Rhythm of the Playlist and Pans

I surrender, handsome Billy Eckstine!

Coffeetime, May 12, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / Swing, Swang, Swingin’ / I’ll Take Romance / Blue Note / 10.20.59
Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Toll Bridge (Rifftide) / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Dinah / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / She’s Funny That Way / Victor / vocal = Van Fleming / 1.17.29
Theodore “Wingy” Carpenter & his Wingies / Rhythm of the Dishes and Pans / Decca / 1.12.40
Jeri Southern / The Southern Style / I’ll Take Romance / Decca / 1955

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Blakey / Strictly Romance / EmArcy / 5.20.54
Art Tatum / The Tatum Touch / Humoresque / Columbia / live, Shrine Auditorium, LA 1949
The Ramblers / Decca Stomp / Decca / London 5.23.33
Bobby Sherwood & his Orchestra / Wherever There’s Me, There’s You / AFRS Jubilee #200 / Hollywood 9.46 / vocal = Francis Glenn & Jay Johnson
Danny Kaye / Eileen / Columbia / 1941
Ann Cole / Are You Satisfied / Baton / 1955 / with Dave McRae Orchestra

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Trompeta Toccata / The Fox / Blue Note / 9.14.64
Frank Foster / I’ll Take Romance / Vogue / Paris 4.4.54
The Spirits of Rhythm / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 9.20.33
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / After I Say I’m Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
Billy Eckstine / I Surrender Dear / There Are Such Things / EmArcy / 1955

set 4
Tal Farlow / Tal / Isn’t It Romantic / Verve / 1956
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / I’ll Take Romance / Contemporary / LA 7.2.54
Art Tatum Trio / Sweet Lorraine / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
King Cole Trio / Honeysuckle Rose / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / vocal = Ida James
Esther Phillips / Burnin’ / Makin’ Whoopee / Atlantic / live, Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, LA 1970
Swan Silvertones / Singin’ in My Soul / Lord Today / Vee Jay / Chicago 1960

last soulful song
The Mad Lads / The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads / Monkey Time ’69 / Volt / Memphis 1969

 

Wrapped Up in a Playlist Again

Quel profile! Quel turtleneck!

Coffeetime, May 5, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
David Fathead Newman / Fathead / Bill for Bennie / Atlantic / 11.5.58
Gigi Gryce / The Hap’nin’s / Nica’s Tempo / New Jazz / 5.3.60
Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / Nutty / Riverside / 3.11.63
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Miss Hallelujah Brown / Bluebird / 9.12.38
Irving Aaronson & his Commanders / Don’t Look at Me That Way / Victor / 6.24.28 / vocal = Irene Bordoni
Ivory Joe Hunter / Mean Woman Blues / Pacific / San Francisco 2.47
Dinah Washington / Drinking Again / The Man That Got Away / Roulette / 1962

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

set 2
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Song Book / The Man That Got Away / Verve / Chicago summer 1959
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Flamingo / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Tenderly / Roost / 11.9.52
Leo Parker’s All Stars / Solitude / Savoy [unreleased]c / 12.28.50
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / When Day Is Done / Victor / 6.8.27
Georgia White / The Blues Ain’t Nothin’ But…??? / Decca / Chicago 10.21.38
Flamingos / Plan for Love / Chance / 1953 / with Red Hollaway’s Orchestra
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Look Around / The Look of Love / A&M / Hollywood 1967

set 3
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Black Coffee / Prestige / 10.21.66
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Li’l Darlin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 1963
The John Hardee Sextet / River Edge Rock / Blue Note / 5.31.46
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Dreaming Out Loud / Victor / 5.13.40 / vocal = Martha Tilton
Four Knights / Wrapped Up in a Dream Again / Coral / 1949
Yves Montand / [Á Paris, volume 3] / Le Dormeur du Val / Odéon [King] / Paris 11.05.53

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Menino Pequeno da Bateria -- partial / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Zoot Sims & Al Cohn / The Brothers / Morning Fun / Prestige / 9.8.52
Tiny Grimes Swingtet / C Jam Blues / Blue Note / 8.14.46
King Cole Trio / What Have You Got in Those Eyes / Capitol transcription / LA 7.26.49
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / Judy / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Desmond Dekker / Shanty Town / soundtrack The Harder They Come / Beverley 1967
Southern Tornadoes / Toll the Bell Easy / United / Chicago 3.21.52

last soulful song
The Impressions / Ridin’ High / I Need a Love / ABC-Paramount / Chicago 1966

Let's Put Out the Playlist

Such pretty canaries!

Coffeetime, April 28, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet / Hank’s Prank / Blue Note [5066] / 3.27.55
Gigi Gryce – Clifford Brown / Gigi Gryce – Clifford Brown Sextet / Baby / Blue Note [5048] / Paris 10.8.53
Eddie Heywood & his Orchestra / Begin the Beguine / V-Disc 324B / 2.26.44
Freddie Rich & his Orchestra / You’re an Education / Vitaphone musical short / Hollywood early 1938 / vocal = The Three Symphonettes
The Ink Spots / The Ink Spots / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore / Waldorf Music Hall [33 144] / 1955
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book / It Was Written in the Stars / Verve / LA 1.15.61 / with Billy May & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 7.14.56
Ike Quebec / With a Song in My Heart / Imagination / Blue Note / 2.13.62
Johnny Guarnieri / Piano Contrasts / Why Do I Love You? / Mercury [25068] / 8.17.45
Hazel Scott / People Will Say We’re in Love / V-Disc 30 / 8.27.43
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / Honey Ma’ Love / Decca [5453] / 12.30.47
T-Bone Walker / Bye, Bye, Baby / Imperial / LA or Detroit 10.27.53 / with T.J. Fowler’s Band

set 3
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / Cherry / Blue Note / 1.31.63
John Coltrane / Lush Life / I Hear a Rhapsody / Prestige / 1.10.58
Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell / Sonny Side / Prestige [103] / 1.26.50
Jack Jenney / City Night / Vocalion [Columbia GL 100] / 10.19.39 / vocal = Frank Sherman
Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers Souvenir Album / Till Then / Decca [9-172] / 1944
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / Let’s Put Out the Lights / Jubilee / 1958

set 4
Lee Konitz & Gerry Mulligan / Lee Konitz With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet / I’ll Remember April / Pacific Jazz / The Haig, LA 1.53
Maynard Ferguson / Dimensions / Maiden Voyage / EmArcy [MG 29024] / 2.19.54
The Metronome All-Stars / Local 802 Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 1.23.51
Martha Raye / The Voice / After You’ve Gone / Discovery [DL-3010] / 1950
Eddie Vinson / Bonus Pay / Mercury / 1946
Anthony Newley / The Roar of the Greasepaint / That’s What It Is to Be Young / RCA / 1965
Alphabetical Four / He Sees All We Do and Hears All We Say / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song
The Dynamites / Let’s Try / Pay / 1966

If You Were the Only Playlist

Lay down the law, Ida!

Coffeetime, April 21, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Songs for my Father / The Kicker / Blue Note / 10.26.64
Elmo Hope / Informal Jazz / Weeja / Prestige / 5.7.56
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Two Little Bluebirds / HMV / London 9.16.26
Mabel Scott / Fine, Fine Baby / King / 3.25.50
Sarah Vaughan / No Count Sarah / Missing You / EmArcy / 8.6-8.57

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

set 2
Prestige All-Stars / Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors / Soul Eyes / Prestige / 3.22.57
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Lyin’ to Myself / Decca / 5.18.36
Lula Reed / Going Back to Mexico / King / Cincinnati 4.23.53
Betty Hutton / I’ve Got the Sun in the Morning / soundtrack to MGM movie Annie Get Your Gun / Hollywood 1950

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Roots & Herbs / Look at the Birdie / Blue Note / 2.18.64
Joe Newman / Good ’n‘ Groovy / To Rigmor / Prestige Swingville / 3.19.61
Pete Johnson / Dive Bomber / World Jam Session audition disc / 2.17.44 / announcer = Tom Shirley
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Don’t Take Your Love from Me / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Eugenie Baird; featuring Red Nichols on clarinet
The Charioteers / You Make Me Feel So Young / Columbia [Harmony] / 7.1.46
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / If You Were the Only Girl / Reprise / Hollywood 1964

set 4
West Coast Jazzmen [Howard Lucraft] / Showcase for Modern Jazz / Smog à la Mode / Decca / Hollywood summer 1957
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Georgia on My Mind / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / S&B / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
King Cole Trio / Who’s Been Eatin’ My Porridge? / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.22.44 / vocal = Ida James
Dionne Warwick / The Windows of The World / The Windows of The World / Scepter / 4.13.67
Little Milton / Blind Man / Checker / Chicago 1964
Golden Gate Quartet / Rock My Soul / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
The Accents / You Better Think Again / One-derful! / Chicago 1965

This Is a Very Special Playlist

Hey, Hey – How’m I Doin’?

Coffeetime, April 14, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Blowin’ the Blues Away / Break City / Blue Note / 8.29.59
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley’s Second Message / Crazeology / Prestige / 7.27.56
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Out of Nowhere / Bluebird / 6.5.39
Whispering Jack Smith / All By Yourself in the Moonlight / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England     12.28.28
[Leo] “Snub” Mosley & Orchestra / Social Drag / Sonora / 1946 / vocal = Bob Carroll & ensemble
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Happy Birthday to You / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood c. 1950
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / Why Was I Born? / Verve / LA 1.6.63

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Why Was I Born? / New Jazz / 3.7.58
Richie Kamuca / Some Other Spring / Concord / 1977
Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Why Was I Born? / Jazzland / 11.30.61
Gene Ammons / It’s the Talk of the Town / Aristocrat / Chicago 10.12.48
Nat Gonella & his Trumpet / Nobody’s Sweetheart / Brunswick / London 5.26.33 / vocal = Nat Gonella & Garland Wilson
Hildegarde / Medley: The Moon Got in My Eyes; All You Want to Do Is Dance / Columbia / London 9.4.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Old Man River / Specialty / Hollywood 12.31.47
Peggy Lee / This Is a Very Special Day / Decca / Hollywood 12.16.52 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & Chorus

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Buffalo / Blue Note / 1.15.61
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Odds Against Tomorrow / Cue #9 / 10.9.59
Mills Brothers / Jungle Fever / Decca / LA 2.24.34
Johnny Mercer / Surprise Party / Capitol / Hollywood 8.9.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / The Shadow of Your Smile / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66

set 4
Shelly Manne / My Son the Jazz Drummer! / Di Grine Kuzine / Contemporary / 12.20.62
Oscar Peterson / Plays the George Gershwin Song Book / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Verve / summer 1949
Garland Wilson / China Boy / Brunswick / Paris c. 12.33
King Cole Trio / Look What You’ve Done to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Happy Birthday Boogie / Decca [unissued] / 6.5.51
Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / Why Was I Born? / Roulette / LA 1963
Golden Gate Quartet / Travelin’ Shoes / Bluebird / Charlotte, North Carolina 1.24.38

last soulful song
Natural Four / Count on Me / Curtom / Chicago 1975

 

That's a Playlist for You

Bell sleeves! White boots!

Coffeetime, April 7, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Fuego / Bup A Loup / Blue Note / 10.4.59
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Osie Mae / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Shipyard Ramble / Bluebird / 1.22.41
Irving Aaronson & his Commanders / I’m Just Wild About Animal Crackers / Victor / 6.23.26 / vocal = Phil Saxe
Betty Hall Jones / That’s a Man for You / Capitol / Hollywood 2.11.49
Wynona Carr / Nursery Rhyme Rock / Specialty / Hollywood 1956 / with The Bumps Blackwell Band
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Modern Art / Like Someone in Love / United Artists / 9.10, 11, 14.58
Sonny Red / Images / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Jazzland / 6.61
Eddie Davis / Modern Jazz by Eddie Davis / You Go to My Head / King / Cincinnati 1958
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / I’m Coming Virginia / Okeh / Chicago 5.9.27
Adrian’s Tap Room Gang / I Got a Need for You / Victor / 6.14.35 / vocal = Jeanne Burns & Wingy Manone
Doris Day / I Only Have Eyes for You [10 inch EP “Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production”] / Tea for Two / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra, Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”), the Ken Lane Singers, & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Du Droppers / I Wanna Thank You / RCA/Groove [unissued] / 4.1.55

set 3
Cy Coleman / Playboy’s Penthouse / Playboy Theme / Everest / 1960
Teddy Edwards / Teddy’s Ready! / The Sermon / Contemporary / LA 8.17.60
Miles Davis/ Mile Stone / Savoy / 8.14.47
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / What Do You Know About Love? / Bluebird / 10.20.38 / vocal = Ida James
Jubalaires / Casey Jones / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Delta Rhythm Boys / In Sweden / Old Man River / Jubilee [Metronome] / Stockholm 1956

set 4
Steve Allen / Monday Nights / Misty / Signature / 1956
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Indian Summer / Contemporary / 12.4.56
Red Perkins & his Dixie Ramblers / Old Man Blues / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 5.6.31
Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / I’m Coming Virginia / V-Disc 895A / 4.19.45
Fred Astaire / The Best of The Band Wagon / New Sun in the Sky / Clef / Hollywood 12.52
Dixie-Aires / Loose the Man / Exclusive / summer 1948

last soulful song
Ruby Andrews / Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over) / Zodiac / 1967

Playlist in the Attic

Gorgeous! Thanks, Marv Goldberg.

Coffeetime, March 31, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Booker Ervin / The Song Book / The Lamp is Low / Prestige / 2.27.64
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Like Someone in Love / Noise in the Attic / Blue Note / 8.7.60
Roy Fox & his Band / These Foolish Things / Victor / London 4.9.36 / vocals = Denny Dennis
Mabel Scott / No More Cryin’ Blues / Coral / 5.22.51
Ella Fitzgerald / soundtrack to Let No Man Write My Epitaph / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Verve / LA 4.19.60

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

set 2
Wilbur Harden & John Coltrane / Tanganyika Strut / Once in a While / Savoy / 5.13.58
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Clef / LA late fall 1952
The Georgians / Charleston Baby O’ Mine / Columbia / 6.20.25
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / When I Can’t Be with You / Victor / Camden, NJ 6.11.31
Basin Street Boys / Vootnay on the Votnay / Exclusive / LA circa 06.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Sunday in Savannah / Coral / 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio
Gino Maringola / Lu spusaliziu / Phonotype / Naples, Italy c. 1960

set 3
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / Bad Girl / Blue Note / 10.20.61
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Jordan / Ju-Ba / Blue Note / 6.2.57
Charlie Parker & the All Stars / Anthropology / radio broadcast WJZ / live, Birdland 3.31.51
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Many Dreams Ago / Bluebird / 9.28.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
The Ravens / Sylvia / National / 1.27.49
Jimmy Ricks / Vibrations / Sophisticated Lady / Mainstream / 1965

set 4
Brew Moore / Pat’s Batch / Fantasy / LA 11.5.57
Sonny Stitt / I Want to Be Happy / Prestige / 1.26.50
Cozy Cole / Concerto for Cozy / Old Man River / Savoy / 1944
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Little Girl / Parlophone / 6.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen
Mavis Rivers / Swing Along with Mavis / Things To Do Today / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
Soul Stirrers / Golden Bells [take 2] / Specialty / Hollywood 4.19.57

last soulful song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Am I a Loser / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

 

Playlist Woogie

Messy locks,  a wee pout, oooo, Smith Ballew!

Coffeetime, March 24, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / At Basin Street / Powell’s Prances / EmArcy / 1.4.56
Lee Morgan / Candy / Candy / Blue Note / 2.2.58
Teddy Wilson / The Impeccable Mr. Wilson / I Want to Be Happy / Verve / 9.13.56
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / The Chant (St. James Infirmary) / Brunswick / 8.4.37
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / I Heard / Columbia / London 8.27.32 / vocal = Cyril Grantham & Ellis Jackson
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Slow Down / Decca / 11.28.51
Sylvia Syms / [In a Sentimental Mood] The Fabulous Sylvia Syms / I’m a Sucker for a Sentimental Song / [Movietone] 20th Century Fox / 1964

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

set 2
Richie Kamuca / Drop Me Off in Harlem / I Didn’t Know About You / Concord / San Francisco c. 1977
McCoy Tyner / McCoy Tyner Plays Duke Ellington / I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)  / Impulse! [unissued] / 12.2, 7, 8.64
Frank Wess Sextet / I’ll Be Around / Commodore / 8.54
Fats Waller / Muscle Shoals Blues / Okeh / 10.21.22
Frank Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Okeh / 5.8.30 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Georges Guétary / Maître Pierre / Pathé Marconi / Paris 1948
Little Milton / Sings Big Blues / Fever / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66

set 3
Hank Mobley / Dippin’ / Recado Bossa Nova / Blue Note / 6.18.65
George Van Eps / Mellow Guitar / I’ll Remember April / Columbia / LA 8.1.56
Anita Boyer & her Tomboyers [King Cole Trio] / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 4.44
Mildred Bailey & the Delta Rhythm Boys / Bugle Woogie / radio broadcast, The Mildred Bailey Show / Hollywood c. 1943
Louis Armstrong / Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson/ How Long Has This Been Going On? / Verve / Hollywood 1957

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / East of the Sun / Contemporary / Hollywood 3.1.55
John Graas / Jazz-Lab-1 / Softly the Horn Blows / Decca / 1956
Peggy Lee / How Long Has This Been Going On / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 12.18.47 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind
The Pincus Sisters / Eastside Gluckstern’s Restaurant Commercial / radio, WEVD / c. 1950
Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / The Constant Rain (Chove Chuva) / Liberty / LA 1967
The Golden Echoes / My Life Is in His Hands / Peacock / LA c. 7.49

last soulful song
Ruby Andrews / I Guess That Don’t Make Me a Loser / Zodiac / Chicago 1968

Give Your Playlist Lots of Lovin'

Women making harmony for the world!

Coffeetime, March 10, 2017, Angelynn Grant, xxv

set 1
Hank Mobley / The Turnaround! / Straight Ahead / Blue Note / 2.5.65
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / South Side / Blue Note / 2.4.57
Ermine Calloway & the Seven Blue Babies / Give Your Baby Lots of Lovin’ / Edison / 1.2.29
The Barry Sisters / Oh Mama, I’m So in Love / radio transcription Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1940 / with Sam Medoff & the Yiddish Swingtet
Camille Howard / Rock Me Daddy / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 8.20.50
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / What More Can a Women Do / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Ballads / Too Young to Go Steady / Impulse! / 12.21.61
Ike Quebec / It Might as Well Be Spring / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / I’ll Never Be the Same / Clef / 9.13.54
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Mary’s Idea / Decca / 12.6.38
Patsy Montana & Prairie Ramblers / I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart / ARC Records / 8.16.35
Little Esther / Mainliner / Federal / LA 7.25.52 / with Bobby Nunn & the Robins
Betty Roché / Singin’ & Swingin’ / Blue Moon / Prestige / 6.3.60

set 3
Grant Green / I Want to Hold Your Hand / Corcovado / Blue Note / 3.31.65
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Me and My Baby / Blue Note / 7.8.60
Charlie Parker / Bird Feathers / Dial / 11.4.47
Boswell Sisters / Lullaby of Broadway / Brunswick / London 7.19.35
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Kick It / Okeh / 6.5.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Dinah Washington / Back to the Tracks / It’s a Mean Old Man’s World / Roulette / 7.5.62

set 4
Stan Getz / Stan Getz at Large  / In the Night / HMV / Copenhagen 1.14, 15.60
Barney Kessel / Carmen / The Gypsy’s Hip / Contemporary / LA 12.19.58
Mildred Bailey / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Columbia / 1.25.40
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers / A Gal in Calico / Capitol / 9.27.45 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / Solid Gold Cadillac / Sunset Records / Hollywood 1956
The Sallie Martin Singers / Great Day / Specialty / Hollywood 03.31.52

last soulful song
Ann Peebles / I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down / Hi / Memphis 1972

I’m Sitting on Top of the Playlist

Having fun with Ethel.

Coffeetime, February 24, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Hymn to the Orient / Riverside / 12.19.57
Prestige All Stars / All Day Long / Slim Jim / Prestige / 1.4.57
Ross Gorman’s Earl Carroll Vanities Orchestra / I’m Sitting on Top of the World / Columbia / 10.29.25
Rudy Vallée & his Yale Collegians / Outside / Harmony / 1.31.29
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Since I Fell for You / radio broadcast / live, Savoy Ballroom 1945 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Big Mama Thornton / My Man Called / Peacock / Houston 1956
Julie London / All Through the Night / Get Out of Town / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Coltrane’s Sound / Central Park West / Atlantic / 10.24 & 26.64
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Body & Soul / Prestige [unissued] / 12.28.56
Ethel Waters & her Ebony Four / Maybe Not at All / Columbia / 10.28.25
The Four Rockets / Loch Lomond / Aladdin / 11.48
Bobby Long & the Satellites / Mojo Workout / Vegas / 1964

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Kenny’s Sound / Verve / 7.16.63
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Skylark / Prestige / 10.21.66
Lester Young / Sax-o-Be-Bop / JATP / 1946
Harry James & his Orchestra / Opening Theme [Ciribiribin); If That’s the Way You Want It, Baby / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Earl Coleman with Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / Two Different Worlds / Prestige / 12.7.56

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Abstract Art / Tampa  / 2.20.57
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Gone with the Wind / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54
Lynn Hope / Please, Mr. Sun / Aladdin / Chicago 3.11.52
Kay Starr / Who’s Foolin’ Who / Lamplighter / LA 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / I Wish You Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1962
Donald Height / You’re Gonna Miss Me / Shout / 1966
Soul Stirrers / Come and Go to That Land / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last soulful song
Lea Roberts / Prove It / Minit / LA 5.1.69

Waiting for the Playlist to Come In

Sam, you do sing so handsomely!

Coffeetime, February 17, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Star Bright / A Variation on Monk / Blue Note / 11.19.59
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / Bet / Savoy / 11.5.56
The Comedian Harmonists / Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear / Odeon / Berlin 1932
Walter Brown / Let’s Love Awhile / Capitol / LA 7.50 / Jay McShann’s Kaycee Stompers
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Verve / LA 1.8.57

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

set 2
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Embraceable You / Prestige / 11.20.64
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Strange / Capitol / 1958
Bing Crosby / After Sundown / Brunswick / Hollywood 9.27.33 / with Lennie Hayton’s Orchestra
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP “Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production”] / Tea for Two / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra, Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”), the Ken Lane Singers, & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones & his Playboys / New Arrival / Imperial / 1947

set 3
Charles McPherson / The Quintet/Live! / Here’s That Rainy Day / Prestige / live at The Five Spot 10.13.66
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Twice Around / Blue Note / 8.11.64
The Mills Brothers / Dinah / Brunswick / 12.16.32 / with Bing Crosby
Martha Raye, Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones / Blue Skies / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
Sam Cooke / Encore / When I Fall in Love / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Bloke’s Blues / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Too Marvelous for Words / Pacific Jazz / live at The Haig, Hollywood 1.53
Les Paul Trio / If I Love Again / V-Disc 572B / mid-1940s
Peggy Lee / Waiting for the Train to Come In / Capitol / Hollywood 7.30.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Marlene Dietrich / Dietrich in London / I Wish You Love / Columbia / Queen’s Theatre, London 12.12.64
Golden Gate Quartet / Take Your Burdens to God / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last soulful song
Little Johnny Truitt / Don’t Let Me Be a Cryin’ Man / A-Bet / Crowley, Louisiana (?) 1966

Lonesome Playlist

Dreaming with Dinah…

Coffeetime, February 3, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Live at The Jazz Corner of the World, vol 2 / M & M / Blue Note / 4.15.59
Bill English / Bill English / 222 / Vanguard / 1963
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Let’s Go Home / Columbia / 4.24.41
Annette Hanshaw / Moon Song (That Wasn’t Meant for Me) / Banner / 1.25.33
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Decca / 5.26.44 / vocal = Wynonie Harris
Dinah Washington / Our Love Is Here to Stay / EmArcy / early spring 1954

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Blue Hour / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 12.16.60
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Mr. Know-It-All / Liberty / Hollywood 11.25, 29.55
Joe Newman / All I Want to Do Is Swing / Leonice / RCA Victor / 2.8.55
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / The Wild Dog / Okeh / 3.28.28
Boswell Sisters / Gee, But I’d Like to Make You Happy / Okeh / LA 10.3.30 / on label as The Three Boswell Sisters
Roy Brown & his Mighty-Mighty Men / Lonesome Lover / King / Cincinnati 9.27.51
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / Some Day, Sweetheart / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Salt Water Blues / Riverside / 5.9.60
Earl Anderza / Joe and I / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.30.63
Tadd Dameron Band / Ep-Bop / transcriptions [Jazzland] / live Royal Roost 1948
Connee Boswell / Stormy Weather / Decca / LA 8.7.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Varsity / 12.47
Jean Sablon / Ciel de Paris / HMV/Pathé Marconi / Paris early 1960s

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Roulette / Tampa/Skylark / Hollywood 1954
Tal Farlow / Tal / How About You / Verve / 1956
Helen Forrest / Everybody Knew but Me / Decca / Hollywood 11.19.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio
Jerry Butler / I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face / Vee-Jay / 1965
Dixie Nightingales / Forgive These Fools / Chalice / Memphis / 1966

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / Mercury / 10.66

Lady Windermere's Playlist

Thank you!

Coffeetime, January 27, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Far Away Lands / Far Away Lands / Blue Note / 5.26.67
Art Farmer / Septet / Up in Quincy’s Room / Prestige / 7.2.53
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / Things Are Looking Up / Keynote / 8.9.46
Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra / San / Victor / 1.12.28
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Wagon Wheels / HMV / London 2.21.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Mr. Google Eyes August [Joseph August] / Play the Game / Duke / LA 1953 / with Johnny Otis Band
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Body and Soul / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Landslide / Love Locked Out / Blue Note / 5.5.62
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Easy Living / Jazzland / 12.4.61
Sandy Williams’ Big Eight / Mountain Air / HRS / 11.5.45
Martha Raye / Honeysuckle Rose / AFRS Swingtime / Hollywood 1944
Eddie Cantor / The Eddie Cantor Story soundtrack [Warner Brothers] / Makin’ Whoopee / Capitol / Hollywood 12.25.53
B.B. King / Eyesight to the Blind / Kent / LA 1965
Ruby & the Romantics / Young Wings Can Fly / Kapp / 1968

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / Sweet ’n’ Sour / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62
Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Stranger in Paradise / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58
Preston Love Orchestra / Jumping for Charles / Spin / LA 1952
Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / Something Sentimental / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Jo Anne Ryan
The Four Tunes / My Last Affair / RCA Victor / 6.49
Little Willie John / No More Life / King / Cincinnati 1958

set 4
Herbie Harper / Bethlehem’s Best [Herbie Harper] / Angus / Bethlehem / LA 1.25.55
Bobby Jaspar / Up in Quincy’s Room / Vogue / Paris 11.3.52
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / Lady Windermere’s Fan / Decca / 12.30.47
Lavern Baker / See See Rider / Atlantic / 9.26.62
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Por Toda A Mimha Vida / Warner Brothers / LA 1965 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra
Sonny Curtis / The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song, Love Is All Around / 1970
The Four Internes / I Go to Jesus / King / Cincinnati 11.53

last soulful song
Syreeta / Syreeta / I Love Every Little Thing About You / Mowest / LA 1972

Could You Please Oblige Us With a Playlist

Oh Sammy, tell us why we should smile…

Coffeetime, January 20, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Hallelujah / Prestige / 11.15.57
Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman / Three Trumpets / Who’s Who / Prestige / 1.26.57
Hubert Rostaing – Aimé Barelli et Leur Orchestre / Indécision / Swing / Paris 10.22.40
Noel Coward / Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun? / HMV / London 7.28.41
Miss Rhapsody [Viola Wells] / The Night Before Judgement Day / Savoy / 5.15.45 / duet with Harold Underhill
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / The Party’s Over / Verve / 4.12.61

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

set 2
Red Garland / Prestige Moodsville, Volume 1 / We’ll Be Together Again / 12.11.59 / with Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
Rene Thomas / Guitar Groove / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Jazzland / 9.7-8.60
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / Liza / Victor / 8.1.35
Don Barreto  et son Orchestre Cubain / Triguenita (Brito) / Decca / Paris 6.27.33 / “Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s”
Delta Rhythm Boys / Domaredansen / Metronome / Stockholm 9.8.50 / with the Metronome All-Stars
Etta James / Seven Day Fool / Argo / Chicago 9.60

set 3
Sandy Mosse / ‘Relaxin’ with … Sandy Mosse / Birks Works / Argo / Chicago 9.5.58
Dizzy Gillespie / Dizzy Atmosphere / Musicraft / prob 2.28.45
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Chillun, Get Up / Victor / 1.26.34 / vocal = Henry Wells & Trio
Charioteers / So Long / radio transcription / 1942
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra / He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped / Musicraft / 7.9.46 / vocal = Alice Roberts
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Shelter of Your Arms / The Party’s Over / Reprise / Hollywood 7.19.61 / with Marty Paich & his Orchestra

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Mexican Passport / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55
Shorty Rogers & André Previn / Collaboration / Call for Cole / RCA Victor / 3.30.54
Frank Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) / V-Disc 262-A, CBS radio broadcast, “The Vimms Vitamins Show” / 5.24.44 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950
The Ravens / The House I Live In / National / 1.27.49
The Staple Singers / Pray On / Vee-Jay / 1960

last soulful song
Stevie Wonder / Signed, Sealed, & Delivered / Heaven Help Us All / Tamla / 1970

She's a New Kind of Old Fashioned Girl Playlist

Handsome, talented, and snappy. xo!

Coffeetime, January 13, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Undercurrent / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Cannonball / Caribbean Cutie / Savoy / 7.14.55
The Jungle Band / Doin’ the Voom Voom / Brunswick / 1.8.29
Jack Smith / She’s a New Kind of Old Fashioned Girl / Victor / 4.24.29 / with Leonard Joy & the Victor Orchestra
Big Sheba with Freddie Mitchell’s Orchestra / Talkin’ Blues Boogie / Derby / c. 1949
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins, piano

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Soultrane / Theme for Ernie / Prestige / 2.7.58
Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / These Foolish Things / Atlantic / The Sing-Song Room, Confucius Restaurant 6.11.55
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / But Beautiful / Lenox / c. 1948–49
Larry Adler / Lover, Come Back to Me / Columbia / Paris 5.31.38 / with Le Quintette du Hot Club de France
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Loose Ankles / Brunswick / Kansas City 4.29.30 / vocal = Bill Massey
The Cats & the Fiddle / Killin’ Jive / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
The Magnificents / Up on the Mountain / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1.21.56

set 3
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly! / Sassy / Vee-Jay / 7.21.61
Jo Jones / The Jo Jones Special / Lincoln Heights / Vanguard / 1955
Mills Brothers / Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland / Decca / 1.24.39
Johnny Mercer / Personality / Capitol / Hollywood 9.28.45 / with the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Dancing in the Dark / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / Tenderly / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Bill Holman – Mel Lewis Quintet / Jive for Five / Liza / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
King Cole Trio / (What Can I Say) After I Say I’m Sorry / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45
Buddy Greco / I Like It Swinging / Love / Epic / 4.19-21.61
Dixie-aires [aka Dixieaires] / Friends Let Me Tell You About Jesus / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
The Supremes / Your Heart Belongs to Me / Motown / Detroit 1962

You Can Make My Life a Playlist of Roses

Astrud takes a bow. Stan approves.

Coffeetime, January 6, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jack Sheldon / Jazz West Coast, Vol 2 / Contour / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.18.55
Art Farmer / Septet / Mau Mau / Prestige / 7.2.53
Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers / There’ll Be Some Changes Made [take 2] / HRS / 8.31.38
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Medley “Hot Cha”: You Can Make My Life a Bed of Roses (vocal = Kate Smith); Say (vocal = Wallace Trio); There I Go, Dreaming Again (vocal = Jack Miller) / Columbia / 3.22.32
Babe Matthews with Joe Thomas’ Big Six / He’s Got So Much / HRS / 2.15.46
Dakota Staton / More Than the Most! / Some Days It’s Monday / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Perception / Nobody’s Heart / Argo / 10.25-27.61
Red Garland / Moodsville 6 / T’ain’t Nobody's Business / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Lazy River / HRS / 3.28.40
Cliff Edwards aka Ukelele Ike aka Jiminy Cricket / Give a Little Whistle / soundtrack to Pinocchio / Disneyland / LA 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers, Victor Young & his Orchestra
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / She Lost her Re-Bop / Queen / Cincinnati c. 4.46 / vocal = Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & Bullmoose Jackson & ensemble
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Sing You Sinners / Coral / LA 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / Nothin’ But the Truth! / Prestige / 12.13.66
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Dorian / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Red Prysock / Short Circuit / Mercury / 10.14.55
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / You Don’t Know What Love Is / RCA Victor / 11.17.41 / vocal = Billy Eckstine
The Ravens / Without a Song / National [unissued] / c. 1950
Bobby Darin / Love Swings / No Greater Love / Atco / 1961

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney Plays / Signal / Prestige / 4.23.53 /
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Can’t Get That No More / Decca / 3.15.44
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Look to the Rainbow / Verve / 12.65
The Soul Stirrers / All Right Now [take 2] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soulful song
Redbone / Come and Get Your Love / Epic / LA 8.73

(hat tip John Funke of Backwoods):

Happy New Playlist, Baby

Over here, Dean, over here!

Coffeetime, December 30, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Four Strings [alt take] / Blue Note / 5.19.57
John Coltrane & Paul Chambers / High Step / Transition [unissued] / Cambridge 4.20.55
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Swing / Paris 7.7.37
Helen Kane / Dangerous Nan McGrew / from the soundtrack to the Paramount movie of same name / Hollywood 4.12.30
Peggy Lee / Song at Midnight / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3.49 / with the Jud Conlon Singers
Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally
Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson / Double Exposure / Happy New Year / Atlantic / 12.5.60

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Candy / All the Way / Blue Note / 11.18.57
Bud Powell / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 5.1.51
Guy Lombardo / Guy Lombardo in Hi Fi / Auld Lang Syne / Capitol / Hollywood 1956
Red Norvo & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Decca / 3.16.36
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars with Jack Teagarden / Jack-Armstrong Blues / AFRS radio broadcast / Hollywood c. 6.47

set 3
Lem Winchester & Benny Golson / Winchester Special / The Dude / New Jazz / 9.25.59
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / How Long Has This Been Going On / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Bud Powell / 52nd Street Theme / Blue Note / 8.9.49
Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Dixieaires / Soon Now / Coleman / 1948
Dean Martin / A Winter Romance / Capitol / Hollywood / 8.4.59

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Knights at the Castle / Dawn / 2.3.56
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Phil’s Blues / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.18.56
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Debbie Reynolds / You Are My Lucky Star / outtake from MGM movie Singing in the Rain / Hollywood 6.13.51
Little Milton Campbell / I Need Somebody / Checker / St. Louis / 1961
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958
Pilgrim Travelers / Good News / Specialty / Hollywood 12.24.47

last soulful song
Berna-Dean / One Gal in Town, Five Men Around / Imperial / LA 1962

Merry Playlist, I Love You

I just love this cover. It’s part of my Xmas decorations.

Coffeetime, December 23, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

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

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

Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble

Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra

The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 1950 / with Little Esther 

Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60

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

bed  

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

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

Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller  

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

bed  

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

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

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters http://youtu.be/PKpW7SdxhRE

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

Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957 

Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965 

bed

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

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 / LA 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

The Best Things Happen While You're Playlisting

I love Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 16, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / High and Flighty [alt take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Donna Lee / Riverside / 4.27.57
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 1937 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Winter Weather / Okeh / Hollywood 11.27.41 / duet = Peggy Lee & Art Lund
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters

set 2
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 1.20.62
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Gene Autry & The Pinafores / He’s a Chubby Little Fellow / Columbia / Hollywood 6.27.49
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
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 (ends, “I don’t weigh very much.”)
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1964 / vocal = Janet Orenstein

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / My Favorite Things / Cadet / Chicago 10.66 / Orchestra arranged & conducted by Richard Evans
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Turista / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3, 4, 5 & 7.16.63
Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / It’s a Marshmallow World / CBS radio broadcast / Hollywood 11.29.50
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
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
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
Yogi Yorgesson / I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood10.18.49 / with the Johnny Duffy Trio
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 1952
Les Brown & his Orchestra / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Pzazz / 1968 / written, arranged, with Teddy Edwards

My Playlist Wants a Millionaire

Let's be groovy, baby.

Coffeetime, December 9, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / Sims A-Plenty / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / Wheelin’ and Dealin’ / Prestige / 1967
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Junction Blues / Bluebird / 6.10.40
Rudy Vallée & his Yale Collegians / Dream Sweetheart / Harmony / 8.29.28
Bob Mitchell / My Girl Wants a Millionaire / Derby / LA 1950
Sarah Vaughan / September Song / EmArcy / 12.16.54

set 2
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Our Waltz / Prestige / 4.10.62
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Left Alone / Bethlehem / 11.57
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres and Sweets / That’s All / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / It’s a Lonesome Old Town (When You’re Not Around) / Victor / 2.12.39 / vocal = Lois Deppe
The Smoothies / Easy Does It / Bluebird / 1.3.40
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers featuring Frankie Ervin / Dragnet Blues / Modern / LA 1953
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Make Me a Present of You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 3
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / Looptown / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Afro-Jaws / Tin Tin Deo / Riverside / 5.4, 12.61
Charlie Parker Quintet / Dexterity / Dial / 10.28.47
Maxine Sullivan / How Do I Know It’s Real? / Decca / 3.19.42
The Four Tunes (aka The Brown Dots aka The Sentimentalists) / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love / Manor / late 1946
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / Stella By Starlight / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Pete & Conte Candoli / Bell, Book & Candoli / Hey, Bellboy! / Dot / LA 12.58
Barney Kessel / Barney Kessel, vol. 1,  "Easy Like" / That’s All / Contemporary / LA 11.14.53
Lil Armstrong & her Chicago Boys / Joogie Boogie / Gotham / Chicago 4.4.50
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Salt Water Cowboy / CBS broadcast / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 9.2.44 / vocal = Doris Day
Doc Pomus / Naggin’ Wife Blues / Apollo / late 1947 or early 1948
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood / 1968
The Trumpeteers / John De Revelator / WOR radio broadcast / 6.22.49

last soulful song
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / Make It Happen / Dancing's Alright / Tamla / Detroit 1967

 

I Still Get a Playlist (Thinking of You)

Handsome man. Tenor saxophone. Can I have both, please?

Coffeetime, December 2, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night in Tunisia / Sincerely Diana / Blue Note / 2.4.65
Pepper Adams / 10 to 4 at the 5-Spot / The Long Two/Four / Riverside / live, Five Spot Café 4.15.58
Annette Hanshaw / Don’t Blame Me / Banner / 9.1.33
Big Maybelle / A Little Bird Told Me / Savoy / 4.13.57 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / I Can’t Get Started / BBC TV show, Jazz 625 / live, London 3.7.65
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Red Norvo’s Nine / Under a Blanket of Blue / Capitol / Hollywood 10.14.47
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / In the Evening / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Cleo Brown / Never Too Tired to Love / Decca / 6.8.35
The Ravens / Time Is Marching On / National / 3.50
Cy Coleman / Witchcraft / live, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy’s Penthouse TV show / 1956  

set 3
Wynton Kelly / Smokin’ at the Half Note / Four on Six / Verve / 9.22.65
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Swingin’ at Sugar Ray’s / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Teddy Reig’s All Stars / Mr. Dues / Savoy / 1.22.47
The Charioteers / Sweet Lorraine / Columbia / 6.3.47
Frank Sinatra / The Concert Sinatra / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Reprise / Hollywood 2.63

set 4
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / Li’l Darlin’ / Contemporary / LA late summer 1960
Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / Almost Like Being in Love / Riverside / 7.22.59
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / It’s an Old Southern Custom / Melotone / Hollywood 2.15.35 / with The Four Blackbirds
Dick Haymes / I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You) / Decca / Hollywood 1.16.49 / with Four Hits and a Miss
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / What Happened to the Hair (on the Head of the Man I Love)? / Coral / LA 1957 / arrangements by Don Redman
The Detroiters / Angels Watching Over Me / Specialty [unissued] / Detroit 8.14.51

last soulful song
Tommie Young / That’s All a Part of Loving Him / Soul Power / Shreveport 1973

She Knows Her Playlists

You bug me, baby… in a good way!

Coffeetime, November 25, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Groovin’ with Golson / The Stroller / New Jazz / 8.28.59
Max Roach / Parisian Sketches / Nica / Mercury / Paris 3.2.60
The Happiness Boys / She Knows Her Onions / Victor / 8.26.26 / with Dave Kaplan on piano
Dinah Washington / Pacific Coast Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45 / with Lucky Thompson’s All Stars
June Christy / June’s Got Rhythm / Easy Living / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1958

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / Like Someone in Love / Verve /LA 10.16.57
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good / Verve / LA 12.15 & 16.62
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Andy Alona’s Novelty Four / Paahana / Columbia / 1.14.29
Red Perkins & his Dixie Ramblers / My Baby Knows How / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 5.5.31
The Three Sharps and A Flat / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Decca / 1.18.39
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / I Want a Little Girl / Modern [unissued] / LA 1947

set 3
Bennie Green / Walking Down / But Not for Me / Prestige / 5.29.56
Kenny Burrell / How About You / Blue Note / 3.12.56
Camille Howard / Schubert’s Serenade Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51
The Mills Brothers with Ella Fitzgerald / Dedicated to You / Decca 2.3.37
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / But Not Mine / Columbia / 12.10.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Buddy Greco / My Last Night in Rome / Autumn in Rome / Epic / 1964

set 4
Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / For Hi-Fi Bugs / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56
Joe Newman / The Happy Cats / I Never Knew / Coral / LA 1957
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Dinner for One / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
King Cole Trio / When You Walked Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 11.4.47
Jackie De Shannon / For You / Don’t Dream of Anybody But Me / Imperial / LA 1967
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Jesus Is Making Up My Dying Bed / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song
Carla Thomas / Do Boys Keep Diaries / Stax [unissued] / Memphis c. 1962

Happiness is Just a Playlist Called Joe

Joe was a babe; Joe had a Babe!

Coffeetime, November 18, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Lover Come Back to Me / Blue Note / 12.2.58
Kenny Dorham / K.D.’s Cab Ride (Echo of Spring) / Blue Note / 1.30.55
J.C. Higginbotham’s Big Eight / Dutch Treat / HRS (Hot Record Society) / 12.21.45
The Revelers / Lucky Day / Victor / 7.14.26
Babe Matthews with Joe Thomas’ Big Six / No Better for Ya / HRS / 2.15.46
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Happiness Is a Just a Thing Called Joe / Riverside / 10.28.57

set 2
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / Sweetness / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Kenny Burrell / But Not for Me / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.29.56
Hoagy Carmichel & his Orchestra / Sing It Way Down Low / Victor / 9.1.32
Bing Crosby / You Are My Sunshine / Decca / LA 7.8.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Billy Eckstine / Blues for Sale / Savoy / LA 4.21.47
Bob Mitchell / Red Beans & Rice / Derby / LA 1950

set 3
Sonny Stitt / I Remember Bird / Jeepers Creepers / Catalyst / Hollywood 1977
Gene Ammons / Happiness Is a Just Thing Called Joe / Chess / Chicago 5.3.51
Frank Culley Orchestra / Ready for Action / Lenox / c. 1948–49
The Dixiaires / Sharp Mama (Don’t You Leave Me Flat) / Continental / late-1940s
Billie Holiday / You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart / Decca / 9.30.49 / duet with Louis Armstrong
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To / The Beautiful Land / RCA / 1965

set 4
Bud Shank, Shorty Rogers / Fluted Columns / Pacific Jazz [World Pacific] / Hollywood 5.2.55
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Frankie & Johnny / Contemporary / LA 8.26, 27.57
Mildred Bailey / You and Your Love / Vocalion / 6.27.39 / with John Kirby’s Orchestra
Dean Martin / Dean Martin Sings / I Feel Like a Feather in a Breeze / Capitol / Hollywood 11.20.52
Dixieaires / Buckle My Shoe / Spirituals / LA 2.49

last soulful song
Eddie Holman / A Free Country / Parkway / Philadelphia 1965

Brother, Can You Spare a Playlist (2016 Style)

Those soulful Art eyes say, “Call now!”

Coffeetime, November 11, 2016, Angelynn Grant – Fundraiser Show

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
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / Rich Man’s Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Powder Keg / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962
James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
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 / NBC Reference Recording, transciption / 10.28.43
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Chubby Newsome / Where’s The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

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
Hildegarde / I’m Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 5
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47
Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Columbia / Hollywood 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

set 6
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 / End of My Journey / My Rock / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

The Playlist’ll Getcha If You Don’t Watch Out

Penny for your thoughts, handsome Bobby…

Coffeetime, November 4, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Woody’n You / Riverside / 2.25.58
Gigi Gryce / Reminiscin’ / Caravan / Mercury / 11.10.60
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night at Birdland, volume 2 / If I Had You / Blue Note / live, Birdland 2.21.54
Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers / I’ve Found a New Baby / HRS / 8.31.38
Noël Coward / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
The 5 Red Caps / The Boogie Beat’ll Getcha If You Don’t Watch Out / Joe Davis / 5.45
Doris Day / Day By Day / I Remember You / Columbia / LA 1956 / with Paul Weston & His Music From Hollywood

set 2
Julian Priester / Keep Swingin’ / Once in a While / Riverside / 1.11.60
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / My Ship / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Joe Roland / Creed Taylor Presents: Know Your Jazz Vol 1 / Laura / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Mary Lou Williams – Don Byas Quartet / Lullaby of the Leaves / Vogue / Paris 12.2.53
Lil Green / I’m Wasting My Time on You / Bluebird / Chicago 1.21.42
The Robins / I Found Out My Troubles / Savoy / 1.11.50 / with Johnny Otis Band
Mel Tormé / Lullaby of the Leaves / Capitol / 4.3.50 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra and the Dave Lambert Octet

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Prophet Jennings / Blue Note / 10.10.62
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Hey Chico / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Golden Gate Quartet / Grove Show Intro; Polly Wolly Doodle / radio transcription, The Groves Show / early 1940s
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Not a Care in the World / Columbia [unissued] / 12.11.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Yves Montand / Paris / Le Chevalier de Paris / Columbia / 1964

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / Swingin’ in November / United Artists / LA 9.58
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Mar-Dros / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Call of the Wild / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s
Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / An Historic Musical First / Pennies from Heaven / Reprise / Hollywood 10.2, 3.62
Solomon Burke / I Said I Was Sorry / Atlantic / 1963
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / That’s Enough / Specialty / Hollywood 1.20.56

last soulful song
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell / Mornin’ Glory / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1968