Playlist While Dancing

Kay Starr explains music! And hairdos.

Coffeetime, February 23, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
John Coltrane / Cattin’ with Coltrane and Quinichette / Sunday / Prestige / 5.17.57
The Jazz Messengers / Ecaroh / Columbia / 5.4.56
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / Windy City Jive / Bluebird / Hollywood 8.20.41
Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra / Half a Moon (Is Better Than No Moon) / Victor / 9.24.26 / vocal & ukulele = Johnny Marvin
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You Run Your Mouth and I’ll Run My Business / Decca 1.25.40
Ella Fitzgerald / [Twelve Nights in Hollywood] / Good Morning Heartache / Verve / live at the Crescendo, Hollywood 6.29-30.62

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

set 2
Tina Brooks / Back to the Tracks / For Heaven’s Sake / Blue Note [unissued - Mosaic] / 10.20.60
Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / Why Try to Change Me Now / Westminster / 1960
Art Van Damme / Cocktail Capers / A Foggy Day / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / It’s the Talk of the Town / Columbia / 9.22.33 /
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Trouble Why Pick on Me / Brunswick / 9.24.31 / vocal = Louis Deppe
Jo Stafford & Johnny Mercer / Conversation While Dancing / V-Disc 503B / Hollywood 9.13.44 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra & the Pied Pipers
Clyde McPhatter / May I Sing for You? / That’s My Desire / Mercury Wing / 1962

set 3
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / Cattin’ / Prestige / 4.12.57
Kay Starr / You’ve Got to See Mamma Ev’ry Night (Or You Can’t See Mamma At All) / Capitol / Hollywood 10.20.47
The Ravens / It’s the Talk of the Town / National [unissued] / 12.13.49
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / Lovely to Look At / Clef / Hollywood 12.52

set 4
Henry Mancini / Combo! / Charleston Alley / RCA Victor / Hollywood 6.14, 17, 21.60
Warne Marsh / Music for Prancin’ / It’s All Right With Me / Mode / Hollywood 9.57
Larry Adler / Medley: I Won’t Dance, Lovely to Look At / Columbia / London 7.10.35 / with Henry Hall & BBC Dance Orchestra
Mildred Bailey / Right as the Rain / radio transcription: The Mildred Bailey Show (aka Music Till Midnight, CBS Playhouse No. 3 (currently called the Ed Sullivan Theater) / 10.20.44 / with Paul Baron & his Orchestra
Peggy Lee & Desi Arnaz / Mañana / transcription (radio show) / Hollywood 1952 / Sonny Burke & his Orchestra
Jackie Wilson / Please Tell Me Why / Brunswick / 1961
The Pilgrim Travelers / Thank You Jesus / Specialty / Hollywood 8.12.48

last soulful song
Tommy Ridgley / Heavenly / Ric / New Orleans 12.8.62

Playlist Has Got Me

Rare treasure: live performance by the Golden Gate Quartet!

Coffeetime, February 16, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Les McCann / Les McCann LTD in New York / Chip Monck / Pacific Jazz / live at The Village Gate 12.28.61
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Lex / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Zelma O’Neal / Do Something / Brunswick / 3.29 / with Al Goodman & his Orchestra
Jesse Belvin / Blues Has Got Me / Specialty [unissued] / Hollywood 11.12.52
Bev Kelly / Love Locked Out / Gloomy Sunday / Riverside / 10.27, 28, 30.59

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / Live! in Chicago / It Could Happen to You / Prestige / DJ Lounge, Chicago 8.29.61
Howard McGhee / Maggie’s Back in Town!! / Willow Weep for Me / Contemporary / LA 6.26.61
Bennie Green / Bennie Green with Strings / Embraceable You / Prestige / Chicago 5.13.52
Eddie Lang & Carl Kress / Feeling My Way / Brunswick / 2.17.32
Cab Calloway & his Cotton Club Orchestra / Father’s Got His Glasses On / Victor / 11.2.33
Adelaide Hall / That Old Feeling / HMV / London 8.28.38 / with Fats Waller on organ
Frank Sinatra / Who Wants to Be a Millionaire / Capitol / Hollywood 4.20.56 / duet with Celeste Holm
Memphis Slim / The Comeback / Vee-Jay / Chicago 8.18.59

set 3
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Soul-Lo Blues / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / I Dig You the Most / Savoy / 3.30.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / You’ll Never Break My Heart Again / Reina / LA 1948 / vocal = Emma Lou Welch & the Enchanters
Rhythm Aces / I Wonder Why / Vee-Jay [unissued alt take] / 11.2.54
Frank D’Rone / In Person / Laura / Mercury / live, hungry i, San Francisco 1962

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / … And Friends / Casaba / Fantasy / LA 1963
Lenny McBrowne / Swingin’ Like Sixty [Lenny McBrowne and the Four Souls] / Soul Sisters / World Pacific [Pacific Jazz] / Hollywood spring 1960
Hadda Brooks / Romance in the Dark / Modern / LA 1948
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Lugar Bonito / Verve / 12.65
Golden Gate Quartet / I’m a Pilgrim / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Al Wilson / La La Peace Song / Medley: I Won’t Last a Day Without You; Let Me Be The One / Rocky Road Records / 1974

Serenade to a Playlist

Love this cover! Handsome men, handsome typography, groovy sweater!

Coffeetime, February 9, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Silver’s Serenade / Nineteen Bars / Blue Note / 5.7, 8.63
Oliver Nelson / Meet Oliver Nelson / Ostinato / New Jazz  / 10.30.59
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / Hocus Pocus / Bluebird / 3.6.34
Blue Barron & his Orchestra / Faithful Forever / radio transcription / 1938-39 / vocal = Alan Holmes
Ruby Smith / Port Wine Blues / RCA Victor / 1.8.47 / with Gene (Honeybear) Sedric & his Orchestra
Billie Holiday / He’s Funny That Way / Clef (Jazz at the Philharmonic) / LA 10.7.46

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

set 2
McCoy Tyner / Tender Moments / All My Yesterdays / Blue Note / 12.1.67
Jimmy Smith / I’m Movin’ On / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Blue Note / 1.31.63
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I Surrender Dear / Bluebird / 8.27.39
The Little Ramblers / I’m Shooting High / Bluebird / 12.27.35 / vocal = Bill Dillard
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / How Blue Can You Get? / RCA Victor / 6.20.49
Martha Raye / The Voice / The Boy Next Door / Discovery [DL-3010] / 1950
Gene Allison / My Heart Remembers / Vee-Jay / 1958                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                set 3
Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant / Meetin’ Here / If I Were a Bell / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1961
Curtis Fuller / The Opener / A Lovely Way to Spend the Evening / Blue Note / 6.16.57
Stan Getz / Crazy Chords / Prestige / 6.21.49
Alice Faye / I’m Shooting High / Melotone / Hollywood 1.4.36
The Four Buddies / Heart and Soul / Savoy / 8.23.51
Johnny Hartman / The Voice That Is! / Funny World / Impulse! / 9.22.64

set 4
Bud Shank / Latin Contrasts / Serenade to an Alto / World-Pacific Records / Hollywood 1959
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / A Foggy Day / Clef / LA 11, 12.52
John Graas / Jazz-Lab-1 / Pick Yourself Up / Decca / 1956
Tommy Dean Orchestra / Recession / Vee-Jay / Chicago 5.27.58 / vocal = Joe Buckner
Charles Boyer / Where Does Love Go / Once Upon a Time / Valiant / Hollywood 1965
Dinah Washington / Dinah ’63 / What Kind of Fool Am I? / Roulette / LA 1963
Swan Silvertones / Rock My Soul / Vee-Jay / 1960

last soulful song
The Vont Claires / Don’t Cha Tell Nobody / Double R Records / 1968

I've Got the Playlist on a String

Play it, Valaida! (And you look gorgeous!)

Coffeetime, February 2, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Minor Meeting / Blue Note / 3.29.59
Dave Bailey / Bash! / An Oscar for Oscar / Jazzline / 10.4.61
Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra / PDQ Blues / Columbia / 4.28.27
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Turn on the Heat / Okeh / 10.10.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Buddy Johnson & his Band / Stand Back and Smile (Say Ella) / Decca / 1.26.42 / vocal = Ella Johnson
Pearl Bailey / Songs of the Bad Old Days / I’ve Got the World on a String / Roulette / 1960

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

set 2
Yusef Lateef / Cry! – Tender / Cry! – Tender / New Jazz / 10.16.59
Jimmy Heath / Really Big! / My Ideal / Riverside / 6.28.60
Hank Jones / Bluebird / Little Girl Blue / Savoy / 11.3.55
Les Paul Trio / I’m in the Mood for Love / V-Disc / mid-1940s
Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Vocalion / 10.26.33 / with Dick McDonough on guitar
Danny Kaye / Anatole of Paris / Columbia / 1941
Valaida Snow / Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone / Derby / 1949 / with Jimmy Mundy’s Orchestra

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk Swings / Stalking / Crown / 1960
Dave Bailey / Bash! / Like Someone in Love / Jazzline / 10.4.61
Ella Fitzgerald / (It’s Only a) Paper Moon / Decca / 3.27.45 / with the Delta Rhythm Boys
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / It’s Like Taking Candy from a Baby / Columbia / 10.30.47 / duet with Rosemary Clooney
Billy Eckstine / The Modern Sound of Mr. B / Wouldn’t It Be Loverly / Mercury / Hollywood 2.19.64

set 4
Hampton Hawes / Hampton Hawes Trio / I Got Rhythm / Contemporary / LA 6.28.55
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / In the Solo Spotlight / That’s Rich / Contemporary / 3.12.57
Julia Lee & her Boy Friends / Wise Guys (You’re a Wise Guy) / Capitol / Hollywood 6.11.47
Mose Allison / The Word from Mose / Days Like This / Atlantic / 1965
Little Milton / We’re Gonna Make It / Life Is Like That / Checker / Chicago 9.63
Rising Star Gospel Singers / Moses / Cava-tone / San Francisco 1949

last soulful song
The Free Design / Kites Are Fun / Never Tell the World / Project 3 / 1967

Anytime, Anywhere, Any Playlist

Donald delighting: singing with a smile

Coffeetime, January 19, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Ernie Henry / Presenting Ernie Henry / Active Ingredients / Riverside / 8.23, 30.56
John Coltrane & Paul Chambers / Trane’s Strain / Transition [unissued] / Cambridge 4.20.55
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Baby, Oh Where Can You Be? / Victor / 6.25.29
Joe Liggins & his Honey Drippers / Sweet Georgia Brown / Exclusive / LA c. 1947
Morgana King / For You, For Me, For Evermore / There’s a Lull in My Life / EmArcy / 3.29.56

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

set 2
Buddy Collette / Laura / radio broadcast, US Navy show, “The Navy Swings” / Hollywood 1962
Jimmy Forrest / Most Much! / Autumn Leaves / Prestige / 10.19.61
Thad Jones / The Fabulous Thad Jones / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Debut / 8.11.54
Larry Adler / Caprice Viennois / Columbia / London 3.35 / with Carroll Gibbons & Harry Jacobson on two pianos
Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club Orchestra / The Mooche / Victor / 10.30.28
Willie Lewis & his Entertainers / Knock, Knock, Who’s There? / Pathé / Paris 10.15.36 / vocal = Bill Coleman
Charioteers / Dinah / radio transcription / 1942
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / I’m Building Up to An Awful Let Down / Clef / LA 12.52

set 3
The Poll Winners / Exploring the Scene! / So What / Contemporary / LA late summer 1960
Sir Charles Thompson / Oh Joe! / Vanguard / 12.30.53
Camille Howard / O Sole Mio Boogie / Specialty / Hollywood 1.26.50
Mills Brothers / Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere / Brunswick / 1.26.33
Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Lord and Lady Gate / radio transcription / late 1943 / vocal = Helen O’Connell
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958

set 4
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / Fire One / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Vince Guaraldi / Modern Music from San Francisco / Between 8th & 10th on Mission St. / Fantasy / San Francisco 1955
B.B. King & his Orchestra / Blind Love / RPM / LA 12.53
Phil Harris / Bare Necessities / soundtrack to Disney movie “The Jungle Book” / Hollywood 1967
Southern Sons / Lead Me to the Rock / Bluebird / 07.25.41

last soulful song
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson / Winter in America / The Bottle / Strata-East / Silver Springs, Maryland fall 1973

Playlist, Oh Where Can You Be?

Mr. B. Delights

Coffeetime, January 12, 2018, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard / Caravan / Impulse! / 7.2.62
Paul Chambers / Chambers’ Music / Eastbound / Jazz West / Hollywood 3.56
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra / Who Ray / radio transcription / mid-1940s
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Baby, Oh Where Can You Be? / Victor / 6.25.29
Johnny Otis Band / New Love / Savoy / LA 1.10.51 / vocal = Mel Walker
Julie London / London By Night / Just the Way I Am / Liberty / Hollywood 12.55

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

set 2
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Strikes / In a Sentimental Mood / Prestige / 9.15.64
Hank Jones / Bluebird / How High the Moon / Savoy / 11.1.55
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Crying and Sighing / Victor / Chicago 7.11.28
Frances Faye, Martha Raye, & Bing Crosby / After You / soundtrack, Paramount movie “Double or Nothing” / Hollywood 1937
Claude Thornhill & his Orchestra / Sunday Drivin’ / radio transcription / 1947 / vocal = Gene Williams
Camille Howard / Real Gone Daddy / Specialty / Hollywood 2.2.51
Yves Montand / Yves Montand Sings / Sensationnel / Decca [Odeon in France] / Paris / 1950 / with Bob Castella et Ses Rythmes

set 3
Gene Ammons / Funky / Pint Size / Prestige / 1.11.57
Billy Eckstine Orchestra / Our Delight / soundtrack, short short feature film “Rhythm in a Riff” / 1945
Freddie Green & his Kansas City Seven / I’m in the Mood for Love / Duke / Hollywood 9.45 / vocal = Sylvia Syms
The Striders / If I Only Knew / Apollo / 11.14.49
Bobby Troup / Stars of Jazz / Please Be Kind / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1958

set 4
Russ Freeman & Chet Baker / Quartet / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 11.6.56
Eddie Duran / Jazz Guitarist / Sugar / Fantasy / 1957
Mel Tormé / …And Mimi / Musicraft / 1946 / with Page Cavanaugh Trio
John Cullum / On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / Broadway score from “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” / RCA Victor / 1965
The Southern Sons / One Day When the Lord Will Call Me / Victor / 8.28.42

last soulful song
Mad Lads / So Nice / Volt / Memphis 1968

Playlist di Modernage

Cuddle me, Miltie – it's cold in Cambridge!

Coffeetime, December 29, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Philly Joe Jones / Showcase / Minor Mode / Riverside / 11.18.59
Clifford Brown / Clifford Brown & Max Roach / The Blues Walk / EmArcy / 2.24.55
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Blues in My Heart / Decca / The Hague 8.17.37
Whispering Jack Smith / A Faded Photograph / Decca / 9.13.40
Bing Crosby / Let’s Start the New Year Right / Decca / Hollywood 1942
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60

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

set 2
Charlie Rouse / We Paid Our Dues / Quarter Moon / Epic / 7.13.61
Jon Eardley / Hey There / If You Could See Me Now / Prestige / 3.14.55
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Temp di Modernage / Parlophone / 6.10.31
Willie Bryant & his Orchestra / The Voice of Old Man River / Victor / 8.1.35
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Bluebird / 1939 / vocal = Tony Pastor
Roy Brown / I’ve Got the Last Laugh / DeLuxe / Cincinnati 1.16.51
Peggy Lee / Song at Midnight / Capitol / Hollywood 6.3.49 / with the Jud Conlon Singers

set 3
John Coltrane / Lush Life / I Love You / Prestige / 8.16.57
Julius Watkins / Volume 1 / I Have Known / Blue Note / 8.4.54
Fats Navarro / Ice Freezes Red / Savoy / 1.29.47
Glenn Miller & his Orchestra / It Happened in Sun Valley / Bluebird / Hollywood 8.11.41 / vocal = Paula Kelly, Ray Eberle, Tex Beneke, &  The Modernaires
Gotham’s Four Notes / Away / Gotham / 1948
T-Bone Walker / How Long Blues / Atlantic / LA 12.27.57

set 4
Chet Baker / Big Band / Tenderly / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.26.56
Pete Rugolo / Music for Hi-Fi Bugs / Snowfall / EmArcy / LA 7.11.56
Lester Young / The Master’s Touch / Ding Dong [take 3] / Savoy / 6.28.49
Barney Bigard & his Jazzopators / Utt-da-zay (The Tailor Song) / Vocalion / 6.8.39 / vocal = The Quintones
Little Milton / Losing Hand / Checker / Chicago 1962
Bing Crosby / White World of Winter / Reprise / Hollywood 1964 / also performed live on  ABC TV broadcast, Hollywood Palace / Hollywood 12.25.65
Zion Travelers / Down by the River / I’ve Started / Dooto / LA 1962

last soulful song
Ty Hunter / Love Walked Right Out on Me / Chess / Chicago 1964

Merry Playlist, I Love You, Jr.

Coffeetime, December 22, 2017, 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
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera Ellen / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60

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 / Chicago 10.66
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 1936 / vocal = Three Sister
Mel Blanc and the Sportsmen / Jingle Bells / radio transcription AFRS Mail Call Christmas Special / Hollywood 40s
Kay Starr / December / radio transcription / Hollywood 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 / LA 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 / Hollywood 6.14.46
Johnny Mercer / Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town; Jingle Bells (Capitol Promos) / Capitol / Hollywood 9.17.47; 1946 / 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
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63
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

I've Got My Playlist to Keep Me Warm

Coffeetime, December 15, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Soul Station / This I Dig of You / Blue Note / 2.7.60
Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Boomerang / Riverside / 4.27.57
Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Jesse Thomas / Christmas Celebration / Swing Time / LA 1951
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May https://youtu.be/48a4l3sNb1k
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with The Starlighters

set 2
Ike Quebec / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.20.62
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 5.14.47 / duet with Lindsey Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
Andrew Sisters / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / Decca / Hollywood 9.20.50
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
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.”)
Billie Mae Richards & Paul Soles / soundtrack to TV show Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / We’re a Couple of Misfits / Decca / 1964

set 3
Coleman Hawkins / Soul / Greensleeves / Prestige / 11.7.58
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57
Lowell Fulson / Christmas Party Shuffle / Swing Time / LA 1950
Frankie Carle & his Orchestra / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / Columbia / 1947 / vocal = Marjorie Hughes
Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee / Little Jack Frost Get Lost / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time / Hollywood 1.11.50 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires
The Rhythm Kings / Christmas Is Coming at Last / Apollo / 1950
Wardell Gray / Jingle Jangle Jump / Swing Time / LA 6.9.52 / vocal = Gladys Bentley
Dean Martin / Christmas Blues / Capitol / Hollywood 10.5.53
Allen Keller / A New Look at the World / Christmas Road / Charlie Parker Records / early 1960s

set 4
Stephane Grappelli / I Want to Be Happy / Barclay / Paris 4.10.56
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Bluebird / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
Jimmy Witherspoon / How I Hate to See Christmas Come Around / Swing Time / LA 1951
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
Mabel Mercer / At Town Hall / Season’s Greetings / Atlantic / 5.19.68
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
The Fascinations / Just Another Reason / Mayfield / 1968

Go Back to the Playlist You Love

Bow Tie, Big Band, and a Wink

Coffeetime, December 8, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Free Form / French Spice / Blue Note / 12.11.61
Lee Morgan / Candy / C.T.A. / Blue Note / 2.2.58
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Dinah / Victor / 1.28.26
Durium Dance Band / By the Fireside / Durium flexidisc / London 3.15.32 / vocal = Al Bowlly
T-Bone Walker & his Guitar / Go Back to the One You Love / Capitol / Hollywood 12.18.47
Dakota Staton / Time to Swing / Baby, Don’t You Cry / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

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

set 2
Lee Morgan / Tom Cat / Twilight Mist / Blue Note / 8.11.64
Frank Wess / Some Other Spring / Commodore / 5.8.54
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Mood Indigo / Vogue / Paris 6.20.50
Cliff Edwards & his Hot Combination / Dinah / 12.2.25
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orch / Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / radio transcription / 6.19.40 / vocal = Dandridge Sisters & Lunceford Quartet
Tab Smith & his Orchestra / I’m Wise to You, Baby / Manor / 12.48 / vocal = Jimmy “Baby-Face” Lewis
Bobby Short / Sing Me a Swing Song / Lydia / Atlantic / 1958

set 3
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / A Night in Tunisia / Yama / Blue Note / 8.7 & 14.60
Paul Smith / By the Fireside / By the Fireside / Savoy / LA 4.18.50
Charlie Parker / [Swedish Schnapps] / Swedish Schnapps / Clef [Verve] / 1.17.51
Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake Seven / It’s a Hundred to One (I’m in Love) / Victor / 8.28.39 / vocal = Edythe Wright
Delta Rhythm Boys / Domaredansen / Metronome / Stockholm 9.8.50 / with the Metronome All-Stars
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Make Me a Present of Yocu / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Mel Lewis / Mel Lewis/6 / Grey Flannel /  Mode / Hollywood 1957
Hoagy Carmichael / Stardust / V-Disc 536A / Hollywood 8.13.45
Bobby Sherwood & his Orchestra / Stardust / AFRS Jubilee #200 / Hollywood 9.46
Jimmy Durante / I’m As Ready As You Are / TV broadcast / 1.1.51 / duet with Sophie Tucker
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood / 1968
The Chosen Gospel Singers / No Room in the Hotel / Specialty / Hollywood 2.10.54

last soulful song
Betty Everett / Hands Off / Vee-Jay / 1964

Toute ma playlist

Royalty!

Coffeetime, December 1, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Dexter Gordon / Dexter Calling... / Clear the Dex  / Blue Note / 5.9.61
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Cannonball’s Sharpshooters Enroute / Our Delight / EmArcy / 3.4.58
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / Merry-Go-Round / Victor / 4.30.35
Jack Winn & his Dallas Dandies aka Irving Mills & his Hotsy-Totsy Gang / Loved One [2nd take] / Melotone / 6.6.30
Ed Parker & his Orchestra aka Ben Selvin & his Orchestra / It’s the Darndest Thing / Okeh / 10.8.31 / vocal = Wallace Trio
Jack McVea & his Door Openers / Two Timin’ Baby / Exclusive / LA 11.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor… Miss Helen Carr / I’m Glad There Is You / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Julian “Cannonball” Adderley and Strings / Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Around a Pug-nosed Dream) / EmArcy / 10.27, 28.55
Nat Adderley / “That's Nat” Adderley / You Better Go Now / Savoy / 7.26.55
Larry Adler / Body and Soul / Columbia / Paris 3.31.38 / avec le Quintette du Hot Club de France
Louis Armstrong & his Hot Five / Jazz Lips / Okeh / Chicago 11.16.26
Adrian Rollini & his Orchestra / It Had to Be You / Decca [unissued] / 10.23.34 / vocal = Ella Logan
Terry Shand & his Orchestra / Cindy / Decca / 5.26.41
Johnny Mercer / I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City / Capitol / Hollywood 7.31.42
Big Maybelle / Hair Dressin’ Women / Okeh [unissued] / 3.2.54

set 3
Gene Ammons / Groove Blues / Groove Blues / Prestige / 1.3.58
James Moody / Lover, Come Back to Me / Vogue [Royal Roost] / Paris 7.27.51
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / A Sunday Kind of Love / radio broadcast / 400 Club 2.26.46 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol
Delta Rhythm Boys / Jersey Bounce / Soundie: Swingtime Holiday / Hollywood 1944
Billy Eckstine / Songs by Billy Eckstine / You Go to My Head / MGM / 1949

set 4
Oscar Moore / Body and Soul / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Leave Your Worries Behind / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.19-20.56
Les Paul & his Trio / Steel Guitar Rag / Decca / 1.7.47
Maxine Sullivan / The Same Old Story / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / with John Kirby & his Orchestra
Les Blue Stars / Octuor / Toute ma joie / Barclay / Paris 11.54
The Sons of David / I’ve Been Lifted / Silver Cross / Boston 1965

last soulful song
The Masqueraders / One More Chance / La Beat / Detroit 1967

Waltzing on a Playlist

I'm thankful for Lonnie Johnson!

Coffeetime, November 24, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
James Moody / Another Bag / Pleyel D’Jaime / Cadet [Argo] / Chicago 1.30.62
Blue Mitchell / Blue’s Moods / I Wish I Knew / Riverside / 8.24, 25.60
Brew Moore / The Brew Moore Quintet / Them There Eyes / Fantasy / Marines Memorial Hall, San Francisco 1.15.56
Erskine Hawkins (The Twentieth Century Gabriel) & his Orchestra / Weary Blues / Victor / 9.12.38
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Ya Comin’ Up Tonite, Huh? / Victor / Chicago 1.14.29 / vocal = Wynken – Blynken – Nod
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / How High Am I?; Hey Now, Let’s Live / V-Disc 376 / 4.3.44
Sarah Vaughan / It’s You or No One / Musicraft / 12.27.47 / with Richard Maltby Orchestra

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

set 2
Red Garland / Bright and Breezy / You’ll Never Know / Jazzland / 7.19.61
Elmo Hope / Informal Jazz / Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Prestige / 5.7.56
Lonnie Johnson / Swing Out Rhythm / Decca / Chicago 11.8.37
Sophie Tucker / Aren’t Women Wonderful / Columbia / London 8.30.28 / with Ted Shapiro & his Orchestra
Rosetta Howard / Headin’ for the River / Decca / 6.14.39
Bing Crosby / San Fernando Valley / Decca / Hollywood 12.29.43 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Pee Wee Crayton / Yours Truly / Imperial / LA 1955

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / Feeling Good / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Stan Getz / With Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida / Do What You Do, Do / Verve / 6.63
Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons / Movin’ the Boogie / AFRS Jubilee #6 / 1.43
Jo Stafford / Dream a Little Dream of Me / AFRS Melody Hour #316 / Hollywood 4.6.50
Melody Masters / Don’t You Ever Mind Them? / Apollo / 1947
Anthony Newley / The Roar of the Greasepaint / Feeling Good / RCA / 1965

set 4
Ralph Burns / The Third Herdsmen Blow in Paris, Vol. 1 [The Herdsmen Play Paris] / Pot Luck / Vogue [Fantasy] / Paris 4.23.54
Neal Hefti / The Band with Young Ideas / Waltzing on a Cloud / Coral / 1954
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / My Blue Heaven / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio, solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
Georges Guétary / La Divine Mélodie / Pathé / Paris 1946
Dinah Washington / Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat / EmArcy / 11.20.57
Golden Gate Quartet / Moses Smote the Waters / Columbia / 12.3.41

last soulful song
Betty Wright / The Best Girls Don’t Always Win / Alston / 1968

Two, Three, One, Playlist!

Ethel feeling the joy of lovely singing and a lovely hat.

Coffeetime, November 17, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tommy Turrentine / Tommy Turrentine / Two, Three, One, Oh! / Time / 1.19.60
Curtis Counce / Carl’s Blues / Nica’s Dream / Contemporary / LA 8.29.57
Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra / I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me / Victor / 3.2.27
Joe Haymes & his Orchestra / Here’s a Little Package / Bluebird / 6.23.32 / vocal = Chris Fletcher
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Sugar Lump / Exclusive / LA 1945
Rosemary Clooney & Duke Ellington / Blue Rose / Mood Indigo / Columbia / 1.23, 27.56 [Duke] and LA 2.8, 11.56

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

set 2
Sonny Clark / Leapin’' and Lopin’ / Deep in a Dream / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Deep in a Dream / Savoy / 11.6.55
The Ramblers / Lazy Feet / Decca / London 11.8.32
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / I Ain’t Lazy – I’m Just Dreamin’ / Columbia / 5.14.34 / vocal = Jack Teagarden
Bing Crosby / I’ve Got Plenty to Be Thankful For / Decca / Hollywood 5.25.42 / with Bob Crosby & his Orchestra
Delta Rhythm Boys / Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby? / AFRS Personal Album #378 / Hollywood 1944
Ethel Waters / The Favorite Songs of Ethel Waters / Paper Moon / Mercury / 1954

set 3
Charlie Rouse / Oh Yeah! / Rouse’s Point / Epic / 12.21.60
Barry Harris / At The Jazz Workshop / Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?  / Riverside / San Francisco 5.15 & 16.60
Sir Charles Thompson / Mr. Big Horn / Apollo / 12.29.47
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Bluebird / 11.9.39 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Ink Spots / Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat / Decca / 10.13.41
Noel Coward / Noel Coward in New York / 20th Century Blues / Columbia / 1956

set 4
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / Runnin’ Wild / Contemporary / LA 3.30-31.59
Oscar Peterson / The George Gershwin Songbook / Love Walked In / Clef / LA late fall 1952
Oscar Moore / It’s Only a Paper Moon / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / As Time Goes By / Victor / 7.25.31
Kay Starr / You’re Always There / radio transcription / 1949
Dean Martin & Peggy Lee / You Was / Capitol / Hollywood 12.14.48
Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta De Casillas Martinez Cardona) / Intimate Excitement / Pretty Butterfly (No Balanco Do Jequibau) / Liberty / 1967
The Bells of Joy / Please Hear My Call / Checker / 1960

last soulful song
The Stridells / Mix It Up / Curtom / Chicago 1969

You've Got to Love Her with a Playlist

That guitar! Those smiles! That music…!

Coffeetime, November 10, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bennie Green / With Art Farmer / Skycoach / Prestige / 4.13.56
Benny Golson / Gone with Golson / Staccato Swing / New Jazz / 6.20.59
Red Norvo & his Overseas Spotlight Band / Seven Comes Eleven / V-Disc 202B / 10.28.43
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Autumn in New York / Bluebird / 12.5.34 / vocal = Joey Nash
Sherman “Blues” Johnson & his Clouds of Joy / Lost in Korea / Trumpet / Memphis 9.30.52
Abbey Lincoln / That’s Him! / Porgy / Riverside / 10.28.57

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / Quiet Kenny / My Ideal / New Jazz / 11.13.59
Victor Feldman / Merry Olde Soul / I Want to Be Wanted / Riverside / 1.6, 11.61
Benny Goodman Quartet / Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider / Victor / 2.3.37
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang / Doing Things / Victor / 6.21.28
Mildred Bailey / More Than You Know / V-Disc 202A / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson on piano
Jaye P. Morgan / The RCA Victor Pop Shopper / They All Laughed / RCA Victor / 1955
Freddy King / You’ve Got to Love Her with a Feeling / Federal / Cincinnati 8.26.60

set 3
Kenny Burrell / Bluesy Burrell / It’s Getting Dark / Prestige Moodsville / 9.14.62
Milt Jackson / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Volume 3 [Bag’s & Flutes] / Bag’s New Groove / Warner Brothers [Atlantic] / 5.21.57
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Fightin’ Doug MacArthur / Okeh / 2.26.42 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Ravens / I’ve Got the World on a String / National [unissued] / c. 1950
Mel Tormé /Mel Torme With The Marty Paich Dek-Tette / When the Sun Comes Out / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56

set 4
Russ Freeman & Bill Perkins / Jazz West Coast, Volume III / Brother, Can You Spare a Dime / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1956
Al Cohn & his Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / 12.23.54
Mat Mathews / The Modern Art of Mat Mathews / As Time Goes By / Dawn / 1956
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Swing Out to Victory / Bluebird / 7.13.42
Georgie Auld with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires / Manhattan / Early Autumn / Coral / 9.2.52
Perry Como / The RCA Victor Pop Shopper [So Smooth] / It’s a Good Day / RCA Victor / 1955
The Southern Sons / I Heard the Preaching of the Elders / Bluebird / 8.28.42

last soulful song
The Chi-Lites / Stoned Out of My Mind / Brunswick / 1973

Turn on Your Playlist

WMBR listeners help us reach heavenly high notes!

This was the 2017 Coffeetime fundraising episode. Thanks to everyone who pledged/donated during my show as well as everyone who has pledged/donated since the fundraiser began yesterday morning. We continue our fun time until the end of the programming day on Wednesday. So don’t miss out: wmbr.org. Also thanks to everyone at the station who helped me by taking phone calls and keeping the laughs going, including Lauren, Sophia, Captain Al, Yuri, Larry, Bruce, Galen, and John. Big hug.

Coffeetime, November 3, 2017, 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, transcription / 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 / 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

Old Playlist Moon

Put a spell on me, TJ. :)

Coffeetime, October 20, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Jamila / Savoy / 7.9.57
Sonny Stitt / Personal Appearance / I Never Knew / Verve / 5.12.57
Woody Herman Woodchoppers / Moon Burns / Jazztone [Dial] / 1950
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Where the Lazy Daisies Grow / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Rube Bloom & his Bayou Boys / Mysterious Mose / Columbia / 4.9.30 / vocal = Roy Evans
Daisy Mae & her Hepcats / Woman Trouble / Gotham / Philadelphia 1956
Sarah Vaughan / You’re Not the Kind / EmArcy / 12.18.54

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

set 2
Tommy Flanagan / The Cats / How Long Has This Been Going On? / New Jazz / 4.18.57
Jim Hall Trio / [Jazz Guitar] Jazz West Coast, Volume III / Things Ain’t What They Used To Be / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 1957
Johnny Hodges & his Orchestra / Castle Rock / A Gentle Breeze / Verve [Norgran] / 3.3.51
Alice Faye / According to the Moonlight / RCA Victor / Hollywood 2.26.35
Paul Gayten Trio / True / DeLuxe / New Orleans early 1947
Goree Carter & his Hepcats / I’ve Got News for You / Coral / Houston 5.15.51
Frankie Laine / Moonlight Gambler / Columbia / 1956

set 3
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / The Cat Walk / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Joe Newman / The Happy Cats / Robbins’ Nest / Coral / LA 1957
Charlie Parker’s New Stars / Relaxin’ at Camarillo / Dial / Hollywood 2.26.47
Toni Harper / Candy Store Blues / Columbia / LA 12.26.47
Cats & the Fiddle / Where Are You / Manor / 1947
Marty Bell / Modern Jazz Sampler [The Voice of Marty Bell  – The Quartet of Don Elliott] / S’posin’ / Riverside / 1.57

set 4
Don Elliott / Double Trumpet Doings / Dominick Seventh / Jazzland / 3.16, 17.55
Jack Sheldon / The Jazz Trumpet of Jack Sheldon: A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles / Am I Blue / Reprise / Hollywood 1961
Shorty Rogers – André Previn Orchestra / Lullaby of Birdland / Lullaby of Birdland / RCA Victor / Hollywood 9.14.54
Shelly Lee Alley & his Alley Cats / Women, Women, Women / San Antonio 11.4.37
Pauline & her Perils (aka Six Hits & a Miss) / Old Man Moon / Keystone transcription / circa 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Tom Jones / Close Up / Witch Queen of New Orleans / London 1972
Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
George Jackson / Till I Find Some Way / Malaco / Muscle Shoals 1978

Buddy, Stay Off That Playlist

Rapturous guitar

Coffeetime, October 20, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Afrodisia / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Hank Mobley / Peckin’ Time / Speak Low / Blue Note / 2.9.58
Benny Goodman Quartet / Handful of Keys / Victor / Hollywood 7.30.37
Billy Cotton & his Band / Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore / Regal Zonophone / London 2.10.34 / vocal = Alan Breeze
Betty Hall Jones / Buddy, Stay Off That Wine / Capitol / Hollywood 8.2.49
Sarah Vaughan / After Hours at the London House / Speak Low / Mercury / live, London House, Chicago 3.7.58

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

set 2
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia / Autumn in New York / Blue Note / 5.31.56
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce / Modern Jazz Perspective / An Evening in Casablanca / Columbia / 8.30.57
Al Caiola / Deep in a Dream / Everything Happens to Me / Savoy / 11.11.55
Fats Waller / A Handful of Keys / radio transcription / 3.11.35
Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby / Well Did You Evah? / Capitol / Hollywood 5.7.56 / from “High Society”
Johnny Twovoice [aka Johnny Morisette] & the Medallions / I’ll Never Love Again / Dootone / LA 1955
Albert King / The Big Blues / This Funny Feeling / King / 1962

set 3
Grant Green / Am I Blue / I Wanna Be Loved / Blue Note / 5.16.63
Wynton Kelly / It’s All Right! / Not a Tear / Verve / 3.10.64
Don Byas / Jazz… Free and Easy / Byas a Drink / Savoy / 5.17.46
Charioteers / Swing Madness / Columbia / early 1940s
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Happy Feet / Victor / LA 6.13.50 / vocal = Frances Irvin
Bobby Troup & his Trio / They Didn’t Believe Me / Liberty / Celebrity Room, Hollywood 1955 


set 4
Harold Land / Take Aim / Take Aim / Blue Note [unissued] / LA 7.25.60
Paul Desmond / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars Volume 3 [“First Place Again” Playboy] / Susie / Warner Brothers / 9.7.59
Martha Davis & Spouse / A Tribute to Fats Waller / Handful of Keys / ABC-Paramount / Hollywood 1958
Doris Day / Tea for Two: Songs from the Warner Bros. Technicolor production / I Want to Be Happy / Columbia / Hollywood 1950 / with the Ken Lane Singers and Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
Annette / Lonely Guitar / Buena Vista Records / Hollywood 1959
Alphabetical Four / Live Humble / Decca / 8.16.38
Jubalaires / Live A-Humble / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Laura Lee / Two Sides of Laura Lee / Guess Who I Saw Today / Hot Wax / Detroit 1972

He’s a Good Playlist to Have Around

Etta’s right: time to get out the sweaters!

Coffeetime, October 13, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Minor Apprehension / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Miles Davis All Star Quintet / Minor March / Prestige / 8.5.55
The Piccadilly Players / He’s a Good Man to Have Around / Columbia / London 8.23.29 / vocal = Eddie Collis
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / The Jumpin’ Jack / King / 1950 / vocal = Big John Greer & ensemble
Clora Bryant / …Gal with a Horn / Little Girl Blue / Mode / Hollywood 6.57

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

set 2
Thad Jones & Kenny Burrell / Detroit–New York Junction / Little Girl Blue / 3.13.56
McCoy Tyner / Today and Tomorrow / When Sunny Gets Blue / Impulse! / 6.4.63
Sonny Criss / This is Criss! / When Sunny Gets Blue / Prestige / 10.21.66
The Ramblers O.L.V. Theo Uden Masman / Smiles / Decca / Casino Hamdorff, Laren, Netherlands 4.26.37
Annette Hanshaw / You’re the One I Care For / Harmony / 12.20.37
Fred Astaire / The “Shorty George” / Brunswick / Hollywood 1941
Ray Charles / Ray Charles / Mary Ann / Atlantic / Miami 6.55

set 3
Jimmy Heath / Swamp Seed / Six Steps / Riverside / 3.11.63
Milt Jackson & John Coltrane / Bags & Trane / Be-Bop / Atlantic / 1.15.59
Charlie Parker / Bebop / Dial / Hollywood 7.29.46
The Three Keys / Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins / Columbia / 8.29.32
Anthony Newley / Tony / I Should Care / London / 1961

set 4
Barney Kessel / Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By / Indian Summer / Contemporary / 12.4.56
Jon Eardley / In Hollywood / Late Leader / New Jazz / LA 12.25.54
Hildegarde / There’s a Small Hotel / Columbia / London 7.14.36 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Boy Friends
Etta James / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can He Be?) / Chess [unissued] / Chicago 1965
The Silvertone Singers / Since Jesus Came Into My Heart / Nashboro / Nashville 1952

last soulful song
Chuck Jackson / Mr. Everything / I’m Your Man / Wand / 1965

There's a Brand New Playlist in My Picture Frame

Lovely and talented LaVern

Coffeetime, October 6, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Mosaic / Down Under / Blue Note / 10.2.61
Pepper Adams & Donald Byrd / Motor City Scene / Trio / Bethlehem / 1960
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / King Porter Stomp / radio transcription / c. 1939
Gertrude Lawrence / Do-Do-Do / Victor / 10.29.26
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Saint Vitus Dance / Decca / 4.2.41
Billie Holiday / You Turned the Tables on Me / Clef / LA 3.26.52

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

set 2
Red Garland / High Pressure / What Is There to Say? / Prestige / 12.13.57
Dexter Gordon / Go! / I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry / Blue Note / 8.27.62
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / Autumn Leaves / Roost / 12.5.52
Nat Shilkret & the Victor Orchestra / Flapperette / Victor / 1.7.27
Gertrude Niesen / Medley: Falling in Love Again; Sweet and Hot; Little Hatcha / broadcast, Rudy Vallee Fleischmanns Yeast Hour / 12.8.32
Dick Powell / Have You Got Any Castles, Baby? / Decca / Hollywood 5.31.37 / with Lou Forbes Orchestra
Eddie Bo / Check Mr. Popeye / Ric / New Orleans early 1962

set 3
Willis Jackson / Please Mr. Jackson / Cool Grits / Prestige / 5.25.59
George Wallington / Cuckoo Around the Clock / Prestige / 5.23.53
Sonny Stitt / Jazz at the Hi-Hat / Wigwam / Roost / live, Boston 2.11.54
Dick Jurgens & his Orchestra / There’s a Brand New Picture in My Picture Frame / radio transcription / c. 1939 / vocal = Ronnie Kemper
Savannah Churchill / The Things You Do to Me / Columbia [Manor] / fall 1948 / with The Four Tunes
Earl Coleman / Love Songs / People / Atlantic / 1968

set 4
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / You Turned the Tables on Me / Riverside / 3.7.57
Gerry Mulligan / The Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Volume 1 / Sextet / Pacific Jazz / 12.4 & 5.57
Pauline & her Perils [aka The Six Hits and a Miss] / Don’t Let that Moon Get Away / Keystone transcription / 4.39 / with the King Cole Trio (with Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
Frank Sinatra & Jack Carson / Don’t Bring Lulu aka Don’t Bring Crosby / radio broadcast AFRS #22 Songs by Sinatra / Hollywood 2.13.46
LaVern Baker / LaVern Baker Sings Bessie Smith / On Revival Day / Atlantic / 7.27.58
The Soul Stirrers / All Right Now [alt take 2] / Specialty / 3.2.54

last soulful song
Thee Midniters / Giving Up on Love / Whittier Records / LA 1966

Start Off Each Playlist with a Song

Happiness is a warm guitar. And T-Bone.

Coffeetime, September 29, 2017, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Freddie Hubbard / Hub-Tones / For Spee’s Sake / Blue Note / 10.10.62
Lou Donaldson / Lou Donaldson Quartet/Quintet/Sextet / Moe’s Bluff / Blue Note / 8.21.54
Earl Hines & his Orchestra / G.T. Stomp / Bluebird / 7.12.39
Billy Cotton & his Orchestra / Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away / Columbia / London 6.3.32 / vocal = Sam Browne
T-Bone Walker & his Guitar / She’s My Old Time Used-To-Be / Capitol / Hollywood 11.6.47
Francis Faye / Sings Folk Songs / Medley: Oif’n Priptchik; Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral (That’s an irish Lullaby); Come Back to Sorrento / Bethlehem / Hollywood spring 1957

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

set 2
Bud Powell / Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 3 / Don’t Blame Me / Blue Note / 8.3.57
Coleman Hawkins / The Hawk in Hi Fi / Little Girl Blue / RCA Victor / 1.17.56 / with Billy Byers & his Orchestra
Vido Musso’s All Stars / My Jo-Ann / Savoy / 2.25.46
Golden Gate Orchestra aka The California Ramblers / Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Edison Diamond Disc / 11.24.25
Todd Rhodes & his Toddlers / Let Down Blues / King / Cincinnati 6.20.53 / vocal = Sadie Madison
Jimmy Durante / Club Durant / Medley: The World Needs New Faces; Start Off Each Day with a Song; If You Knew Susie / Decca / live TV broadcast (prob. Colgate Comedy Hour) 3.14.54 / with Eddie Cantor
Bobby Darin / Venice Blue / The Good Life / Capitol / Hollywood 1965

set 3
Horace Parlan / Happy Frame of Mind / Dexi / Blue Note / 2.14.63
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / My Secret Passion / Blue Note / 8.9.63
The Be Bop Boys / Bombay / Savoy / 8.23.46
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / Five Salted Peanuts / Victor / 1945
The Vocaleers / I Walk Alone / Red Robin / 1953
Johnny Hartman / Just You, Just Me… / Sometime Remind Me to Tell You / Regent / 12.18.47

set 4
Cy Coleman / Playboy’s Penthouse / Playboy Theme / Everest / 1960
Shorty Rogers / The Playboy Jazz All-Stars / Play, Boy! / Playboy [RCA Victor] / Hollywood 7.15.57
Walter Huston / September Song / Decca / 1944
Chuck Willis / My Story / Okeh / 12.27.52
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra / From the Creative World of Stan Kenton Comes the Exciting New Voice of Jean Turner / A Lot of Livin’ to Do / Capitol / Hollywood 9.11, 12.63
Harmonizing Four / I Found the Lord / Gotham [unissued] / early 1950s

last soulful song
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / To Be True / Bad Luck / Philadelphia International Records / Philadelphia 1975