Friday 29 November 2019

Series 16, Prog 5

ALL GOOD WISHES

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

I Wish I Were In Love Again - Frank Sinatra: A Swingin’ Affair!
I Wish I’d Met You - Nancy Wilson: RSVP
How I Wish - Carmen McRae: Live at Umbria Jazz
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful
I Wish I Knew - Tina May: My Kinda Love
I Wished On the Moon - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers
Wish You Were Here - Glen Campbell: Ghost On the Canvas (bonus track)
When You Wish Upon a Star - Linda Ronstadt: For Sentimental Reasons
Wishing Will Make It So - Mark Murphy: Playing the Field
A Wish - Norma Winstone: Songs & Lullabies
Wish I Was Back In My Baby’s Arms - Lena Horne: Lena Sings Your Requests
More I Cannot Wish You - Clark Dennis: Guys and Dolls (Reprise Repertory Theater)
Wishin’ and Hopin’ - Dusty Springfield: Going Back
I Wish You Love - Blossom Dearie: May I Come In?
Mr Wishing Well - Nat King Cole: Thank You, Pretty Baby
I Wish - Stevie Wonder: Songs In the Key of Life

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Thursday 21 November 2019

Series 16, Prog 4

THOUGHT PROCESSES

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

Thinking of You - Sarah Vaughan: After Hours
I Think I Like You - Sammy Davis Jr: Sings the Complete Dr Doolittle
I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful) - The Mills Brothers & Count Basie: The Board of Directors
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today - Cleo Laine: Born On a Friday
Sometimes I Think I Do - Jimmy Rushing: If It Ain’t the Blues
I Thought About You - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook
All I Think About Is You - Harry Nilsson: Knnillssonn
Think About Your Troubles - Lena Horne: Nature’s Baby
A Woman’s Intuition - Lee Wiley: Back Home Again
I Think of You - Perry Como: I Think of You
I Think of You - Frank Sinatra: Where Are You?
I’ll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him - Peggy Lee: Big Spender
It Ain’t What You’re Thinkin’ - Jimmy Witherspoon: Singin’ the Blues
The Very Thought of You - Shirley Horne: You’re My Thrill
Think How It’s Gonna Be - Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett’s Something 

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Saturday 16 November 2019

Series 16, Prog 3

ALL ABOUT RAIN

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

September In the Rain - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra's Swingin' Session
Singin' In the Rain - Lena Horne: Lena In Hollywood
Yesterday I Heard the Rain - Tony Bennett: Yesterday I Heard the Rain
Walk Between Raindrops - Mel Tormé & The Marty Paich Dek-tette: Reunion
Before the Rain - Nancy Wilson: A Touch of Today
After the Rain - Shirley Bassey: The Performance
Come In From the Rain - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel
A Garden In the Rain - Sarah Vaughan: The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan
Raining In My Heart - Liane Carroll: Ballads
I Get the Blues When It Rains - Big Joe Turner: Big Joe Rides Again
Here's That Rainy Day - Sue Rainey: All By Myself
I Can't Stand the Rain - Lowell George: Thanks, I'll Eat It Here
I Think It's Going to Rain Today - Maxine Weldon: Chilly Wind
Rain - The Four Freshmen: Four Freshmen & Five Guitars
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie: Ella & Basie!
Rainin' - Bobby Darin: Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile
Come Rain or Come Shine - Chet Baker: Embraceable You
Every Time It Rains - Jacqui Dankworth: Back to You

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Saturday 9 November 2019

Series 16, Prog 2

A CENTURY OR SO AGO…

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

A Hundred Years from Today - Helen Humes: Sneakin' Around
Darktown Strutters Ball - Alberta Hunter: Amtrak Blues
Careless Love - Harry Connick Jr: Oh, My Nola
Indiana - Lee Wiley: Back Home Again
After You've Gone - Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall
Someday Sweetheart - Dinah Shore & Red Norvo: Dinah Sings Some Blues with Red
Some of These Days - Jimmy Rushing: The Jazz Odessy of James Rushing, Esq
I Ain't Got Nobody - Teresa Brewer & Count Basie: The Songs of Bessie Smith
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home - Ella Fitzgerald: single
That's A-Plenty - Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald: Swingin' with Bing/Lost Radio Performances
Chinatown, My Chinatown - The Hi-Lo's: Under Glass
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine: Sing the Best of Irving Berlin 
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve (Disc 10)
Poor Butterfly - Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington: Francis A & Edward K
Frankie and Johnny - Anita O'Day: An Evening with Anita O'Day

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Saturday 2 November 2019

Series 16, Prog 1

FEEL THE WARMTH: ALL ABOUT THE SUN

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

Sunshine of Your Love - Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love
Midnight Sun - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza
On the Sunny Side of the Street - Keely Smith: Politely
Golden Brazilian Sun - The Hi-Lo's: The Hi-Lo's Happen to Bossa Nova
Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge (Vol 1)
Canadian Sunset - Andy Williams: The Wonderful World of Andy Williams
Here Comes the Sun - Nina Simone: Here Comes the Sun
Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles: Revolver
At Sundown - Morgana King: The Greatest Songs Ever Swung
I Like the Sunrise - Mel Tormé: I Dig The Duke/I Dig The Count
I've Got the Sun in the Morning - Bing Crosby: The Complete Radio Duets
Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise - June Christy: Something Cool (stereo version)
Walking In the Sun - Barb Jungr: Walking In the Sun
Sunrise, Sunset - Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is!
When the Sun Comes Out - Ann Richards: The Many Moods of Ann Richards
You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Ella Fitzgerald: Montreux '77

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com