Archive | January, 2014

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (2.1.14)

29 Jan

HINT: 

A great song is the perfect marriage of words and music. Great jazz is the perfect marriage of freedom and control. A great arrangement is the perfect marriage of singer and orchestra. Can you think of another kind of perfect marriage in music? I can.

 Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday   10:00 PM   WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

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PLAYLIST FOR “DRINKING AGAIN” (1.25.14)

25 Jan

For those of you who can’t get through an hour of  me without a drink or two, this show’s for you! 

 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  Album or CD Title

 

 

  • THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES    /  Anita O’Day  /  “Anita O’Day”
  • SCOTCH AND SODA  /  The Kingston Trio  /  “The Kingston Trio Greatest Hits”
  • THE WHIFFENPOOF SONG  /  Claire Hogan  /  “Boozers And Losers”
  • ONE FOR MY BABY  /  Tony Bennett  /  “Live At The Sahara”
  • DRINKING AGAIN  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Nothing But The Best”
  • VODKA  /  Victoria Hart  /  “The Lost Gershwin”
  • CHAMPAGNE  /  Kat Edmonson  /  “Way Down Low”
  • THE NIGHT THEY INVENTED CHAMPAGNE  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Seth MacFarlane  /  “Music Is Better Than Words”
  • ME AND MY GIN  /  Dinah Washington  /  “Ultra Lounge: Hey, Bartender”
  • I’M ALWAYS DRUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO  /  Cannonball Adderley Quintet w/Ernie Andrews  /  “Live Session”
  • MY MELANCHOLY BABY  /  Delicatessen  /  “My Baby Just Cares For Me”
  • COCKTAILS FOR TWO  /  The Real Group  /  (Live Performance)
  • MAKE IT ANOTHER OLD FASHIONED, PLEASE  /  Julie London  /  “Ultra Lounge: Hey, Bartender”
  • LADIES WHO LUNCH  /  Elaine Stritch  /  “Company”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

 

 

 

 

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (1.25.14)

22 Jan

HINT: 

Drink to me only with thine ears…but you might need a glass, too. 

 

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM   WMNR Fine Arts Radio and wmnr.org

 

Looking for the meaning of life? Check out the Turntable For One podcasts. It’s something to do while you’re in your fantasy world. 

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PLAYLIST FOR “WAKE-UP CALLS” (1.18.14) (AN ARCHIVE SHOW)

20 Jan

I couldn’t make it into the station tonight, but, lucky you, the Archive gods picked the show “Wake-Up Calls” instead of my first choice,  “A Musical Tribute To Incisions That Don’t Heal.” Maybe next time. 

I should be back live this Saturday; check back on Wednesday for a hint about the musical theme.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD or Album Title

  • THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE / Sue Raney /“Happiness Is A Warm Sue Raney”
  • DAYBREAK / Tony Bennett / “Here’s To The Ladies”
  • CHELSEA MORNING / Kate McGarry / “Mercy Street”
  • OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING / Jacob Collier /
  • WAKE UP AND LIVE / Catherine Russell / “Strictly Romancin”
  • DID WE HAVE ANY FUN / Blue Harlem / “I Dare You!”
  • WHEN THE RED RED ROBBIN COMES BOB-BOB-BOBBING ALONG / Louis Armstrong / “Ambassador Satch”
  • I LIKE THE SUNRISE / Sutton Foster/ “An Evening With Sutton Foster”
  • COFFEE TIME / Natalie Cole / “Still Unforgettable”
  • GOOD MORNING BLUES / (Mystery Vocalist) / Andy Griffith /“Andy Griffith Shouts The Blues”
  • BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING TRAM / Stacey Kent /“Dreamer in Concert”
  • SOFTLY AS IN A MORNING SUNRISE / Frank Sinatra Jr. / “That Face”
  • GOOD MORNING COWBOY / Cyrille Aimee/Diego Figueiredo /“Smile”
  • GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE / Joe Williams / “Me And The Blues”
  • MORNING GLORY MORNING / Lily And Maria / “Lily And Maria”
  • PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine /(Unreleased Master)

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (1.18.14)

14 Jan

Saturday night’s show will be a program from the vast and qualitatively unfathomable Turntable For One archives. The results are known only to the accounting firm of Ernst and Young, but those number crunchers won’t return any of my calls.  So your guess is as good as mine.  

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM   WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

By the way, a new podcast has been posted on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Better get there before the crowd turns ugly.

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

PLAYLIST FOR “NAME DROPPING” (AN ARCHIVE SHOW FROM MARCH, 2013)

12 Jan

Had to reach into the archives again for last night’s show. Fortunately it’s radio so you couldn’t see how much younger I looked…last year.  Here’s the playlist.

 

 SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • I LOVE TO LOVE  /  Nina Simone  /  “Forbidden Fruit”
  • HOW ABOUT YOU?  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Songs For Swingin’ Lovers”
  • ONE NIGHT WITH FRANK  /  Erin Boheme  /  What Love Is”
  • TONY BENNETT  /  Kevin Mahogany  /  “Old, New, Borrowed, & The Blues”
  • MY BABY JUST CARES FOR ME  /  Delicatessen  /  “My Baby Just Cares For Me”
  • ISN’T IT A PITY?  /  Mel Torme  /  “At Marty’s”
  • BEYOND COMPARE  /  Courtnay Day  /  “State Of Bliss”
  • MACK THE KNIFE  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Clay Aiken  /  “Tried And True”
  • ROBERT FROST  /  Karrin Allyson  /  “Collage”
  • MISS YOU MISTER MERCER  /  Mark Murphy  /  “Songbook”
  • MY NEW CELEBRITY IS YOU  /  Blossom Dearie  /  “My New Celebrity Is You”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (1.11.14)

8 Jan

HINT:

Every great song is a marriage between words and music; every great recording is a marriage between artist and arranger. But what about performances which represent yet another kind of marriage? I’ve got an hour of those planned for Saturday!

 

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM   WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

Want to hear what the marriage of “hit and miss” sounds like? Check out the Turntable For One podcast page on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. 

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

PLAYLIST FOR “DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO” RULES TO LIVE BY IN 2014 (1.4.14)

4 Jan

Most shows and hosts try give good advice, especially at this time of year. The best shows and hosts even try to model the behavior and rules they suggest. I do things differently and I think it’s a better system, one that’s much easier on me and, probably, just as effective (if not more) for you. Here are the songs that best illustrate things I won’t be doing in the new year, but you should.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

  • IN A MELLOW TONE / Sarah Vaughan / “Duke Ellington Songbook Volume 1”
  • RELAX / Cormac Kenevey / “The Art Of Dreaming”
  • AS TIME GOES BY / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella in Budapest, Hungary
  • RICH INTERIOR LIFE / Ben Sidran / “Don’t Cry For No Hipster”
  • SAMBA SARAVAH / Diana Panton / “To Brazil With Love”
  • KEEP SMILING AT TROUBLE / Tony Bennett / “Live At The Sahara-Las Vegas 1964”
  • LITTLE BLUE MAN / Chaise Lounge / “Dot Dot Dot
  • EV’RYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG / Frank Sinatra / “My Kind Of Broadway”
  • COCKEYED OPTIMIST / (Mystery Vocalist) / Nancy Sinatra / “Shifting Gears”
  • SHALL WE DANCE / Christine Ebersol / “Strings Attached”
  • GOOGLEABLE / Ori Dagan / “More Than Three”
  • MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY / Sophie Milman / “Make Someone Happy”
  • LISTEN HERE / Dave Frishberg / “Classics”
  • PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine / “(Unreleased Master)

HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (1.4.14)

1 Jan

Happy New Year, all!

Well, there’s another snow storm coming, which, this time, they’ve named Winter Storm Hercules. Don’t they get it that if they named these storms something like Herb or Bev, the storms would develop a poor self-image, suffer from low self-esteem, and would never achieve their full potential? Okay, maybe that didn’t work out so well for me, but it could produce a weakened snow storm which would mean I could actually get to the radio station. 

Whether the show is live or pre-recorded, it will be a new show with a new musical theme especially selected for the start of the new year. 

HINT:

Know the secrets of surviving 2014? I do.

 

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM   WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

Really want to get 2014 off to a great start? Check out the Turntable For One podcast page:  

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one