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)

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

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

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

Series 29, Prog 15

REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM

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)

Photo: Bernard Gotfryd/Library of Congress

Series 29, Prog 14

WAY DOWN SOUTH

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

Tuxedo Junction - Ella Fitzgerald: Things Ain’t What They Used to Be

Alabamy Bound - Bobby Darin: Oh! Look at Me Now

Carolina in the Morning - Dinah Shore: Dinah Down Home

Ode to Billie Jo - Nancy Wilson: Welcome to My Love

Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles & The Count Basie Orchestra: Ray Sings, Basie Swings

Mississippi - Kay Starr: The Fabulous Favorites

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

Basin Street Blues - Peggy Lee & Quincy Jones Orchestra: Blues Cross Country

Louisiana - Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

Louisiana 1927 - Randy Newman: Good Old Boys

Louisiana Sunday Afternoon - Dana Masters, Linley Hamilton, Cian Boyal & The Camden Orchestra 

Goin’ Back to New Orleans - Dr John: Goin’ Back to New Orleans

Hard Hearted Hannah - Shirley Horn: Light Out of Darkness

Memphis in June - Hoagy Carmichael: Hoagy Sings Carmichael

Stars Fell on Alabama - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

Mississippi Mud - Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer: Two of a Kind