Friday, July 17, 2026

I’d Like to Dunk You in My Playlist

Still from the live BBC performance by Lulu on May 28, 1968 of "The Boat That I Row" on her show "Back in Town." She's dancing and singing, big smile on her face, on a stage with big stage lights above her. She's wearing a miniskirt dress with puff sleeves and doing like no one else besides Tom Jones.
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