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HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S SHOW (6.13.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

10 Jun

HINT:

Sure, let all those other radio and television shows try to sell you the Greatest Hits of the the 50s or the 60s or the Best of The Big Band Era or the hit of Engelbert Humperdinck (available on cassette only). Yawn. Are you ready for something different? Something unheard of and maybe even uncalled for? This week Turntable For One and only Turntable For One will be playing an exclusive Greatest Hits package, one you’ll want to hear over and over and over and over and over again.  

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming live on wmnr.org

 

You don’t have to wait until Saturday to enjoy Turntable For One. Listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Go ahead. Do it now when nobody’s watching. Click the link below. 

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

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PLAYLIST FOR “THE CHINESE FORTUNE COOKIE GAME” (6.6.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocals #inbed

7 Jun

You’ve all played the game, saying  “in bed” after reading your fortune cookie. Well,  if saying “in bed” turns an ordinary fortune cookie fortune into instant hilarity, think what it will do at the end of song titles? I’ve thought of it. You might want to try it with book titles. 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

 

  • ANYTHING GOES  /  Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga  /  “Cheek To Cheek”
  • THE JERSEY BOUNCE  /  Connie Evingson  /  “All The Cats Join In”
  • I’VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE  /  Pete McGuinness  /  “Voice Like A Horn”
  • ALL OF ME  /  Eugenie Jones  /  “Come Out Swingin’”
  • I COULD WRITE A BOOK  /  Johnny Hartman  /  “Once In Every Life”
  • BITTER WITH THE SWEET  /  Jenna Mammina & Rolf Sturm  /  “Spark”
  • I WANT TO BE HAPPY  /  Julian Yeo  /  “You And The Night”
  • ANYONE CAN WHISTLE  /  Cleo Laine  /  “Cleo Sings Sondheim”
  • I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Cleavon Little  /  “Blazing Saddles”
  • I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Sinatra & Swingin’ Brass”
  • DO IT THE HARD WAY  /  Amanda Carr  /  “Tender Trap”
  • I’M ADDICTED TO YOU  /  The Swinging Belles  /  “I’m Old Fashioned”
  • YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG  /  Curtis Stigers & Cyrille Aimee  /  “Hooray For Love”
  • YOU CAN’T LOVE ‘EM ALL  /  Loston Harris  /  “Swingfully Yours”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

 

You should also listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio exchange – in bed! Click the link below:

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

 

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HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (6.6.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocals

3 Jun

HINT: 

You’re eating in a Chinese restaurant and after the meal, the check arrives with the obligatory orange slices and several cellophane-wrapped fortune cookies. Once the orange slices are gone, you tear open the cellophane wrap to free your  fortune cookie. Just as you’re about to read your fortune, someone at the table says he has an idea that will be hilariously funny. I’ve got that same idea.

 

TURNTABLE FOR ONE   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR FIne Arts Radio and streaming live on wmnr.org

Want an amuse bouche before Saturday’s show? Try a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. No artificial ingredients – ever! Click the link below:

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

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PLAYLIST FOR “REQUESTS & DEDICATION WEEK” (5.30.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocalists

31 May

I opened up the phone lines, got dozens of calls and requests, and was able to play 15 in the hour. My thanks to everyone who called; my apologies to those who couldn’t get through and to those who got through but I ran out of time to play their requested song. We’ll have to try this again sometime. 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • YOU’RE A SWEETHEART  /  Lee Wiley  /  “West Of The Moon”
  • SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT  /  Terri Thornton  /  “Terri Thornton Sings Somewhere In The Night”
  • I’LL BE SEEING YOU  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Point Of No Return”
  • MEMORY  /  Betty Buckley  /  Cats Original Cast Production
  • LONG ABOUT NOW  /  Bobby Scott  /  “Softly”
  • SATIN DOLL  /  Nancy Wilson  /  “Yesterday’s Love Songs, Today’s Blues”
  • ROCKIN’ CHAIR  /  Hoagy Carmichael  /  “Hoagy Sings Carmichael”
  • THEY SAY IT’S SPRING  /  Blossom Dearie  /  “Verve Masters #51”
  • MRS. BROWN YOU’VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER  /  Nellie McKay  /  “My Weekly Reader”
  • COCKTAILS FOR TWO  /  Spike Jones  /  “Laughing Out Loud”
  • I LOVE TO LOVE  /  Nina Simone  /  “Forbidden Fruit”
  • WHEN LIGHTS ARE LOW  /  June Christy  /  “June’s Got Rhythm”
  • BABY WON’T YOU PLEASE COME HOME  /  Ricky Nelson  /  “You Can’t Please Everybody”
  • SMILE  /  Madeleine Peyroux  /  “Half The Perfect World” 
  • MOVIN’ OUT  /  Billy Joel  /  “The Essential Billy Joel”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

Dying to know what Turntable For One sounds like when I pick the music? Listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. They’re absolutely free and environmentally friendly. Click the link below.

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

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A FEW WORDS ABOUT THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL SHOW (5.30.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzvocalists #requestradio

27 May

You know how I struggle every week to come up with an interesting theme and then painstakingly pick perfect songs to fit that theme? Stop laughing! It could happen – but not this week. This week I’m opening up the phone lines and taking requests live on the air. Got a song or a performer you want to hear? Call me Saturday night and if I can find it and if I have time, I’ll play it right then and there. Or email your requests and dedications to me at turntable@wmnr.org I hope you’ll be listening Saturday night – because why should the NSA be the only ones listening to me?

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

I’ve got a request for you: listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, The Public Radio Exchange.  Click the link below:

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

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HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (5.23.15) #jazz #jazzvocals #jazzradio #prx

20 May

HINT:

During past seasons I’ve presented musical tributes to the Prepositional Phrase, the Conditional Tense, and the Subordinate Clause, all in my effort to leave no audience behind. You might ask, Did these programs raise the literacy bar or did they just send more people to The Literacy Bar, which is probably a bar somewhere in San Diego? You might also ask, Isn’t it, in fact, impossible to have a “race to the top” when you’re trying to “level the playing field?” (B.T.W., if you’re so full of questions and queries, maybe you should think about getting your own blog and stop interrupting mine.) Am I ready to give up, to admit final defeat to all the forces dealing daily death blows to correct grammar? Uh, maybe not!

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM (E.S.T.)

WMNR FIne Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

 

Incidentally, did you know there is a new Turntable For One podcast posted on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange? Do you really want to be the last person on earth to listen to it? I didn’t think so. Click the link below

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

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PLAYLIST FOR “BE KIND TO ANIMALS WEEK” (5.16.15) #jazz #jazzvocals #jazzradio

16 May

This week I paid tribute to “Be Kind To Animals Week.” Be assured that no animals were harmed during the broadcast of this show…don’t know if I can make the same claim about audience members. 

 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

  • SWINGING ON A STAR  /  Mark Murphy  /  “Ultra Lounge: Nursery Rhymes”
  • SKYLARK  /  Linda Ronstadt  /  “Lush Life”
  • TEDDY BEARS PICNIC  /  Bing Crosby  /  “Musical Moments To Remember”
  • THE EAGLE AND ME  /  Shirley Horn  /  “I Thought About You: Live At Vine Street”
  • BOA CONSTRICTOR  /  Shel Silverstein  /  “Essential Folk Masters”
  • STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT  /  Ed Reed  /  “I’m A Shy Guy”
  • THE SPIDER AND THE FLY  /  Maud Hixson  /  “Don’t Let A Good Thing Get Away”                
  • SIMON SMITH AND THE AMAZING DANCING BEAR  /  Mark Jennett  /  “Everybody Says Don’t”
  • KILLER JOE  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Singing Dogs
  • KILLED A CAT  /  Kenny Rankin  /  “Silver Morning”
  • CAT BACK BLUES  /  Kathi Walkup  /  “The Secret of The Song”
  • THE BARE NECESSITIES  /  Tom Rust  /  “Are We There Yet?”
  • THE DUCK  /  Emilie-Claire Barlow  /  “The Very Thought Of You”                                
  • BEIN’ GREEN  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Sinatra & Company”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

There is a brand new show posted on the Turntable For One podcast page on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. You don’t have to take my word for it. Click the link below!

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one 

 

 

 

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HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (5.16.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

13 May

HINT:

This week I’ll be playing an hour of songs to celebrate a very special annual event which not only recognizes mankind’s BF, but our FFFs and our FLFs as well. Are you ready for B.K.T.A.W. on Turntable For One?

TURNTABLE FOR ONE   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Nights   10:00 PM  (E.S.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

 

While you’re puzzling out the hint, might I suggest you listen to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Trust me. I only have your best interests at heart. Click the link below.

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

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PLAYLIST FOR “MOMS SINGING FOR MOTHER’S DAY” (AN ARCHIVE REPLAY SHOW) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

11 May

Because Sunday was Mother’s Day, only mothers got to sing this week, though a few brought along their kids. And I couldn’t resist a very personal dedication. 

 

SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title 

  • OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY  /  Shirley Horn  /  “I Thought About You: Live At Vine Street”  
  • ALWAYS  /  Ella Fitzgerald  /  “The Irving Berlin Songbook”   
  • HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN  /  Barbra Streisand and Jason Gould  /  “Back To Brooklyn” 
  • I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU  /  Sandy Stewart & Bill Charlap  /  “Something To Remember” 
  • YOU’VE CHANGED  /  Renee Fleming & Fred Hersch  /  “Haunted Heart”
  • ALMOST BLUE  /  Gwen Stefani  /  “Stormy Weather”
  • YOU’RE GETTING TO BE A HABIT WITH ME  /  Diana Krall  /  “Love Scenes”
  • MY PERSONAL POSSESSION  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Maria Cole  /  “Maria Cole” 
  • THOU SWELL  /  Natalie Cole  /  “Unforgettable”
  • NEVER WILL I MARRY  /  Nancy Wilson  /  “Nancy Wilson & The Cannonball Adderley Quintet”
  • BROWN BABY  /  Nina Simone  /  “Nina Simone At The Village Gate” 
  • BE A CHILD  /  Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore  /  “Smilin’ Through” 
  • I AM YOUR CHILD  /  Barry Manilow  /  “Barry Manilow 1”
  • PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine  

Don’t forget there’s a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange, to fit every mood and every activity.  (Okay, if you’re having a root canal, you’re probably better off with the nitrous oxide.)  For everything else: click the link below!

http://www.prx.org/series/33284-turntable-for-one

 

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HINT FOR THIS SATURDAY NIGHT’S THEME (5.9.15) #jazz #jazzradio #jazzsingers

8 May

HINT:

This week’s show is an archive presentation. I might play Nancy Wilson but I won’t play Nancy LaMott.  I might play Ella Fitzgerald, but I won’t play Sarah Vaughan. I might play Nina Simone, but I definitely won’t play Billie Holiday. Find out why this Saturday night!

Turntable For One   Jazz Vocals and Live Radio

Saturday Night   10:00 PM  (E.D.T.)

WMNR Fine Arts Radio and streaming on wmnr.org

SPECIAL LISTENER ADVISORY!! Don’t panic. Now that I’ve got your attention, tune in to WMNR from 4-6 PM when I’ll be sitting in for Garrett Stack with two hours of the best of Broadway on his program, Broadway Bound!

 

While you’re waiting for Saturday, you could be listening to a Turntable For One podcast on PRX, the Public Radio Exchange. Click the link below. 

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