I’m Sitting on Top of the Playlist

Having fun with Ethel.

Coffeetime, February 24, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Hymn to the Orient / Riverside / 12.19.57
Prestige All Stars / All Day Long / Slim Jim / Prestige / 1.4.57
Ross Gorman’s Earl Carroll Vanities Orchestra / I’m Sitting on Top of the World / Columbia / 10.29.25
Rudy Vallée & his Yale Collegians / Outside / Harmony / 1.31.29
Buddy Johnson & his Orchestra / Since I Fell for You / radio broadcast / live, Savoy Ballroom 1945 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Big Mama Thornton / My Man Called / Peacock / Houston 1956
Julie London / All Through the Night / Get Out of Town / Liberty / Hollywood 7.12,13,16.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Coltrane’s Sound / Central Park West / Atlantic / 10.24 & 26.64
The Prestige All Stars / All Night Long / Body & Soul / Prestige [unissued] / 12.28.56
Ethel Waters & her Ebony Four / Maybe Not at All / Columbia / 10.28.25
The Four Rockets / Loch Lomond / Aladdin / 11.48
Bobby Long & the Satellites / Mojo Workout / Vegas / 1964

set 3
Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith / Blue Bash! / Kenny’s Sound / Verve / 7.16.63
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / Skylark / Prestige / 10.21.66
Lester Young / Sax-o-Be-Bop / JATP / 1946
Harry James & his Orchestra / Opening Theme [Ciribiribin); If That’s the Way You Want It, Baby / radio transcription / mid-1940s / vocal = Helen Forrest
Basin Street Boys / I Sold My Heart to the Junkman / Exclusive / LA c. 6.46 / with Eddie Beal Fourtet
Earl Coleman with Sonny Rollins / Tour de Force / Two Different Worlds / Prestige / 12.7.56

set 4
Marty Paich Quartet / Featuring Art Pepper / Abstract Art / Tampa  / 2.20.57
Clifford Brown / Jazz Immortal / Gone with the Wind / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 8.13.54
Lynn Hope / Please, Mr. Sun / Aladdin / Chicago 3.11.52
Kay Starr / Who’s Foolin’ Who / Lamplighter / LA 1946 / with the Lamplighter All Stars
Dean Martin / Cha Cha de Amor / I Wish You Love / Capitol / Hollywood 1962
Donald Height / You’re Gonna Miss Me / Shout / 1966
Soul Stirrers / Come and Go to That Land / Specialty / Hollywood 7.10.53

last soulful song
Lea Roberts / Prove It / Minit / LA 5.1.69

Waiting for the Playlist to Come In

Sam, you do sing so handsomely!

Coffeetime, February 17, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dizzy Reece / Star Bright / A Variation on Monk / Blue Note / 11.19.59
Lee Morgan / Introducing Lee Morgan / Bet / Savoy / 11.5.56
The Comedian Harmonists / Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear / Odeon / Berlin 1932
Walter Brown / Let’s Love Awhile / Capitol / LA 7.50 / Jay McShann’s Kaycee Stompers
Billie Holiday / Songs for Distingué Lovers / One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) / Verve / LA 1.8.57

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

set 2
Charles McPherson / Bebop Revisited! / Embraceable You / Prestige / 11.20.64
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Jack Teagarden / Shades of Night / Strange / Capitol / 1958
Bing Crosby / After Sundown / Brunswick / Hollywood 9.27.33 / with Lennie Hayton’s Orchestra
Doris Day / Tea for Two [10 inch EP “Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production”] / Tea for Two / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra, Gene Nelson (“dance effects & songs”), the Ken Lane Singers, & the Page Cavanaugh Trio
Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones & his Playboys / New Arrival / Imperial / 1947

set 3
Charles McPherson / The Quintet/Live! / Here’s That Rainy Day / Prestige / live at The Five Spot 10.13.66
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Twice Around / Blue Note / 8.11.64
The Mills Brothers / Dinah / Brunswick / 12.16.32 / with Bing Crosby
Martha Raye, Private Murray McEachern, Gene Krupa, & the Mel-Tones / Blue Skies / radio broadcast, AFRS Showtime / 1944
Sam Cooke / Encore / When I Fall in Love / Keen / LA 1958 / with Bumps Blackwell Orchestra

set 4
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / Bloke’s Blues / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61
Lee Konitz / Konitz Meets Mulligan / Too Marvelous for Words / Pacific Jazz / live at The Haig, Hollywood 1.53
Les Paul Trio / If I Love Again / V-Disc 572B / mid-1940s
Peggy Lee / Waiting for the Train to Come In / Capitol / Hollywood 7.30.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Marlene Dietrich / Dietrich in London / I Wish You Love / Columbia / Queen’s Theatre, London 12.12.64
Golden Gate Quartet / Take Your Burdens to God / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 1.24.38

last soulful song
Little Johnny Truitt / Don’t Let Me Be a Cryin’ Man / A-Bet / Crowley, Louisiana (?) 1966

Lonesome Playlist

Dreaming with Dinah…

Coffeetime, February 3, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Live at The Jazz Corner of the World, vol 2 / M & M / Blue Note / 4.15.59
Bill English / Bill English / 222 / Vanguard / 1963
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Let’s Go Home / Columbia / 4.24.41
Annette Hanshaw / Moon Song (That Wasn’t Meant for Me) / Banner / 1.25.33
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Hurry, Hurry / Decca / 5.26.44 / vocal = Wynonie Harris
Dinah Washington / Our Love Is Here to Stay / EmArcy / early spring 1954

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

set 2
Stanley Turrentine / Blue Hour / Since I Fell for You / Blue Note / 12.16.60
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Mr. Know-It-All / Liberty / Hollywood 11.25, 29.55
Joe Newman / All I Want to Do Is Swing / Leonice / RCA Victor / 2.8.55
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / The Wild Dog / Okeh / 3.28.28
Boswell Sisters / Gee, But I’d Like to Make You Happy / Okeh / LA 10.3.30 / on label as The Three Boswell Sisters
Roy Brown & his Mighty-Mighty Men / Lonesome Lover / King / Cincinnati 9.27.51
Frankie Laine / Mr. Rhythm / Some Day, Sweetheart / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Yusef Lateef / The Three Faces of Yusef Lateef / Salt Water Blues / Riverside / 5.9.60
Earl Anderza / Joe and I / Pacific Jazz / LA 6.30.63
Tadd Dameron Band / Ep-Bop / transcriptions [Jazzland] / live Royal Roost 1948
Connee Boswell / Stormy Weather / Decca / LA 8.7.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
The Harmonaires / Spirituals / I’ll Get Along Somehow / Varsity / 12.47
Jean Sablon / Ciel de Paris / HMV/Pathé Marconi / Paris early 1960s

set 4
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Roulette / Tampa/Skylark / Hollywood 1954
Tal Farlow / Tal / How About You / Verve / 1956
Helen Forrest / Everybody Knew but Me / Decca / Hollywood 11.19.45 / with Les Paul & his Trio
Jerry Butler / I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face / Vee-Jay / 1965
Dixie Nightingales / Forgive These Fools / Chalice / Memphis / 1966

last soulful song
Dee Dee Warwick / I’m Gonna Make You Love Me / Mercury / 10.66

Lady Windermere's Playlist

Thank you!

Coffeetime, January 27, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Far Away Lands / Far Away Lands / Blue Note / 5.26.67
Art Farmer / Septet / Up in Quincy’s Room / Prestige / 7.2.53
Bernie Leighton / Piano Contrasts / Things Are Looking Up / Keynote / 8.9.46
Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra / San / Victor / 1.12.28
Ray Noble & his Orchestra / Wagon Wheels / HMV / London 2.21.34 / vocal = Al Bowlly
Mr. Google Eyes August [Joseph August] / Play the Game / Duke / LA 1953 / with Johnny Otis Band
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Body and Soul / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Dexter Gordon / Landslide / Love Locked Out / Blue Note / 5.5.62
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Easy Living / Jazzland / 12.4.61
Sandy Williams’ Big Eight / Mountain Air / HRS / 11.5.45
Martha Raye / Honeysuckle Rose / AFRS Swingtime / Hollywood 1944
Eddie Cantor / The Eddie Cantor Story soundtrack [Warner Brothers] / Makin’ Whoopee / Capitol / Hollywood 12.25.53
B.B. King / Eyesight to the Blind / Kent / LA 1965
Ruby & the Romantics / Young Wings Can Fly / Kapp / 1968

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / Sweet ’n’ Sour / Riverside / 10.23 & 24.62
Barry Harris / Breaking It Up / Stranger in Paradise / Argo / Chicago 7.31.58
Preston Love Orchestra / Jumping for Charles / Spin / LA 1952
Alvino Rey & his Orchestra / Something Sentimental / radio transcription / 1946 / vocal = Jo Anne Ryan
The Four Tunes / My Last Affair / RCA Victor / 6.49
Little Willie John / No More Life / King / Cincinnati 1958

set 4
Herbie Harper / Bethlehem’s Best [Herbie Harper] / Angus / Bethlehem / LA 1.25.55
Bobby Jaspar / Up in Quincy’s Room / Vogue / Paris 11.3.52
Beatrice Lillie / Souvenir Album / Lady Windermere’s Fan / Decca / 12.30.47
Lavern Baker / See See Rider / Atlantic / 9.26.62
Antonio Carlos Jobim / The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Por Toda A Mimha Vida / Warner Brothers / LA 1965 / with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra
Sonny Curtis / The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme song, Love Is All Around / 1970
The Four Internes / I Go to Jesus / King / Cincinnati 11.53

last soulful song
Syreeta / Syreeta / I Love Every Little Thing About You / Mowest / LA 1972

Could You Please Oblige Us With a Playlist

Oh Sammy, tell us why we should smile…

Coffeetime, January 20, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / Soul Junction / Hallelujah / Prestige / 11.15.57
Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, Idrees Sulieman / Three Trumpets / Who’s Who / Prestige / 1.26.57
Hubert Rostaing – Aimé Barelli et Leur Orchestre / Indécision / Swing / Paris 10.22.40
Noel Coward / Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun? / HMV / London 7.28.41
Miss Rhapsody [Viola Wells] / The Night Before Judgement Day / Savoy / 5.15.45 / duet with Harold Underhill
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / The Party’s Over / Verve / 4.12.61

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

set 2
Red Garland / Prestige Moodsville, Volume 1 / We’ll Be Together Again / 12.11.59 / with Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis
Rene Thomas / Guitar Groove / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Jazzland / 9.7-8.60
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / Liza / Victor / 8.1.35
Don Barreto  et son Orchestre Cubain / Triguenita (Brito) / Decca / Paris 6.27.33 / “Recordings in London of African and West Indian Music in the 1920s and 1930s”
Delta Rhythm Boys / Domaredansen / Metronome / Stockholm 9.8.50 / with the Metronome All-Stars
Etta James / Seven Day Fool / Argo / Chicago 9.60

set 3
Sandy Mosse / ‘Relaxin’ with … Sandy Mosse / Birks Works / Argo / Chicago 9.5.58
Dizzy Gillespie / Dizzy Atmosphere / Musicraft / prob 2.28.45
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / Chillun, Get Up / Victor / 1.26.34 / vocal = Henry Wells & Trio
Charioteers / So Long / radio transcription / 1942
Dizzy Gillespie & his Orchestra / He Beeped When He Should Have Bopped / Musicraft / 7.9.46 / vocal = Alice Roberts
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Shelter of Your Arms / The Party’s Over / Reprise / Hollywood 7.19.61 / with Marty Paich & his Orchestra

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Volume 3 / Mexican Passport / Contemporary / LA 8.2.55
Shorty Rogers & André Previn / Collaboration / Call for Cole / RCA Victor / 3.30.54
Frank Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) / V-Disc 262-A, CBS radio broadcast, “The Vimms Vitamins Show” / 5.24.44 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Colemans / I Don’t Mind Being All Alone / Regal / 1950
The Ravens / The House I Live In / National / 1.27.49
The Staple Singers / Pray On / Vee-Jay / 1960

last soulful song
Stevie Wonder / Signed, Sealed, & Delivered / Heaven Help Us All / Tamla / 1970

She's a New Kind of Old Fashioned Girl Playlist

Handsome, talented, and snappy. xo!

Coffeetime, January 13, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Undercurrent / Undercurrent / Blue Note / 12.11.60
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Cannonball / Caribbean Cutie / Savoy / 7.14.55
The Jungle Band / Doin’ the Voom Voom / Brunswick / 1.8.29
Jack Smith / She’s a New Kind of Old Fashioned Girl / Victor / 4.24.29 / with Leonard Joy & the Victor Orchestra
Big Sheba with Freddie Mitchell’s Orchestra / Talkin’ Blues Boogie / Derby / c. 1949
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gerswhin / How Long Has This Been Going On? / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins, piano

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Soultrane / Theme for Ernie / Prestige / 2.7.58
Lennie Tristano / Lennie Tristano / These Foolish Things / Atlantic / The Sing-Song Room, Confucius Restaurant 6.11.55
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / But Beautiful / Lenox / c. 1948–49
Larry Adler / Lover, Come Back to Me / Columbia / Paris 5.31.38 / with Le Quintette du Hot Club de France
Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds of Joy / Loose Ankles / Brunswick / Kansas City 4.29.30 / vocal = Bill Massey
The Cats & the Fiddle / Killin’ Jive / Bluebird / Chicago 6.27.39
The Magnificents / Up on the Mountain / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1.21.56

set 3
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly! / Sassy / Vee-Jay / 7.21.61
Jo Jones / The Jo Jones Special / Lincoln Heights / Vanguard / 1955
Mills Brothers / Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland / Decca / 1.24.39
Johnny Mercer / Personality / Capitol / Hollywood 9.28.45 / with the Pied Pipers and Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Dancing in the Dark / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / Tenderly / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Bill Holman – Mel Lewis Quintet / Jive for Five / Liza / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
King Cole Trio / (What Can I Say) After I Say I’m Sorry / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 1.45
Buddy Greco / I Like It Swinging / Love / Epic / 4.19-21.61
Dixie-aires [aka Dixieaires] / Friends Let Me Tell You About Jesus / Exclusive / LA 2.49

last soulful song
The Supremes / Your Heart Belongs to Me / Motown / Detroit 1962

You Can Make My Life a Playlist of Roses

Astrud takes a bow. Stan approves.

Coffeetime, January 6, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jack Sheldon / Jazz West Coast, Vol 2 / Contour / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.18.55
Art Farmer / Septet / Mau Mau / Prestige / 7.2.53
Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers / There’ll Be Some Changes Made [take 2] / HRS / 8.31.38
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Medley “Hot Cha”: You Can Make My Life a Bed of Roses (vocal = Kate Smith); Say (vocal = Wallace Trio); There I Go, Dreaming Again (vocal = Jack Miller) / Columbia / 3.22.32
Babe Matthews with Joe Thomas’ Big Six / He’s Got So Much / HRS / 2.15.46
Dakota Staton / More Than the Most! / Some Days It’s Monday / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Perception / Nobody’s Heart / Argo / 10.25-27.61
Red Garland / Moodsville 6 / T’ain’t Nobody's Business / Prestige Moodsville 6 / 11.21.58
The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Lazy River / HRS / 3.28.40
Cliff Edwards aka Ukelele Ike aka Jiminy Cricket / Give a Little Whistle / soundtrack to Pinocchio / Disneyland / LA 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers, Victor Young & his Orchestra
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / She Lost her Re-Bop / Queen / Cincinnati c. 4.46 / vocal = Ernestine “Annisteen” Allen & Bullmoose Jackson & ensemble
Rosemary Clooney / Swing Around Rosie / Sing You Sinners / Coral / LA 1958 / with Buddy Cole Trio

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / Nothin’ But the Truth! / Prestige / 12.13.66
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Dorian / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Red Prysock / Short Circuit / Mercury / 10.14.55
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / You Don’t Know What Love Is / RCA Victor / 11.17.41 / vocal = Billy Eckstine
The Ravens / Without a Song / National [unissued] / c. 1950
Bobby Darin / Love Swings / No Greater Love / Atco / 1961

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / Coop / Contemporary / LA 3.17.54
Jimmy Raney / Jimmy Raney Plays / Signal / Prestige / 4.23.53 /
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Can’t Get That No More / Decca / 3.15.44
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Look to the Rainbow / Verve / 12.65
The Soul Stirrers / All Right Now [take 2] / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 3.2.54

last soulful song
Redbone / Come and Get Your Love / Epic / LA 8.73

(hat tip John Funke of Backwoods):

Happy New Playlist, Baby

Over here, Dean, over here!

Coffeetime, December 30, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Four Strings [alt take] / Blue Note / 5.19.57
John Coltrane & Paul Chambers / High Step / Transition [unissued] / Cambridge 4.20.55
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Swing / Paris 7.7.37
Helen Kane / Dangerous Nan McGrew / from the soundtrack to the Paramount movie of same name / Hollywood 4.12.30
Peggy Lee / Song at Midnight / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3.49 / with the Jud Conlon Singers
Johnny Otis Band / Happy New Year, Baby / Excelsior / 1947 / vocal = Lem Tally
Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson / Double Exposure / Happy New Year / Atlantic / 12.5.60

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Candy / All the Way / Blue Note / 11.18.57
Bud Powell / It Could Happen to You / Blue Note / 5.1.51
Guy Lombardo / Guy Lombardo in Hi Fi / Auld Lang Syne / Capitol / Hollywood 1956
Red Norvo & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Decca / 3.16.36
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Columbia / 1946 / vocal = Harry Babbitt & the Campus Kids
Louis Armstrong & the All-Stars with Jack Teagarden / Jack-Armstrong Blues / AFRS radio broadcast / Hollywood c. 6.47

set 3
Lem Winchester & Benny Golson / Winchester Special / The Dude / New Jazz / 9.25.59
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / How Long Has This Been Going On / Verve / LA 10.16.57
Bud Powell / 52nd Street Theme / Blue Note / 8.9.49
Margaret Whiting / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Capitol / Hollywood 1947
Dixieaires / Soon Now / Coleman / 1948
Dean Martin / A Winter Romance / Capitol / Hollywood / 8.4.59

set 4
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / Knights at the Castle / Dawn / 2.3.56
Chet Baker / Chet Baker Big Band / Phil’s Blues / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.18.56
Dick Haymes / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? / Decca / Hollywood 7.25.47 / with Les Paul Trio
Debbie Reynolds / You Are My Lucky Star / outtake from MGM movie Singing in the Rain / Hollywood 6.13.51
Little Milton Campbell / I Need Somebody / Checker / St. Louis / 1961
Jo Ann Campbell / Happy New Year, Baby / Gone / 1958
Pilgrim Travelers / Good News / Specialty / Hollywood 12.24.47

last soulful song
Berna-Dean / One Gal in Town, Five Men Around / Imperial / LA 1962

Merry Playlist, I Love You

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

Coffeetime, December 23, 2016, Angelynn Grant

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

bed  

Bill Smith Trio / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 

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

bed  

Don Patterson / Holiday Soul / Merry Christmas, Baby / Prestige / 11.25.64

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 

bed

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

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

The Best Things Happen While You're Playlisting

I love Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 16, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / High and Flighty [alt take] / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Donna Lee / Riverside / 4.27.57
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 / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May
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
Ike Quebec / [Easy Living - not released] / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note / 1.20.62
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
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 / Chicago 10.66 / Orchestra arranged & conducted by Richard Evans
Howard Roberts / H.R. Is a Dirty Guitar Player! / Turista / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3, 4, 5 & 7.16.63
Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes
Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald / It’s a Marshmallow World / CBS radio broadcast / Hollywood 11.29.50
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
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
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Johnny Mercer / Winter Wonderland / radio broadcast / Hollywood 1946 / with the Pied Pipers
Yogi Yorgesson / I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood10.18.49 / with the Johnny Duffy Trio
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
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
Louis Jordan / Santa Claus, Santa Claus / Pzazz / 1968 / written, arranged, with Teddy Edwards

My Playlist Wants a Millionaire

Let's be groovy, baby.

Coffeetime, December 9, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / The Fox / Sims A-Plenty / Contemporary / LA 8.59
Teddy Edwards / It’s All Right! / Wheelin’ and Dealin’ / Prestige / 1967
Erskine Hawkins & his Orchestra / Junction Blues / Bluebird / 6.10.40
Rudy Vallée & his Yale Collegians / Dream Sweetheart / Harmony / 8.29.28
Bob Mitchell / My Girl Wants a Millionaire / Derby / LA 1950
Sarah Vaughan / September Song / EmArcy / 12.16.54

set 2
John Wright / Mr. Soul / Our Waltz / Prestige / 4.10.62
Mal Waldron / Left Alone / Left Alone / Bethlehem / 11.57
Lester Young & Harry “Sweets” Edison / Pres and Sweets / That’s All / Norgran / Hollywood 11.1.55
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / It’s a Lonesome Old Town (When You’re Not Around) / Victor / 2.12.39 / vocal = Lois Deppe
The Smoothies / Easy Does It / Bluebird / 1.3.40
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers featuring Frankie Ervin / Dragnet Blues / Modern / LA 1953
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Make Me a Present of You / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 3
Junior Mance / Junior Mance Trio at the Village Vanguard / Looptown / Jazzland / live at the Village Vanguard 2.22, 23.61
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Afro-Jaws / Tin Tin Deo / Riverside / 5.4, 12.61
Charlie Parker Quintet / Dexterity / Dial / 10.28.47
Maxine Sullivan / How Do I Know It’s Real? / Decca / 3.19.42
The Four Tunes (aka The Brown Dots aka The Sentimentalists) / (I Wonder) Where Is My Love / Manor / late 1946
Johnny Hartman / The Debonair Mr. Hartman: All of Me / Stella By Starlight / Bethlehem / 11.56 / with Frank Hunter & the Bethlehem Orchestra

set 4
Pete & Conte Candoli / Bell, Book & Candoli / Hey, Bellboy! / Dot / LA 12.58
Barney Kessel / Barney Kessel, vol. 1,  "Easy Like" / That’s All / Contemporary / LA 11.14.53
Lil Armstrong & her Chicago Boys / Joogie Boogie / Gotham / Chicago 4.4.50
Les Brown & his Orchestra / Salt Water Cowboy / CBS broadcast / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 9.2.44 / vocal = Doris Day
Doc Pomus / Naggin’ Wife Blues / Apollo / late 1947 or early 1948
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood / 1968
The Trumpeteers / John De Revelator / WOR radio broadcast / 6.22.49

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

 

I Still Get a Playlist (Thinking of You)

Handsome man. Tenor saxophone. Can I have both, please?

Coffeetime, December 2, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night in Tunisia / Sincerely Diana / Blue Note / 2.4.65
Pepper Adams / 10 to 4 at the 5-Spot / The Long Two/Four / Riverside / live, Five Spot Café 4.15.58
Annette Hanshaw / Don’t Blame Me / Banner / 9.1.33
Big Maybelle / A Little Bird Told Me / Savoy / 4.13.57 / with Ernie Wilkins Orchestra
Toni Harper / Toni / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Verve / LA 1.3.56

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / I Can’t Get Started / BBC TV show, Jazz 625 / live, London 3.7.65
Coleman Hawkins / At Ease with Coleman Hawkins / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Prestige Moodsville / 1.29.60
Red Norvo’s Nine / Under a Blanket of Blue / Capitol / Hollywood 10.14.47
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / In the Evening / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Cleo Brown / Never Too Tired to Love / Decca / 6.8.35
The Ravens / Time Is Marching On / National / 3.50
Cy Coleman / Witchcraft / live, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy’s Penthouse TV show / 1956  

set 3
Wynton Kelly / Smokin’ at the Half Note / Four on Six / Verve / 9.22.65
Baby Face Willette / Face to Face / Swingin’ at Sugar Ray’s / Blue Note / 1.30.61
Teddy Reig’s All Stars / Mr. Dues / Savoy / 1.22.47
The Charioteers / Sweet Lorraine / Columbia / 6.3.47
Frank Sinatra / The Concert Sinatra / Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered / Reprise / Hollywood 2.63

set 4
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / Li’l Darlin’ / Contemporary / LA late summer 1960
Chet Baker / Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe / Almost Like Being in Love / Riverside / 7.22.59
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / It’s an Old Southern Custom / Melotone / Hollywood 2.15.35 / with The Four Blackbirds
Dick Haymes / I Still Get a Thrill (Thinking of You) / Decca / Hollywood 1.16.49 / with Four Hits and a Miss
Pearl Bailey / Cultured Pearl / What Happened to the Hair (on the Head of the Man I Love)? / Coral / LA 1957 / arrangements by Don Redman
The Detroiters / Angels Watching Over Me / Specialty [unissued] / Detroit 8.14.51

last soulful song
Tommie Young / That’s All a Part of Loving Him / Soul Power / Shreveport 1973

She Knows Her Playlists

You bug me, baby… in a good way!

Coffeetime, November 25, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / Groovin’ with Golson / The Stroller / New Jazz / 8.28.59
Max Roach / Parisian Sketches / Nica / Mercury / Paris 3.2.60
The Happiness Boys / She Knows Her Onions / Victor / 8.26.26 / with Dave Kaplan on piano
Dinah Washington / Pacific Coast Blues / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45 / with Lucky Thompson’s All Stars
June Christy / June’s Got Rhythm / Easy Living / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1958

set 2
Coleman Hawkins / The Genius of Coleman Hawkins / Like Someone in Love / Verve /LA 10.16.57
Oscar Peterson / Night Train / I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good / Verve / LA 12.15 & 16.62
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / I Cover the Waterfront / Dawn / Paris 3.12, 14.56
Andy Alona’s Novelty Four / Paahana / Columbia / 1.14.29
Red Perkins & his Dixie Ramblers / My Baby Knows How / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 5.5.31
The Three Sharps and A Flat / I’m Getting Sentimental Over You / Decca / 1.18.39
Gene Phillips & his Rhythm Aces / I Want a Little Girl / Modern [unissued] / LA 1947

set 3
Bennie Green / Walking Down / But Not for Me / Prestige / 5.29.56
Kenny Burrell / How About You / Blue Note / 3.12.56
Camille Howard / Schubert’s Serenade Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51
The Mills Brothers with Ella Fitzgerald / Dedicated to You / Decca 2.3.37
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / But Not Mine / Columbia / 12.10.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Buddy Greco / My Last Night in Rome / Autumn in Rome / Epic / 1964

set 4
Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / For Hi-Fi Bugs / EmArcy / LA 7.10.56
Joe Newman / The Happy Cats / I Never Knew / Coral / LA 1957
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Dinner for One / Tampa / Hollywood 1954
King Cole Trio / When You Walked Out with Shoes On / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 11.4.47
Jackie De Shannon / For You / Don’t Dream of Anybody But Me / Imperial / LA 1967
Norfolk Jubilee Quartet / Jesus Is Making Up My Dying Bed / Decca / Charlotte 6.5.38

last soulful song
Carla Thomas / Do Boys Keep Diaries / Stax [unissued] / Memphis c. 1962

Happiness is Just a Playlist Called Joe

Joe was a babe; Joe had a Babe!

Coffeetime, November 18, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Off to the Races / Lover Come Back to Me / Blue Note / 12.2.58
Kenny Dorham / K.D.’s Cab Ride (Echo of Spring) / Blue Note / 1.30.55
J.C. Higginbotham’s Big Eight / Dutch Treat / HRS (Hot Record Society) / 12.21.45
The Revelers / Lucky Day / Victor / 7.14.26
Babe Matthews with Joe Thomas’ Big Six / No Better for Ya / HRS / 2.15.46
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Happiness Is a Just a Thing Called Joe / Riverside / 10.28.57

set 2
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / Sweetness / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Kenny Burrell / But Not for Me / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.29.56
Hoagy Carmichel & his Orchestra / Sing It Way Down Low / Victor / 9.1.32
Bing Crosby / You Are My Sunshine / Decca / LA 7.8.41 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Billy Eckstine / Blues for Sale / Savoy / LA 4.21.47
Bob Mitchell / Red Beans & Rice / Derby / LA 1950

set 3
Sonny Stitt / I Remember Bird / Jeepers Creepers / Catalyst / Hollywood 1977
Gene Ammons / Happiness Is a Just Thing Called Joe / Chess / Chicago 5.3.51
Frank Culley Orchestra / Ready for Action / Lenox / c. 1948–49
The Dixiaires / Sharp Mama (Don’t You Leave Me Flat) / Continental / late-1940s
Billie Holiday / You Can’t Lose a Broken Heart / Decca / 9.30.49 / duet with Louis Armstrong
Anthony Newley / Who Can I Turn To / The Beautiful Land / RCA / 1965

set 4
Bud Shank, Shorty Rogers / Fluted Columns / Pacific Jazz [World Pacific] / Hollywood 5.2.55
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Frankie & Johnny / Contemporary / LA 8.26, 27.57
Mildred Bailey / You and Your Love / Vocalion / 6.27.39 / with John Kirby’s Orchestra
Dean Martin / Dean Martin Sings / I Feel Like a Feather in a Breeze / Capitol / Hollywood 11.20.52
Dixieaires / Buckle My Shoe / Spirituals / LA 2.49

last soulful song
Eddie Holman / A Free Country / Parkway / Philadelphia 1965

Brother, Can You Spare a Playlist (2016 Style)

Those soulful Art eyes say, “Call now!”

Coffeetime, November 11, 2016, Angelynn Grant – Fundraiser Show

set 1
John Coltrane, Julian Cannonball Adderley / Cannonball & Coltrane / Grand Central / EmArcy / Chicago 2.3.59
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
Etta Jones / The Richest Guy in the Graveyard / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J. C. Heard & his Orchestra
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, transciption / 10.28.43
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
Hildegarde / I’m Feeling Like a Million / Vocalion / London 1935 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Camille Howard / Money Blues / Specialty / Hollywood 2.26.51

set 5
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / Last Dollar / Okeh / 5.11.31 / vocal = Dick Robertson
King Cole Trio / Money Is Honey / Capitol / Hollywood 11.3.47
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 6
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 / 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 Playlist’ll Getcha If You Don’t Watch Out

Penny for your thoughts, handsome Bobby…

Coffeetime, November 4, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin / Johnny Griffin Sextet / Woody’n You / Riverside / 2.25.58
Gigi Gryce / Reminiscin’ / Caravan / Mercury / 11.10.60
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night at Birdland, volume 2 / If I Had You / Blue Note / live, Birdland 2.21.54
Pee Wee Russell’s Rhythmakers / I’ve Found a New Baby / HRS / 8.31.38
Noël Coward / Most of Ev’ry Day / HMV / London 10.29.34 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
The 5 Red Caps / The Boogie Beat’ll Getcha If You Don’t Watch Out / Joe Davis / 5.45
Doris Day / Day By Day / I Remember You / Columbia / LA 1956 / with Paul Weston & His Music From Hollywood

set 2
Julian Priester / Keep Swingin’ / Once in a While / Riverside / 1.11.60
Bobby Troup / Bobby Swings Tenderly / My Ship / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Joe Roland / Creed Taylor Presents: Know Your Jazz Vol 1 / Laura / ABC-Paramount / 1956
Mary Lou Williams – Don Byas Quartet / Lullaby of the Leaves / Vogue / Paris 12.2.53
Lil Green / I’m Wasting My Time on You / Bluebird / Chicago 1.21.42
The Robins / I Found Out My Troubles / Savoy / 1.11.50 / with Johnny Otis Band
Mel Tormé / Lullaby of the Leaves / Capitol / 4.3.50 / with Pete Rugolo & his Orchestra and the Dave Lambert Octet

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / Prophet Jennings / Blue Note / 10.10.62
Lee Morgan / Charisma / Hey Chico / Blue Note / 9.29.66
Golden Gate Quartet / Grove Show Intro; Polly Wolly Doodle / radio transcription, The Groves Show / early 1940s
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Not a Care in the World / Columbia [unissued] / 12.11.41 / vocal = Peggy Lee
Yves Montand / Paris / Le Chevalier de Paris / Columbia / 1964

set 4
Benny Carter / Aspects / Swingin’ in November / United Artists / LA 9.58
Serge Chaloff / Boston Blow-Up! / Mar-Dros / Capitol / 4.4-5.55
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Call of the Wild / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s
Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard radio transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie / An Historic Musical First / Pennies from Heaven / Reprise / Hollywood 10.2, 3.62
Solomon Burke / I Said I Was Sorry / Atlantic / 1963
Dorothy Love Coates & the Original Gospel Harmonettes / That’s Enough / Specialty / Hollywood 1.20.56

last soulful song
Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell / Mornin’ Glory / Capitol / Hollywood summer 1968

Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Playlist

Handsome + Handsome = 

Coffeetime, October 28, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Just One of Those Things / Blue Note / live, Café Bohemia 11.23.55
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / Blueing Boogie / Mercury / LA 1959
Cozy Cole & his All Stars / Comes the Don / Remington [Continental] / 11.24.44
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47 / with Maxwell Davis Orchestra
Teri Thornton / Devil May Care / Detour Ahead / Riverside / 12.23.60

set 2
Zoot Sims / Zoot! / Fools Rush In / Riverside / 12.13, 18.56
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / ’Tis Autumn / Prestige / 11.27.58
Thomas [Fats] Waller / The Digah’s Stomp / Victor / 12.1.27 / with Thomas Morris & his Hot Babies
George Van Eps [or Dick McDonough] / The Chant [or Chasing a Buck] / home tape / c. 1934
Alphonso Trent & his Orchestra / I Found a New Baby / Champion / Richmond, Indiana 3.24.33 / vocal = Anderson Lacy
Dick Todd / ’Tis Autumn / Bluebird / 11.26.41 / with Leonard Joy & orchestra
Big Maybelle / Some of These Days / Savoy / 8.13.59

set 3
Jackie McLean / Jackie’s Bag / Blue’s Inn / Blue Note / 1.18.59
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Charlie Parker / Just One of Those Things / Mercury / 3.31.54
The Modernaires / Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside / radio, AFRS Jubilee #200 / Hollywood 9.46 / featuring Johnny Drigg, with Bobby Sherwood & his Orchestra
Al Hibbler / Ain’t Nothing Wrong with That, Baby / Decca / 1.17.58

set 4
Conte Candoli / Conte Candoli Quartet / Mediolistic / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Al Caiola & his Orchestra / Guitars, Woodwinds, and Bongos / Too Marvelous for Words / UA / LA 1960 / Ultra Audio Wall to Wall Stereo series
Lukewela’s Royal Hawaiians / Ami Hula Sway / radio transcription / spring 1941
Anita Boyer & her Tomboyers [King Cole Trio] / Sing You Sinners / MacGregor transcription / LA 4.44 / with Bob Dukoff on sax
Bing Crosby / Autumn Leaves / Decca / Hollywood / 9.7.50 / with Axel Stordahl & orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / ’Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966
The Golden Echoes / Down on My Knees / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 4.5.49

last soulful song
James Carr / You’re Pouring Water on a Drowning Man / Goldwax / 1966

Foggy Playlist

All aboard the happiest train!

Coffeetime, October 14, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Max Roach / Deeds, Not Words / It’s You or No One / Riverside / 9.4.58

Pepper Adams / Jazz is Busting Out All Over / Stop / Savoy / 11.12.57

J. C. Heard & his Orchestra / Rhythm Time / Bouncing for Barney / Remington [Continental] / 3.20.46

Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Betty Co-Ed / Victor / 6.25.30

Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Friendship / Decca / LA 1.11.47

Anita O’Day / All the Sad Young Men / Night Bird / Verve /10.16.61

set 2

Randy Weston / Jazz á la Bohemia / Once in a While / Riverside / live, Café Bohemia, 10.14.56

Harold Land / Harold in the Land of Jazz / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Contemporary / LA 1.14.58

Carroll Gibbons & the Savoy Orpheans / Rhapsody in Blue / Columbia / 5.28.35 / with Larry Adler on harmonica

The Boswell Sisters / That’s What I Like About You / Victor / LA 7.20.30 / with Jackie Taylor & his Orchestra 

Kay Starr / Allez-Vous-En / Capitol / Hollywood 4.15.53

Freddy King / I’m Tore Down / Federal / Cincinnati 1.18.61

set 3

Bob Brookmeyer / Brookmeyer & Guitars [The Street Swingers] / Arrowhead / Kimberly [World Pacific] / 12.13, 16.57

Booker Little / The Defiant Ones / Jewel’s Tempo / UA / 10.58

Brew Moore & his Playboys / Blue Brew / Savoy / 10.22.48

Connee Boswell / Sunrise Serenade / Decca / LA 4.25.39 / with Ray Sinatra & his Orchestra

Delta Rhythm Boys / Do You Care / transcription / 1941

Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / Skylark / Dawn / 1956

set 4

Red Callender / Callender Speaks Low / Foggy Day / Crown / Hollywood 10.28.56 

The Joe Newman Septet / The Midgets / The Late Late Show / RCA / 7.8.56

Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Dinah / Okeh / 3.28.28 

Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Lonesome Me / radio, Associated Transcription No. 60 / 8.7.39

Lulu / Sings To Sir With Love / You and I / Epic / London 1968

Golden Gate Quartet / Hide Me in Thy Bosom / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song

The Fascinations / I Can’t Stay Away from You / Mayfield / 1967

I'm No Playlist

Really now, who is?

Coffeetime, October 7, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Sonny Rollins / Newk’s Time / Wonderful, Wonderful / Blue Note / 9.22.57

Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore / Blowing in from Chicago / Bo-Till / Blue Note / 3.3.57

The Bechet-Spanier Big Four / Sweet Lorraine / HRS / 3.28.40

Ted Weems & his Orchestra / Sunday in the Park / Decca / 3.22.39 / vocal = Perry Como

The Four Blazes / Boogie Woogie Billy / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #136 / Hollywood 5.44 / with emcee Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman

Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Away from Me / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

set 2

Booker Ervin / The Blues Book / No Booze Blooze / Prestige / 6.30.64

Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Whiteman Stomp / Victor / 8.11.27

Mae West / I’m No Angel / from Paramount movie I’m No Angel / Hollywood 7.33 / dialogue with Cary Grant

T-Bone Walker & his Guitar / I Know Your Wig Is Gone / Black & White / LA 9.13.47

Louis Armstrong / Blueberry Hill / Decca / 9.6.49 / with Gordon Jenkins & his Orchestra & chorus

set 3

David “Fathead” Newman / Fathead Comes On / Esther’s Melody / Atlantic / 12.9.61 

John Coltrane / Blue Train / I’m Old Fashioned / Blue Note / 9.15.57

Howard McGhee / Dilated Pupils / Dial / Hollywood 10.18.46

Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34

Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight / I Had to Live and Learn / Decca / 3.2.39

Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn’t So / Easy to Remember / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4

Art Pepper / Begin the Beguine [alt take] / Aladdin / LA 4.1.57 

Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All Stars / Drummin’ the Blues / Bye Bye Blues / Liberty / LA 2.14.57

Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / It’s the Talk of the Town / Modern / LA 3.46

Sammy Davis, Jr. / Hey There / Decca / 6.7.54 / with Sy Oliver & orchestra 

The Gate City Singers / I Thank You Jesus / Tru-Sound / 4.7.62 

last soulful song

Eddie Floyd / Can We Talk This Over / Stax [unissued] / mid-1960s

No Voot No Playlist

Onlookers ponder floating Charlie head.

Coffeetime, September 30, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Full Moon and Empty Arms / Pacific Jazz / LA 1961

Kenny Dorham / Showboat / Ol’ Man River / Time / 12.9.60

Bobby Haggart & his Boys / Untitled / V-Disc / 4.7.47

Williams Sisters / Sam, The Old Accordion Man / Victor / 12.18.26

Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Red Head ’n‘ Cadillac / Supreme / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon 

Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / The Good Life / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2

Curtis Fuller / The Opener / Here’s to My Lady / Blue Note / 6.16.57

John Lewis / Ballads for Backgrounds [Grand Encounter] / I Can’t Get Started / Pacific Jazz / 2.10.56

Charlie Shavers Quintet / If I Had You / Vogue / 1945 

Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Humpty Dumpty / Okeh / 9.28.27

McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Cherry / Victor / Chicago 7.12.28 / vocal = Jean Napier 

Dinah Washington / No Voot No Boot / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45

Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Don’t Touch Me (I’m Gonna Hit That Highway) / RPM / LA 1955

set 3

Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Father and Son / Blue Note / 12.27.62

Ben Webster / Ben Webster and Associates / De-Dar / Verve / 4.9.59

Lonnie Johnson / Playing with the Strings / Okeh / Memphis 2.21.28

The Dreamers / Doin’ the Bow Wow / Standard transcription / LA 8.39 / with the King Cole Trio

Ella Mae Morse / Get On Board Little Chillun / Capitol / Hollywood 7.31.42

Mel Tormé / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Capitol / Hollywood 5.49 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra & female vocal

set 4

Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55

George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Slow / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 

Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / Battleground / Prestige / 4.8.49

Modernaires / Autumn Serenade / Columbia / 8.22.45

Peggy Lee / Where Did They Go / Goodbye Again / Capitol / Hollywood 4.6.71
Bobby “Blue” Bland / You’ve Got Bad Intentions / Duke / Houston 1956 / with Bill Harvey’s Band

Sensational Saints of Ohio / Come On / Jobete / 12.60

last soulful song

Ann Sexton & the Masters of Soul / You’ve Been Gone Too Long / Impel [Seventy 7 Records] / Shelby, North Carolina 1971