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

Series 28, Prog 14

SONGS ABOUT SONGS

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

A Song for You - Ray Charles: My World

I’ve Heard That Song Before - Helen Forrest & Harry James Orchestra: Harry James in Hi-Fi

Brazilian Love Song - Nat King Cole: single

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Mildred Bailey: Harlem Lullaby

The Hut Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade) - Mel Tormé: Musical Sounds are the Best Songs

Deep Song - Billie Holiday: Love Songs

The Coffee Song - Sam Cooke: Cooke’s Tour

Killing Me Softly with His Song - Lori Lieberman: Lori Lieberman

The Alley Cat Song - Peggy Lee: I’m a Woman

Moon Song - Frank Sinatra: Moonlight Sinatra

The Song Is You - Nancy Wilson: Yesterday’s Love Songs, Today’s Blues

Night Song - Sammy Davis Jr: If I Ruled the World

With a Song in My Heart - Sue Raney: A Tribute to Doris Day/Heart’s Desire

The Moonbeam Song - Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson

I Feel a Song Coming On - Judy Garland: Judy

September Song - The Mills Brothers: The Mills Bros. Sing

Without a Song - Keely Smith: Keely Sings Sinatra

Summer Song - Dave Brubeck & Carmen McRae: The Real Ambassadors

The Song Is Ended - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

Image: Pixabay

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WALTER DONALDSON SONG BOOK

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

It’s Been So Long - Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring Helen Ward: 78rpm single

Did I Remember? - Nancy Wilson: Hollywood My Way

Sleepy Head - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats

Mister Meadowlark - Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer: Personality 

Cuckoo in the Clock - Lena Horne: Lena Like Latin

At Sundown - Morgana King: The Greatest Songs Ever Swung

My Mammy - Liza Minnelli: Liza with a “Z”

'Tain't No Sin (To Dance Around In Your Bones) - Mark Murphy: Let Yourself Go

What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry - Keely Smith: Swingin’ Pretty

Little White Lies - Dick Haymes: Rain or Shine

My Buddy - Claire Martin: Secret Love

You’re Driving Me Crazy - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

Carolina in the Morning - Dinah Shore: Dinah Down Home

My Blue Heaven - Sy Oliver & His Orchestra & Chorus: Jimmie Lunceford in Hi-Fi

Makin’ Whoopee! - Dinah Washington: The Swingin’ Miss “D”

I’ve Had My Moments - Frank Sinatra: Close to You

Love Me or Leave Me - Peggy Lee: Black Coffee

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby - Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the Night

Walter Donaldson

February 15, 1893 – July 15, 1947

Series 28, Prog 12

LOST

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

I’m Lost - Arthur Prysock with Count Basie & His Orchestra: Arthur Prysock-Count Basie

You’ve Lost that Loving’ Feeling’ - Nancy Wilson: Today - My Way

Lost in Another Time - Norma Winstone & Fred Hersch: Songs & Lullabies

Lost in a Fog - Tommy Leonetti with Marion Evans & His Orchestra: Dream Street

Let’s Get Lost - Callum Au & Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Lost for Words - Claire Martin: Time & Place

Lost in a Memory of You - Connie Conway: The Very Best of Connie Conway

Lost in a Summer Night - June Christy: Gone for the Day

When I Lost You - Tony Bennett: Bennett/Berlin

I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City - Peggy Lee: Blues Cross Country with Quincy Jones

Lost in You - Liza Minnelli: Gently

Is it Better to Have Loved and Lost? - Nat King Cole: Looking Back (sans rhythm)

I Got Lost in His Arms - Marion Montgomery & Laurie Holloway: Skylark

Lost Up in Loving You - Carmen McRae: Can’t Hide Love

Lost in the Stars - Frank Sinatra: The Concert Sinatra 

Image: Pixabay

Series 28, Prog 11

IN THE KNOW

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

How Am I to Know - Rosemary Clooney & Nelson Riddle: Rosie Solves the Swingin’ Riddle!

Don’t Know If I’m Comin’ or Goin’ - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra: 78rpm single 

For All We Know - Nat King Cole: The Very Thought of You

I Don’t Know How to Love Him - Peggy Lee: Where Did They Go

The First Thing You Know You’re in Love - June Christy: Something Cool

Don’t You Know - Ray Charles: Hallelujah I Love Her So

More Than You Know - Beverly Kenney: Like Yesterday

(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know - Dena DeRose: Travelin' Light (Live in Antwerp, Belgium)

I Don’t Know About You - Mark Murphy: Playing the Field

Getting to Know You - Gloria Lynne: This Little Boy of Mine

Do You Want to Know a Secret - Keely Smith: Sings the John Lennon & Paul McCartney Songbook

I Know - Fats Domino: Fats Is Back

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

You Don’t Know Me - Nancy Wilson: Welcome to My Love

The Summer Knows - Frank Sinatra: Some Nice Things I’ve Missed

You Better Know It - Nina Simone: Sings Duke Ellington

Some Cats Know - Peggy Lee: Sings Leiber & Stoller (aka Mirrors)

Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans - Rosemary Clooney: Dedicated to Nelson

Photo: Adib Own