Friday, February 27, 2009

Cast Your Playlist to the Wind


Coffeetime, February 27, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / 2 Trumpets / Dig / Prestige / 8.3.56
J.C. Cobb & his Grains of Corn / Shake that Jelly Roll / Vocalion / Chicago 2.7.29
Ambrose & his Orch / My Lucky Star / Decca / Liverpool & Victoria Hall, London 10.7.29 / vocal = unknown
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hey! Now Let's Live / Decca [unissued] / 3.1.44
Eugenie Baird / Eugenie Baird Sings, Duke's Boys Play Ellington / Mood Indigo / Design / 1958

set 2
Booker Little / Victory & Sorrow [Booker Little and Friend] / If I Should Lose You / Bethlehem / fall 1961
John Coltrane / Lush Life / Like Someone in Love / Prestige / 8.16.57
Sil Austin / Plays Pretty for the People / Prisoner of Love / Mercury / 2.59
Don Byas / Melody in Swing / Super Disc / 9.12.45
Cleo Brown / The Stuff is Here and It's Mellow / Decca / 3.12.35
Ella Fitzergerald / Ella and Her Fellas / You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) / Decca / 1.18.46 / with Louis Armstrong and Bob Haggart Orch
Junior Parker / Driving Wheel / Duke / Memphis 1961

set 3
Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / Cool / Verve / 3.28.63
The Basie-ites / How High the Moon / Blue Moon / Jubilee / 1962
Joe Houston / Curfew / Combo / LA 1958
Bud Freeman & his Summa Cum Laude Orch / Gee, But I Hate to Go Home Alone / Decca / 9.26.40 / vocal = Teddy Grace
The Four Buddies / Moonlight in Your Eyes / Savoy [unissued] / 1.31.51
Buddy Greco / Hang You Hat at Mister Kelly's / Dancing on the Ceiling / Coral / live at Mister Kelly's, Chicago 7.24.55

set 4
Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Moon River / Fantasy / LA 1962
Skip Martin / TV soundtrack: The Music from Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer / Lenox Avenue Strut / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1959
Bing Crosby / You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me / Brunswick / 1.12.33 / with Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians, featuring Lebert Lombardo on trumpet
Johnny Otis Band / Wishing Well / Mercuryy / LA 1952 / vocal = Ada Wilson
Dean Martin / This Time I'm Swingin' [Dean Martin Deluxe] / On the Street Where You Live / Capitol [Pickwick] / Hollywood 1960
The Lynn Harmonizers / I Was Standing / Silver Cross / Boston 1963

last soul song
Denise LaSalle / Keep It Coming / Westbound / Detroit 1971

Friday, February 20, 2009

I'm a Playlist Dame


Coffeetime, February 20, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Ronnie Mathews / Doin' the Thang! / Let's Get Down / Prestige / 12.17.63
Thad Jones / Mad Thad / Bird Song / Period / 1.6.57
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Weary Blues / Victor / 9.26.35
Turner Layton / I Get Along Without You Very Well / radio transcripton? / 7.8.39
Cats & the Fiddle / I'll Always Love You Just the Same / Bluebird / 1.20.41
Dakota Staton / More Than the Most! / I Could Make You Care / Capitol / 1959

set 2
Hampton Hawes / Four Real! / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams / Contemporary / 3.17.58
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / The Nearness of You / Tampa / LA 1954
Hoagy Carmichael / Messin' Around / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orch / Loving You the Way I Do / Victor / 1930
Timmie Rogers / FLA-GA-LA-PA / Majestic / 1946 / with the Palmer Brothers
Tommy Dean Orch / Recession / Vee Jay / Chicago 5.27.58 / vocal = Joe Buckner
Barbara George / Whip O Will / AFO / 1962

set 3
Sergio Mendes / The Great Arrival / Boranda / Atlantic / Hollywood 6.2.66
Gigi Gryce / The Rat Race Blues / Monday through Sunday / New Jazz / 6.7.60
Stan Getz / Running Water / Savoy / 7.31.46
The Mills Brothers / The Love Bug Will Bite You / Decca / 4.5.37
The Pied Pipers / My My! / RCA Victor / 3.4.40 / with Tommy Dorsey & his Orch
Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / Nobody's Heart / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57

set 4
Chico Hamilton / Jazz Swings Broadway / I'm a Funny Dame / World Pacific / LA 8.12.57
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / More than the Blues / Contemporary / LA 4.25.55
Hot Lips Page Band / Good for Stompin' / Savoy / 9.12.44
Mabel Scott / Baseball Boogie / King / Cincinnati 3.25.50
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / Rock Awhile / Freedom / Houston c. 4.49
Nancy Wilson / Nancy – Naturally / Ten Years of Tears / Capitol / LA 1967
The Trumpeteers / So Many Years / Philadelphia late 1954

last soul song
The Intruders / Doctor, Doctor / Gamble / 1970

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I Think You've Got Your Playlists Mixed Up

I spun a few 45s at The Independent in Union Square last Thursday night, filling in for the irreplaceable John Funke:

From my relatively modest, definitely messy collection of 45s:

First set
Faye Adams / It Hurts Me to My Heart / Warwick
Gene Chandler / Soul Hootenanny, Part 2 / Constellation
Earl Gaines / Soul Children / Seventy-Seven
The Beginning of the End / Funky Nassau, Part 2/ Alston
Brenda & the Tabulations / Scuse Uz Y'all / Top and Bottom
Gladys Knight & the Pips / You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You) / Soul
Tom Jones / Once Upon a Time / Parrot
Eddie Holman / I Surrender / ABC
Brenton Wood / I Think You've Got Your Fools Mixed Up / Double Shot
Walter Jackson / Words / Chi-Sound
Jr Walker & the All Stars / Clinging to the Thought That She's Coming Back / Soul
Major Lance / The Monkey Time / Okeh
Bobby Darin / Melodie / Motown
Brenda Jo Harris / Play with Fire/ Roulette
The Artistics / Girl, I Need You / Brunswick
Barbara Lynn / I'm a One Man Woman / Atlantic
Little Milton / Friend of Mine / Glades
Brenda Holloway / Land of a Thousand Dances / Tamla

Set Two
Keith / Tell Me to My Face / Mercury
The Uniques / Fast Way of Living / Paula
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart / Out & About / A&M
The Fortunes / I've Gotta Go / Press Records
The Shocking Blue / Hot Sand / Colossus
Kyu Sakamoto / Sukiyaki / Capitol
Ruby & the Romantics / Young Wings Can Fly / Kapp
Small Faces / Itchycoo Park / Immediate
Willie Tee / Walking Up a One Way Street / Atlantic
Bettye Swann / Make Me Yours / Money
Gladys Knight & the Pips / On and On / Buddah

Friday, February 13, 2009

Other Lips, Other Playlists

Coffeetime, February 13, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Leo Parker / Let Me Tell You 'Bout It / Vi / Blue Note / 9.9.61
Clifford Jordan / Spellbound / Lush Life / Riverside / 8.10.60
Dick McDonough / The Ramble / Columbia? / late 1934
California Ramblers / Broken Idol / Edison / 8.1.29
Ozzie Nelson & his band / Don't Count Your Kisses / radio transcription / Hollywood 1936 / with introduction by Ozzie, vocal = Harriet Hilliard
Ernie Fields Orch / T-Town Blues / Regal / 11.29.49 / vocal = unknown
Etta Jones / Something Nice / That's All There Is to That / Prestige / 9.16.61

set 2
Thad Jones / Thad Jones, Volume 3 [1546] / I've Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 7.9.56
Steve Allen / Monday Nights / Impossible / Signature / 1956
Don Barreto et son Orch Cubain / Juramento / Decca / London 7.15.32 / Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Hop Off / Columbia / 11.4.27 / vocal = Don Redman
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Take My Heart / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, the Netherlands 8.14.36 / vocal = Greta Keller
Frank Sinatra / For the Record on NBC radio / If You Are But a Dream / V-Disc / 10.23.44 / with Raymond Paige & orch
Tony Middleton / Shake a Hand / Button Up Your Lip / Guest Star [Herald?] / late 1950s

set 3
Wes Montgomery / The Wes Montgomery Trio / The End of a Love Affair / Riverside 10.6.59
Taft Jordan / The Moods of Taft Jordan / Second Balcony Jump / 1959
The Metronome All-Stars / Overtime / RCA Victor / 1.3.49
Carroll Gibbons & his Savoy Hotel Orpheans / You and Your Kiss / Columbia / London 7.31.41 / vocal = Anne Lenner <-- thanks so much, Richard
The Five Red Caps / I'm Pretty Crazy 'Bout You / Joe Davis / 3.44
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / 3.23.61

set 4
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Jazz Song Book / Let's Get Away from It All / Coral / 1959 / Don Fagerquist discography
Art Pepper / Smack Up / How Can You Lose / Contemporary / 10.24-25.60
Paul Robeson / Just A-Wearying for You [take 4] / Victor/HMV / 3.24.38 <-- thanks again, Richard
Little Esther / Other Lips, Other Arms / Federal / Cincinnati 1.27.51
Jackie Wilson / Shake, Shake, Shake / Brunswick / 7.63
Swan Silvertones / The Swan Silvertones / Jesus Remembers / Vee Jay / 1959

last soul song
Betty Wright / Hard to Stop / Gimme Back My Man / Altson / 1973

Friday, February 06, 2009

Soft and Subtle Playlist



Coffeetime, February 6, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Phinupi / Blue Note / 5.14.58
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / Stretch in "F" / Mode / 7.57
Chick Webb & his Orch / Strictly Jive / Decca / 10.27.38
Don Voorhees & his Orch / Baby's Blue / Columbia / 9.10.27 / vocal = Lewis James
Miss Rhapsody / Sugar / Savoy / 11.21.44
Mavis Rivers / Mavis / There's No You / Reprise / LA 1961 / arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Al Casey / Buck Jumpin' / Don't Blame Me / Prestige Swingville / 3.7.60
Benny Golson / Benny Golson's New York Scene / You're Mine You / Contemporary / 10.17.57
Jimmy Nolen / After Hours / Federal / LA 11.55
Slim & Slam [Slim Galliard & Slam Stewart] / I Got Rhythm / radio transcription / 8.30.39
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Everything I Have Is Yours / radio transcription / 1934 / vocal = Deane Janis
Bing Crosby / You Belong to My Heart {Solamente Una Vez) / Decca / LA 2.11.45 / with Xavier Cugat & his Orch
Martha Davis & her Torrid Trio / What's Become of You? / Cadet? / LA 12.10.51
J's with Jamie [various] / Two on the Aisle / A Lot of Livin' to Do / Columbia / early 1960s

set 3
The Guitars, Inc / Soft and Subtle / Oasis / Warner Brothers / LA 1959
Cannonball Adderley / Things are Getting Better / Groovin' High / Riverside / 10.28.58
Jimmy Jackson All Stars / Honkin' / RPM / 1952
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / Don't Take Your Love from Me / transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Eugenie Baird and featuring Red Nichols on clarinet
The Ravens / Count Every Star / National / 3.50
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Wake Up, Chillun, Wake Up / Atlantic / 1957

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners Ride Again! / Volare (Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu)/ Contemporary / LA 8.19, 21.58
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / East of the Sun / Contemporary / Hollywood 3.1.55
Annisteen Allen / The Bluest Blues / Federal / 10.31.51
Cliff Edwards / Ukelele Ike Sings Again / Sunday + Swingin' Down the Lane / Disneyland / LA 1946 / with the Wonderland Jazz Band
Ann Cole / Got My Mojo Working / Baton / 1.27.57
The Chosen Gospel Singers / When I Get Home / Specialty / Hollywood 4.28.54

last soul song
The Isley Brothers / Take Inventory / T Neck / 1971

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Coffeetime podcast

If you missed yesterday's Coffeetime live over the FM radio (how old fashioned that seems lately), you can download it at Coffeetimearchive.org.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Mo Jo Playlist



Coffeetime, January 30, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Burrell / Earthy / Dayee / Prestige / 1.25.57
John Kirby & his Orch / Yours Forever / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / You Gotta Toe the Line / Modern / LA late 1940s
Russ Columbo / Guilty / Victor / 9.3.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orch, Jack Shilkret on piano
Myoshi Umeki / Myoshi / My Ship / Mercury / 1959?

set 2
Chet Baker / Groovin' with the Chet Baker Quintet / Lonely Star /Prestige / 8.23, 25, 29.65
Sonny Clark / Dial "S" for Sonny / Love Walked In / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / Blue Jazz / Brunswick / 1932
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / You're a Sweetheart / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38 / vocal = Greta Kellar
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / I Didn't Like It the First Time / Capitol / LA 11.13.47
Billy May & his Orch / soundtrack to MGM film Johnny Cool / The Ballad of Johnny Cool / UA / Hollywood 1963 / vocal = Sammy Davis Jr

set 3
Victor Feldman / It's a Wonderful World / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / Vee Jay / 1965
Curtis Amy / Mustang / Old Devil Moon / Verve /LA 1.26.67
Joe Thomas & his Orch / Harlem Hop / King / 11.28.49
Dinah Washington / You Didn't Want Me Then / Mercury / Chicago 4.6.46 / with Gerald Wilson's Orch
Memphis Slim & The House Rockers / I Guess I'm a Fool / Premium / 1950 / with The Four Vagabonds
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / Waltz for Debbie / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Bill Evans / New Jazz Conceptions / Waltz for Debby / Riverside / 9.27.56
Kenny Clarke / Kenny Clarke Plays Christian Chevallier / Jean-Paul / French Columbia / Boulogne 11.12.57
André Previn / California Clipper / Sunset / Hollywood 10.13.45
Meade Lux Lewis / V-Disc Stomp / V-Disc [unissued] / Hollywood 11.19.43
Les Paul Trio / Coquette / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Sarah Vaughan / I Can't Get Started with You / MGM / LA 1950
Danny Kaye / For Children / The Woody Woodpecker / Decca / LA c. 1956 / with the Andrew Sisters
Esther Phillips / Mo Jo Hannah / Atlantic / 2.6, 7.64 / with Gary Sherman's Orch
Highway QC's / Teach Me / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1957

last soul song
The Intruders / Let's Go Downtown or Sad Girl / Gamble / Philadelphia 1969

Friday, January 23, 2009

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Playlist



Coffeetime, January 23, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
David Fathead Newman / Fathead / Bill for Bennie / Atlantic / 11.5.58
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Jordan [1565] / Beyond the Blue Horizon / Blue Note / 6.2.57
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Sweet Sue, Just You / Bluebird / 4.8.38
Noel Coward / Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans / HMV / 7.2.43 / piano = Robb Stewart
Les Paul Trio / What am I Gonna Do About You? / Decca / Hollywood 2.13.47 / vocal = Bing Crosby
Leo "Snub" Mosley & his Band / Couldn't You Could (Fall in Love with Me) / Decca / 10.27.49
Frances Faye / I'm Wild Again / These Foolish Things Remind Me of You / Bethlehem / LA 1955

set 2
Duke Jordan / Flight to Jordan / Yesterdays / Savoy / 11.20.55
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / Blues Around Dusk / Prestige /2.27.59
Sol Ho’opi’i & his Novelty Quartette / An Orange Grove in California / Brunswick / 10.4.33
Sophie Tucker / He Hadn't Up ’Til Yesterday / Columbia / London 8.28.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra
Jimmy Witherspoon / Move Me Baby / Federal / LA 10.5.53 / with The Lamplighters
Sergio Franchi / Sings in Italian Il Fantastico! / Perdoniamoci / 4 Corners [Durium] / Italy early 1960s

set 3
Tal Farlow / Tal / Yesterdays / Norgran [Verve] / 1956
Benny Golson / Free / Sock Cha Cha / Argo / 12.26.62
Ivy Anderson / I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good / Black & White / LA 10.46 / with Phil Moore's Orch
The Crickets / When I Met You / Jay-Dee / 4.24.53
Mel Tormé / The Tormé Touch / When April Comes Again / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Martial Solal & son Orch / soundtrack to Échappement libre [Backfire] / David et Olga / Paris 7.9.64
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / You and I / Coral / Hollywood 4.25.57
Rip Ramsey & his Texas Wanderers / Wanderers Swing / Eagle / Amarillo 1948
Peggy Lee / But Beautiful / Capitol radio transcriptions / LA 4.4, 8.49
Joe Liggins & the Honeydrippers / Make Love to Me / Specialty / Hollywood 3.12.54
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / Laughing at Life / Columbia / 1954 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
The Soul Stirrers / Well, Well, Well / Aladdin / 1947

last soul song
Jackie Moore / Sweet Charlie Babe / Both Ends Against the Middle / Atlantic / Philadelphia 1973

Friday, January 16, 2009

The Midnight Playlist Will Never Set

Coffeetime, January 16, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / Split Feelin's / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Mal Waldron / Impressions / With a Song in My Heart / New Jazz / 3.20.59
The Hot Club Swing Stars / Every Tub / Disques Swing / Paris 12.14.38
The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Wie Is Loesje? / Decca? / Hilversum, Holland 5.9.39
The Basin Street Boys / Exactly Like You / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson Orch
The Ray-O-Vacs / Start Lovin' Me / Jubilee / 1952
Jeri Southern / The Southern Style / I Don't Know Where to Turn / Decca / 1955

set 2
Art Farmer / Portrait of Art Farmer / Too Late Now / Contemporary / 4.19.58
Johnny Hodges / Blues-a-Plenty / Gone with the Wind / Verve / 4.5.58
Benny Carter & his Orch / Further Definitions / The Midnight Sun Will Never Set / Impulse! / 11.13.61
Bobby Haggart & his Boys / Untitled / V-Disc / 4.7.47
Timmie Rogers / Daddy-O / AFRS Jubilee transcription / LA mid-1940s
Lydia Larson & the River Rovers / Bald Headed Daddy / Apollo / 9.25-26.51
Mighty Sparrow / Tatoo Woman / You Don't Love Me / National / 1965

set 3
Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / Arnetta / Savoy / 5.19.56
Lionel Hampton / You Better Know It!!! / Trick or Treat / Impulse! / 10.26, 29.64
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Boogie Woogie Barbecue / Atlantic / 12.29.47
Norfolk Jazz Quartette [aka Norfolk Jubilee Quartet] / Suntan Baby Brown / Decca / 7.19.37
Russ Morgan & his Orch / Am I Proud / Paramount short / Hollywood 1939 / vocal = Carolyn Clarke
Frankie Lymon / At the London Palladium / Fools Rush In / Roulette / London 1957

set 4
Lee Konitz / [Konitz Meets Mulligan] / I'll Remember April / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1.30.53
Kai Winding [Kai's Krazy Kats] / Always / Savoy / 12.14.45
Red Debroy's Swingers / Nickel in the Slot / Decca / Holland 5.36
Jack Teagarden / I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues / Brunswick 4.28.39
Irma Thomas / (You Ain't) Hittin' on Nothing / Minit / New Orleans 1963
Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / Change Partners / Reprise / LA 1967
The Crayton Singers / Lord Hear Me Cry / Silver Cross / Boston 1966

last soul song
Stevie Wonder / Signed, Sealed, & Delivered / Anything You Want Me to Do / Tamla / 1970

Friday, January 09, 2009

He's the Best Little Playlist to Me



Coffeetime, January 9, 2009, Angelynn Grant

bed
Tommy Flanagan / Flanagan's Shenanigans / But Beautiful / Storyville / Denmark 1995
Tommy Flanagan / Super Session / Too Late Now / Enja / 1988

set 1
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin' Together / Gettin' Together / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / Slowly / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabiel) & his Orch / Saboo / Bluebird /12.20.39
John Firman & his Band / That's My Desire / Victor / London 1932 / vocal = Maurice Elwin
Kay Starr / If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight) / ARA / 7.25.44 / with Wingy Manone & his Orch
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Love Locked Out / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Landslide / Love Locked Out / Blue Note / 5.5.62
Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Flamingo / Atlantic / LA 8.17.55
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch / Contrasts (theme) & Just You, Just Me / radio transcription / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 2.8.43
Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / China Boy / Decca / Paris 1.30.39
Una Mae Carlisle / He's the Best Little Yankee to Me / Joe Davis [during record ban] / 5.23.44
Piney Brown / Battle with the Bottle / Jubilee [unissued] / 1953
Tommy Ridgely / My Ordinary Girl / Ric / New Orleans 9.20.61

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Guitar Forms / Breadwinner / Verve / 4.12.65
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Trane Whistle / The Stolen Moment / Prestige / 9.20.60
The Five Breezes / What's the Matter with Love? / Bluebird / Chicago 11.15.40
Doris Day / You're My Thrill / When Your Lover Has Gone / Columbia / 1949
Dick Haymes / Moondreams / Moonlight Becomes You / Capitol / 1957

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / Love Me or Leave Me / Riverside / 4.10.57
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Our Love is Here to Stay / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Andy Iona's Novelty Four / Paahana / Columbia / LA 1.14.29
Russ Morgan & his Orch / You Got Me / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = Carolyn Clarke
Hoagy Carmichael / Eventide / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Ricky Nelson / Fools Rush In / Decca / LA 1963
The Bailey Gospel Singers / Journey to the Sky / Okeh / 1.27.51

last soul song
The Wallace Brothers / No More / Sims / 1965

Friday, January 02, 2009

Poor Girl's Playlist

Coffeetime, January 2, 2009, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Booker Little / The Defiant Ones / Milestones / UA / 10.58
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / I Never Knew / New Jazz / 3.7.58
Bill Coleman / Coquette / French Gramophone "for La Voix de Son Maître" [aka HMV] / Paris 1.31.36
Rudy Vallée / Goodnight My Love / HMV? / London 5.30.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Hotel Orpheans
Leseter Williams / I Know that Chick / Macy's Records / Houston 1949
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / If You Really Love Me, Really Love Me / Atlantic / 1966

set 2
Hank Jones / Bluebird / Little Girl Blue / Savoy / 11.1.55
Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / I'm Coming Virginia / Contemporary / 7.22.58
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Diane / Capitol / 1958
Meade Lux Lewis / Honky Tonk Train Blues / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43
Fats Waller / Undecided / Bluebird / 3.9.39
Eartha Kitt / I Can't Give You Anything but Love / Disques Swing/Pathé Marconi / Paris 1.21.50 / with Doc Cheatham & his Trio
Steve Gibson & the Red Caps / Wait / RCA / 6.2.62

set 3
Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Cascades / Impulse! / 2.23.61
Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Taps Miller / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57
Milt Jackson Sextet / Bass C Jam / Savoy / Chicago 2.48
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Goodnight My Love / Victor / 11.5.36 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald
The Striders / Baby Don't You Cry / Apollo [unreleased] / 11.14.49
Dean Martin / Dream with Dean / Fools Rush In / Hollywood 1964 / Reprise

set 4
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Fools Rush In / Roost / 12.5.52 [12.19?]
Wes Montgomery / Movin' Along / So Do It! / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Fifty-Second Street / Decca / 12.9.36 / vocal = Harry Mills
Richard Berry / One Little Prayer / Flair / LA 9.53
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Greatest Hits [orig Crystal Illusions] / Pretty World / A&M / LA 1970
Sensational Saints of Ohio / Ain't that a Shame / late 60s

last soul song
The Masqueraders / Poor Boy's Dream / [unissued on Masked comp, thanks, Matt!] / late 60s

Friday, December 26, 2008

Do the Playlist



Coffeetime, December 26, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman / Three Trumpets / Diffusion of Beauty / Prestige / 1.26.57
Ken McIntyre / Looking Ahead / Curtsy / New Jazz / 1.28.60
Don Byas / Mohawk Special / Swing / Paris 10.18.46
Al Bowlly & his Orch / Every Day's a Holiday / Bluebird / 12.3.37
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Sure Had a Wonderful Time / Decca / 10.10.46
Eartha Kitt / An Englishman Needs Time / TV soundtrack / live 1962
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Verve / LA 8.15-16.60

set 2
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Medley: They Say It's Wonderful; How Deep is the Ocean; I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You; My Old Flame; Body and Soul / Atlantic / 4.3, 5.57
Russ Morgan & his Orch / Moonlight and Shadows / radio transcription / 1938
Joe Venuti's Blue Five / Four String Joe / Okeh / 11.15.27
Bing Crosby / soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Let's Start the New Year Right / Hollywood spring 1942
Jimmy Witherspoon / It / Federal / LA 6.4.53
Mouseketeer Ensemble / Happy Birthday and Songs for Every Holiday / Happy New Year / Disneyland / LA 1964

set 3
King Curtis / Soul Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / Atco / 10.23.68 / with Duane Allman on guitar
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / Afro-Jaws / Jazz-a-Samba / Riverside / 5.4, 12.61
Charlie Parker / Tico Tico / Clef / 3.12.51
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Pert Skirt / Gotham / Philadelphia 1950
The Mills Brothers / St. Louis Blues / Brunswick / 4.14.32
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Let It Be Me / Bluebird [unissued] / 12.18.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright
Frank Sinatra / As Time Goes By / radio transcription Songs By Sinatra, CBS / 12.26.43 / with Axel Stordahl & orch and The Bobby Tucker Singers

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Nagasaki / Contemporary / 3.18, 19.57
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Long Ago and Far Away / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55
Toni Harper / Rock A Bye Baby / Columbia / LA 1.3.50
The Sharpees / Do the 45 / One-derful! / St. Louis 1965
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 12.58
Christland Singers / Jesus Has a Blessing / Nashboro / Nashville mid-1950s

last soul song
The O'Jays / Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Year's Ain't New Year's Without the One You Love / Neptune / Philadelphia 1969

Friday, December 19, 2008

The Playlist Waltz



Coffeetime, December 19, 2008

bed
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 1.31.60
Duke Ellington & his Orch / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show aired 12.47 / Ring Dem Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 7.11.46
Harry Reser & his Orch / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Decca / 10.24.34 / vocal = Tom Sacks
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, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera-Ellen / soundtrack to Paramount movie White Christmas / Snow / Hollywood 1953
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 8.5.60

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
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / It's Christmas Time Again / Capitol / LA 1963
Cary Grant / Christmas Lullaby / Columbia / LA 1967 / lyrics by Peggy Lee, music by Cy Coleman, written for Cary Grant's daughter Jennifer
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
Benny Carter & his Swing Quintet / Jingle Bells / Vocalion? / London 10.19.36
The Ravens / White Christmas / Savoy / Chicago 1948
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / fall 1949 / with Billy Butterfield Quintet and background vocals by The Three Beaus & a Peep
[Bull] Moose Jackson / I'll Be Home for Christmas / King / 1951
Louis Armstrong / Christmas Night in Harlem / Decca / LA 9.8.55 / with Benny Carter Orch
Bing Crosby / White Christmas / Count Your Blessings / Decca / Hollywood 1953 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

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 2.57

Friday, December 12, 2008

Singing a Vagabond Playlist



Coffeetime, December 5, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Tribute to Brownie / Blue Note / 2.9.57
Clifford Brown / Minority (take 1) / Vogue / Paris 10.8.53
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch / All the Things You Ain't / V-Disc / LA 7.20.44
Harry Richman / Singing a Vagabond Song / soundtrack to UA film Putting on the Ritz / Hollywood 1930
Jack McVea & his All Stars / No, No, You Can't Do Dot Mon / Black & White / LA 11.47 / vocal = Robin Tarrant & Sammy Yates
Peggy Lee / (songs from) White Christmas / (Love) You Didn't Do Right by Me / Decca / Hollywood 5.24.54 / with Joseph J. Lilley and his Orch and Chorus; a re-recording of the songs from the Paramount movie

set 2
Cal Tjader / Tjader plays Tjazz / I've Never Been in Love Before / Fantasy / San Francisco 12.4.54
Kenny Drew / The Kenny Drew Trio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Riverside / 9.20, 26.56
Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / Thanks for the Memory / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
The Kit-Kat Band / D'Ye Love Me? / Bluebird / London 9.21.26
Dorothy Lamour / Too Romantic / soundtrack to Paramount movie Road to Singapore / Hollywood 1940
Tiny Bradshaw / Brad's Boogie / King / Cincinnati 6.8.50
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Inception / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Max Roach / Jazz in 3/4 Time / I'll Take Romance / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.18.57
Ivory Joe Hunter & his Orch / Siesta with Sonny / King / Cincinnati 12.5.47
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Blue Music / radio transcription / live Peacock Room, Baker Hotel, Dallas 8.9.45 / vocal = Doris Day
The Ravens / Without a Song / National [unissued] / 1950-51
Mel Tormé / The Tormé Touch / I Like to Recognize the Tune / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Curtis Counce / You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce / Too Close for Comfort / Contemporary / LA 4.22.57
Paul Desmond / Desmond Blue / Then I'll Be Tired of You / RCA Victor / 10.2.61
Fred Astaire / You're Easy to Dance With /soundtrack to Holiday Inn / Paramount / Hollywood spring 1942 / accompanied by "Male Octet"
Little Willie John / Mister Little Willie John / You Got to Get Up Early in the Morning / King / Cincinnati 1.4.57
Bing Crosby / When It's Twilight on the Trail / soundtrack from The Bing Crosby Show, NBC TV / Hollywood 8.59 / with orch conducted by Nelson Riddle (CD bonus track on Fancy Meeting You Here, RCA)
The Southern Sons /I'll Fly Away / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 6.21.51

last soul song
Rufus & Chaka Khan / Rufusized / Stop on By / ABC / LA 1974

Friday, December 05, 2008

The Soft Land of Playlist

Thanks to Alex for filling in for me last week while I was away. I've been under the weather and have lost my voice. So, I try to keep the talking to the minimum on today's show -- for your sake, my dreamy friends.

Coffeetime, December 5, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Capers / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62 [4.11.62?]
Horace Silver / Blue Note Gems of Jazz (BLP2001) / Safari / Blue Note / 10.9.52
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Yesterdays / radio transcription / 1941-2 / featuring Freddy Webster on trumpet
Noel Coward / Most of Ev'ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Dizzy Gillespie / School Days / I Couldn't Beat the Rap / Savoy / 8.16.51 / vocal = Melvin Moore
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Ella and Louis Again / Autumn in New York / Verve / LA 7.23.57

set 2
Hank Mobley / The Turnaround / The Good Life / Blue Note / 3.7.63
Herbie Mann's Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / A Handful of Stars / Riverside / LA 7.3.57
Pee Wee Russell's Rhythmakers / Dinah / HRS / 8.31.38
Ted Weems & his Orch / Walkin' My Baby Back Home / Victor / 1931
Lil Armstrong & his Swing Orch / I'm Knocking at the Cabin Door / Decca / 4.15.37
Chuck Willis / It's Too Late Baby / Atlantic / 1956

set 3
Kenny Dorham / Trompeta Toccata / Mamacita / Blue Note 9.14.64
Tadd Dameron Sextet / The Chase / Blue Note / 9.26.47
The Dreamers / Doin' the Bow Wow / Standard transcription / LA 8.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Bolero at the Savoy / CBS radio transcription / Hollywood Palladium 10.14.41 / vocal = Anita O'Day
Frank Minion / The Soft Land of Make Believe (Introduction to Black Opium Street) / So What / Bethlehem / 1.60

set 4
Russ Freeman / Jazz West Coast, volume 5 / Invitation to the Blues / World Pacific / LA 1959
Dizzy Gillespie / The Swords / EmArcy / LA 9.62
Chu Berry "Little Jazz" Ensemble / Sittin' In / Commodore / 11.10.38
Ann Southern / soundtrack to Panama Hattie / I've Still Got My Health / Hollywood 1943
King Cole Trio / I Love You (for Sentimental Reasons) / Capitol / LA 8.22.46
Sammy Davis, Jr / All the Way… and Then Some! / They Can't Take That Away from Me / Decca / 2.20.57
The Gospel Songbirds / The Bible is Right / Nashboro / 1962

last soul song
Betty Wright / I Love the Way You Love / I'm Gettin' Tired Baby / Alston / 1972

Friday, November 28, 2008

Alex fills in on Coffeetime

While I spent time with family over Thanksgiving, Alex kindly filled in for me on Coffeetime. Here's his playlist:

01. Stan Kenton - Dragnet (1967)
02. Les Baxter - The Medic (1955)
03. Alex North - Theme from Playhouse 90 (1956)
04. Ray Anthony - Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
05. Boston Pops Orchestra - Look Sharp, Be Sharp (1954)
06. Karen Chandler - Love Is the $64,000 Question (1956)
07. Alan Dale - Robin Hood (1955)
08. Frank Ortega Trio - 77 Sunset Strip (1959)
09. Buddy Morrow - Highway Patrol (1959)
10. Buddy Morrow - Bourbon Street Beat (1960)
11. SurfSide 6 (1960)
12. Buddy Morrow - Hawaiian Eye (1960)
13. Ralph Marterie - Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959)
14. Johnny Gregory - The Roaring Twenties (1960)
15. Nelson Riddle - The Untouchables (1960)
16. Edwin Astley - Theme from The Saint (1965)
17. Si Zentner - The Fugitive (1965)
18. Carl Brandt - Burke's Law (1964)
19. Nelson Riddle - The Defenders (1962)
20. Laurie Johnson - The Avengers (1968)
21. Nelson Riddle - The Rogues (1965)
22. Billy May - Mannix (1967)
23. Lester Lanin - Mr. Clean/Chase & Sanborn/Pepsodent (1961)
24. Jerry Van Dyke - My Mother the Car (1966)
25. The Alvin Show Theme (1961)
26. Spencer Ross - Theme from My Three Sons (1962)
27. Chordettes - Zorro (1959)
28. Spin & Marty - The Triple R Song (1955)
29. Stan Jones - Elfego Baca (1958)
30. Jack Valentine - Gunsmoke (1955)
31. Marty Gold - Black Saddle (1960)
32. Lawman Theme (1960)
33. Branded Theme (1965)
34. Sunset Singers - Wild Bill Hickok (1956)
35. Ron Goodwin - Wagon Train (first theme) (1958)
36. Marty Gold - Wagon Train (Wagons Ho, second theme) (1960)
37. David Fanshawe - Flambards (1977)
38. Tex Beneke - Mr. Peepers (1954)
39. Pete Rugolo - Richard Diamond (1959)
40. Pete Rugolo - Ben Casey (1962)
41. Kane Triplets - Mission Impossible (1968)
42. John Barry - The Persuaders (1971)
43. Roger Kellaway - Remembering You (closing theme from All in the Family)
44. John Williams - The Isolated Pawn (from Checkmate) (1961).

Friday, November 21, 2008

Show Your Playlist, Miss Grant

Coffeetime, November 21, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Open Sesame /Open Sesame / Blue Note / 6.19.60
Booker Ervin / The Song Book / All the Things You Are / Prestige / 2.27.64
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Drumology / Victor / 1946
Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orch / The Moon is a Silver Dollar / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Gliff Grass
Kay Starr / Betcha I Getcha / Standard transcription/ 5.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio and Joe Venuti
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Buzz Me / Decca / 1.19.45
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / Blue Moods / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2
Bennie Green / Hornful Of Soul / My Foolish Heart / Bethlehem / 12.60
Shelly Manne & his Men / The West Coast Sound / Afrodesia / Contemporary / 7.20.53
Bennie Morton / Holiday in Trombone / Once in A While / EmArcy / 5.30.44
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Hootie Boogie / Capitol / LA 1945
Emilio Caceres / What's the Use? / Victor / 11.5.37
Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / Once is Enough for Me / Decca / 3.2.39
La Verne Ray / Rock and Roll / Jubilee / 2.1.50 / with the Rene Hall Sextet

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Makin' Whoopee / Blue Note / 1.4.60
BB King / soundtrack to For Love of Ivy / Messy but Good / ABC / LA 3.68
Cozy Cole All-Stars / Just One More Chance / Keynote / 2.22.44
Mills Brothers / Lazy Bones / Decca / London 1934
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Show Your Linen, Miss Richardson / Victor / 4.7.39 / vocal = Johnny Mercer
Woody Herman / Songs for Hip Lovers / Comes Love / Verve / LA 1.11.57

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Louisiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Gene Krupa & his Orch / Disc Jockey Jump / Columbia / 1.22.47
Fletcher Henderson & his Orch / Tozo / Columbia / 1.21.27 / vocal = Don Redman
King Cole Trio / Sunday / radio transcription King Cole Trio Time, NBC radio / Hollywood 3.6.48
Wynona Carr / I'm Mad at You / Specialty / Hollywood 1957
Soul Stirrers / He'll Make a Way / Specialty / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soul song
Soul Children / Who is She and What is She to You? / Stax [unreleased] / 1973

Friday, November 14, 2008

Playlist Gonna Make It



Coffeetime, November 14, 2008, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Charlie Persip / Right Down Front / The Song is You / Bethlehem / 4.2.60
Milt Jackson / Invitation / The Sealer / Riverside / 10.31.62
Sandy Williams' Big Eight / Sandy's Blues [alt take] / HRS / 6.3.46
Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / Coffee in the Morning and Kisses at Night / Bluebird / Hollywood 12.12.33
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / She's Just Old Fashioned / Freedom / Houston c. 8.49
Ella Fitzgerald / Sings The Gershwin Song Book / (I've Got) Beginner's Luck / Verve / LA 1.5, 7, 8.59

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulmates / Too Late Now / Riverside / 9.20.63
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa [Neighborhood] / Honeysuckle Rose / Savoy / 2.26.55
Charlie Ventura Septet / Gene Norman Presents a Charlie Ventura Concert / If I Had You / Decca / live, Pasadena Civic Aud 4.49
Louis Armstrong & his Stompers / Chicago Breakdown / Columbia / Chicago 5.9.27
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Happy Feet / Columbia / Hollywood 2.10.30 / vocal = Original Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris)
The Cats & the Fiddle / Left with the Thought of You / Bluebird / 12.7.39
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton / The Two of Us / Baby (You've Got What It Takes) / Mercury / 1959

set 3
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / You Turned the Tables on Me / Riverside / 3.7.57
Ernie Felice / Cocktail Time / Sweet Sue, Just You / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Charlie Parker / Blues for Alice / Clef / 8.8.51
Benny Carter & his Orch / I Heard You Cried Last Night / vocal = Savannah Churchill
The Four Vagabonds / The Pleasure's All Mine / Apollo / 11.13.46
Hoagy Carmichael / Hoagy Sings Carmichael / Ballad in Blue / Pacific Jazz / LA 9.10.56

set 4
Art Pepper / Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section / Straight Life / Contemporary / LA 1.19.57
Victor Feldman / Mallets A Fore Thought / Evening in Paris / Interlude [Mode] / Hollywood 9.57
Joe Venuti's Rhythm Boys / Now that I Need You, You're Gone / Columbia / 9.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen
Gene Phillips / I Owe Everybody / Combo [unissued] / LA 1953 / with Jack McVea & his Orch
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / I'm Gonna Keep on Doin' (What I'm Doin') / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orch
Golden Gate Quartet / Lead Me On and On / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last (so thankful) soul song
Little Milton / I'm Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Thank you

Thanks to everyone who has pledged so far in WMBR's 2008 fundraiser. Special thanks to everyone who has pledged so far for Coffeetime. If you haven't yet, you can still do so (and receive some of our nice thank you gifts) at wmbr.org. (I really like the eco-combo premium set of the green grocery tote plus eco-friendly USB flash drive for a pledge of $100. Several people took advantage of this during Backwoods yesterday.)

And thanks to the WMBR deejays who helped me during Coffeetime: Jesse Kaminksy, John Funke, Larry Azrin, Bruce Sylvester, Ben Shanks, and Keith Sawyer for phone duty, laughs, and encouragement and Joan Hathaway and Doug Gesler for smiles and sweetness post-show.

When it comes down to it, WMBR is a nice group of people, listeners and station members -- one big family together. And I can say this as a station member for 17 years and, before that, as a very dedicated listener. We've got a special thing going here.

Fundraising week continues up to Wednesday night. I'll be helping Julia with Africa Kabisa today, Charlie with Research & Development tomorrow, and Jesse with The Intercontinental on Wednesday. It's one of my favorite times of the year.

Friday, November 07, 2008

I Sold My Heart to the Playlist

Coffeetime, November 7, 2008 -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

The songs listed below are probable, but not predictable. Things may change on the fly.

set 1
Hank Mobley / 5066 / Hank's Prank / Blue Note / 3.27.55
Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / 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
Louis Jordan / Put Some Money in the Pot, 'Cause the Juice is Running Low / Aladdin / 4.54

set 2
James Moody's Modernists / Moody's All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48
Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orch
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orch

set 3
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
Mildred Bailey / It All Comes Back to Me Now / radio transcription, CBS, The Mildred Bailey Show / LA c. 1943
The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942

set 4
David "Fathead" Newman / House of David / One Room Paradise / Atlantic / 1967
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / Hoppin' John / Mercury / 2.7.57
Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orch
Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

middle scattered set(s)
Ernestine "Annisteen" Allen & her Home Town Boys / Give It Up ('Cause You Can't Take It With You) / Queen / 12.20.45

set 5
Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11/ Shaw Nuff / Contemporary / LA 3.28.59
Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961
Bobby Darin / That's All / unaired BBC tv show / live, London Palladium 7.26.67
Bill Landford & the Landfordaires / Run On for a Long Time / Columbia / 12.49

last (thankful) soul song
Emotions / Rejoice / Best of My Love / Columbia / Hollywood 1977