Softly as a Summer Playlist

Coffeetime, August 11, 2006

bed
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / Prestige / 8.17.56

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis [CD bonus alternate take] / Blue Note / 8.21.61
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / This Time the Dream's On Me / EmArcy / 12.20.57
Sy Oliver & his Orch / Slow Burn / MGM / 1.9.47 / check out Sy's autobiographical essay
Harry Roy & his Orch / Avalon / London 1930s / vocals = Harry Roy & ?
Fats Waller & his Continental Rhythm / Ain't Misbehavin' / HMV / London 8.21.38
Joe Alexander's Highlanders / Ditch Diggin Daddy / Atlas / late 40s / vocal = Clarence Williams
Dakota Staton / Dakota at Storyville / It's the Talk of the Town / Capitol /live at Storyville, Boston late 50s, early 60s

set 2
Jon Eardley / Jon Eardley 7 / There’s No You / Prestige /1.13.56 / with wacky cover design by Gil Melle
Bill Evans / Moon Beams / It Might As Well Be Spring / Riverside / 6.5.62
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / Get Up / Decca / 3.1.39
Etta Jones / Salty Papa Blues / Black & White / 12.29.44 / with Barney Bigard & his Orch
Ray Charles / Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand / Swing Time / LA 1951
Georgia Carr / Rocks in My Bed / Sweet Secret Street / Vee-Jay / 1964

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Sometimes I'm Happy / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Lester Young / I've Found a New Baby / Clef / LA spring 1946
Maxine Sullivan / It was a Lover and his Lass / RCA / 3.1.38 / with Claude Thornhill & his Orch
Earlington "Sonny Til" Tilghman & The Orioles / Would You Still Be the One in My Heart / Jubilee /2.50
Don Elliott / Don Elliott Sings / Looking for a Boy / Bethlehem / 11.2.55

set 4
Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Speak Low / Contemporary / LA 1.13.58
Coleman Hawkins & his Orch / What is There to Say? / Capitol / LA 3.2.45
Georgie Auld & his Orch / Sweetheart of All My Dreams / Musicraft / 2.7.45 / vocal = Patti Powers
Johnny Adams / I Won't Cry / Ric / New Orleans spring 1959
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Fool on the Hill / Laia Ladaia /A&M / Hollywood 1968
Hightower Brothers / Finally Made It In / Nashboro / Nashville 1960

final soul song
Jimmy Cliff / Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Hello Sunshine / A&M / Jamaica 1970

A Playlist for Judy

Coffeetime, July 28, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / At the Village Vanguard / Blue Note / Village Vanguard 3.16.97

set 1
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Lazy Bird (alternate take) / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt Plays / The Nearness of You / Roost / 12.15.55
Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang / At the Jazz Band Ball / Okeh / 10.5.27
Al Bowlly / Judy / Decca / London 8.21.34 / with Al Bowlly on guitar
Count Basie & his Orch / Exactly Like You / Decca / 3.26.37 / vocal = Jimmy Rushing
The Four Vagabonds / The Freckle Song / Apollo / 3.26.47
Margie Anderson / The Blues / Come Rain or Come Shine / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / late 50s, early 60s

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / Yesterdays / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
Erskine Butterfield / Blackberry Jam / Beacon / 6.20.56
Benny Goodman Quartet / The Man I Love / Victor? / Hollywood 6.30.57
The Charioteers / Ridin' Around in the Rain / radio transcription / 1942
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / Smile / Hollywood 1964 / Reprise

set 3
Harry Ferruolo / A Family of Friends (featuring Gustav Csik Trio) / Sweet Margie / Ferruolo Production / Budapest, Hungary November 2001
Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, volume 2 / Time After Time / Blue Note / 9.24.54
Fats Navarro / Nostalgia /Fats Blows / Savoy / 12.5.47
Anita O'Day / Key Largo / Signature / LA winter 1947-48
The Striders / Cool Saturday Night / Apollo / 3.20.50
Mel Tormé / It's a Blue World / It's a Blue World / Bethlehem / LA 1955

set 4
Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Paying the Dues Blues / Contemporary / LA 2.9.57
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Just for Judie / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55
King Cole Trio / I'm Lost / Excelsior [Capitol] / LA 3.1.43
Tiny Kennedy / Blues Disease / Trumpet / Memphis 9.25.52
Dinah Washington / Dinah '62 / Destination Moon / Roulette / 1962
Elvis Presley / We're Gonna Move / RCA Victor / 1956

last soul song
Frank Howard / Judy / Excello / 1967

He's the Playlist I Love

Coffeetime, July 21, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars - Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56
Gene Krupa / The Gene Krupa Trio at JATP / Idaho / Mercury / Hollywood 1.28.46
Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards / soundtrack The Hollywood Revue Of 1929 / Singin' in the Rain / Columbia / LA 5.28.29
The Four Buddies / You Left Me Blue / Savoy / 3.3.53
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Through a Long and Sleepless Night / Prestige / 3.30.61

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Cabin in the Sky / GNP / 6.27.56
Doc Cheatham & his Trio / Doc's Blues / Disques Swing / Paris 1.21.50
Benny Carter & his Orch / AFRS Jubilee 136 radio broadcast / One O'Clock (theme) and Sunday / radio transcription / Hollywood c. 5.44 / Sunday arranged by Benny Carter; Master of Ceremonies = Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Peggy Lee / It Takes a Long, Long Train with a Red Caboose to Carry My Blues Away / radio transcription/ Hollywood? summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orch
Gene McDaniels / Tower of Strength / Liberty / LA summer 1961 / with the Johnny Mann Singers

set 3
Sergio Mendes / Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things / So What's New / Atlantic / LA 1968
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith /Blue Bash! / Kenny's Sound / Verve / 7.16.63
Charlie Parker / Groovin' High / radio transcription / live at Storyville, Boston 9.22.53 / Paul Desmond interviews CP
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Cabin in the Cotton / Brunswick / 4.28.32 / vocal = Billy Banks
Savannah Churchill / When You Came Back to Me / Regal / 12.24.50 / with The Striders
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / Night and Day / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Herbie Mann / Brazil's Super Hits / Consolacao [from Do the Bossa Nova with Herbie Mann] / Atlantic / Rio de Janeiro 1968 / featuring Baden Powell
Shelly Manne & his Men / The West Coast Sound / Summer Night / Contemporary / 9.13.55
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Rose Room / transcription / live, Cotton Club 5.15.38
King Cole Trio / Wildroot Cream Oil Presents King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio broadcast / For Sentimental Reasons / radio transcription / Chicago 3.1.47
Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / At Sundown / Savoy / 10.18.46 / with Ellis Larkins Orch
Little Milton / Moanin for You Girl / Checker [unissued] / 4.67
Golden Gate Quartet / NBC Thesaurus radio broadcast / Show Me the Way / radio transcription / fall 1941

last soul song
Mary Wells / Mary Wells Sings My Guy / He's the One I Love / Motown / Detroit 1964

Salt Water Playlist

Coffeetime, July 14, 2006

bed
The 3 Sounds / Feelin' Good / Blue Note / 6.28.60

set 1
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Café, volume 1 / Chant [CD only track] / Blue Note / 11.11.60
Willis Jackson / Cool "Gator" / A Smooth One / Prestige / 5.25.59
Count Basie & his Orch / Time Out / Decca / 8.9.37
Geraldo & his Orch / You Couldn't Be Cuter / HMV / London 8.9.38 / vocal = Cyril Grantham
Louis Jordan & his Tympathy Five / There'll Be No Days Like That / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Let's Begin / Verve / LA 1.7.63

set 2
Milt Jackon & Ray Charles / Soul Brothers / How Long Blues / Atlantic / 9.12.57
Jimmy Jones' Big Eight / A Woman's Got a Right to Change Her Mind / HRS / 1.10.46
Les Hite & his Orch / That's the Luck / Bluebird / 3.6.41
[The Four] Ink Spots / radio show The Home Cookin' Boys from Up Harlem Way, on NBC affiliate, WFIL Philadelphia / No Wonder (+ Theme) / transcription / Philadelphia 7.12.39
Les Brown & his Orch / CBS radio show / Salt Water Cowboy / transcription / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York 9.2.44 / vocal = Doris Day
Johnny Otis Band / In the Dark / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / vocal = Three Tons Of Joy (Marie Adams with sisters Sadie and
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé with the Marty Paich Dek-Tette / The Lady is a Tramp /Bethlehem / 1.56

set 3
Elmo Hope / Elmo Hope Trio / Boa / HiFi Jazz / LA 2.60 hifi:
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith /Blue Bash! / Kenny's Sound / Verve / 7.16.63
Eddie Davis & Quintet / Athlete's Foot / Haven / 5.46 / with guitarist Bill DeArango
The Three Peppers / Delilah (With a Capital D) / Gotham / Philadelphia 12.1.49
Slim Gaillard / Buck Dance Rhythm / Rex / LA 1945
Frank Sinatra / Sinatra Sings… of Love and Things! / Love Looks So Well on You / Capitol / Hollywood 5.8.59

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Summertime / Dawn / 1956 /
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / My Melancholy Baby / Verve /LA 10.16.57
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Scandinavian Shuffle / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Fats Waller / Oh Susannah (Dust Off that old Pianna) / Bluebird / 3.6.35
Ivory Joe Hunter / Boogin' in the Rain / 4 Star / San Francisco 1.46
The Rovers / Why Oh Why / Capitol / late 50s
Pearl Bailey / Sings Porgy & Bess (and Other Gerswhin Melodies) / Clap Yo' Hands / Roulette / Hollywood 1959 / orch arranged & conducted by Buddy Baker
Stars of Harmony / There are Some Things / Supreme (later bought by Swing Time) / 5.49

last soul song
King Floyd / I'm Gonna Fall in Love with You / Chimneyville / 1975

Your Playlist is Your Friend

Coffeetime, June 7, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Donald Byrd / Fuego / Bup A Loup / Blue Note / 10.4.59
Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / Two Tees / Riverside / 10.30.59
Chick Webb & his Orch / Liza / Brunswick / 3.5.38
The Chocolate Dandies / Cherry / Okeh / 9.29.28 / vocal = George Thomas
Whistling Jack Smith / Funny Face / Bluebird / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 9.19.28
Mills Brothers / Shine / Brunswick / Hollywood 2.16.32 / with Bing Crosby
T-Bone Walker / Travelin' Blues / Imperial / LA 4.5.50
Dinah Washington / You Don't Know What Love Is / EmArcy / 3.15.55

set 2
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / It Could Happen to You / Fantasy / 1957
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / My Funny Valentine / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Terry Gibbs / More Vibes on Velvet / Don't Cry / Mercury / Hollywood 11.58
Kubanisches Orchester Rimac / Minha Palhoça / Telefunken / Berlin 10.23.37 / vocal = Bibi Miranda
Artie Shaw & his Orch / Take Your Shoes Off, Baby / Bluebird / Chicago 10.30.41 / vocal = Hot Lips Page
Jack McVea Combo / Oh, How the Geese Did Fly! / Combo [unissued] / LA mid-50s / vocal = JM & Christine Chatman (pianist, vocalist, and wife of Memphis Slim)
Danny Kaye / For Children / The Walrus & the Carpenter / Decca / LA
James Shaw aka The Mighty Hannibal / My Kinda Girl / King / LA 1963

set 3
Lee Morgan / Candy / Candy / Blue Note / 2.2.58
Harold Vick & his Orch / The Caribbean Suite / Beguine / RCA Victor / 1967
Melody Masters / Don't You Ever Mind Them? / Apollo / 1947
Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in HiFi / If You Were No One [It's You or No One] / HiFi / LA 1959
Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over / Contemporary / LA 11.2.59
Johnny Mercer / Love's Got Me in a Lazy Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Otis Clay / Got to Find a Way / One-derful! / Chicago 1967
Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / Just a Little Lovin' / Atlantic / Memphis 1968
Pilgrim Travelers / Your Mother is Your Friend / Specialty / 1.25.52

last soul song
Archie Bell & the Drells / There's Gonna Be a Showdown / Mama Didn't Teach Me That Way / Atlantic / Houston 10.24.68

Hey Little Playlist!

Coffeetime, June 30, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / A Shade of Brown / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Turquoise / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62
Joe Newman & the Count's Men / Rompin' / Jumpin' at the Woodside / Concert Hall Society / 9.55
Noel Coward / The Stately Homes of England / HMV / London 2.3.38 / with His Majesty's Theatre Orch
Wingy Manone & his Orch / Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer) / Bluebird / 4.26.39
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / When You're Alone / Apollo / 11.2.45
Margie Anderson / The Blues / Ça, C'est L'Amour / Roulette [Spin-O-Rama] / late 50s, early 60s

set 2
Jimmy Forrest / Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest / That's All / Prestige / 9.1.61 / recorded in the session that made Relax, but this tune was originally released on Soul Street on New Jazz
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / It's So Peaceful in the Country / Columbia / 12.3.58
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / How About that Mess / Decca / 1941
Andrew Iona Novelty Four / Hula Girl / Columbia / Hollywood 1.14.29
Dorothy Lamour / soundtrack to Road to Singapore / Sweet Potato Piper / Paramount / Hollywood 1940
Billie Holiday / The Lady Sings / I'll Look Around / Decca / 4.9.46 / with Billy Kyle & his Trio
Herb Jeffries / Herb Jeffries / Dancing with You / Columbia [Harmony] / 1950

set 3
Harold Land / Take Aim / Land of Peace / Blue Note / LA 7.25.60
Wes Montgomery / Movin' Wes / Matchmaker / Verve / 11.11.64
Preston Love & his Orch / Jumpin' for Charles / Spin Records / LA 1952
Anita O'Day / It's Different When It Happens to You / Signature / 9.47 / with Will Bradley & his Orch
The Ravens / The House I Live In / Savoy / 1.27.49
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Moonlight Mississippi (A Whistle Stop Town) / Coral / 1958 with Buddy Cole Trio

set 4
Vince Guaraldi / soundtrack to the TV special A Boy Named Charlie Brown / Oh, Good Grief / Fantasy / LA 1969
Laurindo Almeida / Laurindo Almeida Quartet, Vol. 2 / No No / Pacific Jazz / LA 1953
Cy Touff / Cy Touff, His Octet & Quintet / What Am I Here For? / Pacific Jazz / LA 1956
Maxene Johnson / I'm a Perfect Fool Over You / Excelsior / Hollywood 7.22.40 / with King Cole & his Swing Trio (aka King Cole Swingsters)
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Lydia / Atlantic / 1958
Earl Gaines / The Door Is Still Open / DeLuxe / 1968
The Sensational Nightingales / Burying Ground / Peacock / 1.56

last soul song
Major Lance / Hey Little Girl / Okeh / 8.14.63

Broadway, Bongos, and Miss Playlist

Coffeetime, June 23, 2006

bed
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / Prestige / 8.17.56
set 1
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight's Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Sam's Tune / Pacific Jazz / 1.14.57
Benny Carter & his Orch / Rebop Boogie / Deluxe / 8.46
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Some Sweet Day / Victor / Chicago 7.12.28
George Elrick & his Swing Music Makers / Swing Session in Siberia / HMV? /London late 30s
The Vocaleers / I Walk Alone / Red Robin / 1953
Sarah Vaughn / After Hours at the London House / Like Someone in Love / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

set 2
Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / Too Late Now / Riverside / 10.6.59
Clifford Brown / I Cover the Waterfront / Vogue / 9.29.53
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / 1958
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Black and Blue Bottom / Columbia / 9.29.26
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.17.36
Albinia Jones / Evil Gal Blues / Savoy / 4.15.45 / with Don Byas's Swing Seven
Carol Richards, Cyd Charisse, & MGM Studio Chorus / soundtrack to It's Always Fair Weather / Baby, You Knock Me Out / MGM / Hollywood 1.5.55
Hal Frazier / No Man Is an Island / Nature Boy / VMC / LA? late 60s, early 70s

set 3
Nat Adderley and the Big Sax Section / That's Right! / Chordnation / Riverside / 8.9.60
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / Guilty / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
TJ Fowler & his Band / Wine Cooler / Savoy / Detroit 7.25.52
Don Redman & his Orch / Igloo / Victor / 5.18.39 / vocal = Laurel Watson
The Syncopaters / These Are Things I Want to Share with You / Savoy / 10.49
Nancy Wilson / Broadway - My Way / I'll Know / Capitol / LA 1964

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Pepper Returns / Jazz: West / LA 1956
Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / Larrissa / Decca / LA 1957
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / It's Nothing / Aladdin / Hollywood 1.14.49 / vocal = Charles Brown
Camille Howard / Real Gone Daddy / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51
Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. "B" / From this Moment On / Mercury / 1960
Golden Gate Quartet / God Almighty Said / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soul song
King Tutt / You Got Me Hung Up / Fun City Records / 1979

I Like It When She's Oh So Jolly, Playlist

Coffeetime, June 16, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
David "Fathead" Newman / Ray Charles Presents / Tin Tin Deo / Atlantic / 1959
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Willow Weep for Me / Savoy / 6.26.55
Trummy Young's Big Seven / Fruitie Cutie / HRS / fall 1946
BA Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orch / Singing in the Rain / Edison / 7.16.29
Tony Pastor & his Orch / It's Like Taking Candy from a Baby / RCA / 10.30.47 / duet with Rosemary Clooney
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Texas and Pacific (The TP Special) / transcription / Hollywood spring 1948
Tony Pastor & his Orch / The Click Song / RCA / 10.30.47 / with the Clooney Sisters, Rosemary & Betty
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / Last Night When We Were Young / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Barry Harris / Preminado / It's the Talk of the Town / Riverside / 1.19.61
Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Day Dreams / Warwick / early 1961
Howard McGhee Orch / Night Music [the band's theme song, based on Body & Soul] / Dial / [Wednesday!] 12.3.47
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Tidal Wave / Bluebird / 3.6.34
Julia Sanderson / Why Do Stars Come Out at Night? / radio transcription / 1935 / introduced by husband, radio star Frank Crumit
James Brown / Tell Me What You're Gonna Do / King / LA 10.4.60

set 3
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott / Jaws / Tangerine / Prestige / 9.12.58
Quincy Jones / Big Band Bossa Nova / Lalo Bossa Nova / Mercury / 9.7.62
Tadd Dameron Nonet / The Squirrel / Jazzland [airchecks] / live at Royal Roost, summer & fall 1948
The Three Keys / Jig Time / Brunswick / 9.8.32
Jumping Jacks / Julocka Jolly / Apollo / 4.27.53
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Bidin' My Time / Verve / LA 1.11.57

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It's a Grand Night for Swingin' / Riverside / 3.7.57
Shelly Manne & his Friends / The Girl Friend / Contemporary / 2.11.56
King Cole Trio / I Can't Give You Anything But Love / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.12.44
Bixie Crawford / Maybe Some Rainy Day / King / LA 1950
Esther Phillips / Burnin' / Don't Let Me Lose this Dream / Atlantic / live at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper, LA 1970
Southern Wonders / Lord Stand By Me / radio transcription / Memphis 9.1.53

last soul song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / It's True / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1969-70

Burnt Toast and Yummy Playlist

Coffeetime, June 9, 2006

bed
Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Prestige / 10.9.62

set 1
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / Pullin' Strings / Contemporary / live at The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val's Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Chick Webb & his Orch / Harlem Congo / Decca / 11.37
Al Bowlly / Save the Last Dance for Me / Durium / 3.32 / with Roy Fox & his Band; Durium were cardboard records you could buy at a newstand
Ella Mae Morse / Johnny Mercer's Music Shop radio show on CBS / Poor Relation Blues / radio transcription / 6.22.43 / with Paul Weston Orch
The Robins / I'm Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / I Didn't Know About You / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

set 2
Charlie Rouse & Paul Quinichette / The Chase Is On / When the Blues Come On / Bethlehem / 9.8.57
Bennie Green / With Art Farmer / Gone With the Wind / Prestige / 4.13.56
Chu Berry "Little Jazz" Ensemble / Body and Soul / Commodore / 11.10.38
Philip Brown's Grosvenor Band / Mean Music / HMV? / London summer 1932
Delta Rhythm Boys / La Cucaracha / radio transcription / 1941
Mike Pedicin / Burnt Toast and Black Coffee / King / 1961

set 3
Cannonball Adderley / Them Dirty Blues / Work Song [alternate take 3] / Riverside / 2.1.60
Frank Foster / No Count / Serenata / Savoy / 3.5.56
Charlie Parker / Donna Lee [original take 4] / Savoy / 5.8.47
optional: Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / You've Got to Eat Your Spinach, Baby / Victor / 6.9.36 / vocal = Edythe Wright
The Ravens / I've Been a Fool / National / 12.49
Yves Montand / France's Formidable Yves Montand / Sanguine (Joli Fruit) / Capitol / Paris early 60s?

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Mexican Passport / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55
Benny Carter / Swingin' the '20s / Just Imagine / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Ben Smith / Travelin' Papa / Apollo / 10.46
Linda Hopkins / Shiver and Shake / Atco / 6.12.57
Dean Martin / Dino Latino / Tangerine / Reprise / arranged & conducted by Don Costa / LA 1963
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi / I Got It Within Me / Peacock / 1974

last soul song
Dee Dee Warwick / I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else / Atco / 1970-71

Nothin' But A Playlist: I fill in on Lost & Found

Lost & Found, June 9, 2006 {filling in for Alex}
all are 45s, unless noted otherwise

Little Sister / Somebody's Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

bed 1: Little Milton / Friend of Mine [instrumental] / Glades / 1973

Loleatta Holloway / CD comp / Merrily / Aware [unissued] / 1973
Jerry Butler / Just Because I Really Love You / Mercury / 1968
Margie Joseph / Sweet Surrender LP / To Know You Is To Love You / Atlantic / 1974
The Moments / The Next Time I See You / Stang / 1974
The Persuaders / Thigh Spy / Atco / 1972
The Three Degrees / Dirty Ol' Man / Philadelphia International / 1973
Honey Cone / Stick Up / Hot Wax {I actually played off a reissue 45} / 1972

bed 2: Maceo & The Macks / Soul Power 74, Pt. 2 / People / 1973

Free Design / Kites Are Fun LP / When Love Is Young / Project 3 / 1967
Noel Harrison / Collage LP / Woman / Reprise / 1967
Linda Perhacs / Parallelograms {CD reissue} / Sandy Toes / Kapp {original label} / 1970
The Cyrkle / Red Rubber Ball LP / Baby, You're Free / Columbia / 1966
The Cowsills / Mister Flynn / MGM / 1968
The Fortunes / I've Gotta Go / Press / 1965
Kyu Sakamoto / Sukiyaki / Capitol / 1961

bed 3: Tedesco & Pittman / flipside of The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" / Phillies / 1963

Eddie Holman / I Love You / ABC / 1969
Ruby & the Romantics / My Summer Love / Kapp / 1963
Tammi Terrell / Irresistible Tammi Terrell LP {reissue} / Hold Me Oh My Darling / Motown / 1968
The Van Dykes / LP Comp on Solid Smoke / Doin' the Best I Can / Mala {original label} / 1966
Brenton Wood / I Like the Way You Love Me / Double Shot / 1967
The Diplomats / I've Got a Feeling / Wand / 1965
Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin / Anywhere But Nowhere / Brunswick / 1968

bed 4: Baby Cortez / Rinky Dink / Chess / 1962

New Colony Six / Come and Give Me Your Love / Mercury / 1968
The Spiral Staircase / She's Ready / Columbia / 1969
The Fifth Avenue Band / The Big One LP {an original comp double LP from the 70s} / Nice Folks / Reprise / 1969
Keith / Tell Me To My Face / Mercury / 1966
Lulu / Sings To Sir With Love LP / Love Loves To Love Love / Epic / 1967
The Archies / cardboard EP off of cereal {I remembered it being from my beloved Alpha Bits, but this Bubblegum site has different info} / You Make Me Wanna Dance / Kirshner / 1968
The Gentrys / Keep On Dancing / MGM / 1965
The Flirtations / Nothin' But A Heartache / Underground / 1969

bed 5: soundtrack LP to the movie The Interns / Intern Fever / Colpix / 1962

1910 Fruitgum Co. / Reflections From the Looking Glass / Buddha / 1969
Small Faces / There Are But Small Faces LP / Up the Wooden Hills / Immediate / 1968
Jackie DeShannon / To Be Free LP / medley: You Keep Me Hangin' On and Hurt So Bad / Liberty / 1970
Candi Staton / Music Speaks Louder Than Words LP / One More Chance On Love / WB / 1977
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes / I Miss You (part 1) / Philadelphia International / 1972
The Emotions / Show Me How / Volt / 1971

last song: Minnie Ripperton / The Edge of a Dream / Epic / 1974

Playlist… It's Magic!

Hey you. I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but Coffeetime is now on Fridays from 2-4p. (Troubadour and Coffeetime did a do-si-do.) Aaaaand, next Friday, June 9, I will be covering Lost & Found also. So, join me from noon-2p for L&F and then from 2-4p for Coffeetime. Or check back here and at Coffeetime Archive at your convenience for playlists and podcasts, respectively. Now, for this week's playlist:

Coffeetime, June 2, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Jazz… It's Magic! / medley: It's Magic, My One and Only Love, They Didn't Believe Me / Savoy / 9.5.57

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / One Second, Please / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Howard McGhee / Sharp Edge / Topside / Black Lion / 12.8.61
Cootie Williams & his Orch / soundtrack to film short Cootie Williams, his Hot Trumpet and Orchestra / Keep On Jumping / transcription / 1944 / dancing = The Lindy Hoppers
Albert Ammons & Pete Johnson / soundtrack to film short Boogie Woogie Dream / Boogie Woogie Dream / transcription / Hollywood 9.41 / introduced by Lena Horne
Helen Kane / I Want to Be Bad / Victor / 1.30.29 / with Leonard Joy & his Orch
Bing Crosby / Kraft radio show (?) / Love is So Terrific / transcription / late 1940s / with the Rhythmaires
Billie Holiday / Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport / My Man / Verve / live, Newport Jazz Festival 7.6.57

set 2
Bill Evans / Some Other Time / Riverside [unissued] / 12.15.58
Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / These Foolish Things / Imperial / spring 1956
Willie Smith / All the Things You Are / Sunset / Hollywood 11.5.45
Bertha "Chippie" Hill / Around the Clock Blues / Chicago 2.5.46 / with Lovie Austin's Blues Serenaders
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / It's a Sad, Sad Feeling / King / 3.8.55 / vocal = Cathy Ryan & The Admirals (aka The Sultans)
Johnny Guitar Watson / She Moves Me [alt take] / RPM / 1956
Sam Fletcher / Sings / Can't Buy Me Love / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry "Sweets" Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 3
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Subway Grate / Contemporary / 8.1.62
Cal Tjader / San Francisco Moods / Viva Cepeda / Fantasy / LA 1958
Charlie Singleton & his Band / SOS / Lee / 1951
Savannah Churchill & The Four Tunes / The Best of Friends / Columbia / 12.48
Clayton Love & his Shufflers / Shufflin' with Love / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 6.10.51
Sam Cooke / Encore / It's the Talk of the Town / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orch

set 4
Bud Shank - Bob Cooper Quintet / Jazz West Coast [LP anthology] / Sweet Georgia Brown / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1957
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, "The Quintets" / I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me / Contemporary / LA 1.20.56
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / Strictly Instrumental / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Anita Boyer & her Tomboyers / Whatcha Know Joe / MacGregor transcription / LA 2.25.41 / with the King Cole Trio
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Take Off My Wig / Combo / LA 1954 / vocal = Floyd Dixon
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Equinox / Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / A&M / Hollywood 1966
Edna Gallmon Cook / Glory to His Name / Gotham / 1950 / with the Young People's Choir

last soul song
Anne Sexton / You've Got to Use What You've Got / Sound Stage Seven / 1976

Takin' It to the Playlist

Coffeetime, May 25, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Chet Baker / In Milan / Lady Bird / Jazzland / Milan 9.25.59
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ugetsu / The High Priest [cd bonus track] / Riverside / live, Birdland, NYC 6.16.63
Les Brown & his Orch / Frenesi / radio transcription / Hollywood (?) 1956-57
Art Tatum / Just One of Those Things / radio transcription / live, Oliva Patio's Lounge, Washington 10.56
The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / What a Girl! What a Night! / Victor / Chicago 11.20.28 / vocal = Joe Sanders
The Andrew Sisters / Saturday Night / radio transcription / 1945
Clora Bryant / …Gal with a Horn / Little Girl Blue / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / At the Village Vanguard / I Wanted for You / Blue Note / Village Vanguard 3.16.97
Lester Young & Harry Edison / Pres & Sweets / That's All / Norgran / 11.1.55
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Arab Dance / Columbia / 6.17.47
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / I Need Lovin' / Victor / 2.3.31
Kay Starr / Comes A-Long A-Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1952
Ray Charles / At Newport / Talkin' 'Bout You / Atlantic / Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI 7.5.58 / with the Raylettes

set 3
Jack McDuff & Gene Ammons / Brother Jack Meets the Boss / Watch Out / Prestige / 1.23.62
B.B. King / Ain't That Just Like a Woman / RPM / late 50s
Billy Eckstine & his Orch / I've Got It Bad and That Ain't Good / 10.28.41 / backup vocals = The Three Varieties
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / My Song / Modern / Hollywood 1952 / vocal = Mari Jones
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Mariposa / RCA / 1960s

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / I'm Also a Person / GNP / LA 7.57
Buddy Collette / Jazz Loves Paris / Under Paris Skies / Specialty / Hollywood mid-50s
Chu Berry "Little Jazz" Ensemble / Sittin' In / Commodore / 11.10.38/ plus a smidge of Stardust (technical difficulties!)
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Railroad Song / radio transcription / 1941
Mildred Bailey / The Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio / There'll Be Some Changes Made / radio transcription / early 40s (1943?)
Ricky Nelson / Songs By Ricky / That's All / Imperial / LA 6.9.59
The Sensational Nightingales / You Know Not the Hour / Peacock / 2.74

last soul song
Taylor Hicks / Takin' It to the Streets / yes, I have no shame!

On the Playlist Where You Love

Coffeetime, May 18, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Jazzland / 7.19.61

set 1
Sonny Clark / My Conception / Junka / Blue Note / 3.29.59
Frank Strozier & Booker Little / Fantastic Frank Strozier / A Starling Theme / Vee Jay / 2.2.60
Georgie Auld & his Orch / Mo Mo / Musicraft / 6.14.46
The Piccadilly Players / Hitting the Ceiling / Edison / 6.27.29
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / The Blues Done Got Me and Gone / Queen / 1946
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Gloomy Sunday / Riverside / 10.27-30.59

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Riverside / 9.59
Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Reminiscing / Verve / 12.17.57
Charlie Ventura / Charlie Ventura Concert / If I Had You / Decca / Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, Calif 1949
Peggy Lee & Woody Herman / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along, Go Away! / radio transcription/ Hollywood? summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orch and Eddie Bracken
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Houston Jump / Swingtime (Supreme) / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / The Piccolino / Belthlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Nothin' But the Truth! / On the Street Where You Live / Prestige / 12.13.66
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / Easy Does It / Verve / LA 12.15, 16.62
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Caravan / Exclusive / LA 1945
The Basin Street Boys / Nothing Ever Happens to Me / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
The Smoothies aka Babs & her Brothers (Charlie Ryan, Arlene "Babs" Johnson, & Little Ryan) / Playmates / Bluebird / 1.5.40
Little Willie John / Fever / King / Cincinnati 3.1.56

set 4
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Tenderly / Roost / 11.9.52
Joe Newman / The Midgets / Living Dangerously / RCA / 7.13.56
Hank Penny & his Radio Cowboys / Cowboy's Swing / Conqueror / Columbia, South Carolina 11.9.38
King Cole Trio / Little Girl / Capitol / 11.3.47
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 1962 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch
Otis Rush / Three Times a Fool / Cobra / Chicago late 50s
The Southern Sons / I Love the Lord / Trumpet / Cedars of Lebanon Club, Jackson, Mississippi 12.4.51

last soul song
Loleatta Holloway / Casanova / Aware / Atlanta 1975

Polka Dots & Playlists

Coffeetime, May 11, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1983 // George Van Eps / Legends: Solo Guitar Performances / The Man I Love / Concord

set 1
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / Stupendous-Lee / Prestige / 5.19.54
Cecil Payne / The Connection: New Original Score / Stop and Listen / Charlie Parker Records / 3.14-16.62
Frank Rosolino / Swing… Not Spring! / Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Savoy / Detroit 9.52
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Mendelssohn's Spring Song / Bluebird / 2.18.37
The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones & Earnest Hare) / Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me / Columbia / 8.24.27
Cootie Williams & his Orch / I May Be Easy, But I'm No Fool / Capitol / 7.5.46 / vocal = Bob Merrill
Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / I'll Never Be the Same / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2
Red Garland / Soul Junction / I've Got It Bad / Prestige / 11.15.57
Wes Montgomery / Full House / Born to Be Blue [not on original LP] / Riverside / live at Tsubo's, Berkeley
The Sidney Bechet Blue Note Quartet / Bechet's Steady Rider / Blue Note / 3.27.40
Edith Johnson / Nickel's Worth of Liver Blues / Richmond, Indiana 9.7.29
Geraldo & his Orch / Do I Worry? / HMV / London 1940s / vocal = Dorothy Carless & George Evans
Gene Kelly (and children) / soundtrack to American in Paris / I Got Rhythm / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 10.18.50

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Tender Moments / Mode to John / Blue Note / 12.1.67
Hal McKusick / Hal McKusick Quartet (East Coast Jazz Series No. 8) / By-Ian / Bethlehem / 2.17.55
Lucky Thompson's All Stars / Why Not / Excelsior / LA 9.45
Benny Goodman Trio / All My Life / Bluebird / Chicago 4.27.36 / vocal = Helen Ward
The Charioteers / With Every Breath I Take / radio transcription / 1942
Buddy Greco / At Mister Kelly's / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.54.55

set 4
Sandy Mosse / "Relaxin" with … Sandy Mosse / Birks Works / Argo / Chicago 9.5.58
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Spring Cleaning / Victor / 3.18.37
Stan Kenton & his Orch / I'm Going Mad for a Pad / Capitol / Hollywood 5.20.44 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Aretha Franklin / Soul '69 / Gentle on My Mind / Atlantic / 1969
The Bullock Brothers / A Real Good Soldier / Silver Cross / Boston late 1960s

last soul song
Otis Leavill / I Need You / Dakar / 1970

Playlist I Need You

Coffeetime, May 4, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Three Way Split / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Jimmy Cleveland & his Orch / Cleveland Style / Posterity / EmArcy / 12.13.57
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Echoes of Harlem / transcription / live at the Cotton Club 1938
Cass Hagan & his Park Central Hotel Orch / The Varsity Drag / Columbia / 9.2.27 / vocal = Franklyn Baur, Lewis James, & Elliot Shaw
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Sentimental & Melancholy / Brunswick / 2.18.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Rosemary Clooney / Love / Someone to Watch Over Me / Reprise / Hollywood 1961 / orch arranged & conducted by Nelson Riddle

set 2
Shelly Manne & his Man / Shelly Manne & his Man Play "Checkmate" / The Isolated Pawn / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61
Teddy Wilson / Soft Pedal [10" EP] / Honeysuckle Rose / Columbia / 6.29.50 / with Arvell Shaw (b), J.C.Heard (d)
Oscar Aleman / Nobody's Sweetheart / transcription? / Copenhagen 12.38
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / I'm Coming, Virginia / Okeh / 5.13.27
Bing Crosby / I'm Thru with Love / Brunswick / Hollywood 6.12.31
Peggy Lee / Slumming on Park Avenue / radio transcription / Hollywood 1952 / with Sonny Burke Orch, duet vocal with Jeff Chandler
Jesse Powell / Can't Help Myself (parts 1 & 2) / Jubilee / 1956

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / They Can't Take That Away from Me [cd bonus track] / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / Savannah / Impulse! / 4.25.62
Red Callender Trio / Red Light / Black & White / LA 6.46
The Dinning Sisters / I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? / Capitol / 1947
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / Round Midnight / Bethlehem / 1959

set 4
Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / Satin Doll / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58
Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson / Coffee Pot / Blue Note / 9.24.54
Camille Howard / How Long Can I Go on Like This? / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 3.22.49
Wilson Picket / I'm Sorry About That / Atlantic / 1967
Sammy Davis Jr / At the Cocoanut Grove / Once in a Lifetime and In the Still of the Night / Reprise / Ambassador Hotel, LA 12.14.62 / with The Dick Stabile Orchestra
The Soul Stirrers / Wonderful / Specialty / Hollywood 2.2.56

last soul song
The Artistics / Girl I Need You / Brunswick / 1973

Coffeetime + Playlist = Happy Sounds

Coffeetime, April 27, 2006

bed
Various / Ballads for Backgrounds / Pacific Jazz

set 1
Sam Jones / The Chant / Four / Riverside / 1.13.61
Kenny Dorham / 2 Horns, 2 Rhythm / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside / 11.13.57
Woody Herman & his Orch / Ridin' Herd! [10" EP] / Apple Honey / Columbia / 2/19/45
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Wang-Wang Blues / Victor / 8.9.20
Mary Ellis / I've Told Ev'ry Little Star / Columbia / London 6.16.33 / with His Majesty's Theatre Orch, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
The Ink Spots / The Sunny Side of the Street / radio transcription / early 50s
Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Roulette / 1963

set 2
Video All-Stars / TV Jazz / Dreamsville / Somerset / 1958
Gerry Mulligan / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / World Pacific, Pacific Jazz / 12.14.54
Joe Venuti / Lady Be Good / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / What Will I Tell My Heart? / radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1937 / vocal = Pha Terrell
Estelle Edson / Rhythm in a Riff / Black & White / Hollywood mid-1946 / with Oscar Pettiford & his All Stars
Jimmy Robins aka Robbin Ray / Allergic to a Broken Heart / Combo / LA late-50s
Dinah Washington / What a Diff'rence a Day Makes! / I'm Thru with Love / 8.59 Mercury

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Jubilee Shout!!! / You Said It / Blue Note / 10.18.62
Wynton Kelly / Plays Interpretations, New Faces, New Sounds / Born to Be Blue / Blue Note / 7.25.51
Red Prysock / Blow Your Horn / Mercury / 3.26.54
Tony Pastor Orch / Grieving for You / Columbia / 09.29.47 / vocal = Rosemary Clooney
The King Bees / Lovely Love / KRC / 1958
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Skylark / World Pacific, Pacific Jazz / Forum Theatre, LA 9.13.56

set 4
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Adios / Tampa / Hollywood 6.15.55
Louis Bellson & his Orch / Pearl Bailey + Louis Bellson = Happy Sounds / People Will Say We're in Love / Roulette / 1962
Fats Waller / Tea for Two / Victor / 6.11.37
King Cole Trio / Ask Anyone Who Knows / radio transcription Wildroot Cream Oil Presents King Cole Trio Time (NBC), Here's to Veterans edition / Hollywood 7.5.47 / show guest Woody Herman
King Porter & his Orch / Chitlin' Ball / Imperial / LA 12.30.47 / vocal = Gene Phillips
Solomon Burke / Everybody Needs Someone to Love / Atlantic / 1964
St. Andrews Gospelaires / Tone Them Bells / Trumpet / WRBC Studio, Jackson MS 4.3.50

last soul song
Archie Bell & the Drells / There's Gonna Be a Showdown / Go for What You Know / Atlantic / Philadelphia 11.1.68

Laugh, Playlist, Laugh

Coffeetime, April 20, 2006

bed
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions / Fantasy / LA 1957

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Toy / Riverside / 8.10.60
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / 1958 - Paris Olympia / Just By Myself / Fontana / Olympia Theatre, Paris 11.22 and 12.17.58
Bud Powell / The Bud Powell Trio Plays / I Should Care / Roost / 1.10.47
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Buddy's Wednesday Outing / Columbia / 3.1.33
Adrian Schubert & his Dance Orch / Laugh, Clown, Laugh / Imperial / London? 1958
Bob Howard & his Orch / Lulu's Back in Town / Decca / 7.10.35
T.J. Fowler & his Band / What's the Matter Now / National / Detroit 1948 / vocal = Hank Ivory
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin (10" EP - thanx!) / I've Got a Crush on You / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins on piano

set 2
Roy Haynes / We Three / Solitaire / New Jazz / 8.14.58
Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / Thanks for the Memory / Capitol / LA 3.4.56
Sauter-Finegan Orch / Concert Jazz / Concerto in F / RCA Victor / 1954
Betty Grable / What Did I Do? / transcription Bing Crosby Kraft radio show (?) / 1954 / with intro by Bing
Red Mack & his Orch / Black Man's Blues / Atlas / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Andrews
Trio Los Panchos / South of the Border / Farolito / Tico / 1956
Jackie Wilson / The Greatest Hurt / transcription Ed Sullivan TV show, episode 691, season 15 / 1.21.62 /

set 3
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / Beaux Arts / Fantasy / "The Cellar", Vancouver, Canada 9.16.61
Leo Parker / Rollin' with Leo / Bad Girl / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Charlie Parker / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50
The Four Vagabonds / (The Gang that Sang) Heart of My Life / Apollo / 1947 / some more about The 4 Vagabonds
T-Bone Walker / Welcome Blues / Imperial / LA 8.15.51
Dakota Staton / Dakota / The Masquerade is Over / Capitol / 1960

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Makin' Whoopee / Contemporary / LA 2.24.56
Chet Baker / Big Band / Tenderly / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Miss Hannah / Victor / 11.5.29
The Barry Sisters / Oh Mama, I'm So in Love / radio transcription Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1940 / with Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swingtet
Eugene Evans / One Hurt / Hollywood / 1967
Bobby Darin / Love Swings! / I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans / Atco / Hollywood 1961
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Get on Board / Specialty / Hollywood 8.14.53

last soul song
The Lollipops / Step Aside Baby / Impact / 12.66 / some convo on The Lollipops

On a Misty Playlist

Coffeetime, April 13, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Wilbur Ware / The Chicago Sound / Desert Sands / Riverside / 10.16.57
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Bud Study / Prestige / 11.9.56
Sandy William's Big Eight / Sandy's Blues / HRS / 6.3.46 / with celeste!
Cliff Edwards / Halfway to Heaven / Columbia / 8.15.28
Jack Teagarden & his Orch / Changes Are / Okeh / 10.14.31 / partial (I hit the tonearm with a sheet of paper; I'll bring it back next week)
Blue Lu Barker / That Made Him Mad / Apollo / 11.22.38
Billie Holiday / All or Nothing at All / Say It Isn't So / Verve / 1.8.57

set 2
Paul Quinichette / On the Sunny Side / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Prestige / 5.10.57
Red Garland / Prestige Moodsville, Volume 1 / Wonder Why / 12.11.59 / with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, who sits out on this tune
Jimmy Jones Big Four / Weeta / HRS / fall 1946
Jimmie Lunceford & his Chickasaw Syncopators / Sweet Rhythm / Victor / Memphis 6.6.30
Adrian Rollini / Georgia on My Mind / early 1937 / with Carl Kress and Dick McDonough on guitars, vocal = Barry McKinley
Savannah Churchill / It's Raining Down in Sunshine Lane / Manor / 12.48 / with the Four Tunes [aka The Sentimentalists]
Eddie Bo / I love to Rock 'n' Roll / Ace / New Orleans 1958

set 3
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Hank Mobley / [Third Season] / Boss Bossa / Blue Note / 2.24.67
The Three Peppers / Oo-Mommy-O / Gotham / Philadelphia 12.1.49 / a movie clip!
Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia / 3.3.49 / with Tony Pastor & his Orch, and with celeste!
The Ray-O-Vacs / She's a Real Lovin' Baby / Decca / 10.51
Frank Sinatra / Songs for Swingin' Lovers! / I Thought About You / Capitol / 1956 /with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Art Pepper / Smack Up / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / 10.24-25.60
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Love Is for the Very Young / Contemporary / 12.4.56
Sophie Tucker / Life Begins at Forty / Columbia / London 11.18.36 / with Ted Shapiro on piano, a "musical monologue"
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Happy Birthday Boogie / Decca [unissued] / 6.5.51
Nancy Wilson / From Broadway with Love / This Dream / Capitol / 1963
Swan Silvertones / Singing In My Soul / So Glad I'm Here / Vee Jay / Chicago 1960

last soul song
The Pretenders / Broken Heart / Carnival / 1971?

I Feel the Playlist!

Coffeetime, April 6, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame / Hub's Nub / Blue Note / 6.19.60
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Speak Low / Impulse! / 1.11.62
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Jada / Bluebird / 4.15.36
Sophie Tucker / He's Tall, Dark and Handsome / Okeh / London 6.15.28 / with Ted Shapiro on piano
Bob Range / I Can't Sleep / Apollo / 9.13.49
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings Duke Ellington / Love You Madly / Verve / LA 10.17.57

set 2
Jimmy Smith / The Sermon! / Flamingo / Blue Note / 2.25.58
Les Paul Trio / All of Me / V-Disc / mid 1940s
Charlie Shavers Quintet / Broadjump / Vogue / 1945
Red Nichols & his Kellogg Promenade / Let Me Be Born Again / radio transcription / 1935 / vocal = James Melton
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me / Columbia / 12.04.50 / with Frank Comstock & Orch
La Verne Ray / Rock on the Bop / Jubilee / 2.1.50 / with the Rene Hall Sextet
Stella Johnson / Yeah Baby / KRC [Kent Records Corp] / 1.20.58

set 3
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / It Might As Well Be Spring / Jubilee / LA 1958
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / LA Hop / Specialty / 12.27.47
The Ink Spots / Swing, Gate, Swing / Brunswick / 1.4.35
Tom Jones / Sings She's a Lady / Ebb Tide (The Sea) / Parrot / London 1971

set 4
King Cole Trio / [Mosaic box of Complete Capitol King Cole Trio] / Where or When / Capitol / live at The Sands, Las Vegas 6.14.60
Herb Pomeroy Orch / Life Is a Many Splendored Gig / No One Will Room With Me / Roulette / 6.3, 4.57
Casa Loma Orch / San Sue Strut / Okeh / 2.11.30
Carole Carr / Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief / radio transcription / London (?) 9.11.45 / with Geraldo & his Orch
The Modernaires / Dig-Dig-Dig for Your Dinner / Columbia / 6.14.50 / with Les Brown & his Band of Renown
Steve Gibson's Red Caps / Nuff of That Stuff / RCA / 12.17.45
Laura Lee / It's How You Make It Good / Chess / Chicago 1968
The Radio Four / I Feel the Spirit / Nashboro / Nashville 4.58

last (not really soulful, except that it touched my soul when I was a very little girl) song
Gene Pitney / Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen / Half Heaven - Half Heartache / Musicor / single recorded in 1962, LP came out in 1964 (and belonged to my big sister)

A Fine, Sweet and Tasty Playlist

Coffeetime, March 30, 2006

bed
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / Prestige / 8.17.56

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Trompeta Toccata / The Fox / Blue Note / 9.14.64
Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Wolf Talk / Epic / 1956
Count Basie & his Orch / Swinging at the Daisy Chain / Decca / 1.21.37
Golden Gate Orchestra / Miss Annabelle Lee / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.27
Whispering Jack Smith / All By Yourself in the Moonlight / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 12.28.28
Benny Carter & his Orch / Baby You're Mine for Keeps / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Emma Lou Welch & the Enchanters
Helen Merrill / Helen Merrill / What's New / EmArcy / 12.24.54

set 2
Ike Quebec / Heavy Soul / The Man I Love / Blue Note / 11.26.61
Quincy Jones / Big Band Bossa Nova / Manha de Carnaval / Mercury / 9.4.62
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / All for You / Hollywood 11.13.53 / Tampa
Hot Lips Page & his Band / Jumpin' / Bluebird / 4.27.38
Sol Hoopii / Hula Blues / Columbia? / 1933 [this is a later recording of this tune; the earlier one is here
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Groovy Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 12.22.45 / vocal = Camille Howard
Ann Cole / I'm Waiting for You / Baton / 1956

set 3
Les McCann / Les McCann LTD in New York / Maxie's Changes / Pacific Jazz / live at The Village Gate 12.28.61
Pete Johnson / Pete's Blues / Pete's Housewarming / National / 1.31.46
Wini Brown / I Only Have Eyes for You / National / 12.27.48
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Two Timin' Baby / Exclusive / LA 11.47
Larry Davis / Blues that Gave America Soul / Texas Flood / Duke / Chicago 1958 / with Fenton Robinson
Mel Tormé / Back in Town / Baubles, Bangles and Beads / Verve / Hollywood 4.23, 28, 29.59 / with the Mel-Tones

set 4
Wes Montgomery / Montgomerland / Far Wes / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.18.58
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins & the Contemporary Leaders / You / Contemporary / LA 10.20-22.58
Julie Wilson / soundtrack to This Could Be the Night / I'm Gonna Live Till I Die / USA / 11.12.56 / with Ray Anthony & his Orch
Etta James / Tell It Like It Is / Chess / Chicago 12.71
The Greater Harvest Choir / He Has a Way / Vee Jay / Chicago 1961

last soulful song
Jackie DeShannon / This Is Jackie DeShannon / Hellos and Goodbyes / Imperial / LA 1965

Blues My Naughty Playlist Gives to Me

Coffeetime, March 23, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet [5066] / Hank's Prank / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit-New York Junction / Scratch / 3.13.56
Shep Fields & His New Music / American Patrol / radio transcription / 1943-44
Boswell Sisters & Rudy Valleé / If Love Came Wrapped in Cellophane / radio transcription of Rudy Valleé's The Fleischman Hour / 1.24.35
The Ravens / Everything But You / Okeh / 8.8.51
Dinah Washington / The Late, Late Show / I Don't Hurt Anymore / Mercury (Wing) / LA 8.3.54 / with Hal Mooney & his Orch

set 2
Joe Wilder / Wilder 'n' Wilder / Mad About the Boy / Savoy / 1.19.56
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet / But Beautiful / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Art Tatum / Tenderly / radio transcription / live, Basin Street, NYC 10.55
Teddy Hill & his Orch / Uptown Rhapsody / Victor / 4.1.36
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Junkman / Columbia? / 2.2.34 / vocal = Mildred Bailey
Tiny Bradshaw / Walkin' the Chalk Line / King / Cincinnati 2.8.50
Sammy Davis Jr & Count Basie / Our Shining Hour / Teach Me Tonight / Verve / 8.31 & 9.2-5.64

set 3
Johnny Hodges / Blues-a-Plenty / Reelin' and Rockin' [CD bonus alt take] / Verve / 4.5.58
Hal Singer / Hot Rod / Savoy / 10.27.55
The Mills Brothers / Julius Caesar / Decca / 7.19.38
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Let's Just Pretend / Victor / 8.9.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford, 78 A-side features Frank Sinatra singing I'll Be Seeing You
Big Mama Thornton / Walking Blues / Peacock / 1954
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Look Down that Lonesome Road / Dawn / 1956 / with the Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / Contemporary / 4.21.58
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / What'll I Do [CD bonus track] / World Pacific / LA 11.29.56
Lester Young / The Master's Touch / Ding Dong / Savoy / 6.28.49
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don't Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (with Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
T-Bone Walker / News for You Baby / Imperial / LA 12.51
Nancy Wilson / How Glad I Am / The Grass is Greener / Capitol / Hollywood 8.64
The Soul Stirrers / Jesus Done Just What He Said / Specialty / Hollywood 3.1.51 / without overdubs

last soul song
Gene Chandler & Jerry Butler / Gene & Jerry, One & One / Be Yourself / Mercury / Chicago 9.30, 10.1 &2.70

Shillelaghs and Playlists

Coffeetime, March 16, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / People // George Van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59
Freddie Hubbard / Backlash / Up Jumped Spring / Atlantic / 10.19.66
Harry James & his Orch / soundtrack Young Man With a Horn / Melancholy Rhapsody / Columbia / 1.27.50
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Life is a Song (Let's Sing It Together) / Victor / 3.25.35
Slim & Slam (Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart) / A Tip on the Numbers / Okeh / 3.11.40
Jeri Southern / The Southern Style / I'll Wear the Green Willow / Decca / 1955

set 2
Bill Evans / Danny Boy / Riverside / 4.10.62
The Manhattan Jazz All-Stars / Swinging "Guys and Dolls" / I'll Know / Columbia / 10.27.59
Arthur Schutt / Lover Come Back to Me / Okeh / 3.28.29
Geraldo & his Orch / I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo / 1940s / vocals = 3 Boys and a Girl (which sometimes included Ted Heath)
Paul Gayten & his Orch / One Sweet Letter from You / DeLuxe / New Orleans late 1947 / vocal = Annie Laurie
Johnny Otis & his Orch / Warnin' Blues / Savoy / LA 1.9.51 / vocal = LInda Hopkins
Bing Crosby / Shillelaghs and Shamrocks / The Donovans / Decca / 1956 / with Jeff Alexander Chorus and Victor Young Orch

set 3
Cannonball Adderley / & the Poll-Winners / Never Will I Marry / Riverside / LA 6.5.60
Fats Navarro / Nostalgia / Index / Savoy / 12.22.47
The Griffin Brothers Orch / I'll Get a Deal / Dot / Gallatin, Tennessee early 1952 / vocal = Margie Day
The Crickets / I'm Not the Same One You Love / Jay-Dee / 4.24.53
Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Don't You Know I Care / Impulse! / 10.17.63

set 4
Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Quartet / Tired Blood / Roost / possibly October 22, 1955 / (I have a beat up orig LP, but the material is on a Mosaic box set)
Art Pepper & Conte Candoli / Mucho Calor / I'll Remember April / Andex / Forum Theater, LA 4.24.58
Les Paul Trio / Guitar Boogie / Decca / 1.9.47
The Colemans / I Don't Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950
Wally Mercer / Hey! Miss Lula / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Funny World / Verve / 11.21.64
The Hightower Brothers / My Jesus Loves Me / Nashboro / 1961

last soul song
Stevie Wonder / Where I'm Coming From / If You Really Love Me / Tamla / 1971

Mama, I Wanna Make Playlist

Coffeetime, March 9, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58

set 1
Conte Candoli / Westcoasting with Conte Candoli and Stan Levey / Fine & Dandy / Bethlehem / LA 11.20.54
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin / The Tenor Scene / I'll Remember April / Prestige / "Minton's Playhouse" breakfast set 1.6.61
Randy Brooks & his Orch / Man with a Horn / Man with a Horn / Decca / mid-1940s
Ray Noble & his Orch / Freckle Face, You're Beautiful / HMV / London 8.24.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Cab Calloway & his Orch / Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm / Variety / late 1937
Eddie Williams & His Brown Buddies / Red Head 'n' Cadillac / Supreme / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon
Dinah Washington / In the Land of Hi Fi / On the Sunny Side of the Street / EmArcy / 4.24, 25.56 / with Hal Mooney & his Orch

set 2
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Star Brite / Blue Note / 8.4.60
Lee Morgan / Standards / Somewhere / Blue Note / 1.13.67
Shep Fields & his New Music / Harlem Nocturne / radio transcription / 1942-44
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / Honey, Do! / Victor / 1.27.33
King Cole Trio / Your Red Wagon / radio transcription, Wildroot Cream Oil Presents: King Cole Trio Time, NBC network / Chicago 3.13.48
Joe Venuti / Body & Soul / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular) / with guest Jack Benny
Peggy Lee / The Old Master Painter / Capitol / Hollywood 11.16.49

set 3
Grant Green / Green Street / Green with Envy [alt take, CD only] / Blue Note / 4.1.61
John Renbourn / Sir John A Lot of Merry Englandes Musyk/ White Fishes / Reprise / London / 1968
Tab Smith / Seven Up / United / Chicago 4.15.53
Etta Jones / Solitude / Black & White / 1945 / with Cyril Haynes Quartet
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / Lord Knows I Tried / King / 6.25.52 / vocal = Hey Jackson
Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader / Time for Two / Under a Blanket of Blue / Verve / Hollywood 2.26-28.62

set 4
Bill Evans / Moon Beams / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Riverside / 6.5.62
Barney Kessel / Plays Standards / A Foggy Day / Contemporary / 7.1.54
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Down South Camp Meetin' / Decca / 9.12.34
Allen Miller & his Orch/ Rosie the Riveter / unknown label / Mexico 1943
Marlena Shaw / Go Away Little Boy / Cadet / 1966
Sensational Jubilettes / Jordan River / Message / 12.60 /

last soul song
Loleatta Holloway / I Know Where You're Coming From / Aware / 1975

Le Playlist de la Plage

Coffeetime, March 2, 2005

bed
Red Garland / When Skies Are Grey / Prestige / 10.9.62

set 1
Hank Mobley / The Mosaic box of The Complete Blue Note Hank Mobley Fifties Sessions / Double Exposure, complete version [the version which appears on the Japanese BN 1568 {which I have and have played from before on CT} is missing a bit towards the end; the Mosaic booklet implies that the orig LP {which I don't own, boo hoo} *does* have the correct ending] / Blue Note / 6.23.57
Frank Foster / I'll Take Romance / Vogue / Paris 4.4.54
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Stardust / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.17.36
The Seven Blue Babies / That's Him Now / Edison / 1.2.29
The Boswell Sisters / Shuffle Off to Buffalo / Brunswick / 4.11.33
Sarah Vaughn / Dreamy / The More I See You / Roulette / 1960

set 2
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / And Friends / Days of Wine and Roses / Fantasy / LA? 1963
Coleman Hawkins / Can Anyone Explain / Vogue / 8.25.50
Howard McGhee / The Many I Love / Savoy / Chicago 2.48
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Night Life / Columbia, Decca (?) / 9.22.33
Buck & Bubbles / I Ain't Got Nobody / HMV? / London 10.20.36 / clips of Bubbles tapping [these actually wouldn't play on my system, but you might have better luck]
Jane Wyman & Bing Crosby / He's Just Crazy for Me / radio transcription [Bing's Kraft show?] / Hollywood 1952 / also performed in their film Just for You
Charles Trenet / Morceaux Choisis L'Auteur / Le Piano de la Plage / Pathé [Capitol Canada] late 40s, early 50s

set 3
Victor Feldman / It's a Wonderful World / Waltz Latino / Vee-Jay / 1965
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Face to Face / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Charlie Parker / Bird's Nest / Dial / Hollywood 2.47
Johnny Moore's Three Blazars / You are My First Love / unissued [Modern] / Hollywood 1946?
Tab Smith & his Orch / My Mellow Man / label?, argh! / summer 1946 / vocal = Gloria Robinson
Elmore James / Cry for Me Baby / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1957

set 4
Bud Shank / Jazz West Coast / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1956
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Too Marvelous for Words / Pacific Jazz / live at The Haig, Hollywood 1.53
Boots & his Buddies / Chubby / Bluebird / San Antonio 9.17.37
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / On the Sentimental Side / Vocalion / 1.27.38 / vocal = Billie Holiday
The Charioteers / Careless Love / radio transcription / 1942
Curtis Amy / Mustang / Please Send Me Someone to Love / Verve / 1966 (67?) / vocal = Eva Harris
Hall Johnson Choir / Joshua Fit De Battle of Jericho / unissued [Document] / 1940-41

last soul song
King Floyd & Dorothy Moore / We Can Love / Malaco / 1975

Shake Shake Playlist!

Coffeetime, February 23, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Booker Little / The Defiant Ones / Jewel's Tempo / UA / 10.58
Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones / Together! / Le Roi / Atlantic / 2.2.61
Wynton Kelly / New Faces-New Sounds [Piano Interpretations] / There Will Never Be Another You / Blue Note / 8.1.51
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Nuts About Mutts / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Horace "Saxie" Dowell
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / How Ya, Baby? / unpublished [Victor?] / 10.7.37
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / Sarah, Sarah / Urban / Hollywood 1947
Toni Harper / Toni / Just A Sittin' and A-Rockin / Verve / 12.29.55

set 2
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / So Sweet My Little Girl / Blue Note / 8.9.62
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / Willow Weep for Me / Savoy / 6.26.55
Artie Shaw / In the Still of the Night / Musicraft / LA 6.12.46
The Mills Brothers / How'm I Doin', Hey-Hey / soundtrack to film Twenty Million Sweethearts / 2.34
Wynona Carr / It's Raining Outside / Specialty? 1955?
Lord Flea (Norman Thomas) & His Calypsonians / Dance Craze [originally appeared on Swingin' Calypsos] / Shake Shake Senora / Capitol / 1957 / great webpage on Lord Flea: an awesome amount of info and images plus you can download a long performance clip from the movie Bop Girl Goes Calypso

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Late Spring / Bethlehem / 10.11.57
Quincy Jones / Bossa Nova / Se E Tarde Me Pardoa (Forgive Me If I'm Late) / Mercury / 9.13.62
JJ Johnson / Trombone By Three / Opus V / Prestige / 5.26.49 / originally issued as a 78
Buddy Johnson & his Orch / Since I Fell for You / radio transcription / Savoy Ballroom fall 1945 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Delta Rhythm Boys / I'm Awfully Strong for You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.30.47 / with Lowell Martin's Orch; flip of Hey John (Put Your Glasses On)
Little Milton / Never Too Old / Checker / St Louis 6.20.62 / flip of She Put a Spell on Me

set 4
Shelly Manne & his Men / score to film The Proper Time / Happy Pool / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60
Pete Rugolo & his Orch / 10 Saxophones and 2 Basses / Skyliner / Mercury (f:35d) / Hollywood 11.8.61
Lionel Hampton & his Orch / Wizzin' the Wizz / Victor / 4.5.39
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / You Are My Dream / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass
Dinah Washington / Dinah Washington / I Used to Love You / Roulette / early 60s
Swan Silvertones / Let's Go To Church Together / Love Lifted Me Up / Vee-Jay / 1964

last soul song
Rose Royce / Ooh Boy / Whitfield Records / 1977

Baby Baby Playlist

Coffeetime, February 16, 2006

bed
Ike Quebec / various / Blue Note / 1960-62

set 1
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Julia [CD only] / Riverside / 11.17.59
Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / News for Lulu / Blue Note / 10.9.57
Rex Stewart's Big Seven / Cherry / HRS / 7.23.40 / scroll to bottom for the line up on Cherry
Helen Kane / I Want to Be Bad / Victor / 1.30.29 / with Leonard Joy & his Orch
Billy Wright / Four Cold Cold Walls / Savoy / Atlanta 6.51 [released? 5.29.53]
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Lonelyville / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Bill Evans / Conception / Like Someone in Love / Milestone / 4.4.62
Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Blue Angel / Mercury / 1960
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Shoemaker's Holiday / Columbia? / 2.7.39
Teddy Charles / On Campus! / These Foolish Things / Bethlehem / Yale University, New Haven 11.21.59
Ethel Waters / Black and Blue / Columbia / 4.1.30
Anita O'Day / How Come? / Capitol / LA 1.18.45
BB King / And Like That / Kent / 1965

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Rock Salt / Blue Lights, Volume 2 / Blue Note / 5.14.58
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Dog Food / King / Cincinnati 3.20.50
Una Mae Carlisle / Ain't Nothin' Much / Joe Davis [during record ban] / 5.23.44
Joe Newman / Soft Swingin' Jazz / I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart / Coral / 1.17.58

set 4
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Thunderbird / Savoy / 10.11.55
Herb Pomeroy Orch / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Less Talk / Roulette / 5.3-4.57
Pierre Allier's Swing Bakers / Pick-a-Rib / Paris 7.20.43
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Harlem Madness / Victor / 3.6.34
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Ojos Verdes / French Columbia? / London 7.15.32 / Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s
Vincent Edwards / In Person At the Riviera, Las Vegas / medley: Ben Casey Theme, I Remember You, You and the Night and the Music / Decca / Las Vegas 1963
The Zion Travelers / Just a Little Talk with Jesus / Dootone / 1962 (63?)

last soul song
Timothy Wilson / Baby Baby Please / Buddah / 1967

What More Can a Playlist Do?

Coffeetime, February 9, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / People // George van Eps / The Man I Love

set 1
Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets / Volume 1 / DX / ABC-Paramount / 4.4.56
Milt Jackson / Big Bags / Old Devil Moon / Riverside / 6.19-20, 7.5.62
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Drumology [7" EP] / Quiet Please / RCA Victor / 1940 / featuring Buddy Rich on drums
Art Tatum Trio / Flying Home (theme) & I Cover the Waterfront / radio transcription / from Basin Street club, NYC 10.56 / with Slam Stewart and Everett Barksdale
Roy Fox & his Band (Orch) / Me, Myself, and I / Vocalion / London 5.19.38 / vocal = Sid Buckman
Mills Brothers with Ella Fitzgerald / Big Boy Blue / Decca / 1.14.37
Georgie Auld & his Orch / Sentimental Journey/ radio transcription / Trianon Ballroom, South Gate, California summer 1945
Georgia Carr / Rocks in My Bed / What More Can a Woman Do / Vee-Jay / 1964

set 2
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / My Romance / Prestige / 6.16.60
Rene Thomas / Guitar Groove / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Jazzland / 9.7-8.60
Oscar Aleman / Bugle Call / radio transcription? / Buenos Aires 4.11.46
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Little Esther / Heart to Heart / Federal / Cincinnati 1.27.51 / with the Dominoes & the Earle Warren Orchestra
Bing Crosby / Bings Sings Whilst Bregman Swings / They All Laughed / Verve / LA 6.12.56

set 3
Lee Morgan / Charisma / The Double Up / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / But Not for Me / GNP / 6.27.56
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Lockjaw / Haven / 5.46
Johnny Otis & his Orch / Hold Me Close / Savoy / LA 1.5.51 / vocal = The Barreleers
Camille Howard / The Mood I'm In / Specialty / Hollywood summer 1948 or winter 1949
Yves Montand / Paris Recital / Syracuse / Philips / live at Le Theatre D'Etoile, Paris 1964

set 4
Bob Brookmeyer / Playboy's Jazz All-Stars / Bobbie's Tune / [orig label = Storyville] / LA 1.31.56
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars / Double or Nothin' / Bye Bye Blues / Liberty / LA 2.14.57
Fats Waller / A Handful of Keys / Victor / 3.1.29
The Smoothies / I Love to Watch the Moonlight / Bluebird / 4.25.40
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / Let it Roll Again / King / Cincinnati 5.50 / vocal = Big John Greer & ensemble; first release for King
Nat King Cole / Wild is Love / Wild is Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1960
The Four Internes / One of These Mornings / King / Cincinnati 12.51

last soul song
Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Hey, Little Angel / Mercury / 1970

Miniskirts, Maxiskirts, & Playlists!

Coffeetime, February 2, 2006

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Street Singer] / Medina / Blue Note / 9.1.60
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / Perceptions / Prestige / 2.1.57
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Drumology [7" EP] / Quiet Please / RCA Victor / 1940 / featuring Buddy Rich on drums / I switched turntables at the last minute and, unfortunately spun this at 331/3 instead of 45, gack, so it sounds like pure sludgey crap. I'll play it at the proper speed next week.
Ethel Merman / It's the Animal in Me / from Paramount film The Big Broadcast of 1936 / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.17.35
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Richard Gets Hitched / LA c. 1.47 / vocals = Jack McVea & Tommy Kahn
Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / It's Easy to Remember / Capitol / LA 1957

set 2
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / My One and Only Love / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Laurindo Almeida / Laurindo Almeida Quartet, volume 2 [Brazilliance] / Stairway to the Stars / Pacific Jazz / LA 1953
Taft Jordan / The Moods of Taft Jordan / September Song / 1959
Henry Mancini / soundtrack to film Charade / Mégève / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1963
Artie Shaw / The Glider / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45
Roy Fox & his Band / Let's Call the Whole Thing Off / Vocalion / London? 1937 / vocals = Mary Lee & Denny Dennis
Albinia Jones / What's the Matter with Me / National / 4.14.45 / with Don Byas's Swing Seven
Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) / A Child's Introduction to Jazz / Boogie Woogie / Golden Records / 1959 / with The Honeydreamers
Miyoshi Umeki / Miyoshi / My Heart Stood Still / Mercury / 1959?

set 3
Barney Kessel / Feeling Free / Blues Up, Down & All Around / Contemporary / LA 2.13.69
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / The Drippy Drippers / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1948
The Toppers [Steve Gibson & the Red Caps] / I'm Living for You / Savoy / 12.8.44
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / Nevertheless / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.7.56
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Equinox / Triste / A&M / LA 1966 / with John Pisano on guitar

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / The Song is You / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55
Quincy Jones / Go West, Man! / London Derriere / ABC-Paramount / LA 2.57
Harry Perritt & his Orch / Buchanan Stomp / Columbia / London 12.18.34 / a tribute to comedian/actor Jack Buchanan; with Len Fillis on guitar & banjo
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Farewell Blues / Specialty / LA 12.10.52 / vocal = Dell St. John (aka Christine)
Ruby & the Romantics / Young Wings Can Fly / Kapp / 1968
Eddie Holman / I, Surrender [45] / ABC / 1969
The Pearly Gates Spiritual Singers / I Know the Lord Laid His Hands on Me / Okeh / 5.53

last soul song
The Beginning of the End / Funky Nassau - Part I / Alston / Hialeah, Florida 1971 / an interesting interview with Henry Stone of Alston Records