Dance Little Playlist

Coffeetime, September 8, 2006

BG = album cover designed by Burt Goldblatt

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Another Night at Birdland, volume / JAMPH / Roost / live at Birdland, 4.10.57
Count Basie & his Orch / The Jitters / Columbia / 1.28.41
Noel Coward / Dance Little Lady / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 4.28.28 / orch arranged & conducted by Carroll Gibbons
T-Bone Walker / I Wish You Were Mine / Capitol / LA 12.17.47
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / When You're Alone / Apollo / 11.2.45
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Here I Am in Love Again / Bethlehem / 1955 (BG)

set 2
Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Darn that Dream / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56 (BG)
Hal McKusick / East Coast Jazz 8 / Lullaby for Leslie / Bethlehem / 1955 (BG)
Don Byas / They Say It's Wonderful / Savoy [7" EP] / late-40s (BG)
Ike Quebec / Tenor Sax / Scufflin' / Savoy [7" EP] / late-40s (BG)
Lee Patrick [playing Blondie White] / from movie Footsteps in the Dark / Love Me / MGM / Hollywood 1941
The Tramp Band [aka Cotton Club Tramp Band] / from movie Stormy Weather / Linda Brown (Dah, Dat, Dah) / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood spring 1943 / with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Joe Tex / Pneumonia / King / 1956 / with Mickey Baker on guitar

set 3
Howard McGhee / Sharp Edge / Sharp Edge / Black Lion / 12.8.61
Frank Wess / Prestige Moodsville 8 / Star Eyes / 5.9.60
Bumps Myers Sextet / Memphis Hop / Selective / LA spring 1949
Pauline & her Perils [Six Hits and a Miss minus two Hits] / My Blue Heaven / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / solo the King Cole Trio (a little celeste by Nat King Cole) and vocal = Pauline Byrns
The Robins / Around about Midnite / Aladdin / LA 5.27.49
Bobby Darin / Nature Boy [45] / Atco / LA 1961

set 4
Bud Powell / The Bud Powell Trio Plays / Burt Covers Bud / Roost / 9.53 (BG)
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Vilia [from the operetta The Merry Widow] / Roost / 4.52 (BG)
Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi-Hat / Every Tub / Roost / live at the Hi-Hat, Boston 2.11.54
Mildred Bailey / A Bee Gezindt / Columbia / 1.25.40Coffeetime, September 8, 2006
Camille Howard / I'm Blue / Specialty / Hollywood 3.1.50
Walter Huston / from movie"Knickerbocker Holiday" / September / United Artists / Hollywood 1944 / / http://www.dandugan.com/maytime/f-knicke.html
Earl Gaines / Sixty Minute Man / unissued Hollywood or DeLuxe / late-60s
Swan Silvertones / Singing in My Soul / Move Somewhere / Vee Jay / 1960

last soul song
The Admirations / Wait Til I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1967

Alex Served Coffeetime

Thanks again to Alex McNeil for sitting in for me last week. Here's the playlist from that fascinating show:

Teri Thornton - Open Highway (Route 66)
Bernie Green - Mr. Peepers
Harry Betts - Cain's Hundred
Leith Stevens - M Squad Theme
Ralph Marterie - Richard Diamond
Mundell Lowe & His All Stars - Riff Blues (Mike Hammer)
Buddy Morrow - This Is the Naked City
Johnny Williams - Checkmate
CBS Orchestra - Gunsmoke
Marty Gold - Wagons Ho (Wagon Train)
Bud Wattles - Wanted Dead or Alive
Bernard Herrmann - Have Gun Will Travel (opening)
Johnny Western - The Ballad of Paladin (closing theme)
Buddy Morrow - Rawhide
Herschel Burke Gilbert - The Rifleman
Warren Barker & Frank Comstock - Maverick
Richard Gleason - Tales of Wells Fargo
ABC Orchestra - William Tell Overture (Lone Ranger)
Richard Gleason - The Restless Gun
P.F. Sloan - Danger Man
Edwin Astley - High Wire (from Secret Agent)
Lionel Newman - The Lieutenant
Edwin Astley - The Saint
Barker & Comstock - 77 Sunset Strip
Carl Brandt - The New Sunset (second theme from 77 Sunset Strip)
Laurie Johnson - The Avengers
Richard Gleason - Toy Parade (Leave It to Beaver)
Carl Brandt - My Favorite Martian
Tony DeSimone Trio - Oriental Blues (from Ernie Kovacs)
Lionel Newman - The Dick Van Dyke Show
Robert Maxwell - Song of the Nairobi Trio (from Ernie Kovacs)
John Barry - The Persuaders
Barker & Comstock - Pete Kelly's Blues
David Fanshawe - Flambards
Geoffrey Burgon - Brideshead Revisited
Eugene Ormandy & Philadelphia Orch. - Liberty Bell March (Monty
Python's Flying Circus)
Simon Park - Danger UXB
Buddy Morrow - Sea Hunt
Mundell Lowe & His All Stars - Perry Mason
Jim Helms - Kung Fu

Burt Goldblatt: a great artist passes on…

I was sad to hear yesterday morning that Burt Goldblatt, a great artist whose work graces the covers of many jazz LPs and 7 and 10 inch EPs from the heyday of the 1950s, has died. His wife Kathy phoned me. Burt and Kathy were very generous with their time when I was writing about jazz cover design several years ago and we had kept in contact since. Even though our get-togethers and phone calls were infrequent, they were like family. It was their way. Burt even appeared on Coffeetime a few years ago.

I'll be attending a memorial service for Burt today; Alex MacNeil will be sitting in for me on Coffeetime, playing crime jazz and other gems as he did a few weeks ago when I was overwhelmed by work.

Below is an amended version the introduction to the piece I wrote in 1999. You can read the whole inverview with Burt on my website. His brilliant energy will be missed.


Burt Goldblatt was born in 1924 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He served in the army in World War II and afterwards studied at the Massachusetts College of Art. After graduation he worked in a printing plant where he learned all that went into production at that time: stripping, platemaking, retouching, lessons not taught in art school. After freelancing for a time in Boston, he moved to New York City and began a prolific career as a commercial artist and photographer, becoming especially prolific in cover design, creating about 200 cover designs in 1955 alone. That same year he won the New York Art Director’s Award for best cover design of the year and the Princeton University Library exhibited his work.

One of Goldblatt's first cover designs was on a bootleg album for Billy Holiday on the Jolly Roger label in 1950. He worked for Savoy, Emarcy, Bethlehem and many other labels. With his first covers he aimed for a visual simplicity and yet also a strength of image by eliminating song titles from the cover and by creating unique and intriguing illustrations. His drawings of musicians employ a dynamic, serpentine line. The variations in weight from thick to thin would alone mark the drawing as distinctively his, but it is his original use of unusual perspectives that distinguishes Mr. Goldblatt's line drawings from others of the same period, whether it’s a view of Don Byas from above or George Wallington from below.

His other illustrative covers are equally distinctive, for example, a broadly abstracted caricature of Frances Faye or a portrait of Bud Freeman composed entirely of tiny saxophones. He utilized a vast range of methods and styles, including collage, montage, even x-rays. In addition to his illustrative designs, Goldblatt also became one of the outstanding photographer/designers. His photographic cover designs for Bethlehem combine evocative pictures with restrained yet lyrical typography. These covers are timeless designs, elegant works unto themselves that never look outdated or old fashioned.

Amazingly, he was self-taught in photography. He kept himself unobtrusive in recording studios and nightclubs, capturing millions of filmed images, some of which later graced his cover designs. He was accepted by the musicians and, in fact, was friends with many. More than just a jazz fan, it is safe to say that Mr. Goldblatt was himself part of the jazz scene, not just a chronicler of it.

Mr. Goldblatt designed covers into the '60s, but the changes in the industry brought about by rock and roll caused him to follow other pursuits. He went from a prolific cover design career to a prolific writing career, publishing and co-authoring 17 books on topics as diverse as Mobs And The Mafia: The Illustrated History Of Organized Crime, The Marx Brothers At The Movies and The World Series A Complete Pictorial History. He has also published books of his jazz photography and on the Newport Jazz Festival. Today, living in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and traveling regularly with his wife, he still pursues many projects both as a visual artist and as a writer. His work has been honored many times, in 1962 at the Smithsonian and in the winter of 1993-94 at Harvard University. Despite numerous medical setbacks, Mr. Goldblatt stayed active and optimistic in his later years “I’m a survivor; I’ve had cancer and triple-bypass heart surgery. I walk three miles a day with my dog. I was very active as a kid. I feel good.”

He passed away on August 30 in Boston, with his wife Katherine Holzman Goldblatt by his side. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and two grandsons.

Little Playlist Play On Your Harp

Coffeetime, August 25, 2006

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

set 1
Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / Man of Moods / Savoy / 5.22.56
Blue Mitchell / Smooth as Wind / A Blue Time / Riverside / 3.29, 30.61
Ernie Wilkins & his Orch / Lullaby of Birdland [Ernie Wilkins and his Orchestra] / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / 8.17.55
Eddie Duchin & his Orch / You Took My Breath Away / transcription (rehearsal check) / 1935
Helen Kane / soundtrack to Heads Up! / Readin', Ritin', Rhythm / Victor / Hollywood 7.1.30
Cabineers / How Was I to Know / Decca / 1941
Ella Fitzgerald / These Are the Blues / You Don't Know My Mind / Verve / 10.29.63

set 2
Teddy Edwards / Together Again! / Misty / Contemporary / LA 5.15, 17.61
Chet Baker / New Blue Horns / Early Morning Mood / Riverside / 1.19.59
"King" Bennie Nawahi / Black Boy Blues / 1929
Adrian Rollini & his Orch / It Had to Be You / Decca / 10.23.34 / vocal = Ella Logan
Lee Brown / How'ling Man Blues / 1.11.40 / Decca? / with Red Allen on trumpet
The Trilogy / Two Sides of the Trilogy / Guess Who I Saw Today / Strange Productions / 1970

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Blues á la Carte / Vee Jay / 9.9.59
Machito / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Kenya-Afro Cuban Jazz] / Tin Tin Deo / Roulette / 12.17, 19 & 24.57 x
Charlie Parker / Yardbird Suite / Dial / Hollywood 3.28.46
Three Peppers [Roy Branker, Bob Bell, Walter Williams] / Swing Out Uncle Wilson / Decca / 1939 / a video clip singing "Swingin' At The Cotton Club" from 1943 A Lady Takes A Chance starring John Wayne and Jean Arthur
Kay Starr / Honeysuckle Rose / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
Big Mama Thornton / My Man Called Me / Peacock / 1957
Jackie Wilson / Somethin' Else! / Give Me Back My Heart / Capitol / 1964

set 4
Bud Shank / Blowin' Country / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.21.58
Hampton Hawes / Four! / There Will Never Be Another You / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58
Jean Sablon / J'attendrai / Columbia / Hollywood? 1940s
Louis Jordan & his Tympathy Five / There'll Be No Days Like That / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Sammy Davis, Jr / I Gotta Be Me / I'm a Brass Band / Reprise / LA 2.7.67 or 3.4.68
The Charioteers / Little David Play On Your Harp / Decca / 1935

last soul song
The Astors / Just Enough to Hurt Me / Stax / 1963 / interesting page on the Astors (warning: not work-friendy; loads with loud, albeit nice, song playing)

Cow Cow Playlist

Coffeetime, August 18, 2006

bed
Modern Jazz Quartet / No Sun in Venice / Atlantic / 4.4.57

set 1
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Split Quick / Blue Note / 8.4.60
Horace Silver / Finger Poppin' with The Horace Silver Quintet / Finger Poppin' / Blue Note / 1.31.59
Milt Hinton / The Rhythm Section / Ruby, My Dear / Epic / 1956 / Milt's film clips
Joe Thomas' Big Six / Riff Street / HRS / 2.15.46
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orch / In a Blue and Pensive Mood / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Elisabeth Welch / Harlem in My Heart / HMV / London 7.6.37 / with orch directed by Eric Ansell
Toni Harper / Lady Lonely / Blue It Grows / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59 / with orch arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Summertime / Savoy / 10.10.55 / piano solo
Herbie Harper / Herbie Harper Quintet / Alone Together / Tampa / LA 6.15.55
Ike Quebec Quintet / Blue Harlem / Blue Note / 7.18.44
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys / Playboy Stomp / Vocalion / Dallas 7 (6?).7.37
Mills Brothers / Don't Be Afraid to Tell Your Mother / Decca / 2.20.35
Ella Mae Morse / AFRS Command Performance #27 / Cow Cow Boogie / radio transcription / Hollywood 8.18.42 / with host Cary Grant and Freddie Slack & his Orch; nice essay on Command Permormance broadcasts
Freddy King & Lula Reed / Boy-Girl-Boy / (Let Your Love) Watch Over Me / King [Federal] / 1962

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / (live) / Kozo's Waltz / Birdland 9.11.60 / introduction by Art Blakey
Howard McGhee / Short Life / Savoy / Chicago 2.48
The Dinning Sisters / Melancholy / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / On Revival Day / Atlantic / 7.27.58
Johnny Gilbert / That's All / That's All / Imperial / LA 1963

set 4
Vince Guaraldi / Modern Music from San Francisco / Calling Dr. Funk / Fantasy / LA 1955
Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / Lady Like / Decca / LA 1957
Bing Crosby / It's Been a Long, Long Time / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.45 / with Les Paul Trio
Little Milton / Believe in Me / Checker / Chicago 7.6.66 / flip of Man Loves Two
Catherine Spaak / Promesse, Promesse [Italian cast of Promises, Promises] / L'ora Dell'addio (Knowing When to Leave) / 1970
Bessie Griffin / Nobody But You / Specialty [unissued] / Chicago 9.24.55 / with The Gospel Consolators, arranged by Bumps Blackwell

last soul song
Carla Thomas / The Queen Alone / When Tomorrow Comes / Atlantic [originally Stax] / Memphis 3.14.67

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