I reached back into the Turntable For One archives and dusted off golden oldie and one of my favorites from the past few years. This is what I wrote when the show was new:
In the middle of planning this week’s show – A Musical Tribute To The Venn Diagram – I was forced to face a defining question: What makes Turntable For One Turntable For One? Forget the technical mistakes. Forget the historical inaccuracies. Forget the defamation law suits (And God knows I’ve tried). The essence week after week: Songs! Can’t I get a theme out of that?
SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Ir Album Title
- I FEEL A SONG COMING ON / Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson / “Two’s Company”
- HAPPY TIME / Tim Buckley / “Blue Afternoon”
- STARDUST / Samara Joy / “Samara Joy”
- WITH A SONG IN MY HEART / Chet Baker / “She Was Too Good To Me”
- I LET A SONG GO OUT OF MY HEART / Ernestine Anderson / “I Love Being Here With you”
- AS LONG AS I’M SINGING / Bobby Darin / “Wild, Cool, & Swinging”
- TEACH ME A SONG / Jackie Allen / “Never Let Me Go”
- THE SONG IS YOU / Terry Gibbs Dream Band / “The Lost Tapes 1959”
- I’VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE / Welsa Whitfield / “Teach Me Tonight”
- RETIRED WRITER IN THE SUN / Donovan / “In Concert”
- SONG FOR MY FATHER / Lillie Huddleston / “How Long Has This Been Going On”
- WITHOUT A SONG / Mahalia Jackson / “Let’s Pray Together”
- THE SONG IS ENDED / Tony Bennett & Dizzy Gillespie / “Bennett/Berlin”
- SONG FOR A SUCKER LIKE YOU / Ben Sidran / “Ben There, Done That”
- LIKE A SONG / Sinne Eeg w/The Danish Radio Big Band / “We’ve Just Begun”
- IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A SONG / Johnny Hartman / ”Almost Like A Song”
- HI-LILI HI-LO / Rickie Lee Jones / “Pop Pop”
- SONG ABOUT THE MOON / Paul Simon / “Hearts And Bones”
- MOON SONG / Cecile McLorin-Salvant / “Moon Song”
- NIGHT SONG / Nina Simone / “Broadway-Blues-Ballads”
- SEPTEMBER SONG / Frank Sinatra / “September Of My Years”
- THE SONG THAT ISN’T FINISHED YET / Stacey Kent / “Summer Me Winter me”
- MY LOVE IS AN APRIL SONG / Bill Evans Trio / “Bill Evans For Lovers”
- ROAD TO HELL (REPRISE) /. Andre DeShields & Cast of Hadestown / “Hadestown”
- AMERICAN TUNE / Simon & Garfunkel / “The Concert In Central Park”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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