One, Two, Button Your Playlist

Coffeetime, February 23, 2007, Angelynn Grant, 15th Anniversary Show

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60

set 1
Charlie Rouse / Takin' Care of Business / Weirdo / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / One Mo' / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60
Charlie Shavers / Excitement Unlimited / Period of Adjustment / Capitol / 2.20-22.63
Ruth Etting / At Twilight / Columbia / 8.20.29
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / After I Say I'm Sorry / Victor / Chicago 2.1.40 / vocal = The Pied Pipers
Delta Rhythm Boys / Long Gone Baby / Victor / 1.31.53 / with Jack Pleis Orch
Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / So Long, My Love / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2
Wes Montgomery / The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery / In Your Own Sweet Way / Riverside / 1.26.60
Frank Wess / Trombones and Flute / Don't Blame Me / Savoy / 7.18.56
Lucky Thompson & his Orch / Over the Rainbow / Triumph / 1950
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Moonglow / Brunswick / 9.18.34
Ella Mae Morse / Thank Your Lucky Star / radio transcription AFRS Command Performance #82 / 9.9.43
Bing Crosby / Medley from "Pennies from Heaven": One, Two, Button Your Shoe; And So Do I; Skeleton in the Closet / radio transcription of Kraft Music Hall show on V-Disc / Hollywood 11.16.44 / with Eugenie Baird, The Ken Lane Singers, the Charioteers, John Scott Trotter & his Orch
Edna McGriff / Why Oh Why / Jubilee / 1952
Magic Sam / Give Me Time / I'm So Glad / home recordings [Delmark] / Chicago 1.68

set 3
Baby-Face Willette / Behind the 8 Ball / Song of the Universe / Argo / Chicago 11.30.64
Art Tatum / Here's Art Tatum / After You've Gone / Brunswick / 1955
Charlie Parker / Quasimodo / Dial / 11.17.47
Savannah Churchill and The Four Tunes (aka The Sentimentalists) / I Want to Cry / Manor / 7.47 (4.48?)
Jo Stafford / Ridin' on the Gravy Train / Capitol / LA 3.28.46 / with Nat King Cole on piano
Al Hibbler / Ain't Nothin' Wrong with that Baby / Decca / 1.17.58

set 4
Art Pepper / The Art of Pepper / Without a Song / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57
John Kirby & his Orch / No Blues at All / Victor / 2.11.42
Modern Mountaineers / Loud Mouth / Texas Hotel, San Antonio 3.1.37
Andrew Tibbs / I Made a Mistake / M-Pac! / 1965
Dusty Springfield / What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? / Atlantic (?) / 1970
The Radio Four / How Much I Owe / Republic [Nashboro] / Nashville 1951-52

last soul song
Rufus & Chaka Khan / Street Player / Stay / ABC / 1978

I Dig Playlists!

Coffeetime, February 16, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / Groovy / Prestige / 1956-57

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Witch Doctor / Lost and Found / Blue Note / 3.14.61
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Effendi / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Georgie Auld / Jump, Georgie, Jump / Musicraft / 5.24.45
The Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Trio / Hart to Get Gertie / Okeh / LA 4.6.28
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Do You Believe in Love at Sight? / Victor / 9.8.31 / vocal = unknown
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / They Can't Take That Away from Me / Bluebird / 3.20.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Dakota Staton / At Storyville / The Show Must Go On / Capitol / live Storyville, Boston 4.29.61

set 2
Roy Eldridge / soundtrack to Les Tricheurs / Phil's Tune / Barclay / Paris 5.1.58
Cannonball Adderley / Jump for Joy / If Life Were All Peaches and Cream / Mercury / 8.20.58
Lester Young / The Master's Touch / Exercise in Swing / Savoy / 4.18.44
Bill Coleman / Bill Street Blues / Disques Swing / Paris 12.12.37
Leo "Snub" Mosley & his Band / Ol' Man River / Decca / 3.11.40
Big Maybelle (Mabel Smith) / Little Miss Muffett / King / 1949
Roy Milton / Along the Navajo Trail / Specialty / LA 12.47

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Someone to Watch Over Me / Blue Note / 2.26.58
Kenny Drew / It Might as Well Be Spring / Blue Note / 4.16.53
Buddy Johnson & his Orch / Walkin' / Gone Walkin' / Mercury / 8.15.55
Five Jones Boys / Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere / Standard transcription / 1937
Golden Gate Quartet / Straighten Up and Fly Right / AFRS Jubilee 91 transcription / 6.44
Maxine Sullivan / L'Amour, Toujours, L'Amour / 6.29.38 / Victor / with Claude Thornhill & his Orch
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / A Hundred Years from Today / Columbia / 1954 / with Paul Weston & his Orch

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 4: Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / LA 9.56
Quincy Jones & Band / I Dig Dancers! / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / Paris 2.27.60
Lynn Hope / She's Funny That Way / Premium [later, Chess] / 8.20.51
Tony Mottola & Carl Kress / Fun on the Frets / radio transcription / 1941
Frank Sinatra / Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are / V-Disc (CBS broadcast dress rehearsal of "The Vimms Vitamins Show") / 5.17.44 / with Alex Stordahl & his Orch
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Good Time Charlie, part 1 / Duke / Houston / 1.14.66
Anthony Newley / Love Is a Now & Then Thing / Speak Low / London [Decca] / 1960 (his debut LP)
The Silvertone Singers / Since Jesus Came into My Heart / Nashboro / 1952

last soul song
The Independents / Chuck, Helen, Eric, Maurice / Lucky Fellow / Wand / Chicago 1973

That Funny Playlist

Backwoods (filling in for John), February 10, 2007

set 1
Treniers / Rockin' is Our Business
Red Prysock / Blow Your Horn
The Marquees / Rock My Blues Away
Four Aces / Whose Arms Are You Missing

bed 1
Ferrante & Teicher / Westminster Pop Sampler / Mississippi Boogie

set 2
Jessie Price / That's the Way She Feels
Gene Ammons / Jug
Bullmoose Jackson / Time Alone Will Tell
Mills Brothers / Swing It, Sister
Frankie Laine / By the River Saint Marie

bed 2
Leo Addeo & his Orch / More Hawaii in Hi-Fi

set 3
Sons of the West / Sally's Got a Wooden Leg
The Original Hoosier Hotshots / Meet Me By the Icehouse, Lizzie
Bonnie Lou / Tennessee Wig-Walk
Webb Pierce / High Geared Daddy
Merle Travis / Saturday Night Shuffle
Clay Hart / Flowers on the Wall
Chet Atkins & Dolly Parton / Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Carl Story & His Ramblin' Mountaineers / I've Found a Hiding Place

bed 3
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Speak Low

set 4
Young Jesse / Pretty Soon
The King Bees / Lovely Love
Jimmy Nolen / The Way You Do
Clyde McPhatter / Deep Sea Ball
Shirley & Lee / Rock All Night
Lula Reed / Rock Love
Bo Diddley / Bo Diddley (live on Ed Sullivan)
Wally Mercer / Hey! Miss Lula

bed 4
Bill McElhiney & his Orch / Instrumental Golden Giants

set 5
5 Royales / What's That
Cousin Joe / You'll Never Get Nothing
Dayton Selby / Blues #3
Larry Williams / She Said "Yeah"
Chuck Berry / Our Little Rendez-Vous
Curtis Johnson / Headin' for the High School Hop
Ricky Nelson / Everlovin'

bed 5
The Cinema Stage Orch / Academy Award Winners / Walk on the Wild Side

set 6
Esther Philips / Burnin' / Cry Me a River Blues
Mighty Sparrow / Under My Skin
Tom Jones / Soul Man

bed 6
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. / Shall We Gather at the Boat Dock

set 7
The Supreme Angels / I Want to be Just Like Him
Bobby Long & the Satellites / Mojo Workout

last song
Bobby Darin / That Funny Feeling

Mighty Mouse

I'm swooping down and filling in for John Funke on Backwoods tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 10 at 10am-noon). He is a bit under the weather. I'll be flying by the seat of my pants, to coin a term. Wingin' it.

Tune in to the destruction!

Great Big Bundle of Playlist

Coffeetime, February 9, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares / Blue Note / 10.2.63
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Make the Man Love Me / Vee Jay / 7.20, 21.61
Cozy Cole All-Stars / Blue Moon / Keynote / 2.22.44
Slats Randall / Skirts / 3.30
Benny Carter & his Orch / (There's a New Side to) An Old Love Story / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Emma Lou Welch & the Enchanters
Smiley Lewis / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Imperial / New Orleans 4.53
Toni Harper / Lady Lonely / Love Has Come, Love Has Gone / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59 / with orch arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Ike Quebec / It Might As Well Be Spring / Lover Man / Blue Note / 12.29.61
Terry Gibbs / Michelle, parts 1 & 2 / New Jazz / 3.14.49
Blind Willie Dunn & his Gin Bottle Four (aka Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson) / Blue Guitars / Okeh / 5.8.29
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Jeep Rhythm / radio transcription of Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands / Jefferson Barracks, Missouri 11.23.45
Cootie Williams & his Orch / I Want to Be Loved / Majestic / early 1947 / vocal = Billy Matthews
Little Willie John / Mister Little Willie John / A Little Bit of Loving / King / Cincinnati 9.21.56

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub Cap / Luana / Blue Note / 4.9.61
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Groovin' Boogie / Black & White / LA fall 1946
Bernard Hilda Y Su Orquestra / Infiniment / Columbia / Barcelona 8.14.47
The Robins / If I Didn't Love You So / Savoy / LA 12.1.49
Nat King Cole / Tell Me All About Yourself / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Capitol / LA 10.30.58

set 4
Herbie Harper Quintet / Five Brothers / Godchild / Tampa / Hollywood 6.15.55
Barney Kessel / Workin' Out! / My Funny Valentine / Contemporary / LA 1.9.61
Pauline & her Perils (aka The Six Hits and a Miss) / Crazy Rhythm / transcription / LA 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Frankie Laine / I'm Gonna Live Til I Die / Mercury / 1950
Tyrone Davis / A Woman Needs to Be Loved / Dakar / 1969
Barbara McNair / What a Day / Motown / Detroit 1966
The Pilgrim Travelers / What Are They Doing (My Lord) [take 2, unissued] / Specialty / Hollywood / 12.24.47

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Great Big Bundle of Love / Double Shot / 1970

Playlist in My Soul

Coffeetime, February 2, 2007, Angelynn Grant

bed
Red Garland / When There Are Grey Skies / Prestige / 10.9.62

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Jazz Contrasts / La Villa / Riverside / 5.21.57
Cannonball Adderley / Them Dirty Blues / Del Sasser / Riverside / 2.1.60
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / I'm Coming, Virginia / Columbia / 5.11.27
Sophie Tucker / Foolin' with the Other Woman's Man / London 11.18.38 / Columbia / with Ted Shapiro & Orch
Roy Fox & his Orch / College Swing / radio transcription / London 1938 / vocal = Mary Lee
Amos Milburn / Blue and Lonesome / Aladdin [unreleased] / LA 7.13.49
Patti Page / I've Heard That Song Before / A Sunday Kind of Love / Mercury / 1955

set 2
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That's All / Prestige / 4.18.61
Bennie Green / Glidin' Along / Stardust / Jazzland / 3.9.61
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Vilia [from the operetta The Merry Widow] / Roost / 4.52
Sam Donahue & the Navy Dance Band / Convoy / V-Disc / 5.45
Betty Grable / The Snake Dance / rehearsal check from MGM film Student Tour /LA 1934
Joe Morris & his Orch / Crazy Mixed Up World / Herald / 4.54 / vocal = Faye Adams
The Spaniels / I Like It Like That / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 / lead vocal by James "Dimples" Cochran
Peggy Lee / Latin ala Lee / Heart / Capitol / LA 1960 / orch arranged & conducted by Jack Marshall

set 3
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / Blueing Boogie / Mercury / LA 1959
Grant Green / I Want to Hold Your Hand / Corcovado / Blue Note / 3.31.65
Gene Ammons / More Moon [originally Full Moon] / Chess / Chicago 1.8.50
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire / radio transcription / LA early 1940s / duet = Ozzie & Harriet Hilliard
The Four Vagabonds / Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen / Apollo / 3.4.47
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Capitol / 1957

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, "The Quintets" / Inside Out / Contemporary / LA 1.20.56
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Snap the Whip / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55 /
Joe Venuti's Blue Four / Pretty Trix / Okeh / 6.14.28
Singing Sam (The Ol' Barbasol Man) [aka Harry Frankel] / Gypsy in My Soul / radio transcription / 1939 / a nice repository of Singing Sam ephemera and audio at Morrison-Reeves Library
BB King / You Don't Know / RPM / late 1950s
Jerry Butler / Make It Easy on Yourself / Vee-Jay / 6.62
Golden Gate Quartet / Run On / Okeh / 3.25.42

last soul song
Dee Dee Warwick / Girls Need Love / Mercury / 1.68

I'm a Good Good Playlist

Coffeetime, January 26, 2007

bed
Tommy Flanagan Trio / Prestige Moodsville / 5.18.60 /

set 1
Junior Cook /Junior's Cookin' / Field Day / Jazzland / 4.10.61
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet / Shadrack / Prestige / 12.17.51
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Honeysuckle Rose / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Benny Carter & his Orch / Cocktails for Two / Bluebird / 11.19.40
Noel Coward / Something to Do with Springtime / HMV / London 9.20.32
Toni Harper / Little Miss In Between Blues / soundtrack from soundie / LA 1949
Roy Brown / Too Much Lovin' Ain't No Good / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 6.15.50
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Weak for the Man / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / (I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance (With You) / Prestige /2.27.59
Milt Jackson / The Jazz Skyline / What's New / Savoy / 1.23.56
Borrah Minevitch & his Harmonica Rascals / Sleeping Beauty / 1940 / thanks to Jean-Pierre!
Bing Crosby / The Old Oaken Bucket / Decca / LA 6.14.41 / with The Music Maids, Hal Hopper, and John Scott Trotter's Orch
Four Blackamoors / Break It Up Charlie / Decca / 1941
Ella Mae Morse / I'll Get By / AFRS Command Performance #117 / LA 4.29.44
Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Fool's Paradise / Abkco / LA 1963

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Wes Montgomery Encores / The Trick Bag [alternate take from Boss Guitar] / Riverside / 4.22.63
Joe Newman / Joe Newman with Woodwinds / Star Eyes / Roulette / 1958
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet / Good Groove / transcription [on The Last Giant] / live, Birdland 6.13.51
Una Mae Carlisle / I'm a Good Good Woman / Joe Davis [during record ban] / 5.23.44
The Four Buddies / Just to See You Smile / Savoy / 10.12.50
Mel Tormé with The Meltones / Back in Town / I Hadn't Anyone Till You / Verve / LA 4.23, 28 & 29.59 /

set 4
Curtis Counce / Sonority / Sonor [bonus alternate take] / 10.15.56
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / There'll Never Be Another You / Savoy / 10.6.55
King Cole Trio / Now He Tells Me / Capitol / 7.3.47 / they perform this as the second selection in this great clip (from YouTube, below)
Betty Everett / Please Love Me / Renee/One-derful! / Chicago 1961
Dusty Springfield / The Look of Love / Come Back to Me / Philips / 1968
Highway QC's / Somewhere to Lay My Head / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1955

last soul song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978

Alex saves the day

Thanks so much to Alex McNeil of Lost & Found for filling in for me today. His 4 hour stint on air -- both Lost & Found and CT -- was just the medicine I needed to get me back on my feet. Next Friday, there'll be Alex at noon and me at 2, as usual.

In the meantime, here's his playlist:

1. Herb Ellis & Ray Brown - Flintstones Theme (1974)
2. Tony DeSimone Trio - Oriental Blues (from Ernie Kovacs Show) (1952)
3. Bernie Green - Mr. Peepers (1956)
4. Roger Kellaway - Remembering You (closing theme from All in the
Family) (1978)
5. Nelson Riddle - McHale's Navy (1964)
6. (no artist credited) - Family Affair (1966)
7. Vic Mizzy - Addams Family (1965)
8. Johnny Gregory - Bronco (1961)
9. Guy van Duser - The Great Western TV Medley (1977)
10. Johnny Gregory - The Deputy (1961)
11. Nelson Riddle - Ballad of Paladin (1964)
12. Johnny Gregory - Tales of Wells Fargo (1961)
13. Maynard Ferguson - Straightaway (1962)
14. Johnny Williams - Checkmate (1961)
15. Count Basie - M Squad (1969)
16. Pete Rugolo - Richard Diamond (1959)
17. Bob James - Theme from Taxi ("Angela") (1978)
18. Mike Post - Theme from L.A. Law (1988)
19. Dave Grusin - St. Elsewhere (1984)
20. (no artist credited) - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976)
21. Charles Paul - Another World (1975)
22. (no artist credited) - All My Children (1970)
23. Patrick Williams - Bob Newhart Show Theme ("Home to Emily")(1981)
24. Mike Post - Hooperman (1988)
25. John Cacavas - That Was the Week That Was (1966)
26. (no artist credited) - Cannon (1971)
27. Jackie Cooper - Hennesey (1959)
28. Bob Crane - F Troop (1966)
29. (no artist credited) - The Invaders (1967)
30. Nelson Riddle - The Rogues (1966)
31. Edwin Astley - The Saint (1965)
32. Ron Grainer - The Prisoner (1986)

Poor butterfly

Hi my sleepy friends, reporting from my sick bed, I'm sorry to announce that I won't be able to do Coffeetime tomorrow. I got that bug that's going around. I'm on the mend, but still dragging my butt from room to room, all bedraggled.

Alex McNeil has kindly agreed to sit in for me. Thanks, Alex! I'll be enjoying the show from the comfort of my couch.

See you next week.

(Image thanks to Vintage Paperbacks at vintagepbks.com.

Playlist for a Stripper

Coffeetime, January 12, 2007

bed
Red Garland / A Garland of Red / Prestige / 8.17.56

set 1
Sonny Clark / Sonny's Crib / With a Song in My Heart [CD bonus alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.9.57 /
Clifford Brown / Minority (take 2) / Vogue / Paris 10.8.53
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / Featuring the Boys / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Paul Tremaine & his Aristocrats / Four Four Rhythm / Victor / 10.4.29 / vocal = Paul Tremaine
King Cole Trio / Blue Skies / Standard transcription / LA 11.38
Jesse Price / That's the Way She Feels / LA 3.20.47
Etta Jones / Don't Go to Strangers / Something to Remember You By / Prestige / 6.21.60

set 2
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Embraceable You / Prestige / 11.20.64
James Moody / This is Always / Vogue / Paris 7.27.51
Dick McDonough & Carl Kress / Danzon / 1.31.34
Mildred Bailey & her Alley Cats / Squeeze Me / Decca / 12.35
Dorothy Lamour / soundtrack to Johnny Apollo / This is the Beginning of the End / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood 1940
The Robins / All I Do is Rock / Crown / LA 12.53 / also see Marv Goldberg on the Robins
Rosemary Clooney & Bob Hope / Protection / RCA / Hollywood 3.25.59

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Kachin / Savoy / 12.17.59
Joe Morris Orch / Wilma's Idea / Manor / late 1947
The Five Jones Boys / Love is the Reason / Standard transcription / circa 1937 / the excellent Vocal Group Harmony site
Lula Reed / Blue and Moody / I'll Drown in My Tears / King / 1956
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Sings / It's Always You / World Pacific / LA 7.23.56

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Satin Doll / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Mundell Lowe / Blues for a Stripper / Coffee, Coffee / MGM / LA 1962
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / I'll Never Be the Same / Columbia / 6.1.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
The Barry Sisters / Yidel Mitn Fiedel / radio transcription, Yiddish Melodies in Swing, WHN / 1946
Sammy Davis Jr / For Once in a Lifetime / Reprise / LA 1962
Radio Four / When He Calls / Nashboro / Nashville 10.59

last soul song
The Intrigues / In a Moment / Yew [originally on Bullet] / 1969

I'll Plant My Own Playlist

Coffeetime, January 5, 2007

bed
Red Garland / Rediscovered Masters / It Might As Well Be Spring and Estrellita / Prestige / 6.27.58

set 1
Hank Mobley / Reach Out! / Up Over and Out / Blue Note / 1.19.68
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Django / Delauney's Dilemma / Prestige / 6.25.53
Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi-Hat / Wigwam / Phoenix [Roost] / live, Boston 2.11.54
Billy Kyle's Big Eight / Contemporary Blues / HRS / fall 1946
Ray Noble & his Orch / My Hat's on the Side of My Head / HMV / London 11.9.33 [11.27?] / vocal = Al Bowlly
Ernie Fields Orch / Ride Mr. Trombone / Regal / 11.29.49 / vocal = unknown
Dinah Washington / (No, No, No) You Can't Love Two / Mercury / 6.54
Tina Louise / It's Time for Tina / Baby Won't You Say You Love Me / Concert Hall / 1957

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Last Night When We Were Young / Verve / 12.4.64
Sonny Criss / At the Crossroads / I Got It Bad / Peacock / Chicago 3.59
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / A Sunday Kind of Love / Capitol / 1958
Larry Clinton & his Orch / Glen Island Hop / radio transcription / Glen Island Casino, New Rochelle, NY1937-38
Louis Armstrong & his Orch / High Society / Victor / Chicago 1.26.33
Blue Lu Barker / I Got Ways Like the Devil / Decca / 11.22.38
Dick McIntire & his Harmony Hawaiians / I'm pau (I'm Through) / Decca / Hollywood circa 1940
Peggy Lee / Things Are Swingin' / Things Are Swingin' / Capitol / LA 5.16.58 / arranged & conducted by Jack Marshall

set 3
Donald Byrd / At the Half Note Cafe / Jeannine / Blue Note / 11.11.60
The Five Breezes / Laundry Man / Bluebird? / Chicago 11.15.40
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… [CD bonus track] / Why Was I Born? / Savoy/Regent / 12.47

set 4
Howard McGhee / That Bop Thing / Get Happy / Bethlehem / 10.22.55
Lee Konitz / Conception / Yesterdays / Prestige / 3.8.51
Joe Venuti's Rhythm Boys / Tempo di Modernage / Columbia / 6.10.31
Gene Kelly / soundtrack to It's Always Fair Weather / I Like Myself / MGM / Hollywood spring, summer 1955
LLoyd Nolan / I Don't Know About You / King / Cincinnati 1962
Eileen Wilson [Susan Hayward's character] / soundtrack to Valley of the Dolls / I'll Plant My Own Tree / 20th Century Fox / Hollywood 1967
Stars of Harmony / Where Shall I Be? / Supreme [later Swing Time] / LA 5.49

last soul song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / I Need You / Wand / 1965

Bewitched, Bothered, and Playlist

Coffeetime, December 29, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Horace Silver / 6 Pieces of Silver / Tippin' [CD bonus track] / Blue Note / 6.15.58
Bobby Timmons / This Here is Bobby Timmons / Lush Life / Riverside / 1.13-14.60
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / I'm Confessin' / Cadet / 4.66
Duke Ellington & his Orch / Down a Carolina Lane / Columbia / 2.15.33
Blue Barron & his Orch / Somebody Nobody Knows / Bluebird? / 1938 / vocal = Russ Carlyle
The Three Spades / Pan-Pan / Vocalion [unissued] / 1937
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Verve / LA 7.15-16.60

set 2
Ben Webster / Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Verve / 11.6.59
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It / One for My Baby / Contemporary / 1962
Tab Smith & his Orch / These Foolish Things / United / Chicago 4.18.52
Count Basie & his Orch / One O'Clock Jump and Jumping at Ten / radio transcription, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show 1945 / Hollywood 8.8.45 / with introduction by Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Ethel Merman / I Get a Kick Out of You / Brunswick / LA 12.4.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orch
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942
Little Milton / If You Love Me Baby / Sun [alt take] / Memphis 3.30.54

set 3
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Twice Around / Blue Note / 8.11.64
Bill Harris / Great Guitar Sounds / Once in Awhile / Mercury / 1960
Charlie Parker / Max Making Wax / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Deliver Me to Tennessee / Columbia / Chicago 4.2.42 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Four Blues (aka Golden Echo Quartet) / Missing You / Apollo / 4.10.50
Nat King Cole / Songs by Nat "King" Cole 7" EP / Pretend / Capitol / Hollywood 12.30.52 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Pick Yourself Up / Savoy / 3.52
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Aladdin / LA 12.28.56
Frank Sinatra / That Old Black Magic / radio transcription, Songs by Sinatra, CBS radio / 12.26.43
Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / Manha de Carnaval / Verve / 11.21.64 /
James Brown / Lost Someone / King / Cincinnati 2.9.61
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / Deliver Me / Specialty / Hollywood 7.24.52

last soul song
Linda Jones / What Have I Done (to Make You Mad) / Loma / 1967

Have Yourself a Merry Little Playlist

Coffeetime, December 22, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.15.57 /
Johnny Costa / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / What Child is This? / Chiaroscuro / 9.5.91
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Greensleeves / Prestige / 9.7.58

set 1
Richard Wyands Trio / An Uptown Christmas / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Uptown / 9.6.85
Junior Mance Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / White Christmas / Chiaroscuro / 5.18.94
Harry Reser & his Orch / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Decca / 10.24.34 / vocal = Tom Sacks
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Merry Christmas, Baby / Exclusive / LA 1947 / vocal = Charles Brown
Billy Eckstine / Billy Eckstine Sings with Benny Carter / Christmas Eve / Verve / LA fall 1986
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 8.5.60 /

set 2
Vince Guaraldi / A Charlie Brown Christmas / Christmas Time is Here; O Tannenbaum; Skating; Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; The Christmas Song; Christmas Time is Here (vocal); / Fantasy / LA 1965 /
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 /
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / It's Christmas Time Again / Capitol / LA 1963
Doris Day / The Doris Day Christmas Album / The Christmas Waltz / Columbia / LA 1964

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
Gene Ammons / Swinging for Xmas / Aristocrat / 10.12.48
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / Marshmallow World / radio transcription from Bing Crosby show / 1940s
Louis Armstrong / Christmas Night in Harlem / Decca / LA 9.8.55 / with Benny Carter Orch
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee, & Trudy Stevens / White Christmas / Snow / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie
Nancy Wilson / That's What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / LA 6.13.63

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

last soul (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You're Dancing

Coffeetime, December 15, 2006

bed
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Prestige / 11.27.58

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin' Time / Stretchin' Out [cd alternate take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / Canadian Sunset / Prestige / 6.16.60
Bert Firman's Quintuplets of Swing / Blue Strings / Odeon / London 9.20.37
Dick Robertson / I Want You for Christmas / Decca / 10.37
The Jackson Trio (aka The Ebonaires) / Love for Christmas / Hollywood (Swing Time?) / mid-50s
Honi Gordon / Honi Gordon Sings / Why Try to Change Me Now / Prestige / 3.23.62

set 2
Thad Jones / The Magnificent Thad Jones / If Someone Had Told Me / Blue Note / 7.14.56
Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / White Christmas / Cadet / 10.66
Chet Atkins / Christmas with Chet Atkins / Medley: The Coventry Carol, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / RCA / 1961
Duke Ellington & his Orch / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show aired 12.47 / Rock-a-Bye River / radio transcription /Hollywood 7.11.46
The Three Keys / You Can Depend on Me / Vocalion / 9.8.33
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Can't Get That No More / V-Disc 237 / 11.22.43
Etta James / Etta Sings for Lovers / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Argo / 7.27-29.62

set 3
Eddie Davis Trio / I Wanna Be Loved / King / 2.2-3.56
Wardell Gray, et al / Move / Prestige / live, Hula Hut, LA 8.27.50
The Five Jones Boys / You're So Appealing / Standard transcription / c. 1937 / thanks so much to Tony at the Vocal Harmony Group website
Wini Brown / I Met a Stranger / National [unissued] / 11.27.48
Danny Kaye / (songs from) White Christmas / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / Decca / / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

set 4
Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet / Blues in Time / Wintersong / Verve / Hollywood 8.2.57
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
The Boswell Sisters / Put That Sun Back in the Sky / Brunswick [unissued take A] / 2.5.32 / with the Dorsey Brothers Orch
Dean Martin / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There's Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1969 / vocal = Janet Orenstein / oodles and oodles of pix and info at TVParty.com's Rudolph pages (pop-up warning) / more on the Rankin-Bass website
Gospel Harmonette Specials [The Original Gospel Harmonettes] / Camp Meeting / Without You / Vee-Jay / 1963

last soul (Xmas) song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atlantic / 1978

The price of popularity!

Hey my sleepy pals,

I guess the link to the Coffeetime Archive got posted far and wide in the past week or so, because there was major bandwidth overload and my hosting company has shut the archive down for a few days. This blog will still be here, (thanks, Blogger/Google!), but the podcast-able show won't be accessable until early next week, I think. I'll only be able to keep a few shows in the archive at any given time. Streamable shows are available for a few weeks at wmbr.org.

We'll keep our eyes on these bandwidth problems. I appreciate all the attention out there in the web-universe, though!

What's It All About Playlist

Coffeetime, December 8, 2006

bed
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Let's Fall in Love / Command / 1963

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Phil Woods and Gene Quill / Bird Feathers / Airegin /Prestige / 3.29.57
Joe Marsala & his Orch / Zero Hour / Black & White / 11.29.44
Whispering Jack Smith / My Blue Heaven / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 1.10.28
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / I Was Wrong / 11.44 / Tab Smith on alto, vocal = Trevor Bacon
Anita O'Day / Pick Yourself Up / Ivy [cd bonus track] / Verve / LA 12.19.56

set 2
Art Farmer / Art / I'm a Fool to Want You / Argo / 9.21-23.60
Red Garland / Moodsville 6 / T'ain't Nobody's Business / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Scratch Sheet / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47
Ernie Morris / In The Mood / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43 / intro by Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman; Ernie is seen with teh Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals in the images above
Lil Green & her Trio / What's the Matter with Love? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41 / with Big Bill Broonzy
Little Willie John / I'm Shakin' / King / Cincinnati? 1960

set 3
Lee Morgan / Gigolo / Yes I Can, No You Can't / Blue Note / 6.25.65
Preston Love & his Orch / Jumpin' for Charles / Spin Records / LA 1952
The Smoothies / You're an Old Smoothie / Bluebird / 4.25.36
The Four Blazes / Snag the Britches / United / 2.3.53
Sonny Rollins / Tour De Force / Two Different Worlds / Prestige / 12.7.56 / vocal = Earl Coleman

set 4
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / As Long As There's Music / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
Howard Roberts / Whatever's Fair! / Pussy Cat / Capitol / LA 1966
Coleman Hawkins / My Ideal / V-Disc / Esuire Metropolitan Opera House 1.18.44
Bing Crosby / Only Forever / Decca / LA 12.3.40 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orch
Bobby "Blue" Bland / Two Steps from the Blues / Lead Me On / Duke / Chicago 1961
Cilla Black / Alfie / Capitol / London (Abbey Road) 8.66
Southern Sons / Rest for the Weary / Bluebird / 10.29.41

last soul song
Richard Caiton / I'm Gonna Love You More / Malaco / 1974

Love With a Capital Playlist

Coffeetime, December 1, 2006

bed
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / Jazzland / 7.19.61 /

set 1
Bill Hardman / Bill Hardman Quintet [Saying Something] / It Ain't Happened Yet / Savoy / 10.18.61
Tadd Dameron with John Coltrane / Mating Call / Super Jet / Prestige / 11.30.56
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / How 'Bout That Mess? / Bluebird / 9.1.41
Lew Stone & his Band / Pop! Goes Your Heart / Decca / London 1935 / vocal = Alan Kane
Johnny Otis & his Band / Three Magic Words / Savoy / 3.21.51 / vocal = Mel Walker
Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington / Blue Rose / Grievin' / Columbia / 1.23, 27.56 [Duke] and LA 2.8, 11.56 [Rosemary]

set 2
Cannonball Adderley / Takes Charge / I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Riverside / 4.12.59
Art Tatum / #5 / Without a Song / Clef [Verve] / LA 12.29.53
Coleman Hawkins / And Confrères / Cocktails for Two [cd bonus track] / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Benny Goodman Trio / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Columbia / live, Jazz Concert no. 2, 1937-38
Issie Ringgold / Be On Your Merry Way / Columbia / 1.12.30
Kay Starr / Love With a Capital You / Bluebird / 7.26.39 / with Glen Miller & his Orch
Lula Reed / Three Men / King / Cincinnati 8.21.56
optional: Flairs / She Wants to Rock / Flair / 7.53

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Taking Care of Business / Lou's Good Dues / New Jazz / 3.22.60
Tony Mottola / Romantic Guitar / Let's Fall in Love / Command / 1963
Charlie Parker / Merry-Go-Round / Savoy / 9.24.48
Cabineers / Let the Party Go On / Decca / 12.11.40
Mabel Scott / Yes! / Coral / LA 3.17.52
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Moon Song / Verve / 1.12.57

set 4
Stan Getz / Chamber Music / Lullaby of Birdland / Roost / 12.5.52 [12.19.52?]
Ralph Burns, et al / The Herdsman Play Paris / Embarkation / Fantasy / Paris 1954
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Midnight Special / Atlantic / Cincinnati [Cleveland?] 5.1.48
Dinah Washington / I Only Know / Mercury / 3.4.49 / with Teddy Stewart's Orch
Jimmy Nolen / How Fine Can You Be? / Federal / LA 5.14.56
Nancy Wilson / Naturally / Watch What Happens / Capitol / LA 1966
Pilgrim Travelers / How About You? and I'll Be There / Specialty / Hollywood 1.25.52

last soul song
Beverly Shaffer / Where Will You Be Boy? / One-derful! / Chicago 10.65

Vegetable Playlist

Coffeetime, November 17, 2006

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981 // George Van Eps / Legends / The Man I Love / Concord / 1976

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quintet [1550] / Startin' from Scratch / Blue Note / 3.9.57
Frank Wess / Frank Wess Quartet / Gone with the Wind / Prestige Moodsville 8 / 5.9.60
Ziggy Elman & his Orch / You Took Advantage of Me / Bluebird / 8.29.39
Helen Kane / soundtrack to Dangerous Nan McGrew / I Owe You / Victor / 4.12.30
Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake Seven / One Night in Monte Carlo / Victor / 12.21.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright
Ernie Fields Orch / Big Lou / Regal / 11.29.49 / vocal = Teddy Cole
Julie London / London By Night / Well, Sir / Liberty / 1958 / with Pete King & his Orch

set 2
Blue Mitchell / Blue's Moods / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 8.24.60
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa [Neighborhood] / Flamingo / Savoy / 2.26.55
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Cocquette / LA 7.30.37
Sol Hoopii / Radio Blues / Columbia / 10.13.27
Frankie "Halfpint" Jaxon / Turn Over / Decca / 4.17.40
Johnny Otis Band / Crazy 'Bout Your Cookin' / Swingtime? / LA 1948 / vocal = Joe Swift
Peggy Lee / A Natural Woman / Can I Change My Mind? / Capitol / LA 5.69

set 3
Cannonball Adderley with Sergio Mendes / Cannonball's Bossa Nova [Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars] / Groovy Samba / Riverside / 12.7.62
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / I Didn't Know About You / Everest / 1960
Charlie Parker / I'm in the Mood for Love / Clef / 1950
Pete Johnson / Pete's Blues / 1280 Stomp / National [Savoy] / 1.2.46
The Charioteers / Riding Around in the Rain / Decca / 1935
Monroe Tucker & his All Stars / You Gotta Give it Up / Apollo / 2.27.46 / vocal = Frank Haywood
Frank Sinatra / My One and Only Love / Capitol / Hollywood 5.2.53 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Don't Blame Me / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Lester Young & Teddy Wilson / Pres and Teddy / Prisoner of Love / Verve / 1.13.56
The Four Blues / Vegetable Song / Apollo / 12.17.47
Sammy Davis Jr / The Goin's Great / In this Crowded World / Reprise / LA 1969
Highway QC's / Count Your Blessings / Vee-Jay / mid 1950s

last soul song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

If I Had a Million Playlists

Coffeetime, November 10, 2006
Fundraising show

Coffeetime theme song playing out in full:
Carmen Mccrae / soundtrack to The Subeterraneans / Coffeetime / MGM / Hollywood 1960

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54
James Moody's Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.25.48
Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2
Sonny Stitt / Cool Mambo / Prestige / 3.25.52
Erskine Hawkins & his Orch / Raid the Joint / Bluebird / 4.8.39
The Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars / Brunswick / 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier's Orch

set 3
Lucky Thompson / With Gerard Pochonet & his Quartet / Tenderly / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orch
Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour / Why Don't You Do Right? / soundie off of YouTube / mid-1940s
Chubby Newsome / Where's the Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 4
Little Milton / We're Gonna Make It / from The Beat TV show off of YouTube / 1966

set 5
Charioteers / Swing for Sale / radio transcription / 1942
The Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37

set 6
Mae West / Put Off Until Tomorrow / 1935 / with Joseph Chernivasky Orch
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis / The Money Song / radio transcription / 1950s
Bull Moose Jackson & his Bearcats / We Can Talk Some Trash / 9.15 or 17.47 / members of Lucky Millinder's Orch
Bing Crosby / Buy Buy Bonds / soundtrack to film short All Star Bond Rally / 20th Century-Fox / Hollywood late 1944

set 7
The Ink Spots / With Plenty of Money and You / soundtrack to Gold-Diggers of 1937 / Hollywood 1937

set 8
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Man Wanted / Savoy / 1.2.46 / vocal = Etta Jones
The Velvetones / Reverse the Charges / Sonora / 1946

set 9
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shawnuff / Contemporary / 3.28.59
King Cole Trio / Give Me Twenty Nickels for a Dollar / King Cole Trio Time radio transcription / Chicago 3.1.47 / with Pearl Bailey intro
The Basin Street Boys / Ain't Got No Loot / Exclusive / Hollywood 1947

set 10
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / 1961
Swan Silvertones / Sinner Man / Vee-Jay / 1957 /

last soul song
The Emotions / Rejoice / Best of My Love / Columbia / 1977

Thanks a million!

You are all the best! Thanks for helping on my little piece of the annual fundraiser. Thanks to Bob, a longtime listener and supporter of Coffeetime, who not only pledged generously again, but also showed up in person to help answer phones and keep me calm!

Thanks to my other helpers: Doug, Charlie, Bruce, Tim, Larry, Shay, and, sweet surprise, Lauren. I couldn't have done it without their help behind the scenes.

The fundraiser continues up to the end of the programming day on Tuesday, so it's not too late if you want to join in.

I'll post the playlist and the downloadable show in a few days. As always, you can stream it anytime at wmbr.org, or stream the live show.

THANKS!