Friday, March 13, 2026

Waiting at the End of the Playlist

Bobby Troup looking dreamily into Dorothy Malone's eyes as he sings with his elbow on a studio set of a soda fountain.
Dorothy, you lucky gal.

Coffeetime, March 13, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Sweet Cakes / Jazzland / 4.10.61
Donald Byrd / Byrd’s Eye View / Hank’s Tune / Transition / Cambridge, MA 12.2.55 
Benny Goodman Quartet / Dinah / Victor / Hollywood 8.26.36
Rube Bloom & his Bayou Boys / There’s a Wah Wah Gal in Agua Caliente / Columbia / 5.24.30 / vocal = Eddie Walters
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Baby! I Can’t Forget You / Specialty / Hollywood 11.17.48
Clora Bryant / ...Gal with a Horn / Man with a Horn / Mode / Hollywood 5.57

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

set 2
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Body & Soul / Prestige [unissued] / 12.28.56
Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Is Here / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955
Fats Waller / Waiting at the End of the Road / Bluebird / 8.29.29
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / One Morning in May / HMV / London 4.5.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
The Big Three / Appetite Blues / Delta / Chicago 5.4.39

set 3
John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57
Allen Eager Quartette / Vot’s Dot / Savoy / 3.22.46 
The Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / Victor / 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Bobalob / Prestige / LA 8.31.53
Steve Allen / Allen’s All Stars / Yours Alone / Mercury / live at Joe Pasternak’s house, Hollywood 3.24.58
Delta Rhythm Boys / A One Sided Affair / Decca / Hollywood Wednesday 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer / On Behalf of the Visiting Firemen / Decca / Hollywood 4.15.40 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Lover with a Reputation / Duke / Memphis 1970
Sewanee Quintet aka Swanee Quintet / In My Savior’s Care / Nashboro / Nashville 1952 

last soulful song
Syreeta / Syreeta / Keep Him Like He Is / MoWest / LA 1972
Ann Sexton & The Masters Of Soul / You’ve Been Gone Too Long / Impel [Seventy Seven] / Shelby, North Carolina 1971