Heigh Ho, Playlist

Coffeetime, January 25, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Clark / Cool Struttin’ / Sippin’ at Bells / Blue Note / 1.5.58 

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb / Very Saxy / Very Saxy / Prestige / 4.29.59 

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh Ho, Everybody / radio broadcast / 1929

Amos Milburn / Johnson Rag / Aladdin / LA 1949 

Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / What’s New? / Riverside / 1.10.61 

set 2

Bud Shank & Bob Cooper / Flute ’n Oboe / Blues for Delilah / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1957

Willie Bobo / The Spanish Side of Jazz [Bobo's Beat] / Naked City Theme / Roulette / 1962

John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Odyssey / Debut / 3.10.55 

Osvaldo Pugliese y Su Orquestra Tipica / El Arranque / Odeon / Argentina 8.22.44 

Dick McIntire & his Harmony Hawaiians / When I Hear Hawaiian Music / radio broadcast / Hollywood c. 1940

Joe Turner / Last Goodbye Blues / National / Chicago 12.9.47 

Peggy Lee / Big $pender / You’ve Got Possibilities / Capitol / Hollywood 2.1.66 

set 3

Eric Dolphy / Here and There / Don’t Blame Me (take 2) / Prestige / Berlingske Has, Copenhagen 9.6.61 

Five Jones Boys / Nagasaki / radio transcription / c. 1936

Dinning Sisters / The Way You Look Tonight / Capitol / Hollywood 1943

Al Hibbler / It’s the Talk of the Town / Decca / 11.13.57

set 4

Stan Levey / Stan Levey Quintet / One for Joan / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Zig-Zag /  Mode / Hollywood 1957 [partial: WMBR had tech difficulties]

Goree Carter / Serenade / Freedom / Houston c. 9.49
Johnny Otis Band / Uneasy Blues; Rockin' Blues / Savoy / 9.19.50 / vocal = Marilyn Scott [aka Mary DeLoatch]; Mel Walker

Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Going Out of My Head / Liberty / 1967 

Highway QC’s / Jesus is Waiting / The Way Up the Hill / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 

last soulful song

Donny Hathaway / Atlantic Soul Explosion ’72 [Live] / Little Ghetto Boy / Atco / 1972

The Playlist in her Hair

Coffeetime, January 18, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Exhibit A / Pacific Jazz [Blue Note] / 2.11.57 

Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Basheer's Dream / Blue Note / 3.29.55

Paul Cornelius & his Orchestra / I’ve Found a New Baby / Champion / 2.5.34

Justin Ring & his Orchestra / True Blue Lou / Okeh / 8.16.29 / vocal = Scrappy Lambert

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / The Jumping Jack / RCA Victor / LA 1950 / vocal = Billy Valentine  

Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / River Weep / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.15, 16, 28.59

set 2

Red Garland / The Nearness of You / Where or When / Jazzland / 11.30.61 

Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / 5.8.65 

Danny Polo & his Swing Stars / Mr Polo Takes a Solo / Decca / London 10.1.37

McKinney's Cotton Pickers / Zonky / Victor / 2.3.30 / vocal = Dave Wilborn 

Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / AFRS Jubilee radio show No. 26 / Hollywood 3 & 4.43 / with master of ceremonies Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Four Blazes / Boogie Woogie Billy / radio broadcast, AFRS #222 / Hollywood 6.45

Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Ballin’ the Jack / Decca / Hollywood 9.17.55 

set 3

Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / I Never Has Seen Snow / EmArcy / 11.4.59 

Shelly Manne & his Men / Play Checkmate / En Passant / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61 

Jimmy Forrest / There Will Be No Other You [There Will Never Be Another You] / United / 3.30.52 

Dick Powell / Medley: Cause My Baby Says It’s So; The Rose in her Hair; With Plenty of Money and You; Thanks a Million / radio broadcast / 1942

The Dixieaires / Until You Say You’re Mine / Continental / 1948 

Buddy Greco / My Buddy / The More I See You / Epic / live , Le Bistro, Chicago 1959

set 4

Shelly Manne & his Men / Swinging Sounds / The Dart Game / Contemporary / LA 1.19, 26.56 

Henri Renaud / The Birdlanders / Boo Wah / Swing / 2.28.54 

King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44

Cleo Brown / When / Decca / LA 11.20.35 

Tommy Ridgley / Let’s Try and Talk It Over / Ric / New Orleans 1960

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

last soulful song

Irma Thomas / Two Winters Long / Minit / New Orleans 1962

Child's Playlist

Coffeetime, January 11, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Farmer / Farmer's Market / Farmer’s Market / New Jazz / 11.23.56 

Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / Child’s Play / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Blue Note, 11.11.60 

Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Crazy Rhythm / Impulse! / 11.13.61 

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / How Am I to Know? / Okeh / 9.18.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew, from movie “Dynamite”  

The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950 

Beverly Kenney / Sings with Jimmy Jones and “The Basie-Ites” / I Never Has Seen Snow / Roost / 1956

set 2

Booker Ervin / The Book Cooks / Largo / Bethlehem / 6.60 [4.6.60] 

Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / Ghost of a Chance / Atlantic / live, The Sing-Song Room, Confucius Restaurant 6.11.55 

Howard McGhee / South Pacific Jazz / Don’t Blame Me / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52 

The Four Clefs / When I’m Low I Get High / Bluebird [unissued] / Chicago 2.26.45

Gene Ammons / Sweet Jennie Lou / Prestige / 7.27.50 / vocal = Gene Ammons 

Charles Trenet / Morceaux Choisis Par L’auteur / Paie tes dettes [Pay Your Debts] / Capitol / Paris 1958

set 3

Curtis Fuller / The Curtis Fuller Jazztet with Benny Golson / Judy’s Dilemma / Savoy / 8.25.59 

Max Roach / Max Roach + 4 & More / Love Letters / EmArcy / Hollywood 3.18.57 

Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / That’s Life I Guess / Brunswick /  1.12.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday

Delta Rhythm Boys / Gimme Some Skin / transcription / 1941

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't  So / Angel Eyes / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1956  

set 4

Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Love Letters / Savoy / 11.6.55 

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / The Big Shorty Express / Pay the Piper / RCA Victor / LA 7.5.56 

Russ Columbo / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / Victor / 9.3.31 / with Nat Shilkret & his Orchestra

King Cole Trio / Don’t Blame Me / Capitol / LA 5.19.45

Jean Bonnard / Passing By / Atco / 1967

The Trumpeteers / Gideon and the Sword / Score / 5.9.50

last soulful song

Cilla Black / Is It Love? / Whatcha Gonna Do ‘Bout It? / Capitol / LA 1965

No Playlist in Venice

Coffeetime, January 4, 2013, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Cecil Payne / Patterns / Groovin’ High / Savoy / 5.22.56 

Jackie McLean / McLean’s Scene / Outburst / New Jazz / 2.15.57 

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / The Jazz Scene / Frustration / Clef / Hollywood 1947 

Alex Hill & his Hollywood Sepians / Ain’t It Nice / Brunswick / 9.10.34 

Annette Hanshaw / Body and Soul / Harmony / 10.7.30 

The Robins / You're Fine but Not My Kind / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / with Johnny Otis Quintet 

Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / Come Rain or Come Shine / Mercury / 1956

set 2

Modern Jazz Quartet / No Sun in Venice / One Never Knows / Atlantic / 4.4.57 

Gigi Gryce / Evening in Paris / Vogue / Paris 10.11.53 

Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Old Folks / Savoy / 5.17.46 

Bing Crosby / Tumbling Tumbleweeds / Decca / LA 2.9.40 / with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra

Buddy Clark & Doris Day / My Darling, My Darling / Columbia / 9.22.48

Ella Mae Morse / Tennessee Saturday Night / Capitol / Hollywood 11.6.51

The Sandmen / Somebody to Love / Okeh / 12.14.54 

set 3

Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / Scrap Iron / Blue Note / 9.13.67 

Tadd Dameron / Wah “Hoo” aka Perdido / Columbia / live, Festival de Jazz, Salle Pleyel, Paris 5.49 

Pete Brown / Boot Zoot / Savoy / 8.1.44 

Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Darn It, Baby, That’s Love / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #316 / Hollywood 4.6.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 

Ravens / Be I Bumblebee or Not / National / 12.22.47 

Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / In a Little While / MGM / 1962

set 4

Teddy Edwards / Back to Avalon [unissued] / The Cellar Dweller / Contemporary [unissued] / LA 12.60 

Pete & Conte Candoli / The Candoli Brothers / What Is This Thing Called Love / Dot / LA 12.58

Rosemary Clooney / You Started Something / Columbia  / 12.23.47 / with Tony Pastor & his Orchestra

Earl Gaines / Tell Me Tonight / Hollywood / Nashville 7.20.67

Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / The Good Life / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

Rising Star Gospel Singers / John the Revelator / Trilon / Berkeley 3.46 

last soulful song

C.O.D.’s / Michael / Kellmac Records / Chicago 1965

Playlist Freezes Red

Coffeetime, December 28, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Taylor / Taylor's Tenors / Dacor / New Jazz / 6.3.59 

John Coltrane / Dakar / Route 4 / Prestige / 4.20.57 

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Snowfall / radio transcription / 1947  

Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / You’re My Everything / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 / vocal = Pete Fylling

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

Annette Stevens / When Sunny Gets Blue / personal recording [Marvelous Industries, Inc] / 1962 / with Barry Galbraith

set 2

Teddy Charles / Salute to Hamp / Stardust / Bethlehem / late 1958 

Jackie McLean / The Jackie McLean Quintet / Lover Man / Jubilee / 10.21.55 

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / Imagination / Fantasy / Berkeley 6.6.55 

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / Frankie and Johnny / Standard transcription [Stardust Records] / Hollywood 9.17.41 

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

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

Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958

set 3

Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / Soul Time / Riverside / 8.12, 17.60 

Lucky Thompson / Tricotism / The Plain but Simple Truth / ABC-Paramount [Impulse] / 12.11.56 

Fats Navarro / Ice Freezes Red / Savoy / 1.29.47 

Maxine Sullivan / Jackie Boy / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm 

The Mills Brothers / FDR Jones / Decca / 2.17.39

Heartbeats / After New Year’s Eve / Gee / 10.57 

set 4

Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Quietly There / Riverside / 11.23, 28, 30.66 

Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Eesom / EmArcy / 11.4, 59 

Bob Crosby & his Bobcats / South Pacific Blows Warm / Younger Than Springtime / Dot / 1958

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

Aretha Franklin / Laughing on the Outside / Skylark / Columbia / spring 1963 

Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / Stretch Out / Peacock / Chicago 1960

last soulful song

Dee Dee Warwick / Another Lonely Saturday / Blue Rock / 1.65

Fum, Fum, Playlist

Coffeetime, December 21, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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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 

Gene Ammons / Night Lights / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 2.2.70 

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

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

Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / 1947  

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

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

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60  

set 2

Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]

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

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

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

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

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

set 3

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

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

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

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters
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

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

Julie London / I'd Like You for Christmas / Liberty / 1957
Kay Starr / (Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With The Bag / Capitol / LA 1950

set 4

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

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

King Cole Trio / The Christmas Song / Capitol / 6.14.46

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

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

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

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

last soul (Christmas) song

Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

Walkin' My Playlist Back Home

Coffeetime, December 14, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Donna Lee / Riverside / 4.27.57 

Hank Mobley / Reach Out! / Up Over and Out / Blue Note / 1.19.68 

Harry James & his Orchestra / I’m Satisfied / radio transcription / mid-1940s

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

Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 1937 / vocal = Walter Cummins

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

Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Toyland / Columbia / 1955

set 2

Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 1.20.62 

Kenny Burrell / My Heart Stood Still / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.12.56 

Joe Venuti / Jealousy (Jalousie) / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #17 / Palm Springs 1.24.53

Raymond Scott & his Orchestra / Send Me Your Love for Christmas / radio broadcast, Your Hit Parade / 1944 / vocal = Dorothy Collins

JB Summers / I Want a Present for Christmas / Gotham / Philadelphia 8.30.49 / with Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders 

Bob Keeshan / Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas from Captain Kangaroo / Crackerjack Christmas / Golden Records / 1958 / with Jimmy Carroll & Orchestra and Mr. Green Jeans aka Lumpy Brannum

Danny Kaye / The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing / soundtrack to White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 / dialogue with Vera-Ellen 

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

set 3

McCoy Tyner / Inception / There Is No Greater Love / Impulse! / 1.11.62 

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / Invitation / Prestige / 9.15.64 

Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra / I Hear a Rhapsody / Standard transcription / Hollywood 1.15.41 / vocal = Herb Jeffries http://www.depanorama.net/41.htm

Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes

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

Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4

Leroy Vinnegar / Leroy Walks! / Walkin’ My Baby Back Home / Contemporary / LA 9.23.57 

Les Brown & his Band of Renown / That Sound of Renown / The Nutcracker / Coral / 1956

Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers

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

Jubalaires / John Saw the Number / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Phyllis Dillon / Perfidia / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1967

Playlist in the Sky

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61 

Booker Little / Victory & Sorrow / Calling Softly / Bethlehem / fall 1961 

Oran “Hot Lips” Page / Rockin’ at Ryan’s / Commodore / 3.8.44 

Billy Cotton & his Band / Lazybones / Regal Zonophone / London 8.22.33 / vocal = Alan Breeze

Charles Brown / Gee / Aladdin / LA 1.17.50

Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / There Must Be a Way / Roulette / LA 1963

set 2

George Wallington / Jazz for the Carriage Trade / What’s New / Prestige / 1.20.56 

Ike Quebec / All the Way / Blue Note [unissued, same session as BN1840] / 2.5.62 

Lester Young / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Aladdin / Chicago 10.46 

Kansas City Six / Countless Blues / Commodore / 9.27.38

Ray Charles & his Orchestra / I’ll Do Anything but Work / Swingtime / LA 5.26.50

The Enchanters / Housewife Blues / Jubilee / 11.51 

The Fascinators / Come to Paradise / Capitol / 1959 

set 3

Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres & Sweets / Mean to Me / Verve [orig Norgran] / LA 11.1.55 

Dexter Gordon / Rosetta / Clef / LA late 1943 or c. 7.44 

Duke Daly & his Orchestra / Remember Pearl Harbor  / Elite / 12.41 

The Four Vagabonds / Rosie the Riveter / Bluebird / 2.43 

Louis Prima & his Orchestra / I Was There When You Left Me / V-Disc 500B / 11.17.45 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol

Buddy Greco / Buddy's Back in Town! / One for My Baby / Epic / LA 1961

set 4

Stu Williamson / Stu Williamson / Pee Jay / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.13.56 

Corky Hale / Gene Norman Presents Corky Hale / Somebody Loves Me / GNP / 6.27.56

Bennie Green / Hornful of Soul / Dibblin' and Dabblin' / Bethlehem / 12.60 

Earl Hines & his Orchestra / XYZ / Okeh / Chicago 10.6.39

Count Basie & his Orchestra / Cabin in the Sky / AFRS #32 / Hollywood late spring 1943 / vocal = Earl Warren

Billy Eckstine / Broadway, Bongos, and Mr. "B" / I Could Write a Book / Mercury / 1960

Pilgrim Travelers / Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior / Specialty [unissued] / LA 8.17.49

last soulful song

Willie Tee / Teasin’ You Again / Gatur / 1972

What Ev'ry Playlist Knows

Coffeetime, November 30, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Benny Golson / Benny Golson and the Philadelphians / You’re Not the Kind / United Artists / 11.17.58 

Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / Filide / Riverside / 9.4.58 

Port of Harlem Seven / Pounding Heart Blues / Blue Note / 6.8.39 

Frances Williams / Try a Little Tenderness / Columbia / 1.10.33 / with Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti 

Leo “Snub” Mosley / I’m a Fool About Mama / Penguin / 4.21.49

Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2

Kenny Drew / This is New / You’re My Thrill / Riverside / 3.28.57 

Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53

Howard McGhee / South Pacific Jazz / Stormy Weather / Savoy / Guam 1.17.52  

King Cole Trio / Body and Soul / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44

The Ramblers Dance Orchestra / With All My Heart and Soul / Decca / The Hague 8.13.35

Etta Jones / What Ev’ry Woman Knows / Victor / 10.8.47 / with Luther Henderson & his Orchestra

The Larks / Eyesight to the Blind / Apollo / 3.27.51 

Bing Crosby / In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening / Decca / Hollywood 6.20.51 / from the Paramount movie Here Comes the Groom; with Jane Wyman, Matty Matlock’s All Stars, and 4 Hits & a Miss 

set 3

Herbie Hancock / My Point of View / A Tribute to Someone / Blue Note / 3.19.63 

Shorty Rogers & his  Giants / Cool and Crazy / Contours / RCA Victor / LA 3.26, 4.2.53 

Charlie Parker / Bird at the Roost / Hurry Home / Savoy / live, Royal Roost 3.5.49 / vocal = Buddy Stewart 

The Striders / Baby Don’t You Cry / Apollo [unreleased] / 11.14.49 

The Ferrers [Rosemary Clooney & José Ferrer] / Oh Captain! / Life Does a Man a Favor / MGM / 1958

set 4

Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Brookside /  Mode / Hollywood 1957

Nat Adderley / "That's Nat" Adderley / Porky / Savoy / 7.26.55 

Wini Brown / Someone to Watch Over Me / National [unissued] / 8.1.49 

Doris Day / Lullaby of Broadway / Lullaby of Broadway / Columbia / Hollywood 12.8.50 / with Norman Luboff Choir & the Buddy Cole Quartet

The Keynotes / In the Evening / Apollo / 1955 

Joshua White & his Carolinians / King Jesus Knows I’m Coming / Columbia / 8.6.40 [6.4.40] 

last soulful song

Candi Staton / Too Hurt to Cry / Fame / Muscle Shoals 1971

New Playlist Over My Shoulder

Coffeetime, November 23, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol 1 / Justice / Blue Note / live, Birdland 4.15.59 

Julian "Cannonball" Adderly / Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley / Teaneck / Capitol / 9.1.62 

Andy Kirk & his Clouds of Joy / Corky Stomp / Brunswick / Kansas City, Missouri 11.11.29 

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / Maybe It’s Because I Love You Too Much / Columbia / London 3.28.33

Ivory Joe Hunter / I Ain’t Got No Gal No More / MGM / mid-1951

Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / In Love in Vain / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson-arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2

Curtis Fuller / Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone / But Beautiful / Warwick / 12.60

Barry Harris / Listen to Barry Harris / It’s the Talk of the Town / Riverside / 1.19.61 

Larry Adler / Medley: I Won’t Dance, Lovely to Look At / Columbia / London 7.10.35 / with Henry Hall & BBC Dance Orchestra

Johnny Green & his Orchestra / New Moon Over My Shoulder / Columbia / Hollywood 8.13.33 / vocal = Bernice Park

Edna McGriff / I’ll Surrender Anytime / Jubilee / 1952

Dave Bartholomew & his Orchestra / My Ding-A-Ling / King / New Orleans 1.22.52

Astrid Gilberto / The Shadow of Your Smile / O Ganso / Verve / LA 5.25.65 

set 3

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / The Tenor Scene / Bingo Domingo / Prestige / live, Minton’s Playhouse, breakfast set 1.6.61 

Teddy Charles / Metronome Presents Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art / Cycles / Warwick / 1960

Burnie Peacock & his Orchestra / Charmaine / King / 11.9.51 

Les Brown & his Orchestra / Dreamer’s Holiday / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk

The Ravens / Who’s Sorry Now? / National / 8.50 

Johnny Hartman / I Just Dropped By to Say Hello / Stairway to the Stars / Impulse! / 10.17.63 

set 4

Herb Geller / Stax of Sax / The Princess / Jubilee / LA 1958

Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love with Me / Pacific Jazz / Phil Turetsky’s home studio, Hollywood 2.1.53 

Art Tatum / Yesterdays / radio broadcast, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood c. mid-1947

Kay Starr / Sharecroppin’ Blues / V-Disc 326B / Hollywood 7.13.44 / with Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra 

Beny Moré / Tú Me Sabes Comprender / RCA / 1950s

Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song

The Dontells / I’m Gonna Tell the World / Vee-Jay / 1965

Ten Cents a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 16, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Louis Smith / Here Comes Louis Smith / Val’s Blues / Blue Note / 2.9.57 

Donald Byrd / Byrd's Eye View / Hank’s Other Tune (Late Show) / Transition / Cambridge 12.2.55 

Earl Hines & his Orchestra / In Swamplands / Bluebird / 12.2.40

Bert Maddison Dance Orchestra aka Nat Star & his Dance Orchestra / High Up in the Sky / Sterno / London c. 8.29 

Cats & the Fiddle / My Sugar’s Sweet to Me / Manor/Regis / early 1946 

Nancy Wilson / Like New, Like Swingin’, Like in Love / Passion Flower / Capitol / LA 1959

set 2

Roy Haynes / Cracklin' / Sketch of Melba / New Jazz / 4.10.63 

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Midnight Session with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mirage / Elektra [Savoy] / Carl Fisher Concert Hall, NYC 3.8&9.57 

Illinois Jacquet / I Surrender Dear / Aladdin [unissued] / Chicago 11.7.47

Ruth Etting / Ten Cents a Dance / Columbia / 3.4.30

Dean Martin / That Certain Party / Capitol / LA 9.9.48 / duet with Jerry Lewis, with Mario R. Armengol Orchestra

Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55   

set 3

Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Funny Time / Riverside / 4.14, 20.61 

Jimmy Smith / Softly as a Summer Breeze / Hackensack / Blue Note / 2.26.58 

Charlie Parker / Carvin’ the Bird / Dial / LA 2.26.47 

Martha Raye / I’m Gonna Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in her Stocking / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944

The Carols / Mighty Lak a Rose / Savoy [unissued] / Detroit 4.27.53 

Bill Henderson / Willow Weep for Me / Blue Note / 10.14.58

set 4

Benny Carter / Aspects / Swingin’ in November / United Artists / LA  9.58

Stan Getz / Mosquito Knees / Roost / live, Storyville Club, Boston 10.28.51 

John Kirby & his Orchestra / Toselli’s Serenade / V-Disc 756 / c. fall 1941

The Toppers / Palace of Stone (I’m All Alone) / Savoy / 12.8.44 

LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out / Atlantic / 1.29.58

Dixie Hummingbirds / My Record Will Be There / Apollo / 2.46

last (thankful) song

The Manhattans / Love Is Breaking Out All Over / Carnival / 1968

Where's the Playlist, Honey?

Thanks so, so much for all the people who pledged during or in honor of Coffeetime. And thanks to all the listeners in general. Plus, I must thank my fellow WMBR members, especially those who helped me out during the show last Friday. As Hildy sings, I feel like a million.

Coffeetime, November 9, 2012, Angelynn Grant -- Fundraiser Show

no bed

set 1

John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59 

Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / For Minors Only / Riverside / 10.30.59 

Art Blakey's Messengers / Blakey / Mayreh / EmArcy / 5.20.54

Whispering Jack Smith / It All Depends on You / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex, England 6.17.27 

Dinah Washington / Rich Man's Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

set 2

Lee Morgan / Here's Lee Morgan / Terrible "T" / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60 

Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his Orchestra

Boswell Sisters / If I Had a Million Dollars [alternate take B] / Brunswick / LA 10.4.34 / with Jimmy Grier & his Orchestra

Ken Nordine / Colors / Green / Philips / Chicago 1966 / with musical director Dick Campbell 

set 3

Mills Brothers / Swing for Sale / Decca / 2.3.37

The Charioteers / Swing for Sale / transciption / 1942

Hildegarde / I'm Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra

Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 4

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 / Me and the Blues / It's a Woman's Prerogative / Savoy / 1947 

set 5

Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Yvette / Roost / 8.15.51 

Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson

King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / 11.3.47

set 6

Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don't You Do Right? / Columbia / La 7.27.42

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

Chubby Newsome / Where's The Money, Honey? / Regal / 2.23.51

set 7

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Shaw Nuff / Cojntemporary / LA 3.28.59

Bobby Blue Bland / Turn On Your Love Light / Duke / Chicago 1961

Bobby Darin / That's All / That's All / Atco / LA 12.19.58

Swan Silvertones / My Rock / End of My Journey / Vee-Jay / 1957

last (thankful) soul song

Sugar Pie DeSanto / In the Basement, part 1 / Chess / Chicago 1966 / duet with Etta James

Got a Date with a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 2, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Harold Land / The Fox / Little Chris / Contemporary / LA 8.59 

Gene Ammons / Blue Gene / Scamperin’ / Prestige / 5.2.58 

Count Basie Band / Roseland Shuffle / Decca / 1.21.37

Slatz Randall & his Orchestra / I’m a Ding Dong Daddy (From Dumas) / Brunswick / Minneapolis 3.30 / vocal = Joe Roberts 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / What’s the Use of Gettin’ Sober / Decca / 7.21.42

Helen Carr / Got a Date with an Angel / Bethlehem / LA 11.11.55 

set 2

Thad Jones & Pepper Adams / Mean What You Say / Little Waltz / Milestone / 4.26, 5.4, 9.66 

Buddy Collette / Nice Day with Buddy Collette / Fall Winds / Contemporary / LA 2.18.57 

Charlie Barnet & his Orchestra / Redskin Romp / Indian Summer / RCA Victor / 1955

Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Bluer than Blue / Decca / 4.15.37 

The Four Aces / This Little Chick Went to Market / Trilon / Oakland 7.47 

The Barry Sisters / Shalom / Nicht auf Zintug (Never on Sunday) / Roulette / 1960

set 3

Laurindo Almeida & the Bossa Nova All Stars / Viva Bossa Nova! / Lollipops and Roses / Capitol / LA 9.62 

Steve Allen / Jazz for Tonight / I Thought About You / Coral / LA 12.5.55

Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46 

Three Bits of Rhythm / Bronzeville Jump / Decca / 3.13.41

Sy Oliver & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / MGM / 4.1.47 / vocal = Henry Wells & Sy Oliver

Mose Allison / The Word from Mose / Lost Mind / Atlantic / 1965

set 4

Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56 

Shorty Rogers / Chances Are it Swings / Chances Are / RCA (Living Stereo) / Hollywood 12.12, 20.58

Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Dancing in the Land of Hi-Fi / Sweet Sue / EmArcy / LA 1955

Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / My Baby’s Cool / Gotham / c. 1949 / vocal = Claudine Clark

Pearl Bailey / The Songs of Academy Award Winner James Van Heusen / Second Time Around / Roulette / 1964

The Stars of Virginia / Wade in the Water / Chalice / c. 1965

last soulful song

The Pets / I Say Yeah / Carnival / 1964 

This Playlist is Haunted

Coffeetime, October 26, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Horace Silver / Doin' the Thing / Kiss Me Right / Blue Note / live at the Village Gate 5.20.61 

Dizzy Gillespie / Have Trumpet, Will Excite / My Heart Belongs to Daddy / Verve / 2.17.59 

Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / My Sweet Tooth Says “I Wanna” / Columbia / 7.14.31

The Velvetones / Sweet Lorraine / Coronet / 3.46 

The Ebonaires / Bye Bye, Bye, Bye Bye / MGM / 1949
Audrey Morris / The Voice of Audrey Morris / What More Can a Women Do / Bethlehem / Hollywood 7.56 / with Marty Paich & the Hollywood String Quartet

set 2

Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Nocturne / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 

Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash / Easy Living / Verve / 7.26.63 

Stan Getz / Yesterdays / Roost / 1.23.51 

Meade Lux Lewis / DuPree Blues / Clef [JATP] / Embassy Auditorium, LA 4.22.46 

Winegar’s Penn Boys / My Gal Sal / Edison / 5.3.28 

Gene Kardos & his Orchestra / Forty-Second Street  / Victor / 1.13.33 / vocal = Dick Robertson or Jerry Baker

Delta Rhythm Boys / Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me / transcription / 1941

Bing Crosby / Holiday in Europe / Never on Sunday / Decca / LA 1961

set 3

Stanley Turrentine / Blue Hour / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 12.16.60 

Shorty Sherock / C-Jam Blues / Clef [JATP; unissued] / Philharmonic Auditorium, LA 7.2.44 

Johnny Mercer / Candy / Capitol / LA 12.6.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra, Jo Stafford & the Pied Pipers

The Basin Street Boys / Exactly Like You / Exclusive / LA 1947 / with Lucky Thompson & his Orchestra 

Cy Coleman / Witchcraft / live, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy’s Penthouse TV show / 1956 http://youtu.be/XmDpSP5Y3HI    

set 4

Ralph Sharon / Around the World in Jazz / Stateside Panic / Rama / 1.9, 10 & 2.5, 7.57

Paul Smith / Fine, Sweet and Tasty / Crazy Rhythm / Tampa / Hollywood 11.13.53

Julius Watkins / Julius Watkins / Leete / Blue Note / 8.8.54 

King Cole Trio / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / MacGregor transcription / LA 4.44 / vocal = Anita Boyer

Big Maybelle / No More Trouble Out of Me / Columbia [Epic] / 1.20.54 

Jubalaires / The Preacher and the Bear / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song

Lee Jones & the Sounds Of Soul [The Masqueraders] / This Heart Is Haunted / Amy / 1968 

Poor Little Playlist

 Coffeetime, October 19, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Mal Waldron / Mal/2 [bonus tracks; The Dealers] / Falling in Love with Love / Prestige / 4.19.57 

Curtis Counce / Vol. 1, Landslide / A Fifth for Frank / Contemporary / LA 10.8.56 

Jan Garber & his Orchestra / Back in Your Own Backyard / Columbia / 2.17.28 / vocal = Mull Downey (aka Sonny Faircloth)

Patti Page / In the Land of Hi Fi / The Thrill is Gone / EmArcy / Hollywood 5.8.56 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra 

set 2

Lucky Thompson / A Lady’s Vanity / ABC-Paramount [Impulse!] / 12.12.56

Lee Morgan / Take Twelve / A Waltz for Fran / Jazzland / 1.24.62 

Johnny Guarnieri / Salute to Fats (take 3) / Savoy / 4.18.44

Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / Diga Diga Doo / Odeon / Buenos Aires 11.7.47 

Eddie Cantor / Dinah / Decca / LA 10.31.44 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra

Ella Johnson / What a Day / Mercury / 6.5.56

Liz Lands / One Man’s Poison / One-derful! / Chicago 1967

set 3

Baby Face Willette / Stop and Listen / Worksong / Blue Note / 5.22.61 

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Lullaby in Rhythm / private recording [Xanadu] / Lighthouse Club, Hermosa Beach 12.27.51

Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Ben Rides Out / National / 1.31.46 

Earl Warren / Poor Little Plaything / Savoy [unreleased] / 4.18.44 

Melody Masters / My Baby / Apollo / 1946 

Sy Oliver / Sentimental Sy / Stardust / Dot / 5.12,13,15.58 / vocal = Dave Vogel

set 4

Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / Why Not? / Fantasy / 1957 

Vinnie Burke / Bass by Pettiford/Burke / Yesterdays / Bethlehem / 1954 

Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / In the Land of Hi Fi / Tippin’ In / EmArcy / LA 11.7.55 

Tina Dixon / Parrot Bar Boogie / King / 1948
The Rivals / Rival Blues / Apollo / spring 1950

Sérgio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Crystal Illusions / Pretty World / A&M / LA 1969

Echoes of Zion / Keep Still / Gerald [Modern] / Atlanta 1950

last soulful song

Timothy Wilson / Baby Baby Please / Buddha / 1967

About Rip Van Playlist

Coffeetime, October 5, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Dizzy Gillespie / Dizzy Meets Sonny / Dizzy Meets Sonny / Norgran / 1.12.56 

Philly Joe Jones / Drums Around the World / Carioca (El Tambores) / Riverside / 5.4.59 

Henry “Red” Allen & his Orchestra / Bill’s Downbeat / Apollo / early 1947

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Come a Little Closer / Victor / 11.18.30 / vocal = Quentin Jackson 

Cats & the Fiddle / Public Jitterbug No. 1 / Bluebird / Chicago 12.7.39 

Beverly Kenney / Come Swing with Me / Why Try to Change Me Now / Royal Roost / 1956 / with Ralph Burn’s Orchestra

set 2

Kenny Burrell / Midnight Blue / Soul Lament / Blue Note / 1.8.63 

Lee Morgan / Candy / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 11.18.57 

Wardell Gray / Easy Living [unissued take] / Prestige / 11.11.49 

Benny Goodman Quartet / My Melancholy Baby / Victor / 11.18.36

Greta Keller / Say It Isn’t So / Brunswick / 11.10.32 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 

Annie Laurie / It Hurts to Be in Love / King / 1958

Bobby Darin / soundtrack to film That Funny Feeling / That Funny Feeling / Capitol / Hollywood 9.18.54

set 3

Buddy Tate / Tate-A-Tate / Groun’ Hog / Prestige Swingville / 10.8.60 

Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Back Room Blues / National / 1.2.46 

Boswell Sisters / Nights When I Am Lonely / New Orleans 3.25.25 / with Vitaly Jaques “Vic” Lubowski on piano 

Don Redman & his Orchestra / About Rip Van Winkle / Bluebird / 1.17.40 / vocal = Bootsie Garrison, Don Redman, and ensemble

Du Droppers / How Much Longer / RCA / 3.18.54 

Frank Sinatra / Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim / How Insensitive / Reprise / LA 1967 / duet with Antonio Carlos Jobim

set 4

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 6 / Dickie’s Dream / Contemporary / Hollywood 2.22.55 

Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball Enroute / The Way You Look Tonight / EmArcy / 2.8.57 

Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / You’re My Desire / Brunswick / LA 7.30.37 / vocal = Boots Castle

Bull Moose Jackson & his Orchestra / Oo-Oo-Bob-A-Lee-Bob / Queen / 12.45 / vocal = Annisteen Allen 

Peggy Lee / In the Name of Love / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do / Capitol / LA 1964

Golden Gate Quartet / Blind Barnabas / Okeh / 5.25.41

last soulful song

The 5 Stairsteps / The Five Stairsteps & Cubie / Our Family Portrait / Find Me / Buddah / Chicago  1967

I Succumb to Playlist

Coffeetime, September 28, 2012, Angelynn Grant

bed

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

set 1

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane / Bags & Trane / Be-Bop / Atlantic / 1.15.59 

Joe Gordon / Lookin' Good / Mariana / Contemporary / LA 7.11, 12 & 18.61  

Jack Jenney / Stardust [alt version] / Vocalion [Columbia] / 10.19.39

Freddie Rich & His Orchestra / Sweet & Lovely / radio transcription from Fred's Friendly Five / 1931-32 / vocal = Elmer Feldkamp

Leo Watson & his Orchestra / It’s the Tune that Counts / Decca / 8.22.39

Sarah Vaughn / September Song / Musicraft / 1946 / with Teddy Wilson Quartet

set 2

Blue Mitchell / Heads Up! / The Folks Who Live on the Hill / Blue Note / 11.17.67 

Charles McPherson / From This Moment On! / The Good Life / Prestige / 1.31.68 

Charlie Ventura / Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Norgran / 12.22.52 

Shelly Lee Alley & his Alley Cats / Women, Women, Women / San Antonio 11.4.37 

Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones / Try a Little Tenderness / Musicraft / LA 6.4.46 / with Sonny Burke & his Orchestra

Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / This New Situation / Decca / 6.30.52 / vocal = Ella Johnson & Nolan Lewis

Wynonie Harris / Quiet Whiskey / King / 9.11.53

set 3

Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / One Note Samba / Capitol / Hollywood 1963 

Oscar Pettiford & his Scandinavian Trio / I Succumb to Temptation / Debut / Copenhagen 8.22.59 

Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / But Not for Me / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56

Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake 7 / (If I Had) Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes / Victor / 12.9.35 / vocal = Edythe Wright

The Ravens / September Song / National / 9.47 

Beny Moré / Y Hoy Como Ayer [And Today as Yesterday] / RCA / late 1950s

set 4

Vince Guaraldi / Cast Your Fate to the Wind / Musso Amor / Fantasy / LA 1962 

Pete Jolly Five / The Five / Red Eyes / RCA Victor / LA 3.9.55

Machito & his Afro-Cubans / Vacilando / live at the Royal Roost 3.19.49 / intro by Symphony Sid

Elsie Carlisle / Never Took a Lesson in My Life / Vocalion / London 10.9.40

Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / After You’ve Gone / Columbia / 6.18.53 / duet with Carl Fischer, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra 

Bobby “Blue” Bland / Loan a Helping Hand / Duke / Memphis 1958

The Bronzemen / Let’s Go ‘Round the Wall / Standard transcription / circa 4.39

last soulful song

Jesse Anderson / Let Me Back In / Thomas / 1970

Madam, I Love Your Playlist

Coffeetime, September 21, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin, Vol. 2 / The Way You Look Tonight / Blue Note / 4.6.57 

Cecil Payne / The Connection: New Original Score / Sister Carol / Charlie Parker Records / 3.14-16.62

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Sometimes I’m Happy / radio transcription / 1947  

Red Norvo & his Orchestra / What’s the Name of the Song / Decca / 3.16.36 / vocal = Stew Pletcher

Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / Crying Won’t Help You None / Modern / LA late 1940s

Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Fool That I Am / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59 

set 2

Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / Ernie’s Tune / Blue Note / 5.9.61 

Andre Previn / Let's Get Away from It All! / London in July / Decca / 1951

Nat Pierce – Dick Collins Nonet / I’ll Never Be the Same / Fantasy / San Francisco 1.27.54 

Freddie Jenkins & his Harlem Seven / Toledo Shuffle / Bluebird / 8.26.35 / also listed under Bernard Addison 

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Don’t Give Up the Ship / Victor / 11.7.35 / vocal = Cliff Weston

The Treniers / Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song) / Okeh / 7.15.54 / with Willie Mays of the New York Giants

Cilla Black / Is it Love? / This Empty Place / Capitol / 1965

set 3

Grant Green / I Want to Hold Your Hand / This Could Be the Start of Something / Blue Note / 3.31.65 

Bennie Green / Glidin' Along / Milkshake / Jazzland / 3.22.61 

TJ Fowler & his Band / Harmony Grits / National / Detroit 1948 

Maxine Sullivan / The Same Old Story / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra

Delta Rhythm Boys / What Would It Take / Decca / Hollywood 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio

Herb Jeffries / Herb Jeffries / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Harmony [Columbia] / 1950s

set 4

Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / Raincheck / Contemporary / 11.2.59 

Frankie Ortega & Sy Oliver / 77 Sunset Strip / Spencer Stakes Out / Jubilee / 1959 

Quincy Jones / The Birth of a Band! / The Birth of a Band / Mercury / 6.16.59 / solos = John (Zoot) Sims & Jerome Richardson 

Una Mae Carlisle / I Speak So Much about You / Joe Davis / 5.23.44

Georgia Carr / Rocks in My Bed / Love Is Somethin’ Else / Vee-Jay / 1964

Danny Kaye / At the Palace / Madam, I Love Your Suzette / Decca / Hollywood 9.17.55 

Dixie Hummingbirds / Ezekiel Saw the Wheel / Apollo / 1.47

last soul song

The LTG Exchange / My Love Part 1 / Wand / 1974

Big Fat Playlist

Coffeetime, September 14, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Red Rodney / Ubas / Signal / 11.24.57 

Sonny Clark / Royal Flush / Blue Note / 3.29.59 

Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Maybe / radio transcription / mid-1940s

Isham Jones & his Famous Orchestra / Trees / Brunswick / Chicago 5.14.30 

Steve Gibson & the Red Caps / Second Hand Romance / Mercury / c. 12.49  

Julie London / London By Night / Pousse Café / Liberty / Hollywood  12.55

set 2

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

Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / I Cover the Waterfront / Jazzland / 12.20.60 

Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / Harbor Lights / Columbia / 12.3.58

Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / The Terror (a) / Grey Gull, Radiex / 2.27.30 

Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / A Wee Deoch an’ Doris / Columbia / Hollywood 10.14.34

Gray Gordon & his Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / Way Back in 1939 AD / radio transcription / 1939 / vocal = Cliff Grass

Flap McQueen & the Ray-O-Vacs / All About Daddy / Josie / 1954 / vocal = Babe Hutton  

Jerry Colonna & the Dixie All Stars / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party/ Big Fat Minnie / Bravo! / 1959

set 3

Dupree Bolton / Katanga / TV broadcast, Frankly Jazz TV series / LA 11.62 / master of ceremonies = Frank Evans

Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Machito / EmArcy / LA 3.5.58 

Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Battle of the Saxes / Prestige / 4.8.49 

Thelma (Dolly) Cooper / Let’s Try Again / Gotham / 1949

Delta Rhythm Boys / Sweetheart of Mine / Atlantic / c. 3.1.49 

Yves Montand / En Balade / Le Musicien / Columbia / Paris late 1950s / avec Bob Castella et ses Rythmes

set 4

Jimmy Raney / In Three Attitudes / Passport to Pimlico / ABC-Paramount / 1956

Benny Carter / Aspects / September Song / United Artists / LA  9.58

Art Tatum / The Genius of Art Tatum / Just Like a Butterfly That's Caught in the Rain / Clef [Verve] / LA 1953
Gene Austin / Git Along, Ramble On / radio transcription / 1938

Billie Holiday / I Cover the Waterfront / radio transcription / live, Carnegie Hall 5.25.47

Earl Gaines / The Door is Still Open / DeLuxe / 1968
Tom Jones / Promise Her Anything / Parrot / 2.66

Soul Stirrers / Until Then / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58

last soulful song

Dusty Springfield / Dusty in Memphis / I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore / Atlantic / Memphis 1968 

Drifting Down the Dreamy Playlist

 Coffeetime, September 7, 2012, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sam Jones / The Soul Society / Home / Riverside / 3.10.60 

Barry Harris / Bull’s Eye / Oh So Basal / Prestige / 6.4.68 

Roy Eldridge & his Orchestra / Stardust / Decca [World transcription] / Chicago 11.16.43 

Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Birmingham Bertha / Victor / Chicago 7.27.29 / vocal = Kay Palmer

Ernie Fields & his Orchestra / T-Town Blues / Regal / 11.29.49 / vocal = Teddy Cole 

Sarah Vaughn / The Lonely Hours / If I Had You / Roulette / 1963 / arranged by Benny Carter

set 2

Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 

Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 2 / It’s You or No One / Blue Note / 9.24.54 

Lonnie Simmons / I Can’t Get Started / Parrot / Chicago 1954

Bert Lown & his Loungers / Here Comes My Ball and Chain / Diva / 4.5.30

King Cole Trio / Speak Low / MacGregor transcription / LA 5.12.44 / vocal = Ida James

Dave Young's Orchestra / Drinking Ink Splink / Aristocrat / Chicago 1947 / vocal = Andrew Tibbs

Chuck Berry / St. Louis to Liverpool / You Two / Chess / Chicago 1964

set 3

Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Jay Hawk Talk / Prestige / 5.8.65 

Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / A Taste of Honey / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65 

Etta Jones / So Tired / Black & White / 1945 / with Cyril Haynes Quartet

The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / You Didn’t Want My Love / RPM / LA 1951 

Frank D'Rone / In Person / My One and Only Love / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4

Art Pepper / The Art Pepper Quartet / Art’s Opus / Tampa / LA 11.23.56 

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / Bottoms Up / Contemporary / LA 7.2.54

Jo Stafford & Dick Haymes / Drifting Down the Dreamy Ohio / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #330 / Hollywood 8.20.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 

Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Ruben / RPM / LA 1956 

Morgana King / Wild is Love! / I Thought of You Last Night / Reprise / LA 1966

Highway QC’s / Jesus is Waiting / Working on the Building / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1959 

last soulful song

Commands / No Time for You / Dynamic / San Antonio 1966