Series 29, Prog 1

BLOWING SMOKE!

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

My Last Cigarette - k d lang: Drag

Black Coffee - Julie London: Around Midnight

Smoke Rings - The Mills Brothers: 78rpm single

Smokey Joe’s Café - The Robins: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Dinah Washington: Dinah

Don’t Smoke in Bed - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

These Foolish Things - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

Smoke Dreams - k d lang: Drag

Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories - Jeri Southern: Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories

London By Night - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

Drinking Again - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable (A Tribute to Dinah Washington)

When the World was Young - June Christy: Gone for the Day

Dream - The Pied Pipers: Dream

Gone with the Wind - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Berlin

Why Try to Change Me Now? - Jimmy Scott - Falling In Love Is Wonderful

Smoke Rings - k d lang: Drag

Photo: Petar Starčević

Series 28, Prog 20

MUSIC IS THE MAGIC

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

Magic Is The Moonlight (Te Quiero Dijiste) (aka Muñequita linda - Cute Little Doll) - Rosemary Clooney & Pérez Prado Orchestra: A Touch of Tabasco

Magic Moments - Perry Como: single

It’s Magic - Keely Smith: Swingin’ Pretty

If It’s Magic - Alison Burns & Martin Taylor: 1:AM

Magic Moment - Nat King Cole: Thank You, Pretty Baby

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: Float Like a Butterfly (The Songs of Sting)

Witchcraft - Mark Murphy: Mark Murphy’s Hip Parade

Got That Magic - Peggy Lee: In Love Again

A Magician’s Confession - Sarah Moule: Stormy Emotions

Mister Magic - Tony Bennett: The Complete Improv Recordings

You Do Something to Me - Harry Connick Jr: A Celebration of Cole Porter

The Music Is the Magic - Sarah McKenzie: We Could Be Lovers

This Magic Moment/Dance with Me - Rick James: Rock, Rhythm & Blues

That Old Black Magic - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book

(You’ve Got) That Magic Touch - The Platters: The Fabulous Platters (EP)

The Magic Gift - June Christy: This Time of Year

Love (Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere) - Dean Martin: Cha Cha de Amor

Image: Tima Miroshnichenko

 

Series 28, Prog 19

EVERYTHING

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

Everything Happens for the Best - Billie Holiday: The Real Billie Holiday

Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You - Blossom Dearie: Blossom Dearie

You’re Everything but Mine - Joe Williams: Swingin’ Night at Birdland

Everything I Love - Marlene VerPlanck: Once There was a Moon

Everything Must Change - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

Everything but You - Ella Fitzgerald: The Duke Ellington Song Book

You’re My Everything - Nat King Cole: I Don’t Want to be Hurt Anymore

Everything Happens to Me - Rosemary Clooney: Ring Around Rosie

I’ve Got Just About Everything - Tony Bennett: When Lights are Low

Everything That Happens to You - Lena Horne & Michel Legrand: Lena & Michel

Everything I Have is Yours - Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones: At Basin Street East

Everything’s Been Done Before - Susannah McCorkle & Dave Frischberg: No More Blues

(Everything I Touched Turned to) Gold - Joe Valine: single

You are My Everything - Oliver Bohovic: single

Uptight (Everything’s Alright) - Nancy Wilson: A Touch of Today

Everything I Love - Morgana King: For You, For Me, For Evermore

The Best of Everything - Frank Sinatra: LA is My Lady

Image: Allie Feeley

Series 28, Prog 18

YES AND YES AGAIN...

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

Yes We Can Can - Harry Connick Jr: Oh, My Nola

I Love You, Yes I Do - Chris Connor: I Miss You So

Say ‘Si, Si’ - Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney: Fancy Meeting You Here

Yes - Doris Day & André Previn: Duet

Oh Yes, Take Another Guess - Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra: 78rpm single

She Didn’t Say Yes - Margaret Whiting: Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book (Vol 2)

Yes I Can - Sammy Davis Jr: If I Ruled the World

Yes, I Know When I’ve Had It - Shirley Horn: Travelin’ Light

Yes, Indeed! - Dinah Shore: Dinah, Yes Indeed!

All You Need to Say (Never Say Yes) - Karrin Allyson & Nancy King: Footprints

Yes It Is - The Beatles: single (B-side to Ticket to Ride)

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection

Telling Me Yes, Telling Me No - Peggy Lee & Mel Tormé: single

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby - Buddy Greco: Buddy

Yes - Merry Clayton: Dirty Dancing (Soundtrack)

Yeh Yeh - Jon Hendricks: In Person at The Trident

Yeh Yeh (reprise) - Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames: Yeh Yeh

I Said No - Ella Fitzgerald: Whisper Not

Image: Pixabay

Series 28, Prog 17

ROYAL REFERENCES

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

The King - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Sing Along with Basie

Street of Dreams - Lou Rawls: That’s Lou

The Lady Is a Tramp - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Rodgers & Hart Song Book

You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me - Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!

At Seventeen - Janis Ian: Between the Lines

If I Had You - Johnny Hartman: I Love Everybody

Marie - Judy Collins: Hard Times for Lovers

Star! - Frank Sinatra: Greatest Hits, Vol 2

The Moon Got in My Eyes - Mildred Bailey: Harlem Lullaby

Little Queen - Chuck Berry: single

You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You - Dinah Washington: Dinah ’62

Sun King - The Beatles: Abbey Road

The Other Woman - Nina Simone: Nina Simone at Town Hall

Mythical Kings And Iguanas - Dory Previn: Mythical Kings And Iguanas

The Man I Love - Carmen McRae: Can’t Hide Love

That’s Life (alternate orchestration) - Frank Sinatra: Ultimate Sinatra (The Centennial Collection)

Someday My Prince will Come - Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince will Come

Image: Roman Kaiuk

Series 28, Prog 16

TIP YOUR HAT!

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

A Tip of the Hat - Dena DeRose: Ode to the Road

Putting’ on the Ritz - Fred Astaire: The Astaire Story (Vol 1)

A Straw Hat Full of Lilacs - Barbara Lea: Lea in Love (Bonus Track)

You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker: The Best of Joe Cocker

Top Hat, White Tie and Tails - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book

Gonna Buy a Hat - Chris Rea: Dancing with Strangers

The Ladies Who Lunch - Eydie Gormé: single

They Can’t Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday: Body and Soul

Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home) - Marvin Gaye: The Complete Mowtown Singles Vol 9 (1969)

Misty - Sarah Vaughan: Sassy Swings The Tivoli

Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat - Bob Dylan: single

I Can’t Get Started - Hildegarde: 78rpm single

On the Sunny Side of the Street - Ella Fitzgerald: JATP in Tokyo (Live at The Nichigeki Theatre 1953)

High Hat - Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Cleo Laine: Born on a Friday

Photo: Bunyamin Cicek

Series 28, Prog 15

TAKING TO THE ROAD

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

Eight Days on the Road - Aretha Franklin: Let Me in Your Life

Down the Road Apiece - Will Bradley Trio: The Many Faces of Boogie Woogie

Hit the Road to Dreamland - Pearl Bailey & Louie Bellson: Pearl Bailey & Louie Bellson in New York

The Lonesome Road - Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love

King of the Road - Jack Jones: My Kind of Town

The Long and Winding Road - Peggy Lee: Make It with You

Another Road - Mary Hopkin: Another Road

On the Road to Mandalay - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

Waiting at the End of the Road - Susannah McCorkle: Let’s Face the Music/The Songs of Irving Berlin

Hit the Road, Jack - Ray Charles: single

Old Dirt Road - John Lennon & Harry Nilsson: Walls and Bridges

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

Two for the Road - George Shearing: Two for the Road (with Carmen McRae)

Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road - Georgia Brown with Ted Heath & His Orchestra: Georgia Brown

(We’re Off on) The Road to Morocco - Bing Crosby & Bob Hope: 78rpm single

One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

The Road Less Travelled - Clare Teal & Jamie Cullum: The Road Less Travelled 

Photo: Max Andrey