Friday, October 31, 2025

That Old Devil Playlist

Screenshot of Cy Coleman at the piano singing. He is smiling and has a little bow tie on and is looking up to his left at Hugh Hefner who is off screen. There are a few people behind him on a couch n the living room style TV set.
Love the goatee, Cy.

Coffeetime, October 31, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Marc V / Blue Note / 10.21.56
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Each Time I Think of You / Blue Note / 5.2.61 / 1.10.45
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Tippin’ In / Victor / 1.10.45
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Don’t Be Like That / Victor / 1.27.27 / vocal = Harold Strokes
Bixie Crawford / I Got Your Water On / King [unissued] / LA 1949 / with Buddy Banks Sextet 
Julie London / London By Night / My Man’s Gone Now / Liberty / Hollywood 12.55

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley and his All Stars / Mobley’s Musings / Blue Note / 1.13.57
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / But Beautiful / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Vince Guaraldi / A Flower is Lovesome Thing… / Autumn Leaves / Fantasy / LA 1957
Lil Armstrong & her Swingband / My Hi-De-Ho Man / Decca / 10.27.36
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Walkin’ / So Good / Mercury / 1.3.57 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Cy Coleman / Witchcraft / live, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy’s Penthouse TV show / 1956 

set 3
Horace Parlan / Speakin’ My Piece / Rastus / Blue Note / 7.14.60
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57
Charlie Parker / Bird’s Nest / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47 / Parker as, Erroll Garner p, Red Callender b, Doc West d
Mills Brothers / Sweet Lucy Brown / Decca / 2.20.35
Marie Greene & her V-Disc Merry Men / It Had to Be You / V-Disc #629A / 11.45 / duet with Joe Dosh
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / My Melancholy Baby / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Cy Coleman / Cool Coleman / Witchcraft / Westminster / 1958
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Susie’s Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 3.4.56
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / I See Your Bass Before Me / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Pauline & her Perils (aka Six Hits & a Miss) / I Can’t Get Started / Keystone transcription / circa 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Kay Starr / It’s Whatcha Do with Whatcha Got / Standard Transcription / LA 1946 / with Buzz Adlam & orchestra
Peggy Lee / Jump for Joy / Old Devil Moon / Capitol / Hollywood 12.20.57 
Golden Gate Quartet / Our Father / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39 

last soulful song
Gino Washington / I’ll Be Around (When You Want Me) / Mala / 1968 / with The Altrasonics & The Versatones
The Sapphires / Who Do You Love? / Swan / 1963



Friday, October 24, 2025

I’m Sitting on Top of the Playlist

Screenshot from a movie showing Steve Gibson playing guitar and singing along with two other members of The Toppers. Two of them are wearing suits with Hawaiian leis around their necks. Gibson is smiling while he sings and is much taller than the other two men, who also are smiling while they sing.
Move star handsome Steve Gibson, his pretty guitar, & The Toppers

Coffeetime, October 24, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Hill’s Edge / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Checkmate / Riverside / 8.23.56
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Decca / 9.21.37 
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Hummin’ to Myself / Victor / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood
Dinah Washington / Blues for a Day / Apollo / LA 12.45
Buddy Collette / Detour Ahead / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962 / vocal = Irene Kral

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Carolyn / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / You Go to My Head / Dawn / Paris 3.56
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt / Yesterdays / Roost (Royal Roost) / 12.15.55
Bing Crosby / I’ve Got the World on a String / Brunswick / 1.26.33
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / C.O.D. / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945
Camille Howard / I Ain’t Got the Spirit / Specialty / Hollywood 8.2.50
Bobby Darin / I’m Sitting on Top of the World / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 9.4.62 / with Billy May & orchestra

set 3
Gene Ammons / Funky / Stella by Starlight / Prestige / 1.11.57
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Easy Living / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moodamorphosis / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / The Moon is a Silver Dollar / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Gliff Grass
The Toppers / I'm Living for You / Savoy / 12.8.44
Jimmy Ricks / Vibrations / Willow Weep for Me / Mainstream / 1965

set 4
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Pacific Jazz / Phil Turetsky’s home studio, Hollywood 2.1.53
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Opus de Funk / Contemporary / LA 3.14.59
King Cole Trio / Dream a Little Dream of Me / Capitol / Hollywood 10.28.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Ken Nordine / Colors / Olive / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Alphabetical Four / Live Humble / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / Love Makes the World Go Round / Atco [Carla] / 1965

Friday, October 17, 2025

Put Some Money in the Playlist

If Milton says we’re gonna make it, then I guess we are!

Coffeetime, October 17, 2025, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.45

set 2
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.25.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Mercury / 6.8.48

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b, & Johnny Mercer voc
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 5
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Johnny Miller b
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 6
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That’s All / That’s All / live / LA 1958
Swan Silvertones / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65
Barbara Lewis / I’m Thankful for What I Got / Atlantic / 1968

Friday, October 03, 2025

Playlist in Hand

Close of of Dinah Washington on stage as she sings a song. She's looking directly into the camera and has elegant makeup, hair, and dress.
Dinah, can you teach me how to get that glamorous eyeliner?

Coffeetime, October 3, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Groovin’ Higher / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
J.J. Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 3 / Viscosity / Blue Note / 6.6.55
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / Oh, Lady Be Good / Columbia / 12.9.40
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Wanderer / HMV / London 1.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Hot Lips Page / I Got What It Takes / Savoy / 9.12.44 / with celeste!
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / Little Girl Blue / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.61

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, Volume 1 / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 5.31.56
Ike Quebec / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note / 2.62 / Quebec ts, Sir Charles Thompson org, Milt Hinton b, J.C. Heard d
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Melody Man’s Dream / Okeh / 10.21.27
Willard Robison & his Levee Loungers / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Columbia [unissued] / 3.12.29 / Robison p & voc, rest unknown
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash; with celeste!
Martha Davis & her Spouse (Calvin Ponder) / Martha Davis and Spouse / You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me / ABC-Paramount / 1957
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Don’t Want No Woman / Duke / Memphis 1957 / with Bill Harvey Orchestra

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / Ugetsu / Riverside / live, Birdland 6.16.63
Cozy Cole / Concerto for Cozy / Old Man River / Savoy / 1944
The Four Southerners / Dan, The Back Door Man / Decca / Chicago 3.18.37
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know About You / V-Disc 393B / Hollywood 7.26.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / Autumn Serenade / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.56
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / That Old Feeling / Liberty / LA 9.55
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Walkin’ Home / Tampa / LA 1954
King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / Hollywood 3.29.49 / NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton / The Two of Us / A Rockin’ Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) / Mercury / 3.60 / orchestra conducted by Belford Hendricks
The Jubalaires / Before this Time Another Year / Decca / 3.13.44

last soulful song
Monique / If You Love Me (Show Me) / Maurci / Chicago 1966
Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971