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