TURNTABLE FOR ONE

To celebrate National Record Store Day, I gave the CD players a night off and turned the program, both literally and figuratively, into Turntable For One. I found a lot of old friends in my collection and even a few albums I forgot that I had. 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

• SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME  /  Shirley Horn  /  “Live At Vine Street”
• IN A MELLOW TONE  /  Dizzy Gillespie  /  “A Portrait Of Duke Ellington”
• GROOVIN  /  Kenny Rankin  /  “The Kenny Rankin Album”
• WHILE I’M STILL YOUNG  /  Amanda Ambrose  /  “Amanda”
• THE SONG IS YOU  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “The Rare Sinatra”
• DON’T LET ME LOSE THIS DREAM  /  Esther Phillips  /  “Burnin’”
• ALL OF MY LIFE  /  Tony Bennett & Dexter Gordon  /  “Bennett/Berlin”
• SURREY WITH THE FRINGE ON THE TOP  /  Mary Lou Williams  /  “Live At The Cookery”
• HOLD ME THUSLY  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Zero Mostel  /  “Songs My Mother Never sang”
• A WONDERFUL GUY  /  Blossom Dearie  /  “Winchester In Apple Blossom Time”
• ARTISTRY IN RHYTHM  /  Stan Kenton  /  “Live At Redlands University”
• THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU  /  Jesse Belvin  /  “Mr. Easy”
• MUSIC  /  Cleo Laine  /  “Cleo Laine Live At Carnegie Hall”
• SLOW TALKER  /  Bob & Ray  /  “The Two & Only”
• I’M LOST  /  Carmen McRae  /  “Bittersweet”
• THE LIFE THAT I LEAD  /  Lou Rawls  /  “Carryin’ On”
• THE MAN YOU ARE IN ME  /  Janis Ian  /  “Stars”
• NAIMA  /  Charles Lloyd  /  “Autumn In New York”
• I’VE GOT TO HAVE YOU  /  Lena Horne  /  “Lema – A New Album”
• I COULD WRITE A BOOK  /  Johnny Hartman  /  “Once In Every Life”
• IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND  /  Keith Jarrett Trio  /  “Standards Vol. 1”
• I NEVER MEANT TO HURT YOU  /  Laura Nyro  /  “First Songs”
• MY OLD FRIEND  /  Gregory Hines  /  “So Nobody Else Can Hear”
• DREAM  /  Joanie Sommers  /  “Dream”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

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