I’d Like to Dunk You in My Playlist

Got to see Lulu swing as hard as this just a few years ago, thanks to dear Alex.

Coffeetime, July 17, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Stretchin’ Out / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Sonny Clark / Sonny’s Crib / Speak Low / Blue Note / 9.1.57
Little Jack Little / I’d Like to Dunk You in My Coffee / Columbia / Hollywood 12.7.34 / from Paramount short Calling All Stars
The Cats & the Fiddle / Nothing / Bluebird / 7.31.40 
Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / Teardrop Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 12.23.47
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / Maybe / Decca / 9.12.50 / with Ellis Larkins on piano

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Volume 3 [1557] / I Remember Clifford / Blue Note / 3.24.57
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Under Analysis / In a Mist / RCA Victor / 1957 / feature for Joe Venuto on vibes (or xylophone?)
Pete Brown Sextet / Jazz Kaleidoscope / Moonlight in Vermont / Bethlehem / 11.16.54
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Talk to Me / Victor / 11.3.30 / vocal = Don Redman 
Martha Raye / The Voice / Ooh, Dr. Kinsey / Discovery / 1950
Little Willie John / Talk to Me, Talk to Me / King / 1.4.58

set 3
Lou Donaldson / Mr. Shing-A-Ling / The Shadow of Your Smile / Blue Note / 10.27.67

Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Mack the Knife / Vee Jay / 9.9.59
Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / I’m So Right Tonight / radio broadcast / 1946 / vocal = Betty Bennett
The Four Vagabonds / My Heart Cries for You / Miracle / 10.49
Sammy Davis Jr. / Sammy Davis Jr. Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / Where Is Love? / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66

set 4
The Four Brothers / …Together Again! / Four in Hand / RCA Victor / 2.11.57
Jack Sheldon / The Quartet & The Quintet [Jack Sheldon Quintet with Zoot Sims] / Beach-Wise / Jazz:West / Hollywood 4.4.55 / Sheldon t, Zoot Sims ts, Walter Norris p, Bob Whitlock b, Lawrence Marable d
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play “Peter Gunn” / A Profound Gass / Contemporary / LA 1.59
King Cole Trio / Baby / MacGregor radio Transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; composed by Kay Butler
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Rock With It / RCA Victor / 7.20.49
Golden Gate Quartet / Born Ten Thousand Years Ago / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful song
Jackie DeShannon / This Is Jackie DeShannon / What the World Needs Now Is Love / Imperial / LA 3.17.65
Jerry Goldsmith / Theme song to Room 222 / TV Theme / Hollywood 1969

Burt Bacharach / Nikki / A&M / Hollywood 1971

Back Yard Playlist

Fly on, baby, fly on….

Coffeetime, July 10, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jerome Richardson / Roamin’ with Richardson / Up at Teddy’s Hill / New Jazz / 10.21.59 
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / Rip De Boom [alt] / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Nat Adderley cornet, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b 
Marion McKay & his Orchestra / Doo Wacka Do / Gennett / 12.17.24
Ben Pollack & his Park Central Orchestra / My Kinda Love (One Way to Paradise) / Victor / 3.5.29 / vocal = Ben Pollack
Jack McVea & his Band / Dirty Money Blues / Rhythm Records / San Francisco 1944 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant & Betty Roché; McVea ts, Cappy Oliver t, Bob Mosely p, Frank Clarke b, Tarrant d
Nancy Wilson / Just for Now / Alfie / Capitol / Hollywood 3.66 

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

set 2
Sonny Rollins / Soundtrack to Alfie / He’s Younger Than You Are / Impulse! / 1.26.66 
Duke Pearson / Profile / I’m Glad There Is You / Blue Note / 10.25.59 
Buddy Collette / Everybody’s Buddy / I Still Love You / Challenge / Hollywood 5.13.57 / Collette fl, Gerald Wiggins p, Howard Roberts g, Eugene Wright b, Bill Richmond d 
Stuff Smith / I Wrote My Song / Verve / Hollywood 2.5.57 / Smith v, Carl Perkins p, Red Callendar b, Oscar Bradley d
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I Wanna Be Loved / Brunswick / 1.5.34 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore
Betty Hall Jones / Make Me Know It / Atomic / LA late 1946 / Jones p & voc, Maxwell Davis ts, Buddy Harper g, Ralph Hamilton b, Bob Harvey d 
Johnny “Guitar” Watson & his Orchestra / I Love to Love You / RPM / LA 1955
Pat Miller / Dance of the Goony Bird / Harmad / Hollywood 1956 / with Hall Daniels & The Naturals

set 3
Ben Webster & [Harry] “Sweets” Edison / Wanted to Do One Together / Kitty / Columbia / 6.62 
Joe Newman / I Feel Like a Newman / Sweetie Cake / Storyville / 4.56 
Sonny Thompson & his Orchestra / Back Yard Affair / Miracle / Chicago 6.49 / Thompson p, Floyd Jones tp, unknown ts, Dick Davis ts, unknown g, Curtis Ferguson b, Sonny Cole d
The Ink Spots / It’s Funny to Everyone but Me / Decca / 5.17.39
Martha Tilton & Harry Babbitt / Let’s Get Away From It All / Coral / 1950
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Columbia / 10.18.60 

set 4
Marty Paich / Gene Norman Presents The Marty Paich Octet / Tenors West / GNP / Hollywood 11.9.55 / Conte Candoli t, Bob Cooper ts, Harry Klee as, Bob Enevoldsen tb, Jack Dulong bs, Paich p, Joe Mondragon b, Art Mardigan d
Lester Young / Lester Young With the Oscar Peterson Trio [The President Plays] / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Norgran / 11.28.52 / Young ts, Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b, J. C. Heard d
Benny Carter / Alto Saxes / You Took Advantage of Me / Norgran / Hollywood 1954 / Carter as, Oscar Peterson p, Herb Ellis g, Ray Brown b, Bobby White d
King Cole Trio / You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love) / Capitol / Hollywood 5.1.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b; reached number 10 for a week on the pop charts
June Christy & the Kentones / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.13.45
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / Girl from Ipanema / Atlantic / 1966
The Chosen Gospel Singers / When I Get Home / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soulful song
Delegates of Soul / What a Lucky Guy I Am / Uplook / Philadelphia 1970
Major Lance / Gonna Get Married / Okeh / Chicago 1964

Ten Thousand Playlists

You sparkle, Alice.

Coffeetime, July 3, 2026, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Ron Jefferson / Love Lifted Me / Little One / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.27.61 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / [Just Coolin’] / M&M / Blue Note / 3.8.59 / Hank Mobley ts, Lee Morgan t, Bobby Timmons p, Jymie Merritt b, Blakey d
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson [10”] / On the Scene / Blue Note / 4.7.52 
The Devonshire Restaurant Dance Band [Bert Firman] / Sax Appeal / Zonophone / Hayes, Middlesex 5.26.27
Victor Young & his Orchestra / ’Way Back Home / Decca / 1935 / vocal = Milton Watson
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / It’s a Hit / Specialty / LA 12.20.47 / vocal = Camille Howard
Pat Moran / The Pat Moran Quartet / A Sunday Kind of Love / Bethlehem / Hollywood 5.56 / vocal = Bev Kelly; Moran p, John Doling b, Johnny Whited d; cover design = Leichman & Seide

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

set 2
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / Willow Weep for Me / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Clark Terry / Top and Bottom Brass / A Sunday Kind of Love / Riverside / 2.59 
Bill Evans / Waltz for Debby / Some Other Time / Riverside / live, Village Vanguard 6.25.61 
Chet Baker / The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker / Moon Love / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 10.3.53 
Teddy Bunn & Spencer Williams / Tampa Twirl / Victor / 4.7.30 
Floyd Dixon & His Brown Buddies / You Need Me Now / Supreme / LA 1949 / Dixon p & voc, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Eddie Williams b, Ellis “Slow” Walsh d
Bixie Crawford / I’m Still in Love with You / United / Chicago 2.12.53 / Joe Newman t, Ernie Wilkins as, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis ts, Charlie Fowlkes bs, Gene Ramey b, Gus Johnson d, unknown p 
Dean Martin / Ten Thousand Bedrooms / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / from the MGM movie by the same name, Dean’s first movie without Jerry

set 3
Brother Jack McDuff / Do It Now! / Summer Samba (Samba de Verao) / Atlantic / 12.15.66 
Harold Vick / Steppin’ Out! / Our Miss Brooks / Blue Note / 5.27.63 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppin%27_Out!
Willie Smith Six / Windjammer / Sunset / LA 11.5.45 / Smith as, Buddy Childers t, Vido Musso ts, Andre Previn p, Eddie Safranski b, Lee Young d
Alice Faye / There’s a Lull in My Life / Brunswick / Hollywood 1937 / orchestra directed by Cy Feuer; recorded for the 20th Century Fox movie “Wake Up and Live” 
The Four Knights / Cry / Capitol / Hollywood 1951
Don Nelson / The Wind / Gone with the Wind / Mode / Hollywood 7.57 / Nelson voc & recorder, Jimmy Rowles celeste, Leroy Vinnegar b, Stan Levey d

set 4
Googie [Leon] René / Romesville! / Cool It at the Coliseum / Class / LA 1959 
Russ Garcia / Wigville / Livin’ It Up / Bethlehem / 1955 https://www.discogs.com/release/3749234-srsltid=AfmBOopbtQGRHXKAnF0Q2o3AFAkJxSmE0RaDxhW0MpLPMmkX3HT5y-4T
Herb Ellis / Three Guitars in Bossa Nova Time / Sweet Dreams / Epic / LA 1963 
King Cole Trio / Baby, Baby All the Time [alt] / Capitol / Hollywood 4.17.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Fools Rush In / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Anita O’Day & Billy May / Swing Rodgers and Hart / I Could Write a Book / Verve / Hollywood 6.8.60 / Pete Candoli, Conrad Gozzo, Uan Rasey tp, Ed Kusby, Murray McEachern, Tommy Pederson, Bill Schaefer tb, Wilbur Schwartz, Ted Nash as, Justin Gordon, Fred Fallensby ts, Chuck Gentry bs, Joe Castro p, Al Hendrickson g, Ralph Pena b, Irv Cottler d
The Royal Sons Quintet / Journey’s End / Apollo / Fries Auditorium, Winston-Salem Teachers College, NC 8.51 / aka The 5 Royales

last soulful song
Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin / Show Me the Way to Go / Brunswick / 1968