Got the Bench, Got the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 143

High hat, trumpet, and Valaida!

Coffeetime, February 17, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / One Down / Contemporary / LA 8.59 
Curtis Fuller / Images of Curtis Fuller / Accident / Savoy / 6.7.60 
James Moody & his Swedish Crowns / Andrew Got Married / Metronome / Stockholm 1951 
The Casa Loma Orchestra / San Sue Strut / Columbia / 2.11.30 / listed as O.K. Rhythm Kings on Parlophone 
Noble Sissle & his Orchestra / Got the Bench, Got the Park / Brunswick / 2.24.31 / vocal = Noble Sissle 
Calvin Boze & his All Stars / Look Out for Tomorrow Today / Aladdin / LA 7.24.50 / with Maxwell Davis ts
Carol Sloane / Out of the Blue / Little Girl Blue / Columbia / 12.20.61 

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

set 2
John Wright / Makin’ Out / Kitty / Prestige / 6.23.61 
Herbie Mann / Mann in the Morning / Song for Ruth / Prestige / Stockholm 10.12.56 
Danny Polo Trio / Montmartre Loan / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Fred Rich & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Columbia / 10.20.30 / vocal = Paul Small; listed as Harold Lem & his Orchestra on Okeh 
Fred Astaire / (I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck / Brunswick / Hollywood 3.18.37 / with Johnny Green (p) & his Orchestra; for the RKO movie Shall We Dance [not Swing Time as I said last week]  
Valaida Snow, The Queen of Trumpet / High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm / Parlophone / London 9.6.36 / featuring The Six Swingers  
Wessel Ilcken / His Voice, His Drums, and His Combo / If You’re So Smart, How Come You Ain’t Rich / Philips / Hilversum, The Netherlands 6.5.57 

set 3
Grant Green / Nigeria / Airegin / Blue Note / 1.13.62 
Vince Guaraldi / Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus / Moon River / Fantasy / San Francisco 1961 
Louis Bellson’s Just Jazz All Stars / The Jeep Is Jumpin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 5.23.52 
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Nightingale / Victor / 4.7.42 
The Four Buddies / Heart and Soul / Savoy / 8.23.51 
Dean Martin / Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder / Capitol / Hollywood 1948 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 4
Carl Perkins / Introducing Carl Perkins / Way Cross Town / Dootone / LA 1955 
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Tongue Twister / Capitol / Hollywood 6.14.55 
Peggy Lee / I Get a Kick Out of You / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 7.16.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Nat King Cole / Tell Me All About Yourself / This Is Always / Capitol / 11.4.58 
Alphabetical Four / Get on Board, Little Children / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Jerry Butler / Make It Easy on Yourself / Vee Jay / 6.62

Jumpin’ with the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 142

Taking a chance on Hazel!

Coffeetime, February 10, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / [Sonny Clark Quintets] / Little Sonny / Blue Note / 12.8.57 
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Beauteous / Blue Note / 5.19.57 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / Bill’s Mill / Victor / Hollywood 1.3.47 
Nat Brandwynne & his Stork Club Orchestra / It’s You I’m Talkin’ About / Brunswick / 4.13.36 / vocal = Buddy Clark
Gladys Bentley Quintette / Lay It on the Line / Excelsior / LA 1945 
Anita O’Day / Anita O’Day & the Three Sounds / My Ship / Verve / 10.12–15.62 

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 
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / Tuma / EmArcy / 1.4.55 
Hazel Scott / Relaxed Piano Moods / Like Someone in Love / Debut / 1.21.55
Oscar Calle / Rumba Guajira / Parlophone / Paris mid-1930s
The Three Flames / Open the Door, Richard! / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = George “Tiger” Haynes 
Herb “Flamingo” Jeffries / At Least You Could Save Me a Dream / Excelsior / LA / with Eddie Beal Trio and Three Shades of Rhythm https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/0010000101
The Modernaires / Alice in Wonderland / Coral / 1951
George “Tiger” Haynes / New Faces of ’56 / The Washingtons Are Doin’ Okay / RCA Victor / 1956 

set 3
Sonny Stitt / Rearin’ Back / Carpsie’s Groove / Argo / Chicago 9.24.62 
Herb Ellis / Nothing But the Blues / Pap’s Blues / Verve / Hollywood 11.11.57 
Max Albright / Mood for Max / Buzzin’ Cool / Motif / Hollywood 11.8, 16.56 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / I’ve Found a New Baby / V-Disc 175A / late 1944
The Big Three / Hard Notch Boogie Beat / Columbia / 1949
Abe Lyman & his Californians / (I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck / Decca / 4.12.37 / vocal = Rose Blaine 
The Loumell Morgan Trio / Whatcha Know, Joe? / Hollywood 1943 / From the Monogram movie Melody Parade / Loumell Morgan p, James Jackson g, Lynwood Jones b 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / They Didn’t Believe Me / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Don Fagerquist / Eight By Eight — Music to Fill a Void / Easy to Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.14.57 / cover cartoon by Bill Box 
Shelly Manne / Son of a Gunn!! / Lightly / Contemporary / LA 1.19 & 20.59 
King Cole Trio / Jumpin’ with the Mop / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 2.41 / Wesley Prince b
Johnny Mercer / They Didn’t Believe Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1942 / with the Mellowaires: Bobbie Canvin, Patty Morgan, Sally Sweetland, Tony Paris, & Lee Gotch
Kathryn Beaumont / Soundtrack: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland / All in the Golden Afternoon / Disneyland / Hollywood / 1957 / with the Camarata Chorus & Orchestra
Golden Gate Quartet / Atom and Evil / Columbia / 1946

last soulful song
The Monticellos / I Can’t Wait Until I See My Baby’s Face / Red Cap / Detroit 1967

My Playlist Is in Your Hands: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 141

I wouldn’t side-eye you, Mickey!

Coffeetime, January 27, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / live at the Café Bohemia, Volume 2 / Hank’s Symphony / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55 
Mal Waldron / Mal-2 / Blue Calypso [CD bonus track] / Prestige / 4.19.57 
Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra / Denison Swing / Victor / 4.5.39 
Arthur Schutt & his Orchestra / My Fate Is in Your Hands / Okeh / 11.18.29 / vocal = Irving Kaufman s
Jim Davidson & his ABC Dance Orchestra / (I’ve Got) Beginner's Luck / Regal Zonophone / Sydney, Australia 6.7.37 / vocal = Dick Cranbourne / composed by the Gershwins for the RKO movie Shall We Dance
Ray Johnson / Smilin’ Blues / Mercury / New Orleans 1954
Doris Drew / Delightful Doris Drew / Something to Remember You By / Mode / Hollywood 1957 / with an Eva Diana portrait painting of Doris Drew on cover 

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

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Bring It Home to Me / Portrait of Jennie / Blue Note / 1.6.66 / cover portrait watercolor by George Wright who also did Stanley Turrentine’s Rough ’n‘ Tumble 
Jimmy Rowles / Piano Playhouse / That Old Devil Called Love / Mode / Hollywood 9.13 & 14.57
Jimmy Cleveland / Trombone Scene / It Could Happen to You / Vik / 11.56
Don Redman & his Orchestra / If It’s True / Brunswick / 6.28.32 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore
Bon Bon & his Buddies / Rickety Rocking Chair / Decca / 1.12.42 / vocal = George “Bon Bon” Tunnell 
Betty Garrett & Jimmy Durante / The Pussy Cat Song (Nyow! Nyow! Nyow!) / MGM / Hollywood 1949
Ben E. King / Spanish Harlem / Frenesi / Atco / 1961

set 3
Evans Bradshaw / Pieces of Eighty-Eight / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Riverside / 1.27.59 
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Southern Exposure / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Charlie Parker / Bird’s Nest / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47 
Mills Brothers / Stardust / Decca / West Hempstead, England 2.18.39
Bob Chester & his Orchestra / My Ship / Victor / 2.4.41 / vocal = Betty Bradley 
Johnny Pace / Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace / This Is Always / Riverside / 12.30.58 

set 4
Paul Desmond / Glad to Be Unhappy / Glad to Be Unhappy / RCA Victor / 9.8.64 
King Cole Trio / It Is Better to Be By Yourself / Capitol [unissued] / 8.2.45
Mickey Rooney / Girl Crazy / Treat Me Rough / Decca / Hollywood 1944 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra; selections from the MGM movie Girl Crazy
Judy Canova / Love Is So Terrific / NBC radio Broadcast, The Judy Canova Show / Hollywood 12.6.47 / with The Sportsmen (Bill Days, Max Smith, Marty Sperzel, & Gurney Bell) and Charles Dant & his Orchestra 
Sammy Davis Jr. / Starring Sammy Davis Jr. / Glad to Be Unhappy / Decca / Hollywood 1954 
The Southern Sons / One Day When the Lord Will Call Me / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Arnold Blair / Trying to Get Next to You / Gemigo / 1975

Lingering Down the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 140

Coffeetime, January 20, 20223, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Doug Watkins / Watkins at Large / Phinupi / Transition / 12.8.56 p
Elmo Hope / Informal Jazz / Avalon / Prestige / 5.7.56 
Ben Bernie & his Orchestra / Button Up Your Overcoat / Brunswick / 1.18.29 / vocal = Dick Robertson 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Thrill Me / Specialty / Hollywood 1946 / vocal = Camille Howard
Terry Morel / Terry Morel Sings with the Tony Luis Trio / I Can’t Get Started / Prestige / Philadelphia 3.10.55 

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

set 2
Larry Young / Testifying / Flamingo / New Jazz / 8.2.60 
Bengt Hallberg / The Things We Did Last Summer / Metronome / Stockholm 12.15.52 
Lester Young / Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio #1 / I Can’t Get Started / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Leslie A. “Hutch” Hutchinson / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / HMV / London 1943
The Five Blazes / Every Little Dream / Aristocrat / Chicago 4.47 
Frank Haywood / You Gotta Give It Up / Apollo / 2.27.46 / with Monroe Tucker (p) & his All Stars
Virginia de Luce / New Faces of 1952 / He Takes Me Off His Income Tax / RCA Victor / 6.15.52 

set 3
Larry Young / Groove Street / Sweet Lorraine / Prestige / 2.27.62 
Blue Mitchell / Bring It Home to Me / Bring It Home to Me / Blue Note / 1.6.66 
Irving Fields Trio / Lingering Down the Lane / RCA Victor / 1949 / with with Three Beaus and a Peep
The Ravens / Tea for Two / National [unissued] / c. 1949
Frank Sinatra / Crazy Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

set 4
Herbie Mann / Great Ideas of Western Mann / Get Out of Town / Capitol / Hollywood 7.3.57 / Jack Sheldon tp, Herbie Mann b-cl, Jimmy Rowles p, Buddy Clark b, Mel Lewis d 
Phil Woods & Gene Quill / Phil and Quill / Una Momento / RCA Victor / 3.15.56 / Phil Woods, Gene Quill as, Sol Schlinger bs, Dave McKenna p, Buddy Jones b, Shadow Wilson d 
Hildegarde / I Can’t Get Started / Decca / 5.23.40 / with Vernon Duke (composer; Ira Gershwin, lyricist) & Leo Kahn on pianos 
King Cole Trio / Homeward Bound / Capitol [unissued] / WMCA, New York 10.18.45
Beny Moré / Bonito y Sabroso [Nice and Tasty] / RCA Victor / Mexico 1949
The Silveraires / One Day / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949

last soulful song
Teddy Pendergrass / Life Is a Song Worth Singing / When Somebody Loves You Back / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1978

For This Is My Playlist to Love: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 139

Maybe there’ll be the gorgeous Donna Hightower.

Coffeetime, January 13, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Carmell Jones / Business Meetin’ / Hip Trolley / Pacific Jazz / LA 4.25.62 
Ray Bryant / Gotta Travel On / Bag’s Groove / RCA Victor / 2.17 & 18/66 
Illinois Jacquet / The Kid and the Brute / Jacquet’s Dilemma / Clef / 12.13.54 
The Chocolate Dandies / Star Dust / Columbia / 10.13.28 
Frank Auburn & his Orchestra aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / One Little Quarrel / Velvet Tone / 1.12.32 / vocal = Dick Robertson 
Brownie McGhee / My Fault / Savoy / 1948 / with Hal Singer ts
Donna Hightower / Take One! / Maybe You’ll Be There / Capitol / 1958 

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

set 2
Bill Evans / Alone (Again) / People / Fantasy / 12.16-18.75 
Yusef Lateef / Psychicemotus / I’ll Always Be in Love with You / Impulse! / 7.21-22.65 
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Maybe You’ll Be There / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time, Starring Bing Crosby (3rd season) / Hollywood 12.13.48 (aired 12.29.48) / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires  
Sidney Bechet & his New Orleans Feetwarmers / Sidney’s Blues / Victor / 2.5.40
Helen Carroll & the Satisfiers / Raggedy Ann / Victor / 1947 / with Russ Case & his Orchestra
Yves Montand / Dans les plaines du Far-West / Odeon / Paris 1945

set 3
Donald Byrd / Slow Drag / The Loner / Blue Note / 5.12.67 
Harold Vick / Straight Up / A Rose for Wray / RCA Victor / 10.3 & 4.66 
John Hardee / Nervous from the Service / Blue Note / 5.31.46 
Jay Jay Johnson’s Be-Boppers / Jay Bird / Savoy / 6.25.46 
The Four Vagabonds / There Are Such Things / Standard Transcription / 1942 
Kay Starr / Ichabod / radio transcription / Hollywood fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Johnny Hodges / Dance Bash / For This Is My Night to Love / Norgran / San Francisco 7.17.52 / vocal = Al Hibbler

set 4
Paul Horn / Profile of a Jazz Musician / What Now? / Columbia / 8.15-17.62 
Stan Getz / More West Coast / Crazy Rhythm / Norgan / 8.22.53 / Getz ts, Bob Brookmeyer tb, John Williams p, Teddy Kotick b, Frank Isola d
King Cole Trio / Vom, Vim, Veedle / Excelsior / Hollywood 10.11.42 / with Red Callender on bass instead of Johnny Miller
Jewel Paige / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / AFRS Jubilee #22 / Hollywood c. 3.43 / with MC Ernest “Bubbles” Whitman, with Henry “Red” Allen and his Orchestra plus Barney Bigard, clarinet 
Blossom Dearie / Blossom Dearie, Soubrette, Sings Broadway Hit Songs / Rhode Island Is Famous for You / Verve / Hollywood 2.60 / with Russell Garcia & his Orchestra
The Canaanites / Lead Me to That Rock / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949 / with Joe Van Loan

last soulful song
Jimmy Hughes / Dilly Dilly / Vee Jay [unissued] / 1964

I’m Not Ashamed of My Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 138

The Mellomen… they’re GREAT!

Coffeetime, January 6, 2023, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dave Bailey / One Foot in the Gutter / Brownie Speaks / Epic / 7.19 & 20.60 
Freddie Redd / The Connection / Jim Dunn’s Dilemma / Blue Note / 2.15.60 
Earle Spencer & his Orchestra / Earle Meets Stan / Black & White / Hollywood 8.16.46 
Count Basie & his Orchestra / I Never Knew / Decca / 5.21.47 
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress / Pickin' My Way / Brunswick / 2.15.32
Irving Aaronson & his Commanders / Thanks / Vocalion / 9.6.33 / vocal = Harmon Nelson 
Bill Johnson & his Musical Notes / Elevator Boogie / Victor / 3.5.47
Carmen McRae / Bittersweet / Ghost of Yesterday / Focus / 5.20.64 / hit tip to Candis 

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

set 2
Tina Brooks / Minor Move / Everything Happens to Me / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.16.58 
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60 
Eddie South & his Alabamians / La Rosita / Victor / 12.2.27
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / My Blue Heaven / Columbia / London 2.28
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / I’m Not Ashamed of My Tears / radio broadcast / live, Club Zanzibar 7.45
Jo Stafford / Autumn in New York / Sometimes I’m Happy / Capitol / Hollywood 4.17.46 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Bobby Troup / [Kicks on 66] / Bright Lights and You Girl / Previously unissued / live, LA 1969

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Travelin’ / Verve / 7.25.63 
Duke Pearson / Sweet Honey Bee / Sudel / Blue Note / 12.7.66 
Allen Eager / Booby Hatch (Pogo Stick) / Savoy / 3.22.46 
Doris Day / Again / Columbia / Hollywood 1948 / with the Mellomen (including Thurl Ravenscroft)
Helen Forrest / If You Love Me, Really Love Me / Bell / 1954
Mel Tormé / That’s All / That’s All / Columbia / 12.64

set 4
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / My Blue Heaven / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Hallelujah / Bethlehem / 1955 / with Burt Goldblatt cover 
King Cole Trio / Come to Baby, Do! / Capitol / WMCA, NYC 11.11.45
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / Fifteen Years (And I’m Still Serving Time) / Columbia [10”] / 1947
The Flamingos / Plan for Love / Chance / Chicago 8.53 
Bobby Blue Bland / I’m Not Ashamed / Duke / 1959
The Silveraires / So High / Gotham / Philadelphia 1949

last soulful song
French Coffey featuring Rozlin / From Nothing to Everything / Nothing from Nothing / Pick-a-Hit Records / Hollywood 1975

Hello, Mister Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 137

Coffeetime, December 23, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Dick Robertson / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39 
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 / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

bed
Dexter Gordon / The Panther! / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 7.7.70 

set 2
Charles Schultz /[A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack] / dialogue snippet / [Buena Vista] / LA 1965 [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 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
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 / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal =Joey Nash 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The 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 / a sort of concept album
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 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé 
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

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 136

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 16, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Pepper Adams / Pepper Adams Quintet / Baubles, Bangles, and Beads / Mode / Hollywood 7.10.57 
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / So Far / Dawn / 6.12.56 
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Jimmy Witherspoon / How I Hate to See Christmas Come Around / Swing Time / LA 1951
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May 
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
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66 
John Graas / Sweet Saxophones [aka My Buddy] / Decca / LA 1.23.57 / Jack Montrose ts, Bill Perkins, ts, Paul Moer p, Paul Chambers b, Philly Joe Jones d
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / That Christmas Feeling; I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duets with Gary and Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus] 
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 / / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“I don’t weigh very much.”) 
Janet Orenstein / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1964 / with the Videocraft Chorus
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Big John Patton / The Way I Feel / Jerry / Blue Note / 6.19.64 
Illinois Jacquet / Jazz by Jacquet / Heads / Clef / 1954 
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49 
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  
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s
Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Pzazz / 1968 / written, arranged, with Teddy Edwards

set 4
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / LA 10.38
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
Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Pzazz / 1968 / written, arranged, with Teddy Edwards
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Patti Hamilton & the Lovelites / My Baby Loves Me / Lovelite / Chicago 1971

Long Skirt Playlist Blues: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 135

WMBR members finally returning to the basement of Walker Memorial.

Coffeetime, December 9, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Max Roach / Max Roach + Four / Ezz-Thetic / EmArcy / 9.19.56 
Tommy Potter / Tommy Potter’s Hard Funk / The Imp / East-West / Stockholm 9.10.56 
Mickey Alpert [aka Ben Selvin] & his Orchestra / Rain on the Roof / Columbia / 2.4.32 / vocal = Paul Small 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Barbara Lea / A Woman in Love / Love Is Here to Stay / Riverside / 3.15.55 

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

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Wrapped Tight / Beautiful Girl / Impulse! / 3.1.65 
Horace Parlan / Us Three / I Want to Be Loved / Blue Note / 4.20.60 
Ernie Royal / Accent on Trumpet / Stardust / Urania / 11.26.55 
Andy Iona & his Orchestra / When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop / Princess Aloha Soundie / Hollywood 1941
T-Bone Walker / Long Skirt Baby Blues / Black & White / LA 11.6.47
Delta Rhythm Boys / Domaredansen / Metronome / Stockholm 9.8.50 / with the Metronome All-Stars
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill 

set 3
Richard “Groove” Holmes & Gene Ammons / Groovin’ With Jug / Morris the Minor / Pacific Jazz / live at the LA club The Black Orchid, afternoon 8.15.61 
Jack Montrose / Blues and Vanilla / Don’t Get Around Much Anymore / RCA Victor / 1956 
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now / Columbia / 3.47 / vocal = Snooky Lanson & the Sportsmen 
The Ink Spots / I Wish You the Best of Everything / Decca / 5.19.38 
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sextet (10”)/ Dot’s Groovy / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.9.54 / Baker t, Bob Brookmeyer tb, Bud Shank bs, Russ Freeman p, Carson Smith b, Shelly Mann d, arranged by Jack Montrose
Bob Brookmeyer / The Street Swingers / Arrowhead / Pacific Jazz / 12.57 
Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir” 
The Charioteers / The General Jumped at Dawn / radio broadcast, Kraft Music Hall #339 / Hollywood 6.29.44 
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood 8.22.46
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
The Chosen Gospel Singers / No Room in the Hotel / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song
The Vel-Vetts / You Really Never Know Till It’s Over / Doré / LA 1966

It’s a Most Unusual Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 134

Let it be gorgeous Vivian Reed with Mr. Butler.

Coffeetime, December 3, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jack Wilson / Easterly Winds / On Children / Blue Note / 9.22.67 
Philly Joe Jones / Philly Joe’s Best / That’s Earl, Brother / Atlantic 5.20.60 
Stan Levey / This Time the Drum’s on Me / Tune Up / Bethlehem / LA 9.27 & 28.55
Ben Bernie & his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra / I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling / Brunswick / 3.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert; a Fats Waller tune 
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Juke Box Lil / Exclusive / LA 1947 / Charles Brown p & voc, Johnny Moore g, Eddie Williams b
Beverly Kelly / Sings with the Pat Moran Trio / I’m Glad There Is You / Audio Fidelity / Chicago 12.57 

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

set 2
Jimmy Smith / A Date with Jimmy Smith, Volume Two / I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You / Blue Note / 2.12.57 
Lee Konitz & Jimmy Giuffre / Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre / Moonlight in Vermont / Verve / 5.12,13.59 
Joe Newman / I Feel Like a Newman / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Storyville / 4.56 
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Stardust / Odeon / Buenos Aires 8.30.44 f
Noël Coward / The Party’s Over / HMV / London c. 9.19.32
Cleo Brown / Slow Poke / Decca / LA 4.4.36 
Mindy Carson / I Want a Television Christmas / RCA Victor / 1950 / with Charles Hale & his Orchestra, side B with bells & celeste! 
Robert Clary / Seventh Heaven (Original Cast Album) / Happy Little Crook / Decca / 1955  

set 3
Jackie McLean / Destination… Out! / Riff Raff / Blue Note / 9.20.63 
Blue Mitchell / Boss Horn / Tones for Joan’s Bones / Blue Note / 11.17.66 
George Wallington / Leonard Feather Presents Bop / Crazeology [Little Benny] / Mode / 8.57 
Sonny Kendis & his Orchestra / My Blue Heaven / Columbia / 4.21.41 / vocal = Jimmy Saunders
The James Quintet / I’m Just a Fool / Derby / early 11.49 
Jackie Paris / Skylark / I’m Through with Love / Brunswick / 1954

set 4
Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca / Zenobia / Pacific Jazz (unissued) / LA 12.11.56 
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Diablo’s Dance / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1.15.53 
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / It’s a Most Unusual Day / Columbia / 12.47 / vocal = Anita Gordon & the Noblemen
King Cole Trio / Bring Another Drink / Capitol / Hollywood 11.28.44
Vivian Reed / Vivian Reed / I’ve Gotta Be Me / Epic / 1968 
The Four Blue Jackets / Rock-A My Soul / Mercury / Chicago 1946 

last soulful song
The Emotions / Untouched / Nothing Seems Impossible / Volt / Muscle Shoals 1971 

Let a Playlist Be Your Umbrella on a Rainy Day: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 133

Why don’t we have TV shows with Lucky Thompson and Kenny Clarke anymore?

Coffeetime, November 18, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Al Cohn / Al Cohn’s Tones / That’s What You Think / Savoy / 6.23.53 
Lucky Thompson / Accent on Tenor Sax / Tune for Tex / Urania / 1954 / arranged by Jimmy Hamilton; Lucky Thompson ts, Jimmy Hamilton cl, Billy Taylor p, Sidney Gross g, Oscar Pettiford b, Osie Johnson d
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / The Count / Decca / 11.7.40  
Paul Specht & his Orchestra / Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella on a Rainy Day / Columbia / 1.4.28 / vocal trio = Johnny Morris, Charlie Spivak t, & Frank Leitner p 
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober / Decca / 7.21.42
Carmen McRae / Carmen McRae Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics / My Man / Columbia / summer 1961 

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

set 2
Hal Singer & Charlie Shavers / Blue Stompin’ / With a Song in My Heart / Prestige / 2.20.59 
Bill Evans / Portrait in Jazz / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 12.28.59 
Billy Butterfield / The Mellow Moods of Jazz / Pastel Blue / RCA Victor / 1956 / Billy Butterfield t, Urbie Green, Lou McGarity tb, Hal McKusick as, Moe Weschler p, Barry Galbraith g, Milt Hilton b, Osie Johnson d
Scott Wood & his Orchestra / Who Walks in When I Walk Out? / Regal Zonophone / London 1.4.34 / vocal = Sam Browne
Mildred Bailey & her Orchestra / I Go for That / Vocalion / 1939 
Doris Day / Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think) / Columbia / LA 1950
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / You Wanna Bet / Columbia / 1967

set 3
Billy Bean, Hal Gaylor, Walter Norris / The Trio / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside / 6.60 / Bean g, Gaylor b, Norris p / thanks to longtime listener David for this suggestion
Oscar Peterson / Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook / Long Ago (And Far Away) / Verve / Chicago summer 1959 
Joe Roland / Joltin’ Joe Roland / I’ve Got the World on a String / Savoy / 5.10.54 
The Be Bop Boys / Moody Speaks / Savoy / 1948 
Chico Marx & his Orchestra / Here You Are / Hit / 6.42 / vocal = Skip Nelson 
The Jones Boys Sing Band / Swing As You Work / MGM short film Streamlined Swing directed by Buster Keaton / Hollywood 1938  
Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones / At Basin Street East / I’m Falling for You; Fool That I Am; Everything I Have Is Yours / EmArcy / live 10.1.61 

set 4
Oscar Pettiford / Burt’s Pad / Vogue / Paris 3.21.54 
Pearl Bailey / Pearl Bailey Entertains / I Need Ya Like a Hole in the Head / Columbia [10”] / 1947
King Cole Trio / It’s Only a Paper Moon / AFRS Jubilee Show #207 / Hollywood 3.45 / with Benny Carter & his Orchestra and MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Kay Starr / Who Hit Me? / Standard Transcription / Hollywood 1947
C.B.S. Trumpeteers / Lord Ease My Weary Mind / Nashboro / Nashville 1966

last soulful song
Jerry & Billy Butler / I Stand Accused / The Soul! Show / live 1970 https://youtu.be/xgetdF_7Ijw


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Playlist Why Pick on Me: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 132

Josephine agrees: Steve Gibson & the 5 Red Caps are toppers.

Coffeetime, November 11, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / Minor Mishap / New Jazz / 4.18.57 
Clark Terry / Clark Terry / The Countess / EmArcy / 1.3-4.55 
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / Falling Leaves / Bluebird / 9.3.40  

Don Redman & his Orchestra / Trouble Why Pick on Me / Brunswick / 9.24.31 / vocal = Louis Deppe 
Lil Hardin Armstrong / Born to Swing / Decca / 4.15.37 
Helen Carr / … Why Do I Love You / My Kind of Trouble Is You / Bethlehem / 11.11.55 / Cappy Lewis t, Howard Roberts g, Red Mitchell b

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

set 2
Yusef Lateef / The Centaur and the Phoenix / Ev’ry Day (I Fall in Love) / Riverside / 10.4, 6.60 
Curtis Amy & Frank Butler / Groovin’ Blue / Beautiful You / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 12.10.60 
Morris Lane / Ghost Town / Robin / 11.51
Aileen Stanley / Who Walks in When I Walk Out? / Brunswick / London 2.12.34
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Where or When? / Columbia / 12.24.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Matt Dennis / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis / When You Love a Fella / Trend / live, Tally-Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 / with Virginia (Ginny) Maxey
The Du Droppers / Can’t Do Sixty No More / Robin / 1952 / with Ben Smith’s Quintet

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Blues-ette / Twelve-Inch / Savoy / 5.21.59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues-ette
Stan Getz / And the Cool Sounds / Serenade in Blue / Verve / Hollywood 8.19.55 
Teddy Wilson / I Got Rhythm / Stars Fell on Alabama / Verve / Chicago 3.5.56 
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / It’s the Talk of the Town / Decca / 1.15.42 / vocal = Kenny Sargent & ensemble 
The 5 Red Caps / I’m Crazy ’Bout You / Beacon / LA 3.44 
The Modernaires with Paula Kelly / Autumn Serenade / Columbia / 8.22.45
Johnny Hartman / And I Thought About You / And I Thought About You / Roost / early 1959

set 4
[Mel Lewis] / [Gettin’ Together] / There Will Never Be Another You / Vee Jay / LA 1.22-23.57 / Jack Montrose ts, Bill Perkins, ts, Paul Moer p, Paul Chambers b, Philly Joe Jones d
Jim Hall / Jazz Guitar / Look for the Silver Lining / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.57 / Hall g, Carl Perkins p, Red Mitchell b
King Cole Trio / I’m a Shy Guy / Capitol / Hollywood 4.13.45
Sammy Davis Jr. / As Long as She Needs Me / Step Out of That Dream / Reprise / LA late 1962 
The Pilgrim Travelers / The Life You Save May Be Your Own (The Safety Song) / Specialty [unissued take 3] / Hollywood 1.13.55

bed for thank yous
Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / You Go to My Head / Prestige / 5.18.60 

last soulful song
James Lately / Love, Friends and Money / Temple / Detroit 1964

Money Burns a Hole in My Playlist… Again: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 131

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

Coffeetime, November 4, 2022, Angelynn Grant – Fundraising Show

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / Terrible T / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60
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
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47 / vocal = Charles Brown
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / I’m Glad There Is You / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
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
Ukulele Ike (Cliff Edwards) / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Columbia / 7.3.28
Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 
Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Dean Martin / Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket / Capitol / Hollywood 12.23.53
Doris Day / Hooray for Hollywood / Pennies from Heaven / Columbia / LA 1958 / with celeste!

set 3
Art Blakey’s Messengers / Bop Alley [alternate take] / Blue Note / 12.22.47
Dizzy Gillespie & his All-Star Quintet / Shaw ’Nuff / 5.11.45 
King Cole Trio / With Plenty of Money and You / Standard transcription / 10.38
Hal Kemp & his Orchestra / With Plenty of Money and You (Oh Baby, What I Couldn’t Do) / Brunswick / 10.26.36 / vocal = Skinnay Ennis
The Toppers / If Money Grew on Trees / Savoy / 1944 / with celeste!
Johnny Mercer and The King Cole Trio / You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 8.20.47
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Jimmy Witherspoon / Evenin’ Blues / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Prestige / LA 8.15.64 

set 4
Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra
Bing Crosby / Pennies from Heaven / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.36 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, with celeste!
Peggy Lee / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 6.11.46 / with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind 
Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up (’Cause You Can’t Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45
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

Message from the Playlist: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 130

Neither spooky nor dusty, just pretty.

Coffeetime, October 28, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Dakar / Witches Pit / Prestige / 4.20.57 
Hank Mobley / Mobley’s 2nd Message / Message from the Border / Prestige / 7.27.56 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Farewell Blues / Swing / Paris 3.7.38 
George Olsen & his Music / The Girl Friend / Victor / 4.22.26 / vocal = trio from members of the orchestra 
Jack McVea / Lonesome Blues / Black & White / LA 1946 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Sarah Vaughan / Trouble Is a Man / Musicraft / 10.10.47 / with Ted Dale Orchestra 

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

set 2
Donald Byrd / Royal Flush / I’m a Fool to Want You / Blue Note / 9.21.61 
Dizzy Gillespie / Sittin’ In / Medley: I'm Thru with Love; Without a Word of Warning; Sweet Lorraine; Love Walked In; September Song / Verve / 6.26.57 
Louise Brooks & Rina Ketty / J’Attendrai / Pathé / 1938
Bing Crosby & Mary Martin / Lily of Laguna / Decca / Hollywood 3.13.42 / with John Scott Trotter Orchestra 
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43 / vocal = Savannah Churchill
Dean Martin / This Time I’m Swingin’ / Heaven Can Wait / Capitol / Hollywood 5.17.60 

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Soul Finger / Buh’s Bossa / Limelight / 5.12.65 
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 
Morris Lane / Ghost Town [partial] / Robin / 11.51

Fats Navarro & Eddie Davis / Stealing Trash / Savoy (Petit Savoy) / Paris 12.18.46 

Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / That Old Black Magic / Victor / 7.15.42 / vocal = Skip Nelson & the Modernaires 
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / LA 5.14.47
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / It’s Always You / World Pacific / LA 7.23.56

set 4
Joe Puma / East Coast Jazz 3 / How About You? / Bethlehem / 11.30.54 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliot vib, Vinnie Burke b, Ted Sommer d 
Lennie Niehaus / The Octet #2 / Blue Room / Contemporary / Hollywood 1.26..55 
Conte Candoli / Cool Gabriels / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Groove [RCA Victor subsidiary] / 6.56 / cover design by Andy Warhol 
King Cole Trio / I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do) [alt take] / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 3.15.46
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / If You Really Love Me, Really Love Me / Atlantic / 1966
Frank Sinatra & The Charioteers / Jesus Is a Rock in the Weary Land / Columbia / Hollywood 5.16.45 

last soulful song
Dusty Springfield / Spooky / Philips / London 1970 

How Big Can You Get, Little Playlist?: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 129

I’m just trying to look like Paul Williams.

Coffeetime, October 21, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1540] / Mobleymania / Blue Note / 11.25.56 
Kenny Clarke / Bohemia After Dark / With Apologies to Oscar / Savoy / 7.14.55 
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Moten Swing / Columbia / 3.2.36 
Ambrose & his Orchestra / Louise / Decca / 7.9.29 / vocal = Eddie Gross-Bart
Seger Ellis / It’s a Lonesome Old Town / Brunswick / 12.22.30 
Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Them There Eyes / Specialty / Hollywood 7.47 / slightly slower version released earlier, 10.46, on Miltone 
Dinah Washington / Accent on Youth / EmArcy / 11.12.55 

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

set 2
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Cookbook, volume 2 / Stardust / Prestige / 12.5.58 
Max Albright / Mood for Max / That’s All / Motif / Hollywood 11.23.56 
Lester Young / Lester Young & The Oscar Peterson Trio / Stardust / Norgran / 11.28.52 
Hoagy Carmichael & his Pals / Stardust / Gennett / 10.31.27 
Six Jumping Jacks / She’s Got “It” / Brunswick / 7.7.27 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / How Big Can You Get, Little Man? / Decca / 2.26.46 / vocal = Annisteen Allen 
Pee Wee Crayton / I Got News for You / Imperial / New Orleans 1.28.55

set 3
Howard Roberts / Goodies / Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) / Capitol / Hollywood 6.65 / Howard Roberts g, Henry Cain org, Charles Berghofer b, Shelly Manne d 
Elmo Hope / Sounds from Rikers Island / Three Silver Quarters / Audio Fidelity / Rikers Island, NY (?) 8.19.63 / Hope p, Ronnie Boykins b, Philly Joe Jones d 
Red Garland / [Red Garland Revisited!] / Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool / Prestige / 5.24.57 

The Four Vagabonds / Choo-Choo / Apollo / 7.47 
Alice Babs / Kiss Me Sweet / Cupol / Södra flickläroverket [Southern Girls’ Education Agency], Stockholm 1.27.50 / with Putte Wickman & his Orchestra
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Some Fine Day / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Art Pepper / Two Altos / Deep Purple / Regent / LA 8.25.54 
Hampton Hawes / Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes, vol. 3 / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 1.25.56 / Cover drawing and design by Robert Guidi/Tri-Arts 
King Cole Trio / Look What You've Done to Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.6.44
Paul Williams / Life Goes On / I Won’t Last a Day Without You / A&M / Hollywood 1972 / Danny Kortchmar g 
Ink Spots / Somebody Bigger than You and I / Decca / 2.15.51 

last soulful song
The Pretenders / Broken Heart / Carnival [unissued] / 1971

Playlist in the Hay: Coffeetime Homebrew ep 128

Jane sings one of my favorite songs in one of my favorite movies.

Coffeetime, October 14, 2022, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Frank Strazzeri / Yvette / Pacific Jazz [unissued] / LA 1.63 / Carmell Jones t, Hadley Callman ts, Frank Strazzeri p, Red Mitchell b, Nick Martinis d
Cannonball Adderley / Plus / Lisa / Riverside / 5.11.61 
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / That Naughty Waltz / Decca / 3.24.37 
Roy Fox & his Orchestra / You Have Taken My Heart / Decca / London 3.9.34 / vocal = Denny Dennis 
Six Jumping Jacks / Piccolo Pete / Brunswick / 7.22.29 / vocal = Tom Stacks 
Camille Howard / My Heart Goes Out to You / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 9.24.51
Jane Russell / How Long Has This Been Going On? / MGM / Hollywood 1958

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

set 2
Thad Jones / Sonny Rollins Plays / Ballad Medley: Flamingo; If You Were Mine; I’m Through with Love; Love Walked In / Period / 12.24.56 / Thad Jones t, Frank Foster ts, Jimmy Jones p, Doug Watkins b, Jo Jones d
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / Autumn Leaves / Atlantic / summer 1960 
Sonny Criss / Go Man! / (It Will Have to Do) Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Imperial / 11.28.56
Joe Venuti & his New Yorkers / Doin’ Things / Okeh / 10.4.28 
Alice Faye / Slumming on Park Avenue / Brunswick / Hollywood 1.27.37 / for the 20th Century Fox movie On the Avenue 
T-Bone Walker / First Love Blues / Capitol / LA 11.12.47
Tab Smith / Baby, Please Don’t Go / United [unissued] / Chicago 1954 / vocal = Ray King; Tab Smith ts, Sam Malone org, Lefty Bates g, Vernon King b, Walter Johnson d 

set 3
Stéphane Grappelli & Bucky Pizzarelli / Duet / Tangerine [alt take] / Disque Black and Blue / Nice, France 7.15.79
Freddie Hubbard / High Blues Pressure / High Blues Pressure / Atlantic / 11.13.67 
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / I Cover the Waterfront / Atlantic / Paris 12.56 
Bob Crosby & his Orchestra / Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street / Decca / 12.6.39 / vocal = Eddie Miller & Nappy Lamar 
The Dixiaires / Joe Louis Is a Fightin’ Man / Sittin’ in With / 12.47 
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Beverly / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Gerald Wiggins / The Loveliness of You / That Old Gang of Mine / Tampa / LA 1958 / Wiggins p, Eugene Wright b, Bill Douglass d
Gus Viseur / Ménilmontant / Barclay / Paris 5.3.55 / Gus Viseur accord; Boulou Ferré g, Roger Paraboschi d
[Turner] Layton & [Clarence] Johnstone / Lying in the Hay / Columbia / London 1933 
King Cole Trio / I Want to Thank Your Folks / NYC 12.18.46
Pat Moran / The Pat Moran Quartet / Two Sleepy People / Bethlehem / Hollywood 5.56 / Moran p & voc, John Doling b & voc, Johnny Whited d & voc, Bev Kelly voc, cover design = Leichman & Seide 
Bobby Rydell / Rydell at the Copa / Homesick That’s All / Cameo / live, Copacabana Club 7.4.61
Dixiaires / The Greatest Spirituals / Jesus Gave Me Water / Time / 1959

last soulful song
Betty Wright / Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do / Alston / 1968