Friday, September 26, 2025

Happy Playlist Stomp

Jimmy Durante, young Bobby Long, and Frank Sinatra from the movie It Happened in Brooklyn. They're in a gym, sitting on a bench and both Jimmy and Frank are looking at Bobby and Frank is smiling, singing, and pointing his finger at Bobby while Bobby looks a little startled at him. Frank has his hand on Bobby's shoulder and Jimmy is also reaching out as they give him advice.
Wonder what Jimmy and Frank said to you, Bobby…

Coffeetime, September 26, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Roy Brooks / Beat / Soulsphere / Workshop Jazz / 1964 / Blue Mitchell t, Junior Cook ts, George Bohanon tb, Hugh Lawson p, Eugene Taylor b, Brooks d
Dave Burns / Dave Burns / Something Easy / Vanguard / 6.62 / Burns t, Herbie Morgan ts, Kenny Barron p, Steve Davis b, Edgar Bateman d
Roy Johnson’s Happy Pals / Happy Pal Stomp / Okeh / Richmond, VA 8.15.29
Ben Selvin & his Orchestra (also issued under pseudonyms Chester Leighton & his Sophomores and Golden Terrace Orchestra) / Makin’ Faces at the Man in the Moon / Okeh / 6.18.31 / vocal = Eddie Walters
Rabon Tarrant / Opus Boogie / Apollo / LA 8.45 / with Jack McVea & his All Stars: Teddy Buckner t, Jack McVea ts, Bob Mosley p, Gene Phillips g, Frank Clarke b, Tarrant d & voc
Peggy Connelly / It Never Entered My Mind / Bethlehem / Hollywood 1.56 / with Russ Garcia & the Wigville Band; fabulous cover design by Burt Goldblatt (as with many Bethlehem records in this show) 

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

set 2
John Coltrane / Soultrane / Theme for Ernie / Prestige / 2.7.58 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soultrane
Dorothy Ashby / Hip Harp / Moonlight in Vermont / Prestige / 3.21.58 
Buck Clayton & Buddy Tate / Buck & Buddy / When a Woman Loves a Man / Prestige Swingville / 12.20.60
Walter Huston / September Song / Brunswick / 1938 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra
Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, & Bobby Long / I Believe / from the MGM movie It Happened in Brooklyn / Hollywood 1947 
Frankie Laine / One for My Baby / Necessary Evil / Columbia / 1951 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra

set 3
Brother Jack McDuff & David Newman / Double Barrelled Soul / Sunny / Atlantic / 8.9.67 
John Wright / South Side Soul / South Side Soul / Prestige / 8.30.60 
Charlie Parker / Crazeology / Dial / 12.17.47 
Frank Masters & his Orchestra / Harbor of Dreams / Okeh / 1941 / vocal = Phyllis Myles
The Four Knights / A Few Kind Words / Capitol / 1953 / solo = Gene Alford 
Johnny Holiday / Holiday for Lovers / How Long Has This Been Going On / Mode / Hollywood 9.57 / with Marty Paich Octet: Paich cel, Herb Geller as & cl, Ronnie Lang bs & cl, Bob Enevoldsen tb, Vince De Rosa fh, Jack Sheldon t, Max Bennett b, Mel Lewis d

set 4
Max Bennett / Max Bennett / Rubberneck / Bethlehem / 12.14.55 / Charlie Mariano as, Frank Rosolino tb, Claude Williamson p, Bennett b, Stan Levey d; composed by Rosolino
Joe Puma / Joe Puma / Pumatic / Bethlehem / 1955 / Puma & Barry Galbraith g, Don Elliott vb, Vinnie Burke b, Teddy Sommer d
Russ Garcia / Wigville / Then the Lid Blew Off / Bethlehem / 1955 
Peggy Lee / The Way You Look Tonight / Capitol Transcription / Hollywood 5.14.46 / with celeste!; with Buddy Cole’s Four of a Kind: Dave Barbour g, Phil Stephens b, Edwin "Buddy" Cole cel, Tommy Romersa d 
King Cole Trio / Too Marvelous for Words / Capitol / Hollywood 4.11.46 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Sam Cooke / My Kind of Blues / Exactly Like You / RCA Victor / 5.61
The Southland Jubilee Singers (aka The Four Knights) / You Go, I’ll Go with You / Lang-Worth Transcription / c. 1945

last soulful song
The Montclairs / Hung Up on Your Love / Paula / 1973

Lost & Found: Drowning in the Playlist of Love

Screenshot from the July 4, 1974 TV episode of The Midnight Special showing the band Rufus on stage: two male members with guitar and bass, repectively, with Chaka Khan in a sparkling top in btween. There are mic stands in front of them and spotlights above cast rays and sparkles.
Not many sparkle like Chaka Khan.

Lost & Found, September 26, 2025, Angelynn Grant

intro: Little Sister / Somebody’s Watching You / Stone Flower / 1970

set 1
Garnet Mimms & the Enchanters / A Quiet Place / United Artists / 1964
Stacy Johnson / Remove My Doubts / Sony / 1963 / produced by Ike & Tina Turner; written by Ike
The Contours / That Day When She Needed Me / Gordy / 1964
Major Lance / Please Don’t Say No More / Okeh / 1964
The Ethics / Sad, Sad, Story / Vent / 1969
Ralfi Pagan / El Hijo De Mamá / Fania / 1969

bed
Leith Stevens & Stu Phillips / Soundtrack to the Columbia Pictures movie The Interns / Pitcher of Martinis / Colpix / 1962

set 2
Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston / I Want You ’Round / Tamla / 1964
The Lollipops / Step Aside Baby / Impact / 1966
Mary Wells / Your Old Stand By / Motown / 1963
The Joys of Life / Good Times Are Over / Columbia / 1967
The Independents / Lucky Fellow / Wand [unissued] / 1973

bed
David McCallum / Music: A Bit More of Me / Call Me / Capitol / 1967

set 3
Lori & Lance / I Don’t Have to Worry / Federal / 1969
The Soul Children / Give ’Em Love / Stax / 1968
Willie Mitchell / It’s Dance-Time With Willie Mitchell / Fever / Hi / 1965
The Marvellos / Don’t Play With My Heart / Warner Brothers / 1967
William Bell / I’ll Show You / Stax / 1963
The Presidents / I Want My Baby / DeLuxe / 1969

bed
Santi Latora / Mo’plen Bacharach [La Douce] / The Look of Love / Durium / 1970

set 4
Ponderosa Twins + One / Bound / Astroscope / 1971
Charlene & the Soul Serenaders / Love Changes / Volt / 1970
The Dramatics / In the Rain / Volt / 1972
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles / More Love / Tamla / 1967

bed
Little Milton / Friend of Mine [instrumental] / Glades / 1973

set 5
Smokey Robinson & Mary Wells / I Want You ’Round / Tamla [unissued] / 1963
Friday, Saturday and Sunday / There Must Be a Better Way / Dig / 1971
Satisfaction Unlimited / Think of the Children / Let’s Change the Subject / Hot Wax / 1972
Darrow Fletcher / Those Hanging Heartaches / Revue / 1968
The Free Movement / I’ve Found Someone of My Own / Decca / 1971

bed
The Mustang / Dance to Swing Organ / Undergrad / Somerset / 1965

set 6
The Constellations / I Don’t Know About You / Gemini Star / 1968
The Innersection / Let Me Love Yuh / Group 5 Records / 1975
The Friends of Distinction / Whatever / Check It Out / RCA Victor / 1969 / Tavares had the hit with this in 1973
The Independents / I Love You, Yes I Do / Wand / 1972

bed
Isaac Hayes / Tough Guys (soundtrack to Three Tough Guys) / Kidnapped / Enterprise (Stax) / 1974

set 7
Jesse Anderson / Let Me Back In / Thomas / 1970
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes / You Know How to Make Me Feel So Good / Philadelphia International Records / 1975 / featuring Sharon Paige; written & produced by Kenneth Gamble And Leon Huff
Joe Simon / Drowning in the Sea of Love / Spring Records / 1971
Rufus / Street Player / Street Player / ABC Records / 1978 / featuring Chaka Khan

last found soulful song
Gene Chandler / Simply Call It Love / Mercury / 1970

Friday, September 19, 2025

Blame It on My Playlist

Billy and Jerry Butler sitting on stage with Billy playing his hollow body electric guitar and wearing plaid pants with large rectangles making the plaid and Jerry in a wide lapel suit singing into a microphone. Billy is smiling and both are gazing at Billy's fingers while he plays.
Billy, can I borrow those cool slacks sometime?

Coffeetime, September 19, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Bill English / Bill English / 222 / Vanguard / 1963
Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce / Modern Jazz Perspective / Stablemates / Columbia / 9.5.57
Eddie Cole’s Solid Swingers / Thunder / Decca / Chicago 7.28.36
The Revelers / Lucky Day / Victor / 7.14.26
Annisteen Allen & her Home Town Boys / I Want a Man (Who’s Gonna Do Right) / Queen / 12.20.45
Anita O’Day / At Mister Kelly’s / I Have a Reason for Living / Verve / Chicago 4.27.58

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

set 2
John Lewis & Sacha Distel / Afternoon in Paris / Willow Weep for Me / Atlantic / Paris 12.56
Art Farmer / When Farmer Met Gryce / The Infants Song / Prestige / 5.26.55
Jo Jones / The Jo Jones Special / Lover Man / Vanguard / 1955
Peggy Lee / Aren’t You Glad You’re You / Capitol / Hollywood 4.49
T-Bone Walker / I’m Still in Love with You / Comet / LA 12.29.47 / Walker g, Jack Trainor t, Bumps Myers ts, Willard McDaniel p, Billy Hadnott b, Oscar Lee Bradley d
Dean Martin / I’d Cry Like a Baby / Capitol / Hollywood 12.24.53 / with Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

set 3
Ike Quebec / Bossa Nova Soul Samba / Me ’n’ You / Blue Note / 10.5.62
Bill Harris / Jazz Guitar [The Harris Touch] / Midnight Blue / Mercury [EmArcy] / 5.2.57 / composed by Harris & James Moody; Hank Jones celeste!
James Moody / Bootsie / Royal Roost / Paris 7.27.51
The Basin Street Boys / Nothing Ever Happens to Me / Exclusive / LA late 1945 / with the Eddie Beal Trio (including Lucky Thompson)
Jo Stafford / I Didn’t Know What Time It Was / CBS radio show, The Carnation Contented Hour (AFRS Melody Hour #332) / Hollywood 9.3.50 / with Victor Young & his Orchestra 
Earl Coleman / Earl Coleman Returns / Reminiscing / Prestige / 6.8.56

set 4
Bob Cooper / Coop!: The Music of Bob Cooper / Fourth Variation: Saturday Dance / Contemporary / LA 8.27.57
Quincy Jones / Go West, Man! / No Bones at All / ABC-Paramount / LA 2.57
Billy Taylor Quartet / I Don’t Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun / HRS / 6.47 / vocal = Taylor
Nat King Cole & his Trio / After Midnight / Blame It on My Youth / Capitol / Hollywood 9.21.56
Swan Silvertones / The Swan Silvertones / Come Out of the Wilderness / Vee Jay / 1959

last soulful song
Billy Butler / Careless Heart / Brunswick / 1967

Friday, September 12, 2025

I’m the Lonesomest Playlist in Town

Screenshot from the video of the BBC show featuring Nat King Cole, sitting on a pretend café style chair in a light blue suit, holding a straw boater hat, with his legs crossed, smiling an singing towards a group of young men in the same type of suit and women in dresses with chiffon skirts and shiny, sequined tops, smiling and singing along, some also on café chairs. In the background of the set are pretend umbrellas similar to an outdoor café.
Nat, where’s Oscar?

Coffeetime, September 12, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Horace Silver / Silver’s Blue / Shoutin’ Out / Epic / 7.17.56 
Lee Morgan / Lee Morgan [1541] / Latin Hangover / Blue Note / 12.2.56
Cliff Jackson & his Crazy Kats / Soubrette / Grey Gull / 2.27.30
Little Jack Little / With Every Breath I Take / Columbia / 10.25.34
Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / Hey! Now Let's Live / Decca [unissued] / 3.1.44
Carmen McRae / Book of Ballads / The Thrill Is Gone / Kapp / 1958

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

set 2
Max Roach / Max / That Ole Devil Love / Argo / Chicago 1.14.58 / produced by Holmes “Daddy-O” Daylie 
Kenny Burrell / Kenny Burrell / All of You / Prestige / 2.1.57
Les Jazz Modes / Les Jazz Modes / Goodbye / Dawn / 2.56
Gene Austin / (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You / Victor / 12.31.26 / with Abel Baer p
Ethel Merman / You’re a Builder Upper / Brunswick / 10.8.34 / with Johnny Green & his Orchestra
Ivory Joe Hunter / Mean Woman Blues / Pacific / San Francisco 2.47
Jerry Colonna / Jerry Colonna Entertains at Your Party / I Came to Say Goodbye / Bravo! / 1959

set 3
Curtis Fuller / Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes with French Horns / A-Drift / New Jazz / 5.18.57
Barry Harris / Preminado / My Heart Stood Still / Riverside / 1.19.61
Gene Krupa & his Orchestra / Side by Side / Columbia / 1.23.42 / vocal = Anita O’Day
The Four Vagabonds / Ask Anyone Who Knows / Apollo / 3.24.47 
Bobby Short / Speaking of Love: The Songs of Bobby Short / Easy Come, Easy Go / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Jack Sheldon / Jack’s Groove / Green Dolphin Street / GNP / LA 7.57
Bob Enevoldsen / Bob Enevoldsen Quintet [Reflections in Jazz] / Iron Works / Tampa / LA 8.8.55
Bud Shank / Blowin’ Country / Love Nest / Pacific Jazz / LA 1.21.58
The Charioteers / Careless Love / NBC Reference Recording, transcription / 1942
Kay Starr / I’m the Lonesomest Gal in Town / Capitol / Hollywood 9.11.47
Nat King Cole / That Sunday, That Summer / BBC TV broadcast, An Evening With Nat King Cole / London 7.63 / with the Cliff Adams Singers and the Ted Heath Orchestra 
Delta Rhythm Boys / Keep On to Galilee / radio transcription / 1941

last soulful song
Fontella Bass / Sweet Lovin’ Daddy / Checker / Chicago 1967
Peggy Woods / You Better Be Good to My Baby / Kent [unissued] / LA c. 1968

Friday, September 05, 2025

New Playlist in the Sky

Close up from the movie "Words and Music" of Mickey Rooney in a light brown suit and tie singing as he looks at a piece of paper with the score to a song.
Mickey’s happy to see he’s the featured image on the blog again.

Coffeetime, September 5, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Leapin’ and Lopin’ / Somethin’ Special / Blue Note / 11.13.61
Gene Ammons / Jammin’ in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons / Four / Prestige / 7.13.56
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Got a Feelin’ for You / Okeh / 3.21.29 / vocal = Smith Ballew
Little Esther / Other Lips, Other Arms / Federal / Cincinnati 1.27.51 / with Earle Warren Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald / I’ve Got a Crush on You / Decca / 9.11.50 / with Ellis Larkins on piano

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

set 2
Teddy Edwards / Nothin’ But the Truth! / But Beautiful / Prestige / 12.13.66
Gigi Gryce / Reminiscin’ / Reminiscing / Mercury / 11.10.60
Garland Wilson / Tenderly / HMV / London 3.16.51
Bandanna Girls [Mozelle France & Mae Hopkins] / Part Time Papa / Decca / 1.24.39
Jo Stafford / Smoke Dreams / Capitol / Hollywood 3.26.47 / with the Starlighters & celeste!
Honey Brown / Lonesome and Mistreated / Derby / 1951 / with Freddie Mitchell Orchestra
Fred Astaire / New Sun in the Sky / Clef / Hollywood 12.52 / Oscar Peterson p, Barney Kessel g, Ray Brown b, Alvin Stoller d

set 3
Wayne Shorter / Juju / Yes or No / Blue Note / 8.3.64
Oliver Nelson / Nocturne / Azure-té / Prestige Moodsville 13 / 8.23.60
Lynn Hope / Tenderly / Premium / Chicago 4.50
Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra / One Umbrella for Two / Victor / 10.18.35 / vocal = Cliff Weston
The Ravens / You’re Always in My Dreams / Columbia / 10.30.50
Joe Mooney / Lush Life / Nina Never Knew / Atlantic / 1958

set 4
Shorty Rogers / Shorty Rogers Courts the Count / Basie Eyes / RCA Victor / LA 2.2.54 / Rogers t & arr, Curtis Counce b, Bud Shank bs, 
Barney Kessel / Poll Winners Three! / It’s All Right with Me / Contemporary / 11.2.59
Howard Rumsey / Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 4 – Oboe/Flute / A Bit of Basie / Contemporary / Hermosa Beach, Calif 9.25.54 / Bud Shank fl, Bob Cooper oboe, Claude Williamson p, Rumsey b, Max Roach d
King Cole Trio / I Thought You Ought to Know / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 11.21.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
Mickey Rooney, Bill Lee, & Marshall Thompson / Manhattan / soundtrack to Words and Music / MGM / Hollywood 1948 / with Roger Edens on piano; Bill Lee dubs for Tom Drake
Percy Mayfield & his Orchestra / Strange Things Happening / Specialty / Hollywood 1950
Golden Gate Quartet / Didn’t Old Pharaoh Get Lost / radio broadcast, NBC Thesaurus #1044 / c. 2.42

last soulful song
Barbara Lynn / I'm a One Man Woman / Atlantic / 1971

Friday, August 29, 2025

Who Do You Know (That Made You the Playlist You Are)

Photo of Bobby Darin, with a pipe in his mouth, squatting by a lovely woman reclining on the floor. His hands are lifting up her chin gently and she is smiling as he looks on with an inspecting gaze.
Bobby, check my profile next… pleeze.

Coffeetime, August 29, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Donald Byrd / Byrd in Flight / Ghana / Blue Note / 1.25.60
Gigi Gryce / The Rat Race Blues / The Rat Race Blues / New Jazz / 6.7.60
Dickie Wells & his Orchestra / I Found a New Baby / Disques Swing / Paris 7.12.37
Jack Jackson & his Orchestra / I’ve Found the Right Girl / HMV / London 2.24.33 / vocal = Jack Jackson
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers / Huggin’ Bug / Exclusive / LA 1946
Sylvia Syms / In a Sentimental Mood / In a Sentimental Mood / Movietone / 1965 / with Kenny Burrell g

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

set 2
Ben Webster / Wanted to Do One Together / How Long Has This Been Going On / Columbia / 6.7.62
Bill Holman-Mel Lewis Quintet / Jive for Five / 502 Blues Theme / Andex / Hollywood 6.6.58
Wynton Kelly / Plays Interpretations, New Faces, New Sounds / Moonlight in Vermont / Blue Note / 8.1.51 / with celeste!
Fats Waller & his Rhythm / Two Sleepy People / Bluebird / 10.13.38
Victoria Spivey / Sweet Peas / Decca / Chicago 7.7.36 / with Dot Scott’s Rhythm Dukes
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown / Without Me, Baby / Aladdin / LA 8.21.47
Joya Landis / Moonlight Lover / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1968

set 3
Yusef Lateef / Lost in Sound / Blue Rocky / Charlie Parker Records / 8.14.61
Earl Zindars Sextet / The Soul of Jazz Percussion / November Afternoon / Warwick / spring 1960
McCoy Tyner / Nights of Ballads and Blues / For Heaven's Sake / Impulse! / 4.3.63
Coleman Hawkins / Skippy / Clef / 8.29.49 / Hawkins ts, J.J. Johnson tb, Cecil Payne bs, Al Haig p, John Collins g, Nelson Boyd d
The Smoothies / I Must Have One More Kiss Kiss Kiss / Bluebird / 8.23.39 / with Hal Kemp & his Orchestra
Dixieaires / Long Lean and Lanky / Gotham / 1948
Yves Montand / Dis-Moi Jo / Odéon / Paris 11.05.53

set 4
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins / Summer Evening / Savoy / 3.30.55
Stan Levey / Stan Levey Plays The Composition Of Bill Holman, Bob Cooper And Jimmy Giuffre / West Coasting / Bethlehem / LA 12.6.54
Joe Liggins & his Honeydrippers / Bob Is My Guy / Specialty / Hollywood 8.50 / vocal = Candy Rivers
King Cole Trio / Who Do You Know (That Made You the Angel You Are) / Capitol / 5.20.49 / with Alyce King’s Vokettes; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Bobby Darin / Twist with Bobby Darin / Irresistible You / Atco / 1961 / with Neil Sedaka p
Dixiaires [aka Dixieaires] / God Is the Greatest Creator / Sittin in With / LA 1951

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Baby I’m Yours / Stop That Girl / Atlantic / 1965
Aretha Franklin / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atlantic / 1971

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Cuando Calienta el Playlist

screenshot of Sam Fletcher in 1962 in a black suit with a bow tie smiling as he takes a bow on a stage with a large orchestra behind him
Talented and handsome Sam, we don’t see you nearly enough.

Coffeetime, August 22, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers / At the Café Bohemia, volume 1 / Minor’s Holiday / Blue Note / 11.23.55
Kenny Dorham / Afro-Cuban / Afrodisia / Blue Note / 3.29.55
Luis Russell & his Louisiana Swing Orchestra / Jersey Lightning / Okeh / 9.6.29
Don Redman & his Orchestra / Tea for Two / Brunswick / 6.30.32 / vocal = Harlan Lattimore
Mabel Scott / Don’t Cry Baby / Exclusive / Hollywood c. 12.47
Julie London / All Through the Night / At Long Last Love / Liberty / Hollywood 7.65 / with the Bud Shank Quintet

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

set 2
Red Garland / All Kinds of Weather / Summertime / Prestige / 11.27.58
Lee Morgan / Search for the New Land / Melancholee / Blue Note / 2.15.64
Blind Willie Dunn [Eddie Lang] & Lonnie Johnson / Midnight Call (Blues) / Okeh / 10.9.29
Cleo Brown / Boogie Woogie / Decca / 3.12.35
Frankie Laine / Rockin’ / That’s My Desire / Columbia / 1957 / with Paul Weston & his Orchestra
Dinah Washington / I Diddle / Mercury / 3.17.55
Vikki Carr / Discovery Vol. II / Cuando Calienta el Sol / Liberty / LA 1964

set 3
John Coltrane / Blue Train / Blue Train / Blue Note / 9.15.57
Tal Farlow / Tal Farlow Quartet / Tina / Blue Note / 4.11.54
Mildred Bailey / Sunday, Monday, or Always / V-Disc 105B / 11.4.43 / with Teddy Wilson
The Millionaires [The Blenders] / Kansas Kapers / Davis / LA 4.17.53 
Sam Fletcher / Sings I Believe in You / I Won’t Cry Anymore / Vee Jay / 1964 / with Harry “Sweets” Edison, arranged by Bill Finnegan

set 4
Vince Guaraldi & Bola Sete / From All Sides / Little Fishes / Fantasy / San Fransisco 5.65
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Cabaletto / Contemporary / London 9.21.55
Gerry Wiggins / Relax and Enjoy It! / My Heart Stood Still / Contemporary / LA 1961
Cootie Williams & his Orchestra / I Want to Be Loved / Majestic / early 1947 / vocal = Billy Mathews
King Cole Trio / I Can’t Get Sentimental Over Nothing / Capitol / 5.20.49 / with Alyce King’s Vokettes; NKC p & voc, Irving Ashby g, Joe Comfort b
Judy Holliday / Holliday with Mulligan / It’s Bad for Me / MGM [unissued] / 4.60
Jubalaires / Moses Smote the Water / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Theola Kilgore / This Is My Prayer / Serock / LA 1963
Aretha Franklin / Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You Baby) / Atlantic / 1971



Friday, August 15, 2025

(I’m Left With The) Playlist in My Heart

Screenshot from movie An American in Paris showing George Guétary, in a gray suit and tie looking up with a smile, Oscar Levant, in a light gray suit with his sad face resting on his had, elbow on the table, cigarette in his fingers, and Gene Kelly, in a blue v-neck sweater with red trim on the neckline and light khaki pants and a hat, crossed arms and smiling at Guétary, all in a French café with other customers around and the stout husband and wife owners smiling in the background. There are coffee cups in front of Levant and Kelly and a small glass of wine in front of Guétary.
Oscar, can you order me a coffee?

Coffeetime, August 15, 2025, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Benny Golson / The Modern Touch / Reunion / Riverside / 12.23.57
Charlie Rouse / Takin’ Care of Business / Weirdo / Jazzland / 5.11.60
Benny Goodman & his Orchestra / Nitwit Serenade / Columbia / 8.16.34
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Here Comes the Show Boat / Victor / Biltmore Hotel, Kansas City MO 12.14.27 / vocal = Raymond “Pink” Porter, Myron Schultz, Harold Stokes
Amos Milburn / Operation Blues / Aladdin / LA 12.13.46 / Milburn p, Maxwell Davis ts, rest unknown
Toni Harper / Lonely Lady / He Was a Man / RCA Victor / Hollywood 7.59 / with celeste!

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

set 2
James Clay & David “Fathead” Newman / The Sound of Wide Open Spaces !!!! / What’s New / Riverside / 4.26.60
Joe Wilder / The Pretty Sound / The Boy Next Door / Columbia / 12.1.58
Clifford Brown / I Cover the Waterfront / Vogue / 9.29.53
Jean Goldkette & his Orchestra / Where the Lazy Daisies Grow / Victor / Detroit 3.27.24
Cab Calloway & his Orchestra / Kicking the Gong Around / Brunswick / 10.27.31
Sol K. Bright & his Hollywaiians / A Wee Deoch an’ Doris / Columbia / Hollywood 10.14.34
Marion Hutton & the Modernaires / Johnny Zero / V-Disc #4A (radio broadcast) / summer 1943
Gene Kelly & Georges Guetary / soundtrack to An American in Paris / S’Wonderful / Warner Brothers / Hollywood 7.25.50

set 3
Jimmy Smith / Crazy Baby! / Alfredo / Blue Note / 1.4.60
Arnett Cobb / Smooth Sailing / (I’m Left With The) Blues in My Heart / Prestige / 2.27.59
Bobby Smith & his Orchestra / Bess’s Boogie / Apollo / 12.13.49
Mills Brothers / Rhythm Saved the World / Decca / 6.23.36
Ella Mae Morse / Captain Kidd / Andy Russell radio show / Hollywood 5.5.45 / with Lou Bring Orchestra
Herb Jeffries / Say It Isn't So / Easy to Remember / Bethlehem / LA 1956

set 4
Gerry Mulligan / Jazz Combo from MGM movie I Want to Live! / Frisco Club / United Artists / LA 1958
Trigger Alpert / Trigger Happy! / I Like the Likes of You / Riverside / 11.23.56
King Cole Trio / Laura / Capitol / Hollywood 7.18.52 / NKC p, John Collins g, Charlie Harris b, Bunny Shawker d
King Cole Trio / Laura / MacGregor Transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44 / NKC p & voc, Oscar Moore g, Johnny Miller b
T-Bone Walker / No Worry Blues / Black & White / LA 9.30.46 / with with Jack McVea & All-Stars
Rick Nelson / soundtrack to ABC TV production, On the Flip Side / It Doesn't Matter Anymore / Decca / LA 12.66
Alphabetical Four / Precious Lord, Hold My Hand / Decca / 8.16.38

last soulful song
Tyrone Davis / Was I Just a Fool / Dakar / 1972