Saturday, 16 November 2024

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



Friday, 8 November 2024

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




Thursday, 31 October 2024

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



Saturday, 26 October 2024

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



 

Thursday, 17 October 2024

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





Thursday, 10 October 2024

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




Thursday, 3 October 2024

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