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PLAYLIST FOR “THE MORE THE MERRIER” (2.18.23)

Usually I play 20-24 different singers, musicians, Mystery Vocalists each week. This week I challenged myself to play more. My goal was 57 different artists. Originally, my plan was play something by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, say Good Night, and go home. But because the choir threatened to sue me if I even mentioned their name on my show – probably for elder abuse – I had to come up with a different solution.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

I’M CONFESSING THAT I LOVE YOU / Tony Bennett & k.d. lang / “A Wonderful World”
PEEL ME A GRAPE / Blossom Dearie & Lyle Lovett
THE BEST THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU’RE DANCING / Kurt Elling / “This Time It’s Love”
MY SHINING HOUR / The Royal Boosters / “Party Of Four”
GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE / Jamie Cullum & Laura Mvula / “Interlude”
GET HAPPY/HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN / Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand / “Duets”
LOVE WITHOUT MONEY / Joe William & Shirley Horn / “In Good Company”
SAVE THE BONES FOR HENRY JONES / Ray Charles, Lou Rawls, Milt Jackson / “True Genius”
COFFEE TIME / (Mystery Vocalists) / Jack Jones & The Lennon Sisters / “Dream a Little Dream”
JUMPIN’ AT THE WOODSIDE / Duke Ellington & Count Basie / “Battle Royale”
PEOPLE WILL SAY WE’RE IN LOVE / Ella Fitzgerald & Gregory Porter / “Someone To Watch Over Me”
WELL DID YOU EVAH? / Frank Sinatra & Bing Crosby / “High Society”
THE ART OF CONVERSATION / Leo Sidran & Kat Edmonson / “The Art Of Conversation”
KARATE / Aubrey Johnson / “Unraveled”
IF I HAD A TALKING PICTURE OF YOU / Seth MacFarlane & Norah Jones / “In Full Swing”
ANGEL EYES / Kandace Springs & Norah Jones / “The Women Who Raised Me”
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE / Willie Nelson & Norah Jones / “My Way”
IT JUST AIN’T SO / Mark Winkler & Steve Tyrell / “The Company I Keep”
I’M A WOMAN / (Mystery Vocalist) / Raquel Welch & Cher / (TV Show Performance)
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE / The Swingle Singers / “Mood Swings”
BIG CITY BLUES / Mel Torme & Barry Manilow / “2:00 AM Paradise Cafe”
ALICE IN WONDERLAND / Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond / “Duets”
ISN’T IT ROMANTIC / Carmen McRae & Betty Carter / “The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets”
YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG / Curtis Stigers & Cyrille Aimee / “Hooray For Love”
IT’S THE MOOD THAT I’M IN / Calabria Foti & John Pizzarelli / “Prelude To A Kiss”
BUT BEAUTIFUL / Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga / “Cheek To Cheek”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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PLAYLIST FOR “BROKEN HEARTS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY” (2.11.23)

12 Feb

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! Do you love songs about falling in love? Being in love? Staying in love? If you answered Yes to any or all of those questions, you really had a rough flight on last night’s show. Because I love songs about heartache and heartbreak. So my V. Day gift to my audience was two hours of Broken Hearts for Valentine’s Day. I’m surprised the police didn’t break in to make a cardiac arrest.

nSONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

VALENTINE’S DAY / James Taylor / “Never Die Young”
I’M GONNA LOCK MY HEART / Nicole Henry / “The Very Thought of You”
I WISH I DIDN’T LOVE YOU SO / Steven Pasquale / “Somethin’ like Love”
ALL BY MYSELF / Bobby Darin / “Oh! Look At Me Now!”
SOLITUDE / Kandace Springs / “The Women Who Raised Me”
MY FUNNY VALENTINE / Michel LeGrand / “At Shelly Manne’s Man Hole”
SOMEONE’S BEEN SENDING ME FLOWERS / Blossom Dearie / “Me & Phil”
ORDINATRY FOOL / Mel Torme / “Torme A New Album”
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS / Rachelle Ferrell / “Live At Montreal”
HOW INSENSITIVE / (Mystery Vocalist) / William Shatner / “Spaced Out”
IN THE WEEK SMALL HOURS / Christian McBride Big Band / “Bringin’ It”
ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT / Chris Botti & Paul Buchannan / “Live With orchestra”
SO LONG YOU FOOL / Deanne Matley / “Because I Loved”
NOBODY’S HEART BELONGS TO ME / Lucy Yeghiazarian / “In Her Words”
BUT NOT FOR ME / Joe Pesci & Joey DeFrancesco / “Falling In Love Again”
IF LOVE WERE ALL / Judy Garland / “Judy At Carnegie”
THE ONE I LOVE / Seth MacFarlane / “No One Ever Tells You”
YOU’VE CHANGED / Paula Cole / “Ballads”
LITTLE GIRL BLUE / Keith Jarrett Trio / “Tribute”
ANGEL EYES / Frank Sinatra / “Only The Lonely”
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS LOVE / Karrin Allyson / “‘Round Midnight
WHEN I LOST YOU / Tony Bennett / “Bennett Berlin”
I GUESS I’LL HANG MY TEARS OUT TO DRY / Carmen McRae / “Bittersweet”
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME / Sarah Vaughan / “Sarah Vaughan & The Jimmy Rowles Quintet”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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PLAYLIST FOR “AN EXERCISE IN EXERCISING” (AN ARCHIVE REBROADCAST (11.5.22)

6 Nov

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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PLAYLIST FOR “AN EXERCISE IN EXERCISING” (6.25.22)

27 Jun

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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PLAYLIST FOR “LYRICS CAME LATER” (11.20.21)

21 Nov

In the beginning was the Word. Okay, fine. But not this week. Not on this show. Almost everything I played started out as an instrumental and the lyrics came later. To bring things back to reality, I ended with a melody played so beautifully that I don’t think it really needed the lyrics added later and, finally, with a lyric that Johnny Mercer wrote but didn’t live long enough to set to music.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

MOOD INDIGO / Nina Simone / “Little Girl Blue”
LAURA / Kevin Mahogany / “Portrait Of Kevin Mahogany”
THE BAD IN EVERY MAN / The Attic Band / “Blue Moon”
BLUE MOON / Frank Sinatra / “Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session”
LI’L DARLIN’ / Count Basie / “Standing Ovation”
LI’L DARLIN’ / The Real Group / “Live In Stockholm”
DON’T DREAM OF ANYBODY BUT ME / Bobby Darin / “This Is Darin”
THE BLUEST KIND OF BLUE / Hetty Kate / “11:60 PM”
PARKER’S MOOD / Marion Cowings / “Sing A Song Of Bird”
CUTE / (Mystery Vocalist) / Ann-Margaret / “Songs From The Swinger”
SOPHISTICATED LADY / Ben Webster / “Compact Jazz: The Verve Years”
SOPHISTICATED LADY / Tony Bennett / “Bennett Sings Ellington/Hot & Cool”
DAT DERE / Bobby Timmons / “In Person”
DAT DERE / Sheila Jordan / “Portrait Of Sheila Jordan”
STOLEN MOMENTS & MURDER BY NUMBERS / Frank Zappa & Sting / “Broadway The Hard Way”
STOLEN MOMENTS / Mark Murphy / “Love Is What Stays”
OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY / Gretje Angell / “In Any Key”
I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO CHANGE MY PLANS / Mel Torme & Jonathan Schwatrz / “Mel Torme & Friends”
MIDNIGHT SUN / Nancy Wilson / “Lush Life”
WALTZ FOR DEBBY / Paul Jost / “Breaking Through”
ROUND MIDNIGHT / Ella Fitzgerald / “Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie”
I REMEMBER CLIFFORD / Keith Jarrett Trio / “Still Live”
WHEN OCTOBER GOES / Barry Manilow / “2:00 AM Paradise Café”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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PLAYLIST FOR “BAD HABITS” (10.23.21)

24 Oct

We all have them. We may try to hide them with varying degrees of success or failure because – let’s face it – they totally reveal us, they embarrass us, and the worst ones can actually define us for the rest of our lives. Of course I’m talking about our high school yearbook photos. Of course I’m not talking about our high school yearbook photos. I’m talking about Bad Habits. So it was nothing but Bad Habits this week – ranging from binge watching to smoking, drinking, co-dependence. magical thinking, and more. I’d go on but I’ve been told that rambling is a bad habit.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

TV BLUES / Tom Rust and The Malcolm Edmonstone Trio / “Are We There Yet?”
SCOTCH AND SODA / Amanda Carr / “Carr Toons”
I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY / Kenny Rankin / “Professional Dreamer”
MY NEW CELEBRITY IS YOU / Blossom Dearie / “My New Celebrity Is You”
DRINKING AGAIN / Frank Sinatra / “Nothing But The Best”
BAD HABITS / Rachael Price / “Dedicated To You”
I DON’T WORRY ABOUT A THING / Mose Allison / “Mose In Your Ear”
RUNNING WILD / The Hot Sardines / “French Fries & Champagne”
COFFEE TIME / (Mystery Vocalists) / Jack Jones & The Lennon Sisters / “Dream A Little Dream”
I’M ALWAYS DRUNK IN SAN FRANCISCO / Kitty Margolis / “Heart & Soul”
SOMETIMES I’M HAPPY / Nat King Cole / “After Midnight”
YOU’RE GETTING TO BE A HABIT WITH ME / Delicatessen / “Bossa + Jazz”
LET’S TALK ABOUT ME / Hot Club Sandwich / “Café Matrix”
TALKING TO MYSELF / Sinne Eeg / “Remembering You”
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN / Ruben Blades & Roberto Delgado & His Orchestra / “Salswing!”
DREAM / Diana Krall / “Turn Up The Quiet”
I JUST WANT TO BE HORIZONTAL / Samoa Wilson With The Jim Kweskin Band / “I Just Want To Be Horizontal”
THE TEXTING SONG / Dave Tull / “Texting And Driving”
HUMMIN’ TO MYSELF / Linda Ronstadt / “Hummin’ To Myself”
HUNGRY MAN / John Pizzarelli / “For Centennial Reasons”
I’M HIP / Veronica Swift / “Confessions”
WHERE DID THE MAGIC GO? / Tony Bennett / “Astoria: Portrait Of The Artist”
SILLY HABITS / Mel Torme & Janis Ian / “Mel Torme And Friends”
DON’T SMOKE IN BED / Nina Simone / “Mood Indigo”
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD / Kari Kirkland / “Wild Is the Wind”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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PLAYLIST FOR “ELLA FITZGERALD CHALLENGES THE WORLD” – AN ARCHIVE REBROADCAST (5.1.21)

2 May

This week I played a show from another world ago. No, I don’t mean we listened to an episode of Gunsmoke. I reached into the archives and dusted off a show from 2016. This is what I wrote about it back then:

This week Ella Fitzgerald took on all comers in a head-to-head, well, really a voice-to-voice competition. She sang standards and some surprising duets; she even challenged Sarah Vaughan in a “forgetting the lyrics” competition (Sarah won) and challenged Shirley Horn to a “slow singing” competition (Shirley won). But it was impossible to listen to this show without marveling at Ella’s musicality and her warmth and without feeling fortunate that we had her for so long.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

STOMPING AT THE SAVOY / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella At The Opera House”
WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson”
WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE / Nat Cole / “The Billy May Sessions”
CAN’T BUY ME LOVE / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella Fitzgerald First Lady Of Song”
CAN’T BUY ME LOVE / Connie Evingson / “Let It Be Jazz
BODY AND SOUL / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella Swings Lightly With Nelson”
BODY AND SOUL / The Real Group / “Unreal”
ALL GOD’S CHILLIN’ GOT RHYTHM / Mel Torme / “The Great American Songbook”
PARTY BLUES / Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Williams, & Count Basie / “Joe Williams Finest Hour”
I NEVER LOVED A WOMAN / (Mystery Vocalist) / Jackie Wilson & Count Basie / “Manufacturers Of Soul”
OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY / Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / “Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Jazz Masters 24”
MEDLEY / Ella Fitzgerald & Karen Carpenter / “As Time Goes By”
I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM / Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / “Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Jazz Masters 24”
CANDY / Ella Fitzgerald / “Twelve Nights In Hollywood”
WILLOW WEEP FOR ME / Sarah Vaughan / “Live In Japan”
IN A MELLOW TONE / Ella Fitzgerald / “Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook”
IN A MELLOW TONE / Delicatessen / “Jazz + Bossa”
ANGEL EYES / Ella Fitzgerald / “Let No Man Write My Epitaph”
LOVERMAN / Shirley Horn / “Live At The 4 Qs”
I GOT IT BAD (AND THAT AIN’T GOOD) / Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington / “Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook”
I GOT IT BAD (AND THAT AIN’T GOOD) / Nancy Harms / “Ellington At Night”
TOO YOUNG FOR THE BLUES / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella Fitzgerald First Lady Of Song”
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT / Ella Fitzgerald / “Twelves Nights In Hollywood”
OH, LADY BE GOOD / Ella Fitzgerald / “Ella At The Opera House”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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PLAYLIST FOR “MUSICAL COMFORT FOOD” (1.9.21)

10 Jan

Well, that didn’t take very long, 2021. You went from an exhilarating high on Tuesday to an abysmal low on Wednesday. In utter disbelief of events we all were watching, I looked for a modicum of solace, peace, and even hope from a familiar source: comfort food – ice cream, mashed potatoes, peanut butter on matzoh. And this week on the show, instead of an ironic theme, I decided just to share some of my go-to musical comfort food – songs and musicians I turn to when I need them most. And, boy, I really needed them this week.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

YOU’D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO / Kenny Rankin / “Haven’t We Met?”
TROUBLE IN MIND / Nina Simone / “Nina At Newport”
I WISH I DIDN’T LOVE YOU SO / Steven Pasquale / “Somethin’ Like Love”
I LOVE THE WAY YOU’RE BREAKING MY HEART / Delicatessen / “Jazz + Bossa”
EMILY / Stan Getz & Bill Evans / “But Beautiful”
ANGEL EYES / Kandace Springs & Norah Jones / “The Women Who Raised Me”
SOMETIME WHEN YOU’RE LONELY / Mark Murphy & The Metropole Orchestra / “The Dream”
I’LL BE LONG GONE / Cold Blood / “Thriller”
ORDINARY FOOL / Ray Brown Jr. & Paul Williams / “Friends & Family”
BODY AND SOUL / The Real Group / “Unreal”
YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME / Ellen Andersson / “You Should Have Told Me”
WHEN I FALL IN LOVE / Kevin Mahogany / “Old New Borrowed, And The Blues”
BUT BEAUTIFUL / Shawn Colvin / “Stormy Weather”
TIME TO SMILE / Tony Bennett / “The Art Of Romance”
A LAZY AFTERNOON / Shirley Horn / “A Lazy Afternoon”
BALLAD OF THE SAD YOUNG MEN / Keith Jarrett Trio / “Tribute”
CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LOVE / Tony Bennett / “The Art Of Romance”
GEORGIA ON MY MIND / Dave Brubeck Quartet / “Ballads”
ISN’T IT ROMANTIC / Mel Torme / “At Marty’s”
TWO FOR THE ROAD / Tierney Sutton / “I’m With The Band”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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PLAYLIST FOR “CONTRAFACTUM – AN ARCHIVE RE-BROADCAST” (12.26.20)

27 Dec

Out with the old? That’s what I did. I played an archive show from last June as the final program for this wretched year. Let’s hope for better – and I mean the new year, certainly not my shows. Here’s what I wrote in June:

Contrafactum – it’s not just a word on Jeopardy. Contrafactum are two different songs with the same melody but different lyrics. To jazz musicians, they are two tunes with the same chordal structure. (I tossed a few of those in for good measure – excuse the pun.) Who said educational radio is dead? Probably somebody who has listened to my show.

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OH! LOOK AT ME NOW / Mark Jennett / “Everybody Says Don’t”
OH! LOOK AT ME NOW / Monica Ramey & The Beegie Adair Trio / “Monica Ramey & The Beegie Adair Trio”
BODY AND SOUL / Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse / “Duets II”
BODY AND SOUL / Mark Murphy / “Songbook”
I GOT RHYTHM / Sarah Vaughan / “Ultra Lounge”
MEET THE FLINTSTONES / Postmodern Jukebox / “Meet the Flintstones”
LI’L DARLIN’ / Count Basie / “The Complete Atomic Basie”
LI’L DARLIN’ / Monica Borrfors / “Li’l Darlin’”
DON’T DREAM OF ANYBODY BUT ME / (Mystery Vocalist) / Jackie DeShannon / “For You”
SHINY STOCKINGS / Lambert, Hendricks, & Bavan / “At Basin Street East”
SHINY STOCKINGS / Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie / “Ella & Basie”
I GUESS I’LL HAVE TO CHANGE MY PLAN / Mel Torme & Jonathan Schwartz / “Mel Torme & Friends”
L’HYMNE A L’AMOUR / Sarah Lancman / “Parisienne”
IF YOU LOVE ME / Shirley Horn / “Here’s To Life”
LULLABY OF BIRDLAND / Chloe Perrier & The French Heart Jazz Band / “Petit Fleur”
LULLABY OF BIRDLAND / Kelley Johnson / “Something Good”
I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU / Patricia Barber / “The Cole Porter Mix”
THAT’S MY KICK / Erroll Garner / “That’s My Kick”
PRAYER – THE BAD IN EVERY MAN – BLUE MOON / Allegra Levy / “Looking At The Moon”
ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT / Babs Gonzales / “Weird Lullaby”
ROUND MIDNIGHT / Carmen McRae / “Carmen McRae In London”
ROUND MIDNIGHT / Sting / “Green Chimneys: The Music Of Thelonius Monk”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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PLAYLIST FOR “REQUEST WEEK” – TURNTABLE FOR ONE SEASON 11 PREMIERE (9.5.20)

6 Sep

I kicked off my 11th season by kicking back and letting the audience do most of the work. Every song (until the last) was a request from someone out there in radioland. About half-way through the show, I started to fret that their choices were so good, maybe they don’t need me at all. Lesson: Always watch out for unintended consequences.

SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title

FOOL IN THE RAIN (Partial) / Led Zeppelin /
ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET/FOOL IN THE RAIN / Bradford Truby Trio / “Bradford Truby Trio”
SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY / Tony Bennett / “Tony Makes It Happen”
OVER THE WEEKEND / Dianne Reeves / “When You Know”
DETOUR AHEAD / Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson Trio / “Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson”
YOU’RE THE DANGEROUS TYPE / Bob Dorough / “Devil May Care”
SKYLARK / Nancy LaMott / “Beautiful Baby”
HERE’S THAT RAINY DAY / Kenny Rankin / “The Kenny Rankin Album”
NOBODY’S FAULT BUT MINE / Nina Simone / “Nina Simon & Piano”
ON A CLEAR DAY / Frank Sinatra / “Strangers In The Night”
SOUTH OF THE BORDER / Mel Torme / “Ole Torme”
THE MAN I LOVE / Billie Holiday / “The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic”
GOING CRAZY / The Three Haircuts / (Single)
MILESTONES / Miles Davis / “Milestones”
YOU’D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO / Jane Froman / “With A Song In My Heart”
WHAT’S GOING ON / Marvin Gaye / “What’s Going On”
COCKTAILS FOR TWO / Spike Jones / “Best Of”
MOI JE SUIS LA / Stephanie LaLiberte / “Stephanie LaLiberte”
THREE COINS IN A FOUNTAIN / Frank Sinatra / “The Days Of Wine & Roses…”
SAY IT ISN’T SO / Bobby Short / “Moments Like This”
A SLOW HOT WIND / Johnny Hartman / “The Voice that Is”
STARS FELL ON ALABAMA / Rita Payes & Joan Chamorro / “Joan Chamorro Present Rita Payes”
IF I HAD YOU / Jimmy Durante / “Jimmy Durante’s Way Of Life”
EMBRACEABLE YOU / Herbie Hancock / “Gershwin’s World”
LIFE’S A LESSON / Ben Sidran / “Ben There Done That”
PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine

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