Little Sugar Playlist

Coffeetime, April 30, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Harold Land / Eastward Ho! / On a Little Street in Singapore / Jazzland / 7.5.60
Paul Chambers / Go / I Got Rhythm / Vee-Jay / Chicago 2.2.59
Isham Jones & his Famous Orch / Star Dust / Brunswick / Chicago 5.16.30
Ipana Troubadours / Say! Who is that Baby Doll? / Columbia / 4.17.28 / vocal = Billy Jones
Prince Cooper Trio / Throw It Out Your Mind / Artistocrat / Chicago 1947
Beverly White & her Trio / I Waited Too Long / Trumpet / St Louis 6.7.52

set 2
Milt Jackson / Invitation / Ruby My Dear / Riverside / 10.31.62
Sonny Stitt / Personal Apearance / Easy Living / Verve / 5.12.57
Benny Goodman Trio / More Than You Know / Victor / Chicago 4.24.36
Kansas City Tin Roof Stompers / St Louis Bound / Brunswick / Chicago /3.15.29
Rosa Henderson / Get It Fixed / Vocalion / 3.21.28
Patsy Kelly & Barry Wood / I'm Gonna Hang My Hat On That Tree That Grows In Brooklyn / V-Disc / Hollywood c. 1944
Kenneth Nelson, Rita Gardner, William Larsen, & Hugh Thomas / Original Off Broadway Cast of The Fantasticks / This Plum Is Too Ripe / MGM / 6.13.60

set 3
Charles McPherson / From This Moment On! / Little Sugar Baby / Prestige / 1.31.68
Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Bluesy / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58
Luke Jones / Boogiology / Atlas / LA 1945
Ina Ray Hutton & her Orch / Was It Worth It / V-Disc / Hollywood 1944
The Ravens / Lilacs in the Rain / National / 1949
Yves Montand / France's Formidable Yves Montand / Coeur de mon Coeur / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

set 4
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Indiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Pete Rugolo & his All Stars / Out On a Limb / The Boy Next Door / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56
Paul Quinichette / Pepe Meets the Vice Pres / I Cover the Waterfront / French Columbia / 7.17.57
Wini Brown / Someone to Watch Over Me / National [unissued] / 8.1.49
Otis Rush / Mourning in the Morning / Feel So Bad / Cotillion / 1969
Samantha Jones / Call It Samantha / You Could End the World / Ascot / 1968
Soul Stirrers / Farther Along / Specialty / Hollywood 2.2.56

last soul song
Lovelites / I'm Not Like the Others / Uni? / 1970?

All I Need Is Some Sunshine in My Playlist

Coffeetime, April 23, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard / Happy Times / Impulse! / 7.2.62
Cecil Payne / The Connection: New Original Score / Dear People / Charlie Parker Records / 3.14-16.62
Gene Ammons / Bye Bye / Prestige / 3.5.50
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orch / Shivery Stomp / Okeh / 5.22.29
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) / Victor / 9.8.31
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / What Do You Know About Love / Modern Music / LA 1946 / vocal = Charles Brown
Morgana King / For You, For Me, For Evermore / For You, For Me, For Evermore / EmArcy / 3.29.56

set 2
Oliver Nelson / Meet Oliver Nelson / What's New / New Jazz / 10.30.59
Victor Feldman / The Arrival of Victor Feldman / Flamingo / Contemporary / LA 1.21, 22.58
J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding / Kai and Jay, Bennie Green with Strings / We'll Be Together Again / Prestige / 12.3.54
Cleo Brown / Pelican Stomp / Decca / 5.20.35
Dick Todd & his Orch / Last Night's Gardenias / Bluebird / 10.24.39
Betty Hutton / I Wish I Didn't Love You / Capitol / Hollywood 12.15.44 / with Paul Weston & orch
The Griffin Brothers / Sadie Green / Dot / 1951 / vocal = Margie Day
The Mills Brothers / San Antonio Rose / Cow Cow Boogie / Dot / 1961

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Cu-Bop (With Sabu and a Bongo) / Dawn on the Harvest / Jubilee / 3.13.57
Boswell Sisters / This is the Missus; Ladies & Gentlemen That's Love; Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries / Brunswick / 10.25.31 / from George White's Scandals, with Victor Young & his orch
Tony Pastor & his Orch / Braggin' / V-Disc [Army V-Disc 125, side 2] / c. 1943
John W. Bubbles / Bubbles, John W. That Is / Belittling Me / Vee-Jay / 1964

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / What's Right for You / Tampa / 2.20.57
Georgie Auld & his Orch / In the Land of Hi Fi / Love is Just Around the Corner / EmArcy / 11.11.55
Bernard Addison and His Rhythm aka Freddy Jenkins' Harlem Seven / Lovely Liza Lee / Victor / 8.26.35
Camille Howard / The Boogie and the Blues / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 12.31.47
Jimmy Witherspoon / One Fine Gal / Federal / LA 9.30.52
Tom Jones / The Tom Jones Fever Zone / It's a Man's Man's World / Parrot [Decca] / 10.27.67

Burt Bacharach / Make It Easy on Yourself / Make It Easy on Yourself / A&M / LA 1967
Dixie Hummingbirds / All I Need Is Some Sunshine in My Life / Chalice [unissued] / c. 1965

last soul song
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / Make It Happen / Dancing's Alright / Tamla / Detroit 1967

Blue Shadows on the Playlist

Coffeetime, April 16, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Tina Brooks / The Waiting Game / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.2.61
Lee Morgan / City Lights / Tempo de Waltz / Blue Note / 8.25.57
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Robbin's Nest / radio transcription / 1947
The Piccadilly Players / Funny Face / Columbia / London, 1928 / vocal = Eddie Gross-Bart
The Robins / If It's So Baby / National / LA 12.1.49 / with Johnny Otis Band
Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / I Got It Bad / Mercury / 1956

set 2
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Echoes of You / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Terry Gibbs / More Vibes on Velvet / Lazy Sunday / Mercury / Hollywood 11.58
Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins Sextet, Volume 2 / Julie Ann / Blue Note / 3.20.55
Ipana Troubadours / Sunny / Columbia / 3.5.26
Benny Morton Orch / Get Goin' / Columbia / 2.23.34
Jo Stafford / Love Is Just Around the Corner / V-Disc / mid-40s
Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans / Energy & Motion / Grand Coulee Dam (How Energy Changes Form) / Motivation Records / 1961

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Chances Are Few / Blue Note / 5.22.61
James Moody / Flute 'n' The Blues / It Could Happen to You / Argo / Chicago? 1956
Wardell Gray / Southside [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49
The Four Vagabonds / I Can't Make Up My Mind / Atlas / 1946
The Modernaires / Juke Box Saturday Night 10" EP / Pennies from Heaven / Columbia / 1946
Billy Eckstine / Serenade in Blue / National / LA 4.21.47

set 4
Red Callender / Callender Speaks Low / Nice Day / Crown [Modern] / 1954
Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca / Tenors Head-On / Blues for Two / Pacific Jazz / LA 7.56
Bing Crosby / Home on the Range / Blue Shadows on the Trail / Decca / 12.11-13.47 / with Ken Darby Choir and Victor Young Orch
Frank Sinatra / The Metronome All-Stars 10" EP / Sweet Lorraine / Columbia / LA 12.17.46
Little Milton / Blind Man / Checker / Chicago 1964
Golden Gate Quartet / Take Your Burdens to God / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last soul song
Denise LaSalle / Trapped by a Thing Called Love / Westbound / 1971

My Playlist Keeps Rollin'

Coffeetime, April 9, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Jordan / Starting Time / Quittin' Time / Jazzland / 6.15-15.61
Curtis Counce / Carl's Blues / Nica's Dream / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57
Doc Wheeler & his Sunset Orch / Keep Jumpin' / Bluebird / 3.30.42
Isham Jones & his Famous Orch / In My Heart It's You / Brunswick / Chicago 9.8.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Albinia Jones / Salty Papa / Savoy / 4.15.45 / with Don Byas's Swing Seven
The Camp Hill Male Quartet Hampton Roads Port Of Imbarkation / My Castle on the Nile / V-Disc / 1945

Doris Day / You're My Thrill / Sometimes I'm Happy / Columbia / 1949

set 2
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / Sweetness / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Prelude to a Kiss / Contemporary / Hollywood 3.1.55
Georgie Auld / Manhattan / Harlem Nocturne / Coral / 1953
J. C. Cobb & His Grains Of Corn / Don't Cry, Honey / Brunswick / Chicago /2.7.29 / vocal = J. C. Cobb
Beny Moré / Oh, Vida / RCA Victor / Cuba mid-1950s
Annisteen Allen / My Baby Keeps Rollin' / King / 1.28.53

set 3
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Kenya / Tampa / LA 1954
Jimmy Hamilton / Swing Low Sweet Clarinet / Taj Mahal / Everest / 1960
Babe Russin Quintet / Holiday in Sax / 5054 Whitsett / EmArcy / LA 3.8.46
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / Moon Ray / Columbia / 12.11.39 / vocal = Jean Eldridge
Cats & the Fiddle / Stomp, Stomp / Bluebird / 10.10.41
Dick Haymes / [Little White Lies] / Spring Will Be a Little Late this Year / Decca / / c. 1950 / with Four Hits & A Miss

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack's Groove / Brown Cow / GNP / LA 7.57
Milt Bernhart / Modern Brass / Tangerine / RCA Victor / LA 3.4.55
Bill Coleman & his Seven / B and G Bounce / Disques Swing / Paris 1.21.50
Coon-Sanders Nighthawks / Little Orphan Annie / Victor / Chicago 12.3.28 / vocal = J. L. Saunders
Ann Cole / In the Chapel / MGM / 1960
Frankie Laine / Rockin' / Blue Turning Grey Over You / Columbia / LA 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orch
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / No Hiding Place / Specialty [unissued alternate take 5] / Hollywood 8.14.53

last soul song
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds / You Don't Stand a Chance If You Don't Dance / Hey Girl / Pye / London 1975

My Heart is a Lonely Playlist

Coffeetime, April 2, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Donald Byrd / Parisian Thoroughfare / Two-bass Hit / Brunswick / L'Olympia Theatre, Paris 10.22.58
Curtis Fuller / The Opener / Oscalypso / Blue Note / 6.16.57
Sonny Stitt / Sonny Stitt Plays / If I Should Lose You / Roost / 12.15.55
McKinney's Cotton Pickers / I'd Love It / Victor / 11.5.29
Whispering Jack Smith / The Song I Love / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 10.11.28
The Crickets / Man from the Moon / Jay-Dee / 1954
Toni Harper / Lady Lonely / My Heart is a Lonely Hunter / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59 / with orch arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

set 2
Mal Waldron / Mal/2 / J.M.'s Dream Doll / Prestige / 4.19.57
Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet, and Tasty / All for You / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53
The Ramblers Dance Orch / Manhattan Shuffle / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, The Netherlands 12.33
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / I've Only Myself to Blame / 1.31.39 / vocal = Dan Grissom
Dorothy Lamour / Strange Enchantment / soundtrack to movie Man About Town / Hollywood 1939
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Brown Eyes (Why Are You Blue?) / RCA / LA 1957

set 3
Bobby Timmons / In Person / I Didn't Know What Time It Was / Riverside / live at the Village Vanguard 10.1.61
Terry Gibbs / El Latino ! / Serenata / Roost / 1964
Charlie Parker / Perhaps (take 6) / Savoy / 9.24.48
The Blenders / Don't Play Around with Love / Jay-Dee / 4.17.53
Sarah Vaughan / Everything I Have Is Yours / Musicraft / 7.18.46 / with George Treadwell's Orch
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / I See Your Face Before Me / Bethlehem / 10.55

set 4
Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Ruby / Contemporary / LA 2.13.56
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Wail Street / Contemporary / LA 3.28.55
Bing Crosby / A Yank in a Tank / V-Disc, Kraft Music Hall broadcast / LA 10.14.43
The Orioles / Barfly / Jubilee /7.52
Big Mama Thornton / My Man Called Me / Peacock / Houston / 1956

Thurston Harris / Tell Me So / Aladdin [unissued] / late 1950s
Ricky Nelson / More Songs by Ricky / I'm Not Afraid / Imperial / LA 4.12.60
The Prisonaires / Softly and Tenderly / Sun / Tennessee State Penitentiary 8.3.53

last soul song
Betty Wright / Hard to Stop / Sweet Wonder / Altson / 1973

Playlist del Rey

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Coffeetime, March 26, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
JJ Johnson / JJ Inc / Shutter-Bug / Columbia / 8.1.60
Art Farmer New Jazz Stars / Strike Up the Band / Vogue / Paris 9.28.53
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch / The Lion and the Mouse / transcription / mid-1940s
Phil Harris Cocoanut Grove Orch / What Have We Got to Lose? (Hi-Ho-Lack-A-Day) / Columbia / 3.3.33
Dinah Washington / West Side Baby / Mercury / Chicago 1947 / with Rudy Martin Trio
Frankie Ervin & his Band / I Got Hi / Combo / LA 1956
Dakota Staton / Dynamic! / When Sunny Gets Blue / Capitol / 1958

set 2
Charlie Byrd / Jazz at the Showboat / What's New / Offbeat / Washington, DC 1958
Quincy Jones / Harry Arnold + Big Band + Quincy Jones = Jazz! / The Midnight Sun Never Sets / EmArcy / Stockholm 4.29.58
Erroll Garner / Gone – Garner – Gonest / Lullaby in Rhythm / Columbia / 1.10.55
Larry Adler / They All Laughed / Columbia / London 6.3.37 / with Carroll Gibbons & orch
Morris's Hot Babies [Fats Waller] / Savannah Blues / Victor / 5.20.27
The Comedian Harmonists / The Old Ship Piano (Hein spielt abends so schön auf dem Schifferklavier) / HMV / Berlin 10.26.34
Betty Hutton / Stuff Like That There / Capitol / Hollywood 12.15.44 / with Paul Weston & orch

set 3
Eddie Harris / Bossa Nova / Lolita Marie / Vee Jay / 1963
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Choro / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Howard McGhee / Midnight at Minton's / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46
Mildred Bailey / Little High Chairman / Columbia / 1.15.40
Du Droppers / Little Girl, Little Girl (You Better Stop Talking in Your Sleep) / RCA / 5.8.53
Matt Dennis / She Dances Overhead / Blue Moon / RCA / 1955

set 4
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancing / Playa del Rey / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers / I've Got Five Dollars / RCA Victor / 1957
Hermanos Hernandez / Humanidad / Peerless / 1940s
Tommy Ridgely / I Want Some Money Baby / Johen / New Orleans 01.09.64
Bobby Darin / Love Swings / I Didn't Know What Time It Was / Atco / 1961
The Four Internes / It's All Right Now / King / Cincinnati 11.53

last soul song
Betty Everett / The Prince of Players / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1963

I'm Just a Playlist

Coffeetime, March 12, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / I'll Remember April / EmArcy / 3.6.58
Sonny Rollins / Sonny Rollins Plus 4 / Kiss and Run / Prestige / 3.22.56
Count Basie & his Orch / Rockin' the Blues / Okeh / 12.13.40
Jack Hylton & his Orch / Blue Orchids / HMV / 11.6.39 / vocal = Denny Dennis
The Ravens / No More Kisses for Baby / Savoy / 12.13.49
Big Maybelle / You'll Be Sorry / Okeh / 3.2.54

set 2
Curtis Fuller / The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson / I'll Walk Alone / Savoy / 8.25.59
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Quintet / Old Folks / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Jimmy Nolen / Strollin' with Nolen / Federal / LA 1956
Charlie Spivak & his Orch / Intermezzo (A Love Story) / Okeh/V-Disc / 1942
Butterbeans & Susie / T'Ain't None of Your Business / Okeh / Chicago 6.30.28
Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends / Isn't This a Lovely Day / Vocalion / London 10.15.35 / vocal = Hildegarde
Chu Chu Martinez & his Orch / Morena Linda / V-Disc / c. 1944
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) & The Sons of the Pioneers / From film "Hollywood Canteen" / Don't Fence Me In / Hollywood 1945

set 3
Barry Harris / Listen to Barry Harris / Sphere / Riverside / 7.28.61
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Come Rain or Come Shine / Coral / Hollywood 4.29.57
Charlie Parker / Scrapple from the Apple / Savoy / live Royal Roost 2.26.49 / announcer = Symphony Sid
The Five Jones Boys / Shoeshine Boy / Variety / 1937
Clyde Lucas & his Orchestra / Ten Days with Baby / V-Disc / c. 1944 / vocal = Jean La Salle
Fred Astaire / S'Wonderful / Clef / LA 12.52

set 4
Art Pepper / Surf Ride / Thyme Time / Savoy / 12.24.53 or 8.25.54
Jack Millman Sextet / Shades of "Things to Come" / Gone with the Wind / Liberty / LA 9.55
Hoagy Carmichael / How Little We Know / private recordings / Hoagy's home, Long Island 1939-1951 (unknown date)
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Ol' Man River / Victor / Hollywood 3.1.28 / vocal = Paul Robeson
Jerry Butler / I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore / Vee-Jay / 1964
Soul Stirrers / It Won't Be Very Long / Specialty / Hollywood 2.22.52

last soul song
The Radiants / I'm Just a Man / Chess / Chicago 1968

In a Playlist in an Old Playlist Town

Coffeetime, March 5, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Whistle Stop / Windmill / Blue Note / 1.15.61
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / Rise 'n' Shine / Fantasy / 1957
Dizzy Gillespie / Dizzy Song (Lady Bird) / Vogue / Paris 4.11.52
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Broadway Shuffle / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 6.24.38
Blue Barron & his Orch / Don't Cross Your Fingers (Cross Your Heart) / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Charlie Fisher
Johnny Otis & his Band / Round the Clock / Savoy / LA 9.13.45 / vocal = Jimmy Rushing
Anita O'Day / Anita Sings the Most / Tenderly / Verve / LA 1.31.57

set 2
Bob Gordon / Moods in Jazz / Babette / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
Wes Montgomery / SO Much Guitar! / One More for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Riverside / 8.4.61
Flip Phillips / Flip Phillips Quintet / I'll Never Be the Same / Clef / 9.13.54
Owen Fallon & his Californians aka Vic Irwin & his Orch aka ARC House Band / If I Had My Way 'Bout My Sweetie / Perfect / 4.8.32
Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town / Columbia / Hollywood 12.8.50 / with Norman Luboff Choir & the Buddy Cole Quartet
Camille Howard / Try Try Again / Pan American / LA 1946 / with James Clifford's Jazz Orch
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / What Are You Afraid Of? / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 3
Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Desafinado / Capitol / LA 9.62
Phineas Newborn Jr / A World of Piano! / Lush Life / Contemporary / 10.16.61
Teddy Edwards / R. B.'s Wig / Rex / LA 7.47
Maxine Sullivan / I Carry the Torch for You / Joe Davis / 11.24.44 / with Cedric Wallace and His Orchestra
Steve Gibson's Red Caps / Shame / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.1.51
Buddy Greco / The More I See You / Reprise / LA 1966

set 4
The Jazzpickers / For Moderns Only / Influtration / EmArcy / 5.2.57
Bud Shank and Bob Cooper / Blowin' Country / Dinah / Pacific Jazz / LA 2.18-19.58
Bill Coleman & his Orch / Joe Louis Stomp / French Gramaphone (La Voix de Son Maître) / Paris 1.31.36
Ivory Joe Hunter / I Need You So / MGM / 1949
Jerry Orbach & Jill O'Hara / Original Broadway Cast Album for Promises, Promises / I'll Never Fall in Love Again / United Artists / 1968
Zion Harmonizers / Working the Road / Gotham / 1958

last soul song
Eddie Holman / I Love You / Am I A Loser / ABC / Philadelphia 1969

I Playlist Alone

Coffeetime, February 26, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Horace Silver / Horace-Scope / Yeah! / 7.9.60
Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Long As You're Living / Time / 1.19.60
Boots & his Buddies / Blues of Avalon / Bluebird / San Antonio 9.17.37
Adrian Rollini & his Orch / Somebody Loves Me / Decca / 10.23.34
Noel Coward / I Travel Alone / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Jumping Jacks / Long Head Leggy Rascal / Apollo / early 1950s
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / Poor Butterfly / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orch

set 2
Benny Golson / Turning Point / Stella By Starlight / Mercury / 10.30-11.1.62
Sonny Clark / Dial "S" for Sonny / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Ernest Loomis' Orch / Sweet Someone / Victor / 6.2.27
Mills Blue Rhythm Band / Minnie the Moocher / Brunswick / 6.26.31 / vocal = George Morton & Chick Bullock
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / Are You Ready / Decca / 7.29.42 / vocal = Trevor Bacon & ensemble
Dean Martin / (Ma Come Balli) Bella Bimba / Capitol / Hollywood 1951
Pee Wee Crayton / Do Unto Others / Imperial / New Orleans 4.29.54

set 3
Dexter Gordon / [Clubhouse] / Devilette / Blue Note / 5.27.65
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Far East Blues / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Fats Navarro / The Fabulous Fats Navarro, vol 2 / Jahbero [alt take] / Blue Note / 9.13.48
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Swingin' on Nothin' / Victor / 7.15.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford & Sy Oliver
The Opals / Oh But She Did / Apollo [Luna] / 5.13.54
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Lazy Afternoon / MGM / 1962

set 4
Barney Kessel / The Poll Winners / Green Dolphin Street / Contemporary / LA 3.18, 19.57
Johnny Smith / Moonlight in Vermont / Jaquar [alt take] / Roost / 8.53
Machito & his Afro-Cubans / Howard's Blues / live at the Royal Roost 4.23.49
Mel Tormé / Ballerina / Musicraft / Hollywood 8.47 / with the Page Cavanaugh Trio
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / After You've Gone / Atlantic / 1.29.58
Jubalaires / Live A-Humble / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song
Barbara Lynn / Nice & Easy / Atlantic / 1971

Little Happy-Go-Lucky Playlist

Coffeetime, February 19, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Frank Foster & Frank Wess / Jazz is Busting Out All Over / M. C. / Savoy / 10.13.57
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Horseshoe Curve / New Jazz / 2.4.55
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Meditation / radio transcription / 1941-2
Lonnie Johnson / Swing Out Rhythm / Decca / Chicago 11.8.37
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton & Clarence Johnstone] / Always / HMV / London 5.26
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Ooh Mop / Black & White / LA 10.45 / vocal = Cappy Oliver
Dinah Washington / Look to the Rainbow / EmArcy / 11.10.55

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Prestige / 11.7.58
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Never Never Land / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Eddie Bert / Like Cool / I'm Through With Love / Trans-World [Somerset] / 1955
Hal Kemp & his Orch / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / radio transcription / 1934
Ella Logan / Lost My Man / radio transcription / 4.4.35
Bing Crosby & Connee Boswell / Yes, Indeed! / Decca / LA 12.13.40 / with Bob Crosby's Bob Cats
T-Bone Walker & his Band / No Reason / Imperial / LA circa 9.50
Martha Davis and Spouse [Cal Ponder] / A Tribute to Fats Waller / It's a Sin to Tell a Lie / ABC-Paramount / mid-1950s

set 3
Bobby Hutcherson / Components / Little B's Poem / Blue Note / 6.10.65
Duke Pearson / Hush! / Hush! / Jazzline / 1.12.62
Claude Thornhill & his Orch / Donna Lee / radio transcription / 1947
Spirits of Rhythm / Junk Man / Decca / 9.14.34
Duke Ellington & his Orch / On the Sunny Side of the Street / live at the Cotton Club 4.24.38 / vocal = Ivie Anderson
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / Tenderly / Bethlehem / 1956 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orch

set 4
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Tara Ferma / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Oscar Peterson / The George Gerswhin Songbook / S' Wonderful / Mercury [Clef] / Hollywood 11, 12.52
Art Van Damme / Cocktail Capers / The Breeze & I / Capitol / 1950
Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White / A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) / Soundie / Hollywood 1942
BB King / I Can Hear My Name / Kent / 1962
Matt Monro / A Matter of Innocence (soundtrack to the Universal film) / Pretty Polly / Decca / 1967
The Radio Four / Jesus Never Left Me Alone / Nashboro / Nashville 3.61

last soul song
Brenton Wood / Baby You Got It / Little Happy-Go-Lucky Girl / Double Shot / Hollywood 1967

A Little Playlist Told Me

Coffeetime, February 12, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Curtis Amy / Katanga! / Katanga / Pacific Jazz / LA 1963
Tina Brooks / One for Myrtle / unissued [Blue Note / Mosaic] / 3.2.61
Hank Jones / The Talented Touch / If I Love Again / Capitol / 1958
Shep Fields & his New Music / Stormy Weather / radio transcription / early 1940s
The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman / Heaven Can Wait / Decca / Hilversum, Holland 5.9.39 / vocal = Hal Yates
Al Russell Trio / Let's Go Down the Road / Ballen/Apollo / early 1946
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Thursday's Child / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2
Gene Ammons / Boss Tenor / Hittin' the Jug / Prestige / 6.16.60
Art Van Damme / Cocktail Capers / The Continental / Capitol / 1950
Woody Herman Band / By Play / Capitol / 1949?
Dick Jurgens & his Orch / Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = Eddy Howard
The Voices of Walter Schumann / Serenade / Come Rain or Come Shine / Capitol / 1953
Big Maybelle / A Little Bird Told Me / Savoy / 4.13.57 / with Ernie Wilkins Orch

set 3
Blue Mitchell / Down With It! / Hi-Heel Sneakers / Blue Note / 7.14.65
Milt Jackson / On the Scene / Blue Note / 4.7.52
Charioteers / Down, Down, Down (What a Song) / Okeh / 6.1.41
Benny Goodman & his Orch / Perfidia / Columbia / 1941 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / Something's Gotta Give / Belthlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 4
Art Pepper / The Return of Art Pepper / Angel Wings / Jazz: West / LA 1956
Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa [Neighborhood] / Tea for Two / Savoy / 2.26.55
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / Hollywood /8.22.46
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado / A Touch of Tabasco / I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.30-31 & 8.15.59
Little Milton [Campbell] / If Walls Could Talk / I Don't Know / Checker / Chicago 10.16.69
The Gospel Harmonettes / The Soul of the Gospel Harmonettes / Royal Telephone / Vee Jay / 1964

last soul song
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds / You Don't Stand a Chance If You Don't Dance / Suspicious Love / Pye / London 1975

Mr. Playlist Knocks Twice

Coffeetime, February 5, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Hank Mobley / Roll Call / My Groove Your Move / Blue Note / 11.13.60
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Black Hawk, volume 1 / Blue Daniel / Contemporary / 9.22.59
Ozzie Nelson & his Orch / Broad Jump / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Maurice Winnick & his Orch / Love is a Dancing Thing / Vocalion / London 1936 / vocal = Sam Costa
Charles "Crown Prince" Waterford / Leaping Boogie / Capitol / Hollywood 11.29.47
Marge Dodson / New Voice in Town / Angel Eyes / Columbia / 1960

set 2
Clifford Brown & Max Roach / Brown and Roach Incorporated / Darn That Dream / EmArcy / LA 8.2.54
Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66
Golden Gate Orch {The California Ramblers} / Stockholm Stomp / Edison Diamond Disc / 12.9.26
Skeets Tolbert & his Gentlemen of Swing / The Stuff's Out / Decca / 7.5.39
The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald / I'm Making Believe / Decca / 8.30.44
Charles Aznavour / His Love Songs in English / Just You (Avec) / Reprise / LA 1965

set 3
Barney Kessel / Let's Cook! / Jersey Bounce / Contemporary / LA 8.6.57
Andre Previn Trio / California Clipper / Sunset / LA 10.13.45
Margaret Whiting / Someone to Watch Over Me / Capitol / 1945
The Striders / If I Only Knew / Apollo / 11.14.49
Nat "King" Cole (King Cole Trio) / You Can Depend On Me / Capitol / LA 8.15.56 / with Harry "Sweets" Edison

set 4
René Thomas / Meeting Mister Thomas / Wonderful, Wonderful / Barclay / Paris 1963
Benny Carter / Swingin' the '20s / Who's Sorry Now / Contemporary / LA 11.2.58
Pete Johnson's All Stars / Mr. Clarinet Knocks Twice / National / 1.2.46
Doris Day / Again / Columbia / Hollywood 1949 / with Page Cavanaugh & the Ken Lane Singers ?
Solomon Burke / Stupidity / Atlantic / 1963
Nancy Wilson / Today, Tomorrow, Forever / Wives and Lovers / Capitol / Hollywood 1964
The Larks / Honey in the Rock / Apollo / 1.52

last soul song
French Coffey featuring Rozlin / Nothing from Nothing / Pick-A-Hit / LA late 1960s

Playlist in the Land of Hi Fi

Thanks so much to longtime WMBR pledger/supporter Bob Biletch for doing such an excellent guest deejaying on Coffeetime last week. If you'd like his playlist, which is in Excel format, let me know and I'll email it to you.

Coffeetime, January 29, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Cannnonball Adderley / In the Land of Hi Fi / Casa de Marcel / EmArcy / 6.18.56
Bill Holman / Jive for Five / Jive for Five / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
Tommy Dorsey & his Orch / Pagan Star / Victor / 11.7.35
Joe Haymes & his Orch / Hummin' to Myself / Victor / 6.24.32 / vocal = Jimmy Underwood
Julia Lee & her Boyfriends / Last Call for Alcohol / Capitol / Kansas City 7.2.52
Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / I Didn't Know About You / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.7.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orch

set 2
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ill Wind / Blue Note / 9.18.65
Les Cinq Modernes / Continental Jazz / Blanc sur Blanc (White on White) / Somerset / 1960
Fats Waller & his Orch / In the Gloaming / Victor / 4.12.38
King Cole Trio & Anita O'Day / I Can't Give You Anything But Love / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.26.45
Billy Eckstine & his Orch / Rhythm in a Riff / Soundie / summer 1946
Johnny Mercer / Personality / Capitol / Hollywood 1946

set 3
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Funk-Cosity / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Jack Marshall / Soundsville! / The Third Man Theme / Capitol / Hollywood 1959
Lucky Millinder & his Orch / Backslider's Ball / King / 6.25.52
Maxine Sullivan / I Must Have That Man / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
Four Vagabonds / My Heart Cries for You / Miracle / 10.49
Frank D'Rone / After the Ball / Warm All Over / Mercury / Hollywood c. 1960 with Billy May & his Orch

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica aka West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi / Star Eyes / HiFi / LA 1959
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / My Inspiration / Fantasy / 1957
Willie Bryant & his Orch / A Viper's Moan & Throwin' Stones at the Sun / Victor / 1.4.35
The Merry Macs / Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside) / Decca / Hollywood 1946
José Feliciano / And the Feeling's Good / Hard Times in El Barrio / RCA / LA 1974
Selah Jubilee Singers / We Shall All Meet in Heaven / Decca / 11.16.39

last soul song
Leroy Hutson / Closer to the Source / Everybody's a Masterpiece / Curtom / 1978

Say It With A Playlist

Coffeetime, January 15, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Under Paris Skies / New Jazz / 4.10.63
John Coltrane / Winner's Circle / Love and the Weather / Bethlehem / 10.57
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40
Little Jack Little / Like Two Little Flies on a Lump of Sugar / Columbia / 2.8.34
Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest / Long Ago and Far Away / Decca / 1944
Ella Fitzgerald / Twelve Nights in Hollywood / Baby, Won't You Please Come Home / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 5.20.61

set 2
Billy Taylor / Taylor Made Jazz / Theodora / Argo / Chicago 11.17.59
Buck Clayton, et al / I Can't Get Started / Verve [Jazz at the Philharmonic] / 5.27.46
Django Reinhardt / Django Reinhardt et Stéphane Grapelly avec le Quintette du Hot Club de France /Please Be Kind / Decca / London 9.1.38
Kay Starr / You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love) / Capitol / Hollywood 8.28.48
The Vocaleers / Lovin' Baby / Red Robin / 1954
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Pig Latin Blues / King / Cincinnati 7.1.52 / vocal = LaVern Baker

set 3
Julian "Cannonball" Adderly / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / Never Say Yes / Capitol / 9.1.62
Lester Young & Harry Edison / One O'Clock Jump / Verve [Norgran] / Hollywood 11.1.55
Lennie Tristano / Crosscurrent / Capitol / 3.4.49
Teddy Wilson & his Orch / The Hour of Parting / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle
Bette McLaurin & The Four Fellows / Grow Old Along with Me / Glory / 1955
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / You Couldn't Tell the Tear Drops from the Rain / RCA / LA 1957

set 4
Bill Holman / The Fabulous Bill Holman / Bright Eyes / Coral / Hollywood 4.25.57
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / Laurilou / Savoy / LA 3.52
Larry Adler / Body and Soul / Columbia / Paris 3.31.38 / avec le Quintette du Hot Club de France
Hadda Brooks / Say It with a Kiss / Modern [unrelease] / 1948
Wynona Carr / Should I Ever Love Again / Specialty / LA 1955
Noel Harrison / Noel Harrison / Nothing But a Fool / London / LA 1966
The Bronzemen / My Lawd's Writin' All the Time / Standard transcription / circa 9.39

last soul song
Doris Duke / I Don't Care Anymore / Canyon / 1969

A Playlist Am I

Coffeetime, January 8, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Minor Apprehension / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Junior Cook / Junior's Cookin' / Sweet Cakes / Jazzland / 4.10.61
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Sleep / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 3.24.38
Isham Jones & his Famous Orch / Good Evenin' / Brunswick / Chicago 9.12.30 / vocal = Eddie Stone
Miss Rhapsody / Bye Bye / Savoy / 7.6.44
Mary Stallings / Cal Tjader Plays, Mary Stallings Sings / Mighty Rumblin' Blues / Fantasy / LA 5.19.61

set 2
McCoy Tyner / Inception / Sunset / Impulse! / 1.10.62
Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / These Foolish Things / Atlantic / The Sing-Song Room, Confucius Restaurant 6.11.55
Pat Flowers & his Rhythm / How Many Kisses / Victor / 6.4.47
Lil "Brown Gal"Armstrong & his Dixielanders / Riffin' the Blues / Decca / 3.17.40
Bert Lown & his Hotel Biltmore Orch / Redskin / Vitaphone [Harmony] (from 1929 film Redskin) / 2.11.29 / vocal = Irving Kaufman aka Tom Frawley
Juanelda Carter & Swingsters aka King Cole Trio / You're So Different / Standard transcription / LA 1.14.39
Lula Reed & Freddy King / Boy-Girl-Boy / You Can't Hide / Federal [King] / 1962

set 3
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds / Improvisation (with Conga) / EmArcy / LA 3.7.58
Milt Jackson / Big Bags / You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To / Riverside / June or July 1962
Duke Pearson / Dedication! / The Nearness of You / Prestige / 8.2.61
Wardell Gray / Blue Gray / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
The Five Jones Boys / Doin' the Suzy-Q / Variety / 1937
Georgie Auld & his Orch / It Had to Be You / Musicraft / 10.16.45 / vocal = Lynn Stevens
Nat King Cole / Songs by Nat "King" Cole 7" EP / A Fool Was I / Capitol / Hollywood 12.30.52 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orch

set 4
Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars / Moto / Liberty / LA 2.14.57
Sammy Davis Jr & Count Basie / Our Shining Hour / Bill Basie, Won't You Please Come Home / Verve / 8.31 & 9.2-5.64
John Kirby & his Orch / Royal Garden Blues / V-Disc / early 1941
El Pauling and Royal Abbit aka Lowman Pauling and Royal Abbit / Send Me Somebody / Federal / 9.17.59
Pearl Bailey / Sings Porgy & Bess (and Other Gerswhin Melodies) / A Woman Is a Sometime Thing / Roulette / Hollywood 1959
Astrud Gilberto / Love Is Far Stronger Than We / Verve / 11.17.69
Dixie Hummingbirds / My Record Will Be There / Apollo / 7.44

last soul song
Gene Chandler / Tell Me What I Can Do / Brunswick / 1967

Mélange While Filling in on 3RC

Three Ring Circus, January 1, 2010, Angelynn Grant

bed
Boogaloo Jones / Brown Bag / Prestige / 2.16.70 // George Feyer / Echoes of Paris / Vox

set 1
Lloyd Simmons / Calypso Party / Yellow Bird / Oleander
The Famous Gabor Radics & his Family / Play Gypsy / The Celebrated Kolo / Regent
Nat King Cole / Cole Español / Acércate Más / Capitol
Voices of Walter Schumann / Serenade / Paradise / Capitol
Diane Adrian / Caribbean Nights / Ayaman Ibo Lele / RCA Victor
The Free Movement / I've Found Someone of My Own / The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get) / Columbia

set 2
Madeleine / Dietrich medley / Art
Walter Eriksson & his Orch / Holiday in Scandinavia / Vaasa Waltz / Colonial
Bobby Jay & the Hawks / Everybody's Doing It, Vol. 1: The Watusi / La Kookoo Watusi / Warner Brothers
Miguel Aceves Mejia / Mexican Folk Songs / A Jorge Negrete / RCA Victor
Trio Los Panchos / South of the Border / Lara / Tico
Sergio Franchi / Wine & Song / Statte Vicino A Mme / RCA Victor
Carlo Buti / Stornelli Fiorentini
Tommie Young / She Don't Have to See You (To See Through You) / Soul Power

set 3
Nelson Gonçalves / Normalista / Sigia [RCA Victor]
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 / Look Around / Tristeza / A&M
Conny Stuart, Freddy Albeck, et al / Tomatensap; Een Vrouw Zoals Jij / Heerlijk Duurt Het Langst / Philips
Professor Liang Tsai-Ping & his Group / China's Instrumental Heritage / Flowers on Brocade / Lyrichord
Akoni Lani & his Islanders / Song of the Island / Tops
Al Green / Explores Your Mind / School Days
Edith Sitwell / Façade / Country Dance / Columbia
Pat Williams / Shades of Today / Cinnamon and Clove / Verve
Jimmy Cliff / Wonderful World, Beautiful People / Hard Road to Travel / A&M

last soulful song
Willie Bobo / Feelin' So Good / Dichoso / Verve

Playlist Speaks

Coffeetime, January 1, 2010, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown Memorial Album / Brownie Speaks / Blue Note / 6.9.53
Sonny Stitt & Zoot Sims / Inter-Action / Katea / Cadet / Chicago 1.25.65
Billy May & his Orch / Naughty Operetta! / One Kiss / Capitol / Hollywood 1953
Paul Whiteman & his Orch / Dardanella / Victor / 2.9.28
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orch / With Every Breath I Take / Victor / 10.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Lolly Pop Jones & Ethel Morris / Aviator Papa / DeLuxe / New Orleans 1948
Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley / Save Your Love for Me / Capitol / 6.27 & 29,61

set 2
Joe Gordon / Body & Soul / EmArcy / 9.8.54
Bud Shank / Ballads for Backgrounds [The Bud Shank Quartet] / Nature Boy / Pacific Jazz / LA 1956
Bobby Sherwood & his Orch / The Man I Love / radio transcription / Yale University 8.11.43
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orch / Egyptian Shimmy / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / announcer = Walter Bunker, Jr
Bing Crosby / From the Top of Your Head (To the Tip of Your Toes) / Decca / Hollywood 8.14.35 / for the Paramount movie Two for Tonight, with the Dorsey Brothers Orch
T-Bone Walker / Don't Leave Me Baby / Black & White / LA 9.30.46 / with Jack McVea's All Stars
Teresa Brewer / Music, Music, Music / A Good Man is Hard to Find / Coral / 1955

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / The Soul of Stanley Turrentine [Look Out!] / Minor Chant / Blue Note / 6.18.60
Bill Evans / Moon Beams / Very Early / 5.29.62
Red Prysock / Red Speaks / Mercury / 9.13.54
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / Beedle De Beedle De Bop Bop (Adi Eedi Idio) / Decca / 7.19.37
The Dinning Sisters / My Adobe Hacienda / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / Never Leave Me Sugar / Epic [Columbia] / LA 1961

set 4
Cy Touff / Cy Touff, His Octet & Quintet / Prez-Ence / Pacific Jazz / LA 12.5.55
Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / The Creed / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.23.55
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Hallelujah / radio transcription / 1941-2
Johnny "Guitar" Watson / Too Tired / RPM / LA 1955
Dionne Warwick / Promises, Promises / Where Is Love? / Scepter / 1968
Norfolk Jazz Quartet / You Better Run / Decca / 8.23.39

last soul song
Jackie Moore / Sweet Charlie Babe / Darling Baby / Atlantic / Jackson, Mississippi 1973

Alex McNeil fills in on Coffeetime for Xmas

Thanks so much to Alex McNeil of Friday's Lost & Found for filling in for me on Coffeetime on Christmas day. He sent me the playlist below:

01. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby
02. Gayla Peevey - I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
03. Barry Gordon - Nuttin' for Christmas
04. Kay Starr - (Everybody's Waiting for) The Man with the Bag
05. Louis Jordan - Santa Claus, Santa Claus
06. Lionel Hampton - Swingle Jingle
07. Stevie Wonder - Someday at Christmas
08. Temptations - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
09. Supremes - My Christmas Tree
10. Kim Weston - Wish You a Merry Christmas
11. Smokey Robinson & Miracles - Deck the Halls/Bring a Torch
12. Funk Brothers - Winter Wonderland
13. Jack Webb - Dragnet - The Christmas Story
14. Basil Rathbone & Johnny Desmond - Humbug (from The Stingiest Man in Town)
15. Cyril Ritchard & cast - We Wish the World a Happy Yule (from The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood)
16. Stan Freberg & Daws Butler - Christmas Dragnet
17. Beatles - 1964 Fan Club Christmas Message
18. Dora Bryan - All I Want for Christmas Is a Beatle
19. Christine Hunter - Santa Bring Me Ringo
20. Brenda Lee - Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day
21. Derrik Roberts - There Won't Be Any Snow (In the Jungle)
22. Platters - Come Home for Christmas
23. Browns - Blue Christmas
24. Jan Bradley - Christmas Time
25. Jackie DeShannon - Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown
26. Bob Seger & Last Herd - Sock It to Me Santa
27. Turtles - Santa and the Sidewalk Surfer
28. Kinks - Father Christmas
29. Steve Irvings - The Twelve Daze of Christmas
30. Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
31. Johnny Cash - The Little Drummer Boy
32. Lou Monte - Dominick the Donkey
33. Harry Belafonte - The Gift They Gave
34. Norman Bergen - It's Christmas Day

A Great Big Playlist Entirely Made of Snow

Coffeetime, December 18, 2009

bed
Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959
Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64
Junior Mance Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / White Christmas / LA 1994

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 / What Are You Doing New Year's Eve / 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
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
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / LA 1973
Fats Waller / Swingin' them Jingle Bells / Victor / 11.29.36
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
[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

The Best Playlists Happen While You're Dancing

Coffeetime, December 11, 2009, Angelynn Grant

bed
Barney Kessel / Solo / People / Concord / 1981

set 1
Phil Woods / Pot Pie / Pot Pie / New Jazz / 10.12.54
Frank Wess / The Frank Wess Quartet /Rainy Afternoon / Prestige Moodsville / 5.9.60
Les Brown & his Band of Renown / Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow/ Coral / 1956
Cliff Edwards / Me and the Man in the Moon / Columbia / 10.28
Chuck Willis / I Rule My House / Okeh / 6.51
Peggy Lee / Christmas Carousel / Christmas Waltz / Capitol / LA 1963

set 2
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / I Thought About You / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Eddie Safranski / Loaded / Spellbound / Savoy / 2.26.46
Sidney Bechet / Dear Old Southland / Blue Note / 3.27.40
Nestor Mesta Chayres / La Paloma / V Disc / mid 1940s
Billy Eckstine / Blue Christmas / MGM / 1950
Kay Starr / (Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man With The Bag / Capitol / LA 1950
Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We're a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1969
Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen h

set 3
Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Stop and Listen / Blue Note / 5.22.61
Lester Young and Harry "Sweets" Edison / Pres & Sweets / One O'Clock Jump / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55
Charlie Parker / Perhaps / Savoy / 9.24.48
Dick Powell / Roses in December / Decca / 11.5.37
Ravens / For You / National / 4.24.47
Felix Gross / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You're All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet with Carl Perkins / Roulette / Tampa / LA 1954
Jack Teagarden & his Orch / Pickin' for Patsy / Brunswick / 5.5.39
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Swingin' on C / Columbia / 1940
Bing Crosby / Gotta Be This or That / AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood 8.8.45 / with Count Basie & his Orch, Lena Horne, and announcer Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman
Bill Lacey with Lil Armstrong & Her Ebony-Aires / Cowboy Santa Claus / Ebony / Chicago 1959
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / radio transcription / Hollywood 1950s
Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soul song
Solomon Burke / Soul Christmas / Presents for Christmas / Atco / 11.8.66