Got to Get My Hands on a Playlist Before I'm Too Old

Coffeetime, April 12, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Beauteous / Blue Note / 10.21.56 

John Coltrane / [7105] / Time Was / Prestige / 5.31.57 

Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / Wild Fire / soundtrack from Columbia Pictures film Cootie Williams, His Hot Trumpet and Orchestra, Film Vodvil - series 1, no. 2 / 6.43  

Little Jack Little / I'm In the Mood for Love / Columbia / 6.28.35

Annisteen Allen / I Don’t Want No Substitute / King / 5.25.53 

Mavis Rivers / We Remember Mildred Bailey / Please Be Kind / Vee Jay / 1964

set 2

John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Tenderly / New Jazz / 7.26.57 

Lennie Tristano / Yesterdays / Capitol / 3.14.49 

Rex Stewart’s Big Four / Madeleine (alt take) / HRS [unissued] / 7.47 

Eddie South / Black Gypsy / Swing / Paris 1938

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / I’ve Got the World on a String / Columbia / 2.15.33 / vocal = Ivie Anderson

Charles Trenet / Boum! / soundtrack film La Route Enchantée / Paris 1938

Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron

Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3

John Coltrane / I Want to Talk About You / Impulse! / Birdland, 10.8.63 

Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / I’ll Remember April / Roost / 8.53

James Moody's Modernists aka James Moody & his Bop Men / Tin Tin Deo / Blue Note / 10.25.48 / vocal = Chino Pozo

Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / I’m So Right Tonight / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Betty Bennett

The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 

Mel Tormé / Swingin’ on the Moon [Verve’s Choice! The Best of…] / Moonlight in Vermont / Verve / LA 8.3.60 

set 4

Bud Shank / Latin Contrasts / ‘Round About Midnight / World-Pacific Records / Hollywood 1959

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Coop de Graas / RCA Victor / LA 3.26.53 

Fats Waller / African Ripples / Victor / 11.16.34 or Bluebird / 3.11.35 

Deek Watson & the Brown Dots / For Sentimental Reasons / Manor / 1946 

Ethel Waters / Shades of Blue / I Shoulda Quit When I Was Ahead / Remington [Continental] / 4.19.46 / with JC Heard & his Orchestra

Ann Richards / The Many Moods of Ann Richards / I’m Late / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

The Sons of the South / Didn’t It Rain Children / Nashboro / Nashville 1954

last soulful song

The Artistics / Get My Hands on Some Lovin’ / Okeh / Chicago 1.7.64

I Talk to the Playlist

Coffeetime, April 5, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Clifford Brown / More Study in Brown / I’ll Remember April / EmArcy / 2.17.56 

Ray Draper / A Tuba Jazz / I Talk to the Trees / Jubilee / 11.58 

The Piccadilly Players / Blue Grass / Columbia / London 1.11.29 / vocal = Barrie Oliver

King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.19.45

The “5” Royales / All Righty! / Apollo / 1952 / with Charlie “Little Jazz” Ferguson & his Orchestra

Chris Connor / Blame It on My Youth / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 

set 2

Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Spanish Scenery / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61 

Kenny Clarke / I Married an Angel / Savoy / 1.30.56 

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Song of India [concert version] / Columbia / 4.25.29 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Lovie Joe / Decca / 1940 / vocal = Mabel Robinson

Kay Starr / Frying Pan / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars

The Ravens / I’m Gonna Paper All My Walls with Your Love Letters / National / 3.50 

Billy “The Kid” Emerson / You Never Miss Your Water / Vee Jay / Chicago 1957  

set 3

Lee Morgan / The Gigolo / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 7.1.65

Charlie Parker & his All Stars / How High the Moon / radio broadcast , WJZ / Birdland 3.31.51

Sarah Vaughan / I’m Through with Love / Musicraft / 7.18.46 / with George Treadwell & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / Long, Lean and Lanky / Standard transcription / late 1940s

Joe Derise / Bethlehem’s Best / My Romance / Bethlehem / 3.10.55

set 4

Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Love Walked In / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57 

Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / All the Things You Are / Tampa  / 2.20.57 

Morris Lane / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / Coral / 1952

Bing Crosby / I Surrender Dear / Victor / Hollywood 3.2.31

Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / (Take Me to) Aruanda / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone

The Southern Sons / Live So God Can Use You / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 6.21.51

last soulful song

Barbara Mills / Try / Hickory Records / Nashville 1966

My Playlist Waits (O Meu Playlist Espera)

Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Where You At? / Blue Note / 7.8.60 

Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins / The Way You Look Tonight / Prestige / 10.25.54 

Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / The Stroller / Blue Note / 8.21.54 

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Wabash Blues / Victor / Kansas City, Missouri 12.13.27 / vocal = Joe Sanders & Carleton Coon 

Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / I Can’t Go for You / Decca / 3.12.40 / vocal = Red Richards 

Mari Jones / It Just Wasn’t True / Modern / Hollywood c. 1953 / with Johnny Moore’s Blazers 

set 2

Rhythm Section / Rhythm Plus One / Serenade in Blue / Epic / 1956

Duke Jordan / Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet / Sultry Eve / Signal S / 10.10.55 

Lee Konitz / Duet for Saxophone and Guitar / Prestige / 3.13.51 

Art Tatum Trio / Exactly Like You / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Stardust / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.17.36

Broadway Bell-Hops / There Ain’t No Land Like Dixieland to Me / Harmony / 9.29.27  

Chris Connor / Come Back to Sorrento / Bethlehem / 8.9, 11.54 

Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Rock On! / Mercury / 1.3.57 

set 3

Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera) / Blue Note / 9.13.67 

Sonny Stitt / Burnin' / Ko-Ko / Argo / Chicago 1960

Charlie Parker / The Jazz Scene / The Bird / Clef / Carnegie Hall 12.47 

The Mills Brothers / Darling Nelly Gray / Decca / 4.7.37 / with Louis Armstrong 

Maxine Sullivan / That Lonely Tune / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra

Mel Tormé / It’s a Blue World / I’ve Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) / Bethlehem / 8.28-30.55 

set 4

Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play "Peter Gunn" / The Floater / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 20.59 

Stan Levey / West Coasting / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54 

King Cole Trio / Laguna Mood / Capitol / Hollywood 8.27.47

Mae West / They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk / Brunswick / 1933

Little Milton [Campbell] / Spring / Checker / Chicago 2.69

Selah Jubilee Singers / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Decca / 2.21.41

last soul song

Leon Haywood / It’s Got to Be Mellow / Decca / 1968

A Certain Kind of Playlist

Coffeetime, March 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Devil Whip / Blue Note / 5.31.59 

Paul Quinichette / On the Sunny Side / Blue Dots / Prestige / 5.10.57 

Count Basie & his Orchestra / Basie in London / How High the Moon / Verve / live in Gothenburg, Sweden 9.7.56 

Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / What a Difference a Day Made / Bluebird / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / After School Swing Session (Swinging with Symphony Sid) / Decca / 1940

Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / My Funny Valentine / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2

Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / When Your Lover has Gone / Blue Note / 12.21.58 

Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Last Night When We Were Young / Riverside / 8.10.60 

Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / More than You Know / Riverside / 5.28.63 

Blu Lou [Louisa Dupont ] Barker with Danny Barker’s Fly Cats / I Don’t Dig You, Jack / Decca / 11.17.39 

Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / Stop, You’re Breaking My Heart / radio transcription / late 1930s / vocal = Stan Noonan

Noel Coward / Noel Coward New York / Why Must the Show Go On / Columbia / 1956

set 3

Wes Montgomery / Portrait of Wes / Dangerous / Riverside / 11.27.63 

Conte Candoli / Little Band Big Jazz / Macedonia / Crown / Hollywood 2.3.60 

The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unreleased] / 8.50

Les Brown & his Orchestra / Don’t Do Something to Someone Else / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk

Johnny Hartman / John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman / Dedicated to You / Impulse! / 3.7.63 

set 4

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Jubilation / Contemporary / LA 10.2, 9, 16.56 

Frank Foster / No Count / Casa de Marcel / Savoy / 3.7.56 

Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove Orchestra / The Old Man of the Mountain / radio broadcast / 1933 

Elmore James / Coming Home / Vee Jay / 1957

Dionne Warwick / Make Way for Dionne Warwick / Reach Out / Scepter / 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / Dip Your Fingers in the Water / Okeh / 2.25.42

last soulful song

The Lovelites / With Love from the Lovelites / Certain Kind of Lover / Uni / LA 1970

Playlist Lullaby

Coffeetime, March 8, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

John Coltrane / Soultrane / Russian Lullaby / Prestige / 2.7.58 

Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Brother ’Ball / Riverside / 7.2-3.58 

Paul Fenoulhet with The Skyrockets Dance Orchestra / Swingin’ on Lennox Avenue / HMV / London late 1940s

Russ Columbo / Time on My Hands / Victor / 10.9.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra

The Robins / Rockin’ / Modern / LA 3.51 

Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / Blue Turning Grey Over You / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958 / vocal = Ginny Byrd 

set 2

Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / How Deep Is the Ocean / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62 [4.11.62?]  

The Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, Vol 1 / Alone Together / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55 

Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / These Foolish Things / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56 

Dub Adams & his K-Bar Ranch Hands / Income Tax / Dude / Dallas circa 1948

Goree Carter & his Hepcats / Come On Let’s Boogie / Freedom / Houston c. 4.50

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Swings Lightly / Gotta Be This or That / Verve / LA 11.23.58 

set 3

Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / Miss Fine / Verve / 3.26.63 

Curtis Fuller & Tommy Flanagan / Jazz… It’s Magic! / Soul Station / Savoy / 9.5.57 

Charlie Parker / East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) / WNBC Hear America Swingin’ broadcast / live, Birdland 8.27.54

The Spirits of Rhythm / That’s What I Hate About Love [That’s What I Like About You] / Brunswick / 1934 

Kay Starr / What a Difference a Day Made / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti

Charles Brown / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Aladdin / LA 12.21.50 

set 4

Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / A Nice Day / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58

Barney Kessel / Carmen / If You Dig Me / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58

Dennis Morgan & Joan Leslie / soundtrack to MGM movie Thank Your Lucky Stars / No You, No Me / Hollywood 1943

Buddy Greco / I Like It Swinging / I Love Being Here with You / Epic / 4.19-21.61

Swan Silvertones / Is God Satisfied with Me? / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963

last soulful song

Baby Washington / I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face / Sue / 1962

Playlist Is Going to Ruin Me

Coffeetime, March 1, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Mal Waldron / The Quest / We Diddit / New Jazz / 6.27.61 

John Coltrane / [7105] / Straight Street / Prestige / 5.31.57 

Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orchestra / The Spirit of '67 / I’m Coming, Virginia / Impulse! / 2.15.67 

Jackie Souders Orchestra / Maybe Sometime / Columbia / LA 2.16.27  / vocal = Walton McKinney

T-Bone Walker / She Is Going to Ruin Me / Old Swing Master / Chicago 12.19.45 / with Marl Young’s Orchestra 

Dinah Washington / In Love / I Didn’t Know About You / Roulette / 1962

set 2

Ben Webster / The Soul of Ben Webster / When I Fall in Love / Verve / 7.58 

Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Someone to Watch Over Me / Riverside / early 1964 

Max Roach / Max Roach + Four on the Chicago Scene / My Old Flame / EmArcy / Chicago 6.3.58 

Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith / Medley: Rainbow; Silver Bells / radio transcription / 1945

Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / What’s the Use? / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.30 

The Flamingos / Jump Children aka Vooit-Vooit / Chance / Chicago 12.24.53 

set 3

John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Vodka / Prestige / 5.17.57

Paul Quinichette / The Vice ‘Pres’ / Cross Fire / EmArcy / 10.5.51 

Erskine Butterfield / Part Time Boogie / radio transcription / 8.17.44

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Back to Back / Victor / 6.1.39 / vocal = Edythe Wright

The Four Aces / I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder, part 2 / Trilon / Oakland 12.46 

Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 3.2.56 

set 4

Conte & Pete Candoli / Two for the Money / Willow Weep for Me / Mercury / LA 1959 

Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / No Such Luck / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58

Sax Gill / Dancer’s Delight / Gotham / 1950

Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / It Seems Like Old Times / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass

Wayne King & his Orchestra / Time Was / Victor / 6.21.41 / vocal = Buddy Clark

Jackie Wilson / The Greatest Hurt / TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / 1.21.62

Paramount Singers / You’ve Got to Bow Down / Coral / San Francisco 1952

sat soulful song

The Admirations / Wait Till I Get to Know You / One-derful! / Chicago 1.14.63

Playlist First; I'm No Fool (In Water)

Coffeetime, February 22, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

The Jazz Messengers / Deciphering the Message / Columbia (unissued) /  4.6, 5.4.56 

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenor Favorites / From This Moment On / Jazzland / 2.5.62 

Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra / Haunted Nights / Victor / 9.16.29 

Six Jumping Jacks / She’s the Sweetheart of Six Other Guys / Brunswick / 4.13.28

Jimmy Liggins & his Drops of Joy / That Song Is Gone / Specialty / Hollywood 9.9.47 

Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / I Wonder What Became of Me / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet 

set 2

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenors / Imagination / Jazzland / 11.4 & 10.60 

Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Serenity / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61 

Dizzy Gillespie / She’s Funny That Way / Vogue (unissued) / Paris 4.11.52 

Fletcher Henderson & Connie's Inn Orchestra / Singin’ the Blues (’Til My Daddy Comes Home) / Decca / 4.29.31

Louis Prima & his New Orleans Gang / Let’s Have a Jubilee / Brunswick / 11.1.34

Johnny Mercer / Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed / Capitol / Hollywood 1.30.47 / with Benny Goodman & his Orchestra

Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards / Mickey Mouse Club Song Hits with a Personal Mouseketeer Cast Photo Album / Safety First; I’m No Fool (In Water) / Disneyland / LA 1956

set 3

Blue Mitchell / The Thing to Do / Chick’s Tune / Blue Note / 7.30.64 

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Bah-U-Bah / Vogue / Paris 12.21.49 

The Modernaires / Juke Box Saturday Night 10" EP / You Belong to My Heart / Columbia / 1946

The Ink Spots / For Sentimental Reasons / Waldorf Music Hall / mid-1950s
Jack Teagarden / Accent on Trombone / A Hundred Years from Today / Urania / 1954

set 4

Johnny Richards / Something Else By Johnny Richards / Band Aide / Bethlehem / Hollywood 8.56 

Ike Quebec Quintet / Tiny’s Exercise / Blue Note / 7.18.44 

Oscar Moore & the Three Blazers / Melancholy Madeline / Atlas / Hollywood 9.15.45 / vocal = Frankie Laine 

Sammy Davis Jr. / The Shelter of Your Arms / Some Days Everything Goes Wrong / Reprise / LA 1964 

The Zion Travelers / Since He Lightened My Heavy Load / Dooto / LA 1957

last soulful song

Ann Byers / I’m Happy Without You / Academy / 1966

Cha-Cha Playlist

Coffeetime, February 15, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with the Horace Silver Quintet / Mellow D / Blue Note / 1.31.59

Stanley Turrentine / Comin’ Your Way / Stolen Sweets / Blue Note / 1.20.61

Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Functionizin’ / Brunswick / 9.10.34 

Annette Hanshaw / I’m Following You / Diva / 2.11.30 

Georges Guétary / Robin des Bois / Pathé / Paris 1943 

Luke Jones & his Five Joes / She’s My Baby / Atlas / LA early 1947 / vocal = Clarence Williams

Tina Louise / It's Time for Tina / It’s Been a Long Time / Concert Hall / 1957

set 2

Horace Silver / Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet / Melancholy Mood / Blue Note / 1.13.58

Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Love Letters / Roost / 3.18.57 

Tab Smith / Blanket of Blue / United / Chicago 10.24.51 

Django Reinhardt / Mélodie au crépuscule (Love’s Melody) / Decca / London 2.1.46

Boswell Sisters / Fare Thee Well, Annabelle / unreleased / London 7.19.35 

Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / I’m Shooting High / Pathé Marconi / Paris 5.5.36 / vocal = Adelaide Hall

Otis Rush / All Your Love (I Miss Loving) / Cobra / Chicago 1958 / with Willie Dixon 

Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / It’s Bad for Me / MGM unreleased [DRG] / 4.20-17.60

set 3

Les McCann / Les McCann LTD. / Cha-Cha Twist / Pacific Jazz / live, Village Gate 12.28.61 

Duke Pearson / Sweet Honey Bee / Gaslight / Blue Note / 12.7.66 

Maxine Sullivan / If I Had a Ribbon Bow / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam / Standard transcription / late 1940s

Hoagy Carmichael / Stardust / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)

set 4

Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Rondo / Contemporary / LA 3.16.55 

Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / A Winter’s Tale / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56

Paula Castle / Lost Love / I’m Shooting High / Bethlehem / 1955 

Little Willie John / Inside Information / King / Cincinnati 9.13.63

Dixie Hummingbirds / One Day / Apollo / 1.47

last soulful song

Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye and his Girls / I Want You ‘Round / Motown / Detroit 1969

A Winter's Playlist

Coffeetime, February 8, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Dizzy Reece / Blues in Trinity / Shepherd’s Serenade / Blue Note / London 8.24.58 

Hank Mobley / Jazz Message #2 / B. for B.B. / Savoy / 7.23.56 

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / Dinah / Brunswick / 4.18.29 

Snooks & his Memphis Stompers / Hello Beautiful / Victor / 01.27.31

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / On the Alamo / Brunswick / 4.18.29 

Anita O’Day / Sings the Winners / What’s Your Story, Morning Glory / Verve / LA 4.2.58 

set 2

Red Garland / Solar / Where Are You? / Jazzland / 1.30.62 

Yusef Lateef / Into Something / Rasheed / New Jazz / 12.29.61 

Charlie Parker / Don’t Blame Me / WHDH radio broadcast / live, Storyville, Boston 9.22.53 

Bing Crosby & Patty Andrews / If I Were a Bell / Decca / LA 9.7.50 / with Vic Schoen & his Orchestra

Jubalaires / You Better Run / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Big Maybelle / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me? / Scepter / 1964 

Mighty Lak a Playlist

Coffeetime, February 1, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / ’S Make It / Blue Note / 8.2.59 

Max Roach / Parisian Sketches / Liberté / Mercury / Paris 3.2.60 

James Moody / Wail Moody Wail / Donkey Serenade / Prestige / 12.12.55 

Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Too Many Tears / Regal / London 6.3.32 / vocal = Sam Browne

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / What Is this Thing Called Love? / Vocalion / 2.7.39 / vocal = Joe Thomas

The Trenier Twins / Hey Sister Lucy! / Mercury / 5.15.47 

Billie Holiday / The Seven Ages of Jazz / Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) / Metrojazz / live, Oakdale Musical Theatre, Wallingford CT 9.26.58 

set 2

Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Mighty Lak a Rose / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60 

Red Garland / Red in Blues-Ville / See See Rider / Prestige / 4.17.59 

Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Loose Ankles / Brunswick / Kansas City 4.29.30 / vocal = Bill Massey 

Dizzy Gillespie / School Days / Umbrella Man / Dee Gee [Regent] / Chicago 7.18.52

Louis Jordan / I’ll Die Happy / Aladdin / 1.54

set 3

John Coltrane / Stardust / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige / 12.26.58 

Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Thru for the Night / radio broadcast / LA 1954 

Norfolk Jazz Quartet aka Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Suntan Baby Brown / Decca / 7.19.37

Ella Mae Morse / Captain Kidd / Andy Russell radio show / Hollywood 5.5.45 / with Lou Bring Orchestra
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / A Hundred Years from Today / Capitol / Hollywood 1962

set 4

Zoot Sims Quartet / Jazz West Coast / I’ll Remember April / Pacific Jazz / live, Hoover High School, San Diego 12.4.54 

Shorty Rogers / What's New / [Xanadu] / LA 12.27.51
Louis Bellson Just Jazz All Stars / Punkin’ / Capitol / LA 2.52

Fats Waller / Loafin' Time / Victor / 8.20.35 

The Keynotes / A Star / Apollo / 1955

Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Long Ago and Far Away / Sing / Chicago 2.59

Golden Gate Quartet / Daniel Saw the Stone / Okeh / 4.18.41

last soulful song

Maxine Brown / Oh Lord, What Are You Doing to Me / Wand / 5.31.66

Heigh Ho, Playlist

Coffeetime, January 25, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Sippin’ at Bells / Blue Note / 1.5.58 

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb / Very Saxy / Very Saxy / Prestige / 4.29.59 

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh Ho, Everybody / radio broadcast / 1929

Amos Milburn / Johnson Rag / Aladdin / LA 1949 

Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / What’s New? / Riverside / 1.10.61 

set 2

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Flute ’n Oboe / Blues for Delilah / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1957

Willie Bobo / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Bobo's Beat] / Naked City Theme / Roulette / 1962

John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Odyssey / Debut / 3.10.55 

Osvaldo Pugliese y Su Orquestra Tipica / El Arranque / Odeon / Argentina 8.22.44 

Dick McIntire & his Harmony Hawaiians / When I Hear Hawaiian Music / radio broadcast / Hollywood c. 1940

Joe Turner / Last Goodbye Blues / National / Chicago 12.9.47 

Peggy Lee / Big $pender / You’ve Got Possibilities / Capitol / Hollywood 2.1.66 

set 3

Eric Dolphy / Here and There / Don’t Blame Me (take 2) / Prestige / Berlingske Has, Copenhagen 9.6.61 

Five Jones Boys / Nagasaki / radio transcription / c. 1936

Dinning Sisters / The Way You Look Tonight / Capitol / Hollywood 1943

Al Hibbler / It’s the Talk of the Town / Decca / 11.13.57

set 4

Stan Levey / Stan Levey Quintet / One for Joan / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Zig-Zag /  Mode / Hollywood 1957 [partial: WMBR had tech difficulties]

Goree Carter / Serenade / Freedom / Houston c. 9.49
Johnny Otis Band / Uneasy Blues; Rockin' Blues / Savoy / 9.19.50 / vocal = Marilyn Scott [aka Mary DeLoatch]; Mel Walker

Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Going Out of My Head / Liberty / 1967 

Highway QC’s / Jesus is Waiting / The Way Up the Hill / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 

last soulful song

Donny Hathaway / Atlantic Soul Explosion ’72 [Live] / Little Ghetto Boy / Atco / 1972

The Playlist in her Hair

Coffeetime, January 18, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Exhibit A / Pacific Jazz [Blue Note] / 2.11.57 

Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Basheer's Dream / Blue Note / 3.29.55

Paul Cornelius & his Orchestra / I’ve Found a New Baby / Champion / 2.5.34

Justin Ring & his Orchestra / True Blue Lou / Okeh / 8.16.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / The Jumping Jack / RCA Victor / LA 1950 / vocal = Billy Valentine  

Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / River Weep / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2

Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Where or When / Jazzland / 11.30.61 

Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / 5.8.65 

Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Mr Polo Takes a Solo / Decca / London 10.1.37

McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Zonky / Victor / 2.3.30 / vocal = Dave Wilborn 

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Four Blazes / Boogie Woogie Billy / radio broadcast, AFRS #222 / Hollywood 6.45

Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Ballin’ the Jack / Decca / Hollywood 9.17.55 

set 3

Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / I Never Has Seen Snow / EmArcy / 11.4.59 

Shelly Manne & his Men / Play Checkmate / En Passant / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61 

Jimmy Forrest / There Will Be No Other You [There Will Never Be Another You] / United / 3.30.52 

Dick Powell / Medley: Cause My Baby Says It’s So; The Rose in her Hair; With Plenty of Money and You; Thanks a Million / radio broadcast / 1942

The Dixieaires / Until You Say You’re Mine / Continental / 1948 

Buddy Greco / My Buddy / The More I See You / Epic / live , Le Bistro, Chicago 1959

set 4

Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 26.56 

Henri Renaud / The Birdlanders / Boo Wah / Swing / 2.28.54 

King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44

Cleo Brown / When / Decca / LA 11.20.35 

Tommy Ridgley / Let’s Try and Talk It Over / Ric / New Orleans 1960

Friendly Brothers / You Can't Win / Vee-Jay / Cleveland 1959

last soulful song

Irma Thomas / Two Winters Long / Minit / New Orleans 1962

Child's Playlist

Coffeetime, January 11, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Art Farmer / Farmer's Market / Farmer’s Market / New Jazz / 11.23.56 

Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Blue Note, 11.11.60 

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Crazy Rhythm / Impulse! / 11.13.61 

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / How Am I to Know? / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew, from movie “Dynamite”  

The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950 

Beverly Kenney / Sings with Jimmy Jones and “The Basie-Ites” / I Never Has Seen Snow / Roost / 1956

set 2

Booker Ervin / The Book Cooks / Largo / Bethlehem / 6.60 [4.6.60] 

Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / Ghost of a Chance / Atlantic / live, The Sing-Song Room, Confucius Restaurant 6.11.55 

Howard McGhee / South Pacific Jazz / Don’t Blame Me / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52 

The Four Clefs / When I’m Low I Get High / Bluebird [unissued] / Chicago 2.26.45

Gene Ammons / Sweet Jennie Lou / Prestige / 7.27.50 / vocal = Gene Ammons 

Charles Trenet / Morceaux Choisis Par L’auteur / Paie tes dettes [Pay Your Debts] / Capitol / Paris 1958

set 3

Curtis Fuller / The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson / Judy’s Dilemma / Savoy / 8.25.59 

Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Love Letters / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.18.57 

Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / That’s Life I Guess / Brunswick /  1.12.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday

Delta Rhythm Boys / Gimme Some Skin / transcription / 1941

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't  So / Angel Eyes / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956  

set 4

Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Love Letters / Savoy / 11.6.55 

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Pay the Piper / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56 

Russ Columbo / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / Victor / 9.3.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra

King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / Capitol / LA 5.19.45

Jean Bonnard / Passing By / Atco / 1967

The Trumpeteers / Gideon and the Sword / Score / 5.9.50

last soulful song

Cilla Black / Is It Love? / Whatcha Gonna Do ‘Bout It? / Capitol / LA 1965

No Playlist in Venice

Coffeetime, January 4, 2013, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Cecil Payne / Patterns / Groovin’ High / Savoy / 5.22.56 

Jackie McLean / McLean’s Scene / Outburst / New Jazz / 2.15.57 

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / The Jazz Scene / Frustration / Clef / Hollywood 1947 

Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Ain’t It Nice / Brunswick / 9.10.34 

Annette Hanshaw / Body and Soul / Harmony / 10.7.30 

The Robins / You're Fine but Not My Kind / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / with Johnny Otis Quintet 

Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / Come Rain or Come Shine / Mercury / 1956

set 2

Modern Jazz Quartet / No Sun in Venice / One Never Knows / Atlantic / 4.4.57 

Gigi Gryce / Evening in Paris / Vogue / Paris 10.11.53 

Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Old Folks / Savoy / 5.17.46 

Bing Crosby / Tumbling Tumbleweeds / Decca / LA 2.9.40 / with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra

Buddy Clark & Doris Day / My Darling, My Darling / Columbia / 9.22.48

Ella Mae Morse / Tennessee Saturday Night / Capitol / Hollywood 11.6.51

The Sandmen / Somebody to Love / Okeh / 12.14.54 

set 3

Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / Scrap Iron / Blue Note / 9.13.67 

Tadd Dameron / Wah “Hoo” aka Perdido / Columbia / live, Festival de Jazz, Salle Pleyel, Paris 5.49 

Pete Brown / Boot Zoot / Savoy / 8.1.44 

Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Darn It, Baby, That’s Love / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #316 / Hollywood 4.6.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 

Ravens / Be I Bumblebee or Not / National / 12.22.47 

Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / In a Little While / MGM / 1962

set 4

Teddy Edwards / Back to Avalon [unissued] / The Cellar Dweller / Contemporary [unissued] / LA 12.60 

Pete & Conte Candoli / The Candoli Brothers / What Is This Thing Called Love / Dot / LA 12.58

Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia  / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra

Earl Gaines / Tell Me Tonight / Hollywood / Nashville 7.20.67

Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / The Good Life / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

Rising Star Gospel Singers / John the Revelator / Trilon / Berkeley 3.46 

last soulful song

C.O.D.’s / Michael / Kellmac Records / Chicago 1965

Playlist Freezes Red

Coffeetime, December 28, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Art Taylor / Taylor's Tenors / Dacor / New Jazz / 6.3.59 

John Coltrane / Dakar / Route 4 / Prestige / 4.20.57 

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Snowfall / radio transcription / 1947  

Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / You’re My Everything / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling

Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids

Annette Stevens / When Sunny Gets Blue / personal recording [Marvelous Industries, Inc] / 1962 / with Barry Galbraith

set 2

Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Stardust / Bethlehem / late 1958 

Jackie McLean / The Jackie McLean Quintet / Lover Man / Jubilee / 10.21.55 

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Imagination / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55 

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Frankie and Johnny / Standard transcription [Stardust Records] / Hollywood 9.17.41 

Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942

Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally 

Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958

set 3

Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / Soul Time / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60 

Lucky Thompson / Tricotism / The Plain but Simple Truth / ABC-Paramount [Impulse] / 12.11.56 

Fats Navarro / Ice Freezes Red / Savoy / 1.29.47 

Maxine Sullivan / Jackie Boy / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm 

The Mills Brothers / FDR Jones / Decca / 2.17.39

Heartbeats / After New Year’s Eve / Gee / 10.57 

set 4

Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Quietly There / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66 

Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Eesom / EmArcy / 11.4, 59 

Bob Crosby & his Bobcats / South Pacific Blows Warm / Younger Than Springtime / Dot / 1958

Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio

Aretha Franklin / Laughing on the Outside / Skylark / Columbia / spring 1963 

Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / Stretch Out / Peacock / Chicago 1960

last soulful song

Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday / Blue Rock / 1.65

Fum, Fum, Playlist

Coffeetime, December 21, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed  

Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 

Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64 

set 1

Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 

Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70 

Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow / Coral / 1956

Clarence Williams & his Orchestra / Christmas Night in Harlem / Vocalion / 3.23.34 

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 Orchestra and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60  

set 2

Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]

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 

Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

Mickey Rooney / Merry Merry Micklemas / Christmas at Home / Mickey [Timic] / Hollywood 1979

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

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters
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

Julie London / I'd Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957
Kay Starr / (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag / Capitol / LA 1950

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 / Hollywood 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 / with the Pied Pipers

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 Orchestra 

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

Walkin' My Playlist Back Home

Coffeetime, December 14, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Donna Lee / Riverside / 4.27.57 

Hank Mobley / Reach Out! / Up Over and Out / Blue Note / 1.19.68 

Harry James & his Orchestra / I’m Satisfied / radio transcription / mid-1940s

Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41

Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 1937 / vocal = Walter Cummins

Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You're All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950

Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Toyland / Columbia / 1955

set 2

Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 1.20.62 

Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.12.56 

Joe Venuti / Jealousy (Jalousie) / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #17 / Palm Springs 1.24.53

Raymond Scott & his Orchestra / Send Me Your Love for Christmas / radio broadcast, Your Hit Parade / 1944 / vocal = Dorothy Collins

JB Summers / I Want a Present for Christmas / Gotham / Philadelphia 8.30.49 / with Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders 

Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra 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 / We're a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles 

set 3

McCoy Tyner / Inception / There Is No Greater Love / Impulse! / 1.11.62 

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Invitation / Prestige / 9.15.64 

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / I Hear a Rhapsody / Standard transcription / Hollywood 1.15.41 / vocal = Herb Jeffries http://www.depanorama.net/41.htm

Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes

Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959 

Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4

Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks! / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Contemporary / LA 9.23.57 

Les Brown & his Band of Renown / That Sound of Renown / The Nutcracker / Coral / 1956

Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers

Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s

Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Phyllis Dillon / Perfidia / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1967

Playlist in the Sky

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 

Booker Little / Victory & Sorrow / Calling Softly / Bethlehem / fall 1961 

Oran “Hot Lips” Page / Rockin’ at Ryan’s / Commodore / 3.8.44 

Billy Cotton & his Band / Lazybones / Regal Zonophone / London 8.22.33 / vocal = Alan Breeze

Charles Brown / Gee / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50

Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / There Must Be a Way / Roulette / LA 1963

set 2

George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56 

Ike Quebec / All the Way / Blue Note [unissued, same session as BN1840] / 2.5.62 

Lester Young / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Aladdin / Chicago 10.46 

Kansas City Six / Countless Blues / Commodore / 9.27.38

Ray Charles & his Orchestra / I’ll Do Anything but Work / Swingtime / LA 5.26.50

The Enchanters / Housewife Blues / Jubilee / 11.51 

The Fascinators / Come to Paradise / Capitol / 1959 

set 3

Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres & Sweets / Mean to Me / Verve [orig Norgran] / LA 11.1.55 

Dexter Gordon / Rosetta / Clef / LA late 1943 or c. 7.44 

Duke Daly & his Orchestra / Remember Pearl Harbor  / Elite / 12.41 

The Four Vagabonds / Rosie the Riveter / Bluebird / 2.43 

Louis Prima & his Orchestra / I Was There When You Left Me / V-Disc 500B / 11.17.45 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol

Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / One for My Baby / Epic / LA 1961

set 4

Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Pee Jay / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56 

Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Somebody Loves Me / GNP / 6.27.56

Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Dibblin' and Dabblin' / Bethlehem / 12.60 

Earl Hines & his Orchestra / XYZ / Okeh / Chicago 10.6.39

Count Basie & his Orchestra / Cabin in the Sky / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / vocal = Earl Warren

Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. "B" / I Could Write a Book / Mercury / 1960

Pilgrim Travelers / Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior / Specialty [unissued] / LA 8.17.49

last soulful song

Willie Tee / Teasin’ You Again / Gatur / 1972

What Ev'ry Playlist Knows

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / You’re Not the Kind / United Artists / 11.17.58 

Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Filide / Riverside / 9.4.58 

Port of Harlem Seven / Pounding Heart Blues / Blue Note / 6.8.39 

Frances Williams / Try a Little Tenderness / Columbia / 1.10.33 / with Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti 

Leo “Snub” Mosley / I’m a Fool About Mama / Penguin / 4.21.49

Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2

Kenny Drew / This is New / You’re My Thrill / Riverside / 3.28.57 

Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53

Howard McGhee / South Pacific Jazz / Stormy Weather / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52  

King Cole Trio / Body and Soul / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / With All My Heart and Soul / Decca / The Hague 8.13.35

Etta Jones / What Ev’ry Woman Knows / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his Orchestra

The Larks / Eyesight to the Blind / Apollo / 3.27.51 

Bing Crosby / In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening / Decca / Hollywood 6.20.51 / from the Paramount movie Here Comes the Groom; with Jane Wyman, Matty Matlock’s All Stars, and 4 Hits & a Miss 

set 3

Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63 

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Contours / RCA Victor / LA 3.26, 4.2.53 

Charlie Parker / Bird at the Roost / Hurry Home / Savoy / live, Royal Roost 3.5.49 / vocal = Buddy Stewart 

The Striders / Baby Don’t You Cry / Apollo [unreleased] / 11.14.49 

The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / Life Does a Man a Favor / MGM / 1958

set 4

Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Brookside /  Mode / Hollywood 1957

Nat Adderley / "That's Nat" Adderley / Porky / Savoy / 7.26.55 

Wini Brown / Someone to Watch Over Me / National [unissued] / 8.1.49 

Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / Lullaby of Broadway / Columbia / Hollywood 12.8.50 / with Norman Luboff Choir & the Buddy Cole Quartet

The Keynotes / In the Evening / Apollo / 1955 

Joshua White & his Carolinians / King Jesus Knows I’m Coming / Columbia / 8.6.40 [6.4.40] 

last soulful song

Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1971

New Playlist Over My Shoulder

Coffeetime, November 23, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol 1 / Justice / Blue Note / live, Birdland 4.15.59 

Julian "Cannonball" Adderly / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / Teaneck / Capitol / 9.1.62 

Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / Corky Stomp / Brunswick / Kansas City, Missouri 11.11.29 

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / Maybe It’s Because I Love You Too Much / Columbia / London 3.28.33

Ivory Joe Hunter / I Ain’t Got No Gal No More / MGM / mid-1951

Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / In Love in Vain / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson-arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2

Curtis Fuller / Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone / But Beautiful / Warwick / 12.60

Barry Harris / Listen to Barry Harris / It’s the Talk of the Town / Riverside / 1.19.61 

Larry Adler / Medley: I Won’t Dance, Lovely to Look At / Columbia / London 7.10.35 / with Henry Hall & BBC Dance Orchestra

Johnny Green & his Orchestra / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Columbia / Hollywood 8.13.33 / vocal = Bernice Park

Edna McGriff / I’ll Surrender Anytime / Jubilee / 1952

Dave Bartholomew & his Orchestra / My Ding-A-Ling / King / New Orleans 1.22.52

Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / O Ganso / Verve / LA 5.25.65 

set 3

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / The Tenor Scene / Bingo Domingo / Prestige / live, Minton’s Playhouse, breakfast set 1.6.61 

Teddy Charles / Metronome Presents Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art / Cycles / Warwick / 1960

Burnie Peacock & his Orchestra / Charmaine / King / 11.9.51 

Les Brown & his Orchestra / Dreamer’s Holiday / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk

The Ravens / Who’s Sorry Now? / National / 8.50 

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Stairway to the Stars / Impulse! / 10.17.63 

set 4

Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / The Princess / Jubilee / LA 1958

Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Pacific Jazz / Phil Turetsky’s home studio, Hollywood 2.1.53 

Art Tatum / Yesterdays / radio broadcast, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood c. mid-1947

Kay Starr / Sharecroppin’ Blues / V-Disc 326B / Hollywood 7.13.44 / with Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 

Beny Moré / Tú Me Sabes Comprender / RCA / 1950s

Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song

The Dontells / I’m Gonna Tell the World / Vee-Jay / 1965

Ten Cents a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57 

Donald Byrd / Byrd's Eye View / Hank’s Other Tune (Late Show) / Transition / Cambridge 12.2.55 

Earl Hines & his Orchestra / In Swamplands / Bluebird / 12.2.40

Bert Maddison Dance Orchestra aka Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra / High Up in the Sky / Sterno / London c. 8.29 

Cats & the Fiddle / My Sugar’s Sweet to Me / Manor/Regis / early 1946 

Nancy Wilson / Like New, Like Swingin’, Like in Love / Passion Flower / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2

Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Sketch of Melba / New Jazz / 4.10.63 

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Midnight Session with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mirage / Elektra [Savoy] / Carl Fisher Concert Hall, NYC 3.8&9.57 

Illinois Jacquet / I Surrender Dear / Aladdin [unissued] / Chicago 11.7.47

Ruth Etting / Ten Cents a Dance / Columbia / 3.4.30

Dean Martin / That Certain Party / Capitol / LA 9.9.48 / duet with Jerry Lewis, with Mario R. Armengol Orchestra

Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55   

set 3

Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Funny Time / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61 

Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Hackensack / Blue Note / 2.26.58 

Charlie Parker / Carvin’ the Bird / Dial / LA 2.26.47 

Martha Raye / I’m Gonna Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in her Stocking / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944

The Carols / Mighty Lak a Rose / Savoy [unissued] / Detroit 4.27.53 

Bill Henderson / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 10.14.58

set 4

Benny Carter / Aspects / Swingin’ in November / United Artists / LA  9.58

Stan Getz / Mosquito Knees / Roost / live, Storyville Club, Boston 10.28.51 

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Toselli’s Serenade / V-Disc 756 / c. fall 1941

The Toppers / Palace of Stone (I’m All Alone) / Savoy / 12.8.44 

LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out / Atlantic / 1.29.58

Dixie Hummingbirds / My Record Will Be There / Apollo / 2.46

last (thankful) song

The Manhattans / Love Is Breaking Out All Over / Carnival / 1968

Where's the Playlist, Honey?

Thanks so, so much for all the people who pledged during or in honor of Coffeetime. And thanks to all the listeners in general. Plus, I must thank my fellow WMBR members, especially those who helped me out during the show last Friday. As Hildy sings, I feel like a million.

Coffeetime, November 9, 2012, Angelynn Grant -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1

John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59 

Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / For Minors Only / Riverside / 10.30.59 

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

set 2

Lee Morgan / Here's Lee Morgan / Terrible "T" / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60 

Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra

Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra

Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell 

set 3

Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37

The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942

Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra

Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 4

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56

Gene Ammons / Once in a While / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 2.28.49

Mildred Bailey / Me and the Blues / It's a Woman's Prerogative / Savoy / 1947 

set 5

Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Yvette / Roost / 8.15.51 

Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson

King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / 11.3.47

set 6

Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / La 7.27.42

Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45

Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 7

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Cojntemporary / LA 3.28.59

Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961

Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58

Swan Silvertones / My Rock / End of My Journey / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song

Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James

Got a Date with a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Harold Land / The Fox / Little Chris / Contemporary / LA 8.59 

Gene Ammons / Blue Gene / Scamperin’ / Prestige / 5.2.58 

Count Basie Band / Roseland Shuffle / Decca / 1.21.37

Slatz Randall & his Orchestra / I’m a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) / Brunswick / Minneapolis 3.30 / vocal = Joe Roberts 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober / Decca / 7.21.42

Helen Carr / Got a Date with an Angel / Bethlehem / LA 11.11.55 

set 2

Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66 

Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / Fall Winds / Contemporary / LA 2.18.57 

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / Indian Summer / RCA Victor / 1955

Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Bluer than Blue / Decca / 4.15.37 

The Four Aces / This Little Chick Went to Market / Trilon / Oakland 7.47 

The Barry Sisters / Shalom / Nicht auf Zintug (Never on Sunday) / Roulette / 1960

set 3

Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Lollipops and Roses / Capitol / LA 9.62 

Steve Allen / Jazz for Tonight / I Thought About You / Coral / LA 12.5.55

Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46 

Three Bits of Rhythm / Bronzeville Jump / Decca / 3.13.41

Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / MGM / 4.1.47 / vocal = Henry Wells & Sy Oliver

Mose Allison / The Word from Mose / Lost Mind / Atlantic / 1965

set 4

Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56 

Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / Chances Are / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58

Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Dancing in the Land of Hi-Fi / Sweet Sue / EmArcy / LA 1955

Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / My Baby’s Cool / Gotham / c. 1949 / vocal = Claudine Clark

Pearl Bailey / The Songs of Academy Award Winner James Van Heusen / Second Time Around / Roulette / 1964

The Stars of Virginia / Wade in the Water / Chalice / c. 1965

last soulful song

The Pets / I Say Yeah / Carnival / 1964