Series 16, Prog 9

HAPPY NEW YEAR

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

Happy New Year - Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson: Double Exposure

One the Very First Day - Bing Crosby: Seasons

This Year’s Kisses - Nina Simone: Let It All Out

Still Crazy After All These Years - Ray Charles: My World

Through the Years - Ready, Willing & Mabel: A Cocktail for the Ears

This Time of Year - June Christy: This Time of Year

Ten Years of Tears - Cannonball Adderley & Ernie Andrews: Live Session!

Ten Good Years - Nancy Wilson: The Nancy Wilson Show!

The September of My Years - Frank Sinatra: September of My Years

New Year’s Eve Song - Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

It Was a Very Good Year - Lou Rawls: Soulin’

The Hungry Years - Peggy Lee: Peggy Lee Live In London 

A Hundred Years from Today - June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days

The Impatient Years - Frank Sinatra: Our Town (EP)

Bringing In a Brand New Year - Clairdee (with Brenda Boykin & Nicolas Bearde): This Christmas

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 8

HAPPY HOLIDAY!

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

The Christmas Song - Mel Tormé: My Kind of Music

Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season - Andy Williams: The Andy Williams Christmas Album

The Secret of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald: Jukebox Ella

Christmas Is - Lou Rawls: Ho! Ho! Ho!

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Chanticleer: Let It Snow

The Christmas Waltz (Awayteam Remix) - Nancy Wilson: Merry Mixmas (Christmas Classics Remix)

White Christmas - Tony Bennett & Dexter Gordon: Bennett/Berlin

Love Never Fails - Janet Seidel: Hooray for Christmas

Christmas Glow Worm - Johnny Mercer: Capitol Sings Johnny Mercer

Blue Christmas - Harry Connick Jr: Harry for the Holidays

Christmas Time Is Here - Diana Krall: Christmas Songs

Merry Christmas, Baby - B B King: Yule Be Miserable

Winter Wonderland - Clairdee: This Christmas

Jingle Bells - Lena Horne: Merry from Lena

Getting Ready for Christmas Day - Paul Simon: Single

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Todd Gordon: Single

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 7

THE ART OF THE ARRANGER

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

When Day Is Done - Keely Smith: I Wish You Love

Stardust - Nat King Cole: Love Is the Thing

I’m Beginning to See the Light - Ella Fitzgerald: The Duke Ellington Song Book

Come Rain or Come Shine - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra & Strings

Brazil - Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney: Fancy Meeting You Here

The Man I Love - Sarah Vaughan: Gershwin Live

Only a Girl - Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

Guilty - Madeleine Peyroux: The Blue Room

Nowhere with Love - Harry Connick Jr: Come By Me

How Insensitive - Diana Krall: From This Moment On

Unforgettable - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable/A Tribute To Dinah Washington

Charade - Bobby Darin: Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 6

THE TURNTABLE GOES LATIN!

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

By Myself - Lena Horne: Lena Like Latin

Once I Loved - Salena Jones: Salena Sings Jobim with the Jobims

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Doris Day: Latin for Lovers

What a Diff’rence a Day Makes - Dean Martin: Dino Latino

The Girl from Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz: This Is Astrud Gilberto

Till There Was You - Peggy Lee: Latin ala Lee

Mr Sandman - Anita O’Day & Cal Tjader: Time for 2

Bossa Nova Pot Pouri - Mel Tormé: In Concert Tokyo

Marching Through the Wilderness - David Byrne: Rei Momo

Stardust Bossa Nova - Ella Fitzgerald: single

Every Passing Minute - Barcelona Big Latin Band & London Community Gospel Choir: concert performance

Carnival - The Hi-Lo’s: The Hi-Lo’s Happen to Bossa Nova

O Grande Amor - Earl Okin: Bossa Britannica

Magic Is the Moonlight - Rosemary Clooney & Pérez Prado Orchestra: A Touch of Tobasco

Baia - Mel Tormé: Olé Tormé

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 5

ALL GOOD WISHES

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

I Wish I Were In Love Again - Frank Sinatra: A Swingin’ Affair!

I Wish I’d Met You - Nancy Wilson: RSVP

How I Wish - Carmen McRae: Live at Umbria Jazz

I Wish I Didn’t Love You So - Jimmy Scott: Falling In Love Is Wonderful

I Wish I Knew - Tina May: My Kinda Love

I Wished On the Moon - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

Wish You Were Here - Glen Campbell: Ghost On the Canvas (bonus track)

When You Wish Upon a Star - Linda Ronstadt: For Sentimental Reasons

Wishing Will Make It So - Mark Murphy: Playing the Field

A Wish - Norma Winstone: Songs & Lullabies

Wish I Was Back In My Baby’s Arms - Lena Horne: Lena Sings Your Requests

More I Cannot Wish You - Clark Dennis: Guys and Dolls (Reprise Repertory Theater)

Wishin’ and Hopin’ - Dusty Springfield: Going Back

I Wish You Love - Blossom Dearie: May I Come In?

Mr Wishing Well - Nat King Cole: Thank You, Pretty Baby

I Wish - Stevie Wonder: Songs In the Key of Life

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 4

THOUGHT PROCESSES

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

Thinking of You - Sarah Vaughan: After Hours

I Think I Like You - Sammy Davis Jr: Sings the Complete Dr Doolittle

I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful) - The Mills Brothers & Count Basie: The Board of Directors

I Think It’s Going to Rain Today - Cleo Laine: Born On a Friday

Sometimes I Think I Do - Jimmy Rushing: If It Ain’t the Blues

I Thought About You - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook

All I Think About Is You - Harry Nilsson: Knnillssonn

Think About Your Troubles - Lena Horne: Nature’s Baby

A Woman’s Intuition - Lee Wiley: Back Home Again

I Think of You - Perry Como: I Think of You

I Think of You - Frank Sinatra: Where Are You?

I’ll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him - Peggy Lee: Big Spender

It Ain’t What You’re Thinkin’ - Jimmy Witherspoon: Singin’ the Blues

The Very Thought of You - Shirley Horne: You’re My Thrill

Think How It’s Gonna Be - Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett’s Something 

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 3

ALL ABOUT RAIN

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

September In the Rain - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra's Swingin' Session

Singin' In the Rain - Lena Horne: Lena In Hollywood

Yesterday I Heard the Rain - Tony Bennett: Yesterday I Heard the Rain

Walk Between Raindrops - Mel Tormé & The Marty Paich Dek-tette: Reunion

Before the Rain - Nancy Wilson: A Touch of Today

After the Rain - Shirley Bassey: The Performance

Come In From the Rain - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

A Garden In the Rain - Sarah Vaughan: The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan

Raining In My Heart - Liane Carroll: Ballads

I Get the Blues When It Rains - Big Joe Turner: Big Joe Rides Again

Here's That Rainy Day - Sue Rainey: All By Myself

I Can't Stand the Rain - Lowell George: Thanks, I'll Eat It Here

I Think It's Going to Rain Today - Maxine Weldon: Chilly Wind

Rain - The Four Freshmen: Four Freshmen & Five Guitars

Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie: Ella & Basie!

Rainin' - Bobby Darin: Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile

Come Rain or Come Shine - Chet Baker: Embraceable You

Every Time It Rains - Jacqui Dankworth: Back to You

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 2

A CENTURY OR SO AGO…

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

A Hundred Years from Today - Helen Humes: Sneakin' Around

Darktown Strutters Ball - Alberta Hunter: Amtrak Blues

Careless Love - Harry Connick Jr: Oh, My Nola

Indiana - Lee Wiley: Back Home Again

After You've Gone - Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall

Someday Sweetheart - Dinah Shore & Red Norvo: Dinah Sings Some Blues with Red

Some of These Days - Jimmy Rushing: The Jazz Odessy of James Rushing, Esq

I Ain't Got Nobody - Teresa Brewer & Count Basie: The Songs of Bessie Smith

Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home - Ella Fitzgerald: single

That's A-Plenty - Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald: Swingin' with Bing/Lost Radio Performances

Chinatown, My Chinatown - The Hi-Lo's: Under Glass

Alexander's Ragtime Band - Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine: Sing the Best of Irving Berlin 

Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve (Disc 10)

Poor Butterfly - Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington: Francis A & Edward K

Frankie and Johnny - Anita O'Day: An Evening with Anita O'Day

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 16, Prog 1

FEEL THE WARMTH: ALL ABOUT THE SUN

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

Sunshine of Your Love - Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love

Midnight Sun - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza

On the Sunny Side of the Street - Keely Smith: Politely

Golden Brazilian Sun - The Hi-Lo's: The Hi-Lo's Happen to Bossa Nova

Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge (Vol 1)

Canadian Sunset - Andy Williams: The Wonderful World of Andy Williams

Here Comes the Sun - Nina Simone: Here Comes the Sun

Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles: Revolver

At Sundown - Morgana King: The Greatest Songs Ever Swung

I Like the Sunrise - Mel Tormé: I Dig The Duke/I Dig The Count

I've Got the Sun in the Morning - Bing Crosby: The Complete Radio Duets

Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise - June Christy: Something Cool (stereo version)

Walking In the Sun - Barb Jungr: Walking In the Sun

Sunrise, Sunset - Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is!

When the Sun Comes Out - Ann Richards: The Many Moods of Ann Richards

You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Ella Fitzgerald: Montreux '77

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 15, Prog 20

CITY-HOPPING

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

Calcutta - Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney: Fancy Meeting You Here

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

Sunday In New York - Bobby Darin: Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie

London By Night - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

Chicago - Eydie Gormé: Eydie Gormé Vamps the Roaring '20s

Dayton, Ohio 1903 - Randy Newman: Sail Away

When In Rome - Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Tony Bennett & Bill Evans Album 

I Love Paris - Esther Phillips: Confessin' the Blues

Kansas City - Mark Murphy: Mark Murphy's Hip Parade

First We Take Manhattan - Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Raincoat

Madrid - Nat King Cole: single 

Baltimore - Nina Simone: Baltimore

Houston - Dean Martin: Houston

It Happened In Monterey - Mel Tormé: Back In Town

My Cousin In Milwaukee - Ella Fitzgerald: The George & Ira Gershwin Songbook (Vol 2)

Philadelphia - Neil Young: Philadephia (Soundtrack)

Istanbul - Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald: Swingin' with Bing / Bing Crosby's Lost Radio Performances 

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Giving a flavour of our theme, here's a photo taken in Calcutta (aka Kolkata),

the title of this week's opening number 

Series 15, Prog 19

ANTHROPODS

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

Poor Butterfly - Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington: Francis A & Edward K

Elusive Butterfly - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza

One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota Só)/Spanish Flea - Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66

The Spider and the Fly - Fats Waller: Fun with Fats

Feelin’ Good - Lena Horne: Feelin’ Good

La Cucaracha - The Mills Brothers: Say Si Si

Falling In Love Again - Sammy Davis Jr: At The Cocoanut Grove

The Cricket Song - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at Juan-Les-Pins 

High Hopes - Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Collection

Kissing Bug - June Christy: Ballads for Night People

The Ugly Bug Ball - Burl Ives: Summer Magic (Soundtrack)

Cicada Time - Lorraine Feather: Dooji Wooji

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

Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter - Nina Simone: It Is Finished

A Sleepin’ Bee - Mavis Rivers: Mavis

The Love Bug Will Bite You - The Mills Brothers: The Early Mills Brothers

Itsy Bitsy Spider - Carly Simon: Coming Around Again

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 15, Prog 18

CATS & DOGS

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

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

How Come My Dog Don’t Bark (When You Come ‘Round) - Dr John: Goin’ Back to New Orleans

Salty Dog Blues - Fionna Duncan with Ian Menzies & His Clyde Valley Stompers: Have Tartan …Will Trad

Just Me and My Dog - Iain Mackenzie: Be Brief (EP)

The Most Effectual Top Cat - Top Cat Theme Song: Original TV Soundtracks!

Some Cats Know - Liza Minnelli: Gently

Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton: single

Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Nöel Coward: The Noel Coward Album

Tom Cat - The Clare Fischer Voices: …And Sometimes Instruments

Gyp the Cat - Bobby Darin: Ultra Lounge Artist Series/Bobby Darin

Low Down Dog - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

Wendell’s Cat - Daryl Sherman: New O’leans

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Frank Sinatra: The Main Event

Lonesome Polecat - Johnny Mercer & Bobby Darin: Two of a Kind

Old at 18/Dog Bowl - Lorraine Feather: Ages

Yellow Dog Blues - Nat King Cole: Songs from St Louis Blues

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 15, Prog 17

MONEY TALKS

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

You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ - Johnny Mercer & Nat King Cole: 78rpm Single

Money Honey - Ella Mae Morse: Barrelhouse, Boogie & The Blues

I’ve Got Five Dollars - Bing Crosby & Buddy Bregman: Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings

Man, You Won’t Give Me Any Money - Memphis Minnie: Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937)

Money (That’s What I Want) - Barrett Strong: Single

Money’s Gettin’ Cheaper - Jimmy Witherspoon: Live at Condon’s, New York

You Never Give Me Your Money - Sarah Vaughan: Songs of The Beatles

Money In My Pockets - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats

Can’t Buy Me Love - Ella Fitzgerald: Hello, Dolly!

Money Won’t Change You - Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul

It’s Money That I Love - Randy Newman: Born Again

We’re In the Money - Rosemary Clooney: Dedicated to Nelson

I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store) - Nat King Cole: The Very Thought of You

Big Spender - Shirley MacLaine & Ensemble: Sweet Charity (Soundtrack)

Million Dollar Secret - Helen Humes: ‘Deed I Do

Money - Peggy Lee: Two Shows Nightly

I Can’t Afford to Miss This Dream - Louis Armstrong: Satchmo Serenades

Ten Cents a Dance - Anita O’Day: Anita O'Day & Billy May Swing Rodgers & Hart

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 15, Prog 16

JUST SONGS

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

Just You, Just Me - Hetty Kate: Comes Love

I Just Dropped By to Say Hello - Johnny Hartman: I Just Dropped By to Say Hello

I’m Just a Lucky So and So - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book

Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’ - Mel Tormé: I Dig The Duke/I Dig The Count

Just As Much - Keely Smith: I Wish You Love

Just for a Thrill - Nancy Wilson: Nancy - Naturally

Just Because - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul

Just for You - Aretha Franklin: The Electrifying Aretha Franklin

Just In Time - Blossom Dearie: Blossom Dearie Sings Comden & Green

I Just Want to Make Love to You - Etta James: At Last!

Just Friends - Andy Bey: Tuesdays In Chinatown

Just My Luck - Lena Horne: A Friend Of Yours - Songs By Burke & Van Heusen

Just One of Those Things - Margaret Whiting: Past Midnight !

Just Squeeze Me - Ernie Andrews: In the Dark

Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries - Carol Sloane: Out of the Blue

Just the Way You Are - Frank Sinatra: Trilogy (The Present)

My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue

Love Is Just Around the Corner - Johnny Mercer: Sweet Georgia Brown

(You’re Not Sick) You’re Just In Love - Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine: Sing More of Irving Berlin

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 15, Prog 15

EARLY AUTUMN

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com (Stem Label)

Early Autumn - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Johnny Mercer Song Book

September In the Rain - Dinah Washington: Tell Love Hello

Autumn Leaves - James Tormé: Love for Sale

’Tis Autumn - Eydie Gormé: Love Is a Season

Maybe September - Tony Bennett: The Movie Song Album

September Rain - Lorraine Feather: Such Sweet Thunder

My Autumn’s Done Come - Lee Hazlewood: The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood

The September of My Years - Frank Sinatra: September of My Years

When October Goes - Nancy Wilson: Day Dream

Autumn In New York - Todd Gordon & Carol Kidd with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires: Evergreen

Sweet September - Freda Payne: After the Lights Go Down and Much More!

September Song - Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown

This October - The Four Freshmen: Four Freshmen and Five Guitars

November Girl - Carmen McRae & The Kenny Clark-Francy Boland Big Band: November Girl

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Series 15, Prog 14

DAY BY DAY BY DAY

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

What a Diff’rence a Day Makes - Bobby Darin: Bobby Darin Winners

Ain’t This a Wonderful Day - Anita O’Day: The Lady Is a Tramp

The Day You Came Along - Mel Tormé: A Tribute to Bing Crosby

All the Livelong Day - Ella Fitzgerald: Jukebox Ella

Another Day - Denise Donatelli: Soul Shadows

Anytime, Any Day, Anywhere - Lee Wiley: Rarities/Thinking of You

Day By Day - Frank Sinatra: Come Swing with Me!

Day In - Day Out - Diana Krall: From This Moment On

Here’s That Rainy Day - Irene Kral: Just for Now

It’s Monday Every Day - Lou Rawls: Nobody But Lou

It’s a Most Unusual Day - June Christy: Gone for the Day

Night and Day - Elaine Delmar: Elaine Delmar Sings Cole Porter

The Night We Called It a Day - Bob Dylan: Shadows In the Night

On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza

Our Day Will Come - Martha Reeves: Martha Reeves

A Foggy Day (In London Town) - Sammy Davis Jr: Here’s Lookin’ at You

Some of These Days - Sue Raney: All By Myself 

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com