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It’s been a rough week, and even I thought an hour of optimism was in order.  Maybe that was the hour we gained with “Fall Behind.” And so, does that mean now it’s back to business as usual?  Tune in next week to find out.

Here’s last night’s music list.

(SONG  / Artist  /  album or CD title)

• I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW  /  Holly Cole Trio  /  “Don’t Smoke In Bed” 
• ON A CLEAR DAY  /  Johnny Hartman  /  “Live In Concert” 
• ON A WONDERFUL DAY LIKE TODAY  /  Veronica Nunn  /  “American Lullaby” 
• PENNIES FROM HEAVEN  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Sinatra – Vegas” 
• MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY  /  Sophie Milman  /  “Make Someone Happy” 
• IT’S DELOVELY  /  Julian Yeo  /  “You and the Night” 
• TEA FOR TWO  /  [mystery vocalist]  /  Drew Barrymore  /  “Grey Gardens Soundtrack”
• TEA FOR TWO  /  Blossom Dearie  /  “Once Upon A Summertime”
• I’M FLYING  /  Connie Evingson  /  “I Have Dreamed”
• NEVER NEVER LAND  /  Carol Sloane  /  “Live at 30^th Street” 
• ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET  /  Tony Bennett  /  “The Best of Tony Bennett”
• WHO WILL BUY?  /  Andrea Wolper  /  “Parallel Lives” 
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  [theme music]  /  (Unreleased Master)

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Last night’s show was a repeat, last year’s Halloween show, because Mother Nature decided to play a major Halloween trick on everyone in the Northeast and I couldn’t get to the station. So you get a pass for not listening if your power was out; but that excuse won’t fly this weekend. (I know you’ll be resourceful.) Below is the playlist from the archive program that played.

Oh by the way, while you’re here, see the words, Thanksgiving Show, near the right-hand corner?  Click on those words and see if you want to suggest some music for my annual Thanksgiving “Music to Be Thankful For” show, coming up on November 26th. Just a thought…

I’ll have news about this Saturday’s show on Wednesday.  Stop back then or stay there, staring at your computer, if you prefer to fixate on a task. 

Song  /  Artist  /  CD or Album

• HAUNTED HEART   /  Susannah McCorkle  /  “Hearts and Minds”
• HALLOWEEN SPOOKS  /  Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross  /  “The Hottest New Group In Jazz”
• GHOST OF YESTERDAY  /  Carmen McRae  /  “Bittersweet”
• I DON’T STAND A GHOST OF A CHANCE  /  Billie Holiday  /  “Torchin’”
• LAURA  /  Jack McDuff  /  “More Most Romantic Jazz”
• LAURA  /  Mark Murphy  /  “Dream”
• WITCHCRAFT  /  (Halloween Mystery Vocalist)  /  Rich Little  /  “A Little Tribute To Old Blue Eyes”
• NATURE BOY  /  Lillie Huddleston  /  “How Long Has This Been Going On”
• IT’S MAGIC  /  James Brown  /  “Soul On Top”
• THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC  /  Nancy Lamott  /  “Come Rain Or Come Shine”
• LUSH LIFE  /  Johnny Hartman/John Coltrane  /  “Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (from the composer’s unreleased recordings)

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An hour of “Mixed Messages,” sugar-coated snarls, ambiguous compliments, and opaquely-veiled threats. Just getting you prepped and ready for your next performance review, IRS audit, or family holiday gathering. You’ll thank me later.  

Check back Wednesday for a hint about next week’s show — PLUS news about an upcoming show that puts you in the driver’s seat. (Hope my insurance covers this.)

Talk to you next week…

• EV’RYTHING I’VE GOT BELONGS TO YOU  /  Kristin Korb  /  “Why Can’t You Behave?”
• I GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU VERY WELL  /  Billie Holiday  /  “Lady In Satin”
• YOU CAN COUNT ON ME TO DO MY PART  /  Mose Allison  /  “Wild Man on The Loose”
• I LOVE THE WAY YOU’RE BREAKING MY HEART  /  Delicatessen  /  “Jazz + Bossa
• I’LL ONLY MISS HER WHEN I THINK OF HER  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “My Kind Of Broadway”
• LOVESICK  /  Jackie and Roy  /  “Lovesick”
• THE GENTLEMAN IS A DOPE  /  Sarah Vaughan  /  “Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan”
• I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN  /  [mystery vocalist]  /  Antonia Bennett  /  “Natural”
• I WISH I WERE IN LOVE AGAIN  /  Tony Bennett  /  “Stage & Screen Hits”
• IT’S ALL RIGHT WITH ME  /  The Swingle Singers  /  “Live In New York ‘82”
• LIVING WITHOUT YOU  /  Bill Henderson  /  “Live At The Vic”
• I LOVE YOU BUT I DON’T LIKE YOU  /  Hetty Kate and The Irwell Street Band  /  “11:60 PM”
• THIS CAN’T BE LOVE  /  Ian Shaw  /  “A Night At Ronnie Scott’s”
• YOU CAN HAVE HIM  /  Nina Simone  /  “Nina At Town Hall”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  [theme music]  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

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Saturday’s show was called because of illness, so we played a program from last Spring.  It was interesting listening to the program from home rather than actually doing it in the studio and you’d think that, perhaps, the experience would elicit more empathy for you on my part.  But it didn’t.  

Here is the playlist from last night.

Talk to you next week.  

song/artist/CD or album

• RUSSIAN LULLABY /  Tony Bennett  /  “Bennett/Berlin”
• CLOSE YOUR EYES  /  Susie Meissner  /  “I’m Confessin’”
• SWEET SLUMBER  /  Jimmy Witherspoon/Jack McDuff  /  “The Blues Is Now”
• LULLABY OF THE LEAVES  /  Connie Evingson  /  “Gypsy In My Soul”
•  ST JUDY’S COMET  /  Paul Simon  /  “There Goes Rhymin’ Simon”
• LULLABY IN RHYTHM  /  Francien van Tuinen  “Cool Voice”
• HIT THE ROAD TO DREAMLAND  /  mystery vocalist  /  Tony Perkins  /  “On A Rainy Afternoon”
• SLEEP WARM  /  Kenny Rankin  /  “Sleep Warm”
• TODOS OS DIAS  /  Delicatessen  /  “Jazz + Bossa
• IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS   /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Sinatra’s Sinatra”
• GOODNITE  /  Melody Gardot  /  “Worrisome Heart”
• WONDERFUL BABY  /  Don McClean
• DREAM  /  Joanie Sommers  /  “Dream”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (theme)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

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This week we played The Desert Island game — no, not the one where you try to avoid a tax audit, but the one where you try to decide which version of a song to take to a desert island. There are two versions of the same songs on the playlist this week and I’d be curious to know if you played the game and which version you chose. Leave a comment.  

• THEM THERE EYES  /  Peggy Lee  /  “Miss Peggy Lee”
• THEM THERE EYES  /  Melissa Stylianou  /  “Sliding Down”
• I REMEMBER YOU  /  Nat Cole  /  “Great Gentlemen of Song”
• I REMEMBER YOU  /  Lissy Walker  /  “Life Is Sweet”
• OLD BLACK MAGIC  /  [Mystery vocalist]  /  Kevin Spacey  /  “Midnight In The Garden of Good & Evil”
• OLD BLACK MAGIC  /  Mary Stallings  /  “Dream”
• YOU, YOU’RE DRIVING ME CRAZY  /  Emilie-Claire Barlow  /  “Haven’t We Met?”
•  YOU, YOU’RE DRIVING ME CRAZY (In German)  /  Ella Fitzgerald  /  “Jukebox Ella”
•  AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’  /  Dinah Washington  /  “The Fats Waller Songbook”
• AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’  /  Kristin Korb  /  “In The Meantime”
• ALL THE WAY   /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Sinatra’s Sinatra”
•  ALL THE WAY  /  Sachal Vasandani  /  “Hi-Fly”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (theme)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Ureleased Master)

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Here is the music playlist for the third show of the season.  2011 — hard to believe the century is going by so quickly.

1. WALKIN  /  Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross  /  “The Hottest New Group In Jazz”
2. LIL DARLIN  /  Real Group  /  “Live”
3. NO MORE BLUES  /  Susannah McCorkle  /  “The People That You Never Get To Love”
4. CENTERPIECE  /  Curtis Stigers  /  “Baby Plays Around”
5. IT’S SAND MAN  /  Jon, Aria, Michelle Hendricks  /  “Boppin’ At The Blue Note”
6. MOANIN  /  Diane Marino  /  “On The Street Where You Live”
7. CLOUDBURST  /  mystery vocalist  /  Barry Manilow  /  “Barry Manilow”
8. THE DUCK  /  Emilie-Claire Barlow  /  “The Very Thought of You”
9. A NIGHT IN TUNISIA  /  Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross  /  “The Hottest New Group In Jazz”
10. SONG FOR MY FATHER  /  Lillie Huddleston  /  “How Long Has This Been Going On/?”
11. ONE MINT JULEP  /  Jon Hendricks/Sachal Vasandani  /  “Hi-Fly”
12. PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

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