Saturday, 29 March 2025

Series 30, Prog 2

HOW LONG, HOW LONG…

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

It’s Been So Long - Jo Stafford: single
Alone Too Long - Mark Murphy: Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields & Cy Coleman
It’s Been a Long, Long Time - Harry James & His Orchestra featuring Helen Forrest: Harry James in Hi-Fi
As Long As I’m Singing - Bobby Darin: Ultra-Lounge Artist Series
It Takes Too Long to Learn to Live Alone - Peggy Lee: Norman Dolores Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota
You Came a Long Way from St Louis - Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney: Fancy Meeting You Here
All Night Long - Shirley Horn: You’re My Thrill
As Long as I Live - Ernestine Anderson: Never Make Your Move Too Soon
As Long as There’s Music - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra in Hollywood: 1940-1964
Don’t Wait Too Long - Blossom Dearie: May I Come In?
Long Ago and Far Away - Margaret Whiting: Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book (Vol 2)
I’ll Get By (As Long as I Have You) - Jackie Paris: The Jackie Paris Sound
At Long Last Love - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole
How Long Has This Been Going On? - Elaine Delmar: But Beautiful
As Long as She Needs Me - Sammy Davis Jr: That’s All
How Long, How Long Blues - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

Photo: Thomas Brenac




Thursday, 27 March 2025

Series 30, Prog 1

LIQUID REFRESHMENT

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

Cocktails for Two - Keely Smith: Politely
The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding, Ding!
You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me - Anita O’Day: An Evening with Anita O’Day
It Never Entered My Mind - Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson: Double Exposure
I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water - Barbara Morrison: Live at The Dakota (Vol 2)
Corn Whiskey - Jimmy Witherspoon: single
Drinking Water (Agua de Beber) - Astrud Gilberto: The Astrud Gilberto Album
Tea for Two - Sylvia Syms: Sylvia Syms Sings
Little Ol’ Wine Drinker, Me - Dean Martin: single
A Wet Night (and a Dry Martini) - Cynthia Crane & Mike Renzi: Smoky Bar Songs (For the No-Smoking Section)
Me and My Gin (aka Gin House Blues) - Nina Simone: Forbidden Fruit
Days of Wine and Roses - Peggy Lee: Mink Jazz
Pink Champagne - Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey, Mrs Jones
You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday Sings
Gimme That Wine - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: The Hottest New Group in Jazz
Hard Hearted Hannah - Ella Fitzgerald: Pete Kelly’s Blues (Soundtrack)
Rum and Coca-Cola - The Andrews Sisters: In Hi-Fi
Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer) - La Vern Baker: Sings Bessie Smith

Image: Pixabay




 

Thursday, 20 March 2025

Series 29, Prog 20

FUN! FUN! FUN!

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

Funny (But I Still Love You) - Ray Charles: Hallelujah, I Love Her So!
Ain’t We Got Fun - Peggy Lee: Jump for Joy
Fun to Be Fooled - Jackie Paris: Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
Funnier Than Funny - Nancy Wilson: Gentle Is My Love
Funny (Not Much) - Buddy Greco: Big Band and Ballads
Funny What Love Can Do - Bobby Darin: single
My Funny Valentine - Carmen McRae: After Glow
She’s Funny That Way - Frank Sinatra: Nice ’n’ Easy
Funny Face - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book
This Funny World - Tony Bennett: Sings... Life Is Beautiful (The Complete Improv Recordings)
All in Fun - Tony Bennett: The Art of Romance
Getting Some Fun Out of Life - Carol Sloane: Love You Madly
What a Funny Girl (You Used to Be) - Frank Sinatra: Watertown
Funny World - Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is!
Are We Just Having Fun - Sarah Moule: Stormy Emotions
Just for the Fun of It - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things
I’ve Had My Fun - Ray Charles: The Greatest Collection Ever Made

Photo: Alex Dummer







Series 29, Prog 19

JIMMY VAN HEUSEN SONG BOOK

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


I Thought About You - Johnny Hartman: And I Thought About You

Darn That Dream - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Gently with Nelson

Heaven Can Wait - Dean Martin: This Time I’m Swingin’

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

But Beautiful - Jacqui Dankworth: Detour Ahead

Swinging on a Star - Mark Murphy: Playing the Field

Moonlight Becomes You - Dick Haymes: Moonbeams

Here’s That Rainy Day - Sammy Davis Jr: Sammy Davis Jr Sings, Laurindo Mlmeida Plays

Come Fly with Me - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

All the Way - Clairdee: Music Moves

Love and Marriage - Peggy Lee: Olé ala Lee!

Call Me Irresponsible - The Four Freshmen: More 4 Freshmen with 5 Trombones

Come Dance with Me - Shirley Horn: Shirley Horn with Horns

Only the Lonely - Liane Carroll: Ballads

(Love Is) The Tender Trap - Mel Tormé: At The Crescendo

I’ll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her - Matt Monro: Stranger in Paradise (The Lost New York Sessions)

The Second Time Around - Ernestine Anderson & George Shearing: A Perfect Match

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


Jimmy Van Heusen 

(January 26, 1913 - February 6, 1990)




Thursday, 27 February 2025

Series 29, Prog 18

SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG

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


Together (Wherever We Go) - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé: We Got Us

Together - Frank Sinatra: All Alone

I Love You - Julie London: Julie is Her Name

I Love You - Billy Eckstine: Once More with Feeling

I Love You - Earl: single

Tonight - Michael Dees with Don Trenner & His Orchestra: Michael Dees Sings Steve Allen

Tonight - Nancy Wilson: Broadway My Way

To Know You Is to Love You - Thelma Houston & The Pressure Cooker: I’ve Got the Music in Me

To Know You (Is to Love You) - Perry Como: Como Swings

(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook

Close to You - Frank Sinatra: Close to You

Don’t Wait Too Long - Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love

Don’t Wait Too Long - Blossom Dearie: May I Come In?

What a Wonderful World - Tony Bennett & k d lang: A Wonderful World

(What a) Wonderful World - Art Garfunkel: 

Why - Louise Phelan: Moments of Light

Why - Clare Teal: Hey Ho


Photo: Tembela Bohle



Friday, 21 February 2025

Series 29, Prog 17

TENDER

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

(Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra: This Is Sinatra!
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You - Billie Holiday: Music for Torching
Love’s Been Good to Me - Nina Simone: A Single Woman
Be Easy, Be Tender - Ann Richards: The Many Moods of Ann Richards
There’s Love - Nat King Cole: L-O-V-E
Tender as a Rose - Carol Stevens with Phil Moore’s Music: That Satin Doll
Yellow Days - Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett’s “Something”
Tenderly - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis
The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella
Tender Is the Night - Steve Lawrence: Love Songs from the Movies
The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) - Dinah Shore: Dinah, Yes Indeed!
Love Me Tender - Barb Jungr: Love Me Tender
Begin the Beguine - Perry Como: Como Swings
Try a Little Tenderness - Peggy Lee: unreleased single
I Concentrate on You - Judy Garland: Judy In Love

Image: Designecologist



Thursday, 13 February 2025

Series 29, Prog 16

UNCONVENTIONAL VOICES

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


I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven with You - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul

This One’s from the Heart - Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle: One from The Heart (Soundtrack)

I Still Suits Me - Bobby Troup: The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup

I Wanna Be Loved by You - Marilyn Monroe: Some Like It Hot! (Soundtrack)

That’s Life - Alan Cumming: I Bought a Blue Car Today

I’ll See You in My Dreams - Jimmy Durante: Jimmy Durante’s Way of Life

Everyone’s in Love with You - David Byrne: Look into the Eyeball

I’m in the Mood for Love - Mae West: The Fabulous Mae West

Lullaby in Ragtime - Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night

So, Relax - Leon Redbone: Sugar

Bo Mambo - Yma Sumac: Mambo!

C’est Si Bon - Louis Armstrong: Satchmo Serenades

Roll ‘Em Pete - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

You’ll Be Sorry - Big Maybelle: The Okeh Sessions

Good Night, Irene - Dr John: Goin’ Back to New Orleans

Honeysuckle Rose - Marlene Dietrich: Dietrich In London

The Time of Your Life - Randy Newman: A Bug’s Life (Soundtrack)


Photo: Jaasiel Mora