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PLAYLIST FOR “MUSIC THAT CHANGED MY LIFE” (1.2.16)

2 Jan

Happy New Year and welcome to the new, two-hour version of Turntable For One. More music, more singers, and more chances for you to win big prizes – ok, that last one’s a lie. I got carried away. But I hope you’ll tune in every Saturday night, starting now at 9:00 PM (E.S.T.).

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • B-19  /  Harry James  /  “Record Sessions 1939-42”
  • ARTISTRY IN RHYTHM  /  Stan Kenton  /  “Stompin’ At Newport
  • TROUBLE IN MIND  /  Nina Simone  /  “Nina Simone At Newport”
  • DOWN HERE ON THE GROUND  /  Mark Murphy W/ The Metropole Orchestra  /  “The Dream”
  • BLEE BLOP BLUES  /  Count Basie  /  “Count Basie At Newport”
  • EV’RY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE  /  Ray Charles and Betty Carter  /  “Ray Charles and Betty Carter” 
  • DJANGO  /  Michel Legrand  /  “Legrand Jazz”
  • DAT DERE  /  Oscar Brown Jr.  /  “Sin & Soul…and Then Some”
  • SUNDAY IN NEW YORK  /  Shirley Horn  /  “Travelin’ Light”
  • THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA  /  Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto  /  “Getz/Gilberto”
  • I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW  /  Nat King Cole  /  “After Midnight”
  • WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE  /  The Real Group  /  “Unreal”
  • FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE  /  Spike Jones  /  Spike Jones Goes Crazy”
  • MY FUNNY VALENTINE  /  Michel LeGrand  /  “At Shelly’s Manne Hole”
  • ALL OF YOU  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Private Recording)
  • DAVY THE FAT BOY  /  Randy Newman  /  “Randy Newman/Live”
  • SIMON SMITH AND THE AMAZING DANCING BEAR  /  Mark Jennett  /  “Everybody Says Don’t”
  • MY FOOLISH HEART  /  Bill Evans  /  “The Complete Riverside Recordings”
  • WHEN I’M GONE  /  Phil Ochs  /  “At Carnegie Hall”
  • WHEN I FALL IN LOVE  /  Keith Jarrett  /  “At The Blue Note”
  • MOVE ON  /  Mandy Patinkin & Bernadette Peters  /  “Sunday In The Park With George”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Theme Music)

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PLAYLIST FOR “CHRISTMAS PARTY 2015” (12.19.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

19 Dec

Time for the annual Turntable For One Christmas Party. So, Merry Christmas to all, and to all – can’t we all do a lot better next year for crying out loud? 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • MY FAVORITE THINGS  /  Tony Bennett  /  “Snowfall”
  • JOY TO THE WORLD  /  Joey DeFrancesco  /  “Home For The Holidays”
  • THE CHRISTMAS SONG  /  Carmen McCrae w/ Shirley Horn Trio  /  “Jingle Bell Jam”
  • THE THEORY SONG  /  David Swenson
  • LET IT SNOW  /  New York Voices  /  “Let It Snow”
  • MR. SANTA  /  Chaise Lounge  /  “A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas”
  • SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN  /  Erroll Garner  /  (Previously Unreleased Live Performance)
  • WINTER WONDERLAND  /  Kenny Rankin  /  A Christmas Album”
  • LITTLE JACK FROST GET LOST  /  (Mystery Vocalists)  /  Seth MacFarlane & Norah Jones  /  “Holiday For Swing”
  • IT’S THE HOLIDAY SEASON  /  Count Basie w/ Johnny Mathis  /  “A Very Swingin’ Basie Christmas”
  • THE SECRET OF CHRISTMAS  /  Ella Fitzgerald  /  “Have Yourself A Jazzy Little Christmas”
  • HE’S GONNA TAKE AWAY OUR CHRISTMAS  /  Robert Goulet  /  “Wonderful World Of Christmas”
  • FROSTY THE SNOWMAN  /  Accent
  • STILLA NATT  /  The Real Group  /  “Julen Er Her”
  • ANGEL’S LULLABY  /  Emilie-Claire Barlow  /  “Winter Wonderland”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

Still looking for that perfect holiday gift? Try a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. It’ll pass the time while you’re thinking abut what to get for that perfect holiday gift.

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PLAYLIST FOR “6TH ANNUAL MUSIC TO BE THANKFUL FOR SHOW” (11.28.15)

30 Nov

This is always a special show for me because I invite a number of my broadcasting colleagues at the radio station to play music for which they’ve been thankful during the past year. I think it makes all of us at the station even more thankful for the opportunity to play music we love for our audiences. (For more info about the broadcasters, go to wmnr.org) And because this show always comes around my birthday, I’m also joined every year in the studio and on the air by the people I am most thankful for – my wife and my son.  

(Broadcaster Or Guest’s Name)  /  SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • (Fred Velardi)  /  HE WAS TOO GOOD TO ME  /  Natalie Cole  /  “Stardust”
  • (Dan Lenore)  /  I GOT A ROBE, YOU GOT A ROBE  /  Charlie Haden & Hank Jones  /  “Steal Away”
  • (Rich Moran)  /  I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN  /  Frank Sinatra & Count Basie  /  “Sinatra At The Sands”
  • (Will Duchon)  /  YOU MY LOVE  /  Bill Henderson & Charlie Haden  / “The Art Of The Song”
  • (Megan Stine)  /  THANK GOD I’M ME  /  Mike Daley  /  Demo from “The Prisoner of Vegas”
  • (Gary Gerrard)  /  YOU GO TO MY HEAD  /  Mary Stallings  /  “Manhattan Moods”
  • (H. William Stine)  /  Alabamy Bound  /  Darlene & Jonathan Edwards  /  “Sing Along With Dearlen & Jonathan Edwards”
  • (Dominique Johnson)  /  I WISHED ON THE MOON  /  Lara Downes  /  “A Billie Holiday Songbook”
  • (Garrett Stack)  /  HIGHER  /  Lea Salonga  /  “Allegiance”
  • (Cindy Carlson)  /  ‘S WONDERFUL  /  The Cast  /  “An American In Paris”
  • (Cody Owen Stine)  /  DEDICATED TO YOU  /  Kurt Elling  /  “Dedicated To You”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

Want to know what else you’ll be thankful for? Listening to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. It’s the reason you have ears…unless you don’t have ears in which case I’m sorry I brought the whole thing up. Click the link below to see what you’re missing. 

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PLAYLIST FOR “SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN” (10.17.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

17 Oct

What’s the difference between a Dream and a Plan? Well, I’ve been having a lot of bad dreams lately, a lot of bad plans, too. Dreams aren’t real and they don’t come true…of course, most of my plans don’t come true, either. You know, maybe there’s no difference at all. Both of them end in disappointment and heartache – but not when singers like the ones I played are singing about plans they’re making!

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • TEA FOR TWO  /  Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie  /  “Ella & Basie”
  • ALL MY TOMORROWS  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “The Complete Capitol Singles”
  • NEVER WILL I MARRY  /  Nancy Wilson And Cannonball Adderley  /  “Nancy Wilson And Cannonball Adderley”
  • LET’S EAT HOME  /  Rosemary Clooney  /  “Still On The Road”
  • LET’S TAKE A WALK AROUND THE BLOCK  /  Mel Torme  /  “Live At Marty’s”
  • SOMEDAY  /  Chantal Chamberland  /  “Dripping Indigo”
  • MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY  /  Jamie Cullum  /  “Interlude”
  • I’M GOING TO KISS THAT BOY  /  Chaise Lounge  /  “Second Hand Smoke”
  • I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO CHANGE MY PLANS  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /Jonathan Schwartz  /  “Alone Together”
  • WHEN I FALL IN LOVE  /  The Real Group  /  “Live In Stockholm”
  • THE FOLKS WHO LIVE ON THE HILL  /  Tony Bennett  /  “Astoria: Portrait of The Artist”
  • DEVIL MAY CARE  /  Roberta Donnay  /  “What’s Your Story?”
  • RICH INTERIOR LIFE  /  Ben Sidran  /  “Don’t Cry for No Hipster”
  • TWO FOR THE ROAD  /  Tierney Sutton  /  “I’m With The Band”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

Kicking yourself because you didn’t listen to this week’s show? Two things: Be sure to kick yourself where it won’t show when you go to work; or, better yet, listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Click the link below:

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PLAYLIST FOR “SONG & DANCE” (9.12.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

12 Sep

Just in case anyone couldn’t wait for the next Republican Presidential debate to get their quota of Song & Dance, I presented an all-singing, some-dancing hour of great songs and singers. 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • WITHOUT A SONG  /  Joe Williams  /  “Live At Newport ‘64”
  • STOMPIN’ AT THE SAVOY  /  Nina Simone  /  “The Amazing Nina Simone”
  • I WON’T DANCE  /  Frank Sinatra & Count Basie  /  “Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First”
  • POLKA DOTS AND MOONBEAMS  /  Sarah Vaughan  /  “Sassy Swings The Tivoli”
  • THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU’RE DANCING  /  Kurt Elling  /  “This Time It’s Love”
  • DIG IT  /  Nellie McKay  /  “Normal As Blueberry Pie”
  • THE NIGHT THE PUGILIST LEARNED HOW TO DANCE  /  Sting  /  “The Last Ship”
  • BY MYSELF  /  (Mystery Dancer)  Sammy Davis Jr.  /  “Live From Australia”
  • MONICAS VALS  /  The Real Group  /  “Varför Får Man Inte Bara Vara Som Man Är?
  • I CAN’T BE BOTHERED NOW  /  Nicole Henry  /  “The Very Thought Of You”
  • SONGS FOR SWINGING LOVERS  /  Denzal Sinclaire  /  “Just Passing Through”
  • WHEN HE MAKES MUSIC  /  Nancy Wilson  /  “How Glad I Am”
  • I HOPE YOU DANCE  /  Deborah Lippmann & Savion Glover  /  “Nightingale”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

This may sound like the same old song and dance, but you could be listening to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange instead of doing something constructive with your life. Many people have. Click the link below:

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PLAYLIST FOR “NEW BEGINNINGS” (5.2.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

2 May

What does New Beginnings mean to you? All this week on WMNR Fine Arts Radio, broadcasters will be answering that question musically. Here are my answers with a lot of help from some wonderful singers. 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

 

  • THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG  /  Lilly Thornton  /  “Invitation” 
  • ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET  /  Tony Bennett  /  “Tony Makes It Happen”
  • LET’S BEGIN  /  Jackie & Roy  /  “The Complete Jerome Kern Songbooks”   
  • I’M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT  /  Al Jarreau  /  “Accentuate The Positive” 
  • BY MYSELF  /  Nancy Wilson  /  “The Great American Songbook”  
  • I JUST WANT ALL OF MY STUFF  /  Chaise Lounge /  “Dot-Dot-Dot”  
  •  HAVEN’T WE MET  /  Kenny Rankin  /  “Bottom Line Archive Series”
  • EIGHT, NINE, AND TEN  /  Hetty Kate & Gordon Webster  /  “Gordon Webster Meets Hetty Kate”
  • NEW SUN IN THE SKY  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Jonathan Schwartz  /  “Jonathan Schwartz Sings Arthur Schwartz”
  • HERE I GO AGAIN  /  Marlene Ver Planck  /  “I Like To Sing”  
  • THE BEST IS YET TO COME  /  Frank Sinatra & Count Basie  /  “It Might As Well Be Swing” 
  • DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD  /  Lillie Kae  /  “I’m Glad There Is You”  
  • HURRY, IT’S LOVELY UP HERE  /  Mark Jennett  /  “Everybody Says Don’t”
  • I LIKE THE SUNRISE  /  Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington  /  “Ella At Duke’s Place”  
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

Don’t forget: Mother’s Day is coming. You could binge-listen to the Turntable For One podcasts on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Can you think of a better way to spend this special day with that special Mom? You can? Fine. Would you at least consider it? Put it on a list, okay? Don’t worry – I’ll remind you. Just click the link below. 

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PLAYLIST FOR “THE OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY” (12.13.14)

13 Dec

Because I was the absolute only one at this Office Christmas Party, there was no sucking up to the boss, no meaningless chit-chat with people you wouldn’t save if they were drowning, and yet, unexplainably, a fight still broke out.

Be sure to scroll down and cast your vote for the Ugliest Sweater. I’ll reveal (or is that revile?) the winner on next week’s show.  

 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  Album or CD Title

  • MY FAVORITE THINGS  /  Tony Bennett  /  “Snowfall”
  • LET IT SNOW  /  Helen Merrill  /  “Christmas Song Book
  • SNOWFALL/WINTER WEATHER  /  Connie Evingson  /  “The Secret Of Christmas”                      
  • WHITE CHRISTMAS  /  Kenny Rankin  /  “A Christmas Album”
  • HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS  /  Renee Fleming/Gregory Porter  /  “Christmas In New York”      
  • SNOW DAY  /  Chaise Lounge  /  “A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas”
  • CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE  /  Dianne Reeves  /  “Christmas Time Is Here”
  • MELE KALIKIMAKA  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Seth MacFarlane  /  “Holiday For Swing”
  • A CHILD IS BORN  /  The Real Group  /  “Unreal”
  • JINGLE BELLS  /  Count Basie  /  “A Jazz Christmas”
  • JINGLE BELLS  /  Duke Ellington  /  “Jingle Bell Jam”
  • IT’S LOVE, IT’S CHRISTMAS  /  Karrin Allyson  /  “Yuletide Hideaway”
  • I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS  /  Nancy LaMott  /  “Just In Time For Christmas”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (THEME MUSIC)  /  Cody Owen Stine

The party doesn’t really have to stop here. You can listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange while you fantasize about all the things you should and should not have said at your own office party. Click the link below. 

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PLAYLIST FOR “CAMPAIGN NIGHT 2014” (11.1.14)

2 Nov

If we could put this election season to music, what would it sound like? My name is H. William Stine, and I approve this playlist.

CAMPAIGN NIGHT 2014

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

 

  • I LOVE BEING HERE WITH YOU  /  Peggy Lee  /  “Basin Street East Proudly Presents Peggy Lee” 
  • IT’S A SIN TO TELL A LIE  /  Tony Bennett  /  “When Lights Are Low”   
  • LITTLE WHITE LIES  /  Ella Fitzgerald  /  “Ella Swings Lightly”   
  • CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE  /  Jack Jones  /  “Love Ballad”   
  • THE LIES OF HANDSOME MEN  /  Marlene Ver Planck  /  “A Quiet Storm”
  • BLIZZARD OF LIES  /  Dave Frishberg  /  “Classics”     
  • I’M OLD FASHIONED  /  Shirley Horn  /  “A Lazy Afternoon”  
  • I REALLY DON’T WANT TO KNOW  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  John Travolta  /  “A Love Song For Bobby Long”
  • I DON’T WORRY ABOUT A THING  /  Mose Allison  /  “Mose in Your Ear”   
  • I’VE GOT NO STRINGS  /  Roz Corral  /  “Telling Tales”     
  • I BELIEVE IN YOU  /  Frank Sinatra & Count Basie  /  “It Might As Well Be Swing”  
  • WE THE PEOPLE  /  Catherine Russell  /  “Inside This Heart Of Mine”   
  • THE PARTY’S OVER  /  Nat King Cole  /  “The Billy May Sessions” 
  • THE PARTY’S OVER  /  Sally Mayes  /  “Our Private World”   
  • HONESTY  /  Berlin Voices  /  “States Of Mind”               
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

If next Saturday seems like a long time to wait for the next live Turntable For One, there’s an easy solution that’s only a click away: Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. 

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PLAYLIST FOR “COPYCATS” (10.11.14)

13 Oct

I hope my hint this week was sufficiently confusing…“I’ll play every song at least twice but I won’t play any song more than once.” All I meant was I’ll play two different songs with the same song title. I was surprised at how many there are, and how many I didn’t know before last week. How about you?

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title 

 

  • THE LOOK OF LOVE  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Sinatra With Love
  • THE LOOK OF LOVE  /  Shirley Horn  /  “The Main Ingredient”
  • SHALL WE DANCE   (1937)  /  Stacey Kent  /  “Let Yourself Go”
  • SHALL WE DANCE   (1951)  /  Norma Winstone  /  “Manhattan In The Rain”
  • WELCOME TO THE CLUB  /  Nat Cole  /  “Big Band Cole”
  • WELCOME TO THE CLUB  /  Mel Torme  /  “My Kind Of Music”
  • EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES  /  Count Basie Orchestra  /  “Broadway Basie’s Way”
  • EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Keira Knightley  /  “Begin Again” Soundtrack
  • ROUND MIDNIGHT   /  Carmen McRae  /  “Carmen Sings Monk”
  • NO REGRETS (1950) /  Edith Piaf  /  “The Very Best Of Edith Piaf”
  • NO REGRETS (1936)  /  Phoebe Snow  /  “Second Childhood”
  • FOR ALL WE KNOW (1970)  /  Karen Carpenter  /  “The Singles – 1969-1981”
  • FOR ALL WE KNOW   (1934)  /  Donny Hathaway  /  “A Donny Hathaway Collection”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

I’ll be back on Saturday, but you don’t have to waitYou can listen to a Turntable For One podcast whenever you feel like it. Feel like it now? Click the link!

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PLAYLIST FOR “TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS?” (9.27.14)

28 Sep

I know that you depend on Turntable For One to come up with easy answers to hard questions, the questions no one is asking (probably for lack of interest). And I don’t think the show has ever failed you, at least, not on that score. So last night, I challenged the old saw, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Of course, the easy way to prove or disprove this would have been to bring an old dog into the studio and spend my hour of air time trying to teach it a new trick. However I scoff at the easy way, I eschew the conventional, and, so, instead, I played an hour of songs or singers related to the topic. The results may not have been conclusive, but they sure were swinging. 

 

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

 

  • THERE’LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE  /  Tony Bennett  /  “That San Francisco Sun”
  • WHY TRY TO CHANGE ME NOW  /  Nancy Wilson  /  “Welcome To My Love”
  • THE NIGHT THE PUGILIST LEARNED TO DANCE  /  Sting  /  “The Last Ship”
  • ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET  /  Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie  /  “Ella & Basie!”
  • 7 DAYS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE  /  Jamie Cullum   /  “Catching Tales”
  • MY FUNNY VALENTINE  /  Michelle Pfeiffer & Dave Grusin  /  “The Fabulous Baker Boys Soundtrack”
  • WHEN I TAKE MY SUGAR TO TEA  /  Wilford Brimley  /  Wilford Brimley with the Jeff Hamilton Trio”
  • THE DOG SONG  /  Nellie McKay  /  “Get Away From Me”
  • BAD INFLUENCE  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Paul Shaffer  /  “Just Passing Through”
  • MARRY THE MAN TODAY  /  Rebecca Kilgore  /  “I Like Men”      
  • ANYONE CAN WHISTLE  /  Tania Grubbs  /  “Lost In The Stars”
  • EV’RY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE  /  Lady Gaga  /  “Cheek To Cheek”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

If you can’t wait for Saturday night’s live broadcast, now you have an alternative to sitting there with a mopey expression. Listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. It’s as easy as clicking on a link and having a good time. 

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