Series 29, Prog 17

TENDER

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

(Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra: This Is Sinatra!

I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You - Billie Holiday: Music for Torching

Love’s Been Good to Me - Nina Simone: A Single Woman

Be Easy, Be Tender - Ann Richards: The Many Moods of Ann Richards

There’s Love - Nat King Cole: L-O-V-E

Tender as a Rose - Carol Stevens with Phil Moore’s Music: That Satin Doll

Yellow Days - Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett’s “Something”

Tenderly - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis

The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella

Tender Is the Night - Steve Lawrence: Love Songs from the Movies

The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) - Dinah Shore: Dinah, Yes Indeed!

Love Me Tender - Barb Jungr: Love Me Tender

Begin the Beguine - Perry Como: Como Swings

Try a Little Tenderness - Peggy Lee: unreleased single

I Concentrate on You - Judy Garland: Judy In Love

Image: Designecologist

Series 29, Prog 16

UNCONVENTIONAL VOICES

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven with You - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul

This One’s from the Heart - Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle: One from The Heart (Soundtrack)

I Still Suits Me - Bobby Troup: The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup

I Wanna Be Loved by You - Marilyn Monroe: Some Like It Hot! (Soundtrack)

That’s Life - Alan Cumming: I Bought a Blue Car Today

I’ll See You in My Dreams - Jimmy Durante: Jimmy Durante’s Way of Life

Everyone’s in Love with You - David Byrne: Look into the Eyeball

I’m in the Mood for Love - Mae West: The Fabulous Mae West

Lullaby in Ragtime - Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night

So, Relax - Leon Redbone: Sugar

Bo Mambo - Yma Sumac: Mambo!

C’est Si Bon - Louis Armstrong: Satchmo Serenades

Roll ‘Em Pete - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

You’ll Be Sorry - Big Maybelle: The Okeh Sessions

Good Night, Irene - Dr John: Goin’ Back to New Orleans

Honeysuckle Rose - Marlene Dietrich: Dietrich In London

The Time of Your Life - Randy Newman: A Bug’s Life (Soundtrack)

Photo: Jaasiel Mora

Series 29, Prog 15

REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

All I Need Is the Girl - Frank Sinatra with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Francis A & Edward K

Small World - Barbara Long with Herb Geller & His All-Stars: Selections from Gypsy

Together (Wherever We Go) - Peggy Lee: Olé ala Lee

Not While I’m Around - Kurt Elling: Flirting with Twilight

Old Friend - Lena Horne: An Evening with Lena Horne (Live at The Supper Club)

Broadway Baby - Elaine Stritch: Follies in Concert

West Side Story Medley - Sammy Davis Jr & Johnny Mendoza: At The Cocoanut Grove

The Ladies Who Lunch - Eydie Gormé: single

Send In the Clowns - Carmen McRae: Live at Bubba’s!

Everything’s Coming Up Roses - Johnny Mathis: The Rhythms of Broadway

One Hand, One Heart - Kiri Te Kanawa & José Carreras: West Side Story

Somewhere - Aretha Franklin: Aretha’s Jazz

Good Thing Going - Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down

Stephen Sondheim

(March 22, 1930 - November 26, 2021)

Photo: Bernard Gotfryd/Library of Congress

Series 29, Prog 14

WAY DOWN SOUTH

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Tuxedo Junction - Ella Fitzgerald: Things Ain’t What They Used to Be

Alabamy Bound - Bobby Darin: Oh! Look at Me Now

Carolina in the Morning - Dinah Shore: Dinah Down Home

Ode to Billie Jo - Nancy Wilson: Welcome to My Love

Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra: Ray Sings, Basie Swings

Mississippi - Kay Starr: The Fabulous Favorites

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans: Rosemary Clooney: Dedicated to Nelson

Basin Street Blues - Peggy Lee & Quincy Jones Orchestra: Blues Cross Country

Louisiana - Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman: Good Old Boys

Louisiana Sunday Afternoon - Dana Masters, Linley Hamilton, Cian Boyal & The Camden Orchestra 

Goin’ Back to New Orleans - Dr John: Goin’ Back to New Orleans

Hard Hearted Hannah - Shirley Horn: Light Out of Darkness

Memphis in June - Hoagy Carmichael: Hoagy Sings Carmichael

Stars Fell on Alabama - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

Mississippi Mud - Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer: Two of a Kind

Series 29, Prog 13

IT'S A SIN TO TELL A LIE

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie - Tony Bennett: When Lights Are Low

I Never Lied to You - Carmen McRae: I Am Music

I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ - Mel Tormé: I Dig the Duke/I Dig the Count

The Lies of Handsome Men - Cleo Laine: Blue and Sentimental

Talk to Me, Baby - Mark Murphy: Who Can I Turn To?

Little White Lies - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Lightly

They Didn’t Believe Me - Dinah Washington: The Swingin’ Miss “D”

What Will I Tell My Heart - Joe Williams: A Man Ain’t Supposed to Cry

How Deep Is the Ocean - Dena DeRose: A Walk in the Park

Sweet Georgia Brown - Diane Schuur: In Tribute

Goodbye (She Quietly Says) - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Blizzard of Lies - Shaynee Rainbolt: At Home

Got to Get You into My Life - Thelma Houston & The Pressure Cooker: I’ve Got the Music in Me

The Rules of the Road - Nat King Cole: Let’s Face the Music!

Don’t Play That Song (You Lied) - Aretha Franklin: Live at The Fillmore West

Don’t Like Goodbyes - Callum Au & Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Series 29, Prog 12

TREES

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Tenderly - Georgia Cécile - Live studio recording

Willow Tree - Mildred Bailey: The Blues Singer (1927-1937)

Gone with the Wind - Frank Sinatra: Sings for Only the Lonely

Poinciana (Song of the Tree) - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge (Vol 2)

I Talk to the Trees - Danny Williams: Moon River

The White Birch and the Sycamore - Peggy Lee: Seas Shells

The Best Is Yet to Come - Todd Gordon & RAF Squadronaires: Evergreen

Lullaby of the Leaves - Keely Smith: Politely

Peach Trees - Rufus Wainwright: Want Two

The Apple Tree - Matt Monro: Stranger in Paradise - The Lost New York Sessions

(Ah the Apple Trees) When the World was Young - Blossom Dearie: Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott’s

Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me) - Barry Manilow: Singin’ with the Big Bands

Willow Weep for Me - Lena Horne: Feelin’ Good

The Sweetheart Tree - Steve Lawrence: The Steve Lawrence Show

An Olive Tree - Basia: The Sweetest Illusion

Image: Felix Mittermeier

Series 29, Prog 11

A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Judy Garland: Judy

It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House - Peggy Lee: I Like Men!

A Cottage for Sale - Frank Sinatra: No One Cares

Come On Home - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: The Way-Out Voices of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross

House of the Rising Sun - Nina Simone: At the Village Gate

A House is Not a Home - Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love

Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home - Jimmy Rushing: The Jazz Odyssey of James Rushing Esq

I’ll Be Home - Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand

Feels Like Home - Roseanna Vitro: Songs by Randy Newman

Comin’ Home Baby - Mel Tormé: Comin’ Home Baby!

Somewhere Called Home - Norma Winstone: Somewhere Called Home

Bring It on Home to Me - Aretha Franklin: Soul ’69

You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To - Anita O’Day: Anita Swings Cole Porter with Billy May

Come Home - Arthur Prysock with Count Basie & His Orchestra: Arthur Prysock-Count Basie

Take Me Home - Crystal Gayle: One from the Heart (Soundtrack)

Image: Kelly