THE JULE STYNE SONG BOOK
Todd's Turntable - Todd Gordon's weekly radio show devoted to great singers... and all that jazz!
This is the companion blog site to Todd Gordon's popular radio show. Entitled Todd's Turntable, it's a weekly, one-hour show that airs on various FM and Internet radio stations worldwide. To listen to a few examples click on Soundcloud or Mixcloud in the links section.
Thursday 21 March 2024
Series 27, Prog 9
Thursday 14 March 2024
Series 27, Prog 8
PATERNAL INFLUENCES
Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com
Papa Loves Mambo - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings… (EP)
Fine Fat Daddy - Dinah Washington: Sings Bessie Smith
My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole
Father of Girls - Perry Como: In Person (at the International Hotel, Las Vegas)
Shack Daddy - Betty Jean Morris: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar - Woody Herman: The Many Faces of Boogie Woogie
Poppa Don’t Preach to Me - Lena Horne: Lena Sings Your Requests
Wailin’ Daddy - Mabel Scott: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller
Cool Kind of Papa (Good Kind Daddy) - Mildred Anderson & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis: Person to Person
Goodbye, Daddy, Goodbye - Barbara Dane: On My Way
Aggravatin' Papa (Don’t You Try to Two-Time Me) - Pearl Bailey: More Songs for Adults Only
Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes: Today I Sing the Blues
Daddy - Della Reese: Della Cha Cha Cha
A Piece of Sky - Barbra Streisand: Yentl (Soundtrack)
Honest Papas Love Their Mamas Better - Fats Domino: Fats Is Back
Salty Papa Blues - Dinah Washington: The Best in Blues
My Father - Nina Simone: Baltimore
My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) - Mae West: The Fabulous Mae West
Photo: Dan Gold
Thursday 7 March 2024
Series 27, Prog 7
THE GOOD EARTH
Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com
Mississippi Mud - Ray Charles: The Genius Hits the Road
This Bitter Earth - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable (A Tribute to Dinah Washington)
Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield - Lou Rawls: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
La Gadoue - Jane Birkin: Birkin/Gainsbourg/Le Symphonique
Magic Garden - Johnny Mathis: I’ll Buy You a Star
Fields of Gold - Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: Float Like a Butterfly/The Songs of Sting
Muddy Water - Jimmy Rushing: Jimmy Rushing and the Smith Girls
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning - Ethel Ennis: My Kind of Waltztime
Cotton Fields - The Hi-Lo’s: The Hi-Lo’s Happen to Folk Songs
The Fields of St Etienne - Mary Hopkin: Those Were the Days
Greenfields - The Four Freshmen: Stars in Our Eyes
Abandoned Garden - Salena Jones: Salena Sings Jobim with the Jobims
The Garden of Eden - Frankie Vaughan: single
Down By the Sally Gardens - Clare Teal: Hey Ho
Plant Your Garden - Big Joe Turner: Life Ain’t Easy
A Garden in the Rain - Sarah Vaughan: The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan (The Benny Carter Sessions)
Photo: Tom Fisk
Thursday 29 February 2024
Series 27, Prog 6
THE BETTY COMDEN-ADOLPH GREEN SONG BOOK
Thursday 22 February 2024
Series 27, Prog 5
NOBODY
Thursday 15 February 2024
Series 27, Prog 4
SERENADE
Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com
Serenade - Barbara Long: Soul
A Blues Serenade - Jimmy Witherspoon: ‘Spoon
Charade - Kat Edmonson: Take to the Sky
The Lamplighter’s Serenade - The Four Freshmen: Stars In Our Eyes (Sing Tributes to Great Songs and to the Outstanding Vocal Groups that Originally Recorded Them)
Manhattan Serenade - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra featuring Jo Stafford: The Essence of Tommy Dorsey
Autumn Serenade - Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane: John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
Moonlight Serenade - Frank Sinatra: Moonlight Sinatra
Penthouse Serenade (When We’re Alone) - Dolores Grey: Warm Brandy
Donkey Serenade - Perry Como: Como Swings
Serenade in Blue - Ethel Ennis: Have You Forgotten?
Home in Hawaii (King’s Serenade) - Bing Crosby: Return to Paradise
Sunrise Serenade - The Modernaires: Sing the Great Glenn Miller Instrumentals
Serenade - Della Reese: Classic Della
Soul Serenade - Lou Rawls: I Can’t Make It Alone/The Axelrod Years
Ferry Boat Serenade - The Andrews Sisters: In Hi-Fi
Sleepy Serenade - The Andrews Sisters: 78rpm single
This Is My Song - Frank Sinatra: The World We Knew
The Hut Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade) - Mel Tormé: Musical Sounds are the Best Songs
Photo: Méline Waxx
Thursday 8 February 2024
Series 27, Prog 3
IT’S IN THE GENES! - CELEBRATING GENE DE PAUL & GENE LEES
Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com
Cow-Cow Boogie - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge 3
Afterthoughts - Nancy Wilson: single
Spring, Spring, Spring - Johnny Mercer: Sings Just for Fun
Cocoanuts - Mavis Rivers: Swing Along with Mavis Rivers
You Don’t Know What Love Is - Dick Haymes: Moondreams
I’ll Remember April - Cleo Laine: The April Age
Irresistible You - June Christy: Fair and Warmer
He’s My Guy - Nancy Wilson: Something Wonderful
Lonesome Polecat - Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer: Two of a Kind
Teach Me Tonight - Dinah Washington: Golden Hits (Vol2 )
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) - Stan Getz & João Gilberto & Astrid Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
Song Of The Jet (Samba Do Avião) - Salena Jones: Salena Sings Jobim with the Jobims
Yesterday I Heard The Rain (Esta Tarde Vi Llover) - Tony Bennett: Yesterday I Heard The Rain
Desifinado - Gene Lees: Bridges/Gene Lees Sings The Gene Lees Song Book (bonus track)
Desifinado - Ella Fitzgerald: single
Bridges - Andy Bey: Tuesdays in Chinatown
Waltz for Debby - Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is!
Someone To Light Up My Life (Se Todos Fossem Iquais a Voce) - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra & Company
Gene de Paul (June 17, 1919 - February 27, 1988)
Gene Lees (February 8, 1928 - April 22, 2010)