Series 29, Prog 7

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2024

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

It Looks a Lot Like Christmas - Bob Saker & Bill Conner: Swingin’ Christmas

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song

Snowfall - Doris Day: The Doris Day Christmas Album

The Christmas Blues - Dean Martin: Holiday Cheer

Little Drummer Boy - Lou Rawls: Merry Christmas - Ho! Ho! Ho!

The Secret of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald: single

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Andy Williams: The Andy Williams Christmas Album

Cool Yule - John Sheridan’s Dream Band featuring Rebecca Kilgore

I’ll Be Home for Christmas - Frank Sinatra: A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

Hooray for Christmas - Janet Seidel: Hooray for Christmas

White Christmas - Perry Como: Season’s Greetings from Perry Como

Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - The Mills Brothers: Merry Christmas

Christmas in San Francisco - Vic Damone: single

The Merriest - June Christy: This Time of Year

No Room at the Inn - Mahalia Jackson: Christmas with Mahalia

Let Me Be the First (to Wish You Merry Christmas) - Steve Lawrence: That Holiday Feeling!

Santa Claus Is Back in Town - Elvis Presley & Wynnona Judd: Christmas Duets

Winter Weather - Jo Stafford: Happy Holiday

Image: Brigitte Tohm

Series 29, Prog 6

ALONE AGAIN

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

Trav’lin’ All Alone - Billy Eckstine & Count Basie: Basie/Eckstine Incorporated

Alone Together - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

Alone Too Long - Nat King Cole: Sings Ballads of the Day

Alone on My Own - Ernestine Anderson: When the Sun Goes Down

I Can’t Make It Alone - Lou Rawls: Your Good Thing

When Your Lover Has Gone - Keely Smith: I Wish You Love

Alone - Johnny Hartman: And I Though About You

I’ll Walk Alone - Nancy Wilson: But Beautiful

A Man Alone - Frank Sinatra: A Man Alone

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

Alone in Paris - Michael Dees: The Michael Dees Affair

It Takes Too Long to Learn to Live Alone - Peggy Lee: Norma Delores Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota

Bird Alone - Sheila Jordan: Little Jazz

Penthouse Serenade - Dolores Gray: Warm Brandy

Alone Again (Naturally) - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Image: Domen Mirtič Dolenec

 

Series 29, Prog 5

CHICAGO

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

Goin’ to Chicago Blues - Peggy Lee & The Quincy Jones Orchestra: Blues Cross Country

When the Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie

Chicago Style - Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald & Bill Taylor: Swingin’ with Bing (Bing Crosby’s Lost Radio Performances)

On the South Side of Chicago - Vic Damone: On the South Side of Chicago

Chicago - Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall

Dead End Street - Lou Rawls: Too Much!

My Kind of Town - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra at the Sands

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce: Life and Times

Put the Blame on Mame - Anita Ellis: The World in My Arms

Just Blew In from the Windy City - Doris Day: Calamity Jane (Soundtrack)

Red Hot Chicago - The Hot Air Men: 78rpm single

Dancing in the Street - The Mamas and The Papas: single

She was in Chicago - John Lee Hooker: She was in Chicago

Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson: 78rpm single

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrews Sisters: Andrews Sisters in Hi-Fi

In the Ghetto (aka The Vicious Circle) - Elvis Presley: single

Gone to Chicago - The Pied Pipers: single

Born in Chicago - The Butterfield Blues Band: single

Chi-Chi-Chi-Chicago - Nellie Lutcher: single

Image: Cam Casey

Series 29, Prog 4

THROUGH THE NIGHT

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

All Through the Night - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Cole Porter Songbook

Blues in the Night (Parts 1 & 2) - Billy May & His Orchestra featuring Trummy Young - Jimmie Lunceford in Hi-Fi

The Night We Called It a Day - Callum Au & Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Black Night - Frank Sinatra Jr: Spice

Every Night - Peggy Lee: single

Night Time Is the Right Time - Joe Williams: Presenting Joe Williams & Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

Summer Night - Helen Carr: Why Do I Love You?

In the Still of the Night - Steve Lawrence & Nelson Riddle: Portrait of Steve

Night and Day - Clare Teal: Live at Ebenezer Chapel

Lonely Night in Paris - The Four Freshmen: Freshmen Favorites

In the Heat of the Night - Nancy Wilson: Welcome to My Love

Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever - Frank D’Rone with Billy May & His Orchestra: After the Ball

Thief in the Night - Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg: The Starlit Hour

The Morning After the Night Before - Ann Richards with Stan Kenton & His Orchestra: Two Much!

You and the Night and the Music - Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding Ding!

Image: Lukas Hartmann

Series 29, Prog 3

HEY! HEY! HEY!

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

Hey, Good Looking’ - Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music

Hey, John - Carmen McRae: Ms Jazz

Hey, Laura - Gregory Porter: Live in Berlin

Hey, Baby - Rosemary Clooney with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Blue Rose

Hey, Baby - Lucy Yeghiarazaryan & Vanisha Gould featuring Richard Cortez: In Her Words

Hey, Little Girl - Big Joe Turner: Things That I Used to Do

Hey Look, No Crying - Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down

Hey, Love - Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines & Marva Josie - Jazz Is His Old Lady… and My Old Man

Hey, There - Sammy Davis Jr: Mr Wonderful!

Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye - ChristineTobin: A Thousand Kisses Deep

Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl! - Louis Prima & Keely Smith: Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl!

Hey, Look Me Over - Mel Tormé & Margaret Whiting: Broadway, Right Now !

Hey! Stop Kissing’ My Sister - Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller: Fun with Fats

Hey! Jealous Lover - Frank Sinatra: This Is Sinatra - Vol 2

Hey, Mrs Jones - Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey, Mrs Jones

If Love Were All - Ian Shaw: Somewhere Towards Love

Hey, Lawdy Mama - Dakota Staton: ‘Round Midnight

Image: Marcus Spiske

Series 29, Prog 2

SLEEPING

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

Sleepy Time Gal - Dinah Shore: Dinah Sings, Previn Plays

Two Sleepy People - Jean Sablon with Django Reinhardt: single

Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep - Lena Horne: Give the Lady What She Wants

A Sleep with No Dreaming - k d lang: Sing It Loud

Sleepy Head - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats

A Sleepin’ Bee - Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley: Nancy Wilson with Cannonball Adderley

Rock Me to Sleep - Irene Kral: Just for Now

I’ll Sleep Tonight - Vic Damone: On the South Side of Chicago

Night After Night - Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent: Quiet Is the Star

The City Never Sleeps at Night - Nancy Sinatra: single

Sleep Warm - Dean Martin: Sleep Warm

I Go to Sleep - Peggy Lee: That Was Then, Now Is Now

Hit the Road to Dreamland - Betty Hutton: single

I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night - Frank Sinatra: Close to You

When It’s Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Armstrong: Satchmo in Style

I’m Only Sleeping - Bob Belden Orchestra featuring Holly Cole: Bob Belden Presents Strawberry Fields

There’s a Small Hotel - Elaine Delmar: But Beautiful

Have a Nice Day - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ’n Basie

Photo: Christian Domingues

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