Crying and Singing the Playlist

Vegan pizza?! Aww, Frankie, thanks!

Coffeetime, January 29, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Curtis Fuller / Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone / The Court / Warwick / 12.60

Jimmy Heath / The Quota / Thinking of You / Riverside / 4.61

Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / Concerto for Tenor / radio broadcast / 5.22.44

Six Men & a Girl / Zonky / Varsity / 1.26.40

Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Picture Me Without You / Decca / Chicago 9.27.36 / vocal = Perry Como 

Mabel Scott / Elevator Boogie / Exclusive / LA 12.47 

Frances Faye / I’m Wild Again / Medley: Little Girl Blue; Where or When; Embraceable You; Exactly Like You; I Don’t Know Why; My Funny Valentine; Bewitched / Bethlehem / 1955

set 2

Victor Feldman / Transatlantic Alliance / The Gypsy [alt take] / Tempo / London 3.1.57

Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.14.58

The Basie-ites / When I Think About Lovin’ You / Jubilee / 1962

Boyd Senter & his Senterpides / Smiles / Victor / Hollywood 6.13.30 

Mildred Bailey / Scrap Your Fat / V-Disc 135-B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson

Little Esther / Crying and Singing the Blues / Federal / 3.21.51 / with Earl Warren Band

Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / Baby, That Ain’t Right / Columbia / 1957 / with Billy May & his Orchestra

set 3

Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / The Cellar Dweller / Prestige / 1967

George Benson / The New Boss Guitar / Will You Still Be Mine / Prestige / 1964

Charlie Parker / Quasimodo / Dial / 11.17.47

Maxine Sullivan / Molly Malone / radio broadcast, AFRS Jubilee / Hollywood 6.21.44 / masters of ceremony Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman, with Jimmy Lunceford & his Orchestra

The Ink Spots / The Gypsy / Decca / Hollywood 2.19.46

Frank D’Rone / After the Ball / Warm All Over / Mercury / 1960

set 4

Benny Carter / Jazz Giant / How Can You Lose / Contemporary / LA 10.7.57

Art Pepper / The Breeze and I / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57

George Wettling / George Wettling’s Jazz Trio / Louise / Kapp / 1956  https://youtu.be/3vLBPM356Io 

Frank Sinatra / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capital / Hollywood 4.30.53 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra

The Platters / Where or When / TV broadcast, The Ed Sullivan Show / 8.2.59

The Soul Stirrers / Come and Go to That Land [alt take] / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last soulful song

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose / I’m Never Gonna Be Alone Anymore / United Artists / Music Factory, Miami 1972

Lawdy Miss Playlist

Je ne peux pas vous résister, Jean.

Coffeetime, January 22, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Three Way Split / Blue Note / 10.2.63

Sam Jones / The Chant (Sam Jones Plus 10) / Off-Color / Riverside / 1.13, 26.61

Napoleon's Emperors / Mean to Me / X [Victor] / 5.14.29 

[Whispering] Jack Smith / To Be in Love (Espesh’lly with You) / Victor / 5.8.29 / with Leonard Joy & the Victor Orchestra

La Verne Ray / Yes, He Did / Jubilee / 1949

Sarah Vaughan / No Count Sarah / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / EmArcy / 8.6-8.57

set 2

Ben Webster / The Soul of Ben Webster / When I Fall in Love / Verve / c. 7.58

Milt Hinton / The Rhythm Section / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Epic / 1956

Ron Crotti Trio / Modern Music from San Francisco / The Night We Called It a Day / Fantasy / 1955

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Victor / 8.1.36 

Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / Lullaby in Rhythm / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra / Dancetime with Cugat / La última noche / RCA Victor / 1953 / vocal = Juan Guerrero

Chuck Willis & his Orchestra / Lawdy Miss Mary / Okeh / 12.17.54

set 3

Booker Little / The Grand Valse / Time / 4.13.60 

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

Tadd Dameron Band / Tiny’s Blues / Jazzland / live, Royal Roost 1948

The Harmonaires / Spirituals / Kentucky Babe / Varsity / 12.47

Jo Stafford / I Wanna Be Loved / radio transcription, AFRS Melody Hour #333 / Hollywood 10.9.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra and introduced by Dick Haymes

Jean Sablon / Je Tire Ma Révérence / HMV/Pathé Marconi / Paris early 1960s

set 4

Cannonball Adderley / & the Poll-Winners / Azule Serape / Riverside / Fugazi Hall, San Francisco 5.21.60

Charlie Ventura / Bugle Call Rag / Clef / 3.7.51

Russ Columbo / When You’re in Love / Decca / Hollywood 8.31.34 / with Jimmie Grier & his Orchestra

Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé's California Suite / Got the Date on the Golden Gate / Bethlehem / LA 3.7.57 / orchestra arranged & conducted by Marty Paich

Highway QC’s / I’ll Trust His Words / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song

Leroy Hutson / Don’t It Make You Feel Good / Curtom / Chicago 1976

Dancing with My Playlist

Pretty Ida gazes skeptically at Nat

Coffeetime, January 15, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane / Bags & Trane / Three Little Words / Atlantic / 1.15.59

Lucky Thompson / Translation / ABC-Paramount [Impulse!] / 12.12.56

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Wire Brush Stomp / Okeh / 6.2.38 

Henry Allen & Coleman Hawkins & their Orchestra / [I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My] Sister Kate / Brunswick/Banner [unissued] / 3.27.33/7.21.33

Billy Cotton & his Band / Dancing with My Shadow / Regal Zonophone / London 1.19.35 / vocal = Alan Breeze

Amos Milburn / Roomin’ House Blues / Aladdin / LA 7.13.49

Lorez Alexandria / The Sensational Voice of Lorez Alexandria / Angel Eyes / Sing / Chicago 2.59

set 2

Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / My One and Only Love / Blue Note / 5.8.57

Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Short Story / EmArcy / LA 3.7.58

Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Castle Rock / My Reward / Verve [Norgran] / 1.15.51

The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / On the Sunny Side of the Street / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 2.24.38

The Cats & the Fiddle / In the Midst of a Dream / Bluebird / Chicago 9.40

Bing Crosby / Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around… / Prisoner of Love / Decca / Hollywood 4.17-18.56

Dakota Staton / Time to Swing / Avalon / Capitol / Hollywood 1959 

set 3

Duke Pearson / The Right Touch / Rotary / Blue Note / 9.13.67

McCoy Tyner / Inception / Blues for Gwen / Impulse! / 1.11.62

Teddy Charles / So Long Broadway / Prestige / LA 2.20.53 

Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / The Walls Keep Talking / Okeh / Chicago 8.28.41/8.20.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day & Roy Eldridge 

The Four Buddies / I Will Wait / Savoy / 10.12.50 

Dean Martin / Pretty Baby / It’s Easy to Remember / Capitol / Hollywood 1.28.57 

set 4

Lester Young & Teddy Wilson / Pres and Teddy / Prisoner of Love / Verve / 1.13.56

The Jazzpickers / For Moderns Only / Yardbird Suite / EmArcy / 5.3.57

King Cole Trio / Them There Eyes / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.12.44 / vocal = Ida James

B.B. “Blues Boy” King & his Orchestra / The Woman I Love / RPM / Memphis 1953

Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 / Look Around / Batucada / A&M / Hollywood 1967

Swan Silvertones / Jesus Is a Friend of Mine / Vee-Jay / 1959

last soulful song

The Contemplations / Alone with No Love / Dontee / Washington DC 8.19.69 

Who Wants Playlist?

Happy and smooth-y

Coffeetime, January 8, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Ferris Wheel / Candid / 9.27.60 

Julian Priester / Keep Swingin’ / The End / Riverside / 1.11.60

Gigi Gryce / Smoke Signal / Savoy / 10.22.55

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Back in Your Own Back Yard / Victor / 1.28.28 

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / To Whom It May Concern / Victor / 11.17.30 / vocal = Lois Deppe 

The James Quintet / Bewildered / Coral / 1949 

Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Don’t Know What Love Is / HiFi Records / LA 1959

set 2

Chet Baker / Chet / If You Could See Me Now / Riverside / 12.30.58

Teddy Charles / On Campus! / These Foolish Things / Bethlehem / Yale University, New Haven 11.21.59 

Trigger Alpert / Trigger Happy! / I Don’t Want to Be Alone Again / Riverside / 11.30.56

Larry Adler / Smoke Gets in Your Eyes / Regal Zonophone/Columbia / London 12.12.34 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra 

Kalama’s Quartet / When the Sun Goes Down / Okeh / 10.20.29 [ https://youtu.be/SL9xnb0T2AE ]

Little Milton / Alone and Blue / Sun / Memphis 7.28.53

Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington / Blue Rose / I’m Checkin’ Out, Goombye / Columbia / 1.23, 27.56 [Duke] and LA 2.8, 11.56 [Rosemary] 

set 3

Horace Parlan / Happy Frame of Mind / Home Is Africa / Blue Note / 2.14.63

Charlie Parker / Cool Blues / WHDH radio broadcast / live, Storyville, Boston 9.22.53

The Spirits of Rhythm / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 10.24.33 

The Smoothies / I Must Have One More Kiss Kiss Kiss / Bluebird / 8.23.39 / with Hal Kemp & his Orchestra

Stan Getz & João Gilberto / Getz/Gilberto / Vivo Sohando / Verve / 3.18, 19.63 / vocal = João Gilberto

set 4

Hampton Hawes / Four! / Yardbird Suite / Contemporary / LA 1.27.58

Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Lester Leaps In / EmArcy / 11.4.59

Billie Holiday & her Orchestra / Who Wants Love? / Vocalion / 9.13.37

Fred Astaire / By Myself / from MGM movie, The Band Wagon / Hollywood 1953

The Wallace Brothers / Love Me Like I Love You / Sims / Muscle Shoals 1964

Sunset Jubilee Singers / Rasslin’ Jacob / Okeh / 6.51

last soulful song

Gladys Knight & the Pips / The Makings of You / Buddah / 1974

A Slow Hot Playlist

Look, Benny! It’s 2016!

Coffeetime, January 1, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

John Coltrane / Coltrane Jazz / Little Old Lady / Atlantic / 12.24.59

Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / Walkin’ / Jazzland / 12.20.60

Clifford Brown Big Band / Brownskins / Vogue [Prestige] / Paris 9.28.53

Ted Weems & his Orchestra / (Trouble Ends) Out Where the Blue Begins / Decca / 9.27.36 / vocal = Perry Como

Cee Pee Johnson & his Band / Hour After Hour / Apollo / LA 11.2.45

Ruth Price / My Name Is Ruth Price; I Sing! / Ev’ry Time / Kapp / 1955 

set 2

Booker Ervin / The Song Book / Yesterdays / Prestige / 2.27.64 

Buddy Collette / Man of Many Parts / Cheryl Ann / Contemporary / LA 4.17.56

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) / RCA / Rome winter 1949

Don Redman & his Orchestra / I Gotcha / Bluebird / 12.6.38 

Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / That’s the One for Me / Specialty / Hollywood 2.15.51  / vocal = Candy Rivers & Joe Liggins

James Melton / June in January / radio broadcast, prob. The Firestone Hour / 1934

The Robins / All I Do Is Rock / Crown / LA 12.53 

Benny Payne / Sunny Side Up / Kapp / 1956 / with the Mundell Lowe All-Stars

set 3

Kenny Dorham / The Arrival of Kenny Dorham [The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album] / Song of Delilah / Jaro International [Xanadu] / 1.10.60

Freddie Redd / San Francisco Suite / Minor Interlude / Riverside / 10.2.57 

Roy Milton & his Solid Senders / Roy Rides / Specialty / Hollywood 8.1.47 

Maxine Sullivan / Skylark / unknown label / 1947 / with Ellis Larkins Trio

Mills Brothers / You Always Hurt the One You Love / Decca / 1944

Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / A Slow Hot Wind / Impulse! / 9.24.64

set 4

Johnny Smith / The Johnny Smith Foursome / Potters Luck / Roost / 3.18.57 

Dave Pell / Dave Pell Octet Plays Burke & Van Heusen / Mountain Greenery / Kapp / 1956 

Lynn Hope / Broken Hearted / Aladdin / 3.13.53 

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

Phil Harris & his Orchestra / The Darktown Poker Club / Ara / Hollywood 1945

Jerry Butler / Just a Little Bit / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963

Golden Gate Quartet / The Sun Didn't Shine / Okeh / 5.25.41

last soulful song

The Van Dykes / Doin’ the Best I Can / Mala [unreleased] / c. 1966

It's Playlist Time All Over the World

I just love this cover. It’s part of my Xmas decorations.

Coffeetime, December 18, 2015, 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

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

set 1

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

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

Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Hello, Mister Kringle / Columbia / LA 9.7.39 / vocal = Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble

Frank Sinatra / Christmas Dreaming / Columbia / Hollywood 6.26, 27.47 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra

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

Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Here Comes Santa Claus / radio broadcast, The Bing Crosby Show For Chesterfield / Hollywood 12.3.49 / with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires {Conlon, Mack McLean, Charles Parlato, Loulie “Lily” Jean Norman, Gloria Wood} and John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra

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

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

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

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

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

Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sisters http://youtu.be/PKpW7SdxhRE

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

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

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

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

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

Sammy Davis Jr. / It’s Christmas Time All Over The World / Reprise / LA mid-1965 

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 / LA 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

Crackerjack Playlist

I love Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 11, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Reunion / Riverside / 12.23.57

John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Limehouse Blues / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59

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

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Winter Weather / Okeh / Hollywood 11.27.41 / duet = Peggy Lee & Art Lund 

Sparky with music by Billy May / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 

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

Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters 

set 2

Bucky Pizzarelli / After Thoughts, part 2 / Monmouth Evergreen / early spring 1974
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61 

Secco Selichson / Gyspy Violin / Decca / Casino van Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 2.38

Gene Autry & The Pinafores / He’s a Chubby Little Fellow / Columbia / Hollywood 6.27.49

The Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950

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 (ends, “I don’t weigh very much.”)

Videocraft Chorus / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / There’s Always Tomorrow / Decca / 1964 / vocal = Janet Orenstein

set 3

Kenny Burrell / Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas / My Favorite Things / Cadet / 10.66 / Orchestra arranged & conducted by Richard Evans

Donald Byrd / Byrd in Hand / Here I Am / Blue Note / 5.31.59 

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

The Larks / Christmas to New Years / Apollo [unreleased] / 10.18.51 

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

Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53

set 4

Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / The Man I Love / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61 

Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65

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

June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 1952

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

Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song

The Mad Lads / Don’t Have to Shop Around / Volt / Memphis 1965

Don't Shake That Playlist at Me

Aba daba nice suit, Arthur!

Coffeetime, December 4, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / [A Slice of the Top] / A Touch of Blue / Blue Note / 3.18.66

Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Here and Now / Riverside / 12.18.56

Russ Morgan & his Orchestra / I Go for That / radio transcription / 1938 

Billy Cotton & his Band / Ooh! That Kiss / Regal Zonophone / London 1932

Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / My Baby’s Cool / Gotham / 1950 / vocal = Claudine Clark

Etta Jones / Don’t Go to Strangers / If I Had You / Prestige / 6.21.60

set 2

John Coltrane / Coltrane / Violets for Your Furs / Prestige / 5.31.57

Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Count Every Star / Blue Note / 12.16.61

Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / Sugar / Decca / 10.23.34

Golden Gate Orchestra aka California Ramblers / Hallelujah! / Edison Diamond Disc / 5.3.27 / vocal = Arthur Fields 

Frank Sinatra / I Only Have Eyes for You / V-Disc 72A: CBS broadcast dress rehearsal of “Broadway Bandbox” / 10.17.43 / with the Bobby Tucker Singers and Axel Stordahl

Tom Jones / Green, Green Grass of Home / That Old Black Magic / Decca [Parrot] / London 1967

set 3 

Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Alfredo / Blue Note / 1.4.60

Dizzy Reece / Soundin’ Off / Our Love Is Here to Stay / Blue Note / 3.12.60

Bobby Smith, His Saxophone & Orchestra / Don’t Shake Those Hips at Me / Ruby / c. 1951

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Along with Me / Musicraft / 4.30.46 / vocal = Mel Tormé

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

set 4

Sal Salvador / Tribute to the Greats / Solo for Guitar / Bethlehem / 6.3-5.57

Red Rodney / Modern Music from Chicago / Jeffie / Fantasy / Chicago 6.20.55

Erskine Butterfield / Piano Cocktail / Joe Davis / 8.17.44

Fred Astaire / Cheek to Cheek / Brunswick / 6.26.35 / with Leo Reisman & his Orchestra

Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / Paddlin’ Madelin’ Home / broadcast / Hollywood c. 1940s

Mabel Mercer / Once in a Blue Moon / The Twelve Days of Christmas / Atlantic / 1956 / with George Cory, arranger/conductor

The Chosen Gospel Singers / No Room in the Hotel / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song

Orpheus / Can’t Find the Time to Tell You / MGM / 1968

Violets for Your Playlist

This duo can preach to me any day!

Coffeetime, November 20, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings, volume 1 / Cloudy / Crown / 1960 

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenors / Twins [Hackensack] / Jazzland / 11.4 & 10.60

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Goin’ Up / radio broadcast, The Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands / Fort Dix, NJ 11.19.42 

Jim and Bob, the Genial Hawaiians [Jim Holstein and Bob Pauole] / Coffee in the Morning and Kisses at Night / Bluebird / Hollywood 12.12.33 

Mabel Scott / Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train / Coral / 5.22.51 

Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / Hi Fi Records / LA 1959

set 2

Jimmy Heath / The Thumper / Don’t You Know I Care / Riverside / 10.30.59

Flip Phillips & his Orchestra / Swinging With Flip / If I Had You / Clef / LA 3.52

Charlie Ventura Quartet / Yesterdays / Clef / 8.6.51 / with the Blentones

Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] & Lonnie Johnson / Midnight Call (Blues) / Okeh / 10.9.29

Tiny Bradshaw & his Orchestra / The Sheik of Araby / Decca / 9.19.34

Jo Stafford / Symphony / Capitol / Hollywood 10.31.45

Chords / Love, Oh Love / Atlantic [unreleased] / 2.23.55

Anthony Newley / Tony / I Was Never Kissed Before / London / 1961

set 3 

Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Bad News Blues / New Jazz / 4.10.63 

Barry Harris / Bull’s Eye / Clockwise / Prestige / 6.4.68

Lester Young / Easy Does It / Aladdin / 12.47

Savannah Churchill and the Four Tunes / Time Out for Tears / Manor / 6.47 

Delta Rhythm Boys / One O’Clock Jump / Victor / Hollywood 4.27.47 / with Frank Comstock & his Orchestra

Matt Dennis / Violets for Your Furs / TV broadcast, The Rosemary Clooney Show / Hollywood 6.1.57

set 4

Barney Kessel / Workin’ Out / Pedal Point / Contemporary / LA 1.9, 10.61

Andre Previn / Let’s Get Away from It All! / Flying Down to Rio / Decca / LA 1951

Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Autumn Serenade / Capitol / 1958

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Cryin’ / Decca / 1.23.46

Pearl Bailey & Mike Douglas / Do Unto Others / Project 3 / 1968 

Earl Gaines / Thrill on the Hill / Deluxe / 1970

Pilgrim Travelers / Jesus Is the First Line of Defense / Specialty / LA 1.12.51

last soulful song

The Sapphires / I Found Out Too Late / Swan / Philadelphia 1964 / with the Swans  

L’Affaire d’une Playlist

Louis, the convincer

Coffeetime, November 20, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Art Taylor / Taylor’s Wailers / C.T.A. / Prestige / 3.55.57

Jackie McLean / Makin’ the Changes / Jackie’s Ghost / New Jazz / 8.30.57

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night at Birdland, volume 2 / If I Had You / Blue Note / live, Birdland 2.21.54

Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Sweet and Low-Down / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932

Annette Hanshaw / Sweetheart Darlin’ / Banner / 6.3.33 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / If It’s Love You Want Baby, That’s Me / Decca / 6.26.46

Doris Day / Hooray for Hollywood / The Way You Look Tonight / Columbia / LA 1958

set 2

Thad Jones / Thad Jones, Volume 3 [1546] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 7.9.56

Elvin Jones / Elvin! / You Are Too Beautiful / Riverside / 1.3.62

Eddie Davis / Modern Jazz by Eddie Davis / It’s the Talk of the Town / King / Cincinnati 6.14.58

Red Norvo & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Decca / 3.16.36

Don Barreto  et son Orchestre Cubain / Aunque Quiera Olvidarme (Matamoro) / Decca / London 7.15.32 / Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s 

Big Mama Thornton / I’ve Searched the World Over / Peacock / Houston 1954

Joe Newman / Soft Swingin’ Jazz / The Farmer’s Daughter / Coral / 1.17.58 

set 3 

Jimmy Forrest / Most Much! / Most Much / Prestige / 10.19.61

John Dennis / New Piano Expressions / Seven Moons / Debut / 9.55

Dizzy Gillespie / Dizzy Atmosphere / Musicraft / prob 2.28.45 

Delta Rhythm Boys / I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem / transcription / 1941

Anita O’Day / Key Largo / Signature / LA winter 1947-48

Sammy Davis, Jr / Sammy Davis, Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays / Where Is Love? / Reprise / Las Vegas 6.11.66 

set 4

Martial Solal / Dancing / soundtrack to movie L’Affaire d’une Nuit” / Columbia / Paris 1960

Barney Kessel / Carmen / The Gypsy’s Hip / Contemporary / LA 12.22.58

Lennie Niehaus / Volume 1, “The Quintets” / I Remember You / Contemporary / LA 7.9.54

Ida James / You Must Be Blind / Decca / 2.8.45 / with Ellis Larkins Trio

Bill Kenny / The Best Way You Know How / Vik / 1957

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

last soulful song

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson / It’s Your World / It’s Your World / Arista / 1976

I Want a Good Playlist Bad

…is a whole lotta love!

I want to thank everyone who pledged in last week’s on air fundraiser. If you missed it, you still have until midnight next Wednesday. I’m particularly grateful to everyone who pledged during Coffeetime. And I want to thank my WMBR pals who helped me during the show: Larry Azrin, Patrick Bryant, John Funke, Doug Gesler,  Charlie Kohlhase, Scott Mullen, Keith Sawyer, Bruce Sylvester, and anyone else I might be forgetting. This year was a huge success and shows how fervently WMBR is loved by our listeners. Thanks!

Coffeetime, November 13, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

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

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Hard Drive / Deo-X / Bethlehem / 10.11.57

Jay Jay Johnson / The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 2 / Jay / Blue Note / 9.24.54

Gene Ammons / Jug Head Ramble / Chess / summer 1950

Whispering Jack Smith / Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh? / Bluebird / 3.5.26

Chubby “Hip Shakin’” Newsome & her Hip Shakers / Chubby’s Confession / DeLuxe / New Orleans early winter 1948

Julie London / All Through the Night / At Long Last Love / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

set 2

Lee Morgan / Here’s Lee Morgan / I’m a Fool to Want You / Vee Jay / 2.2, 3, 8.60

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Don’t Blame Me / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56

Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / These Foolish Things / Roost / 8.15.51

Teddy Hill & his Orchestra / (Lookie Lookie Lookie) Here Comes Cookie / Mellotone/Banner / 2.26.35 

Connee Boswell / Concentratin’ (On You) / Brunswick / Hollywood 11.2.31 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 

Bing Crosby / You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby / Decca / Chicago 10.14.38 / with Bob Crosby & his Orchestra

Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters / Three Thirty Three / Atlantic [unissued] / 10.24.54 

set 3 

Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / Syrup and Biscuits / Blue Note [unissued] / 10.2.63

Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Wayning Moments (take 2) / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962

Art Blakey’ & his Messengers feat. McKinley Durham / The Thin Man / Blue Note / 12.27.47

The Charioteers / Gaucho Serenade / NBC Reference Recording, transciption / 10.28.43 

Lil Green & her Orchestra / I Want a Good Man Bad / RCA Victor / Chicago 4.18.47

Bobby Darin / That’s All / She Needs Me / Atco / Hollywood 12.19.58

set 4

Russ Garcia / Four Horns and a Lush Life / Just One of Those Things / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.14.55

Art Pepper / Art Pepper + 11 / Walkin’ (alt take 2) / Contemporary [unissued] / LA 5.12.59

King Cole Trio / ’Tis Autumn / Capitol / 3.29.49 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra

Little Milton / I’m Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

Fairfield Four / Heaven in My View / Dot / 10.54

last (thankful) soul song

Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto / Do I Make Myself Clear / Cadet / Chicago 9.65

I'm Feeling Like a Playlist

Coffeetime, November 6, 2015, Angelynn Grant -- Fundraiser Show

set 1 

Hank Mobley / No Room for Squares / No Room for Squares [alternate take] / Blue Note / 10.2.63

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 

Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Powder Keg / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962

James Moody’s Modernists / Moody’s All Frantic / Blue Note / 10.19.48

Bing Crosby / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? / Brunswick / 10.25.32 / with Lennie Hayten & his 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 / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 10.28.43 

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

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers (including Oscar Moore) / Money’s Getting Cheaper / Exclusive / Hollywood 11.47

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

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

Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra

set 5 

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

King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47

set 6 

Lil Green / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Bluebird / Chicago 4.23.41

Peggy Lee (With Benny Goodman & His Orchestra) / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Columbia / Hollywood 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

set 7 

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

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

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

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

last (thankful) soul song

Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Checker / Checker 2.16.65

The Gal from Playlist

Play for me, Georgie.

Coffeetime, October 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Shelly Manne & his Men / Play “Checkmate” / Cyanide Touch / Contemporary / LA 10.17, 24.61

George Wallington / Squeezer’s Breezer / Prestige / 5.23.53

Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / The Gal from Joe’s; Riding on a Blue Note / transcription / live, Cotton Club 5.1.38

Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / There’s Silver on the Sage Tonight / radio transcription / 1938 / vocal = Eddy Howard

Mr. Google Eyes [Joseph August] & his 4 Bars / Young Boy / Coleman / New Orleans c. 1946

Dinah Washington / Raindrops / Mercury [unissued] / 6.54

set 2

Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / Angel Eyes / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961

Don Elliott / The Don Elliott Quintet / Laura / RCA Victor / 1954 

Georgie Auld / I’ve Got You Under My Skin / Someone to Watch Over Me / Coral / 1955

John Kirby & his Orchestra / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Victor / 7.25.41

Mills Brothers / Way Down Home / Decca / 1.25.39

Ray-O-Vacs / Besame Mucho / Decca / 5.17.50 

Georgie Auld & the Mello Larks / The Melody Lingers On / The Lamp is Low / Top Rank International / 1959

set 3

Shelly Manne & his Men / The Proper Time / Blue Stutter; Piano Jazz; Wheels / Contemporary / LA 12.7, 14.59 & 1.28.60

Wayne Shorter / Wayning Moments / Callaway Went That-a-Way / Vee Jay / Chicago 1962

Kai’s Krazy Kats / Loaded / Savoy / 12.14.45 

Maxine Sullivan / Corn Pickin’ / 3.20.39 / Victor / with Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra

Delta Rhythm Boys / Take the “A” Train / Victor / Hollywood 4.27.47

Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Come Rain or Come Shine / Prestige / 3.2.56

set 4

Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette’s Swinging Shepherds / Pony Tale / EmArcy / LA 3.7.58

Joe Newman / All I Wanna Do Is Swing / Dream a Little Dream of Me / RCA Victor / 1955 

“Fats” Waller  / “Fats” Waller’s Original E-Flat Blues / solo, transcription / 3.11.35

Moonglows / Don’t Say Goodbye / Chess / Chicago 12.56

Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / Pass Me By / Columbia / 1967

Golden Gate Quartet / Didn’t Old Pharaoh Get Lost / radio broadcast, NBC Thesaurus #1044 / c. 2.42

last soulful song

Alton Ellis / Sings Rock and Soul / So Much Love / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1967

The Moon Got in My Playlist

Record more soul tunes, NN, even if people call them popcorn.

Coffeetime, October 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Sonny Rollins / Newk’s Time / Asiatic Raes / Blue Note / 9.22.57

Lester Young & Teddy Wilson / Pres and Teddy / Love Me or Leave Me / Verve / 1.13.56

Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Yesterdays / Apollo / 2.16.44

Jack Smith, The Whispering Baritone / Crazy Rhythm / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 9.19.28

T-Bone Walker / She’s the No Sleepin’ Est Woman [alt] / Black & White / LA 12.18.47

Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook / It Was Written in the Stars / Verve / LA 1.15.61 / with Billy May’s Orchestra

set 2

Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Pretty Strange / Jazzland / 5.11.60

Jimmy Smith / Plain Talk / Time After Time / Blue Note / 3.22.60

Adolph Hofner & his San Antonians / Cotton-Eyed Joe / Columbia / Dallas 2.28.41

Sophie Tucker / Some of These Days / Columbia / Chicago 11.23.26 / with Ted Lewis & his Band

Bing Crosby / The Moon Got in My Eyes / Decca / Hollywood 7.12.37 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra

Jerry “Boogie” McCain / Crazy ’Bout That Mess / Trumpet [unissued] / Jackson, MS 11.4.54

Nichelle Nichols / Why Don’t You Do Right? / Epic / Hollywood 12.16.66

set 3

Bobby Timmons / From the Bottom / Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars) / Riverside / early 1964

Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Shome / Prestige / 11.9.56

Dexter Gordon / Dexter’s Cuttin’ Out / Savoy / 10.30.45

Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Somebody Nobody Loves / Okeh / 11.13.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee

Delta Rhythm Boys / A-Sittin’ & A-Rockin’ / radio broadcast, Command Performance / AFRS #202 / LA 12.13.45 / intro by Celeste Holm 

The Rovers / Why Oh-h / Capitol / San Francisco 3.55 

set 4

Bill Perkins / Quietly There / Keester Parade / Riverside / Hollywood 11.23, 28, 30.66

Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It Could Happen to You / Riverside / 3.7.57

Sonny Stitt / With the New Yorkers / Birds’ Eye / Roost / 1957

The Maxin Trio / Confession Blues / Down Beat Records / Seattle late 1948

Frank Sinatra & Margaret Whiting / This Can’t Be Love / radio broadcast, Light-Up Time / AFRS #16 / 11.49

Little Milton / Can’t Hold Back the Tears / Checker / Chicago 1965

The Zion Travelers / Down By the River / Dooto / LA 1962

last soul song

The Toys / Try to Get You Out of My Heart / Musicor [unissued] / 1966

Zing Went the Strings of My Playlist

Hey Patti! Don’t buy. Adopt!

Coffeetime, October 16, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / Rhumba Nhumba / Blue Note / 8.2.59

Dexter Gordon / Dexter Blows Hot and Cool / Bonna Rue / Dootone / LA 11.11-12.55

Red Nichols & his Five Pennies / On the Alamo [take 2] / Brunswick / 4.18.29 

Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra / Crazy Rhythm / Victor / 4.12.28 / vocal = Franklyn Baur

Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / I Would Do Anything for You / Decca / 1.23.40

Patti Page / Music for Two in Love / The Nearness of You / Mercury / 1956

set 2

Earl Anderza / Midnite Lament / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.30.63 

Billy Taylor / The New Billy Taylor Trio / There Will Never Be Another You / ABC-Paramount / 12.16, 17.57

Bix Beiderbecke & his Gang / Royal Garden Blues / Okeh / 10.5.27

Bud Freeman & his Famous Chicagoans / Jack Hits the Road / Columbia / 7.23.40 / vocal = Jack Teagarden 

Martha Raye / That Old Feeling / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944

Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Buffalo Nickel, part 1 / Apollo / 1949

Chuck Willis / Loud Mouth Lucy / Okeh / 3.52

set 3

Johnny Richards / Something Else By Johnny Richards / Dimples / Bethlehem / Hollywood 8.56

Pee Wee Russell & Oliver Nelson & his Orchestra / The Spirit of ’67 / This Is It / Impulse! / 2.15.67

Howard McGhee All Stars / South Pacific Jazz / Harvest Time / Savoy / USO tour, Guam 1.17.52

Virginia Four [aka Norfolk Jazz Quartet] / Dig My Jelly Roll / Decca / 8.23.39

Connee Boswell / You Forgot to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 4.16.38 / with Harry Sosnik & his Orchestra 

Matt Dennis / Plays and Sings Matt Dennis / Angel Eyes / Kapp / live, Tally Ho, Hollywood 1958

set 4

Pete Rugolo / New Sounds / When You’re Smiling / Harmony / LA 1957

Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Sauter-Finegan Memories of Goodman and Miller / Superman / RCA Victor / 1958 / arranged by Eddie Sauter

Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / The Brothers / Five Brothers / Prestige / 4.8.49

Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / My Baby / United / Chicago 4.15.53 

Dinah Washington / Since My Man Has Gone and Went / Mercury / summer 1953

Jimmy Ricks / Jimmy Ricks /  Zing Went the Strings of My Heart / Signature / 1961

The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi / Tide of Life / Peacock / Houston 1962

last soul song

Barbara Lynn / Nice & Easy / Atlantic / 1971 

And So, Playlist

Me sale del corazón

Coffeetime, October 9, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley, et al / The Prestige All Stars - Tenor Conclave / Tenor Conclave / Prestige / 9.7.56

Benny Goodman Sextet / I Found a New Baby / Victor / 1.15.41

Ray Noble & his Orchestra / And So, Goodbye / HMV / London 11.9.33 / vocal = Al Bowlly 

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Never Let Your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand’s Doin’ / Decca / 4.29.40

Anita O’Day / Anita Sings the Most / Tenderly / Verve / Chicago 1.31.57

set 2

Bucky Pizzarelli / After Thoughts, part 1 / Monmouth Evergreen / early spring 1974

Cecil Payne / Patterns of Jazz / How Deep is the Ocean / Savoy / 5.19.56

Stu Williamson / A Jazz Band Ball / Ida / Mode / Hollywood 7.57

Luis Russell’s Burning Eight / Call of the Freaks / Okeh / 1.15.29 

Helen Kane / I Wanna Be Loved By You / Victor / 9.20.28 / with Leonard Joy & The Victor Orchestra

Joe Swift / Right Now Baby / Exclusive / LA 1948 / with Johnny Otis Band

Fred Astaire / Shoes with Wings On / soundtrack to MGM movie “The Barkleys of Broadway” / Hollywood 1949

set 3

Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / Prestige / 5.24.56

Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Si Si / Prestige / 11.20.64

Mills Brothers / There Goes My Headache / Decca / 9.14.34

Mills Brothers / Miss Otis Regrets / Decca / 9.12.34

Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / For You / V-Disc 33A / Hollywood 1.20.41 / vocal = Jo Stafford

Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / Come Rain or Come Shine / Dawn / 1956

set 4

The Guitars, Inc. / Soft and Subtle / In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room / Warner Brothers / LA 1959  

Bobby Scott / The Compositions of Bobby Scott / Aunt Sarah / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.54

Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust / V-Disc 649A / Hollywood 8.12.45

Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Grieving for You / Columbia / Hollywood 1949 / vocal = Rosemary Clooney 

Beny Moré / Maracaibo Oriental / RCA Victor / 1950s

Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / For No Rhyme or Reason / Atlantic / 1957

Blue Jay Gospel Singers / Shall I Meet You Over Yonder? / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 4.23.52

last soul song

The Presidents / I Want My Baby / Deluxe / 1969

Playlist, What's Wrong with You?

Mildred Bailey's floating head!

Coffeetime, October 2, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Hank Mobley / Mobley’s Message / Minor Disturbance / Prestige / 7.20.56

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / The Jazz Messengers / The End of a Love Affair / Columbia / spring 1956

Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Love of My Life / Musicraft / LA 11.16.45

Ambrose & his Orchestra / Dear Little Café / Decca / London 7.30.29 / unknown vocalist

[Leo] “Snub” Mosley’s Band / The Man with the Funny Little Horn / Decca / 3.11.40

Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / You Came a Long Way from St. Louis / Verve / LA10.16.61

set 2

Lee Morgan / [Taru] / Taru, What’s Wrong with You / Blue Note / 2.15.68

Sonny Rollins / Alfie / He's Younger than You Are / Impulse! / 1.26.66

Johnny Costa / Introducing Johnny Costa / Flamingo / Savoy / 2.26.55

The Rhythm Band / The Man I Love / Bluebird / Hayes, Middlesex 4.18.28 

Mildred Bailey / You’re the Moment in My Life / Vocalion / 6.27.39 / with John Kirby’s Orchestra

Mel Tormé & his Mel-Tones / It Happened in Monterey; Ramona / Musicraft / LA 5.46 / with Sonny Burke & his Orchestra

Georgia Carr / Rocks in My Bed / Rocks in My Bed / Vee-Jay / 1964

set 3

Oliver Nelson / Full Nelson / You Love But Once / Verve / 3.26.63

Tommy Flanagan / Tommy Flanagan Overseas / Willow Weep for Me / Prestige / Stockholm 8.15.57

Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Hot in Harlem / Atlantic / Cleveland 5.1.48

Dick Haymes / Little White Lies / A Little Bit Independent / Decca [Coral] / LA 1950 / with the Song Spinners (?)

The Larks / Rockin’ in the Rocket Room / Apollo / 1.25.54 

Dick Haymes / Moondreams / Skylark / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 / with Abe Most on clarinet

set 4

Art Pepper / Modern Art / Cool Bunny / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56

Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Just One of Those Things / Contemporary / LA 4.25.55

The Joe Newman Septet / The Midgets / Really? Healy! / RCA / 7.13.56

Mae West / Mister Deep Blue Sea / from Paramount movie Klondike Annie / Hollywood 1936 with Victor McLaglen

Nat “King” Cole / 8 Top Pops / Walking My Baby Back Home / Capitol / Hollywood 1952

Priscilla Bowman / A Rockin’ Good Way / Abner / 7.30.58 / with the Spaniels 

Golden Gate Quartet / If I Had My Way / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soul song

Erma Coffee / You Made Me What I Am / Hi / Memphis 1973

Ami Hula Playlist

DIMPLES!

Coffeetime, September 25, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Prestige All Stars / After Hours / Steamin’ / Prestige / 6.21.57

Kenny Burrell / Men at Work / Trio / Cadet / live at The Village Vanguard 1966

Benny Goodman Trio / Moonglow / Victor / Chicago 4.27.36

The Piccadilly Players  / He Loves and She Loves / Columbia / London 10.6.28 / vocal = Eddie Grossbart

Cab Calloway & his Cab Jivers / Ol’ Joe Louis / Victor / Chicago 8.18.49

Dinah Washington / Come Rain or Come Shine / EmArcy / LA 8.14.54

set 2

Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Out of this World / Day Dreams / Warwick / 3.2.61 

Ben Webster / Ben Webster and Associates / Time After Time / Verve / 4.9.59

Joe Newman / With Woodwinds / Lover Man / Roulette / 1958

Lukewela’s Royal Hawaiians / Ami Hula Sway / radio transcription / spring 1941

Delta Rhythm Boys / Knock Me a Kiss / radio transcription, AFRS Jubilee / Hollywood 12.43

BB King / Bad Luck / RPM / LA 1956

Ricky Nelson / More Songs by Ricky / Time After Time / Imperial / LA 4.12.60

set 3

Prestige All Stars / Olio / Touché / Prestige / 2.16.57

Vido Musso / The Swingin’st / Sing, Sing, Sing / Crown [Modern] / LA 1956

Miles Davis/ Little Willie Leaps / Savoy / 8.14.47

Ink Spots / Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off / Decca / Hollywood 4.9.37

Louis Prima & his Orchestra / Alone / radio transcription, Bandstand USA / 6.50 / vocal = Keely Smith

Jean Sablon / Laura / HMV/Pathé Marconi / Paris 1955

set 4

Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Morning After / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / Makin’ Whoopee / Mode / Hollywood 7.57

Bill Baldwin’s Seven Teens / The Seven Teens in the Hall of Fame / Sing, Sing, Sing / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

Peggy Lee & The Capitol Jazzmen / That Old Feeling / MacGregor transciption / Hollywood 1.7.44
Guy Pastor / Meet a Happy Guy / Bewitched (Bothered and Bewildered) / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

Tom Jones / Tom Jones Live! At The Talk of the Town / Ain’t That Good News / London 1967 

Alphabetical Four / Live Humble / Decca / 8.16.38 

last soul song

Gene Chandler / There Was a Time! / Never Give You Up / Brunswick / 1968

There's a Playlist in My Life

Ella Mae was giving me a hand with cueing up!

Coffeetime, September 18, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Conte Candoli & Lou Levy / West Coast Wailers / Lover Come Back to Me / Atlantic / 8.17.55

Blue Mitchell / Blue’s Moods / Scrapple from the Apple / Riverside / 8.24.60

Don Redman & his Orchestra / Shimme Sha Wabble / Victor / 1.17.40

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / I Still Remember / Victor / 10.28.29

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

Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / Something I Dreamed Last Night / Kapp / 1958

set 2

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

Horace Silver / Finger Poppin’ with the Horace Silver Quintet / You Happened My Way / Blue Note / 1.31.59

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Little Buttercup (I’ll Never Be the Same) / Parlophone / 6.10.31 

Cliff Edwards / My Dog Loves Your Dog / Brunswick / London 4.9.34

The Four Sharps aka The Southern Sons / I’m Building a Castle / Trumpet / Jackson, Mississippi 7.22.51

Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman / In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening (from Paramount movie Here Comes the Groom) / Decca / Hollywood 6.20.51 / with The Matty Matlock All Stars

set 3

Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Mr. Kenyatta / Blue Note / 2.15.64

Art Farmer & Benny Golson / Meet the Jazztet / Serenata / Argo / 2.6, 9, 10.60

Ella Mae Morse  / Poor Relation Blues / CBS radio broadcast, Johnny Mercer’s Music Shop / Hollywood 6.22.43 / with Paul Weston Orchestra

The Marshall Brothers / It All Comes Back to Me Now / Savoy [unissued] / 12.17.51 / with René Hall Quartet 

Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / September Song / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Ralph Sharon Trio & Howard McGhee

set 4

Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / Wonder Why / Contemporary / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.23.59

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Fugue in C Major / Atlas / Hollywood 5.45

Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti

Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, The Jud Conlon Chorus, & The Mellomen / You Can Fly! / soundtrack to Peter Pan / Disneyland / Hollywood 1953  

The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones Are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soul song

Bobby “Blue” Bland / Ask Me ’Bout Nothing (But the Blues) / Duke / 1969 

Playlist Toujours Playlist

Give Yves a big hand!

Coffeetime, September 11, 2015, Angelynn Grant

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

set 1

Bill Hardman / Jo B / Savoy / 10.18.61

Jay Jay Johnson / Turnpike [alt take] / Blue Note / 6.22.53

Napoleon’s Emperors / Gettin’ Hot / Victor / 5.23.29 

Waring’s Pennsylvanians / Collegiana / Victor / 2.21.28 [3.9.28] / vocal = Tom & Fred Waring 

Clarence Samuels / Somebody Gotta Go / Freedom / Houston 1950 / with Carl Campbell’s Band

Ann Richards / The Many Moods of Ann Richards / Be Easy, Be Tender / Capitol / Hollywood 1960

set 2

Donald Byrd / [At the Half Note Café] / A Portrait of Jennie / Blue Note / live, Half Note, 11.11.60

Booker Little / Who Can I Turn To / Time / 4.13.60 

Coleman Hawkins / Flyin’ Hawk / Joe Davis / 10.19.44

Bon Bon & his Buddies / I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire / Decca / 7.23.41 / vocal = Bon Bon Tunnell

Walter Huston / September Song / Decca / 1944

The Robins / If I Didn’t Love You So / Savoy / LA 12.1.49

Yves Montand / France’s Formidable / C’est Si Bon / Odeon / Paris 1948

set 3

Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Motor City Scene / Libeccio / Bethlehem / 1960

Bunny Williams & his Shufflers / Jack Pot – Jack Pot / Champion / Jackson, Miss 1949

Mildred Bailey / Downhearted Blues / V-Disc 524A / 5.17.44 / with Red Norvo & his Orchestra

Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Plays George Gerswhin for Dancing [Dinner for Two] / There’s a Small Hotel / RCA Victor [RCA Camden] / vocal = The Snowflakes / 1.6.49 

Jimmy Rushing’s All Stars / I Want a Little Girl / Vanguard / 12.1.54 

set 4

Richie Kamuca / Jazz Erotica [also issued as West Coast Jazz in Hi Fi] / The Things We Did Last Summer / Hi Fi Jazz / LA 5.26.57 

Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Indian Summer / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56

Ace Harris & his Sunset Royals / Who? / Vocalion / 10.25.37 

Etta Jones / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra

Sammy Davis Jr / When the Feeling Hits You / L’Amour Toujours L’Amour / Reprise / Las Vegas (“recorded wild in…”) 4.30.64 / with Sam Butera & the Witnesses

St. Andrews Gospelaires / Tone Them Bells / Trumpet / WRBC Studio, Jackson MS 4.3.50 

last soul song

Barbara Lewis / Think a Little Sugar / Atlantic / Chicago 1962 / with the Dells