Alex sits in on CT

Hey! Much thanks to Alex McNeil for filling in for me this past Friday, June 1, on Coffeetime while I was at the Wellesley College commencement, cheering on my friend (and WMBR supporter) Lauren as she received her degree. (Yay, Lo!)

I did get to hear the show as I was driving home. Alex did a great interview with Howard Tate and then played his special mix of jazzy and otherwise poppy tunes from TV's past. (I sat in the broiling hot car in order to hear the Room 222 theme. Love it.) Below is his playlist. We both were at the Museum of National Heritage in Lexington Saturday night to hear Mr Tate perform. His voice is truly amazing… still.

Alex's playlist:

01. Howard Tate - Ain't Nobody Home
02. Howard Tate - Look at Granny Run, Run
03. Howard Tate - Mama Was Right
04. Howard Tate - Homewrecker

05. Mundell Lowe & His All Stars - Peter Gunn
06. Metropolitan Jazz Quartet - Blue Star (Theme from Medic)
07. Buddy Morrow - The Untouchables
08. Maynard Ferguson - Naked City Theme
09. Mod Squad Theme
10. Vic Schoen - Tightrope
11. Elmer Bernstein - Staccato Theme
12. Johnny "Hammond" Smith - N.Y.P.D. Theme
13. Cannon
14. Lester Lanin - Mr. Clean/Chase & Sanborn/Pepsodent medley
15. Adam-12
16. Richard "Groove" Holmes - The Odd Couple
17. Burke's Law
18. Non-Profit Corporation - Theme from Room 222
19. Johnny Gregory - Wagon Train (first theme)
20. Bud Wattles - Wagon Train (second theme, "Roll Along, Wagon Train")
21. Neal Hefti - Wagon Train (third theme, "Wagons Ho")
22. Bud Wattles - Gunsmoke
23. Ballad of Davy Crockett
24. Ralph Young - Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp
25. The Riflmeman
26. Tommy Mara - Yancy Derringer
27. Bud Wattles - Black Saddle
28. Lawman
29. Chordettes - Zorro
30. Branded
31. Hopalong Cassidy
32. Bobby Lord - Swamp Fox
33. Alan Dale - Robin Hood
34. Fireball XL-5
35. Thunderbirds
36. Miniature Men - Soupy's Theme
37. Beany and Cecil
38. Top Cat
39. King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
40. Banana Splits - Banana Splits
41. Challengers - The Man From UNCLE
42. Frank DeVol - Bewitched
43. Lester Lanin - Robert Hall/Blatz Beer/Blue Bonnet Margarine/KLMmedley
44. Mundell Lowe & His All Stars - Riff Blues (Mike Hammer Theme)

Thanks once again, Alex!

The Playlist That Is!

Coffeetime, May 25, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Song Book / The Lamp is Low / Prestige / 2.27.64
Teddy Charles / The Teddy Charles Tentet / Lydian M-1 / Atlantic / 1.17.56
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Dinah's in a Jam / live at the Cotton Club 4.24.38
Whispering Jack Smith / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along / Victor / 4.28.26 / whistling = Carson Robison
Benny Carter & his Orch / There, I've Said It Again / Decca / 1.21.41 / vocal = Roy Felton
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins, piano

set 2
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Summertime / Prestige / 11.27.58 /
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Body and Soul / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Joe Venuti / Laura / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show / LA 1952-53 season (when Venuti was a regular)
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Corky's Stomp / Decca / circa 11.8.29
Joan Crawford / How Long Will It Last? / Hollywood 8.23.31 / with Gus Arnheim & his Cocoanut Grove Orch
The Ink Spots / Slap That Bass / Decca / 4.9.37
William "Brother" Woodman / Hot Mama / Combo / LA mid-1950s / vocal = Ethyl Brown & The Chanteers
Pearl Bailey & Mike Douglas / Young at Heart / Project 3 / LA 1969

set 3
Curtis Amy / Mustang / Mustang / Verve / 1966 (67?)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Are You Real / On the Ginza /Moon / live, London 1965
Julian Dash / Goin' Along / 12.50 / interesting note: his niece Julie Dash directed "Daughters of the Dust"
Lou Preager & his Band / Medley: Whispering in the Light; Hey, Good Lookin' / live at The Locano Ballroom, London 1940s/ vocal = Edna Kaye & Paul Rich
The Four Buddies / I Will Wait / Savoy / 10.12.50
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / My Ship / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks! / Walkin' By the River / Contemporary / LA 9.23.57
Les Paul Trio / I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me / V-Disc / mid-1940s
John Kirby & his Orch / Tweed Me / Victor / 10.7.41
Frank Sinatra & Janet Blair / Lucky Strikes Presents Light Up Time radio show / Some Enchanted Evening / 12.13.49
Etta James / Miss Pitiful / Cadet / 6.10.69
Sammy Davis Jr / Greatest Hits / On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / Reprise / LA 1967
The Argo Singers / See How He Kept Me / Vee-Jay / 1962

last soul song
Junior / Mama Used to Say / Mercury / 12.81

Honeysuckle Playlist

Coffeetime, May 18, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Mal Waldron / Mal-2 / Blue Calypso [CD bonus track] / Prestige / 4.19.57
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Sonia / Time / 3.23.60
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Weary Blues / Decca / 9.26.35
Ray Noble & his Orch / Weep No More, My Baby / HMV / London 10.12.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Ray Johnson / Boogie the Blues / Mercury / 1953-55
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Blue Moon / Coral / 1958 with Buddy Cole Trio

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Time On My Hands / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender /Girl Talk / Cadet / 4.66
Arnett Cobb Septet / I'm in the Mood for Love / Okeh / 8.7.51
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Deep River / 1940 / thanks to Jean-Pierre!
Fats Waller / Clothes Line Ballet / Bluebird / 11.16.34
Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon / Take Off Them Hips / Decca / 4.17.40
Benny Goodman Sextet / She's Funny That Way / Columbia / vocal = Jane Harvey
Bobby “Blue” Bland & BB King / Together Again…Live / Everyday (I Have the Blues) / Impulse! / live Cocoanut Grove, LA 1976

set 3
James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / New Delhi / Riverside / LA 10.11.60
Eddie Lockjaw Davis Quartette / Mean to Me / King / 6.14.58
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Loch Lomond / Gotham / Philadelphia 1950 / nice essay about Tiny Grimes
Ella Logan & Spirits of Rhythm / I Woke Up with a Teardrop / Columbia / Hollywood 9.4.41
Melody Masters / My Baby / Apollo / 1946
Four of Us / Lift Up the Latch / Modern / 1947 / hat tip to Tony at Vocal Harmony site
Anthony Newley / Tony / You're Free / London / 1961

set 4
Lucky Thompson / Tricotism / Little Tenderfoot / ABC [Impulse] / 12.11.56
Herb Pomeroy Orch / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / Jack Sprat / Roulette / 6.3-4.57
Eddie South / The Distinguished Violin of Eddie South / I Hadn't Anyone Till You / Mercury / Chicago 7.14.58
Ida James / Honeysuckle Rose / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.22.44 / with the King Cole Trio
The Falcons / Take this Love I've Got / Atlantic / 1963 / with Wilson Picket
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Equinox / Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / A&M / LA 1967
The Swan Silvertones / Get Your Soul Right / Vee-Jay / Chicago 2.28.56

last soul song
Jackie Ross / Jerk and Twine / Chess / Chicago 1965

There's a Playlist in this Old Building

Coffeetime, May 11, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Can't See for Looking / Prestige / 6.27.58

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Big Six / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
John Coltrane / Bahia / Goldsboro Express / Prestige / 12.26.58
Trummy Young's Big Seven / Fruitie Cutie [alternate take] / HRS [Mosaic box set - thanks Lou!] / 9.3.46
Lee Morse & her Bluegrass Boys / Moanin' Low / Columbia / 7.24.29
Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers / Dinah / soundtrack to The Big Broadcast / Hollywood 12.16.31
Russell Jacquet / Wake Up Old Maid / Jewell / 9.21.46 / vocal = Numa Lee Davis
Dinah Washington / In Tribute… / I've Run Out of Reasons / Roulette / 9.10.62 / with the Vocaleers (?)

set 2
Sonny Rollins / soundtrack to Alfie / He's Younger Than You Are / Impulse! / 1.26.66
André Previn & his Pals / Gigi / I Remember It Well / Contemporary / LA 4.7-8.58
Art Tatum / Here's Art Tatum / Honeysuckle Rose / Brunswick / 1955
Dick Powell / I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / soundtrack to On the Avenue / Hollywood 2.6.37 / with Victor Young & his Orch
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / You Showed Me the Way / Modern Music / LA 1946
Sam Cooke / Encore / Along the Navaho Trail / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orch

set 3
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions / Fenwyk Farfel / Fantasy /LA 1957
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash / Blue Bash / Verve / 7.16, 25, 29.63
Charlie Parker & his Orch / An Oscar for Treadwell / Clef / 6.6.50
The Dinning Sisters / Lolita Lopez / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Ann Cole / My Tearful Heart / Baton / New Orleans 1956
Bobby Darin / That's All / It Ain't Necessarily So / Atco / 12.19.58

set 4
Oscar Moore / Afterglow / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings And Plays [Grey December] / I Wish I Knew / Pacific Jazz / 2.28.55
Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Perkin' / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55
Three Bits of Rhythm / I Used to Work in Chicago / Modern Music / 1946
Marlene Dietrich / An Evening with Marlene Dietrich / Honeysuckle Rose and Falling in Love Again / soundtrack from BBC TV show / New London Theatre, London 11.23-24.72 [CD says "Queen's Theatre, London 12.12.64"?]
The Southern Sons / There's a Leak in this Old Building / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soul song
Choice o f Colors / Love is Gone / unissued Hotlanta demo [from Good Guys Don't Always Win CD] / early 1970s

Half as Lovely (Twice as Playlist)

Coffeetime, May 4, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58

set 1
Joe Gordon / Lookin' Good / Diminishing / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12, 18,61
Phineas Newborn Jr / The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr / Four / Contemporary / LA 9.12.62
Benny Carter Orch / Takin' My Time / Bluebird / 11.19.40
Ben Selvin & his Orch / Hot-Cha Medley: You Can Make My Life a Bed of Roses, Say, There I Go / Columbia / 3.22.32 / vocal = Kate Smith, Wallace Trio, Jack Miller, respectively
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Boogie Woogie Came to Town / Decca / 1941
Helen O'Connell / Penthouse Serenade / radio transcription / LA 1953 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio

set 2
Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / Farewell Machelle / Blue Note / 11.24.64
McCoy Tyner / McCoy Tyner Plays Duke Ellington / I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) [cd bonus track] / Impulse! / 12.2, 7, 8.64
Laurindo Almeida / Laurindo Almeida Quartet, volume 2 [Brazilliance] / Noctambulism / Pacific Jazz / LA 1953
Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys / Too Busy / Brunswick / Chicago 9.29.35
DeZurik Sisters / I Left Her Standing There / Vocalion / Chicago 1.39
Doc Pomus / Naggin' Wife Blues / Apollo / late 1947 or early 1948
Peggy Lee / Imagination / Capitol / LA 4.4, 8.49
Otis Rush / It Takes Time / Cobra / 1958 / with Willie Dixon & his Orch

set 3
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Everything's Gonna Work Out Fine / Prestige / 4.10.62
Cannonball Adderley / The Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Lighthouse / Our Delight [unissued on orig LP] / Riverside [Landmark] / The Lighthouse Cafe, Hermosa Beach, California 10.16.60
Tadd Dameron Band / Lady Be Good / radio broadcast / The Royal Roost 8.48
The Mills Brothers / Diga, Diga Do / Decca / 12.22.32 / with Duke Ellington & his Orch
Teddy Wilson Quartet / Time After Time / Musicraft / 1946 / vocal = Sarah Vaughn
Frank Sinatra / Half As Lovely (Twice As True) / Capitol / Hollywood 5.13.54

set 4
Red Norvo / Music to Listen to Red Norvo By / Divertimento, 1st movement / Contemporary / LA 3.2.57
Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
Cleo Brown / You Take the East, Take the West, Take the North, I'll Take the South / Decca / 3.12.35
Ruby Johnson / I'm Hooked / Volt? / mid-60s
Ray Charles / The Genius of Ray Charles / Let the Good Times Roll / Atlantic / 6.23.59
Delta Rhythm Boys / Certainly Lord / radio transcription / 1941

last soul song
The Voices of East Harlem / Cashing In / Chicago Sound / 1973

Aren't Playlists Wonderful

Coffeetime, April 27, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Cabu / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Bennie Green Septet / Trombone By Three / Pennies from Heaven / Prestige / 10.5.51
Count Basie & his Orch / The Glory of Love / Decca / 3.26.37
Sophie Tucker / Aren't Women Wonderful / HMV? / London 8.30.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orch
Jesse Belvin / Where's My Girl / Specialty / Hollywood 3.17.55 / with Bumps Blackwell Band and the Laurels
Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Angel Eyes / Sing / Chicago 2.59

set 2
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Day Dreaming / Argo / Chicago 11.17.57
Howard McGhee / Sharp Edge / Ill Wind / 12.8.61
Flip Phillips & his Orch / Swinging With Flip / If I Had You / Clef / LA 3.52
Oscar Aleman / Nobody's Sweetheart / HMV / Copenhagen 12.5.38
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Zonky / Victor / 2.3.30 / vocal = Dave Wilborn
Geraldo & his Orch / Another Day / HMV (?) / London (?) 1949 / vocal = Archie Lewis
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Johnson and Turner Blues / National / 2.2.45 / vocal = Joe Turner
The Orioles / Shrimp Boats / Jubilee / 1.10.52

set 3
Harold Mabern / Rakin' and Scrapin' / Aon / Prestige / 12.23.68
Machito & his Orch / Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite: Jazz / Clef [Verve] / 12.21.50 / with Charlie Parker
Jo Stafford / I Wanna Be Loved / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #333 / Hollywood 10.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orch and introduced by Dick Haymes
Savannah Churchill & The Striders / In Spite of Everything You Do / RCA Victor / 12.51 http://www.group-harmony.com/in_spite.htm
Fred Astaire / I Concentrate on You / Clef / LA 12.52


set 4
Howard Roberts / Whatever's Fair! / This is the Life / Capitol / LA 1966
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / Blowin' Country / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
Fats Waller / A Handful of Keys / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Eight Squares & a Critic [Bud Freeman & his V-Disc Jumpers] / The Latest Thing in Hot Jazz / V-Disc / 10.4.45
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / Somebody Loves Me / Columbia / Hollywood 12.04.50
Little Milton / Twenty-Three Hours / Checker / Chicago 11.25.68
Judy Garland / What'll I Do? / TV soundtrack, episode 19 of The Judy Garland Show, 2.2.64 / LA 1.17.64
Soul Stirrers / Come and Go to that Land / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last soul song
The Just Brothers / She Broke His Heart / Empire, Garrison, Wand / 1967

I Don't Ask Questions, I Just Have Playlist

Coffeetime, April 20, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Red Garland's Piano / Prestige / 12.14.56 & 3.22.57 /

set 1
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Come Back to Me / Atlantic / 8.17.55
Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Love for Sale / Roost / 3.18.57
Willie Lews & his Entertainers / Sweet Sue / Pathé Marconi / Paris / 10.15.36
Seger Ellis / The Song is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On / Victor / 1927 / with the Tampa Red Artistes
T-Bone Walker / Lonesome Woman Blues / Black & White / LA 11.12.47
Anita O'Day / Pick Yourself Up / Man with a Horn / Verve / LA 12.19.56

set 2
Cal Tjader / Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen / Ill Wind / Fanstasy / San Francisco 1961
Kenny Drew / The Kenny Drew Trio / Ruby My Dear / Riverside / 9.20, 26.56
John Kirby & his Orch / Fifis Rhapsody / Victor / 7.25.41
George E. Lee & His Orch / If I Could Be with You / Brunswick / Kansas City circa 11.6.29
Johnny Mercer / Strip Polka / Capitol / Hollywood 4.6.42
Gene Autry / A Melody from the Sky / transcription / 1945
Dean Martin / Medley: You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It); It Had to Be You; I'm in Love with You; I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (and Write Myself a Letter) / Capitol [limited issue] / live, Moulin Rouge, Hollywood 5.9.59

set 3
Candido / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Conga Soul] / Dark Eyes / Roulette / circa 1961-62
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Mambeando / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Les Paul / The New Sound! [45 rpm double-EP] / Brazil / Capitol / 1948
Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / If That's What You're Thinking, You're Wrong / Decca / 4.21.39
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 12.8.44
Billy Taylor Quartet / I Don't Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun [alternate take] / HRS / circa 6.47 / vocal = Billy Taylor

set 4
Al Cohn, Bill Perkins, Richie Kamuca / The Brothers! / Blixed / RCA Victor / 6.25.55
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Osmosis / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Hadda Brooks / Tootsie Timesie / Modern / 1948
Big Mama Thornton / I Just Can't Help Myself / Peacock [unissued] / LA 1952-53
Shirley Bassey / Who Can I Turn To? / Columbia / 1964
Nightingale Jubilaires / Sorrow Valley / Swing Time / late-40s, early-50s

last soul song
The New Holidays / Maybe So, Maybe No / Soul Hawk [Westbound] / 1969

Give Me the Simple Playlist

Coffeetime, April 13, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60 /

set 1
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller, Volume 3 / Little Messenger / Blue Note / 12.1.57
Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane [Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago] / Stars Fell on Alabama / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish / radio transcription / 1939
Hal Kemp & his Orch / I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
Boswell Sisters / Stardust / Brunswick / 5.25.31 / with Victor Young & the Brunswick Orch
Billie Holiday / Everything Happens to Me / Verve / 2.14.55

set 2
Lee Morgan / Candy / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 11.18.57
Mundell Lowe / soundtrack from MGM film Satin in High Heels [also Blues for a Stripper]/ The Lost and the Lonely / Charlie Parker Records / LA 11.30.61
Erskine Butterfield / Piano Cocktail / Joe Davis / 8.17.44
Bill Coleman & his Orch / After You've Gone / Disques Swing / Paris 11.12.37
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson / Doin' the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 (or 1929?)
The Maples / I Must Forget You / Blue Lake / Chicago 1954 / with the Von Freeman Combo
Nancy Sinatra / Sugar / What'll I Do? / Reprise / LA 1967

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Work Done / On a Clear Day / HighNote / live at the Keystone Korner, San Francisco 1976
Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins / Calling Berlin, volume 2 / What'll I Do? / Arbors / 1994
Tab Smith & his Orch / Ace High / United / Chicago c. 9.52 (1954?)
The Five Jones Boys / I Heard / Standard transcription / c. 1937
Mildred Bailey / You Started Something (unissued alternate take) / Majestic / 10.47
Buddy Greco / At Mister Kelly's / My Ship / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Resonant Emotions / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from film I Want to Live! / Life's a Funny Thing / United Artists / LA 1958
Frank Sinatra & Skinnay Ennis / Songs By Sinatra radio show, AFRS #25 / Whispering / radio transcription / 3.6.46
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / So Long / Modern / 1946
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late Show / Give Me the Simple Life / Capitol / 1957
Southern Sons / Two Wings / V-Disc / early 12.43

last soul song
Natural Four / Hanging on to a Lie / Boola-Boola / 1971

In a Meditating Playlist

Coffeetime, April 6, 2007; Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Passion Spring / Riverside / 1.20.59
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Joy Spring / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.54
Terry Gibbs / Swing Not Spring / Serenade in Blue / Savoy / 8.28.58
Isham Jones & his Orch / In My Heart It's You / Brunswick / 9.8.30
King Porter & his Orch / Chitlin' Ball / Imperial / LA 12.30.47 / vocal = Gene Phillips
Dinah Washington / Crazy He Calls Me / EmArcy / 8.14.54 / with Clifford Brown All Stars

set 2
Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note / 3.12.56
Gigi Gryce / In a Meditating Mood / Savoy / 10.22.55
Lynn Hope / Please, Mr. Sun / Aladdin / Chicago 3.11.52
Joe Herlihy & his Orch / State and Madison / Edison / 6.20.27
Geraldo & his Orch / It Can't Be Wrong /mid-1940s / vocal = Dorothy Carless
Dave Bartholomew / Country Boy / DeLuxe / New Orleans 4.49
Willie Parker / Let's Start a Thing Now / M-Pac! / Chicago 1966

set 3
Gene Ammons / Funky / King Size / 1.11.57
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / St. Louis Blues / Gotham / c. 1951
Joe Thomas' Big Six / He's Got So Much / HRS / 2.14, 15.46 / vocal = Babe Mathews
The Five Red Caps / Tuscaloosa / Beacon / 7.43
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I'll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee

set 4
Billy May & his Orch / soundtrack to MGM film Johnny Cool / The Coolest Pad / UA / Hollywood 1963
Barney Kessel / Workin' Out! / Pedal Point / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61
Fats Waller / Poor Butterfly / radio transcription / 8.7.39
King Cole Trio / I Love You (for Sentimental Reasons) / Capitol / 8.22.46
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / Every Second / King / 1956
Bobby Darin / Love Look Away / Capitol / LA mid-1960s
The Trumpeteers / The Last Supper / Philadelphia late 1954

last soul song
The Tams / Dancing Mood / ABC-Paramount / 1964

Finally Barnacle Playlist!

Coffeetime, March 30, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Afrodisia / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Jon Eardley / Hey There / Hey There / Prestige / 3.14.55
Harry Carney's Big Eight / Minor Mirage / HRS / 3.18.46
Bennie Nawahi / Guitar Rhythm / 1931
Whistling Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Barnacle Bill the Sailor / Decca / 12.20.38
Etta Jones / Something Nice / Maybe You'll Be There / Prestige / 3.30.61

set 2
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Imagination / Fantasy / Berkeley, Calif 6.6.55
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / My One and Only Love / Capitol / 1958
Ben Webster / Soulville / Ill Wind / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Dizzy Gillespie / I Can't Get Started / Manor / 1.9.45
Horace Henderson & his Orch / Swingin' & Jumpin' / Vocalion / Chicago 5.8.40
Viola McCoy / Git Goin / Cameo / 12.26
Georges Guétary / L'Homme de Nulle Part / Paris 11.25.41
The Ray-O-Vacs / I'm the Baby Now / Coleman / 1949

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / Montono Blues / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Teddy Charles / On Campus: Ivy League Jazz Concert / That Old Black Magic / Bethlehem / live, Yale 11.21.59
Howard McGhee / Up in Dodo's Room / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
Cabineers / Let the Party Go On / Decca / 1941
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / Honey, Honey, Honey / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.47 l
Little Sylvia [Vanderpool] / Everything I Need But You / Jubilee / 1952
Milt Jackson / Meet Milt Jackson / I've Lost Your Love / Savoy / 11.1.54

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Santa Monica / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Sextet / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.30.53
Nat King Cole / Return Trip / Capitol / 11.7.47
Bing Crosby / Whose Dream Are You? / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.45 / with Les Paul Trio
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / I Love You Much Too Much / Capitol / Hollywood 1962
The Sallie Martin Singers / Great Day / Specialty / Hollywood 03.31.52

last soul song
Willie Tee / Walkin' Up a One Way Street / Nola [Atlantic] / 1965

"Stop Driving Us Crazy"

Created By Creative Arts Studio and directed by Mel Emde in 1959 (or 1961 depending upon which site you reference) for a branch of the Methodist Church and with music composed by Benny Golson and performed by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers:

Baby, Whose Playlist Are You?

Coffeetime, March 23, 2007; Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Lex / Prestige / 8.2.61
Red Garland / Solar / I Just Can't See for Looking / Jazzland / 1.30.62
Jack Teagarden's Big Eight / Shine / HRS / 12.15.40
Duke Ellington & his Orch / You're Lucky to Me / Victor / 10.2.30 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Every Man to His Own Profession / Decca / 1949
Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / Come Rain or Come Shine / Mercury / 1956

set 2
Charles McPherson / The Quintet Live! / Never Let Me Go / Prestige / Five Spot Cafe 10.13.66
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / The Blue Room / Okeh / 9.7.28 / vocal = Rube Bloom
Billie Holiday / Night and Day / Vocalion / 12.13.39
Belle Baker / Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen / Brunswick / 12.21.37 / with Gene Kardos & his Orch
The Three Jesters ("Red" Latham, "Guy" Bonham, and "Wamp" Carlson) / Egyptian Ella / V-Disc (Decca) / c. 1945
"Scat Man" Crothers / Gone with "Scat Man" Crothers [Rock 'N Roll with "Scat Man" Crothers] / The Gal Looks Good / Craftsmen [Tops] / 1957

set 3
Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie's Blues / Slim's Thing / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59
Sergio Mendes / The Great Arrival / Girl Talk / Atlantic / Hollywood 6.2.66
Count Basie & his Orch / Count Basie & the Kansas City 7 / Tally-Ho, Mr. Basie / ABC Impulse / 3.22.62
Charlie Parker Quartet / Cool Blues / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47
The Five Jones Boys / The Day You Get Away / Standard transcription / c. 1937
Tadd Dameron & his Orch / What's New / Capitol / 4.21.49 / vocal = Kay Penton
Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman /El Reloj / National / 1965

set 4
Barney Kessel / Carmen / A Pad on the Edge of Town / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58
King Cole Trio / Never Mind, Baby / Excelsior / Hollywood 7.22.40 / with King Cole & his Swing Trio (aka King Cole Swingsters)
Ernie Fields Orch / Baby, Whose Baby Are You? / Regal / Kansas City (?) 11.29.49
Dinah Washington / Dinah / I Could Have Told You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55
Tom Jones / The Tom Jones Fever Zone / Keep On Running / Parrot / London 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / The Sun Didn't Shine / Okeh / 5.25.41

last soul song
The Wallace Brothers / Talking About My Baby / Sims / 1967

Coffeetime vacation this week!

Thanks to Bob Biletch for once again coming in as guest deejay. Bob generously supports Coffeetime and WMBR each year at our fundraiser. And, on top of that, he always brings great tunes in to play on the show and give me a week off.

So thanks again, Bob!

I'll be back in the saddle next week…

Barnacle Bill the Playlist

Coffeetime, March 9, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Red Garland's Piano / Prestige / 12.14.56 & 3.22.57 /

set 1
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch / On a Misty Night / Riverside / 3.9.62
Cecil Payne / The Connection: New Original Score / Mighty Fine Wine / Charlie Parker Records / 3.14-16.62
Sonny Stitt / With the New Yorkers / I Didn't Know What Time It Was / Roost / 1957
Will Bradley & his Orch / Celery Stalks at Midnight / Columbia / 1.17.40
Ben Selvin & his Orch / Wanna Sing About You / Okeh / 5.9.31 / vocal = Paul Small
Kay Starr / So Tired / Standard transcription / LA 1946 / with Buzz Adlam & orch
Roy Brown / Riding High / Regal / New Orleans c. 1949
Doris Day / Day By Day / Don't Take Your Love from Me / Columbia / LA 1956 / with Paul Weston & His Music From Hollywood

set 2
Art Farmer / Farmer's Market / Reminiscing / New Jazz / 11.23.56
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure te / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Over the Rainbow / Savoy / 4.18.50
John Kirby & his Orch / It's Only a Paper Moon / Victor / 7.25.41
Bing Crosby / May I? / Columbia / LA 2.25.34 / with Nat W. Finston & his Paramount Orch
Babs & her Brothers [aka The Smoothies] / When a Great Love Comes Along / Decca / 1936
Otis Rush / She's a Good 'Un / Cobra / 1958 / with Willie Dixon & his Orch

set 3
Hank Mobley / Third Season / An Aperitif / Blue Note / 2.24.67
Joe Newman / The Midgets / One Lamper / RCA Victor / 7.13.56
Fats Navarro-Tadd Dameron Septet / The Squirrel / transcription / live, Royal Roost fall 1948
Helen Humes / Unlucky Woman / AFRS Jubilee #136 / LA 6.4.45 / with Benny Carter & his Orch
The Ravens / You Foolish Thing / Okeh / 3.29.51
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, Volume 3 / The Way You Look Tonight / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Barney Kessel / Let's Cook / Just in Time / Contemporary / LA 11.11.57
Dexter Gordon / Sweet Lorraine / Mercury / LA summer 1943 or 1944
The Enchanters / Boogie Woogie Daddy / Jubilee / 1952
Laura Lee / Are You Doing Me Wrong / Chess / 1965
Sammy Davis Jr / As Long As She Needs Me / Back in Your Own Back Yard / Reprise / LA 1963
Davis Sisters / Get Away Jordan / Gotham / 5.49

last soul song
Cicero Blake / A Woman Needs to Be Loved / Brunswick [unissued] / early 1970s

Playlist in the Moonlight

Coffeetime, March 2, 2007; Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / The Hand of Love / Blue Note / 5.19.57
Sonny Clark / [Standards] / The Breeze and I / Blue Note / 11.16.58
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Dunkin' a Doughnut / Decca / 12.5.38
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Orchids in the Moonlight [from Flying Down to Rio] / Victor / Hollywood 11.8.33
Big Maybelle / Blues Early, Early / Savoy / 11.26.57
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings More Cole Porter / Why Can't You Behave / Verve / LA 2.7.56 2

set 2
Donald Byrd / Mustang / I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good / Blue Note / 6.24.66
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles / There's No You / Atlantic / 11.26.56
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Lady of Mystery / Columbia / 9.12.39
The Three Keys / Basin Street Blues / Brunswick / 9.21.32
Etta Jones / I May Be Wonderful / National / 1.2.46 / with Pete Johnson's All Stars
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / Working with My Baby / Freedom / Houston c. 8.49
The Falcons / I'll Never Find Another Girl Like You / unissued [recorded by Robert West] / Detroit late 1950s

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Jazz Mood / Yusef's Mood / Savoy / 4.6.57
Rusty Bryant & the Carolyn Club Band / America's Greatest Jazz / Blow Rusty Blow / Dot / 1955
Rosemary Clooney / At a Sidewalk Penny Arcade / RCA / 10.30.47
The Striders / Hesitating Fool / Apollo / 11.14.49 / with Tony Pastor's Band
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Winter Moon / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.13.56

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Herb Pomeroy Orch / Life is a Many Splendored Gig / It's Sandman / Roulette / 6.3-4.57
Flip Phillips / Swingin' for Julie and Brownie [aka Put That Back] / Clef / LA 2.11.49
Mildred Bailey / It's So Peaceful in the Country / radio transcription The Morton Downey Show / spring 1951 / with Carmen Mastren on guitar
Wally Mercer / If You Don't Mean Business / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi / 10.19.54
Baby Washington / Go On / Sue / 1962
Zion Travelers / I've Started / Dootone / 1961

last soul song
Gene Chandler / My Baby's Gone / Brunswick [unissued] / late 1960s

One, Two, Button Your Playlist

Coffeetime, February 23, 2007, Angelynn Grant, 15th Anniversary Show

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Charlie Rouse / Takin' Care of Business / Weirdo / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / One Mo' / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Period of Adjustment / Capitol / 2.20-22.63
Ruth Etting / At Twilight / Columbia / 8.20.29
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / After I Say I'm Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
Delta Rhythm Boys / Long Gone Baby / Victor / 1.31.53 / with Jack Pleis Orch
Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / So Long, My Love / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2
Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery / In Your Own Sweet Way / Riverside / 1.26.60
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Don't Blame Me / Savoy / 7.18.56
Lucky Thompson & his Orch / Over the Rainbow / Triumph / 1950
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Moonglow / Brunswick / 9.18.34
Ella Mae Morse / Thank Your Lucky Star / radio transcription AFRS Command Performance #82 / 9.9.43
Bing Crosby / Medley from "Pennies from Heaven": One, Two, Button Your Shoe; And So Do I; Skeleton in the Closet / radio transcription of Kraft Music Hall show on V-Disc / Hollywood 11.16.44 / with Eugenie Baird, The Ken Lane Singers, the Charioteers, John Scott Trotter & his Orch
Edna McGriff / Why Oh Why / Jubilee / 1952
Magic Sam / Give Me Time / I'm So Glad / home recordings [Delmark] / Chicago 1.68

set 3
Baby-Face Willette / Behind the 8 Ball / Song of the Universe / Argo / Chicago 11.30.64
Art Tatum / Here's Art Tatum / After You've Gone / Brunswick / 1955
Charlie Parker / Quasimodo / Dial / 11.17.47
Savannah Churchill and The Four Tunes (aka The Sentimentalists) / I Want to Cry / Manor / 7.47 (4.48?)
Jo Stafford / Ridin' on the Gravy Train / Capitol / LA 3.28.46 / with Nat King Cole on piano
Al Hibbler / Ain't Nothin' Wrong with that Baby / Decca / 1.17.58

set 4
Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / Without a Song / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
John Kirby & his Orch / No Blues at All / Victor / 2.11.42
Modern Mountaineers / Loud Mouth / Texas Hotel, San Antonio 3.1.37
Andrew Tibbs / I Made a Mistake / M-Pac! / 1965
Dusty Springfield / What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? / Atlantic (?) / 1970
The Radio Four / How Much I Owe / Republic [Nashboro] / Nashville 1951-52

last soul song
Rufus & Chaka Khan / Street Player / Stay / ABC / 1978

I Dig Playlists!

Coffeetime, February 16, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Groovy / Prestige / 1956-57

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Witch Doctor / Lost and Found / Blue Note / 3.14.61
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Effendi / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Georgie Auld / Jump, Georgie, Jump / Musicraft / 5.24.45
The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Hart to Get Gertie / Okeh / LA 4.6.28
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Do You Believe in Love at Sight? / Victor / 9.8.31 / vocal = unknown
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / They Can't Take That Away from Me / Bluebird / 3.20.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Dakota Staton / At Storyville / The Show Must Go On / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61

set 2
Roy Eldridge / soundtrack to Les Tricheurs / Phil's Tune / Barclay / Paris 5.1.58
Cannonball Adderley / Jump for Joy / If Life Were All Peaches and Cream / Mercury / 8.20.58
Lester Young / The Master's Touch / Exercise in Swing / Savoy / 4.18.44
Bill Coleman / Bill Street Blues / Disques Swing / Paris 12.12.37
Leo "Snub" Mosley & his Band / Ol' Man River / Decca / 3.11.40
Big Maybelle (Mabel Smith) / Little Miss Muffett / King / 1949
Roy Milton / Along the Navajo Trail / Specialty / LA 12.47

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Someone to Watch Over Me / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Kenny Drew / It Might as Well Be Spring / Blue Note / 4.16.53
Buddy Johnson & his Orch / Walkin' / Gone Walkin' / Mercury / 8.15.55
Five Jones Boys / Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere / Standard transcription / 1937
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / AFRS Jubilee 91 transcription / 6.44
Maxine Sullivan / L'Amour, Toujours, L'Amour / 6.29.38 / Victor / with Claude Thornhill & his Orch
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / A Hundred Years from Today / Columbia / 1954 / with Paul Weston & his Orch

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 4: Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / LA 9.56
Quincy Jones & Band / I Dig Dancers! / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Paris 2.27.60
Lynn Hope / She's Funny That Way / Premium [later, Chess] / 8.20.51
Tony Mottola & Carl Kress / Fun on the Frets / radio transcription / 1941
Frank Sinatra / Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are / V-Disc (CBS broadcast dress rehearsal of "The Vimms Vitamins Show") / 5.17.44 / with Alex Stordahl & his Orch
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Good Time Charlie, part 1 / Duke / Houston / 1.14.66
Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / Speak Low / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)
The Silvertone Singers / Since Jesus Came into My Heart / Nashboro / 1952

last soul song
The Independents / Chuck, Helen, Eric, Maurice / Lucky Fellow / Wand / Chicago 1973

That Funny Playlist

Backwoods (filling in for John), February 10, 2007

set 1
Treniers / Rockin' is Our Business
Red Prysock / Blow Your Horn
The Marquees / Rock My Blues Away
Four Aces / Whose Arms Are You Missing

bed 1
Ferrante & Teicher / Westminster Pop Sampler / Mississippi Boogie

set 2
Jessie Price / That's the Way She Feels
Gene Ammons / Jug
Bullmoose Jackson / Time Alone Will Tell
Mills Brothers / Swing It, Sister
Frankie Laine / By the River Saint Marie

bed 2
Leo Addeo & his Orch / More Hawaii in Hi-Fi

set 3
Sons of the West / Sally's Got a Wooden Leg
The Original Hoosier Hotshots / Meet Me By the Icehouse, Lizzie
Bonnie Lou / Tennessee Wig-Walk
Webb Pierce / High Geared Daddy
Merle Travis / Saturday Night Shuffle
Clay Hart / Flowers on the Wall
Chet Atkins & Dolly Parton / Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Carl Story & His Ramblin' Mountaineers / I've Found a Hiding Place

bed 3
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Speak Low

set 4
Young Jesse / Pretty Soon
The King Bees / Lovely Love
Jimmy Nolen / The Way You Do
Clyde McPhatter / Deep Sea Ball
Shirley & Lee / Rock All Night
Lula Reed / Rock Love
Bo Diddley / Bo Diddley (live on Ed Sullivan)
Wally Mercer / Hey! Miss Lula

bed 4
Bill McElhiney & his Orch / Instrumental Golden Giants

set 5
5 Royales / What's That
Cousin Joe / You'll Never Get Nothing
Dayton Selby / Blues #3
Larry Williams / She Said "Yeah"
Chuck Berry / Our Little Rendez-Vous
Curtis Johnson / Headin' for the High School Hop
Ricky Nelson / Everlovin'

bed 5
The Cinema Stage Orch / Academy Award Winners / Walk on the Wild Side

set 6
Esther Philips / Burnin' / Cry Me a River Blues
Mighty Sparrow / Under My Skin
Tom Jones / Soul Man

bed 6
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. / Shall We Gather at the Boat Dock

set 7
The Supreme Angels / I Want to be Just Like Him
Bobby Long & the Satellites / Mojo Workout

last song
Bobby Darin / That Funny Feeling

Mighty Mouse

I'm swooping down and filling in for John Funke on Backwoods tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 10 at 10am-noon). He is a bit under the weather. I'll be flying by the seat of my pants, to coin a term. Wingin' it.

Tune in to the destruction!

Great Big Bundle of Playlist

Coffeetime, February 9, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Make the Man Love Me / Vee Jay / 7.20, 21.61
Cozy Cole All-Stars / Blue Moon / Keynote / 2.22.44
Slats Randall / Skirts / 3.30
Benny Carter & his Orch / (There's a New Side to) An Old Love Story / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Emma Lou Welch & the Enchanters
Smiley Lewis / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Imperial / New Orleans 4.53
Toni Harper / Lady Lonely / Love Has Come, Love Has Gone / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59 / with orch arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Ike Quebec / It Might As Well Be Spring / Lover Man / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Terry Gibbs / Michelle, parts 1 & 2 / New Jazz / 3.14.49
Blind Willie Dunn & his Gin Bottle Four (aka Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson) / Blue Guitars / Okeh / 5.8.29
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Jeep Rhythm / radio transcription of Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands / Jefferson Barracks, Missouri 11.23.45
Cootie Williams & his Orch / I Want to Be Loved / Majestic / early 1947 / vocal = Billy Matthews
Little Willie John / Mister Little Willie John / A Little Bit of Loving / King / Cincinnati 9.21.56

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Luana / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Groovin' Boogie / Black & White / LA fall 1946
Bernard Hilda Y Su Orquestra / Infiniment / Columbia / Barcelona 8.14.47
The Robins / If I Didn't Love You So / Savoy / LA 12.1.49
Nat King Cole / Tell Me All About Yourself / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Capitol / LA 10.30.58

set 4
Herbie Harper Quintet / Five Brothers / Godchild / Tampa / Hollywood 6.15.55
Barney Kessel / Workin' Out! / My Funny Valentine / Contemporary / LA 1.9.61
Pauline & her Perils (aka The Six Hits and a Miss) / Crazy Rhythm / transcription / LA 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Frankie Laine / I'm Gonna Live Til I Die / Mercury / 1950
Tyrone Davis / A Woman Needs to Be Loved / Dakar / 1969
Barbara McNair / What a Day / Motown / Detroit 1966
The Pilgrim Travelers / What Are They Doing (My Lord) [take 2, unissued] / Specialty / Hollywood / 12.24.47

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Great Big Bundle of Love / Double Shot / 1970

Playlist in My Soul

Coffeetime, February 2, 2007, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / La Villa / Riverside / 5.21.57
Cannonball Adderley / Them Dirty Blues / Del Sasser / Riverside / 2.1.60
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / I'm Coming, Virginia / Columbia / 5.11.27
Sophie Tucker / Foolin' with the Other Woman's Man / London 11.18.38 / Columbia / with Ted Shapiro & Orch
Roy Fox & his Orch / College Swing / radio transcription / London 1938 / vocal = Mary Lee
Amos Milburn / Blue and Lonesome / Aladdin [unreleased] / LA 7.13.49
Patti Page / I've Heard That Song Before / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / 1955

set 2
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That's All / Prestige / 4.18.61
Bennie Green / Glidin' Along / Stardust / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Vilia [from the operetta The Merry Widow] / Roost / 4.52
Sam Donahue & the Navy Dance Band / Convoy / V-Disc / 5.45
Betty Grable / The Snake Dance / rehearsal check from MGM film Student Tour /LA 1934
Joe Morris & his Orch / Crazy Mixed Up World / Herald / 4.54 / vocal = Faye Adams
The Spaniels / I Like It Like That / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 / lead vocal by James "Dimples" Cochran
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee / Heart / Capitol / LA 1960 / orch arranged & conducted by Jack Marshall

set 3
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / Blueing Boogie / Mercury / LA 1959
Grant Green / I Want to Hold Your Hand / Corcovado / Blue Note / 3.31.65
Gene Ammons / More Moon [originally Full Moon] / Chess / Chicago 1.8.50
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire / radio transcription / LA early 1940s / duet = Ozzie & Harriet Hilliard
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.4.47
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Capitol / 1957

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, "The Quintets" / Inside Out / Contemporary / LA 1.20.56
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Snap the Whip / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55 /
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / Pretty Trix / Okeh / 6.14.28
Singing Sam (The Ol' Barbasol Man) [aka Harry Frankel] / Gypsy in My Soul / radio transcription / 1939 / a nice repository of Singing Sam ephemera and audio at Morrison-Reeves Library
BB King / You Don't Know / RPM / late 1950s
Jerry Butler / Make It Easy on Yourself / Vee-Jay / 6.62
Golden Gate Quartet / Run On / Okeh / 3.25.42

last soul song
Dee Dee Warwick / Girls Need Love / Mercury / 1.68

I'm a Good Good Playlist

Coffeetime, January 26, 2007

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60 /

set 1
Junior Cook /Junior's Cookin' / Field Day / Jazzland / 4.10.61
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet / Shadrack / Prestige / 12.17.51
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Honeysuckle Rose / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Benny Carter & his Orch / Cocktails for Two / Bluebird / 11.19.40
Noel Coward / Something to Do with Springtime / HMV / London 9.20.32
Toni Harper / Little Miss In Between Blues / soundtrack from soundie / LA 1949
Roy Brown / Too Much Lovin' Ain't No Good / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 6.15.50
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Weak for the Man / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / (I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance (With You) / Prestige /2.27.59
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / What's New / Savoy / 1.23.56
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Sleeping Beauty / 1940 / thanks to Jean-Pierre!
Bing Crosby / The Old Oaken Bucket / Decca / LA 6.14.41 / with The Music Maids, Hal Hopper, and John Scott Trotter's Orch
Four Blackamoors / Break It Up Charlie / Decca / 1941
Ella Mae Morse / I'll Get By / AFRS Command Performance #117 / LA 4.29.44
Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Fool's Paradise / Abkco / LA 1963

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Wes Montgomery Encores / The Trick Bag [alternate take from Boss Guitar] / Riverside / 4.22.63
Joe Newman / Joe Newman with Woodwinds / Star Eyes / Roulette / 1958
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet / Good Groove / transcription [on The Last Giant] / live, Birdland 6.13.51
Una Mae Carlisle / I'm a Good Good Woman / Joe Davis [during record ban] / 5.23.44
The Four Buddies / Just to See You Smile / Savoy / 10.12.50
Mel Tormé with The Meltones / Back in Town / I Hadn't Anyone Till You / Verve / LA 4.23, 28 & 29.59 /

set 4
Curtis Counce / Sonority / Sonor [bonus alternate take] / 10.15.56
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / There'll Never Be Another You / Savoy / 10.6.55
King Cole Trio / Now He Tells Me / Capitol / 7.3.47 / they perform this as the second selection in this great clip (from YouTube, below)
Betty Everett / Please Love Me / Renee/One-derful! / Chicago 1961
Dusty Springfield / The Look of Love / Come Back to Me / Philips / 1968
Highway QC's / Somewhere to Lay My Head / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1955

last soul song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978

Alex saves the day

Thanks so much to Alex McNeil of Lost & Found for filling in for me today. His 4 hour stint on air -- both Lost & Found and CT -- was just the medicine I needed to get me back on my feet. Next Friday, there'll be Alex at noon and me at 2, as usual.

In the meantime, here's his playlist:

1. Herb Ellis & Ray Brown - Flintstones Theme (1974)
2. Tony DeSimone Trio - Oriental Blues (from Ernie Kovacs Show) (1952)
3. Bernie Green - Mr. Peepers (1956)
4. Roger Kellaway - Remembering You (closing theme from All in the
Family) (1978)
5. Nelson Riddle - McHale's Navy (1964)
6. (no artist credited) - Family Affair (1966)
7. Vic Mizzy - Addams Family (1965)
8. Johnny Gregory - Bronco (1961)
9. Guy van Duser - The Great Western TV Medley (1977)
10. Johnny Gregory - The Deputy (1961)
11. Nelson Riddle - Ballad of Paladin (1964)
12. Johnny Gregory - Tales of Wells Fargo (1961)
13. Maynard Ferguson - Straightaway (1962)
14. Johnny Williams - Checkmate (1961)
15. Count Basie - M Squad (1969)
16. Pete Rugolo - Richard Diamond (1959)
17. Bob James - Theme from Taxi ("Angela") (1978)
18. Mike Post - Theme from L.A. Law (1988)
19. Dave Grusin - St. Elsewhere (1984)
20. (no artist credited) - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976)
21. Charles Paul - Another World (1975)
22. (no artist credited) - All My Children (1970)
23. Patrick Williams - Bob Newhart Show Theme ("Home to Emily")(1981)
24. Mike Post - Hooperman (1988)
25. John Cacavas - That Was the Week That Was (1966)
26. (no artist credited) - Cannon (1971)
27. Jackie Cooper - Hennesey (1959)
28. Bob Crane - F Troop (1966)
29. (no artist credited) - The Invaders (1967)
30. Nelson Riddle - The Rogues (1966)
31. Edwin Astley - The Saint (1965)
32. Ron Grainer - The Prisoner (1986)

Poor butterfly

Hi my sleepy friends, reporting from my sick bed, I'm sorry to announce that I won't be able to do Coffeetime tomorrow. I got that bug that's going around. I'm on the mend, but still dragging my butt from room to room, all bedraggled.

Alex McNeil has kindly agreed to sit in for me. Thanks, Alex! I'll be enjoying the show from the comfort of my couch.

See you next week.

(Image thanks to Vintage Paperbacks at vintagepbks.com.

Playlist for a Stripper

Coffeetime, January 12, 2007

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

set 1
Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / With a Song in My Heart [CD bonus alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.9.57 /
Clifford Brown / Minority (take 2) / Vogue / Paris 10.8.53
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / Featuring the Boys / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Paul Tremaine & his Aristocrats / Four Four Rhythm / Victor / 10.4.29 / vocal = Paul Tremaine
King Cole Trio / Blue Skies / Standard transcription / LA 11.38
Jesse Price / That's the Way She Feels / LA 3.20.47
Etta Jones / Don't Go to Strangers / Something to Remember You By / Prestige / 6.21.60

set 2
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Embraceable You / Prestige / 11.20.64
James Moody / This is Always / Vogue / Paris 7.27.51
Dick McDonough & Carl Kress / Danzon / 1.31.34
Mildred Bailey & her Alley Cats / Squeeze Me / Decca / 12.35
Dorothy Lamour / soundtrack to Johnny Apollo / This is the Beginning of the End / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood 1940
The Robins / All I Do is Rock / Crown / LA 12.53 / also see Marv Goldberg on the Robins
Rosemary Clooney & Bob Hope / Protection / RCA / Hollywood 3.25.59

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Kachin / Savoy / 12.17.59
Joe Morris Orch / Wilma's Idea / Manor / late 1947
The Five Jones Boys / Love is the Reason / Standard transcription / circa 1937 / the excellent Vocal Group Harmony site
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / I'll Drown in My Tears / King / 1956
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / It's Always You / World Pacific / LA 7.23.56

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Satin Doll / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Mundell Lowe / Blues for a Stripper / Coffee, Coffee / MGM / LA 1962
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / I'll Never Be the Same / Columbia / 6.1.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
The Barry Sisters / Yidel Mitn Fiedel / radio transcription, Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1946
Sammy Davis Jr / For Once in a Lifetime / Reprise / LA 1962
Radio Four / When He Calls / Nashboro / Nashville 10.59

last soul song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew [originally on Bullet] / 1969

I'll Plant My Own Playlist

Coffeetime, January 5, 2007

bed
Red Garland / Rediscovered Masters / It Might As Well Be Spring and Estrellita / Prestige / 6.27.58

set 1
Hank Mobley / Reach Out! / Up Over and Out / Blue Note / 1.19.68
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Django / Delauney's Dilemma / Prestige / 6.25.53
Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi-Hat / Wigwam / Phoenix [Roost] / live, Boston 2.11.54
Billy Kyle's Big Eight / Contemporary Blues / HRS / fall 1946
Ray Noble & his Orch / My Hat's on the Side of My Head / HMV / London 11.9.33 [11.27?] / vocal = Al Bowlly
Ernie Fields Orch / Ride Mr. Trombone / Regal / 11.29.49 / vocal = unknown
Dinah Washington / (No, No, No) You Can't Love Two / Mercury / 6.54
Tina Louise / It's Time for Tina / Baby Won't You Say You Love Me / Concert Hall / 1957

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Last Night When We Were Young / Verve / 12.4.64
Sonny Criss / At the Crossroads / I Got It Bad / Peacock / Chicago 3.59
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / 1958
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Glen Island Hop / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY1937-38
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / High Society / Victor / Chicago 1.26.33
Blue Lu Barker / I Got Ways Like the Devil / Decca / 11.22.38
Dick McIntire & his Harmony Hawaiians / I'm pau (I'm Through) / Decca / Hollywood circa 1940
Peggy Lee / Things Are Swingin' / Things Are Swingin' / Capitol / LA 5.16.58 / arranged & conducted by Jack Marshall

set 3
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / Jeannine / Blue Note / 11.11.60
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird? / Chicago 11.15.40
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… [CD bonus track] / Why Was I Born? / Savoy/Regent / 12.47

set 4
Howard McGhee / That Bop Thing / Get Happy / Bethlehem / 10.22.55
Lee Konitz / Conception / Yesterdays / Prestige / 3.8.51
Joe Venuti's Rhythm Boys / Tempo di Modernage / Columbia / 6.10.31
Gene Kelly / soundtrack to It's Always Fair Weather / I Like Myself / MGM / Hollywood spring, summer 1955
LLoyd Nolan / I Don't Know About You / King / Cincinnati 1962
Eileen Wilson [Susan Hayward's character] / soundtrack to Valley of the Dolls / I'll Plant My Own Tree / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood 1967
Stars of Harmony / Where Shall I Be? / Supreme [later Swing Time] / LA 5.49

last soul song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / I Need You / Wand / 1965

Bewitched, Bothered, and Playlist

Coffeetime, December 29, 2006

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

set 1
Horace Silver / 6 Pieces of Silver / Tippin' [CD bonus track] / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Bobby Timmons / This Here is Bobby Timmons / Lush Life / Riverside / 1.13-14.60
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / I'm Confessin' / Cadet / 4.66
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Down a Carolina Lane / Columbia / 2.15.33
Blue Barron & his Orch / Somebody Nobody Knows / Bluebird? / 1938 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
The Three Spades / Pan-Pan / Vocalion [unissued] / 1937
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Verve / LA 7.15-16.60

set 2
Ben Webster / Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve / 11.6.59
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It / One for My Baby / Contemporary / 1962
Tab Smith & his Orch / These Foolish Things / United / Chicago 4.18.52
Count Basie & his Orch / One O'Clock Jump and Jumping at Ten / radio transcription, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show 1945 / Hollywood 8.8.45 / with introduction by Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Ethel Merman / I Get a Kick Out of You / Brunswick / LA 12.4.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orch
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942
Little Milton / If You Love Me Baby / Sun [alt take] / Memphis 3.30.54

set 3
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Twice Around / Blue Note / 8.11.64
Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Once in Awhile / Mercury / 1960
Charlie Parker / Max Making Wax / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Deliver Me to Tennessee / Columbia / Chicago 4.2.42 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Four Blues (aka Golden Echo Quartet) / Missing You / Apollo / 4.10.50
Nat King Cole / Songs by Nat "King" Cole 7" EP / Pretend / Capitol / Hollywood 12.30.52 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Pick Yourself Up / Savoy / 3.52
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Aladdin / LA 12.28.56
Frank Sinatra / That Old Black Magic / radio transcription, Songs by Sinatra, CBS radio / 12.26.43
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Manha de Carnaval / Verve / 11.21.64 /
James Brown / Lost Someone / King / Cincinnati 2.9.61
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Deliver Me / Specialty / Hollywood 7.24.52

last soul song
Linda Jones / What Have I Done (to Make You Mad) / Loma / 1967

Have Yourself a Merry Little Playlist

Coffeetime, December 22, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.15.57 /
Johnny Costa / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / What Child is This? / Chiaroscuro / 9.5.91
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Greensleeves / Prestige / 9.7.58

set 1
Richard Wyands Trio / An Uptown Christmas / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Uptown / 9.6.85
Junior Mance Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / White Christmas / Chiaroscuro / 5.18.94
Harry Reser & his Orch / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Decca / 10.24.34 / vocal = Tom Sacks
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Merry Christmas, Baby / Exclusive / LA 1947 / vocal = Charles Brown
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter / Christmas Eve / Verve / LA fall 1986
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 8.5.60 /

set 2
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / Christmas Time is Here; O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965 /
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 /
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / It's Christmas Time Again / Capitol / LA 1963
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

set 3
Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66
Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / Marshmallow World / radio transcription from Bing Crosby show / 1940s
Louis Armstrong / Christmas Night in Harlem / Decca / LA 9.8.55 / with Benny Carter Orch
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, & Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Nancy Wilson / That's What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / LA 6.13.63

set 4
Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87
Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / 12.4.43
King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Capitol Promo) / Capitol / LA 9.17.47
James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966
Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orch /
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You're Dancing

Coffeetime, December 15, 2006

bed
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Prestige / 11.27.58

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin' Time / Stretchin' Out [cd alternate take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / Canadian Sunset / Prestige / 6.16.60
Bert Firman's Quintuplets of Swing / Blue Strings / Odeon / London 9.20.37
Dick Robertson / I Want You for Christmas / Decca / 10.37
The Jackson Trio (aka The Ebonaires) / Love for Christmas / Hollywood (Swing Time?) / mid-50s
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why Try to Change Me Now / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / If Someone Had Told Me / Blue Note / 7.14.56
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / White Christmas / Cadet / 10.66
Chet Atkins / Christmas with Chet Atkins / Medley: The Coventry Carol, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / RCA / 1961
Duke Ellington & his Orch / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show aired 12.47 / Rock-a-Bye River / radio transcription /Hollywood 7.11.46
The Three Keys / You Can Depend on Me / Vocalion / 9.8.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Can't Get That No More / V-Disc 237 / 11.22.43
Etta James / Etta Sings for Lovers / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Argo / 7.27-29.62

set 3
Eddie Davis Trio / I Wanna Be Loved / King / 2.2-3.56
Wardell Gray, et al / Move / Prestige / live, Hula Hut, LA 8.27.50
The Five Jones Boys / You're So Appealing / Standard transcription / c. 1937 / thanks so much to Tony at the Vocal Harmony Group website
Wini Brown / I Met a Stranger / National [unissued] / 11.27.48
Danny Kaye / (songs from) White Christmas / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / Decca / / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

set 4
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet / Blues in Time / Wintersong / Verve / Hollywood 8.2.57
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky / Brunswick [unissued take A] / 2.5.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orch
Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There's Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Janet Orenstein / oodles and oodles of pix and info at TVParty.com's Rudolph pages (pop-up warning) / more on the Rankin-Bass website
Gospel Harmonette Specials [The Original Gospel Harmonettes] / Camp Meeting / Without You / Vee-Jay / 1963

last soul (Xmas) song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atlantic / 1978

The price of popularity!

Hey my sleepy pals,

I guess the link to the Coffeetime Archive got posted far and wide in the past week or so, because there was major bandwidth overload and my hosting company has shut the archive down for a few days. This blog will still be here, (thanks, Blogger/Google!), but the podcast-able show won't be accessable until early next week, I think. I'll only be able to keep a few shows in the archive at any given time. Streamable shows are available for a few weeks at wmbr.org.

We'll keep our eyes on these bandwidth problems. I appreciate all the attention out there in the web-universe, though!

What's It All About Playlist

Coffeetime, December 8, 2006

bed
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Let's Fall in Love / Command / 1963

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Phil Woods and Gene Quill / Bird Feathers / Airegin /Prestige / 3.29.57
Joe Marsala & his Orch / Zero Hour / Black & White / 11.29.44
Whispering Jack Smith / My Blue Heaven / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1.10.28
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / I Was Wrong / 11.44 / Tab Smith on alto, vocal = Trevor Bacon
Anita O'Day / Pick Yourself Up / Ivy [cd bonus track] / Verve / LA 12.19.56

set 2
Art Farmer / Art / I'm a Fool to Want You / Argo / 9.21-23.60
Red Garland / Moodsville 6 / T'ain't Nobody's Business / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Scratch Sheet / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Ernie Morris / In The Mood / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43 / intro by Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman; Ernie is seen with teh Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals in the images above
Lil Green & her Trio / What's the Matter with Love? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41 / with Big Bill Broonzy
Little Willie John / I'm Shakin' / King / Cincinnati? 1960

set 3
Lee Morgan / Gigolo / Yes I Can, No You Can't / Blue Note / 6.25.65
Preston Love & his Orch / Jumpin' for Charles / Spin Records / LA 1952
The Smoothies / You're an Old Smoothie / Bluebird / 4.25.36
The Four Blazes / Snag the Britches / United / 2.3.53
Sonny Rollins / Tour De Force / Two Different Worlds / Prestige / 12.7.56 / vocal = Earl Coleman

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / As Long As There's Music / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
Howard Roberts / Whatever's Fair! / Pussy Cat / Capitol / LA 1966
Coleman Hawkins / My Ideal / V-Disc / Esuire Metropolitan Opera House 1.18.44
Bing Crosby / Only Forever / Decca / LA 12.3.40 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orch
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Two Steps from the Blues / Lead Me On / Duke / Chicago 1961
Cilla Black / Alfie / Capitol / London (Abbey Road) 8.66
Southern Sons / Rest for the Weary / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soul song
Richard Caiton / I'm Gonna Love You More / Malaco / 1974

Love With a Capital Playlist

Coffeetime, December 1, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Jazzland / 7.19.61 /

set 1
Bill Hardman / Bill Hardman Quintet [Saying Something] / It Ain't Happened Yet / Savoy / 10.18.61
Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane / Mating Call / Super Jet / Prestige / 11.30.56
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / How 'Bout That Mess? / Bluebird / 9.1.41
Lew Stone & his Band / Pop! Goes Your Heart / Decca / London 1935 / vocal = Alan Kane
Johnny Otis & his Band / Three Magic Words / Savoy / 3.21.51 / vocal = Mel Walker
Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington / Blue Rose / Grievin' / Columbia / 1.23, 27.56 [Duke] and LA 2.8, 11.56 [Rosemary]

set 2
Cannonball Adderley / Takes Charge / I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Riverside / 4.12.59
Art Tatum / #5 / Without a Song / Clef [Verve] / LA 12.29.53
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Cocktails for Two [cd bonus track] / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Benny Goodman Trio / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Columbia / live, Jazz Concert no. 2, 1937-38
Issie Ringgold / Be On Your Merry Way / Columbia / 1.12.30
Kay Starr / Love With a Capital You / Bluebird / 7.26.39 / with Glen Miller & his Orch
Lula Reed / Three Men / King / Cincinnati 8.21.56
optional: Flairs / She Wants to Rock / Flair / 7.53

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / Lou's Good Dues / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Let's Fall in Love / Command / 1963
Charlie Parker / Merry-Go-Round / Savoy / 9.24.48
Cabineers / Let the Party Go On / Decca / 12.11.40
Mabel Scott / Yes! / Coral / LA 3.17.52
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Moon Song / Verve / 1.12.57

set 4
Stan Getz / Chamber Music / Lullaby of Birdland / Roost / 12.5.52 [12.19.52?]
Ralph Burns, et al / The Herdsman Play Paris / Embarkation / Fantasy / Paris 1954
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Midnight Special / Atlantic / Cincinnati [Cleveland?] 5.1.48
Dinah Washington / I Only Know / Mercury / 3.4.49 / with Teddy Stewart's Orch
Jimmy Nolen / How Fine Can You Be? / Federal / LA 5.14.56
Nancy Wilson / Naturally / Watch What Happens / Capitol / LA 1966
Pilgrim Travelers / How About You? and I'll Be There / Specialty / Hollywood 1.25.52

last soul song
Beverly Shaffer / Where Will You Be Boy? / One-derful! / Chicago 10.65