Marry a Playlist Uglier than You

Coffeetime, May 4, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Barry Harris / Luminescence! / Luminescence / Prestige / 4.20.67 

Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Mack the Knife / Vee Jay / 9.9.59 

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Voodte / Signature / 12.8.43 

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / One Morning in May / HMV / London 4.5.34 

Camille Howard / Try Try Again / Pan-American / LA 1946 / with James Clifford’s JazzGi Orchestra 

Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ve Found a New Baby (slow version) / United Artists / 7.58

set 2

Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Lament for Booker / Blue Note / 10.10.62 

Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Lullaby of Birdland / Mercury / 1960

Art Van Damme / [Cocktail Capers] / Dark Eyes / Capitol / 12.20.47 [1950] 

Fred Astaire / soundtrack to A Damsel in Distress / Things Are Looking Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 10.37

Duke of Iron aka Cecil Anderson / Marry a Woman Uglier than You / radio transcription, AFRS Jubilee #9 / Hollywood 1.43 / with introduction by MC Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman 

Phil Harris / [That's What I Like About the South] / St James Infirmary / RCA Victor / 1950 [1958]

set 3

Curtis Fuller / Cabin in the Sky / medley: Love Me Tomorrow (But Leave Me Alone Today); The Prayer / Impulse! / 4.24-25.62 

Frankie Randall / More of Frankie Randall / Lullaby of Birdland / Roulette / 1965

Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / Bolo Blues / Prestige / 4.18.61 

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Blue Interlude / Bluebird / 8.8.38 / vocal = Martha Tilton

The Ravens / I’m Afraid of You / National / 12.22.47 

Jackie Paris / That Paris Mood [Skylark] / Detour Ahead / Coral [Brunswick] / 1954 

set 4

Salvatore "Tutti" Camarata / Tutti's Trumpets / Boy Meets Horn / Disneyland / LA 4.27.57

Jon Eardley / Jon Eardley 7 / Eard’s Word / Prestige / 1.13.56 / with wacky cover design by Gil Melle 

Kay Starr / Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton / Let Your Tears Fall Baby / Peacock / Houston 1951 / with Bill Harvey’s Orchestra 

Morgana King / Let Me Love You / I’ve Found a New Baby (fast version) / United Artists / 7.58

The Chosen Gospel Singers / I’m Going Back with Him / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song

The Manhattans / Til You Come Back to Me / Carnival / 1969

ESP (Extrasensory Playlist)

Coffeetime, April 27, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Booker Little [Max Roach] / Jazz Series, Vol. 8 [Award-Winning Drummer] / Variations on the Scene / Time / 11.4.58 

Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contemporary [Jazz Series, Vol. 8] / A Waltz / Time / 2.11.60 

Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & hisOrchestra / Swingin’ on Lenox Avenue / Bluebird / 5.14.39

Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Let’s Get Friendly / Columbia / London 5.5.31 / vocal = Sid Buckman

The Four Clefs / V-Day Stomp / Bluebird / Chicago 2.28.45 / lead vocal = Johnny Green

Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / It Never Entered My Mind / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2

Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Blue Note / 12.16.61 

Matty Matlock & his Jazz Band / Music from Jack Webb’s Pete Kelly’s Blues / Sugar / Columbia / 1955 

Art Tatum / Where or When / V-Disc [unissued] / Hollywood late 1.46

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Do You or Don’t You Love Me / Bluebird / 5.23.36 / vocal = Teddy Lewis

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Run Joe / Decca / Hollywood 1948

Chuck Willis / Baby’s on My Mind / Okeh [unissued] / 6.27.51

set 3

Machito / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Kenya: Afro-Cuban Jazz] / Congo Mulence / Roulette / 12.17, 19, 24.57 

Duke Pearson / Wahoo! / ESP (Extrasensory Perception) / Blue Note / 11.24.64 

Terry Gibbs / T & S / Prestige / 3.14.49 

Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #332 / Hollywood 3.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra and introduced by Dick Haymes

Cap-Tans / I’m So Crazy for Love / Dot / 1950 

Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / This Funny World / RCA / 1955

set 4

André Previn / Soundtrack for Two for the Seesaw / Everybody’s Got a Radio / United Artist / Hollywood 1962

Ben Shank / Soundtrack for Slippery When Wet / Soupsville / World Pacific / Hollywood 4.18.59

Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of “Things to Come” / Skylark / Liberty / LA 9.55

Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers / My Sugar Is So Refined / Capitol / Hollywood 5.26.46

Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman / English Diplomacy / National / 1965 

The Hightower Brothers / Lord I’m Running / Nashboro [unissued] / Nashville early 1960s

last soulful song

Al Green / The Belle Album / Loving You / Hi Records / Memphis 1977

Rocks in My Playlist

Coffeetime, April 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Johnny Griffin / The Little Giant / Olive Refractions / Riverside / 8.4 & 5.59 

Serge Chaloff / Blue Serge / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / LA 3.14.56 

Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / Hello Babe / Signature / 12.21.43 

Ruth Etting / You’ve Got Me Crying Again / Banner / 3.29.33

The Basin Street Boys / Jumping at the Jubilee / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio  

Clifford Brown / Jam Session / Darn that Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54 / vocal = Dinah Washington 

set 2

Clifford Brown / Best Coast Jazz / You Go to My Head / EmArcy / LA 8.11.54 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Malinda’s Wedding Day / Bluebird / 7.31.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson

The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Running Wild / Varsity / 12.47

Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / My Ohio Home / Columbia / 1954 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra 

set 3

James Clay / A Double Dose of Soul / Linda Serene / Riverside / LA 10.11.60 

Cy Coleman / Pianorama / I Got Lost in His Arms / Capitol / 1961

Lennie Tristano / Wow / Capitol / 3.4.49 

Charlie Parker / The Genius of Charlie Parker #7: Jazz Perennial / Celebrity / Verve / 10.50 

Tadd Dameron & his Orchestra / Heaven’s Doors Are Open Wide / Capitol / 4.21.49 / vocal = Kay Penton 

The Robins / I’m Through / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 

Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Rocks in My Bed / Atlantic / 1957

set 4

Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol 5 / Elbow Room / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 11, 12.56 

Pete Brown / Jazz Kaleidoscope / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Bethlehem / 11.16.54 

Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Bluebird / 4.8.39 / vocal = Jimmy Mitchelle

Peggy Lee / The Old Master Painter / 11.16.49 / with Mel Tormé & the Mellomen

Freda Payne / After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!! / Out of this World / Impulse / 9.18.63 

Jubalaires / I Declare the World Is in a Bad Condition / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Gene Chandler / The Gene Chandler Situation / Simply Call It Love / Mercury / 1970

There's a Playlist at the Door

Coffeetime, April 6, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

John Coltrane / Settin’ the Pace / Rise and Shine / Prestige / 3.26.58 

Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / Big Ben / Mode / 7.57 

Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / Sixty Seconds Got Together / Columbia / London 6.10.38 / vocal = George Melachrino

Harry “Sweets” Edison & his Orchestra / Ain’t Cha Gonna Do It? / radio transcription? / LA 10.45

Larry Darnell  / Don’t Go, Don’t Go / Regal / 1950 / with Paul Gayten’s Band 

Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Left Alone / Riverside / 1.10.61 

set 2

The Prestige All Stars / Roots / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child / Prestige / 10.25.57 

Henry Mancini / Combo! / Dream of You / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60

Charlie Mariano / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Bethlehem / 7.11.55 

Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards / The Night Is Young and You’re So Beautiful / Decca / LA 12.17.36 / with Andy Iona & his Islanders

Four Blackamoors / Break It Up Charlie / Decca / 12.12.40

Elmer Christian & his Bar X Cowboys / A Rainy Sunday Night / Globe / Houston early 1946

Jimmy Higgins & his Drops of Joy / Saturday Night Boogie Woogie Man / Specialty / Hollywood 5.4.50

set 3

Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You / Blue Note / 1.8.63 

Hal McKusick / Bird Feathers / Con Alma / Prestige / 12.27.57 

Flip Phillips Hiptet / Swingin’ for Popsie / Signature / 6.45

The Mills Brothers / Sixty Seconds Got Together / Decca / 7.19.38

Sarah Vaughn / Penthouse Serenade / Musicraft / LA 1948 / with Teddy Wilson Octet

Nat King Cole / Top Pops / Funny! (Not Much) / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo

set 4

Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Hey Sam / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Brew’s Blues / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55 

Taft Jordan & The Mob / Louisiana Fairy Tale / Melotone / 2.22.35 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / How Could I Know? / RCA Victor / LA early 1949 / vocal = Lee Barnes

Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / There’s a Man at the Door / Columbia / 12.23.47

Harmonizing Four / Come Over Here / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s

last soulful song

Lee Williams & the Cymbals / It’s Everything About You (That I Love) / Carnival / 1968 

Vol Vistu Gaily Playlist

Coffeetime, March 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab, Hal Stein  / Four Altos / Kinda Kanonic / Prestige / 2.9.57 

Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / Minor Mishap / New Jazz / 4.18.57 

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / After You’ve Gone / radio transcription / mid-1940s

Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans / The Moon Got in My Eyes / Columbia / London 4.11.37 / vocal = Anne Lenner 

Wynonie "Mister Blues" Harris & his All-Stars / Ghost of a Chance / Aladdin / 7.47 / with the Harlemairs

Paula Castle / Lost Love / Yesterday’s Gardenias / Bethlehem / 1955 

set 2

Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Everything Happens to Me / Mode / Hollywood 9.57

Blue Mitchell / Blue Soul / Park Avenue Petite / Riverside / 9.28.59 

Willie Smith & his Orchestra / Willie Weep for Me / Keynote [EmArcy] / LA 5.2.45 

Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / Words of Love / radio broadcast transcription / live, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago 12.5.45

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Night Wind / Victor / 1.5.35 

Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake Seven / Vol Vistu Gaily Star / Victor / 8.28.39

Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook / Manhattan / Verve / LA 2.8.56

set 3

Duke Pearson / Dedication! / Minor Mishap / Prestige / 8.2.61

Howard McGhee / Shades of Blue / Jazz Man [Black Lion] / 12.8.61

Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Mo Mo / Musicraft / 6.14.46

Jo Stafford & her V-Disc Play Boys / Bakery Blues / V-Disc 487A / 4.19.45

Rhythm Kings / Why My Darling Why / Apollo / 1951

Les McCann / Sings / On the Street Where You Live / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.61 / with orchestra arranged & directed by Gerald Wilson

set 4

Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / ’Enry ’Iggins ’Ead / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56

Johnny Costa / Plays Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood / Did You Know? / Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Records / 1985

Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / All the Jive Is Gone / Decca / 3.3.36 / vocal = Pha Terrell  

Pat Suzuki / Broadway '59 / Daddy / RCA / between 12.58 and 1.59

Solomon Burke / I’m Hanging Up My Heart for You / Atlantic / 1962

Davis Sisters / If Jesus Is Near / Gotham [unissued] / 5.49

last soulful song

Gerry & the Pacemakers / I Like It / Capitol / 1963 

It's My Playlist, Baby

Coffeetime, March 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / Nieta / Contemporary / LA 1.14.58 

Jackie McLean / 4, 5, and 6 / Confirmation / Prestige / 7.20.56 

Harry Roy & his Orchestra / Build a Little Home / Parlophone / Mayfair Hotel, London 3.12.34 

Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / Miss Jiveola Brown / Apollo [unissued] / 11.2.45

Barbara Lea / Modern Jazz Sampler [A Woman in Love] / I Didn’t Know About You / Riverside / 3.16.55 

set 2

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / If You Are There / Contemporary / LA 3.12.57 

Sonny Criss / Jazz USA / West Coast Blues / Imperial / LA 2.24.56 

The Hollywood Hucksters / I Apologize / Capitol / LA 5.29.47 

Dick McDonough & his Orchestra / Way Down Yonder in New Orleans / Melotone / 6.23.36 / vocal = Barry McKinley

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / That’s Not Cricket / Victor / 10.14.35 / vocal & taps = Eleanor Powell

Big Maybelle [Mabel Louise Smith] / How It Lies / Savoy / 3.16.59

Sammy Davis Jr / [Sings Forget-Me-Nots for First Nighters] / New York’s My Home / Decca / 10.2.56 [1963]

set 3

Thelonious Monk / Modern Jazz Sampler [The Unique] / Liza / Riverside / 3.17.56 

Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Cleo’s Chant / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56 

Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / How High the Moon / Savoy / 5.17.46 

Betty Hutton / Doin’t the Hard Way / Capitol / Hollywood 1945 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

The Four Aces / There’s a Rumor Going Around / Trilon / Oakland 1946 

Mel Tormé /Mel Torme With The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / Sing for Your Supper / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.20.56 

set 4

Milt Hinton / The Rhythm Section / Out of Braith / Epic / 1956

Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / All the Things You Are / Contemporary / LA 11.26.56 

Pauline & her Perils aka Six Hits and a Miss / I Can’t Get Started / Standard transcription / Hollywood 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio

Slim Gaillard / I’m Confessin’ / Atomic / LA 1946

Bobby “Blue” Bland / It’s My Life, Baby / Duke / Memphis 1955

Golden Gate Quartet / Our Father / Victor / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song

Eddie Holman / I Love You / Since I Don’t Have You / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

Page Mr. Playlist

Coffeetime, March 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Bill English / Bill English / Sel’s Tune / Vanguard / 1963

JR Monterose / JR Monterose / Marc V / Blue Note / 10.21.56 

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Harlem Air Shaft / Victor / 7.22.40 

Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Manhattan / Edison Diamond Disc / 7.15.25  

Seven Little Polar Bears aka Jimmy Johnston’s Rebels aka Harry Reser & his Orchestra / I Love Her! / Cameo / 6.5.26 / vocal = Tom Stacks (drummer)

Dinah Washington / I Know How to Do It / Keynote / 12.29.43 

Lucy Reed / This is Lucy Reed / There He Goes / Fantasy / 1.57 

set 2

Stanley Turrentine / Comin’ Your Way / Someone to Watch over Me / Blue Note [unreleased] / 1.20.61 

Tommy Flanagan / Moodsville 9 / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 5.18.60 

Pete Johnson’s Housewarmin’ / Page Mr. Trumpet [alt take] / National [unisssued] / 1.31.46 

B.A. Rolfe & his Lucky Strike Orchestra / I Can’t Give You Anything but Love / Edison / 10.16.28 

Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Know How to Do It / Queen / 12.20.45 

Pee Wee Crayton / I Got News for You / Imperial / New Orleans 6.54 

set 3

Booker Ervin / The Song Book / Our Love is Here to Stay / Prestige / 2.27.64 

Dexter Gordon / Dexter Rides Again / Settin’ the Pace / Savoy / 12.11.47 

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Afraid to Dream / Victor / LA 7.7.37 / vocal = Betty Van

Deep River Boys / I Left Myself Wide Open / Victor / 1947

Don Elliott / Don Elliott Sings / Speak Low / Bethlehem / 11.22.55 

set 4

Sam Most / Doubles in Jazz / Skippy / Jazztone [Vanguard] / 12.3.54

Bob Enevoldsen / The Bob Enevoldsen Quintet / Don’t Be That Way / Tampa / LA 8.8.55 

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra

The Trenier Twins / No Baby No! / Mercury / 9.47 

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Herb Alpert Presents / O Pato / A&M / LA 1966

Coleman Brothers / We’ll Understand / Manor / 1945 

last soulful song

The Intruders / (Who’s Your) Favorite Candidate / Gamble / 1969

Playlist-Dee-Dah

Coffeetime, March 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Curtain Call / Blue Note [unissued] / 8.18.57 

Ken McIntyre / Looking Ahead / Geo's Tune / New Jazz / 6.28.60 

Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Sir Walter's Serenade / radio transcription / LA early 1940s

Annette Hanshaw / Yes Indeedy (He Do) / Clarion / 10.21.30 

Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / The Blues / Exclusive / LA 1946

Toni Harper / Toni / Like Someone in Love / Verve / LA 12.29.55 

set 2

Blue Mitchell / Out of the Blue / Missing You / Riverside / 1.5.59 

Benny Golson / Turning Point / Dear Kathy / Mercury / 11.1.62 

Nat Adderley / To the Ivy League from Nat Adderley / The Fat Man / Mercury / 2.23.56
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Got a Feelin’ for You / Okeh / 3.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew, from the MGM movie "Hollywood Revue of 1929"  

Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Show Me Missouri Blues / Mercury / Kansas City 8.16.46 

Conrad Johnson / Fisherman’s Blues / Gold Star / Houston c. 9.47 

Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee / Hey There / Capitol / Hollywood 8.13.59 

set 3

Ronnie Mathews / Doin' the Thang! / The Orient / Prestige / 12.17.63 

Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Walking Shoes / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57 

Morris Lane / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Coral / 5.15.52

The Three Keys / Wah-Dee-Dah / Brunswick / 9.21.32 

Les Brown & his Orchestra / Pretty Baby / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk

Yves Montand / [Á Paris, volume 3] / Le Vieux Canal / Odéon [King] / Paris 11.05.53

set 4

Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Vampire Till Ready / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55 

Gerry Mulligan / Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster / The Cat Walk / Verve / LA 12.2.59 

Fred Astaire / Bojangles of Harlem / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.36 / from the RKO movie “Swing Time” with Johnny Green & his Orchestra 

Flo Garvin / Let Me Keep You Warm / King / 1.11.52 / with Jimmy Coe & his Orchestra 

Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks /  Green Eyes / Signature / 1961

The Chosen Gospel Singers / Stay with Me Jesus / Specialty / Hollywood 2.23.55

last soulful song

Esther Phillips / From a Whisper to a Scream / That’s All Right with Me / Kudu / 1972

1, 2, Button Your Playlist

Coffeetime, February 24, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / Take Twelve / Jazzland / 1.24.62 

Wynton Kelly / Someday My Prince Will Come / Char's Blues / Vee Jay / 7.21.61 

Sonny Stitt / Kaleidoscope / Cherokee / Prestige / 12.15.50 

Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Hummin' to Myself / Bluebird / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood

Billy Wright / This Love of Mine / Savoy [unissued] / Atlanta 5.1.51 

Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Just Friends / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60 

set 2

Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quintet / Fools Rush In / Fantasy / UC Berkeley 8.55 

Joe Newman / With Woodwinds / You're My Thrill / Roulette / 1958

Timmie Rosenkrantz and his 'Barons' / Blue at Dawn / Continental / 8.22.45 

Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Great Caesar's Ghost / Vocalion / 3.22.37

Andy Kirk & his Twelve Clouds of Joy / Medley: Boo Hoo; 1, 2 Button Your Shoe; Trouble Don't Like Music; One in a Million / radio transcription / live, Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland 1.29 to 2.6.37

Billy Cotton & his Band / The Tattooed Lady / Regal Zonophone / London 11.27.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze & chorus

The Four Tunes / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love / Manor / late 1946 

La Sonora Matancera / Una Noche En Caracas / La Merenguita / Seeco / 1951 / vocal = Celia Cruz

set 3

Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Gensel's Message / Atlantic / 4.23.62 

Roy Eldridge & Richie Kamuca / Comin' Home Baby / Sweet Sue / Pumpkin / 8.22.65

Norman Granz Jazz Concert / Rocker (I'll Remember April) / Norgran / Carnegie Hall, 9.16.50 2

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

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Green Eyes / Okeh / 5.8.41 / vocal = Anita O'Day & Howard Dulany

Frank Sinatra / Melody of Love / Capitol / Hollywood 12.13.54 / with Ray Anthony & Orchestra 

set 4

Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Sunset Eyes / GNP / LA 7.57

Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / Sometimes I'm Happy / Savoy / 1.23.56 

Mildred Bailey / A Bee Gezindt (As Long As You're Healthy) / Columbia / 1.25.40

Joe Tex / Cut It Out / Ace / 1958

Danny Kaye / That Great Come and Get It Day / Rambler auto promo LP / Hollywood 12.63

The Hightower Brothers / Saved By the Blood of Jesus / Nashboro / Nashville 1962

last soulful song

The Wallace Brothers / Soul, Soul And More Soul / Who's Fooling Who / Sims / Muscle Shoals 1965

Playlist in Q

Coffeetime, February 17, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / Valse Hot / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.20.57 

André Persiany / Persiany in New York / Tyree and Lawrence / French Columbia / summer 1956

Jack Hulbert / What a Little Moonlight Can Do / HMV (from the movie Roadhouse) / London 9.13.34 / with Eddie (aka Brian Lawrence) & Rex 

Ida James / I Won’t Say I Will / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / with Count Basie & his Orchestra 

Julie London / London By Night / Nobody's Heart / Liberty / Hollywood  / 12.55

set 2

Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / At Dawning / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60 

Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet Will Excite / There Is No Greater Love / Verve / 2.17.59 

Teddy Charles / Tentet / You Go to My Head / Atlantic / 1.11.56

The Ramblers / Business in Q / Decca / London 11.8.32

Ethel Merman / Why Do They Call a Private a Private / V-Disc / Hollywood 1944 / with Freddie Rich’s Orchestra

Vocaleers / Oh! Where / Red Robin / 12.14.52 

Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / I Could Be Happy with You / MGM / 1962

set 3

Hank Mobley / Thinking of Home / Gayle’s Groove / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.31.70 

Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / In the Land of Hi-Fi / I Don’t Care / EmArcy / 6.18.56 

Flip Phillips / Bob’s Belief / Signature / c. 9.44

Ella Mae Morse & Johnny Mercer / Blues in the Night / radio broadcast, Command Performance #82 / Hollywood 9.9.43

The Ravens / I’m So Crazy for Love / Okeh / 11.7.50

Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Can’t We Be Friends / Verve / 3.19.57 

set 4

André Previn / 4 to Go! / Like Someone in Love / Columbia / LA 1963

Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / 12th Street Rag / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55 

Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Let’s Have a Jubilee / Vocalion / 10.19.34 

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Minor Swing / RCA / Rome winter 1949 

Mavis Rivers / Swing Along with Mavis / This Could Be It / Reprise / Hollywood 1961

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

last soulful song

Tony Joe White / …Continued / Woman with Soul / Monument / 1969

That Tired Routine Called Playlist

Coffeetime, February 10, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Sweet Sakeena / Bethlehem / 10.11.57 

Frank Wess / Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me / Yo-Ho / Prestige / 1.24.63 

Paul Whiteman & his Concert Orchestra / Slaughter on Tenth Avenue / Victor / 6.26.36 

The Revelers / Among My Souvenirs / Victor / 11.23.27

Joe Liggins & his Honey Drippers / Daddy on My Mind / Specialty / LA  late 1950 / vocal duet with Candy Rivers 

Kitty White / A New Voice in Jazz / Among My Souvenirs / EmArcy /
LA 4.21.55 

set 2

Shelly Manne & his Men / The Proper Time / The Proper Time / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60 

John Coltrane / Stardust / Time After Time / Prestige / 12.26.58 

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Echoes of Harlem / transcription / live at the Cotton Club 1938

Frank Sinatra & Jack Carson / Don’t Bring Lulu aka Don’t Bring Crosby / radio broadcast AFRS #22 Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 02.13.46

BB King / You Upset Me Baby / Kent / 1960

Tina Louise / It’s Time for Tina / Let’s Do It / Concert Hall / 1957

set 3

Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Casey’s Blues / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60 

Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / It's Alright with Me / Riverside / live Café Bohemia, 10.14.56 

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Gate Walks to Board / Peacock / Houston c. 5.53

Blue Barron & his Orch / Love of My Life / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Russ Carlyle

Savannah Churchill & the Striders / Walking by the River / RCA Victor / 10.52 

Frank D'Rone / In Person / Laura / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4

Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / Easy to Love / Riverside / 3.7.57 

Mills Blue Rhythm Band / I’m Sorry I Made You Blue / Brunswick / 7.30.31 

King Cole Trio / I’m Thru with Love / Capitol / LA 4.19.45

Matt Dennis  / Matt Dennis Plays & Sings Matt Dennis: Live in Hollywood / That Tired Routine Called Love / Kapp / live Tally Ho Club, Hollywood 1953 

Floyd Dixon / Tight Skirts / Swingin’ / Dallas 1960

Alden Bunn aka Tarheel Slim / Get on the Road to Glory / Gotham / Raleigh c. 7.49

last soulful song

Belita Woods / My Magic Corner / Moira / Detroit 1969

Stowaway Playlist

Coffeetime, February 3, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Lem Winchester & Benny Golson / Winchester Special / Will You Still Be Mine / New Jazz / 9.25.59 

Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / S'Posin' / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60 

Sandy Williams' Big Eight / Tea for Me / HRS / 6.2.46 

Whispering Jack Smith / The Song Is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 1.10.28

Mabel Scott / Subway Blues / King / 7.15.50

Ella Fitzgerald / Twelve Nights in Hollywood / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.20.61

set 2

Curtis Fuller & Art Farmer / Curtis Fuller - Art Farmer / It's Too Late Now / United Artists [Mosaic] / 12.1.57

Ike Quebec / Blue Friday / Blue Note [Mosaic] / 7.1.59 

George E. Lee & his Novelty Singing Orchestra / The Meritt Stomp / Meritt / Kansas City 1927 

Sophie Tucker / Follow a Star / Broadcast Twelve / London 10.30 / with Ted Shapiro & the Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra 

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / 1 Don't Care Who Knows It / radio transcription / mid- 1940s / vocal = Skip Nelson

Mel-O·Dots / One More Time / Apollo / 3.17.52

set 3

Yusef Lateef / Lost in Sound / Blue Rocky / Charlie Parker Records / 8.14.61

Horace Silver / The Tokyo Blues / Too Much Sake / Blue Note / 7.14.62 

Harry Owens & his Orchestra / Stowaways in Paradise / radio transcription / Hollywood 1938 / vocal = Kenny Allen

International Sweethearts of Rhythm / That Man of Mine / transcription from Soundie / Hollywood 10.14.46 / vocal = Anna Mae Winburn

The Four Buddies / It Could Have Been Me / Savoy / 1.13.51 

set 4

Ron Crotti Trio / Modern Music from San Francisco / The Masquerade Is Over / Fantasy / 1955 

Don Fagerquist Nonette / The Les Brown All Stars / Love Is Just Around the Corner / Capital / Hollywood 6.21 .55

Camille Howard / Old Baldy Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 5.7.52 

Eddie Vinson & his Orchestra / Wandering Mind Blues & Lazy Gal Blues / Mercury / 6.26.47 & 4.16.47

Hoagy Carmichael / Billy-a-Dick & Look Out Below / home recording / 1951
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / No Hiding Place / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song

Al Wilson / La La Peace Song / Passport / Rocky Road Records / 1974

Playlist in Paradise

Coffeetime, January 20, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Freddie Hubbard / Ready for Freddie / Arietis / Blue Note / 8.21.61 

Dizzy Gillespie / The Greatest Trumpet of Them All / Smoke Signals / Verve / 12.17.57 

Randy Brooks & his Orchestra / Man with a Horn / The Man with the Horn / Decca / 7.14.47

Annette Hanshaw / When I am Housekeeping for You / Parlophone / 12.13.29 

Bob Howard & his Orchestra / If the Moon Turns Green / Decca / 7.10.35

Johnny Otis Band / I'm Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / vocal = The Robins
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / That Ole Devil Called Love / United Artists / 7.58

set 2

Tina Brooks / [Back to the Tracks (unissued)] / For Heaven's Sake / Mosaic [Blue Note] / 10.20.60 

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Trane Whistle [Stolen Moments] / You Are Too Beautiful / Prestige / 9.20.60 

Johnny Otis / Harlem Nocturne / Excelsior / 9.13.45 

Oscar Alemán / Russian Lullaby / HMV / Paris 4.5.39 / vocal = Wilson Myers 

Ciro Rimac's Rumba-Orchester / Passarinho / Telefunken / Berlin 11.18.37

Red Mack & his Orchestra / If You Love Me Baby / Atlas / LA early 1946

Astrud Gilberto / The Astrud Gilberto Album / So Finha de Ser Com Voce / Verve / 1.27, 28.65 

set 3

Harold Mabern / Workin' & Wailin' / I Can't Understand What I See in You / Prestige / 6.30.69 

"King Porter" & his Orchestra / Shuffling Boogie / JVB/King / Detroit 1948

Erskine Butterfield / Lighthouse / radio transcription / 8.17.44

Mills Brothers / You Rascal, You / Decca / 11.31

King Cole Trio / My Heart Tells Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.12.44 / vocal = Ida James

Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / When Your Lover Has Gone / Bethlehem / 10.55 

set 4

Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Stranger in Paradise / Contemporary / LA 10.15.56 

Milt Bernhart & his Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / 3.6.55

Cleo Brown / You've Got Me Under Your Thumb / radio transcription / c. late 1935, early 1936

Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Specialty / Hollywood 3.8.47

Nancy Wilson / How Glad I Am / It's Time to Go / Capitol / LA 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song

Tyrone Davis / Without You in My Life / Dakar / 1973

She Don't Have to See You to Playlist

Lost & Found, Monday, January 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

artist / song title / label / year

all songs on 45s, except when an LP title is listed first

opening song

Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1

Fats & the Chessman / Come On Everybody Let’s Do the Twist / Twistin’ USA / Somerset / 1960

Ronnie & the Hi-Lites / Twistin’ and Kissin’ / Joy / 1962

Dion & the Belmonts / Everything You Always Wanted to Hear By Dion and the Belmonts But Couldn’t Get! / Born to Cry / Laurie / 1962

Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans / Annette / Philles Records / 1963

Ray Agee / Your Precious Love / Celestin / 1963

Shirley Ellis / The Puzzle Song / Congress / 1965

France Gall / Deux Oiseaux / Philips / 1965

Bob Kuban & the In-Men / Try Me Baby / Musicland USA / 1965 / vocal = Walter Scott

bed 1

Al Caiola / Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes / Underwater Chase / United Artists / 1965

set 2

Timmy Shaw / I’m a Lonely Guy / Wand / 1963

Jimmy Soul / Don’t Release Me / SPQR / 1963

Gerry & the Pacemakers / I’m the One / Chills / Capitol / 1964

BJ Thomas & the Triumphs / Candy Baby / Scepter / 1966

The Manhattans / I’m the One that Love Forgot / Carnival / 1965

Chris Bartley / Love Me Baby / Vando / 1967

bed 2

The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 3

Freddie & the Dreamers / What Have I Done to You / Tower / 1963

The Beau Brummels / Still in Love with You Baby / Autumn / 1964

The Cowsills / The Cowsills / Troubled Roses / MGM / 1967

The Dave Clark Five / Try Too Hard / Ever Since You’ve Been Away / Epic / 1966

The Box Tops / I See Only Sunshine / Mala / 1968

bed 3

David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1966

set 4

The Dells / There Is / Chess / 1967

The Sandpipers / Forget It / Calla / 1967

Brothers of Soul / Hurry, Don’t Linger / Boo / 1968

The Banana Splits / We’re the Banana Splits / Doin’ the Banana Split / Decca / 1968

Jan Bradley / You Gave Me What’s Missing / Chess / 1968

bed 4

Georgie Fame / Beware of the Dog / Epic / 1967

set 5

The Enchanters / I’ve Lost All Communications / Loma / 1966

Bobbie Gentry / Ode to Billie Joe / Sunday Best / Capitol / 1968

5º Farenheit / Daddy’s Home / Abet / 1970

Colin Blunstone / One Year / Say You Don’t Mind / Epic / 1971

Freddie North / Abet Review Volume I / Rainy Night in Georgia / Abet / 1973

Tom Jones / The Body and Soul of Tom Jones / Ain’t No Sunshine / 1973

bed 5

Little Milton / Friend of Mine / Glades / 1973

set 6

The Superbs / Baby’s Gone Away / Doré / 1965

Earl Gains / I Have Loved and I Have Lied / HBR / 1966

Mamie P. Galore / This Time Tomorrow / Imperial / 1968

bed 6

LJ Reynolds & Chocolate Syrup / Stay with Me / Law-Ton Records / 1971

set 7

Soul Generation / Young Bird / Ebony Sounds Records / 1972

The Love Generation / A Generation of Love / The Bummer (Guide Me Home) / Imperial / 1967

Betty Wright / It’s Bad for Me to See You / Alston / 1974

Tommie Young / She Don’t Have to See You (To See Through You) / Soul Power / 1972

last soulful song

Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / 1971

The Bronze Playlist

Coffeetime, January 13, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Kenny Burrell - Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / This Way / Prestige / 3.5.57 

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Love for Sale / Capitol / San Francisco 10.25.43

Ronnie Munro & his Orchestra / Me and My Girl / HMV / London 1.1.38 / vocal = Jack Cooper

Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / She Lost her Re-Bop / Queen / Cinncinnati c. 4.46

Chris Connor / Mixed Emotions / Atlantic / 10.16.56 

set 2

Les Spann / Gemini / There Is No Greater Love / Jazzland / 12.16.60 

Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Hello Young Lovers / Roost / 3.18.57 

Billy Mitchell Quintet / [Swing Not Spring] / Alone Together / Dee Gee [Savoy] / Detroit 1948 

The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Roodles / Victor / Chicago 12.25.27 

Emmett Matthews & his Orchestra / I'll Stand By / Vocalion / 4.10.36

Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / I Can't See for Lookin' / Decca /  5.26.44 / vocal = Judy Carol

Gene Kelly & ensemble / Les Girls / soundtrack MGM movie Les Girls / Hollywood 1957

set 3

Al Caiola / Sounds for Spies and Private Eyes / The Bronze Doll / United Artists / 1965

Joe Gordon / Introducing Joe Gordon / Toll Bridge (Rifftide) / EmArcy / 9.8.54 

Miles Davis - Tadd Dameron Quintet / Rifftide / Columbia / live, Festival de Jazz, Salle Pleyel, Paris 5.9.49 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Sometimes I'm Happy / radio transcription / Hollywood spring 1948 / vocal = Peggy Thomas

Four Vagabonds / Taking My Chances with You / Mercury 2.46  

Buddy Greco / Songs for Swingin’ Losers / Blame It on My Youth / Epic / 1960

set 4

Curtis Counce / Carl's Blues / I Can't Get Started / Contemporary / LA 1.6.58 

Howard Lucraft / Showcase for Modern Jazz / Blue Moon / Decca / Hollywood summer 1957 

Alice Faye / According to the Moonlight (soundtrack 20th Century Fox movie George White's 1935 Scandals) / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.26.35 

Sammy Davis Jr / What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Showstoppers / Thou Swell / Reprise / LA 2.7.61 

The Jubilee Hummingbirds / Our Freedom Song / Chalice / Memphis 1965

last soulful song

Ruby & the Romantics / Much Better Off than I’ve Ever Been / Kapp  / 1964

Playlist & Peachy

Coffeetime, December 30, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56 

Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Venetian Breeze / Riverside / 12.23.57 

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Ballad in Blue / RCA Victor / 6.25.35

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Midnight, the Stars and You / HMV / London 2.16.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly

The Quintones / Midnight Jamboree / Vocalion / 1940

Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why Try to Change Me Now / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2

Jimmy Heath / The Quota / When Sunny Gets Blue / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61 

Joe Wilder / Wilder 'n' Wilder / Darn That Dream / Savoy / 1.19.56 

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Warsaw Concerto, parts 1 & 2 / Modern / Hollywood 1946

Cleo Brown / Did You Mean It? / radio transcription / c. 1935

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

Mouseketeer Ensemble / Happy Birthday and Songs for Every Holiday / Happy New Year / Disneyland / LA 1964

set 3

Grant Green / Blues for Lou / Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying / Blue Note / 2.20.63 

Wardell Gray / Donna Lee / Xanadu: personal recording: Bob Andrews Archive / live, The Haig, Hollywood 9.9.52

Delta Rhythm Boys / Conversation at Midnight / radio transcription / 1941

Sarah Vaughn / You’re Not the Kind / Musicraft / 5.7.46 / with Tadd Dameron Orchestra 

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

set 4

Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Sweet Sue / Contemporary / LA 3.30-31.59 

Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / Brief Encounter / EmArcy / Stockholm 2.14.58 

Woody Herman & his Orchestra / Keen and Peachy / Columbia / Hollywood 12.24.47

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

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

Mickey Rooney / Merry Merry Micklemas / Mickey’s New Year / Mickey [Timic] / Hollywood 1979

Christland Singers / Where Could I Go (But to the Lord) / Nashboro / Nashville 1955

last soulful song

Julius Thomas / I Gotta Change My Ways (If I’m to Keep Her), part 1 / Wild / Boston 1976

Playlist to the Jingle

Coffeetime, December 23, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed  

Johnny Coles / An Uptown Christmas / I’ll Be Home for Christmas / Uptown / 2.11.85

Kenny Barron / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Song  / Uptown / 12.14.84

Jack Sheldon / An Uptown Christmas / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Uptown / 2.25.86

set 1

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

Jay McShann & Ralph Sutton / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Joy to the Jingle / LA 1973

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

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

Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947  

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

Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orchestra and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

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

set 2

Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977

Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965 

Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s

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

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

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

set 3

Cranston East A Cappella Choir / Speak to One Another / Fum, Fum, Fum / Vogt / Cranston, RI fall 1972 

Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / Merry Christmas Baby / Cadet / 10.66

Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / LA 1973

Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s

Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep

Dick Powell / Roses in December / Decca / 11.5.37

Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955

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

set 4

Tommy Flanagan / An Uptown Christmas / The Christmas Waltz / Uptown / 8.12.87

Judy Garland / from the soundtrack to the film “Meet Me in St. Louis” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / MGM / 12.4.43

King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46

Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio transcription / LA 1940s / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers

Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Capitol Promo) / Capitol / LA 9.17.47

James Brown & his Famous Flames / James Brown Christmas Album / Merry Christmas, I Love You / King / 1966

Dinah Washington / Make Me a Present of You / EmArcy / LA 11.11.55 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra 

Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soul (Christmas) song

Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.57

Wish You the Playlistiest

Coffeetime, December 16, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Phil Woods / Pairing Off / Pairing Off / Prestige / 6.15.56 

Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' on C / Columbia / 1940

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

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

Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 2

Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Man / Atlantic / LA 8.17.55 

Dick Stabile / Plays for You / Man with a Horn / Bethlehem / 1955 

Ralph Burns & his Ensemble / Spring Sequence [Bijou] / Spring Sequence / Period [Bethlehem] / 1955

Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / Blue Rhythm Fantasy / Vocalion / 5.4.36 

Amos Milburn / Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby / Aladdin / LA 10.4.49

Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Santa’s Other Reindeer / 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt3zsEYMoVI

Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We're a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles

set 3

Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Swingin’ at Sugar Ray’s / Blue Note / 1.30.61 

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

Charlie Parker / Perhaps / Savoy / 9.24.48 

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

Ravens / For You / National / 4.24.47

Billy Eckstine / Blue Christmas / MGM / 1950

set 4

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

Ted Weems & his Orch / Winter Wonderland / Columbia / Chicago 11.11.34 / vocal = Parker Gibbs 

Johnny Desmond & the Ray Charles Singers / Sleigh Ride / MGM / 1950

Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards / Happy Birthday & Songs for Every Holiday / Kris Kringle / Disneyland / LA 1958 

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

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

Paul Parnes / A Hap-Hap-Happy Christmas from Yogi Bear / Golden Records / 1961

Heavenly Gospel Singers / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.26.38

last soulful song

Carla Thomas / The Original Soul Christmas / All I Want for Christmas Is You / Atco [Atlantic; Stax] / 9.26.63

I Feel a Playlist Comin' On

Coffeetime, December 9, 2011, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

 Dexter Gordon / Doin' Allright / I Want More / Blue Note [cd bonus track] / 5.6.61 

Les McCann / This Is The Blues, Volume 1 / Oatmeal / Pacific Jazz / LA late 1960 

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / After You’ve Gone / transcription / mid-1940s 

Harry Leader & his Band / My Sweetie Went Away / Columbia / London 1936

Jimmy Witherspoon / Big Fine Girl / Modern / LA late 1949 

Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Good for Nothin’ (But Love) / Atlantic / 4.8.58 

 Fee

set 2

Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / All Too Soon / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60 

Kenny Dorham / The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album / When Sunny Gets Blue / Xanadu / 1.10.60 

Jimmy Cleveland / Creed Taylor Presents: Know Your Jazz Vol 1 / Embraceable You / ABC-Paramount / 1956

Mound City Blue Blowers / Hello Lola / Victor / 11.14.29

Paul Baron Orchestra, Mildred Bailey, & Woody Herman / Finiculi-Fanicula, Blues, & Robin Hood / Mildred Bailey Show radio transcription / 1.12.45

Amos Milburn / Juice, Juice, Juice / Aladdin / LA 4.9.56 

set 3

Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Lonely Woman / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963

Barry Harris / Newer Than New / Burgundy / Riverside / 9.28.61 

Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Nostalgia / Stealin’ Trash / Savoy / 12.18.46 

Elisabeth Welch / These Foolish Things & A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square / HMV / London 10.14.40

Delta Rhythm Boys / Jack You’re Playin’ the Game / Soundie / LA 1941 

Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / New Orleans / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56 

set 4

Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Somebody Loves Me / Contemporary / LA 8.26.57 

Benny Carter / Additions to Further Definitions / Come On Back / Impulse! / LA 3.2.66 

Georgie Auld / Dancing in the Land of Hi-Fi / Rosetta / EmArcy / April & May 1956

Beny Moré / Sin Razón Ni Justicia (Without Reason Nor Justice) / RCA / late 1950s

Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / I Feel a Song Comin’ On / Riverside / 1.10.61 

Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

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

Alex fills in on Coffeetime: TV Crime Themes

Coffeetime, December 2, 2011, Alex McNeil

Thanks to Alex McNeil of Lost & Found for filling in for me once again as I slaved away at income-producing work! I listened and loved what he played, as always. Here's his playlist:

I. Shows from the 1950s

Frank Chacksfield – Dragnet (The Great TV Themes LP, London)

Johnny Gregory – Perry Mason (TV Thriller Themes LP, Philips)

Henry Mancini – Peter Gunn (Soundtrack LP, RCA)

Buddy Morrow – Highway Patrol (Impact CD, RCA)

Pete Rugolo – Richard Diamond (45, Mercury)

Johnny Gregory – 77 Sunset Strip (TV Thriller Themes)

(no artist credited) – Hawaiian Eye (TVToons v. 2 LP)

(no artist credited) – Bourbon Street Beat (TVToons v. 4, CD)

(no artist credited) – SurfSide 6 (TVToons v. 1, CD)

Sidney Sharp, The New Sunset (Top Television Themes ’64 LP, Warner)

Elmer Bernstein, Staccato (Soundtrack LP, Capitol)

Johnny Gregory, M Squad (TV Thriller Themes)

Buddy Morrow, Riff Blues (from Mike Hammer) (Impact CD, RCA)

Nelson Riddle, The Untouchables (Route 66 Theme LP, Capitol)

Buddy Morrow, The Lineup (Double Impact CD, RCA)

II. Shows from the 1960s

Johnny Williams, Checkmate (Soundtrack CD, Columbia)

Duke Ellington, Asphalt Jungle Theme (45, Columbia)

(no artist credited) The Everglades (TVToons v. 4, CD)

Pete Rugolo, 87th Precinct (TV’s Top Themes LP, Mercury)

Liberty Soundtrack Orch., Burke’s Law (TV Town CD)

Nelson Riddle, The Defenders (Route 66 Theme)

Hugo Montenegro, The F.B.I. (Come Spy with Me LP, RCA)

Billy May, Mannix (TV Town CD)

(no artist credited) Ironside (TVToons v. 1, CD)

Derry O’Leary, The Name of the Game (45, Uni)

Dave Grusin, It Takes a Thief (45, Decca)

(no artist credited) Adam-12 (TVToons v.1, CD)

Morton Stevens, Hawaii 5-O (Soundtrack LP, Capitol)

(no artist credited) The Mod Squad (TVToons v. 1, CD)

Wooden Trumpet, Theme from N.Y.P.D. (45, Amy)

(no artist credited) Judd for the Defense (TVToons v. 5, CD)

III. Shows from the 1970s and Beyond

Henry Mancini, NBC Mystery Movie Theme (The Cop Show Themes LP, RCA)

John Gregory Orch., McMillan and Wife (TV’s Greatest Detective Hits LP, Mercury)

Henry Mancini, Streets of San Francisco (The Cop Show Themes)

John Gregory Orch., Cannon (TV’s Greatest Hits)

(no artist credited) Barnaby Jones (TVToons, v. 3)

Mike Post, The Rockford Files (Television Theme Songs LP, Elektra)

Sammy Davis Jr., Baretta’s Theme (A Live Performance LP, Warner)

Corniche, Theme from CHiPs (45, Corniche)

Rhythm Heritage, SWAT (Disco-Fied LP, ABC)

(no artist credited) Starsky and Hutch (TVToons v. 3, CD)

Mike Post, Hill Street Blues (Television Theme Songs)

(no artist credited) Hunter (TVToons v. 6, CD)

Jan Hammer, Miami Vice Theme (45, MCA)

(no artist credited) Matt Houston (TVToons v. 6, CD)

Al Jarreau, Moonlighting (45, MCA)

Holly Robinson, 21 Jump Street (Soundtrack LP, I.R.S.)

Mike Post, Theme from L.A. Law (Music from L.A. Law and Otherwise LP, Polydor)