Pu-leeze Mr Playlist

Coffeetime, May 20, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Eddie Bert / Like Cool / Speedster / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955
Junior Cook /Junior's Cookin' / Turbo Village / Jazzland / 12.4.61
Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / From the Land of the Sky Blue Waters / RCA Victor / 1955
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Pu-leeze Mr Hemingway / Columbia / London 11.22.32 / vocal = Elsie Carlisle
TJ Fowler & his Band / What’s the Matter Now? / National / Detroit 1948 / vocal = Hank Ivory
Billie Holiday / Music for Torching / Isn’t This a Lovely Day? / Clef / LA 8.25.55

set 2
Benny Carter & his Orch / Further Definitions / Blue Star / Impulse! / 11.15.61
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / My Conception / Time / 3.23.60
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Deep in a Dream / Savoy / 10.6.55
Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / Say It with a Kiss / radio transcription / 1938
Gladys Bentley / Worried Blues / Okeh / 8.8.28
Betty Hutton / I Wake Up in the Morning Feelin’ Fine / Capitol / LA 1949 / from the Paramount Picture "Red, Hot and Blue"
Sam Cooke / Encore / I Cover the Waterfront / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 3
The Latin Jazz Quartet & Eric Dolphy / Caribé / Sunday Go Meetin’ / New Jazz / 8.19.60
Hank Crawford / Mr Blues Plays Lady Soul / Lady Soul / Atlantic / 2.13.69
Tadd Dameron Sextet / The Fabulous Fats Navarro / Dameronia (alternate take) / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Just About This Time Last Night / radio transcription / 1947 / vocal = Fran Warren
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra
Willie Dixon & Memphis Slim / Willie's Blues / Sittin’ and Cryin’ the Blues / Prestige Bluesville / 12.3.59

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / It’s Not for Me to Say / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58
Mildred Bailey / I Didn’t Know About You / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orchestra
William Daniels & Barbara Harris / Broadway score from "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"  / Wait Till We’re Sixty-five / RCA Victor / 1965
Flying Clouds of Detroit / Journey to the Sky / Nashboro? / early 1950s

last soul song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / Chicago 1967

Ma Gosse, Ma P'tite Playlist

Coffeetime, May 13, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Tune Up / EmArcy / Hollywood 12.20.57
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Wheelin' and Dealin' / Contemporary / 3.5.63
Six Men & A Girl / Mary Lou Williams Blues / Variety / 1.26.40
Bobby Howes / On the Amazon / Columbia / 12.3.29 / with Al Starita & his Novelty Orchestra
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Eatin' Watermelon / Torch / Dallas 1949
Doris Day / (What Every Girl Should Know) / A Hundred Years from Today / Columbia / 1960

set 2
Grant Green / Am I Blue / Sweet Slumber / Blue Note / 5.16.63
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / My Old Flame / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Earl Hines & his Orch / Number 19 / Bluebird / 2.13.40
George Olsen & his Orchestra / Stucco in the Sticks / radio broadcast / 1931 / vocal = Ethel Shutta
Alice Faye / Slumming on Park Avenue / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.24.37 / with orchestra & direction by Cy Feuer, from movie On the Avenue
Cats & the Fiddle / I'm Singing (So Help Me) / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Your Feet's Too Big / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958

set 3
Clark Terry / Ol’ Zulu / Ducretet Thomson / Paris 1.60
Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / Blues the Most / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / This Lovely Feeling / Philips / 4.25.63
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Tanya / Specialty / LA 7.8.46
The Four Vagabonds / It Can’t Be Wrong / Bluebird / 5.26.43
The King Sisters / When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano / V-Disc 764A / 5.47
Yves Montand / France's Formidable Yves Montand / Ma Gosse, Ma P'tite Mome / Columbia / Paris 1954 / with Bob Castella et Ses Rythmes

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Reflections / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Third Variation: Night Stroll / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Velvetones / How I Miss You / Columbia / 1950
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Honey Bee / Duke [unissued] / Houston 1955
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Swing Low Sweet Chariot / Varsity / 12.47

last soul song
Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell / United / Hold Me Oh My Darling / Tamla / Detroit 1967

A Hundred Playlist from Today

Coffeetime, May 6, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones, Vol. 3 / Let’s / Blue Note / 2.2.57
The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / How High the Moon / Jubilee / 1962
Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / Passionette / Vocalion / 5.4.36
Boyd Senter & his Senterpedes / Give It to Me Right Away / Victor / Hollywood 10.29.29 / vocal = Ray Stillwell
Charles Brown / Don’t Fool with My Heart / Aladdin / LA 1.18.50
Helen O'Connell / Someone to Watch Over Me / radio transcription / LA 1953 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio

set 2
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / Angel Face / Savoy / 1.23.56

Jack Jenney / Stardust / Vocalion [Columbia] / 10.19.39 / arranged by Hugo Winterhalter

Dupree Bolton / Laura / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans
Garden Palace Dancing Orchestra / When Erastus Plays Old Kazoo / Columbia / LA 6.28.28 / vocal = Walton McKinney
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / A Hundred Years from Today / Mercury / 1954 1

set 3
Frank Wess / You Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Cold Miner / Prestige / 1.24.63
Oscar Peterson / Plays the Cole Porter Song Book / Why Can’t You Behave / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / Charmaine / Prestige / 2.27.59
J.C. Heard & his Orchestra / This Is It / Apollo / 5.48
Connee Boswell / You Grow Sweeter as the Years Go By / Decca / 4.25.39 / with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra
The Rhythm Kings / Night After Night / Ivory / late 1949
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / Laura / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Howard McGhee / Experiment Perilous / Sunset / LA 11.12.45
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP "Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production"] / I Know That You Know / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Gene Nelson ("dance effects & songs") & the Page Cavanaugh Trio & the Ken Lane Singers
Geater Davis / Why Does It Hurt So Bad / Seventy-Seven / Muscle Shoals 1972
Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Salt Sea / A&M / LA 1969
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / When the Train Comes Along / Paramount / Charlotte, NC 6.5.38

last soul song
The Royalettes / It’s Gonna Take a Miracle / MGM / 1965

Playlist For My Louie

Coffeetime, April 22, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Miles Davis / Volume 1 / Tempus Fugit / Blue Note / 4.20.53
Tadd Dameron / Mating Call / On a Misty Night / Prestige / 11.30.56
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / Blue Moon / Columbia / 12.1.58
Benny Carter & his Orch / Lullaby to a Dream / Victor / 4.1.41
Walter Pidgeon / What'll I Do? / Bluebird / 7.15.24 / with Lester Hodges on piano
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52
Billie Holiday / Lady Sings the Blues / I Thought About You / Clef / LA 9.3.54

set 2
Art Pepper & George Cables / Tête-à-Tête / Over the Rainbow / Galaxy / 4.14.82
Oscar Moore / Beautiful Moons Ago / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / Little Buttercup (I'll Never Be the Same) / Parlophone / 6.10.31
Louis Armstrong / Laughin’ Louie / Bluebird / 4.24.33
Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Bright Eyes / Brunswick / 12.26.34
Wynonie Harris / Playful Baby / Apollo / 12.45
Peggy Lee / Lady & the Tramp soundtrack / What a Dog; He’s a Tramp / Disneyland / Hollywood 1955

set 3
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / We’ll Be Together Again / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Charlie Parker / Star Eyes / Clef / 1.17.51
Mildred Bailey / I'll Never Be the Same / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / I'll Never Be the Same / Clef / 9.13.54
Burt Bacharach / Make It Easy on Yourself / Pacific Coast Highway / A&M / LA 1967
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards aka Ukelele Ike / soundtrack to Pinocchio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Disney [Buena Vista] / Hollywood 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers and Victor Young & his Orch
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood /8.22.46
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961
Bobby Darin / Moon River / weekly radio broadcast “Milk Recordings” for the American Dairy Association / Hollywood 1973
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soul song
The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Playlist Me

Coffeetime, April 15 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Bill Hardman / Jackie's Pal / Just for Marty / Prestige / 8.31.56
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / I Love You / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Ernie Henry / Lasts Chorus / Like Someone in Love (alt take) / Riverside / 9.3.57
Benny Carter & his Orch / Blues in My Heart / Decca / Den Haag 8.17.37
Arthur Askey / Only a Glass of Champagne / HMV / London 1.7.40
Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / Heat Wave / Victor / Hollywood 3.9.34
Floyd Dixon / Lovin’ / Aladdin / LA 12.15.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Dinah Washington / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / EmArcy / 10.2.57 / with Ernie Wilkins’s Orch

set 2
Johnny Hodges & Earl Hines / Swing’s Our Thing / One Night in Trinidad / Verve / San Francisco 11.14.67
Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Don’t Blame Me / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Taj Mahal / Everest / 1960
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Deep Henderson / Victor / Kansas City, MO 3.9.26
Butterbeans & Susie / Times Is Hard / Okeh / Chicago 8.11.30
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Medley: Who Stole the Jam; You Can’t Have Everything; In Old Chicago / radio broadcast / 1937 / vocal = Alice Faye
Sonny Til & the Orioles / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / Jubilee / 2.53

set 3
Herbie Hancock / Takin’ Off / Driftin’ / Blue Note / 3.28.62
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Everybody Blow! / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Jack McVea & his All Stars / New Deal / Melodisc / Hollywood 8.7.45
Dorothy Carless / There Goes That Song Again / HMV / London 6.25.41 / with Geraldo & the Savoy Hotel Orch
The Blenders / Don’t Play Around with Love / Jay-Dee / 3.27.53
Buddy Greco / On Stage! / Dreamy / Epic / live, Columbia Record’s 30th Street Studio 6.30.64

set 4
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Blue Lou / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Tune for Tex / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Mugsy Spanier & his V-Disc Dixielanders / You Took Advantage of Me / V-Disc [unissued] / 10.22.45
Vido Musso Orch / The Day I Left Alsace-Lorraine / Trilon / LA 8.47 /
vocal = Honey Dreamers
Beny Moré / Dolor Carabali / RCA / Cuba or Mexico 1950 / with Pérez Prado
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him! / Make Believe Dreams / Atlantic / 1966
Southern Wonders / Thank You Jesus / Memphis 9.1.53

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Four Walls / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

The Big Playlist Express

Coffeetime, April 8 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Gigi Gryce / And the Jazz Lab Quintet / Minority / Riverside / 2.27 & 3.7.57
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins / Perpetuation / Blue Note / 8.8.54
Harry James Orch / Flash! / radio air check / Hollywood spring 1952
B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orch / It Must Be Love / Edison / 9.13.28 / vocal = Theo Alban
Jimmy Higgins & his Drops of Joy / I Can't Stop It / Specialty / Hollywood 9.9.47
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Once There Was You / ABC-Paramount [Impulse!] / 12.12.56
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / For Heaven's Sake / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Buck Clayton & his Big Four / On the Sunny Side of the Street / radio air check / 6.26.46
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / You’re Everything I Love / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / vocal = Sonny Woods, with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Changes / Victor / Chicago 11.23.27 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948
Playboys / My Buddie Stole My Chippie / Atlantic [unreleased] / 12.9.54

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / What Could I Do Without You? / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / Introducton + Blue ’n’ Boogie / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 3.31.51
Sarah Vaughn / Trouble Is a Man / Musicraft / LA 1948 / with Ted Dale Orch
Jubalaires / Rockin’ Chair / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / September Song / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with

set 4
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Blues Express / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56
Delta Four / Farewell Blues / Decca / 12. 20.35
Wingy Manone & his Orch / If I Could Be with You / radio air check / 7.25.44 / vocal duet with Kay Starr
King Cole Trio / I Feel So Smoochie / Capitol / 11.4.47
Marge Dodson / New Voice in Town / Dearly Beloved / Columbia / 1960
Evangelist Singers of Detroit / I’m Tired / Bullet / Detroit 1948

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Four Walls / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

Gonna Take a Playlist

Coffeetime, April 1, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Parisian Thoroughfare / At this Time aka Off to the Races / Brunswick / L'Olympia Theatre, Paris 10.22.58
Don Byas / Lover Come Back to Me / Vogue / Paris 5.19.55
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / Manhattan Rag / Columbia / 10.10.29
Leslie A. “Hutch” Hutchinson / The Best Things in Life are Free / HMV / London 7.1.41
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orch
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

set 2
Modern Jazz Quartet / Concorde / Gershwin Medley: Soon; For You, For Me, Forevermore; Love Walked In; Our Love Is Here to Stay / Prestige / 7.2.55
Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Shades of Blue / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Blue Harlem / Atlantic / 12.29.47
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / I’m Gonna Clap MyHands / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 4.29.36 / vocal = Topy Glerum
Helen Humes / Stop Jivin’ Around [Pleasing Man Blues] / Philo [Aladdin] / LA 12.22.45
Red Rodney / Dig This Menu, Please / Okeh / 5.52 / vocal = Morty Perry
Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Anatole of Paris / Decca / Hollywood 12.20.47

set 3
Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / 63rd Street Theme / Riverside / 8.59
JJ Johnson / Dial JJ 5 / In a Little Provincial Town / Columbia / 5.31.57
Little Johnny Griffin / Chicago Riffin’ / Okeh / c. 1954
Chick Webb & his Orch / McPherson Is Rehearsin’ (To Swing) / Decca / 6.9.38 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald
Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / I Know / Decca / 11.27.45 / vocal = Jubalaires
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / I’m Confessin’ / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Satin Doll / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Wild Bill Davis / April in Paris / Okeh / 1.8.53
Fats Waller / My Very Good Friend, the Milkman / Bluebird / 6.21.35
Etta Jones / Blues to End All Blues / Victor / 6.11.46 / with J. C. Heard & his Orch
Anthony Newley / Pure Imagination / Best of All Worlds / MGM / Hollywood 1971
Dixie Hummingbirds / I’ll Be Satisfied / Gotham / 7.49

last soul song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Gonna Take a Miracle / Studio One / Jamaica 1970

Don't Let that Playlist Get Away

Coffeetime, March 11 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Dizzy Gillespie / Something Old, Something New / Be-Bop / Philips / 4.25.63
Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Minor Trouble / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.20.57
Earl Hines & his Orch / Lightly and Politely / Bluebird / Chicago 10.6.39
Ronnie Munro & his Orch / Me and My Girl / HMV / London 1.1.38 / vocal = Jack Cooper
Jimmy Witherspoon / Take Me Back Baby / Modern / 1950
Kay Starr / I Cry By Night / P. S. I Love You / Capitol / Hollywood 1962 / with Gerald Wiggin’s Music

set 2
Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein / Four Altos / Don’t Blame Me / Prestige / 2.9.57
Mal Waldron / The Quest / Duquility / New Jazz / 6.27.61
Teddy Charles, Shorty Rogers / Collaboration West / Margo / Prestige / LA 8.31.53
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / I See Your Face Before Me / Mercury [Keynote] / 8.9.46
Bing Crosby / Blue Hawaii / Trade Winds / Decca / with Dick McIntyre & his Harmony Hawaiians / 7.1.40
Woody Herman / Pancho Maximillian Hernandez / radio transcription / Hollywood summer 1947 / with Dave Barbour & his Orch
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / Hey Now / Modern / LA 1947

set 3
Sonny Clark / Leapin' and Lopin' / Voodoo / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Laurindo Almeida / A Man and a Woman / Mas Que Nada / Capitol / Hollywood 1967
Vido Musso / The Swingin’st / On Stage / Crown [Modern] / LA 1956
Dick Haymes / [Little White Lies] / – And Mimi / Decca / LA 7.25.47 / with Gordon Jenkins Orch
The Crickets / Milk and Gin / MGM / 1.53
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Some Fine Day / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Aplomb / GNP / LA 7.57
Bob Crosby & his Bobcats / South Pacific Blows Warm / Some Enchanted Evening / Dot / 1958
Slam Stewart Quintet / Dozin’ / Continental / 7.10.45
King Cole Trio / Close to You / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.45
Pee Wee Crayton / Wondering Why / Imperial / New Orleans 4.14.55 / with Dave Bartholomew’s Band
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / A Tower of Strength / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orch
Silver Echo Quartet / Sinner Man / Manor / 1945

last soul song
Justin Jones / Dance by yourself / Flippin’ Records / 1961

Hippy Dippy Itty Bitty Playlist

Coffeetime, March 11 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Windmill / Jazzland / 6.14, 15.61
Dizzy Reece / Asia Minor / The Shadow of Khan / New Jazz / 3.13.62
Metronome All Stars / How High the Moon, part 2 / MGM / 7.9.53
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / We’ll Be Married in June / Radiex / 2.27.30
Jessie Matthews / When You’ve Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart / soundtrack to the Gaumont movie Evergreen / London 4.5.34
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Fat Sam from Birmingham / Decca / 6.51
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Go / I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Blue Note / 8.27.62
Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum #5 / In a Sentimental Mood / Clef [Verve] / LA 12.29.53
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Low Key Lightly / soundtrack to Columbia movie Anatomy of a Murder / Hollywood 1959
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / On the Beach at Bali Bali / Victor / 6.9.36 / vocal = Edythe Wright
June Christy / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; This Is Romance / transcription / 1946 / with the Kentones
Floyd Dixon / Roll Baby Roll / Cat / 4.28.54

set 3
Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Lowland-ism / Bethlehem / 12.60
Quincy Jones & Orch / Little Hippy Dippy / soundtrack to Palomar movie For Love of Ivy / ABC / LA 3.68
Vido Musso Orch / Gone with Vido / Trilon / LA 6.47
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo) / Bluebird / 3.28.39 / vocal = The Smoothies
The Four Buddies / Sweet Slumber / Savoy / 1.31.51
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ In Love Again / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / There Will Never Be Another You / Contemporary / LA 2.18.57
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It / One for My Baby / Contemporary / 1962
Mundell Lowe / Satan in High Heels soundtrack; Blues for a Stripper / Coffee, Coffee / Charlie Parker Records; MGM / LA 1962
Kay Starr / Dixieland Band / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
T-Bone Walker / News for My Baby / Imperial / LA 1951-52
Astrud Gilberto / Beach Samba / The Face I Love / Verve / 6.9.67
“The Church Choir” / He’ll Wash You Whiter than Snow / soundtrack to Universal movie The Lost Man / Uni / Hollywood 1969 / arranged by Cora Martin

Top Hat, White Tie, and Playlist

Coffeetime, March 4 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / La Villa / Blue Note / 1.30.55
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Just One of Those Things / Riverside / 10.28.58
Joe Haymes & his Orch / Honeysuckle Rose / Bluebird / 4.10.35
Little Jack Little & his Orch / Stay As Sweet As You Are / Columbia / 10.25.34
Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / The “G” Man Got the “T” Man / Apollo / 11.2.45
Anita O’Day / Cool Heat / A Lover Is Blue / Verve / LA 4.6.59

set 2
Gene Ammons / The Big Sound / That’s All / Prestige / 1.3.58
Walter Barnes & his Royal Creolians / My Kinda Love (One Way to Paradise) / Brunswick / Chicago 12.14.28
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / Big, Fat, and Forty-Four / Bluebird / 11.6.41 / vocal = Wheeler & The Hardaway Four
Kay Starr / I Waited a Little Too Long / Capitol / Hollywood 1.15.52
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Top Hat, White Tie and Tails / RCA / LA 1957

set 3
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / South Seas / Verve / 3.10.64
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Lo-Fi / Savoy / 7.18.56
Jo Stafford / I Never Loved Anyone / Capitol / Hollywood 11.7.47
James Quintet / Let’s Put Our Hearts on the Table / Derby / c. 1950
Bob Stewart / Let's Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Five More / Jazz West / LA 8.6.56
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet / Beanstalk / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / LA 1957
Jane Russell / Ain't There Anyone Here for Love / soundtrack from 20th Century Fox movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Hollywood 1953
Lester Williams / Crazy ’Bout You Baby / Duke/ Houston 1954
Jerry Butler / Find Another Girl / Vee-Jay / 1961 / with Curtis Mayfield on guitar
Selah Jubilee Singers / I’ll Fare Better in that Land / Decca / 12.15.44

last soul song
Cynthia & the Imaginations / There's Something the Matter with Your Heart / Magic City / 1968

Playlist the Pirate

Coffeetime, February 25 , 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli / Toots Sweet / Bethlehem / LA 7.26.55
Hank Mobley / Another Workout / Hello Young Lovers / Blue Note / 12.5.61
Jimmie Lunceford / [Lunceford Special] / Chopin's Prelude No. 7 / Columbia / 5.9.40
Freddie Rich & His Orchestra / Bend Down Sister / radio transcription from Fred's Friendly Five / 1931-32
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Don't Get Salty, Sugar / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 10.47
Patti Page / I’ve Heard That Song Before / Don't Take Your Love From Me / Mercury / 1955

set 2
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / My Romance / Prestige / 8.17.56
Victor Feldman / With Mallets A Fore Thought / Sweet and Lovely / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / How Deep Is the Ocean Dawn / 1956
Fats Waller / Rediscovered Early Solos [piano rolls] / Squeeze Me / [Riverside] / c. 2.26
Benny Morton & His Orchestra / Get Goin' / Columbia / 2.23.34 / vocal = Jerry Blake
Alice Faye / Yes To You / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie 365 Nights in Hollywood / Hollywood 9.12.34
Cats & the Fiddle / One Is Never Too Old To Swing / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Cottie Williams & His Savoy Ballroom Orchestra / Available Lover / RCA Victor / 5.15.57 / vocal = Wini Brown

set 3
Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Morgan the Pirate / Blue Note / 2.15.64
Ray Charles / Ray Charles in Person / Frenesi / Atlantic / Atlanta 5.28.59
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Fracture / Savoy / 12.18.46
Constance Moore / I'm Only Teasin' / from the movie Delightfully Dangerous / Hollywood 1945
Four Tunes / I'm the Guy / RCA Victor / 6.49
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / The Way You Look Tonight / Mercury / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / March Wind / United Artists / 9.58
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / It's So Peaceful in the Country / Columbia / 12.3.58
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Handful of Keys / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Ella Mae Morse / Tess's Torch Song / AFRS Personal Album #395 / Hollywood 1944
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / S'posin' / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Touch of the Blues / Sweet Lips of Joy / Duke / 1967
Paramount Singers / Let the Healing Waters Move / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soul song
Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic [Nola] / New Orleans 1965

There's Nothing Like a Playlist in Love

Thanks one more once to Alex McNeil for sitting in for me last week. I've posted his playlist below today's. Alex is a peach… but you know that already.

Coffeetime, February 18, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins Plus 4 / I Feel a Song Comin’ On / Prestige / 3.22.56
Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Curro’s [aka French Spice] / Warwick / early 1961
Paul Baron & his orch / The Baron Riffs / Army V-Disc 373A / mid-1940s
Lupino Lane / cast recording of The Golden Toy / An Elephant Never Forgets / Decca / London 1934 / orch conducted by Henry Hall
Gotham’s Four Notes / Away / Gotham / 1948
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / Nobody Home but the Blues / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / Movin’ Along / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Clark Terry / In Orbit / Very Near Blue / Riverside / 5.7, 12.58

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabiel) & his Orch / Gin Mill Special / Bluebird / 7.18.39

Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / After You've Gone / radio transcription / 1945

Isham Jones & his Orch / Don’t Tell Her What Happened to Me / Brunswick / Chicago 9.8.30
Eddy Howard / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Majestic / 1947
Pee Wee Crayton / Every Dog Has Its Day / Imperial / New Orleans 6.54

set 3
Grant Green / Am I Blue / I Wanna Be Loved / Blue Note / 5.16.63
Sonny Stitt / Move On Over… / A Natural Fox / Cadet / Chicago 6.7.63

Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Bananas / Gotham [unissued] / late 1950

Les Brown & his Band of Renown / T’Ain’t Me / radio broadcast / Chattaanooga, Tenn 3.2.45 / vocal = Doris Day

The Ravens / There’s Nothing Like a Woman in Love / National / 7.49
Bobby Darin / Love Swings / Something to Remember You By / Atco / 1961

set 4
Phineas Newborn Jr / The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn Jr / Way Out West / Contemporary / LA 11.21.61
Cy Coleman / Pianorama / Here I’ll Stay / Capitol / 1961
Bing Crosby & Olga San Juan / soundtrack to Paramount movie Blue Skies / (I’ll See You in) C-U-B-A / Hollywood August to November 1945
Smiley Lewis / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Imperial / New Orleans 4.53
Frank D'Rone / After the Ball / Will You Still Be Mine / Mercury / Hollywood c. 1960 / with Billy May & his Orch
Martha Carter / Then I’ll Believe / Ron / New Orleans spring 1962
Golden West Singers / Jesus Is Everywhere / Ajax / San Francisco 1949

last soul song
Deon Jackson / Love Makes the World Go Round / S.O.S. / Atco / 1966


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Coffeetime, February 11, 2011 <-- Alex McNeil fills in for me

I. A request from Angelynn:
01. Nat King Cole Trio – (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (CD)

II. The Peter Gunn Suite
02. Henry Mancini – Peter Gunn (CD, 1959)
03. Jimmy & Marian McPartland – Peter Gunn (Design LP, 1959)
04. Sarah Vaughan – Peter Gunn (vocal version) (Mercury LP, 1965)

III. TV Themes (focusing on shows involving an element of romance, or a married couple as central characters)
05. (no artist credited) – I Love Lucy (TVToons v. 1, CD)
06. Desi Arnaz – I Love Lucy (Rhino LP, 1953)
07. Longines Symphonette Orch. – Love Nest (Burns & Allen) (Longines LP)
08. (no artist credited) – I Married Joan (TVToons v. 2, LP)
09. Jackie Gleason Orch. – You’re My Greatest Love (The Honeymooners) (LP)
10. (no artist ctedited) – Father Knows Best (TVToons v. 4, CD)
11. (no artist credited) – The Donna Reed Show (TVToons v. 1, CD)
12. (no artist credited) – Ozzie & Harriet (TVToons v. 4, CD)
13. (no artist credited) – Leave It to Beaver (TVToons v. 1, CD)
14. Jud Canlon’s Rhythmaires – Dobie Gillis (Rhino LP)
15. Lionel Newman – Theme from Dick Van Dyke Show (20th Cent. LP, 1963)
16. Herb Ellis & Ray Brown – The Flintstones (Concord LP, 1974)
17. (no artist credited) – The Jetsons (TVToons v.1, CD)
18. Frank DeVol – The Addams Family (ABC LP, 1965)
19. Jack Marshall – The Munsters (CD)
20. Frank DeVol – Bewitched (ABC LP, 1965)
21. Eddie Albert – Green Acres (Rhino LP, 1966)
22. (no artist credited) – I Dream of Jeannie (TVToons v.1, CD)
23. Hugo Montenegro Orch. & Chor. – Jeannie (vocal version of I Dream of Jeannie) (45)
24. (no artist credited) – That Girl (TCToons v. 2, LP)
25. Chuck Barris – Dating Game Theme (Friends LP, 1975?)
26. Chuck Barris – Newlywed Game Theme (Friends LP)
27. (no artist credited) – Seattle (Here Come the Brides) (TVToons v. 5, CD)
28. (no artist credited) – The Brady Bunch (TVToons v. 2, LP)
29. Charles Fox Singers – Love, American Style (LP, 1973)
30. (no artist credited) – Happy Days (TVToons v. 3, CD)
31. 101 Strings – Those Were the Days (All in the Family) (Alshire LP, 1975)
32. (no artist credited) – The Bob Newhart Show (Home to Emily) (TVToons v. 3, CD)
33. Danny Davis & Nashville Brass – The Waltons Theme (Pickwick LP, 1975)
34. Jack Jones – The Love Boat (45)
35. (no artist credited) – Mork & Mindy (TVToons v. 6, CD)
36. 101 Strings – Little House on the Prairie (Alshire LP)
37. (no artist credited) – My Three Sons (TVToons v.1, CD) [by request]

38. Frank Sinatra – Love and Marriage (Married with Children) (Capitol CD)
39. Lee Holdridge – Beauty and the Beast (LP)
40. Danny Elfman – Main Title Theme from the Simpsons (CD)
41. Mundell Lowe & the All Stars – The Thin Man (RCA Camden LP)
42. Marti Webb – Moonlighting (BBC LP)
43. (no artist credited) _ Who’s the Boss (TVToons v. 6, CD)
44. John Gregory – McMillan and Wife (Mercury LP, 1978)
45. Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams – Without Us (Family Ties) (CD)
46. B. J. Thomas & Dusty Springfield – As Long as We’ve Got Each Other (Growing Pains) (Reprise LP, 1988)
47. James Galway & Henry Mancini – The Thorn Birds (RCA 45)

Playlist-Frantic

Coffeetime, February 4, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Red Rodney / Red Arrow / Signal / 11.24.57
Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks Again!! / Hard to Find / Contemporary / 8.1.62
Harry James & his Orch / Rose Room / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Gene Kardos & his Orch / Freddy the Freshman / Victor / 11.13.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
Mabel Smith (Big Maybelle) / Bad Dream Blues / King / 1948
Doris Day / Show Time / They Say It’s Wonderful / Columbia / 1960 / arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl

set 2
Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Motor City Scene / Stardust / Bethlehem / 1960
Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Midnight Sun / Bethlehem / late 1958
Joe Haymes & his Orch / Modern Melody / Bluebird / 7.11.33 / vocal = Mike Doty
Blu Lu Barker / He Caught That B&O / Decca / 8.11.38
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / The Yodeling Goldfish / Decca / 12.30.47
Johnny "Guitar" Watson / Lonely Girl / Modern / 1955 / vocal = Cordella de Milo

set 3
Bill English / Bill English / Rollin' / Vanguard / 1963
Sergio Mendes / The Great Arrival / Don't Go Breaking My Heart / Atlantic / Hollywood 6.6.66
Cy Coleman / Cool Coleman / Isn't It Romantic / Westminster / 1958
Eddie Safranski's Poll Cats / Sa-Frantic / Atlantic / 12.20.47
Monica Lewis & her V-Disc Friends / I'm an Old Cowhand / V-Disc 560B / 1945
James Quintet / Pleasing You (As Long As I Live) / Coral / 1949
Mel Tormé / My Kind of Music / A Stranger in Town / Verve / London 1961

set 4
Bob Cooper / The Music of Bob Cooper - Coop! / 3rd Variation: Night Stroll / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Ralph Sharon / Easy Jazz / There's a Small Hotel / London / 5.27.55
Eddie Cantor & chorus / Keep Young and Beautiful / soundtrack to United Artists movie Roman Scandals / Hollywood 1933
Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich / The Sounds of '66 / What the World Needs Now Is Love / Reprise / 12.66
Southern Sons / Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air / Bluebird / 7.21.41

last soul song
The Foundations / Baby, Now That I've Found You / Jerking the Dog / Uni / London 1968

Alex fills in for me

Coffeetime, January 28, 2011 with Alex McNeil

I. Themes from TV series that premiered in 1961
01. Harry Betts & Orch. – Follow the Sun (Choreo LP)
02. Pete Rugolo – Ben Casey (Mercury LP)
03. Harry Betts & Orch. – Bus Stop
04. Pete Rugolo – Dr. Kildare
05. (no artist credited – Car 54, Where Are You (TVToons LP)
06. Joe E. Ross – Ooh! Ooh! (Brunswick CD)
07. Stanley Wilson – 87th Precinct (Decca LP)
08. Harry Betts – Cain’s Hundred
09. Duke Ellington – Asphalt Jungle Theme (Columbia 45)
10. H. B. Gilbert – Target: The Corruptors (Dot LP)
11. Nelson Riddle – The Defenders Theme (Capitol LP)
12. H. B. Gilbert – Theme from The Dick Powell Show
13. Pete Rugolo – Nervous (“Teaser” theme from Dick Powell Show)
14. Nelson Riddle – The Dick Van Dyke Show/The Alvin Show (Capitol CD)
15. The Alvin Show – Closing Theme (Soundtrack CD)
16. Jim Timmens – Top Cat (Golden 45)
17. (no artist credited) – Hazel (TVToons CD)
18. H. B. Gilbert – Alma Mater & Fight Song from The Gertrude Berg Show (aka Mrs.
G. Goes to College)
19. Pete Rugolo – Ichabod and Me
20. Maynard Ferguson – Straightaway (Roulette LP)
21. Stanley Wilson – Alcoa Premiere

II. Now a word from our sponsors
22. Lester Lanin – Medley: Robert Hall/Blatz Beer/Blue Bonnet/KLM Airlines (Epic LP)

III. Themes from TV series that premiered in 1971
23. Henry Mancini – NBC Mystery Movie (RCA LP)
24. John Barry – The Persuaders (CBS LP)
25. Henry Mancini – Cade’s County
26. Carroll O’Connor & Jean Stapleton – Those Were the Days (Atlantic LP)
27. Roger Kellaway – Remembering You (closing theme from All in the Family) (Dobre
LP)
28. All in the Family cast – Jury Duty
29. Jack Jones – The Kind of Girl She Is (theme from Funny Face) (RCA 45)
30. Bobby Sherman – Getting Together (Metromedia LP)

IV. Some miscellaneous themes
31. Neal Hefti – Wagon Train (Reprise LP)
32. Hal Hopper – 26 Men (Kem 45)
33. Neal Hefti - Bonanza
34. Charles Randolph Grean – Marcus Welby, M.D. (Ranwood LP)
35. Henry Mancini – Johnny’s Theme

36. Patrick Williams – Home to Emily (Theme from The Bob Newhart Show) (Pausa LP)
37. Ferrante & Teicher – Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (UA LP)
38. Donny & Marie – A Little Bit Country (Polydor LP)
39. Jackie Gleason – Melancholy Serenade (Capitol CD)

Playlist-Ville

Coffeetime, January 7, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Hail to Dale / Fantasy / Chicago 6.55
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Your Own Iron / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55
Duke Ellington & his Orch / In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree / Mutual Broadcasting System radio broadcast, V-Disc / New Zanzibar Club 10.10.45
Alix Combelle et son Orch / Avalon / Swing / Paris 10.4.37
Annette Hanshaw / You'll Always Be the Same Sweetheart / Banner / 9.12.32
Wynonie Harris / Bring It Back / King / Cincinnati 11.7.52 / with Sonny Thompson & his Band
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / Candy / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Four! / Like Someone in Love / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58
Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orch / The Spirit of '67 / Memories of You / Impulse! / 2.14.67
Morris Lane / Moon Ray / Coral / 2.28.52
Jimmy Lunceford & his Orch / Estrellita / transcription / early 1940s
Cab Calloway & his Cotton Club Orch / Little Town Gal / Victor / 12.19.33
Maxine Sullivan / Mad About the Boy / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
Delta Rhythm Boys / I'll Never Get Out of this World Alive / Victor / 11.21.52
Lulu / Sings To Sir With Love / You and I / Epic / London 1968

set 3
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus / Alma-Ville / Fantasy / San Francisco 1965
Willis Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / 633 Knock / Prestige / 5.25.59
James Moody / Just Moody / Vogue / Lausanne, Switzerland 4.30.49
Leonard Feather's Hip-Tet / Fortune Tellin' Man / Savoy / 11.20.44 / vocal = Helen Humes
The Four Clefs / The Jive Is Jumpin' / Bluebird / 6.5.39
Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / live, Art Ford's Greenwich Village Party / 1956


set 4
Cal Tjader / Latin Kick / Lover Come Back to Me / Fantasy / LA 1956
Cy Touff Octet / Keester Parade / Pacific Jazz / LA 12.4.55
Johnny Otis Band / The Candle's Burning Low / Mercury / 10.52 / vocal = Mel Walker
Elaine Delmar / Swinging the Bard / Fye on Sinful Fantasy / Atco / 1964 / with The Elizabethan Consort of Viols & Geoffrey Emmott's Recorder Consort
The Sensational Nightingales / Vacant Room in Glory / Decca / 1951

last soul song
Otis Clay / It Was Jealousy / London / 1974

Playlist, Can't We Make a Date?

Coffeetime, January 7, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Klactveedsedstene / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17, 18.60
Gigi Gryce / Sometimes I'm Happy / Savoy / 3.7.55
Rudy Vallée / Me Minus You / Columbia / 4.1.29
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Little Boy Blue / Specialty / Hollywood summer 1947
Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / If You Were Mine / EmArcy / LA 4.21.55

set 2
Hal McKusick / East Coast Jazz No. 8 / What's New / Bethlehem / 2.17.55
Milt Jackson / Big Bags / If You Could See Me Now / Riverside / 6.62
Art Tatum / The Tatum Touch / Yesterdays / Columbia / live, Shrine Auditorium, LA 1949
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress / Pickin' My Way / Brunswick / 2.15.32
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Rockin' Chair / Victor / 7.14.39
Bobby Sherwood & his Orch / I Fell in Love with the Leader of a Band / radio broadcast / Yale University 8.11.43 / vocal = Gwen Davies
Flap McQueen & The Ray-O-Vacs / All About Daddy / Josie / 1955 / vocal =  Babe Hutton

set 3
Barney Kessel / Feeling Free / The Sounds of Silence / Contemporary / LA 3.12.69
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / Isabella / Cadet / 4.66
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orch / No Smoke Blues / Continental / 12.31.44 / vocal = Sarah Vaughan
Four Blues / Honey Chile / Apollo / 4.48
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / Junior and Julie / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953

set 4
Bob Enevoldsen / The Bob Enevoldsen Quintet / Iron Works / Tampa / LA 8.8.55
Pete Rugolo & his Orch / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / Dream of You / EmArcy / LA 7.9.56
The Cats & the Fiddle / Darling, Can't We Make a Date? / Manor / 3.47
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers / How Many Hearts Have You Broken / AFRS broadcast G.I. Journal #58 / Hollywood 8.25.44
Nat "King" Cole / Songs by Nat "King" Cole / I'm Hurtin' / Capitol / Hollywood 1951
Swan Silvertones / Singin' in My Soul / End of My Journey / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (soulful) song
The Beatles / Introducing… The Beatles / Baby, It's You / Vee-Jay / London 2.11.63

Playlist Wild

Coffeetime, January 7, 2011, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Charles McPherson / The Quintet/Live! / Shaw 'Nuff / Prestige / 10.13.66
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / In Time / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Hildegarde / I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Vocalion / London 1937 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orch
Walter Brown / Let's Love Awhile / Capitol / LA 7.50
Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / Love for Sale / Fantasy / 1.57

set 2
Sonny Clark / My Conception / Blue Note / 3.29.59
Phineas Newborn, Jr / Fabulous Phineas / What's New / RCA / fall 1958
Tadd Dameron's Band / Good Bait, No. 2 / broadcast / live, Royal Roost 8, 9.48
Connee Boswell / Me Minus You / Bluebird / 9.27.32 / with The Dorsey Brothers' Orch
Willie Bryant / Sneaky Pete / Apollo / 10.46
Louis Prima & his Orch / Chinatown, My Chinatown / radio broadcast, Bandstand USA / 6.50
Judy Holliday / Trouble Is a Man / An Occasional Man / Columbia / 3.24.58

set 3
Lee Morgan / Expoobident / The Hearing / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
James Moody / Wail Moody Wail / Moody’s Blue Again / Prestige / 12.12.55
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / Anthropology / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 3.31.51
Martha Raye, Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones / Blue Skies / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
The Orioles / It’s Too Soon to Know / Jubilee / 7.48
B.B. King / You’re Breaking My Heart / Kent / LA 1961

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Lens / Contemporary / LA 4.25.55
The Joe Newman Septet / The Midgets / Really? Healy! / RCA / 7.13.56
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Orch / Kansas City Jive / Hub / 1946
Cleo Brown / Breakin’ in a New Pair of Shoes / Decca / LA 11.20.35
Wallace Brothers / No More / Sims / Muscle Shoals 1965
Sam Cooke / Encore / Running Wild / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orch
Jubalaires / What Did Jesus Say / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song
The Unifics / Court of Love / Kapp / 1968

Bidin' My Playlist

Coffeetime, December 31, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin' Together / Hard Groove / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Kenny Drew / This is New / Little T / Riverside / 4.3.57
Georgie Auld & his Orch / Mandrake Root / transcription / 3.28.44
Billy Bissett & his Orch / Never in a Million Years / HMV / Mayfair Hotel, London 6.14.37 / duet with Alice Mann
Charles Brown / Gee / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / My Ship / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Bluesin’ Around / Mood Indigo / Columbia / 11.29.61
Dizzy Gillespie / She’s Funny That Way / Vogue / Paris 4.11.52
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Mandy / Vocalion / 4.7.39
Horace Henderson & his Orch / I’ve Got to Sing a Torch Song / Parlophone / Chicago 10.3.33
Isham Jones & his Famous Orch / Sweet Jennie Lee! / Brunswick / Chicago 9.12.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / I’m Shooting High / Pathé Marconi / Paris 5.5.36 / vocal = Adelaide Hall
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Too Late Baby / Peacock / Houston c. 9.50
Phyllis Newman / Those Were the Days / Gentle on My Mind / Sire / 10.26 & 30.68

set 3
Gene Ammons / Blue Gene / Blue Greens ’n’ Beans / Prestige / 5.2.58
Gene Ammons / Wow / Prestige / 1.16.51
Charioteers / I Can’t Get Started / Columbia / 6.9.47
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Plays George Gerswhin for Dancing [Dinner for Two] / Bidin’ My Time / RCA Victor [RCA Camden] / vocal = The Snowflakes / 1950
Fred Astaire / I Used to Be Color Blind / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Stan Getz, Cal Tjader / Liz-Anne / Fantasy / San Francisco 2.8.58
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Swinging Mr. Rogers / My Heart Stood Still / Atlantic / Hollywood 3.1.55
Dolly Cooper / You Gotta Be Good to Yourself / Savoy / 12.8.53 / with The Wanderers
John W. Bubbles / Bubbles, John W. That Is / I Won’t Dance / Vee-Jay / 1964
Christland Singers / Peace in the Land / Peacock / Houston 1952

last soul song
Esther Phillips / I’m in Love / Atlantic [unissued] / Miami 5.70

Coffeetime Xmas Bonus Show

Coffeetime Xmas Bonus, December 24, 2010, 4-5p, Angelynn Grant

bed
Christmas Music Box / Audio Fidelity Records / 1962

set 1
The Jackson Trio (aka The Ebonaires) / Love for Christmas / Hollywood (Swing Time?) / mid-50s
Holiday Hand Bell Choir / Christmas Bells / We Wish You a Merry Christmas / Classic Christmas Records / 1973 / featuring the Golden Harp Strings
Edward “Edd” (Kookie) Byrnes / We Wish You a Merry Christmas / Yulesville / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 1959
The Mexicali Brass / Jingle Bells / The First Noël / Custom Records / 1966
Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely / Silver Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 9.20.50
Bing Crosby, Marjorie Reynolds, Fred Astaire, et al / Original Soundtrack “Holiday Inn” / White Christmas Finale / Hollywood spring 1942
Bläser der Berliner Philharmoniker / Weltstars Wünschen Frohe Weihnachten / Kommet, ihr Hirten / Deutsche Grammophon / 1977
Laurence Naismith, Janis Paige, Fred Gwynne / Pine Cones and Holly Berries / Meredith Wilson’s Here’s Love [score from Broadway musical] / Columbia / 1963

set 2
Gene Autry / Freddie, The Little Fir Tree / Columbia / 1953
Doris Day / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Columbia / 1949
Hermann Prey & Fritz Wunderlich / Weltstars Wünschen Frohe Weihnachten / In dulci jubilo / Deutsche Grammophon / 1966
Chet Atkins / Christmas with Chet Atkins / Medley: The Coventry Carol; God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen / RCA Victor / Nashville 1961
The Walt Disney Players / Dicken’s Christmas Carol / Under the Mistletoe / Disneyland / 1974
Julie London / I'd Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957
Regensburger Domspatzen / Weltstars Wünschen Frohe Weihnachten / Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her / Deutsche Grammophon / 1980 / conducted by Georg Ratzinger
Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas; Little Fir Tree / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orch and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Sammy Davis Jr / Frank Sinatra and his Friends Want You to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Jingle Bells / Reprise / Hollywood 1965

last Xmas-y song
Les Brown & his Orch / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951

Three Beaus and a Playlist

Coffeetime, December 24, 2010, Angelynn Grant

bed
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64
Junior Mance Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / White Christmas / LA 1994

set 1
Al Caiola and Riz Ortolani / Sound of Christmas / Sleigh Ride / United Artists / 1967
Bobby Timmons / Holiday Soul / White Christmas / Prestige / 11.24.64
Duke Ellington & his Orch / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show aired 12.47 / Ring Dem Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 7.11.46
Clarence Williams & his Orch / Christmas Night in Harlem / Vocalion / 3.23.34
King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / LA 10.38
Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther
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
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965
Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Mitch Miller / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / vocal = Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 / lyrics by Peggy Lee, music by Cy Coleman, written for Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer
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
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / LA 1973
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955
Bing Crosby / White Christmas / Count Your Blessings / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

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 2.57

What Do the Playlists Do at Christmas?

Coffeetime, December 17, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Bronze Dance / Blue Note / 5.31.59
Elmo Hope / Hope Meets Foster / Wail Frank, Wail / Prestige / 10.4.55
Count Basie & his Orch / Basie in London / Flute Juice / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56
Ted Weems & his Orch / Winter Wonderland / Columbia / Chicago 11.11.34 / vocal = Parker Gibbs
Johnny Desmond & the Ray Charles Singers / Sleigh Ride / MGM / 1950
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Trouble Is a Man / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
James Moody / Great Day / One Never Knows / Argo [Cadet] / Chicago 6.17, 18.63
Benny Carter & his Swing Quintet / Jingle Bells / Vocalion / London 10.19.36
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Christmas Night in Harlem / 4.17.34 / vocal = Jack Teagarden & Johnny Mercer

Les Brown & his Orch / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951

Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Sleigh Ride / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orch and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen

Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Janet Orenstein

set 3
Hank Mobley / Thinking of Home / Talk about Gittin' It / Blue Note / 7.31.70
Charlie Parker / Perhaps / Savoy / 9.24.48
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959
Billy Eckstine / Blue Christmas / MGM / 1950
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You're All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Roulette / Tampa / LA 1954
Ronnie Kole Trio / Merry Christmas, Baby / Winter Wonderland / Paula / New Orleans 1969
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' on C / Columbia / 1940
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards / Happy Birthday & Songs for Every Holiday / Kris Kringle / Disneyland / LA 1958
Kay Starr / (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag / Capitol / LA 1950
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song
Emotions / What Do the Lonely Do at Christmas? / Volt / 1973

A Playlist in the Clouds

Coffeetime, December 10, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Elmo Hope / Informal Jazz / Avalon / Prestige / 5.7.56
The Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Big Band / Stolen Moments / Jaws / Prestige / 9.20.60 / arranged by Ernie Wilkins
Hal Kemp & his Orch / When Summer Is Gone; This Is Romance / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Wendell “Gus” Mayhew
Roy Milton / Let Me Give You All My Love / Specialty / Hollywood 1953
Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / This Is New / Fantasy / 1.57

set 2
Yusef Lateef / Cry! - Tender / If You Could See Me Now / New Jazz / 10.16.59
Wynton Kelly / Someday My Prince Will Come / Weird Lullaby / Vee-Jay / 4.27.60
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / More than Somewhat / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Willie Bryant & his Orch / Jerry the Junker / Victor / 5.8.35
Bing Crosby / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / Decca / 10.1.51
Cab Calloway & Co / Broadway cast recording, Hello, Dolly! / It Takes a Woman / RCA Victor / 1967

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I'm Movin' On / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Blue Note / 1.31.63
George Jenkins & his All Stars / Drum Magic / Antipathy / Tampa / LA 1955

Walter Fuller / Closer to My Heart / Kicks / 1954

Benny Goodman & his Orch / A Home in the Clouds / Victor / 2.9.39 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ The Darkest Hour / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Logrolling / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Bijou / Bijou / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm / Lady Be Good / AFRS Jubilee 82 / Hollywood spring 1944 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Red Callender Trio / Be Happy, Pappy / Black & White / LA 7.46
Bette McLaurin/ Ol’ Man River / Jubilee / 1954 / with Sy Oliver & his Orch
Dan Grissom & the Ebb Tones / Just Fall in Love / Million / 1955
Ann-Margret / The Swinger / RCA Victor / LA 1966
The Paramount Singers / Heaven in My View / Specialty / Geno Terrell’s living room, San Francisco 1949

last soul song
Barbara George / I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) / Honest I Do / AFO / New Orleans 1962

Oo Playlist Do

Coffeetime, December 3, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / One Second, Please / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Blueberry Hill / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54
John Kirby & his Orch / Coquette / V-Disc / c. early 1941 (?)
Adrian Rollini, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough / My Gal Sal / unknown / early 1937
Billy Cotton & his Band / Free / Regal-Zonophone / London 1937
Bram Martin & his Band / When My Dreamboat Comes Home / Regal-Zonophone / Holborn Restaurant, London 1938
The Larks / Christmas to New Years / Apollo [unreleased] / 10.18.51
Dakota Staton / Crazy He Calls Me / Invitation / Capitol / 1958

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Blue Hour / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 12.16.60
Quincy Jones / The Birth of a Band! / I Remember Clifford / Mercury / 5.27, 28.59 / solo = Clark Terry, arranged by Nat Pierce
The Hollywood Hucksters / Them There Eyes / Capitol / LA 5.29.47
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / The Man from the South / Okeh / 6.14.28
Little Esther / Oo Papa Do / Savoy / 2.19.59
Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / Same Old Saturday Night / RCA Victor / 1957

set 3
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / Hobo Joe / Blue Note / 7.18.62
Morris Lane & his Combo / Turntable / Continental / 1947
Maxine Sullivan / Say It with a Kiss / 12.10.38
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Romance a la Mode / Bluebird / 7.13.42 / vocal = Deep River Boys
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / They Say It’s Wonderful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Star Big Band / Jazz Rolls Royce / The Clown’s Dance / Phillips / UCLA 1957
Buddy Collette / Jazz Loves Paris / Pigalle / Specialty / Hollywood mid-50s
Mabel Scott / Good Lookin’ Fella / Exclusive / LA 1947
Sammy Davis Jr / Salutes the Stars of the London Palladium / Jalousie / Reprise / London 5.63
Southern Sons / I’m Free at Last / Victor / 8.28.42

last soul song
Barbara Lewis / Workin' on a Groovy Thing / Love Makes the World Go Round / Atlantic / 6.3.66

Little Miss Playlist

Coffeetime, November 26, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / 6 Pieces of Silver / Vergo / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Horace Parlan / Happy Frame of Mind / Kucheza Blues / Blue Note / 2.14.63
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Battleground / Prestige / 4.8.49
Ray Noble & his Orch / Here Lies Love / HMV / London 12.8.32 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Willa Mae “Big Mama” Thornton / Let Your Tears Fall Baby / Peacock / Houston 1951
Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader / Time for Two / Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year / Verve / Hollywood 2.26-28.62

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Second Genesis / The Albatross / Vee-Jay / Chicago 10.11.60
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Dream of You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Buddy Greco / On Stage! / I Can’t Get Started / Epic / live, Columbia Record’s 30th Street Studio 6.30.64
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Jungle Love / Brunswick / 4.29.38
George Lee & his Novelty Singing Orch / He’s Tall, Dark, and Handsome / Brunswick / Kansas City circa 11.8.29 / vocal = Julia Lee
Dorothy Ellis / Slowly Going Out of Your Mind / Federal / LA 1.16.52 / with Johnny Otis Band
Jumping Jacks / Julocka Jolly / Lloyds [Apollo] / 4.27.53
Buddy Greco / On Stage! / Take a Little Walk / Epic / live, Columbia Record’s 30th Street Studio 6.30.64

set 3

The Jazzpickers / For Moderns Only / When You Love Someone / EmArcy / 5.2.57

Bobby Timmons / In Person / They Didn’t Believe Me [cd bonus track] / Riverside [unreleased] / live at the Village Vanguard 10.1.61
Benny Carter & his Orch / Cadillac Slim / Swing / 8.23.46
Benny Goodman Sextet / 10" LP / The Way You Look Tonight / Columbia / 3.10.42 / vocal = Peggy Lee
The Four Tunes / My Last Affair / RCA Victor / 1949
Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / It’s All Right with Me / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57

set 4
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Cheremoya / Atlantic / LA 8.16.55
Kenny Burrell & Frank Wess / Playboy / Savoy / 12.26.56
Lud Gluskin & his Orch / Midnight in Paris / Brunswick / 1935 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Honey Child / Duke / Houston 1968
Soul Stirrers / I’m So Glad (Trouble Don’t Last Always) / Specialty / Hollywood 2.16.55

last soul song
Major Lance / Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um / Little Miss Love / Okeh / 10.17.63

A Lovely Way to Spend a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 19, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Benny Golson / The Other Side of Benny Golson / Strut Time / Riverside / 11.12.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin / Griff & Lock / The Last Train from Overbrook / Jazzland / 11.4, 10.60
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabiel) & his Orch / Tuxedo Junction / Bluebird / 7.18.39
Ipana Troubadours / I’m Riding to Glory / Columbia / 4.17.28 / vocal = unknown trio
Mildred Bailey / I’ll Get By / Mildred Bailey Show, CBS radio transcription / LA 1944 / with Paul Baron's Orch
Clarence Gatemouth Brown / Mary Is Fine / Peacock / Houston 1.49
Nancy Wilson / Welcome to My Love / Why Try to Change Me Now / Capitol / Hollywood 1968

set 2
Lucky Thompson / One Last Goodbye / (French) Columbia / 4.20.56
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Since I Fell for You / Fantasy / LA 1962
Horace Henderson & his Orch / Chloe / Vocalion / Chicago 5.8.40
Chocolate Dandies / Paducah / Okeh / 10.13.28
Jane Pickens / There’s a Lull in My Life / radio transcription / Hollywood 1937
Georges Guétary / Divine Melodie / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1946
The Treniers / Who Put The “Ungh” in Mambo / Okeh / 11.15.54 / with Quincy Jones & Orch

set 3
Baby-Face Willette / Behind the 8 Ball / Tacos Joe / Argo / Chicago 11.30.64
Kenny Clarke / Afternoon in Paris / Savoy / 5.9.56
Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #7 / Diverse / Verve / 5.5.49
Ink Spots / A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee #78 / Hollywood 5.2.44
Savannah Churchill / The Things You Do to Me / Columbia [Manor] / fall 1948 / with The Four Tunes
Sammy Davis Jr / When the Feeling Hits You / Don’t Cry Joe / Reprise / Las Vegas ("recorded wild in…") 4.30.64 / with Sam Butera & the Witnesses

set 4
Steve Allen / Allen's All Stars / Snacks at Pasternak’s / Mercury / live, Joe Pasternak's Home, Hollywood 3.24.58
Trigger Alpert / Trigger Happy! / I Like the Likes of You / Riverside / 11.23.56
Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula / Columbia? / late-20s?
Albinia Jones / Salty Papa / National / 4.14.45 / with Don Byas’ Swing Seven
Bobby Short / Mabel Mercer & Bobby Short at Town Hall / Something to Live For / Atlantic / live at Town Hall 5.19.68
Hunki-Dori aka Chester McDowell / I Hear the Savior Calling / Sun / Memphis c. 1958

last soul song
Barbara Lynn / I’m a One Man Woman / Atlantic / 1971

I'm a Playlist (But Aren't We All)

Coffeetime, November 12, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (5066) / Love for Sale / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Steve's Blues / Prestige / 10.21.66
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch / All the Things You Ain't / V-Disc / LA 7.20.44
Annette Hanshaw / I’m Sure of Everything but You / Banner / 12.2.32
Floyd Dixon / Wine Wine Wine / Aladdin / LA 5.12.52
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Lament of the Lonely / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / What's New / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Chico Hamilton / Ellington Suite / In a Sentimental Mood / World Pacific / LA 1959
Red Norvo / Russian Lullaby / Keynote / 10.10.44
The Mason-Dixon Orch / What a Day! / Columbia / 5.15.29
Peggy Lee / Trav’lin Light / Capitol radio transcriptions / LA 4.4, 8.49
Cardinals / Shouldn’t I Know / Atlantic / 3.51
Noel Coward / Noel Coward in New York / What’s Going to Happen to the Tots / Columbia / 1956

set 3
David Fathead Newman / House of David / Little Sister / Atlantic / 1967
Pete Rugolo & his Orch / An Adventure in Sound – Reeds in Hi-Fi / Polytonal Blues / Mercury / LA 11.1.56
Lem Davis / G-U-M-P-E-Y / Savoy / 5.10.46
Les Brown & his Orch / Dreamer’s Holiday / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
The James Quintet / Bewildered / Coral / 1949
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Manhattan / RCA / LA 1957

set 4
Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / Change Partners / Jubilee / LA 1958
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / The Bull Speaks / Jazzland / 3.16-17.55
King Bennie Nawahi / I’m a Dreamer (But Aren’t We All) / Columbia / 1928
King Cole Swingsters aka King Cole Trio / That “Please Be Mine-able Feeling / Davis & Schwegler [Keystone] transcription / LA 1.14.39
Pearl Bailey / Naughty but Nice / They’re Either Too Young or Too Old / Roulette / 1960
The Chosen Gospel Singers / Leaning on the Lord / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 11.11.52

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

Money Burns a Hole in My Playlist

My deepest thanks to Jesse Kaminsky, Laura Wilson, Larry Azrin, Keith Sawyer, and Bruce Sylvester. And thanks to all who have donated or pledged so far, those who will in the future, and those who want to but can't, but still are out there for me every week.

Coffeetime, November 5, 2010 -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 2
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quintet with Carl Perkins / Buddy Can You Spare a Dime / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley / Blue Note / 12. 22. 47
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orch
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942

set 3
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour / Why Don't You Do Right / Columbia / 7.27.42
Monroe Tucker & His All Stars / You Gotta Give It Up / Apollo / 2.27.46 / vocal = Frank Haywood

set 4
David Fathead Newman / House of David / One Room Paradise / Atlantic / 1967
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Shake / Prestige / 4.10.62
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orch
The Ink Spots / With Plenty of Money and You / Decca / Hollywood 2.5.37
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 5
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orch

set 6
Mills Brothers / Money in My Pockets / Decca / 2.24.34
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47

set 7
Art Pepper / Surf Ride / Straight Life / Savoy / LA 3.4.52
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Swan Silvertones / Get Your Soul Right / Vee Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James