TURNTABLE FOR ONE

This week we played the Desert Island game — not the one where you fantasize about a dozen androgynous pixies bringing you to a desert island where you and they play sudoku all day and they say you have nice hair. (And just how often do you play that game?) I mean the game where I play two version of the same song and you have to choose which of the two you’d take to a desert island to listen to for the rest of your life — with or without androgynous pixies.

Hope you can get back in time for next week’s show.

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  Album or CD Title

• THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “The Days Of Wine & Roses”
• THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT  /  Tony Bennett  /  “50 Years – The Artistry of Tony Bennett”    
• THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU  /  Kenny Rankin  /  “Professional Dreamer”               
• THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU  /  Jackie Ryan  /  “The Best of Love Songs” 
• MOOD INDIGO  /  Clare Fischer Singers  /  ”…And Sometimes Instruments”   
• MOOD INDIGO  /  Nina Simone  /  “Mood Indigo”     
• WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE  /  (mystery vocalist)  /  Gwyneth Paltrow  /  “Infamous Soundtrack”
• WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE  /  Sarah Vaughan  /  “Sassy Swings The Tivoli” 
• ISN’T IT ROMANTIC  /  Mel Torme  /  “At Marty’s” 
• ISN’T IT ROMANTIC  /  Betty Carter & Carmen McRae  /  “The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets”  
• IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS  /  Johnny Hartman  /  “I Just Dropped By To Say Hello”
• IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS  /  Lissy Walker  /  “Life Is Sweet”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (theme)  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Unreleased Master)

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