Friday, December 19, 2025

Hello, Mister Playlist

Album cover of Christmas Songs and Carols on Golden Records label, illustrated by Lowell Hess, showing Victorian carolers on a snowy evening near a gas street lamp with a wooden sign with Santa Claus's face on it.
In my imagination, that’s me in the lower left.

Coffeetime, December 19, 2025, 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

Friday, December 12, 2025

The Best Playlists Happen While You’re Dancing

Scan of the cover for the 78 rpm Golden Record, Winter Wonderland and Mr. Snow, showing a cartoon illustration of children smiling on a sled and building a snowman.
Merry Xmas, Kiddie Records Weekly!

Note: the first break at 2:30 is misaligned for my back announcing only. All the rest of the show it aligned properly. That was for those listening over the radio and from the archive for the first 48 hours. Now (5 pm Sunday), a corrected version is on the archive. 

Coffeetime, December 12, 2025, 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



Friday, December 05, 2025

The Only Thing I Want For Christmas (Is Just to Keep the Playlist That I’ve Got)

Screenshot from Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol showing the three ragtag animated characters in Magoo/Scrooge's life (housekeeper, maybe the chimney sweep, the junk shop owner, and another, very short character) standing in the junk shop.
Me and my WMBR pals at the station. :P

Coffeetime, December 5, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Hank Mobley / Hank Mobley (5066) / Love for Sale / Blue Note / 3.27.55 
Jay Jay [J.J.] Johnson / Get Happy / Blue Note / 6.22.53 / Jimmy Heath ts 
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 / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning / Philips / fall 1962 
Ike Quebec / Blue & Sentimental / Blue & Sentimental/ 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
Mills Brothers / The Yam / Decca / 8.23.38
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 
Mal Waldron / Mal-1 / Stablemates / Prestige / 11.9.56 
Raymond Scott & his Orchestra / Send Me Your Love for Christmas / AFRS Raymond Scott Show / 10.44 / vocal = Dorothy Collins 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Jingle Bells / radio broadcast, Christmas Jubilee, AFRS Christmas Jubilee Show / Hollywood 1945
The Orioles / (It’s Gonna Be A) Lonely Christmas / Jubilee / 1948
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
Lou Levy / Jazz in Four Colors / Button Up Your Overcoat / RCA Victor / LA 4.2.56 / Levy p, Larry Bunker vb, Leroy Vinnergar b, Stan Levey d
Blossom Dearie / Old Devil Moon / Barclay / Paris 1.16.56 / Dearie p, Bobby Jaspar fl, Benoit Quersin b, Christian Garros d 
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
Booker T. & The MG’s / In the Christmas Spirit / Santa Claus Is Coming to Town / Stax / 1966





Friday, November 28, 2025

Tell Me Your Playlist and I Will Tell You Mine

Screenshot from TV show of young Sacha Distel looking at his fingers as he plays his hollow body guitar. He is wearing a suit with a skinny tie. There are people behind him not looking at him and some odd scenery including a mannequin made from rattan.
Pretty guy, pretty guitar… and he plays it pretty, too.

Coffeetime, November 28, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / Plus / Lisa [alt take] / Riverside [unissued] / 5.11.61 
Horace Silver / Doin’ the Thing / Cool Eyes / Blue Note [unissued] / live at the Village Gate / 5.61 
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / Carvin’ the Rock / Blue Note / 6.9.53
George Olsen & his Music / Who / Victor / 11.6.25 / vocal = Olsen, Bob Rice, Fran Frey, & Jack Fulton
Helen Humes / It’s Better to Give Than to Receive / Philo / LA 12.22.45 
Blossom Dearie / Once Upon a Summertime / Manhattan / Verve / 9.58

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

set 2
Leo Wright / Blues Shout / The Wind / Atlantic / summer 1960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Shout
Marty Paich / Marty Paich Octet / Paich-Ence / GNP / Hollywood 2.55 
Jutta Hipp & Zoot Sims / Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims / These Foolish Things / Blue Note [unissued] / 7.28.56 
Bing Crosby / I’m Thru with Love / Brunswick / 6.12.31
Savannah Churchill & her All Star Seven / Tell Me Your Blues and I Will Tell You Mine / Gennett / 1942 / Jimmy Lytell & his All Star Seven: Lytell cl, Russ Case t, Will Bradley tb, Frank Signorelli p, Carmen Mastren g, Haig Stevens b, Chauncey Morehouse d
Tab Smith, His Fabulous Alto & Orchestra / Love Is a Wonderful Thing / United / Chicago 9.51
Rosemary Clooney / Tenderly / The Lady Is a Tramp / Columbia / 1955

set 3
Kenny Burrell / The Tender Gender / The Tender Gender / Cadet / 4.66 
Stanley Turrentine / A Chip Off the Old Block / Cherry Point / Blue Note / 10.21.63 
Sacha Distel / Nuages / French TV / 1959 
Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / No Love No Nothin’ / Lang-Worth Transcription / 1943 / vocal = Phyllis Lane
The Du Droppers / Chain Me, Baby (Blues of Desire) / Robin / 8.52 
Kenny Burrell / Weaver of Dreams / That Old Feeling / Columbia / 10.18.60 / Burrell g & voc, [Tommy Flanagan p,] Wendell Marshall b, Bobby Donaldson d

set 4
Conrad Gozzo / Goz the Great! / Do That Again Daddy / RCA Victor / LA 3.7.55 / Gozzo t, Murray McEachern tb, Paul Smith p, Tony Rizzi g, Sam Cheifetz b, Alvin Stoller d
Shorty Rogers / Wherever the Four Winds Blow / Marooned in a Monsoon / RCA Victor / LA 7.2.56 / Rogers t, Jimmy Giuffre cl, Lou Levy p, Ralph Pena b, Larry Bunder d
Herbie Mann & Sam Most / Herbie Mann – Sam Most Quintet / Let’s Get Away from It All / Bethlehem 10.55 / Herbie Mann, Sam Most fl, Joe Puma g, Jimmy Gannon b, Lee Kleinman d
King Cole Trio / On the Sunny Side of the Street / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / vocal = The Barrie Sisters; NKC p, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Margie Day / One Steady Date / Dot / 3.51 / with the Griffin Brothers Orchestra
Esther Phillips / And I Love Him / ’Tis Autumn / Atlantic / 1966
Highway QC’s / There’s Something on My Mind / Vee-Jay / Chicago 1957

last soulful song
Aretha Franklin / Aretha Now / You Send Me / Atlantic / 1968
Undisputed Truth / Girl You’re Alright / Gordy / Detroit 1972

Friday, November 21, 2025

If I Give My Playlist to You

Screenshot from a 1938 movie showing a close up of Django Reinhardt playing his guitar while sitting back on a couch. He's concentrating on his fingers.
Django, you couch potato, you!

Coffeetime, November 21, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / The Stylings of Silver / Metamorphosis / Blue Note / 5.8.57
Kenny Burrell / Blue Lights / Phinupi / Blue Note / 5.14.58
Sam Lanin & his Orchestra / Don’t Keep Me in the Dark Bright Eyes / Okeh / 6.11.28 / vocal = unknown
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / You’re on the Right Track, Baby / Decca / LA 12.8.47 / duet with Martha Davis
Bev Kelly / Bev Kelly in Person / Then I’ll Be Tired of You / Riverside / live, The Coffee Gallery, San Francisco 10.14.60

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

set 2
Art Farmer / Perception / Nobody’s Heart / Argo / 10.61
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown / New Faces – New Sounds / You Go to My Head / Blue Note / 6.9.53 
The Guitars, Inc / Soft and Subtle / Nature Boy / Warner Brothers / LA 1959 
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli et le quintette du Hot Club de France / Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) / RCA / Rome winter 1949 [Paris, April 16, 1947]
Fannie May Goosby / Fortune Teller Blues / Brunswick / Atlanta 4.28 / Goosby p
Maxine Sullivan / I Must Have That Man / International / 1946 / with The New Friends of Rhythm
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / I Couldn’t Be More in Love / RCA Victor / Hollywood 1957
Ben Imon [aka William Benimon] / Down in the Country / Vee Jay / Chicago 11.10.55 

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Introducing Wayne Shorter / Pug Nose / Vee Jay / 9.9.59
Hampton Hawes / All Night Session, Volume 1 / Talkin’ Care / Contemporary / LA 11.12.56
Harry James & his Orchestra / Stardust / radio broadcast transcription / Roseland Ballroom, NYC 7.8.39 / vocal = Frank Sinatra
The Four Bars / If I Give My Heart to You / Josie / 1954 / with Billy Mure’s Orchestra [aka Sebastian Mure] 
Mel Tormé / At The Red Hill / Early Autumn / Atlantic / live, Red Hill Inn, Pennsauken, NJ 3.62

set 4
Howard Roberts / Good Pickin’s / Will You Still Be Mine / Verve / LA 1959
Frank Rosolino / Frank Rosolino Quintet / Cherry / Mode / Hollywood 7.57
Jesse Price & his Blues Band / Jump It with a Shuffle / Capitol / Hollywood 3.20.47
Bette McLaurin / Do You Know Why / Coral / 12.9.52 / with Don Redman & his Orchestra
Pearl Bailey / The Real Pearl Bailey / Baby, Don’t You Quit Now / Project 3 / 1968 / with Louis Bellson & his Orchestra; with Charlie Shavers t
The Pilgrim Jubilee Singers / What Do You Know (About Jesus) / Specialty [demo] / Hollywood prob. 8.55 / with Arthur Crume on guitar

last soulful song
The Opals / You Can’t Hurt Me No More / Okeh [unissued alt take] / Chicago 5.26.64

Friday, November 14, 2025

When My Heart Beats Like a Playlist

Screenshot of BB King singing "The Thrill Is Gone" at a microphone on a stage. His drummer is behind him and he's got his eyes closed and is smiling while singing and clapping the beat with his hands.
BB can still smile despite his lost thrill.

Coffeetime, November 14, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / The Cat Walk / Cute / Blue Note / 5.2.61
Tina Brooks / True Blue / Up Tight’s Creek / Blue Note / 6.25.60
Don Redman & his Orchestra / I Got Rhythm / Brunswick / 6.30.32
George Hall & his Taft Hotel Orchestra / Infatuation / Victor / 3.12.34 / vocal = Barry Wells
Pete Brown’s Band / Sunshine Blues / Savoy / 8.1.44 / vocal = Pete Brown
Chris Connor / Chris Craft / Good for Nothin’ (But Love) / Atlantic / 4.8.58

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

set 2
The Trio / The Trio / For Heaven’s Sake / Riverside/ 6.61
Eddie Costa / Eddie Costa Quintet / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / Mode / 7.57
Bobby Jaspar / Bobby Jaspar’s New Jazz / So Easy to Love / Swing / Paris 10.14.54
Les Paul Trio / Dream Dust [alt take] / Decca [unissued] / Hollywood 10.26.44
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four / Pardon Me Pretty Baby / Parlophone / 6.10.31 / vocal = Harold Arlen
The Spirits of Rhythm / As Long As I Live / Decca / 9.11.34
B.B. King / When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer / Kent / Memphis 1962

set 3
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane / I Never Knew / New Jazz / 3.7.58
Wes Montgomery / Born to Be Blue / Riverside [unissued] / live at Tsubo's, Berkeley 6.25.62
Martha Tilton & her V-Disc Play Fellows / Beyond the Blue Horizon / V-Disc 524B / 5.45
The Ravens / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / National / May 1948
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / That’s All / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Art Pepper / …The Way It Was! / Autumn Leaves / Contemporary / LA 11.23.60
George Jenkins & his All Stars / Drum Magic / Antipathy / Tampa / LA 1955
Peggy Lee / I Get the Blues (When It Rains) / V-Disc 682 / LA 1946 / with Les Paul Trio
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / My Time Is Expensive / Peacock / Houston 1.49 / with Jack McVea & his Orchestra
Jerry Butler / A Woman with Soul / Vee Jay / Chicago 1963
The Southern Sons / I Heard Zion Mourn / Bluebird / 7.25.41

last soulful song
Bettye Swann / The Soul View Now! / Tell It Like It Is / Capitol / 1969

Friday, November 07, 2025

By the Light of the Silvery Playlist

Screenshot from the movie In a Lonely Place showing Hadda Brooks sitting at a grand piano, her head tilted as she sings. She's wearing a halter top gown with a multi-diamond necklace. She's singing, but has a wistful smile. Behind her sit restaurant customers in formal attire at tables listening and watching her.
Lovely necklace on a lovely woman.

Coffeetime, November 7, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Harold Land / West Coast Blues! / Klactoveedsedstene / Jazzland / San Francisco 5.17, 18.60
Carmell Jones / Jay Hawk Talk / Beepdurple / Prestige / 5.8.65
Noël Coward / The Dream Is Over / HMV / Hayes, Middlesex, England 5.15.28 / with Carroll Gibbons on piano
Albinia Jones / Evil Gal Blues / Savoy / 4.15.45 / with Don Byas’s Swing Seven
Cathy Hayes / It's All Right with Me / My Old Flame / HiFi Records / LA 1959

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

set 2
Clifford Jordan / Cliff Craft / Sophisticated Lady / Blue Note / 11.10.57
Lyle Murphy / Gone with the Woodwinds! / These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) / Contemporary / LA 10.11.55
Adrian Rollini / Georgia on My Mind / private recordings / early 1937 / with Carl Kress and Dick McDonough on guitars, vocal = Barry McKinley
Evelyn Knight / South Pacific / A Cock-Eyed Optimist / Decca / Hollywood 4.25.49
Viviane Greene / A Picture of You / Decca / LA 6.24.50
Danny Kaye / Mad Dogs and Englishmen / Decca / Hollywood / 12.14.47
Bobby Brookes / This Is the Night / Same Old Saturday Night / RCA Victor / 1957

set 3
John Jenkins, Clifford Jordan, Bobby Timmons / Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons / Princess / New Jazz / 7.26.57
Junior Cook / Junior’s Cookin’ / Blue Farouq / Jazzland / Long Beach, CA 4.10.61
Serge Chaloff Sextette / A Bar a Second / Savoy [unissued] / 3.5.47
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Marie / Victor / 1.29.37 / vocal = Jack Leonard
Delta Rhythm Boys / The Laugh’s on Me / Atlantic / 1949
Cal Bostic / Introducing… Cal Bostic/ The Darkest Hour / RCA Canada / Toronto 8.67

set 4
Herbie Mann & Buddy Collette / Flute Fraternity / Morning After / Mode / Hollywood 6.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Smorgasbord / Oh! Look at Me Now / Liberty / Hollywood 11.25, 29.55
Georgie Auld & his Orchestra / In the Land of Hi Fi / Swingin’ in the Moore Park / EmArcy / LA 11.7.55
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / By the Light of the Silvery Moon / Victor / 7.13.42 / with the Deep River Boys
Hadda Brooks / Don’t You Think I Ought to Know / Modern / Hollywood 1947
Etta James / Etta James Sings for Lovers / I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You) / Argo / Chicago 6.62
The Spirit of Memphis Quartet / The Atomic Telephone / King / Cincinnati 8.14.51

last soulful song
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / You’re All I Need / I Can’t Help But Love You / Tamla / Detroit 1968
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell / If This World Were Mine / Tamla / Detroit 1967