Plain as the Playlist on Your Face: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 3

Jane cleverly uses a potted plant for that hard-to-reach back itch.

Coffeetime, April 24, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / The Resurgence of Dexter Gordon / Dolo / Jazzland / LA 10.13.60
Kenny Drew / Pal Joey / The Lady Is a Tramp / Riverside / 10.15.57
Cecil Scott & his Bright Boys / Springfield Stomp / Victor / 11.19.29
Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone / Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries / Vocalion / London 11.26.31
Slim Gaillard & his Musical Aggregations / Wherever He May Be / You Goofed / Norgran / c. 12.52
Blossom Dearie / Once Upon a Summertime / It Amazes Me / Verve / 9.12, 13.58

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

set 2
Milt Jackson / Jackson’s Ville / Medley: In a Sentimental Mood; Mood Indigo; Azure / Savoy / 1.23.56
Sam Most / I’m Nuts About The Most....Sam / Don’t Worry ’Bout Me / Bethlehem / 1955
Mary Lou [Williams] & her Chosen Five / Lullaby of the Leaves / Asch / 1944 s
Fred Elizalde & Music / Crazy Rhythm / Brunswick / London 11.16.28
Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / Leave Us Face It / V-Disc 239A / 1944 / vocal = Gloria
Jane Russell / Lookin’ for Trouble / censored from RKO movie The French Line / Hollywood 1953
The Moonglows / Love Is a River / Chess / 12.13.56

set 3
Benny Bailey / Big Brass / Tipsy / Candid / 11.25.60
Lawrence Marable / Tenorman / Minor Meeting / Jazz:West / Hollywood 8.4.56
Wardell Gray / Dell’s Bells / Vogue / Hollywood 6.50
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / What’s the Matter Now? / Decca / 7.14.37
Elisabeth Welch & her Swing Quartet / Drop in Next Time You’re Passing / Vocalion / London 1936
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Columbia / 10.18.60

set 4
Lee Konitz & Jimmy Giuffre / Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre / When Your Lover Has Gone / Verve / 5.12,13.59
Lee Konitz / Lee Konitz at Storyville / Ablution / Black Lion / live, Storyville 1.5.54
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Miss Annabelle Lee (Who’s Wonderful, Who’s Marvelous) / Victor / Chicago 11.17.27 / vocal = Harry Barris, Bing Crosby, & Alton Rinker
Beny Moré y su Orquesta / Vano Capricho / RCA Victor / Havana 1.8.57
Ann Cole / Plain as the Nose on Your Face / MGM / 1960
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer / Two of a Kind / Bob White / Atco / LA 1960 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Billy May
The Soul Stirrers / Joy, Joy to My Soul / Specialty / Hollywood 3.1.51

last soulful song
Irma Thomas / It’s Starting to Get to Me Now / Imperial / 1965

’Cause My Playlist Says It’s So: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 2

Foolproof performance from The Clovers.

Coffeetime, April 17, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Bring It Home to Me / Blue’s Theme / Blue Note / 1.6.66
Red Mitchell & Harold Land / Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!! / Somara / Atlantic / San Francisco 10.14.61
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Hot Mustard / Vocalion / 12.8.26
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Miss Annabelle Lee (Who’s Wonderful, Who’s Marvelous) / 7.18.27 / vocal = Dusty Rhodes & Parker Gibbs
Camille Howard / My Heart Goes Out to You / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood late 1940s
Annie Ross / A Gasser! / I Don’t Want to Cry Anymore / World Pacific / LA 1959

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Blue Note / 10.21.63
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / I’m a Fool to Want You / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Redman Blues / V-Disc 104B / 1943
The Four Vagabonds / A G.I. Wish / RCA Victor / 5.26.43
Eddie Cantor / How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on the Farm / V-Disc 358B / summer 1944 / with Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra
Bing Crosby / Yes Sir! That’s My Baby / CBS radio transcription / 1956
Rosco Gordon / That’s What You Do to Me / Vee-Jay / 1960

set 3
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / Battle Stations / Abundance / Prestige / 9.2.60
Lou Donaldson / LD+3 / Jump Up / Blue Note / 2.18.59
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / 3.12.37
The Clovers / Yes Sir That’s My Baby / Rainbow Records / 1950
Don Nelson / The Wind / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Mode / Hollywood 7.57

set 4
Zoot Sims / Stretching Out / Bee Kay / United Artists / 12.27.58
Shorty Rogers / Martians, Come Back! / Chant of the Cosmos / Atlantic / LA 12.9.55
Alice Faye / ’Cause My Baby Says It’s So / Chesterfield radio show broadcast / Hollywood 1937
King Cole Trio / Yes Sir, That’s My Baby / Capitol / 3.29.49 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra
Jack Jones / She Loves Me / When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love / Kapp / 1964
Southern Sons / Two Wings / V-Disc 147A / early 12.43

last soulful song
The Impressions / The Young Mods’ Forgotten Story / Wherever You Leadeth Me / Curtom / Chicago 5.69

That Wonderful, Worrisome Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 1

Pay attention, Frankie.

Coffeetime, April 10, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy & Frank Butler / Groovin’ Blue / Annsome / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 12.60 & 1.61
Freddie Roach / Good Move / On Our Way Up / Blue Note / 12.9.63
Helen Kane / I’d Go Barefoot All Winter Long (If You’d Fall for Me in the Spring)/ Victor / 3.18.30
Floyd Dixon / Time and Place / Aladdin / Hollywood 12.15.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Carmen McRae / When You’re Away / The More I See You / Kapp / 1959

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

set 2
Louis Smith / Smithville / Embraceable You / Blue Note / 3.30.58
André Previn / King Size! / It Could Happen to You / Contemporary / LA 11.26.58
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / She’s My Secret Passion / Victor / 2.12.31 / vocal = Donald King
E.Y. Harburg / Finian’s Rainbow / When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love / Columbia [bonus interview] / 1947 [1973]
Nellie Lutcher / My New Papa’s Got to Have Everything / Capitol / Hollywood 12.47
El Dorados / Oh, What a Girl / Vee Jay / Chicago 6.30.54

set 3
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Blue Note / 2.5.62
Freddie Redd / Redd’s Blues / Blues for Betsey / Blue Note / 1.17.61
Charlie Parker / Kim / Clef / 12.30.52
Five Jinks / Cushion Foot / Bluebird / Charlotte Hotel, Charlotte, NC 2.20.37
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / That Wonderful, Worrisome Feeling / V-Disc 157A / 3.44 / vocal = Kitty Kallen
Tommy Wolf / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most / Fraternity / 1958

set 4
Bucky Pizzarelli / Green Guitar Blues / Medley: Cry Me a River; Girl Talk / Monmouth Evergreen / 1972
Benny Carter / New Jazz Sounds / Angel Eyes / Norgran / LA 1954
Zoot Sims / Stretching Out / Pennies from Heaven / United Artists / 12.27.58
Gerry Mulligan / Swinghouse / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.53
Marilyn Monroe & Frankie Vaughan / Specialization / soundtrack, 20th Century Fox film, Let’s Make Love / Hollywood 1960
Vashti Bunyan / Just Another Diamond Day / Diamond Day / Philips / London 1970
The Alphabetical Four / I Want Two Wings to Veil My Face / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
El Dorados / Looking In from the Outside / Paula / 1971

When I’m Not Near the Playlist I Love

Esther gets animated!

Coffeetime, March 13, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / Thou Swell / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / Straight Life / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Teddy Edwards / Teddy’s Ready! / Higgin’s Hideaway / Contemporary / LA 8.17.60
Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Somebody Loves Me / Brunswick / 10.23.34
Whispering Jack Smith / When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin’ Along / Victor / 4.28.26 / whistling = Carson Robison
Rosetta Howard / Ebony Rhapsody / Columbia / Chicago 6.10.47 / with the Big Three
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / My Ship / Capitol / LA 1959

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

set 2
Ray Charles / The Great Ray Charles / There’s No You / Atlantic / 11.26.56
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / You Go to My Head / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Cabin in the Sky / Capitol / 1958
Tiny Grimes / Howlin’ Blues / Gotham / 1951
Lonnie Johnson & Victoria Spivey / Toothache Blues, Part 2 / Okeh / 10.17.28
Jack Buchanan & his Orchestra / Everything Stops for Tea / HMV / London 1.19.36
Esther Williams / I Got Out of Bed on the Right Side / soundtrack to MGM film Dangerous When Wet / Hollywood 8.28.52 and 3.6.53 / with William Demarest, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Whiting, Donna Corcoran
Wally Mercer / Hey! Miss Lula / Trumpet [unissued] / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54

set 3
John Coltrane / My Favorite Things / My Favorite Things / Atlantic / 10.60
Bing Crosby / Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (The Irish Lullaby) / Decca / Hollywood 7.7.44 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
The Larks / Lucy Brown / Apollo / 3.27.51
David Wayne / Finian’s Rainbow (Original Broadway Cast Recording) / When I’m Not Near the Girl I Love / Columbia / 1947

set 4
Stan Getz & his Swedish All Stars / S’ Cool Boys / Metronome / Stockholm 3.23.51
The Modern Swedes / On with the Dance / Metronome Records / 1954
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Runnin’ Ragged / Okeh / 10.18.29
Dinah Washington / New York, Chicago, Los Angeles / Mercury / 3.4.49 / with Teddy Stewart's Orchestra
Noel Coward / Noel Coward in New York / Why Must the Show Go On / Columbia / 1956
Golden Gate Quartet / Every Time That I Feel the Spirit / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, SC 10.6.39

last soulful song
The Apollas (Leola, Ella , and Billie) / You’ll Always Have Me / Warner Brothers /1967

Comin’ In on a Wing and a Playlist

Learn to dance groovy with Jessica & Charlene

Coffeetime, March 6, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57
Gigi Gryce / Gigi Gryce / Speculation / Signal / 10.22.55
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Ebony Silhouette / Columbia / Chicago 1.16.41
Freddie Rich & his Orchestra / Dinah / CBS radio transcription, Fred’s Friendly Five / fall 1931 / announcer = David Ross
Jesse Belvin / Confusin’ Blues aka Jesse’s Blues / Specialty [demo] / LA 1952
Beverly Kenney / Beverly Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith / This Little Town in Paris / Roost / 1955

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

set 2
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / My Old Flame / Riverside / 5.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Sophisticated Lady / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Blue Keys / Apollo / 11.7.50
George Reneau / The Sinking of the Titanic / Vocalion / 1925
Don Barreto et son Orchestre Cubain / Dulce Mujer / Decca / Paris c. late 1934
Oran Hot Lips Page & His Band / Good Old Bosom Bread / Decca / 3.10.38 /
Jones-Smith, Incorporated [aka Count Basie’s Blue Five] / Evenin’ / Vocalion [Columbia] / Chicago 10.9.36 / vocal = Jimmy Rushing

set 3
Paul Horn / Something Blue / Tall Polynesian / Hifi Jazz / 3.60
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / When the Sun Comes Out / Verve / LA 1959
Harry James & his Orchestra / Melancholy Mood / Brunswick / 7.13.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
The Four Vagabonds / Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer / Bluebird / 5.26.43
Fred Astaire / Now / I’ll Walk Alone / Kapp / Hollywood 1959

set 4
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Cherry / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Come Rain or Come Shine / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57
David Kaonohi & his Honoluans / In a Canoe / Victor / c. 1938
Red Norvo & his Orchestra / Something for the Boys / V-Disc / Hollywood 1943-1944 / vocal = Carol Bruce
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me / Coral / 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio
The Dixie Nightingales / I Don’t Know / Chalice / 1966

last soulful song
The Friends of Distinction / Real Friends / It Don't Matter to Me / RCA / Hollywood 1970

I Got a Playlist for Every Day of the Week

Kenny! Barney! Green!

Coffeetime, February 28, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Live at The Jazz Corner of the World, vol 2 / Art’s Revelation / Blue Note / 4.15.59
Bill Evans / Everybody Digs Bill Evans / Oleo / Riverside / 12.15.58
Benny Goodman Sextet / A Smooth One / Columbia / 3.13.41
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Here Comes the Sun / Victor / 9.25.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio
Amos Milburn / My Baby’s Boogying / Aladdin / LA 9.12.46
Chris Connor / Chris / A Good Man Is a Seldom Thing [alt take] / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note / 3.12.56
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / You Are Too Beautiful / Dawn / 6.12.56
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers and his Giants / Bunny / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.12.53
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Diga Diga Doo / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.7.47
Boswell Sisters / Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On / Brunswick / 4.23.31 / with the Dorsey Brothers
Big Joe Turner / I Got a Gal for Every Day of the Week / Decca / Chicago 10.30.44 / with the Pete Johnson Trio
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / Wind ’Round My Heart / Decca [5453] / 12.30.47

set 3
Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / EmArcy / Hollywood 9.19.56
Red Norvo Sextet / Easy on the Eye / X / LA 1.16.57
Connee Boswell & Bing Crosby / Bob White / Decca / Hollywood 9.25.37
The Ravens / Mamselle [take 2] / Columbia / 3.29.51
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / Little Girl Blue / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Gerry Mulligan & Stan Getz / Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi / A Ballad / Verve / LA 12.12.57
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Maria / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Billie Holiday & her Orchestra / Getting Some Fun Out of Life / Vocalion / 9.13.37
Astrud Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Manhã de Carnaval / Verve / LA 6.3-4.65 / with Kai Winding on trombone
Alphabetical Four / What a Friend We Have in Jesus / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Little Johnny Truitt / Just the Other Day / A-Bet / Nashville 1968

The Playlist of Scromph

I stand accused of loving the Butler brothers.

Coffeetime, February 21, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / Calgary / United Artists / 11.17.58
Joe Wilder / Wilder ‘n’ Wilder / My Heart Stood Still / Savoy / 1.19.56
Gigi Gryce / Oh Yeah! / Savoy / 3.7.55
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Take My Word / Columbia / 8.16.34
Helen Morgan / Bill / Victor / 2.14.28
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Spring Cleaning (Getting Ready for Love) / Victor / 3.18.37
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Just Friends / 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
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin’ / Body and Soul / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Hank Jones / Bluebird / How High the Moon / Savoy / 11.1.55
Sedric & his Honey Bears / The Wall of Scromph / Vocalion / 11.23.38
Cleo Brown / When / Decca / LA 11.20.35
Charles Brown / A Long Time / Aladdin / LA 1.21.49
Tom Jones / This Is Tom Jones / I’m a Fool to Want You / London / 1969

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / In Memory Of / Fried Pies / Blue Note / 6.3.64
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream: The Guitar of Al Caiola / You Are Too Beautiful / Savoy / 10.6.55
Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / Singing in the Rain / radio broadcast transcription / live, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 12.5.45
The Robins / I Made a Vow / Crown / LA 12.53
Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. “B” / Something I Dreamed Last Night / Mercury / 1960

set 4
Chet Baker & Art Pepper / Playboys / Picture of Heath / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.31.56
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Lands End / EmArcy / 2.24.55
Martha Raye / I Can’t Get Started with You / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
Hoagy Carmichael / Eventide / private recordings / Hoagy’s home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Pat Carroll & Barbara Ruick / Stepsisters Lament / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64/ premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65
Esther Phillips / From a Whisper to a Scream / Home Is Where the Hatred Is / Kudu / 1972
Zion Travelers / I Want to Go to Heaven and Rest / Dooto / LA 1962

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / 1967

Give a Little Playlist

Lee, ponying up the grooviest moves.

Coffeetime, February 14, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / [Infinity] / Growing Pains / Blue Note / 11.16.65
Harold Land / [Take Aim] / As You Like It / Blue Note / LA 7.25.60
Jackie Souders & his Orchestra / Gonna Get a Girl / LA 2.17.27 / vocal = Walton McKinney
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43
Betty Roché / Singin’ & Swingin’ / Day By Day / Prestige / 6.3.60

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Traneing In / Slow Dance / Prestige / 8.23.57
Chet Baker / Chet / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Riverside / 12.30.58
Gene Ammons / You Go to My Head / Chess/Aristocrat / Chicago 5.2.50
Joe Venuti’s Rhythm Boys / Little Buttercup (I’ll Never Be the Same) / Okeh / 6.10.31
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Lovable / Victor / 3.15.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Kay Starr / Baby Won’t You Please Come Home / Lamplighter / Hollywood 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
Bobby “Blue” Bland / Touch of the Blues / Road of Broken Hearted Men / Duke / 1967

set 3
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / Okay Blues / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / I Guess I’ll Have to Dream the Rest / radio transcription / 1941 / vocal = Jimmy Brown
Modernaires / One Sunday Afternoon / Columbia / 10.16.46 / with Buddy Clark & the Skylarks
The Ink Spots / To Each his Own / Decca / 7.8.46

set 4
Stan Getz / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars, Volume 3 / Bronx Blues / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Give a Little Whistle / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Mildred Bailey / Don’t Take Your Love from Me / Columbia / 1.25.40
Frankie Lymon / At the London Palladium / Fools Rush In / Roulette / London 1957
Alice Ghostley & Kay Ballard / Stepsisters Lament / live on CBS / 3.31.57
Spiritualaires / Heaven How Do You Do / United [unreleased] / Chicago 10.14.54

last soulful song
Lee Dorsey / Cynthia / Amy / New Orleans 1968

You Took the Playlist Right Out of My Heart

The original hot priest!

Coffeetime, February 7, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Lex / Prestige / 8.2.61
Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Blue Note, 11.11.60
Paul Baron & his Orchestra / Hallelujah / radio broadcast, CBS Music in the Air / 9.4.44
B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orchestra / Hello Sweetie / Edison / 3.19.29
Floyd Dixon / Rockin’ at Home / Aladdin [originally Peacock] / Houston late 1949
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee! / The Party’s Over / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

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

set 2
John Lewis & Svend Asmussen / European Encounter / Lonely Woman / Stockholm 7.2 & 3.62
Count Basie & his Orchestra / E=MC2 / Lil’ Darlin’ / Roulette / 1957
Hubert Rostaing – Aimé Barelli et leur Orchestre / Indécision / Swing / Paris 10.22.40
The Piccadilly Revels / Deep River Blues / Columbia / London 10.28.27 / vocal = Ray Starita
Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Rose of the Rockies / Decca / 1.28.41 / vocal = Perry Como
Shelly Lee Alley & his Alley Cats / Low Down Blues / Globe / Houston late 1945
The Orioles / Gettin’ Tired Tired Tired / Jubilee / 1.17.52

set 3
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Alma-Ville / Fantasy / LA 1962
Kenny Dorham & Jackie McLean / Inta Somethin’ / It Could Happen to You / Pacific Jazz / live, The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 11.61
Roy Fox & his Orchestra / You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart / radio transcription / London 1938 / vocal = Denny Dennis
The Charioteers / The Cowboy Serenade / Okeh / 6.6.41
Bobby Darin / This Is Darin / Black Coffee / Atco / 5.12.59

set 4
The Trio / The Trio / Groove Yard / Riverside / 6.61
Gerry Mulligan / Bread and Wine / soundtrack to MGM movie The Subterraneans / LA 1960
Cliff [Ukelele Ike] Edwards / Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky / Columbia / 6.5.28
The Chordettes / Basin Street Blues / Columbia / 1955
Dinah Washington / Wishing Well / Mercury / 11.17.54
Laura Lee / Wanted: Lover, No Experience Necessary / Chess / 1967
Rugged Cross Gospel Singers / The Bible Tells Me So / Gotham [unissued] / 1955

last soulful song
The Carlettes / Lost Without Your Love / BR / 1970

Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Playlist)

Listen to Ethel’s big pink dress, Donald!

Coffeetime, January 31, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ping Pong / Blue Note [unissued] / live, Renaissance Club, Hollywood 3.62
Benny Golson / Benny Golson’s New York Scene / Capri / Contemporary / 10.14.57
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra / Crying Myself to Sleep / Victor / 11.24.30 / vocal = The Biltmore Trio
Joe Swift / Lovin’ Baby Blues / Exclusive / 1948 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra
Sarah Vaughan / Sarah Sings Soulfully / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / Roulette / 1963

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

set 2
Chet Baker / Groovin’ with the Chet Baker Quintet / Lonely Star / Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
The Montgomery Brothers / Brothers in Canada / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Fantasy / The Cellar, Vancouver 9.16.61
Phil Harris & his Orchestra / Rose Room / radio broadcast / San Francisco 1.40
Bill Robinson / Just a Crazy Song (Hi-Hi-Hi) / Brunswick / 5.27.31
The Andrews Sisters / Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka) / Decca / Hollywood 12.12.47 / with Vic Schoen & his Orchestra
Dave “Dizzy” Dixon / Soup Line [alt take] / Vee-Jay [unissued] / Chicago 11.55

set 3
Hank Mobley / The Feelin’s Good / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.7.63
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / Slowly / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Ella Mae Morse / The Thrill Is Gone / Capitol / Hollywood 7.20.42
The Ravens / I’m Afraid of You / National / 12.22.47
Nelson Gonçalves / O Melhor de Nelson Gonçalves / Renúncia / RCA Victor / c. 1956

set 4
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / Oh Lady Be Good / Clef / LA late fall 1952
The Creed Taylor Orchestra / Lonelyville: The Nervous Beat / Lonelyville / ABC-Paramount / 1959
Shorty Rogers / The Fourth Dimension in Sound / You’re Just in Love / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 11.10.61
The Comedian Harmonists [Comedy Harmonists] / Wenn Die Sonja Russisch Tanzt (When Sonja Does a Russian Dance) / HMV / Berlin 1934
Ethel Merman & Donald O’Connor / You’re Just in Love / soundtrack to 20th Century Fox movie “Call Me Madam” / Hollywood 1953
Earl Gaines / Tell Me Tonight / Hollywood / Nashville 7.20.67
Jubalaires / Ezekiel / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Patti Labelle / I’m in Love Again / If Only You Knew / Philadelphia International / Philadelphia 7.28.82

Listen to My Playlist

Gertrude: dress, pearls, eyeshadow… song

Coffeetime, January 24, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / A Sure Thing / Blue on Blue / Riverside / 3.28.62
Sam Jones / The Soul Society / Home / Riverside / 3.10.60
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / The Quota / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Dream Lullaby / Vocalion / 12.13.34
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / How Am I to Know? / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew, from movie “Dynamite”
Gay Crosse & his Good Humor Six / Light Up and Relax / Capitol / Hollywood 1.18.49
Billie Holiday / Deep Song / Decca / 2. 13.47

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

set 2
Jimmy Heath / The Quota / When Sunny Gets Blue / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61
Sonny Clark / Dial “S” for Sonny / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Mildred Bailey / Wham (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam) / Columbia / 1.5.40 / duet with Roy Eldridge
Etta Jones / Salty Papa Blues / Black & White / 12.29.44 / with Barney Bigard & his Orchestra
Memphis Slim & his Orchestra / Live Like a King / Peacock / Houston 1952

set 3
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Hampton’s Pulpit / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56
Camille Howard / Old Baldy Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52
Chuck Foster & his Orchestra / Listen to My Heart / transcription / Hollywood 1940 / vocal = Dorothy Brandon
Delta Rhythm Boys  / 9:20 Special / Mercury / Stockholm 8.24.51 / with Andrew Burman’s Band
Frank Sinatra / No One Ever Tells You / Capitol / Hollywood 4.9.56 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing (Vol. 3) / Midnight Sun / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Dinah / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.18.56
King Cole Trio / It Could Happen to You / Capitol / Hollywood 7.14.55
Gertrude Lawrence / Do Do Do / Decca / 10.29.26
Les McCann / Sings / Next Spring / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.61 / with orchestra arranged & directed by Gerald Wilson
Alphabetical Four / He Sees All We Do and Hears All We Say / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song
Freddie Hughes / We Got to Keep On / Wand [unissued] / San Francisco

I Want a Little Playlist

Love your poms, Dolly!!!

Coffeetime, January 10, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Blue Mitchell / Big 6 / Big Six / Riverside / 7.2-3.58
Cecil Payne / Patterns / Groovin’ High / Savoy / 5.22.56
Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Sugar / Decca / 10.23.34
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / In a Blue and Pensive Mood / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Johnny Otis Band / Alimony Boogie / Excelsior / LA 1947 / vocal = Cathy Cooper
Joni James / Let There Be Love / You’re Mine You / M-G-M / LA 1953

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

set 2
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Portrait of Cannonball / Nardis / Riverside / 7.1.58
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Dardanella / Victor / 2.9.28
Dolly Dawn & her Dawn Patrol / The Mood that I’m In / Bluebird / 3.4.37
Venuti-Lang & their All-Star Orchestra / Beale Street Blues / Brunswick / 10.22.31 / vocal = Jack Teagarden
Delta Rhythm Boys / Dry Bones / East of the Sun and West of the Moon / RCA Victor / 1946
Big Maybelle / I Understand / Savoy / 8.13.59

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Groovin’ the Blues / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Jack McDuff / The Honeydripper / I Want a Little Girl / Prestige / 2.3.61
Mills Brothers / Mills Brothers Souvenir Album / Paper Doll / Decca [9-172] / 1944
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Not Mine / Okeh / 12.10.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Sy Oliver / Sentimental Sy / Stardust / Dot / 5.12,13,15.58 / vocal = Dave Vogel

set 4
Howard McGhee / Dusty Blue / Groovin’ High / Bethlehem / 6.13.60
[Åke] Stan Hasselgard / Who Sleeps / Capitol / Hollywood 12.18.47
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Groovin’ Boogie / Black & White / LA fall 1946
Noel Coward / It’s Only You / HMV / 7.28.41
Pee Wee Crayton / Runnin’ Wild / Imperial / New Orleans 10.21.54
Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans / Energy & Motion / Motion, Motion Everywhere / Motivation Records / 1961
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Deep River / Varsity / 12.47

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha in Paris / Groovin’ / Atlantic / Olympia Theatre, Paris 5.7.68

Where the Mountains Meet the Playlist

Party with Mr Cobb!

Coffeetime, January 3, 2020, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Extemporaneous / Blue Note [unissued] / 9.13.68
Lee Morgan / Volume 3 [1557] / Mesabi Chant / Blue Note / 3.24.57
Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Everything Goes / 1947 AFRS Jubilee Christmas show / 3.28.46
Paul Ash & his Orchestra / When I First Met Mary / Columbia / 12.2.26 / vocal = Milton Watson
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Can’t Get That No More / V-Disc 237B / 11.22.43
Margaret Whiting / Moonlight in Vermont / Capitol / Hollywood 2.10.45 / with Billy Butterfield & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / J.M.’s Dream Doll / Prestige / 4.19.57
Harry Edison / Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You / Moonlight in Vermont / Verve / Hollywood 3.29.57
Don Byas / What Do You Want With My Heart / Savoy / 8.17.44
Bix Beiderbecke & his Orchestra / Deep Down South / Victor / 9.8.30 / vocal = Wesley Vaughn
Doris Day / Love Somebody / Columbia / 11.21.47 / duet with Buddy Clark
Billy Williams / Billy Williams Quartet / Shanghai / M-G-M / 1956

set 3
Arnett Cobb / Party Time / Lonesome Road / Prestige / 5.14.59
Paul Whiteman & his Concert Orchestra / Rhapsody in Blue / Victor / 4.21.27 / with George Gershwin on piano
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / On a Slow Boat to China / Capitol / Hollywood 10.23.47 / vocal = Al Hendrickson
Melody Masters / Subway Cutie / Apollo / 1947
Georges Guétary / Journée de Paris / from movie Paris Still Sings! / 1951

set 4
Jack Sheldon / The Jazz Trumpet of Jack Sheldon: A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles / One Mint Julep / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
The Modern Swedes / Lili / Metronome Records / 1954
Jack Jackson & his Orchestra / Where the Mountains Meet the Sea / Victor / Dorchester Hotel, London c. 12.14.34 / vocal = Alberta Hunter
Maurice Chevalier / Girls, Girls, Girls / from MGM movie The Merry Widow / Hollywood 1934
Fontella Bass / Joy of Love / Checker [unissued] / Chicago 1968
Soul Searchers / My Soul Needs Rest / Musicor / 1973

last soulful song
Ann Peebles / Give Me Some Credit / Hi Records / Memphis 1969

A Little Playlist Each Morning (A Little Kiss at Night)

I might just tell Harry what I’m doing NYE…

Coffeetime, December 27, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / Shoutin’ Out / Blue Note / 7.17.56
Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / My Heart Belongs to Daddy / Verve / 2.17.59
Brick Fleagle’s Orchestra / So Blue Love / HRS / 5.45
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / A Little Kiss Each Morning (A Little Kiss at Night) / Victor / 11.6.29
Bing Crosby / Let’s Start the New Year Right / Decca / Hollywood 5.25.42 / with Bob Crosby & his Orchestra
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
Budd Johnson / Blues à la Mode / Leave Room in Your Heart for Me / Felsted / 2.11.58
Bengt Hallberg / The Things We Did Last Summer / Metronome Records / Stockholm 1956
Art Tatum / Yesterdays / AFRS Jubilee radio show / 1947
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Bluebird / 1939 / vocal = Tony Pastor
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Peggy Lee / Song at Midnight / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3.49 / with the Jud Conlon Singers

set 3
Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery / Mister Walker / Riverside / 1.26.60
Red Garland / Groovy / What  Can I Say, Dear / Prestige / 8.9.57
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / It Happened in Sun Valley / Bluebird / Hollywood 8.11.41 / vocal = Paula Kelly, Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke, &  The Modernaires
Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
The Heartbeats / After New Year’s Eve / Gee / 10.57

set 4
Nick Travis / The Panic Is On / Travisimo / RCA Victor / 1954
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Winter Weather / Bluebird / 12.26.41 
Guy Lombardo / Guy Lombardo in Hi Fi / Auld Lang Syne / Capitol / Hollywood 1956
King Curtis / Soul Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Atco / 10.23.68
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
The Larks / Christmas to New Years / Apollo [unreleased] / 10.18.51
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958
The Trumpeteers / So Many Years / Grand / Philadelphia late 1954

last soulful song
Theresa Lindsey / Wonderful One / Correc-Tone / 1966

Playlist Dreaming

In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 20, 2019, 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, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / It Must Be Christmas / MGM [unissued] / 4.10-17.61
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60

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 c. 1950
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
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess
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 / Chicago 10.66 / with Charles Stepney, piano; Cleveland Eaton, bass; Morris Jennings, drums
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Pittson PA, WVIA 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 / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955
Julie London / I’d Like You for Christmas / Liberty / LA 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 / Hollywood 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / 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 soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

It's a Marshmallow Playlist

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 13, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quintet / Startin’ from Scratch / Blue Note / 3.9.57
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Double or Nothin’ / Reggie of Chester / Liberty / LA 2.27.57
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Cecil Gant / It’s Christmas Once Again / Decca / Nashville 10.13.50
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May https://youtu.be/48a4l3sNb1k http://www.kiddierecords.com/xmas/index.htm
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters

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

set 2
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 5.14.47 / duet with Lindsey Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
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 & Rosemary Clooney https://youtu.be/ax66QU8pvtA
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1964 / vocal = Janet Orenstein

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Greensleeves / Prestige / 11.7.58
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57
Lowell Fulson / Christmas Party Shuffle / Swing Time / LA 1950
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kadets
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires https://youtu.be/lx7YUZrdTf0
The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Wardell Gray / Jingle Jangle Jump / Swing Time / LA 6.9.52 / vocal = Gladys Bentley
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
Jimmy Witherspoon / How I Hate to See Christmas Come Around / Swing Time / LA 1951
Mabel Mercer / At Town Hall / Season’s Greetings / Atlantic / 5.19.68
Les Brown & his Orchestra / We Wish You the Merriest / Columbia / 1951
Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song
The Free Movement / I've Found Someone of My Own / Decca / 1971

It’s the Playlist in Me

How great was Teddy Pendergrass?!

Coffeetime, December 6, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Mustang / Fly Little Bird Fly / Blue Note / 6.24.66
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / My Girl Shirl / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Coleman Hawkins & his Sax Ensemble / Three Little Words / Keynote / 5.21.44
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / So Tired / Victor / 12.12.27 / vocal = Hoagy Carmich;;ael
Joseph “Mr. Google Eyes” August & his 4 Bars / Rock My Soul / Coleman Records / c. 1946
Elaine Delmar / Swinging the Bard / Live with Me and Be My Love / Atco / 1964 / with The Elizabethan Consort of Viols & Geoffrey Emmott’s Recorder Consort

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men at the Black Hawk, volume 4 / Just Squeeze Me / Contemporary / Black Hawk, San Francisco 9.24.59
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Blackbirds Revue Finale: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Doin’ the New Low Down; I Must Have that Man; Baby; Dixie; Diga Diga Doo; Porgy; I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (reprise) / Brunswick  / 2.17.33
Ethel Merman / It’s the Animal in Me / from Paramount film The Big Broadcast of 1936 / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.17.35
Georgia Carr / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol [unreleased] / Hollywood mid-1950s
T-Bone Walker / News for You Baby / Imperial / LA 12.51

set 3
Illinois Jacquet / The Soul Explosion / The Soul Explosion / Prestige / 3.25.69
Art Farmer / To Sweden with Love / Kristallen den Fina (The Fine Crystal) / Atlantic / Stockholm 4.30.64
Mills Brothers / Diga Diga Doo / Columbia / 12.27.32 / with Duke Ellington & his Orchestra
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Begging for Love / Decca / 4.11.47 / vocal = Paul Breckinridge
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 4
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Adderley & the Poll-Winners / Never Will I Marry / Riverside / LA 6.5.60
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons) / Capitol / 8.22.46
Dinah Washington / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Chicago 12.55
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood  1968
Highway QC’s / I Dreamed That Heaven Was Like This; I’ll Trust His Word / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1956

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / Wake Up Everybody / Keep on Lovin’ You / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1975

Got a Playlist with an Angel

Dance your Emotions!

Coffeetime, November 29, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Giant Steps (alt take) / Atlantic / 5.5.59
Lee Morgan / Volume 3 [1557] / Hasaan’s Dream / Blue Note / 3.24.57
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Stampede / Vocalion / 3.22.37
Bert Lown & his Orchestra / I’ll Build a Nest / Bluebird /  5.18.33 / vocal = Ted Hold
Wally Mercer / Sad & Blue / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 10.19.54
Helen Carr / Got a Date with an Angel / Bethlehem / LA 11.11.55

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Down With It! / Alone, Alone and Alone / Blue Note / 7.14.65
Milt Jackson / Milt Jackson / The Nearness of You / Prestige / 5.20.55
Ben Webster / Memories of You / Commodore / 3.18.44
Kay Kyser & his Gentlemen from the Carolines / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me / radio broadcast / 1934 / duet with Sully Mason
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Cabin in the Sky / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / vocal = Earl Warren; master of ceremonies = Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Wynona Carr / What Do You Know (About Love) / Specialty / Hollywood 1957

set 3
Red Garland / Solar / I Just Can’t See for Looking / Jazzland / 1.30.62
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Lateef Minor / Riverside / 5.9.60
Gene Ammons / Don’t Do Me Wrong / Chess / Chicago 2.28.49
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle De Bop Bop (Adi Eedi Idio) / Decca / 7.19.37
Anita O’Day / I Apologize / London / 12.27.50 / with Ben Homer & his Orchestra
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Willow Weep for Me / Verve / LA 1.11.57

set 44
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Wail Street / Contemporary / LA 3.28.55
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / Contemporary / 4.21.58
Hot Lips Page & his Orchestra / You Need Coachin’ / Commodore / 9.29.44
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / That’s My Desire / Columbia / 1957 / with Billy May & his Orchestra
Little Milton / Blues ’n‘ Soul / Sweet Woman of Mine / Stax / Memphis 1974
Soul Stirrers / The Love of God (alt take 4) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58

last soulful song
The Emotions / Flowers / No Plans for Tomorrow / Columbia / Chicago 1976

A Woman Alone with the Playlist

Long-fingered, sharp-dressed Desi, even

Coffeetime, November 22, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Santa Tecla / Ricordi / 1961
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / It’s You Or No One / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Bennie Green / Glidin’ Along / Expubidence / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Gus Arnheim & his Orchestra / Glad Rag Doll / Okeh / Hollywood 1.17.29 / vocal = Russ Columbo
Cats & the Fiddle / Gang Busters / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book / The Way You Look Tonight / Verve / LA 1.63

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

set 2
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar / Before Dawn / Riverside / 5.57
Hank Mobley / Introducing Lee Morgan / P.S. I Love You / Savoy / 11.5.56
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Autumn Leaves / Roost / 12.5.52
Golden Gate Orchestra / Miss Annabelle Lee / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.27
Paul Robeson / Lonely Road / HMV / London 1936
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Goody Goody / Coral / 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio
Quarteto Em Cy (The Girls from Bahia in the US) / ¡Revolución Con Brasilia! / Manhattan / Warner Brothers / 1967

set 3
Paul Horn / Something Blue / Something Blue / Hifi Jazz / 3.60
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / On the Trail / Verve / 3.19.61
Five Red Caps / Somebody’s Lyin’ / Beacon / 3.44
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Swing Time Up in Harlem / Victor / 10.16.40 / vocal = Connie Haines
Frank Sinatra / Nice ‘n’ Easy / Nevertheless / Capitol / Hollywood spring 1960

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Easy Living / Verve / LA 1959
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Triton / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Desi Arnaz & his Orchestra / La Cumparsita / RCA / LA 1947
Amos Milburn / Hard Luck Blues / Aladdin / LA 5.18.50
Amos Milburn / Sad and Blue / Aladdin / LA 4.26.47

Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / A Woman Alone with the Blues / Verve /10.16.61
Zion Harmonizers / Working the Road / Gotham / 1958

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / Marvin Gaye and his Girls / I Want You ’Round / Motown / Detroit 1969

Playlist at Twilight

Lovely Savannah wants to be loved: she is!

Coffeetime, November 15, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
James Clay & David “Fathead” Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / Figger-ation / Riverside / 4.26.60
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / Just for the Love / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Chu Berry & his Jazz Ensemble / Blowing Up a Breeze / Commodore / 8.28.41
Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / I’m So Afraid of You / Brunswick / Chicago 1.7.31
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / All for the Love of Lil / Decca / 10.10.46
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / If Love Is Good to Me / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Ballads / I Wish I Knew / Impulse! / 11.13.62
Gerry Mulligan / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / World Pacific, Pacific Jazz / 12.14.54
Sarane Ferret et le Swing Quintette de Paris / Cocktail Swing / Odeon / Paris 6.23.41
Cliff Edwards / Pennies from Heaven / Syndicated Radio Transcription Disc / 1936 / with Freddy Rich Orchestra, MC = Harry Richman
Gene Autry / The Old Trail / Okeh / Hollywood 6.23.38
Don Heitgerd & ensemble / The Prince Is Giving a Ball / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64 / premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / ’Round Midnight / Impulse! / 3.4.63
Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Blues at Twilight / Tampa / LA 11.23.56
Preston Love Sextet / Strictly Cash / Federal / LA 1.22.52
Savannah Churchill & the Sentimentalists / Foolishly Yours / Manor / 12.46 / The Sentimentalists were comprised of the Brown Dots and later became the Four Tunes
Matt Monro / Blue and Sentimental / A Cottage for Sale / London [Decca] / London 1957 / with Malcolm Lockyer & his Orchestra

set 4
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Joe Roland / Joe Roland / Stairway to Steinway / Bethlehem / 3.55
Fats Waller / Down Home Blues / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Dick Powell & the Four Mills Brothers / Out for No Good / radio transcription / 1934
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / Money Blues / Atlantic / 7.27.58
Soul Stirrers / There’s Not a Friend Like Jesus / Specialty / Hollywood 2.4.59

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / I’m Thankful for What I Got / Atlantic / 1968

Put Some Money in the Playlist, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low

Mr. Milton says WMBR’s listeners are number one!

Coffeetime, November 8, 2019, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
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 / Expoobident / Lost & Found / Vee Jay / Chicago 10.14.60
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, transcription / 10.28.43
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, ’Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

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
Chubby Newsome / Where’s The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 5
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53

set 6 
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / 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

It’s the Talk of the Playlist

Oscar is rapturous… as are we all.

Coffeetime, November 1, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Messengers / ’S Make It / Waltz for Ruth / Limelight / Hollywood 11.64
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night in Tunisia / Kozo’s Waltz / Blue Note / 8.60
Teddy Wilson Quintet / Memories of You / Musicraft / 1.15.45
Jack Hylton & his Orchestra / Got a Date with an Angel / Zonophone / London 10.14.31 / vocal = Pat O’Malley
Jesse “Tiny” Kennedy / Early in the Mornin’, Baby / Trumpet / Memphis 9.25.52 / with Elmer, The Disc Jockey Rooster
George Shearing / The George Shearing Quintet with Nancy Wilson / The Nearness of You / Capitol / Hollywood 6.29.60 / vocal = Nancy Wilson

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

set 2
Barry Harris / Preminado / It’s the Talk of the Town / Riverside / 1.19.61
Jon Eardley / Jon Eardley 7 / There’s No You / Prestige / 1.13.56
Lester Young & Harry Edison / It’s the Talk of the Town / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55
Connee Boswell / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Decca [alt take] / Laren, the Netherlands 8.26.35 / with The Ramblers
Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / You’re Everything I Love / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / vocal = Sonny Woods, with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Eligibles / Dearly Beloved / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

set 3
Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Tali / Atlantic / 1962
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / Sweet Georgia Brown / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Howard McGhee / Up in Dodd’s Room / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
Maxine Sullivan / I Can’t Get Started with You / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National [unissued] / 12.13.49
Frank D’Rone / In Person / My One and Only Love / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Chico Hamilton Quintet in Hi Fi / Takin’ a Chance on Love / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / Hollywood 1.4.56
Pete Brown / Jazz Kaleidoscope / Tea for Two / Bethlehem / 11.16.54
Les Paul / It’s the Talk of the Town / V-Disc 751B / Hollywood 1947
Georgia White / I’ll Keep Sittin’ on It (If I Can’t Sell It) / Decca / Chicago 5.12.36 / with Les Paul
Fred Astaire / I Love Louisa / from MGM movie, The Band Wagon / Hollywood 1953 / with Oscar Levant
Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968
Jubalaires / My Trouble is Hard / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
The Sapphires / Who Do You Love? / Swan / 1963

Just Like a Dog (Barking Up the Wrong Playlist)

Dreamy Hadda and her dreamy shoulders and dreamy diamonds.

Coffeetime, October 25, 2019, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / [Consequence] / Slumber / Blue Note / 12.3.65
Prestige All Stars / Olio / Potpourri / Prestige / 2.16.57
John Kirby & his Orchestra / Schubert’s Serenade / V-Disc 756 / c. fall 1941
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / Collegiana / Brunswick / 3.2.28 / vocal = Skinny Ennis
The Four Buddies / Sweet Slumber / Savoy / 1.13.51
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Detour Ahead / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

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

set 2
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / I’ve Never Been in Love Before / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Theater 12.4.54
Ben Webster / Soulville / Soulville / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Hadda Brooks / Schubert’s Serenade in Boogie / Modern / Hollywood 1951
Larry Adler & his Orchestra / Solitude / Regal Zonophone / London 6.35
The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / South of the Border / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 5.9.39 / vocal = Hal Yates
Shirley Booth / I’m in the Mood for Love / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1945 / The Danny Kaye Show on CBS
Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton / Just Like a Dog (Barking Up the Wrong Tree) / Peacock / Houston 1957

set 3
Lee Morgan / The Procrastinator / Soft Touch / Blue Note / 7.14.67
Milt Jackon & Ray Charles / Soul Brothers / Blue Funk / Atlantic / 9.12.57
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Sweet Slumber / Decca / 10.19.43 / vocal = Trevor Bacon
Dixiaires [Dixieaires] / Keep Me With You / 20th Century Records / 1948

set 4
Bill Holman / In a Jazz Orbit / You Go to My Head / Andex / LA 2.11-13.58
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / Riviera / Prestige / 12.3.54
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Braggin’ / V-Disc 215B / 1944
Mabel Robinson / Me and My Chauffeur / Decca / 1.20.42
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / You’re a Grand Old Flag / RCA / LA 1957
Dixieaires / Let Me Fly / Exclusive [unissued] / c. 1948

last soulful song
Jay Wiggins / Sad Girl / IPG / 1963