banks / Open the Door to Your Heart / Revilot / Detroit 1966

Friday, April 11, 2025

On a Misty Playlist

Screenshot from the movie Back in the Saddle from 1941 showing Gene Autry sitting next to Mary Lee and as she sings, he lassos her foot. They're both smiling and singing, I'm an Old Cowhand.
Lasso me next, Gene!

Coffeetime, April 11, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / This I Dig of You / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Tree of Hope / Victor / 10.16.41 
Al Bowlly / Falling in Love / Filmophone / London c. 1.32 / with New Cumberland Dance Orchestra
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Drifting Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.12.45 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Why Was I Born? / Verve / LA 1.6.63

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

set 2
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Lydia’s Lament / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / When Sunny Gets Blue / Blue Note / 11.11.60
Gene Ammons / It’s the Talk of the Town / Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Annette Hanshaw / It’s the Talk of the Town / Banner / 9.1.33
Gene Autry / Blue Hawaii / Okeh / 10.11.37
The Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists, aka The Brown Dots] / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love? / Manor / c. 1947 
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To? / Where Would You Be Without Me? / RCA / 1965

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Sunset / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery / Gone with the Wind / Riverside / 1.28.60
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa / Begin the Beguine / Savoy / 2.26.55
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National [unissued] / 12.13.49 
Kay Starr / A Woman Always Understands / Lamplighter / Hollywood 6.15.46 / with The Lamplighter Five
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Try to Remember / MGM / 1962

set 4
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Love Walked In / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Kenya / Tampa / LA 1954
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something / Majestic / 10.47 / with the Ellis Larkins Trio: Larkins p, Eugene Fields g, Eddie Safranski b
Pearl Bailey / Naughty but Nice / They’re Either Too Young or Too Old / Roulette / 1960
The Soul Stirrers / I Have a Right to the Tree of Life / Specialty / Hollywood 2.24.50

last soulful song
LeRoy Hutson / Hutson II / I Think I’m Falling in Love / Curtom / Chicago 1976

Friday, April 04, 2025

Tempête sur le Playlist

Screenshot from music video showing a close up of Candi Staton smiling in a pink satin gown with the city billboards and neon signs behind her. One sign is for a cigarette ad.
Candi! Watch out for that lit ciggy!

Coffeetime, April 4, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / Groove / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / I’ll Remember April / EmArcy / 3.6.58
Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman / Three Trumpets / Diffusion of Beauty / Prestige / 1.26.57
Gene Austin / Ain’t She Sweet / Victor / 3.15.27 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Move Out Baby / Specialty / Hollywood 12.27.47
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / At Dawning / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / Days of Wine and Roses / Impulse! / 3.4.63
Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Mule / Blue Note / 1.8.63
Michel Warlop & Son Orchestre / Tempête sur les Cordes / Swing / Paris 6.18.41
Comedy [Comedian] Harmonists / Tea for Two / HMV / Berlin 12.17.34 
Frank Sinatra / Exactly Like You / radio broadcast, Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 11.28.45 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC voc & p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Griffin Brothers / Stubborn as a Mule / Dot / Gallatin, Tennessee 1950-51 / vocal = Margie Day

set 3
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Li’l Darlin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 1963 
Horace Silver / The Tokyo Blues / Too Much Sake / Blue Note / 7.14.62
Miles Davis All Stars / Milestones / Savoy / 8.14.47 
Dick Todd / How About You? / Bluebird / 11.26.42 / with Leonard Joy & his Orchestra
The Three Flames / Nicholas (Don’t Be So Ridiculous) / Columbia / 1947
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / They Say It’s Wonderful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Mediolistic / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Fascinatin’ Rhythm / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
Johnny Sparrow & his Bows & Arrows / Indiana / Gotham [unissued] / Philadelphia 1952
King Cole Trio / I Can’t See for Looking / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 4.10.44 / vocal = Ida James; NKC voc & p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Beny Moré / Maracaibo Oriental / RCA Victor / 1950s
Jubalaires / What Did Jesus Say / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1970
The Ambassadors / I Dig You Baby / Arctic / 1969