Series 33, Prog 14

THE BILLIE HOLIDAY SONG BOOK

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

Now or Never - Billie Holiday with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra: 78rpm single

Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues

Who Needs You - Ineza Kerschkamp with Alex Webb & The Copasetics: Women’s Words, Sisters’ Stories

Don’t Explain - Lorez Alexandria & Ramsay Lewis: Early In the Morning

Please Don’t Do It In Here - Laurie Krauz: Catch Me If You Can

Somebody’s On My Mind - Billie Holiday with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra: 78rpm single

Long Gone Blues - Lou Rawls: The Best Of Lou Rawls/The Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions (previously unreleased)

God Bless the Child - Liza Minnelli: Liza with a “Z”

Stormy Blues - Billie Holiday: Stormy Blues

Preacher Boy - Rose Ellis (aka Roos Plaatsman): Like Songs, Like Moons

Everything a Good Man Needs - Carmen McRae: Live at Montreux

Our Love Is Different - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra: 78rpm single

Left Alone - Abbey Lincoln: Straight Ahead

Everything Happens for the Best - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra: 78rpm single

Billie’s Blues (I Love My Man) - Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth By Day

Fine and Mellow - Ella Fitzgerald: A Perfect Match

Billie Holiday 

(April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959) 

Photo by Carl Van Vechten (1949)

Series 33, Prog 13

THE ALAN JAY LERNER SONG BOOK

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

Show Me - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Sings Broadway

Gigi - Billy Eckstine: Imagination

I Remember It Well - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé: We Got Us

If Ever I Would Leave You - Irene Reid: Room for One More

Too Late Now - Denise Donatelli: Soul Shadows

What Did I Have That I Don't Have - Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich: The Sounds of ’66

I Could Have Danced All Night - Peggy Lee: Latin ale Lee

Wouldn’t It Be Loverly - Lena Horne: Here’s Lena Now!

Some People - Gerard Kenny: Time Between the Time

Almost Like Being in Love - Lorez Alexandria: Deep Roots

Here I’ll Stay - Bobby Darin: For Teenagers Only

Get Me to the Church On Time - Rosemary Clooney & Nelson Riddle: Rosie Solves the Swingin’ Riddle!

I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore - Maurice Chevalier: Gigi (Soundtrack)

The Heather On the Hill - Norma Winstone: Manhattan in the Rain

Follow Me - Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington: Francis A & Edward K

On the Street Where You Live - Jacqui Dankworth: Detour Ahead

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Dean Martin: This Time I’m Swingin’

Alan Jay Lerner 

(August 31, 1918 - June 14, 1986)

Series 33, Prog 12

THE DOROTHY FIELDS SONG BOOK

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

On the Sunny Side of the Street - Frank Sinatra: Come Swing with Me!

This Is It - Judy Garland: Judy in Love

Alone Too Long - Susannah McCorkle

Exactly Like You - Jimmy Rushing & Count Basie’s Orchestra (78rpm single)

Two Faces in the Dark - Carmen McRae: When You’re Away

Have Feet Will Dance - Maxine Sullivan: The Lady's In Love With You: Maxine Sullivan Sings The Music of Burton Lane

Pick Yourself Up - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Quintet Plays

The Way You Look Tonight - Billie Holiday: The Real Billie Holiday

Big Spender - Peggy Lee: Big Spender

My Personal Property - Sammy Davis Jr: I’ve Gotta Be Me

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love - Pearl Bailey: Songs of the Bad Old Days

Don’t Blame Me - Mark Murphy: Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman

I Won’t Dance - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

You Couldn’t Be Cuter - Margaret Whiting: Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book - Vol 2

I’ll Buy You a Star - Johnny Mathis: I’ll Buy You a Star

Love Is the Reason - Blossom Dearie: Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs

Remind Me - Joyce Breach & Richard Rodney Bennett: Lovers After All

It's Not Where You Start (It's Where You Finish) - Bing Crosby: single

I’m in the Mood for Love - Julie London: Julie Is Her Name

Dorothy Fields 

(July 15, 1904 - March 28, 1974)

Series 33, Prog 11

THE HENRY MANCINI SONG BOOK

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

Mr Lucky - Sarah Vaughan - Viva! Vaughan

Days of Wine and Roses - Monica Mancini & Patrick Williams Orchestra: Monica Mancini

Dear Heart - Peggy Lee: Pass Me By

Dreamsville - Tommy Sands: Dream with Me

Six Bridges to Cross - Dinah Washington: Dinah Discovered

All His Children - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ’n Basie

Slow and Easy - Lola Albright & Henry Mancini: Dreamsville

Moment to Moment - Frank Sinatra: Reprise Studio Recordings (Disc 10)

The Loss of Love - Janet Seidel: Charade/The Henry Mancini Songbook

(I Love You) Don’t You Forget It - Perry Como: Love Makes the World Go Around

Free and Easy - Bobby Troup: Bobby Troup and His Stars of Jazz

Sometimes, Not Often - Carol Kidd: Crazy for Gershwin

Sorta Blue - Lola Albright & Henry Mancini: Dreamsville

Moon River - The Four Freshmen: In Person (Vol 2)

Peter Gunn - Sarah Vaughan: Sings the Mancini Songbook

A Slow Hot Wind - Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is!

Smile Away Each Rainy Day - The Mills Brothers: In Motion

Two for the Road - Peggy Lee: Raindrops

Charade - Harry Connick Jr: Come By Me

Henry Mancini

(April 16, 1924 - June 14, 1994)

Series 33, Prog 10

THE MITCHELL PARISH SONG BOOK

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

Deep Purple - Janet Seidel: Moon of Manakoola

Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu) - Steve Lawrence: Winners

Stars Fell on Alabama - Claire Martin & Callum Au: Songs and Stories

A Blue Serenade - Joe Williams: Have a Good Time with Joe Williams

Don’t Be That Way - Ann Richards & Stan Kenton: Two Much!

Moonlight Serenade - Frank Sinatra: Moonlight Sinatra

If Dreams Come True - Billie Holiday: The Real Bille Holiday

Stardust - Nat King Cole: Love Is the Thing

Hands Across the Table - Gloria Lynne: Lonely and Sentimental

Sweet Lorraine - Charlie Wood: Lush Life

The Lamp Is Low - Sarah Vaughan: Live at the 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival

Stairway to the Stars - Johnny Hartman: I Just Dropped By to Say Hello

Take Me in Your Arms - Abbey Lincoln: Early Years: The Albums Collection 1957-61 (Abbey Lincoln's Affair... A Story Of A Girl In Love)

Let Me Love You Tonight (No Te Importe Saber) - Dean Martin: Cha Cha de Amor

Sophisticated Lady - Diane Schuur: In Tribute

Mood Indigo - Nina Simone: Let It All Out

Sleigh Ride - Harry Connick Jr: When My Heart Finds Christmas

Corrine, Corrina - Jimmy Witherspoon: Witherspoon/Mulligan/Webster at the Renaissance

Mitchell Parish - born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky

(July 10, 1900 - March 31, 1993)

Series 33, Prog 9

THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM SONG BOOK

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

All I Need Is the Girl - Frank Sinatra with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Francis A & Edward K

Small World - Barbara Long with Herb Geller & His All-Stars: Selections from Gypsy

Together (Wherever We Go) - Peggy Lee: Olé ala Lee

Not While I’m Around - Kurt Elling: Flirting with Twilight

Old Friend - Lena Horne: An Evening with Lena Horne (Live at The Supper Club)

Broadway Baby - Elaine Stritch: Follies in Concert

West Side Story Medley - Sammy Davis Jr & Johnny Mendoza: At The Cocoanut Grove

The Ladies Who Lunch - Eydie Gormé: single

Send In the Clowns - Carmen McRae: Live at Bubba’s!

Everything’s Coming Up Roses - Johnny Mathis: The Rhythms of Broadway

One Hand, One Heart - Kiri Te Kanawa & José Carreras: West Side Story

Somewhere - Aretha Franklin: Aretha’s Jazz

Good Thing Going - Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down

Stephen Sondheim

(March 22, 1930 - November 26, 2021)

Series 3, Prog 8

THE JOSEPH McCARTHY SENIOR & JUNIOR SONG BOOKS

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

I’m in the Market for You - Teddi King: Now in Vogue

You Made Me Love You - Steve Lawrence: Songs Everybody Knows

Alice Blue Gown - Joni James: Among My Souvenirs

I’m Always Chasing Rainbows - Tony Bennett: I Left My Heart in San Francisco

What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For - Marie Adams: single

I’m Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life - Mark Murphy: Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman

Cloudy Morning - Carmen McRae: Second to None

The Riviera - Blossom Dearie: Give Him the Ooh-La-La

The Sun Is Always Shining - Margaret Whiting & The Mellomen with Frank DeVol & His Orchestra: single

Rambling Rose - Perry Como: 78rpm single

The Meadows of Heaven - Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters: 78rpm single

Love Is an Old Maid’s Dream - Marian Montgomery: Lovin’ is Livin’ and Livin’ is Lovin’

No Fool Like and Old Fool - Peggy Lee: Something Groovy!

A Boy from Texas, a Girl from Tennessee - Nat King Cole: single

Over the Weekend - Nancy Wilson: Lush Life

Early Mornin’ Blues - Joyce Breach & Keith Ingham Trio: Remembering Mabel Mercer (Vol 2)

Why Try to Change Me Now - Sammy Davis Jr. & Count Basie: Our Shining Hour

Joseph McCarthy Snr

(September 27, 1885 - December 18, 1943)

Joseph McCarthy Jr

(August 18, 1922 - November 7, 1975)