TURNTABLE FOR ONE

Couldn’t do a live show this week, so I decided to take a stroll down memory lane, a shorter and shorter trip for me. Look what I found! A show from last Spring. Here’s what I wrote about the show at the time…

Until recently my exercise regimen consisted of Running my mouth, Stretching the truth; Rushing to judgment; and Leaping to all the wrong conclusions. Those days are gone. Now I have a Life Coach telling me when to sleep, when to wake up, when to stand, and how far to walk and on and on. And there’s no way I can tell this Life Coach to put a cork in it because my Life Coach isn’t a person – it’s an Apple Watch that’s become the boss of me. So if I have to endure this torture, of course, my audience had to endure the torture with two-hours of songs about exercise. I’d write more but my damned watch is telling me it’s time to stand!

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

• LET’S TAKE A WALK AROUND THE BLOCK  /  Mel Torme  /  “Live At Marty’s”
• WALKING AFTER MIDNIGHT  /  Staci Griesbach  /  “Mu Patsy Cline Songbook”
• RUNNIN’ WILD  /  Cecile McLorin-Salvant  /  “Dreams & Daggers”
• ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET  /  Tony Bennett  /  “Tony Makes It Happen”
• THROW IT AWAY  /  Maydie Myles  /  “The Ones I Love”  
• I’M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER  /  Frank Sinatra & Count Basie  /  “Sinatra/Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings”
• WALKIN’  /  The Real Group  /  “Unreal”
• SHALL WE DANCE  /  Lucy Dixon  /  “Lulu’s Back In Town”
• KISS AND RUN  /  Johnny Hartman  /  “I Just Dropped By To Say Hello”
• IT SWUNG WIDE OPEN  /  Joey DeFrancesco  /  “In The Key Of The Universe”
• BUT BEAUTIFUL  /  Ethel Ennis  /  “Ethel Ennis”
• ME & MY SHADOW  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Allen Ludden  /  “My Favorite Songs”
• COME RUNNING  /  Lena Horne  /  “At The Waldorf Astoria”
• LESTER LEAPS IN  /  Count Basie  /.  “Count Basie At Newport”
• EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG  /  Veronica Swift  /  “This Bitter Earth”
• YOU CALL IT JOGGING  /  Mose Allison  /  “The Mose Chronicles”
• LAVERNE WALK  /  Cyrille Aimee  /  “Let’s Get Lost”
• PICK YOURSELF UP  /  Gregory Porter  /  “Nat King Cole & Me”
• LET’S TAKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALK  /  Karin Plato & Denzal Sinclair  /   “The State of Bliss”
• JUST MY IMAGINATION  /  Kevin Mahogany  /  “Prde & Joy”
• HIT THE GROUND RUNNIN’  /  Lorraine Feather  /  “Language”
• CANOE  /  Kat Edmonson  /  “Old Fashioned Gal”
• IF I HAD YOU  /  Willie Nelson & Diana Krall  /  “American Classic”
• JUMP FOR JOY  /  Kenny Burrell  /  “Ballad Essentials”
• I WALK A LITTLE FASTER  /  Chiara Pancaldi w/ Cyrus Chestnut  /  “I Walk A Little Faster”
• LIFE’S A LESSON  /  Ben Sidran & Giorgia  /  “Ben There, Don’t That”  
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

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