Hold Me, Thrill Me, Playlist Me

I, too, would like to interview handsome Mr. Edwards.

Coffeetime, March 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Richard Williams / New Horn in Town / Renita’s Bounce / Candid / 9.27.60
Kenny Dorham / Blue Spring / Spring Cannon / Riverside / 1.20.59
Pete Johnson’s All Stars / Pete’s Blues / Back Room Blues / National / 1.2.46
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Put and Take / Okeh / 5.7.30
Rudy Vallée & his Connecticut Yankees / Heigh-Ho! Ev’rybody, Heigh-Ho! / Victor / 6.3.29
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Broken Hearted / Supreme / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon 
Cathy Hayes / It’s All Right with Me / You Smell So Good / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Shelly Manne / Shelly Manne & his Men Play “Checkmate” / The Isolated Pawn / Contemporary / LA 10.61
Teddy Edwards / Together Again! / Misty / Contemporary / LA 5.61
Benny Morton & his All Stars / Conversing in Blue / Blue Note / 1.31.45
Helen Kane / Dangerous Nan McGrew / Victor / Hollywood 4.12.30 
Pete Johnson’s All Stars / Pete’s Blues / I May Be Wonderful / National / 1.2.46 / vocal = Etta Jones
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Pasadena / Exclusive / Hollywood 1945
Pee Wee Crayton / Wondering Why / Imperial / New Orleans 4.14.55 / with Dave Bartholomew’s Band

set 3
Paul Gonsalves / Gettin’ Together / J. and B. Blues / Jazzland / 12.20.60
Lee Morgan / [Standards] / This Is the Life / Blue Note [unissued] / 1.13.67
Lester Young Trio / I Want to Be Happy / Clef / LA spring 1946
Ella Mae Morse / Buzz Me / radio transcription AFRS Jubilee #155 / Hollywood 11.5.45 / with Sam Donahue Orchestra & Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
The Orioles / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me / Jubilee / 12.31.52
Mel Tormé / Mel Tormé Sings Songs of Fred Astaire / A Foggy Day / Bethlehem / Hollywood 11.56

set 4
Mel Lewis / Got’Cha / Sir Richard Face / Jazz Records / San Francisco 11.56
Barney Kessel / Some Like It Hot / I’m Thru with Love / Contemporary / LA 4.3.9
Les Paul Trio / Coquette / V-Disc 572B / Hollywood 5.17.45
Peggy Lee / Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home / MacGregor transcription/ Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra 
Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire / A Couple of Song and Dance Men / Decca / Hollywood 7.24.46 / with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra
Earl Gaines / You Belong to Me / DeLuxe / 1970
Golden Gate Quartet / Daniel Saw the Stone / Okeh / 4.18.41

last soulful song
Arthur Adams / I’m Lonely for You / Modern / LA 1967

That Ole Playlist Called Love

Betty will race into your heart… with Mae’s help.

Coffeetime, March 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / Tough Tenor Favorites / Blue Lou / Jazzland / 2.5.62
Sahib Shihab / Jazz Shihab / Jamila / Savoy / 7.9.57
Paul Chambers / Paul Chambers Quintet / Four Strings / Blue Note / 5.19.57
Oran “Hot Lips” Page & his Band / Lafayette / Brunswick / 11.11.40 
Mae Questal (“The Betty Boop Girl”) / The Music Goes ’Round and Around / Decca / 1.8.36 / with Red Norvo & his Orchestra
Gene Phillips / I Wonder What the Poor Folks Are Doing / Modern / LA 1.50 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra
Morgana King / Let Me Love You / That Ole Devil Called Love / United Artists / 7.58 / celeste!

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

set 2
Howard McGhee / Sharp Edge / Ill Wind / Fontana / 12.8.61
Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Come Rain or Come Shine / Pacific Jazz / 1961
James Moody / I Cover the Waterfront / Royal Roost / Paris 7.27.51 
Paul Davis & his Orchestra / Black and Tan Fantasy / Champion / 11.25.32 / celeste!
Georgia White / Daddy Let Me Lay It on You / Decca / Chicago 5.11.36 / with Les Paul
Alice Faye / It’s Swell of You / Brunswick / Hollywood 3.18.37 / with Cy Feuer & his Orchestra
Billy Williams / Billy Williams Quartet / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / MGM / 1956

set 3
Sonny Criss / I’ll Catch the Sun / Blue Sunset / Prestige / 1.20.69
Curtis Fuller / Imagination / Kachin / Savoy / 12.17.59
Gene Ammons / Harold the Fox / Mercury / Chicago 10.23.47
John Kirby & his Orchestra / That Lonely Tune / Lang-Worth transcription / 1940-41 / vocal = Maxine Sullivan
The Dixiaires / Until You Say You Are Mine / Continental / 1948 
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / Moon River / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Perdido / Contemporary / LA 8.16.55
Barney Kessel / To Swing or Not to Swing / Indiana / Contemporary / LA 7.26.55
Lester Young / Indiana / Aladdin / LA 7.15.42
T-Bone Walker / I’m Waiting for Your Call / Black & White / LA 11.7.47
The Robins / I’m Living OK / Savoy / LA 2.13.50 / lead vocal = Bobby Nunn; with Johnny Otis Band 
The Dixie-aires / My Trouble Is Hard / Exclusive / 1948

last soulful song
Otis Leavill / You Babe / Dakar [unissued] / Chicago 1970 / written by Curtis Mayfield

Le Playlist

Okay, okay, Monsieur Montand, I guess I’ll dance with you.

Coffeetime, March 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Another Night at Birdland / It’s You or No One / Roost / live at Birdland, 4.10.57
Shelly Manne & his Men / At the Blackhawk, volume 5 / Theme: A Gem from Tiffany / Contemporary / live, The Blackhawk, San Francisco 9.23.59
The Mason-Dixon Orchestra aka Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Alabammy Snow / Columbia / 5.15.29
Little Jack Little / My Heart and I / Columbia / 12.23.35
The Cats & the Fiddle / Please Don’t Leave Me Now / Bluebird / 6.27.39 [flip of Gangbusters]
Beverly Kenney / Beverly Kenney Sings for Johnny Smith / Stairway to the Stars / Roost / 1955 / with celeste!

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

set 2
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Caravan / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Riverside / 10.62
Kenny Burrell / If You Could See Me Now / Blue Note / live, Five Spot Café 8.25.59
Jack Sheldon / The Trumpet of Jack Sheldon / There’s No You / Reprise / Hollywood 5.61 / Sheldon t, Marty Paich organ!, Joe Mondragon b, John Markham d
Oscar Alemán y su Quinteto de Swing / I Got Rhythm / Odeon / Buenos Aires 10.14.41 
The Boswell Sisters / Time on My Hands / Brunswick / 11.2.31 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Louis Prima & his Orchestra / I Was Here When You Left Me / V-Disc 500B / 5.17.45 / vocal = Lily Ann Carol
Jimmy Durante / I’m As Ready As You Are / TV broadcast / 1.1.51 / duet with Sophie Tucker

set 3
The Modern Jazz Quartet / Yesterdays / Atlantic / 4.3, 5.57
Wynton Kelly / Wynton Kelly / Dark Eyes / Riverside / 1.31.58
Leo Parker / Rollin’ with Leo / The Lion’s Roar / Blue Note / 10.20.61
The 5 Jones Boys / My Gal Mezzanine / Variety / 1937
Teddy Wilson & his Orchestra / That’s Life I Guess / Brunswick / 1.12.37 / vocal = Billie Holiday
Yves Montand / En Balade / Le Musicien / Columbia / Paris 1958 / avec Bob Castella et ses Rythmes

set 4
Herbie Mann’s Californians / Great Ideas of Western Mann / Is It True What They Say About Dixie? / Riverside / LA 7.3.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / Dizzy Dialogue / Contemporary / LA 8.16.55
Oscar Moore with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Tell Me You’ll Wait for Me / Atlas / Hollywood 1945 / vocal = Charles Brown
Peggy Lee / Don’t Blame Me / MacGregor transcription/ Hollywood c. 1.45 / with Dave Barbour & his Orchestra
Wynona Carr / Please Mr. Jailer / Specialty / Hollywood 1956 / with Bumps Blackwell Band
Unknown Detroit Male Group / Come On Over Here / Gotham [unissued] / Detroit 1951

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Love Grows Bitter / Brunswick / Chicago 1967

Pool-Playing Playlist

You can tickle *my* inner arm, Dean.

Coffeetime, March 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Fuego / Bup A Loup / Blue Note / 10.4.59
Jackie McLean / New Soil / Davis Cup / Blue Note / 5.2.59
Pete & Conte Candoli / Two for the Money / A-Lue-Cha / Mercury / LA 1959
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) / Decca / 5.3.38
The New Mayfair Dance Orchestra / She’s My Slip of a Girl / London 12.4.29 / vocal = Pat O’Malley; directed by Ray Noble
Amos Milburn / Pool-Playing Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.11.47
Dinah Washington / Make the Man Love Me / EmArcy / 3.15.55

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

set 2
Ben Webster / Soulville / Time On My Hands / Verve / LA 10.15.57
Art Farmer / Perception / Blue Room / Argo / 10.61
Stéphane Grappelli / Time After Time / Barclay / Paris 2.6.56 
Duke Ellington & his Orchestra / In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree / Mutual Broadcasting System radio broadcast, V-Disc 610A / New Zanzibar Club 10.10.45
Blanche Calloway & her Joy Boys / There’s Rhythm in the River / Victor / Camden, NJ 3.2.31
Martha Raye / Sam’s Got Him / radio broadcast, AFRS Swingtime / 1944
The Rhythm Kings / Why My Darling Why / Apollo / 1951 / with Isaac Royal & his Orchestra
Bobby “Blue” Bland / No Blow, No Show / Duke / Houston 1952

set 3
Bobby Timmons / Soul Time / Stella B. / Riverside / 8.60
Joe Newman / Jive at Five / Jive at Five / Prestige / 5.4.60
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / 125th Street Sunrise / Red Robin [unissued] / c. 11.53 
The Mills Brothers / Smoke Rings / Columbia / 1.25.33
Eddy Howard & his Orchestra / You’re Getting to be a Habit with Me / radio broadcast transcription / 1948
Bob Stewart / Let’s Talk About Love / When the Blues Comes On / Dawn / 1956 / with Mat Mathews Quintet (just rhythm section here)

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / Eesom / EmArcy / 11.4, 59
Mundell Lowe / A Grand Night for Swinging / It’s a Grand Night for Swinging / Riverside / 3.7.57
Hildegarde / Can I Forget You? / Columbia / London 9.4.37 / with Carroll Gibbons p
Martha Davis & the Esquires / Same Old Boogie / Urban / LA 11.46 / Davis p & voc, Leo Blevins g, Buzz Johnson b, & Charles Gray d 
Dean Martin / I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day) / Capitol / Hollywood 4.28.50 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra; from Paramount movie My Friend Irma Goes West 
Alphabetical Four / Shake My Mother’s Hand / Decca / 4.19.40

last soulful song
Belita Woods / That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You / Karen / Detroit 7.69

So Sweet My Little Playlist

I dig you, Jerry and Billy Butler.

Coffeetime, February 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley [1568] / Double Exposure [complete recording] / Blue Note / 6.23.57
Booker Little / Booker Little 4 and Max Roach / Jewel’s Tempo / United Artists / 10.58
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Dream Lullaby / Vocalion / 12.13.34
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / It’s Psychological / Bluebird / 3.19.34 / vocal = Joey Nash / from Paramount film Melody in Spring
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / The Blues / Exclusive / LA 1946
Dakota Staton / The Late, Late, Show / Trust in Me / Capitol / Hollywood 1957

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

set 2
Johnny Coles / Little Johnny C / So Sweet My Little Girl / Blue Note / 8.9.63
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller, Volume 3 / It’s Too Late Now / Blue Note / 12.1.57 
Tiny Grimes & his Rocking Highlanders / Blues / Gotham [unissued] / 1950
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra / Sunshine / Victor / 2.13.28 / vocal = Bing Crosby with Jack Fulton, Charles Gaylord, Al Rinker, & Austin Young 
Fred Hartley & his Music / Little Old Lady / broadcast / London 9.11.38 / vocal = Gracie Fields
Thelma [Dolly] Cooper & her Boyfriends / Cute Poppa / Gotham / 1949

set 3
John Coltrane / Live at Birdland / I Want to Talk About You / Impulse! / live, Birdland 10.8.63
Leo Wright / Suddenly the Blues / Tali / Atlantic / 1962
Tadd Dameron Sextet / Dameronia / Blue Note / 9.26.47
Boots & his Buddies / Do-Re-Mi / Victor / San Antonio 4.6.38 / vocal = Cora Woods
The Ravens / Always / National / 12.48
Bobby Troup / The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup / You Are Too Beautiful / Bethlehem / 1955

set 4
Bob Cooper / Shifting Winds / Hot Boy / Capitol / Hollywood 4.26.56
Stan Getz / Chamber Music by the Stan Getz Quintet / These Foolish Things / Roost / 8.15.51
King Cole Trio / I’ll Never Be the Same / Capitol / Hollywood 8.13.47 / NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mildred Bailey / It All Comes Back to Me Now / CBS radio, The Mildred Bailey Show / c. 1943
Billy Eckstine / I Want to Talk About You / AFRS radio transcription / 3.4.45 / arranged by Tadd Dameron
Pearl Bailey / Pearl’s Pearls / A House Is Not a Home / RCA Victor / 1971 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; arranged by Benny Carter
Golden Gate Quartet / Bye and Bye Little Children / Bluebird / 11.15.38

last soulful song
Jerry Butler / I Dig You Baby / Mercury / 1966

The Most Beautiful Daisy in the World

Thank you, dear Jiminy, for leading the way across the threshold.

Coffeetime, February 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Rollins / Tenor Madness / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World / Prestige / 5.24.56 
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Transfiguration / Prestige / 11.9.56 
Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker with Strings / I'll Remember April / Clef / 7.5.50 
Walter Pidgeon / What'll I Do? / Bluebird / 7.15.24 / with Lester Hodges on piano
King Cole Trio / I'm Lost / Excelsior / LA 3.1.43 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book / Over the Rainbow / Verve / LA 1.14.61 / with Billy May & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Hank Mobley / Hi Voltage / No More Goodbys / Blue Note / 10.9.67
John Coltrane / Duke Ellington & John Coltrane / Little Brown Book / Impulse! / 9.26.62
Tadd Dameron / The Magic Touch: Tadd Dameron Orchestra / Dial “B” for Beauty / Prestige / 6.11.53
Eddie Lang / I’ll Never Be the Same / Parlophone / 9.27.28 / with Rube Bloom p
Noel Coward / I’ll See You Again / HMV / London 3.24.38
Delta Rhythm Boys / Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye / RCA Victor / 1952
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Azure-Té / Decca / 4.30.52

set 3
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / We’ll Be Together Again / Impulse! / 4.3.63 
Lee Morgan / Cornbread / Ceora / Blue Note / 9.18.65 
Eddie Davis & his Beboppers / Calling Dr. Jazz / Savoy / 12.18.46 
The Charioteers / I Miss You So / Columbia / 5.15.47 / with Mitchell Ayres leading the orchestra
Bing Crosby / It’s Easy to Remember / Decca / Hollywood 2.21.35 / with George Stoll & his Orchestra, The Rhythmettes & Three Shades of Blue
Kay Starr / There’s a Lull in My Life / Standard Transcription / LA 5.45 / with Les Paul Trio and Joe Venuti
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story / They Can’t Take That Away from Me / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Oscar Moore / I'll Remember You / Horizon / Burbank 4.65
Richie Kamuca / Richie Kamuca Quartet / My One and Only Love / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Les Paul Trio / Dark Eyes / V-Disc / mid-1940s
King Cole Trio / What’ll I Do / Capitol / Hollywood 8.6.47 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Jiminy Cricket aka Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike / soundtrack to Pinocchio / When You Wish Upon a Star / Disney [Buena Vista] / Hollywood 12.13.39 / with the Ken Darby Singers and Victor Young & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / Moon River / Vee-Jay / 1961
The Soul Stirrers / Loved Ones are Waiting (take 2) / Specialty / Hollywood 3.4.58 / solo by Paul Foster

last soulful song
The Charmels / As Long As I’ve Got You (I’ll Never Grow Old) / Volt / 1967

I Want the Waiter (With the Playlist)

Elvis and his mini-me… on Coffeetime!

Coffeetime, February 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [aka 1541] / His Sister / Blue Note / 12.2.56 
Wes Montgomery / Montgomeryland / Monk’s Shop / Pacific Jazz / LA 10.1.59 / Pony Poindexter as, Buddy Montgomery p, Wes Montgomery g, Monk Montgomery b, and Louis Hayes d
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / Broadway / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_at_the_Vanguard
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Zozoi / Decca / 10.22.34 
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / vocal = Paul Small
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Inflation Blues / Decca / LA 12.1.47
Helen Carr / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.5.55 / Don Fagerquist t, Charlie Mariano as, Donn Trenner p, Max Bennett b, Stan Levey d

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

set 2
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / I Need You / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b [Nat Adderley sat out]
Bill Evans / Portrait in Jazz / When I Fall in Love / Riverside / 12.28.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Why Was I Born / Roost / fall 1955 / Powell ts, Jimmy Nottingham t, Bob Alexander tb, Tony Aless p, Billy Bauer g, Arnold Fishkin b, Don Lamond d
Cliff Edwards [Ukulele Ike] / Crazy People / Brunswick / 4.6.32 / with The Californians
Jimmie Lunceford & his Orchestra / I Want the Waiter (With the Water) / Vocalion / 6.29.39 / vocal = Jimmie [Trummy] Young tb 
Cleo Brown / Baby, Let’s Make Some Love / Blue / 1949
Elvis Presley / Fever / Nashville 4.2.60 / RCA Victor [unissued] / with The Jordanaires 

set 3
Johnny “Hammond” Smith / All Soul / Easy Like / New Jazz / 9.11.59 
Nat Adderley / Branching Out / I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ / Riverside / 9.58 
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Half Step Down, Please / Victor / 12.11.47 / written by Tadd Dameron 
Claude Hopkins & his Orchestra / Honey / Decca / 4.21.37 / vocal = Beverly (Baby) White
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea / Standard transcription / 1943 
Johnny Hartman / Songs from the Heart / Down in the Depths / Bethlehem / 10.55 / with Howard McGhee 

set 4
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Things Ain’t What They Used to Be / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / My Shining Hour / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
King Cole Trio / I’ve Got the World on a String / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / I Like That Kind of Carrying On / Cook / New Orleans late 1954
Astrud Gilberto / Look to the Rainbow / Look to the Rainbow / Verve / 12.65
The Alphabetical Four / The Sun Didn’t Shine / Decca / 11.18.43

last soulful song
Alton Ellis / Sunday Coming / Hurting Me / Coxsone / Kingston, Jamaica 1969

A Playlist Kissed an Angel

Ladies and gentlemen, Pat and her cheekbones on a steel beam!

Coffeetime, February 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Louis Hayes / Louis Hayes / Sassy Ann / Vee Jay / 4.30.60 / Hayes d, Nat Adderley cor, Yusef Lateef ts, Barry Harris p, Sam Jones b
Art Farmer / Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce / Sans Souci / Prestige / 10.21.55
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Tune Up / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Ipana Troubadours / Three Little Words / Harmony / 10.10.30 / non sequitor: Ipana Toothpaste 
Tom Clines & his Music / Sweetheart’s Holiday / Brunswick / 8.29 / vocal = Jack Carney
Ressie Mae Jones [aka Bessie Mae Jones] & her Combo / Automatic Daddy / Tone [Dootone subsidiary] / 1952 / Dootsie Williams 
La Vergne Smith / Angel in the Absinthe House / Moonlight in Vermont / Cook / New Orleans late 1954

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

set 2
Kenny Burrell / A Night at the Vanguard / I’m a Fool to Want You / Argo / live, Village Vanguard 9.16.59 
Marty Paich / I Get a Boot Out of You / Warm Valley / Warner Brothers / LA 6.30.59 
Seldon Powell / Seldon Powell Plays / Someone to Watch Over Me / Roost / fall 1955 / Powell ts, Jimmy Nottingham t, Bob Alexander tb, Tony Aless p, Billy Bauer g, Arnold Fishkin b, Don Lamond d
Cliff Edwards [Ukulele Ike] / Night Owl / Brunswick / 1933
Kay Thompson & her Boys / You Let Me Down / Brunswick / 11.11.35 
Jack McVea & his All Stars / Inflation Blues / Exclusive / LA 12.47 / vocal = Rabon Tarrant 
Little Milton / Sings Big Blues / Fever / Checker / Chicago 6.3.66

set 3
Little Brother Montgomery / Tasty Blues / Tasty Blues / Prestige Bluesville / 7.1 60 
Larry Young / Young Blues / Young Blues / New Jazz / 9.30.60 
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess / In a Minor Groove / You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / New Jazz / 9.19.58 
Sonny Dunham & his Orchestra / Sentimental Feeling / NBC radio show One Night Stand / Café Rouge, Hotel Pennsylvania, NYC 1944 / vocal = Don Darcy
Janette & The Four Vagabonds [aka Janette Davis] / More Than Anything in The World / Standard transcription / 1943 
Dick Haymes / Look at Me Now! / A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Hollywood Records / Hollywood 1957 / with Cy Coleman p 

set 4
Bob Corwin / The Bob Corwin Quartet featuring the trumpet of Don Elliott / I Remember You / Riverside / 6.56 / Corwin p, Elliott t, Ernie Furtado b, Jim Campbell d
Curtis Counce / Exploring the Future / Race for Space / Dooto / LA 4.8.58 
King Cole Trio / Chant of the Blues (Dog-gone Unlucky Blues) / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 3.20.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
The Pied Pipers / Katrina / Capitol [unissued] / Hollywood 1949 / song from Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; with Paul Weston & His Orchestra
Pat Carroll / (Down in the Depths) On the 90th Floor / TV broadcast, The Red Skelton Show / 2.18.64  
The Alphabetical Four / I Can’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore / Decca / 4.7.41

last soulful song
Little Ann / What Should I Do / Ric-Tic [unissued] / Detroit 1969

The Playlist Song (’Round An’, ’Round An’, Round)

Face it, girl… you’re amazing!

Coffeetime, January 31, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Clark Terry / Top and Bottom Brass / Mili-Terry / Riverside / 2.59 
Red Garland / Red’s Good Groove / Excerent! / Prestige / 3.22.62 
Jean “Toots” Thielemans / Man Bites Harmonica / Fundamental Frequency / Riverside / 12.30.57 
Henry Busse & his Orchestra / When Day Is Done / radio broadcast / 1935 / Busse t
Will Osborne & his Orchestra / Perhaps / Columbia / 8.21.29
Mel Walker / The Last Mile / Mercury [unissued] / 6.11.52 / with Johnny Otis & his Orchestra 
Thelma Gracen / Night and Day / I’ll Get By / EmArcy / 1956

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

set 2
Gene Ammons / Angel Eyes / It’s the Talk of the Town / Prestige / 9.5.62 
Nat Adderley & the Big Sax Section / That’s Right! / Night After Night / Riverside / fall 1960 
Lucky Thompson / Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet et son quartette / Don’t Blame Me / Dawn / Paris 3.56
The Dixie Stompers [Fletcher Henderson & his Orchestra] / Panama / Harmony / 12.22.25 
Revelers / Dinah / Warner Brothers Vitaphone short / 1927
Teddy Bunn / Bachelor Blues / Blue Note / 2.28.40
Four Chicks and a Chuck / The Turntable Song (’Round An’, ’Round An’, Round) / MGM / 1947 / with Jack Miller & his Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No) / Decca / 8.25.50 / with Sy Oliver & his Orchestra

set 3
Mal Waldron / Mal/3: Sounds / Ollie’s Caravan / New Jazz / 1.31.58 
Tricky Lofton & Carmell Jones / Brass Bag / Angel Eyes / Pacific Jazz / LA 3.26.62 
Mel Powell / Hallelujah / Capitol / 12.10.47
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / It’s a Blue World / Victor / Chicago / 12.29.39 / vocal = Anita Boyer
The Charioteers / Only Forever / Columbia / 9.40
Bobby Darin / Winners / What a Difference a Day Makes / Atco / 2.60 

set 4
Terry Gibbs / A Jazz Band Ball, Second Set / Where or When / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / subtitled “The Poor People of Beverly Hills” / cover cartoon by William Box 
Lee Konitz / Very Cool / Movin’ Around / Verve / 5.12.57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Cool
Eartha Kitt / New Faces of 1952 / Monotonous / RCA Victor / 1952 / book co-written by Mel Brooks 
Nancy Wilson / Face It, Girl, It’s Over / live, The Ed Sullivan Show / 11.24.68
The Charioteers / Oh! Dem Golden Slippers / radio broadcast, Bing Crosby’s Kraft Music Hall / 12.17.42

last soulful song
The Jelly Beans / I’m Hip to You / Eskee / 1965 / Charles Thomas, Alma Brewer, Diane Taylor, Elyse Herbert, & Maxine Herbert

Pretty Little Playlist

When our heroes ride in on their saxophones.

Coffeetime, January 24, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Howard McGhee / The Return of Howard McGhee / I’ll Remember April / Bethlehem / 10.22.55 
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / [Just Coolin’] / Close Your Eyes / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.8.59 / Hank quotes It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
Johnny Marvin / At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home) / Okeh / 3.28.27 / Marvin ukulele
Layton & Johnstone [Turner Layton, Clarence Johnstone] / In a Little Second Hand Store / Columbia / London 1933 
Cecil Gant Trio / It’s the Girl / Bullet / Nashville / 1947
Lorez Alexandria / Alexandria the Great / My One and Only Love / Impulse! / 1964 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Traneing In / You Leave Me Breathless / Prestige / 8.23.57 
Jimmy Cleveland / A Map of Jimmy Cleveland / A Hundred Years from Today / Mercury / 12.58 
Johnny Hodges / Not So Dukish / The Last Time I Saw Paris / Verve / 9.10.58 
Stan Getz / Stan Gets Plays / Body and Soul / Clef / 12.52
Josephine Baker / Pretty Little Baby / Odeon/ Paris 1927 / with Jacob’s Jazz Band
Soul Stirrers / Mean Old World / Specialty / Hollywood 4.10.57 / Paul Foster, Sam Cooke, S. Roy Crain, R.B. Robinson, Jesse J. Farley, T.L. Bruster; Willie Webb org, L.C. Cook d
Albert King / Born Under a Bad Sign / Oh, Pretty Woman / Stax / Memphis 1966 

set 3
Grant Green / Street of Dreams / Somewhere in the Night / Blue Note / 11.16.64 
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / That’s Where It’s At / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Charlie Parker / Cool Blues / Dial / Hollywood 2.19.47
Les Brown & his Orchestra / You’re Different / radio transcription / 1950 / vocal = Lucy Ann Polk
Goldie Boots & The Falcons / You’re the Beating of My Heart / Savoy / 8.20.51 
Sammy Davis Jr. / The Wham of Sam / Blame It on My Youth / Reprise / LA 2.61 

set 4
John Graas / Montrose aka Westlake Bounce / Decca / LA 1.23.57 / Jack Montrose ts, Bill Perkins, ts, Paul Moer p, Paul Chambers b, Mel Lewis d
Buddy Banks ‎/ Jazz de Chambre / You Go to My Head / Club Français du Disque 33 / Paris 10.28.54 / Jimmy Gourley g, Bob Dorough p, Buddy Banks b, Roy Haynes d
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson / Doin’ the New Low Down / Brunswick / 12.29.32 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) / Don’t Fence Me In / Victor / 4.49
Jorge Ben / Samba Esquema Novo [“New Samba Scheme”] / Balança Pema / Philips / Brazil 1963
Soul Stirrers / He’s My Guide [alt take 4] / Specialty / Hollywood 8.17.55 / Sam Cooke, Paul Foster, S. Roy Crain, R. B. Robinson, Jesse J. Farley

last soulful song
The Superbs / One Bad Habit / Doré / LA 1968

Don’t Let that Playlist Get Away

Lovely June in January

Coffeetime, January 17, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / Hidden Channel / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Ronnie Mathews / Doin’ the Thang! / Let’s Get Down / Prestige / 12.17.63
Kenny Dorham / ’Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia, volume 2 / The Prophet / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.31.56
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Dinah / Victor / 1.28.26
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / A New Shade of Blue / RCA / Hollywood 4.49 / vocal = Lee Barnes
June Christy / Love Turns Winter into Spring / Capitol / Hollywood 7.2.57 / with Pete Rugulo & his Orchestra

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

set 2
Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson / Things Are Getting Better / Serves Me Right / Riverside / 10.28.58
Buddy Collette / Buddy Collette in Italy / Room with Skies / Ricordi / 1961
Big Jay McNeely & his Band / Body and Soul / radio broadcast / live, Birdland 2.28.53 / quotes: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Tea for Two
Jesse Crawford / Dinah / Victor / 2.26.26 / Wurlitzer pipe organ
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 (Nat on celeste, Yay!), solo vocal = Pauline Byrns
Bonnie Lake & her Beaus / Thirteen Black Cats / 1.5.56 / Decca / with Jack Pleis & his Orchestra
BB King [BB “Blues Boy” King & his Orchestra / Did You Ever Love a Woman / RPM / 1956
Chuck Willis / Search My Heart / Okeh [unissued alt take] / 4.15.55

set 3
Wes Montgomery / Movin’ Along / So Do It! / Riverside / LA 10.12.60
Oliver Nelson / The Blues & the Abstract Truth / Cascades / Impulse! / 2.23.61
Kenny Dorham / Bebop in Pastel (Bouncing with Bud) / Savoy / 8.23.46
Mills Brothers / Tiger Rag / Brunswick / 11.5.31
Mildred Bailey / That Ain’t Right / radio transcription, WNEW Saturday Night Swing Session / 3.1.47 / with Ellis Larkins Trio, emcee = Bob Bach
John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman / You Are Too Beautiful / Impulse! / 3.7.63

set 4
Lennie Niehaus / Lennie Niehaus, Vol. 4 / Rondo / Contemporary / LA 3.16.55
Vince Guaraldi / Vince Guaraldi Trio / Fascinatin’ Rhythm / Fantasy / San Francisco 4.56
Benny Carter & his Orchestra / Further Definitions / Honeysuckle Rose / Impulse! / 11.13.61
Phil Harris & Orchestra / One-zy Two-zy / Ara / Hollywood c. 11.45 / duet with 3 year-old Alice Faye Harris
Barrie Sisters [Barry Sisters] / Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah / MacGregor transcription / LA 11.21.44 / with the King Cole Trio: NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Peggy Lee / Guitars a là Lee / Sweet Happy Life / Capitol / Hollywood 7.18.66 
The Zion Travelers / Jesus Said / Dootone / 1962

last soulful song
Brenton Wood / The Oogum Boogum Song / Double Shot / LA 1967

I’m the Playlist Who Loves You

This cover – photo, typography, the works – is outstanding. Who was the designer?

Coffeetime, January 10, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Curtis Amy / Way Down / Liza / Pacific Jazz / Hollywood 2.5.62 
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Rhodesian Rhapsody / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Louis Smith / Smithville / Bakin’ / Blue Note [unissued] / 3.30.58 
Harry James & his Orchestra / Duke’s Mixture / Columbia / 3.26.41
Tom Clines & his Music / Somebody Mighty Like You / Brunswick / 7.10.29 / vocal = Chester Gaylord
Floyd Dixon / Pretty Baby / Aladdin / Hollywood 9.6.49 / vocal = Sonnie Parker; Dixon p, Johnny Board as, Al Grey tb, Wes Montgomery g, Roy Johnson b, Ellis Bartee d
Blossom Dearie / My Gentleman Friend / Someone to Watch Over Me / Verve / 5.21 & 22.59 

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

set 2
Stan Getz / Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio / Ballad Medley: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; I Don't Know Why (I Just Do); How Long Has This Been Going On?; I Can't Get Started; Polka Dots and Moonbeams / Verve / Hollywood 10.10.57 
Freddie Redd / Shades of Redd / Just a Ballad for My Baby / Blue Note / 8.13.60 
The Red Heads (aka Red Nichols & the Five Pennies) / Here or There / Pathé Actuelle / 1.18.27 / vocal = Frank Gould
Kay Kyser & his Orchestra / Coffee Time / Columbia / 1945 / Michael Douglas & Lucyann Polk
Albinia Jones / I Have a Way of Lovin’ / Decca / 1.48 
Eddie Bo / Roll ’Em Back / Ace [unissued] / 1956

set 3
Lou Donaldson / The Natural Soul / People Will Say We’re in Love / Blue Note [unissued] / 5.9.62 
Billy Mitchell / This Is Billy Mitchell / Passionova / Smash / Chicago 10.30.62 
Jack McVea & his Band / Flying (All the Way) Home / Rhythm Records [unissued] / San Francisco 1944 
Art Kassel & His Kassels-in-the-Air Orchestra / I’ll Be Around / radio transcription / 1944 / vocal = Gloria Hart
Chris Powell & The Five Blue Flames / My Love Has Gone / Columbia / 5.51
Jackie Paris / The Song Is Paris / Jenny / Coral / 1.22.62 

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / The Chinook That Melted My Heart / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d 
Una Mae Carlisle / I’m the One Who Loves You / Victor / 10.3.41 / Charlie Shavers t, William Bailey cl, Russell Procope ts, Billy Kyle p, John Kirby b, O’Neil Spencer d 
Fred Astaire / Pick Yourself Up / Brunswick / Hollywood 7.26.36
Cy Coleman / If My Friends Could See Me Now / When in Rome (I Do As the Romans Do) / Columbia / 1967
The Coleman Brothers / We’re Living Humble / Decca / 5.23.46 

last soulful song
Orthea Barnes / Your Picture on the Wall / Mickay’s Records / 1962

Hello, Mister Playlist

In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 20, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Winter Wonderland / Prestige / 11.27.58 
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Don’t Wait ’Til the Night Before Christmas / Decca / 9.19.39 
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 / “no sign of snow around”
The Nic Nacs [The Robins] / Gonna Have a Merry Christmas / RPM / LA 11.2.50 / with Little Esther 
Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, & Vera Ellen [dubbed by Trudy Stevens] / Snow / soundtrack, Paramount movie White Christmas / Hollywood 1953 
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Verve / LA 7.15 & 16.60 / studio orchestra arranged & conducted by Frank DeVol ​
Nancy Wilson / That’s What I Want for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 11.18.63 / with celeste!

bed
Dexter Gordon / The Panther! / The Christmas Song / Prestige / 7.7.70 

set 2
Charles Schultz /A Charlie Brown Christmas original soundtrack / dialogue snippet / Buena Vista / LA 1977 / with Peter Robbins [Charlie Brown] & Christopher Shea [Linus]; “besides, I think it needs me”
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 / with the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in San Rafael 
Dean Martin / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.5.52
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
Anne Lloyd & the Sandpipers / Christmas Songs and Carols / When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter / Golden Records / 1958 / with = Mitch Miller; cover by Lowell Hess 

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 / Burrell g, Charles Stepney p; Cleveland Eaton b, Morris Jennings d
Steve Allen Trio / A Chiaroscuro Christmas / Jingle Bells / Chiaroscuro / Pittson PA, WVIA 1973 / Allen p, Paul Rostock b, Ira Saylor d
Richard Himber & his Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra / Winter Wonderland / Victor / 10.23.34 / vocal = Joey Nash 
Henry Hall & the BBC Dance Orchestra / The Fairy on the Christmas Tree / HMV / London 11.29.36 / vocal = The Three Sisters 
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: Darlene Zito, Phil Scott, Lester Brush, & Jimmy Leyden
Jo Stafford / Happy Holiday / Happy Holiday; Winter Weather / Columbia / 1955 / a sort of concept album, with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
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 / written by Robert Wells & Mel Tormé 
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
Golden Gate Quartet / Go Where I Send Thee / Bluebird / Charlotte, NC 8.4.37

last soulful (Christmas) song
Otis Redding / Soul Christmas / Merry Christmas, Baby / Atco / Memphis 2.67

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing

Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Coffeetime, December 13, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1

Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley Quartet (5066) / Avila and Tequila / Blue Note / 3.27.55  

Rouse-Watkins Jazz Modes / Jazzville / Legend / Dawn / 6.56 / Rouse ts, Watkins fh, Gildo Mahones p, Paul West b, Art Taylor d

Bernie Cummins & his Orchestra / I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You [written by Truman Virgil “Pinky” Tomlin] / Vocalion / 12.12.37 / vocal = Walter Cummins
Frankie Laine / Christmas Favorites / You’re All I Want For Christmas / Mercury / 1950
Felix Gross & his Orchestra / Love for Christmas / Savoy / LA 10.25.49 / Joe Howard ts, Mitchell “Tiny” Webb g, Minor Robinson d
Sparky / I Don’t Want a Lot for Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 1952 / with music by Billy May 
Connee Boswell / Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! / Decca / Hollywood 1946 / with Russ Morgan & his Orchestra
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / By the Fireside / Columbia / 1955 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra and The Starlighters 

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

set 2
Bill Evans & Jim Hall / Intermodulation / Turn Out the Stars / Verve / 4.7.66 
Jimmy Hamilton / Can’t Help Swinging / Dancing on the Ceiling / Prestige Swingville / 4.4.61
Eddy Duchin & his Orchestra / When Winter Comes / Brunswick / 5.16.39 / vocal = Johnny MacAfee
Bing Crosby / I’d Like to Hitch a Ride with Santa Claus / radio broadcast, Philco Radio Time [Decca] / Hollywood 11.25.50 / duet with Lindsay Crosby; with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra and Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires [Jeff Alexander Chorus  
Bob Keeshan & Lumpy Brannum / 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 / with the Starlighters & Rosemary Clooney, dialogue with Vera-Ellen & Rosemary Clooney (“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
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60 
Jimmy Forrest / Out of the Forrest / That’s All / Prestige / 4.18.61 
Sammy Kaye / Santa Claus Is on His Way / Victor / 1941 / vocal = The Three Kaydets
Mills Brothers / On This Christmas Eve / Decca / 9.8.49 
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 Dinning Sisters & Bob Atcher / Christmas Island / Capitol / Hollywood 1950
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
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Yesterdays / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / Harris g, unknown bongos
Herb Geller / Sleigh Ride / EmArcy / 1954 
Oscar Moore / The Christmas Song / Horizon / Burbank 4.65 / Moore g, Gerald Wiggins p, Joe Comfort b 

King Cole Trio / Jingle Bells / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
The Starlighters / I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm / Capitol / Hollywood 1948
June Hutton / Song of the Sleigh Bells / Capitol / Hollywood 11.26.52 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra and The Boys Next Door
Dean Martin / Silver Bells / NBC TV broadcast, The Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show / Hollywood 12.9.52
Alphabetical Four / Go Where I Send Thee / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Donny Hathaway / This Christmas / Atco / Chicago 1970

(Don’t Wait ’Til) The Playlist Before Christmas

Coffeetime, December 6, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Tommy Potter / Tommy Potter’s Hard Funk / Reets and I / East-West / Stockholm 9.10.56 
Johnny Coles / The Warm Sound / If I Should Lose You / Epic / 4.61 / Coles tp, Kenny Drew p, Peck Morrison b, Charles Persip d
Bunny Berigan & his Orchestra / Trees / Victor / 12.23.37 
Dick Robertson & his Orchestra / Meet Me Under the Mistletoe / Decca / 10.18.41
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Winter Weather / Bluebird / 12.26.41 
Floyd Dixon / Empty Stocking Blues / Aladdin / LA 9.19.50 / with Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers
Jo Stafford / Ski Trails / Moonlight in Vermont / Columbia / 4.10.56 / with Paul Weston & his Music 

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

set 2
Gerry Mulligan / Night Lights / Night Lights / Philips / fall 1962 
Kenny Drew / Pal Joey / My Funny Valentine / Riverside / 10.15.57 
Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Count Every Star / Blue Note / 12.23.61 
Hank D’Amico / Holiday with Hank / Tomorrow / Bethlehem / 1955 / D’Amico cl, Billy Triglia p, Milt Hinton b, Charlie Smith d; cover photography & design by Burt Goldblatt
Sammy Kaye (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye) / (Don’t Wait ’Til) The Night Before Christmas / Victor / 11.11.38 / vocal = The Three Barons
Yogi Yorgesson / I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas / Capitol / Hollywood 10.18.49 / with the Johnny Duffy Trio 
Paul Frees, Royal Dano, Joan Gardner, and Laura Olsher / Plunderer’s March (We’re Despicable) / soundtrack to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol / 1961 / music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill

set 3
Bill Smith / Folk Jazz / Greensleeves / Contemporary / LA 1959 
Teddy Wilson / I Got Rhythm / Blues for Daryl / Verve / Chicago 3.5.56 
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis / The Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Cookbook / But Beautiful / Prestige / 6.20.58 
Chick Webb & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Happy / Decca / 11.2.37 / vocal = Ella Fitzgerald 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Jingle Bells / radio broadcast, Christmas Jubilee, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood 1945
Matt Dennis / Welcome Matt / By the Fireside / Jubilee / 1958 / with band arranged & conducted by Sy Oliver

set 4
Ellis Larkins / Blue and Sentimental / Blue and Sentimental / Decca / 1956 / Larkins p, Skeeter Best g, Joe Benjamin b, Jim Crawford d
Frank Wess / You’ll Do / Savoy / 7.18.56 
Eddie Cantor / The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Things That I’ve Got) / Columbia / 11.26.39 / with Jerry Joyce and his Orchestra and The Robert Mitchell “Boychoir”
King Cole Trio / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons / Capitol / 8.22.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Nancy Wilson / Easy / Make Me a Present of You / Capitol / Hollywood 1968
Golden Gate Quartet / Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John / NBC Thesaurus radio program / 1941

last soulful song
Lou Rawls / Merry Christmas. Ho! Ho! Ho! / Christmas Is / Capitol / Hollywood 7.17.67

I Wish I Knew the Name (Of the Playlist in My Dreams)

Would you believe the lovely Nan is casting her gaze Lou Costello’s way?

Coffeetime, November 29, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / Ritual / Sam’'s Tune / Pacific Jazz / 1.14.57 
Buddy Collette / Now and Then / Andre / Legend Record Co. / Hollywood 1973 / Collette as, Al Aarons t, Grover Mitchell tb, Al Viola g, Red Callender b, Frank Chavez d
Art Shackelford Sextette / Play Fiddle Play / Modern / Hollywood 12.47
The Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra / Persian Rug / Okeh / 2.14.28
Jimmie Noone’s Apex Club Orchestra / Wake Up, Chillun! Wake Up / Vocalion / Chicago 4.27.29 / vocal = ensemble
Jimmy Witherspoon / Daddy Pinocchio / Modern / Hollywood 1952 / with Al “Cake” Wichard Sextette 
Ann Richards & Stan Kenton / Two Much! / I Was the Last One to Know / Capitol / Hollywood 1961

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

set 2
Hampton Hawes / The Green Leaves of Summer / Ill Wind / Contemporary / LA 2.17.64 
Lester Young & Harry Edison / Pres & Sweets / It’s the Talk of the Town / Norgran [unissued] / Hollywood 11.1.55 
Oscar Peterson / Prelude to a Kiss / Clef / LA early 12.52 / Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b
Randolph McCurtain’s College Ramblers / Low Down Brown / Okeh / Dallas 9.25
Paul Gayten & his Orchestra / Goodnight, Irene / Regal / 10.50 / vocal = The Coleman Brothers 
Herbie Fields & his Orchestra / I Wish I Knew the Name (Of the Girl in My Dreams) / Victor / 11.5.47 / vocal = Fields
Emery Deutsch & his Orchestra / Joseph! Joseph! / Brunswick / 3.15.38 / vocal = Nan Wynn [Marsha Vatz] 
Lula Reed & Her Little Teeners / Your Love Keeps A-Workin’ on Me / Federal / 1962 / with Sonny Thompson & his Orchestra

set 3
Fred Jackson / Hootin’ ’n‘ Tootin’ / Easin’ on Down / Blue Note / 2.5.62 
Booker Ervin / Tex Book Tenor / Lynn’s Tune / Blue Note / 6.24.68 
Al “Cake” Wichard Sextette / Cake Jumps / Modern / Hollywood 12.47 
Frank Sinatra / Autumn in New York / Columbia / 1948 / with Axel Stordahl & his Orchestra
The Ebonaires / The Old Folks at Home / Modern / Hollywood 12.47
Bobby Short / On the East Side / Moanin’ in the Mornin’ / Atlantic / 1960

set 4
Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse All-Stars / Music for Lighthousekeeping / Jubilation / Contemporary / LA 10.56
Oscar Pettiford / Basically Duke / Swing Until the Girls Come Home / Bethlehem / 12.17.54 
Betty Roché / Trouble Trouble / V-Disc 595A / 1945 / with Dave Matthews & his V-Disc Night Owls 
King Cole Trio / By the River St. Marie / Standard transcription / Hollywood 10.38 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Wesley Prince b
Jack Cassidy & Mardi Bayne / Babes in Arms, Cast Recording / I Wish I Were in Love Again / Columbia Masterworks / 1951
The Coleman Brothers / Low Down the Chariot / Decca / 3.21.44 

last soulful song
Dee Edwards / (I Can) Deal with That / De-To / Detroit 1977

It’s a Big Wide Wonderful Playlist

Ka-knock in peace, Roy.

Coffeetime, November 22, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Roy Haynes / Cracklin’ / Under Paris Skies / New Jazz / 4.10.63
Kenny Dorham / 2 Horns, 2 Rhythm / Lotus Blossom / Riverside / 11.13.57
Ozzie Nelson & his Orchestra / Autumn Nocturne / radio transcription / LA early 1940s
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Nobody But You / Okeh / 5.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / It’s Been a Long, Long Time / King / 6.28.51 / duet = Annisteen Allen & Melvin Moore
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
Lou Donaldson / Blues Walk / Autumn Nocturne / Blue Note / 7.28.58
Oscar Pettiford / Oscar Pettiford – Volume 2 / Scorpio / Bethlehem / 8.12.55
Coleman Hawkins & his Orchestra / Rainbow Mist / Apollo / 2.22.44
Eddie Lang & Frank Signorelli / Rainbow Dreams / Parlophone / 3.29.28
William Sisters (Dorothy & Hannah) / Sam, The Accordion Man / Victor / 12.18.26 / with Wayne Allen p
Sunshine Boys / Gonna Get Tight / Okeh / Dallas 3.13.41 / vocal = Slim Herbert
[Leo] “Snub” Mosley & Orchestra / Blues at High Noon / Rondo / 2.11.42 / vocal = Gordon Magey
Peggy Lee / It’s a Big Wide Wonderful World / Capitol / Hollywood 2.7.63 / with Jack Sheldon t 

set 3
Dizzy Reece / Star Bright / The Rake / Blue Note / 11.19.59
Kenny Burrell / Introducing Kenny Burrell / Delilah / Blue Note / 5.30.56
The Ink Spots / Your Feet’s Too Big / Victor / 1.4.35
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Let’s Get Away from It All / Okeh / 3.19.41 / vocal = Anita O’Day
Fred Astaire / The Astaire Story, vol 1 / Isn’t It a Lovely Day / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Birth of a Band / Tickle Toe / Mercury / 5.59
Pete Terrace / The Pete Terrace Quintet / Oh Lady Be Good / Fantasy / San Francisco 1966
Fats Waller / Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now / Victor / 6.11.37
Etta Jones / Blow Top Blues / Black & White / 12.29.44 / with Barney Bigard & his Orchestra
Mabel Mercer / Mabel Mercer Sings / Hello, My Lover, Goodbye / Decca / 1964
Sam Cooke / Night Beat / Shake Rattle and Roll / RCA Victor  / Hollywood 2.23.63
Soul Stirrers / Be with Me Jesus / Specialty / Chicago 2.16.55

last soulful song
Jimmy James & the Vagabonds / The New Religion / I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying / Atco / 1967

Baby Washington / I Can’t Wait to See My Baby’s Face / Sue / 1963 

I Hope Gabriel Likes My Playlist

Hanging with the Delta Rhythm Boys at the Café Pom Pom!

Coffeetime, November 15, 2024, Angelynn Grant

set 1 
Walter Davis, Jr / Davis Cup / ’S Make It / Blue Note / 8.2.59
Dexter Gordon / Doin’ Allright / For Regulars Only / Blue Note / 5.6.61
Gene Krupa’s Band / I Hope Gabriel Likes My Music / Victor / Chicago 2.29.36 
Andy Aiona’s Novelty Four / Keko / Columbia / Hollywood 1.14.29
Jack Jackson / Make Those People Sway / HMV / London 9.18.33 / vocal trio including Jackson
Betty Hall Jones / This Joint’s Too Hip for Me / Capitol / Hollywood 2.11.49 
Paula Castle / Lost Love / Lost Love / Bethlehem / 1955

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

set 2
Kenny Drew / Talkin’ & Walkin’ / I’m Old Fashioned / jazz:west / Hollywood 12.55
Flip Phillips / But Beautiful / Mercury / LA 12.5.49
Oscar Moore / The Oscar Moore Quartet / Body and Soul / Skylark / Hollywood 1954
Alix Combelle & his Swing Band / Fast, Slow, Medium Tempo.  / Swing / Paris 2.20.40
Bon Bon & his Buddies / Seeing You Did Me No Good / Decca / 1.12.42
Mildred Bailey / Funiculi-Funicula / Mildred Bailey Show radio transcription / 1.12.45 / with Paul Baron Orchestra
Luke Jones & his Orchestra / Me Love / Atlas / Hollywood early 1947 / vocal = Joe Alexander
Dick Van Dyke / Songs I Like / They All Laughed / Command / Hollywood 1963

set 3
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / On the Street Where You Live / Prestige / 12.13.66
Kenny Burrell – Jimmy Raney / 2 Guitars / Out of Nowhere / Prestige / 3.5.57
Wardell Gray / Blue Gray / Prestige / Detroit 4.25.50
The Ravens / Time Takes Care of Everything / Columbia / 10.19.50 
Tony Pastor & his Orchestra / The Secretary Song (Bibidi Bot Bot) / Columbia / 12.22.47 / with the Clooney Sisters (Rosemary & Betty)
Cy Coleman / Cy Coleman Sings Cy Coleman / Why Try to Change Me Now / Columbia / 1974

set 4
Quincy Jones / The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones / They Say It’s Wonderful / EmArcy / 11.4.59
Bobby Jaspar / Up in Quincy’s Room / Vogue / Paris 11.3.52
Delta Rhythm Boys / What Would It Take / Decca / Hollywood 5.22.46 / with Les Paul Trio
Nancy Wilson / Naturally / Alright, Okay, You Win / Capitol / Hollywood 1966
Original Soul Revivers / Lord, I’ve Done You Wrong / Mryl / 1961

last soulful song
Little Milton / I’m Mighty Grateful / Checker / Chicago 3.4.66

The Emotions / Rejoice / Best of My Love / Columbia / 1977