Friday, September 12, 2025

I’m the Lonesomest Playlist in Town

Screenshot from the video of the BBC show featuring Nat King Cole, sitting on a pretend café style chair in a light blue suit, holding a straw boater hat, with his legs crossed, smiling an singing towards a group of young men in the same type of suit and women in dresses with chiffon skirts and shiny, sequined tops, smiling and singing along, some also on café chairs. In the background of the set are pretend umbrellas similar to an outdoor café.
Nat, where’s Oscar?

Coffeetime, September 12, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / Shoutin’ Out / Epic / 7.17.56 
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [1541] / Latin Hangover / Blue Note / 12.2.56
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / Soubrette / Grey Gull / 2.27.30
Little Jack Little / With Every Breath I Take / Columbia / 10.25.34
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hey! Now Let's Live / Decca [unissued] / 3.1.44
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / The Thrill Is Gone / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Max Roach / Max / That Ole Devil Love / Argo / Chicago 1.14.58 / produced by Holmes “Daddy-O” Daylie 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Goodbye / Dawn / 2.56
Gene Austin / (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You / Victor / 12.31.26 / with Abel Baer p
Ethel Merman / You’re a Builder Upper / Brunswick / 10.8.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orchestra
Ivory Joe Hunter / Mean Woman Blues / Pacific / San Francisco 2.47
Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party / I Came to Say Goodbye / Bravo! / 1959

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / A-Drift / New Jazz / 5.18.57
Barry Harris / Preminado / My Heart Stood Still / Riverside / 1.19.61
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Side by Side / Columbia / 1.23.42 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Four Vagabonds / Ask Anyone Who Knows / Apollo / 3.24.47 
Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / Easy Come, Easy Go / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack’s Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Bob Enevoldsen Quintet [Reflections in Jazz] / Iron Works / Tampa / LA 8.8.55
Bud Shank / Blowin’ Country / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.21.58
The Charioteers / Careless Love / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 1942
Kay Starr / I’m the Lonesomest Gal in Town / Capitol / Hollywood 9.11.47
Nat King Cole / That Sunday, That Summer / BBC TV broadcast, An Evening With Nat King Cole / London 7.63 / with the Cliff Adams Singers and the Ted Heath Orchestra 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Keep On to Galilee / radio transcription / 1941

last soulful song
Fontella Bass / Sweet Lovin’ Daddy / Checker / Chicago 1967
Peggy Woods / You Better Be Good to My Baby / Kent [unissued] / LA c. 1968

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