PLAYLIST – SONGS WRITTEN BY SINGERS

16 Oct

Nice to be back live. This week, the Great American Songbook was a banned book, but we still heard some great songs, all written by the singers themselves.


  • I LOVE BEING HERE WITH YOU / Peggy Lee / “Peggy Lee At Basin Street East”
  • HAVEN’T WE MET? / Kenny Rankin / “Silver Morning”
  • GOD BLESS THE CHILD / Billie Holiday / “The Diva Series: Billie Holiday”
  • BABE’S BLUES / Sachal Vansandani / “Hi-Fly”
  • WAIT AND SEE / The Real Group / “Unreal”
  • BORN TO BE BLUE / Mel Torme / “My Kind Of Music”
  • TIGHT / Betty Carter / “The Audience With Betty Carter”
  • CHANGE / [mystery vocalist] / Bobby Darin / “Bobby Darin born Robert Walden Cassotto”
  • YOU KNOW YOU’RE IN LOVE / Veronica Nunn / “American Lullabye”
  • EVERY NIGHT / Joe Williams / “Me and The Blues”
  • THEY OUGHTA WRITE A SONG / Halie Loren / “They Ought To Write A Song”
  • TWENTYSOMETHING / Jamie Cullum / “Twentysomething”
  • SHINY STOCKINGS / Ella Fitzgerald / “Count Basie & Ella Fitzgerald”
  • PARIS MISMATCH / (theme) Cody Owen Stine / (Unreleased Master)

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HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S SHOW (10.15.11)

12 Oct

Last week’s show was a repeat from the archives, but Turntable For One will be live again this week.  The theme?   The same one I dreamed about last Wednesday before I got sick.  (Check out the blog post for Oct.  5.)

I must be on the mend because I’ve started having those dreams again.

In the latest one I’m walking down a gloomy and narrow alleyway, pushing a rusty, old shopping cart. (Note to self: next time you’re sick, take a more dream-friendly cold medicine with happier images.)

I pass a signpost that reads, “Tin Pan Alley,” so I eagerly push my cart into the nearest storefront, one with an awning that says, “The Gershwin Brothers.” 

“George, Ira, help me,” I say to the two men behind the counter. “I need songs for Saturday night.”

“Songs??” says George, looking confused. “We don’t sell songs.”

“Didn’t you see the street sign?” says Ira. “We sell tin pans.”

“Looks like you’re out of luck this week,” says George, offering me a shiny skillet.

Am I out of luck? Tune in Saturday night at 10:00 to find out. Live radio on WMNR, Fine Arts Radio, and wmnr.org

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PLAYLIST — LULLABIES

9 Oct

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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Due to circumstances beyond my control…

8 Oct

Turntable For One will be a re-run tonight, a show from last Spring.  Sorry to say,  this cold I’m fighting is going to win this round.

However, look on the bright side: this will give you another week to puzzle over this week’s hint; or another week for me to have some different dreams.

Cough at you next week…

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HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME

5 Oct

I had a bad dream the other night.

I dreamed I was in the WMNR Music Library of The Great American Songbook. I was standing in the “Songs No One Should Ever Sing” aisle, which was one aisle over from “Singers with Undeserved Reputations” (you can tell I’m dreaming because the music is arranged by my opinions, not by alphabet), when the Fine Arts Radio music librarian (played by Billie Burke, of course) appeared in front of me. In fact she blocked my way.

“You can’t use any of this music,” she insisted.

“Why not?” I asked, becoming more exercised. (But isn’t that what my doctor has been advising me to do?)

“Your poetic license has expired,” she said. “You can’t use any of this music for your program.”

“But if I can’t use any of the Great American Songbook, what am I going to play for an hour?” I asked.

Find out how the dream ended this Saturday night at 10:00 PM. Live radio on WMNR-FM, wmnr.org

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PLAYLIST – Cheaters

2 Oct

Suspicion, anger, recriminations — and that’s just the phone calls to the station last night. The music was even stronger. Thanks for listening. Leave a comment or a question by clicking on “comment.” Talk to you next week.

song / artist / CD or album title

  • WHEN IN ROME / Tony Bennett/Bill Evans / “The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album”
  • ALWAYS TRUE TO YOU IN MY FASHION / Peggy Lee/George Shearing / “Beauty & The Beat”
  • GUESS WHO I SAW TODAY / Nancy Wilson / “The Nancy Wilson Show”
  • I WAS TELLING HER ABOUT YOU / Freddie Cole / “Talk To Me”
  • DON’TCHA GO AWAY MAD / Rosemary Clooney & The Hi-Los / “Ring Around Rosie”
  • DO NOTHIN TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME / Bobby Darin / “Winners”
  • THE OTHER WOMAN / Nina Simone / “Nina at Town Hall”
  • CRY ME A RIVER / [mystery vocalist] / Merle Haggard / “Unforgettable Merle Haggard”
  • WHY CAN’T YOU BEHAVE? / Diahann Carroll/Andre Previn / “The Magic Of Diahann Carroll”
  • LATELY / Stevie Wonder / “Hotter Than July”
  • DON’T EXPLAIN / Billie Holiday / “The Essential Billie Holiday Carnegie Hall Concert”
  • DINNER FOR ONE, PLEASE, JAMES / Joe Williams / “Ballad and Blues Master”
  • FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT / Leonard Cohen / “The Best Of Leonard Cohen”
  • PARIS MISMATCH / (theme) / Cody Owen Stine / (Unreleased Master)

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HINT FOR SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME

28 Sep

What do Mark Sanford, Charles VanDoren, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emma Bovary, Tiger Woods, Leann Rimes, Hester Prynne, Mark McGuire, and Bernie Madoff have in common — besides the fact that not one of them will be singing on Turntable For One this week? Tune in Saturday night at 10:00 to find out. Live radio on WMNR-FM, wmnr.org

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PLAYLIST – The Desert Island Game

25 Sep

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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HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME

21 Sep

What you’ll need for this week’s Turntable For One:

  • wide-brimmed hat
  • sunglasses
  • discerning ears (1 pair at least)
  • a magnetic compass
  • a moral compass (never leave home without one)
  • 1 vial potassium permanganate  (Or should that be vile??)
  • 1 signal mirror
  • 1 tea bag
  • 3 Band-Aids
  • Photo of the kids
  • MRE’s
  • LOL’s (although I hope to provide you with these)
All of these survival preparations to listen to a radio show?  I’ll explain Saturday night at 10:00 on WMNR-FM and wmnr.org

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PLAYLIST – Happy Birthday, Jon Hendricks!

18 Sep

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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