Thursday, 30 April 2020

Series 17, Prog 7

MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY

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

Make Someone Happy - Carmen McRae: Live at Sugar Hill, San Francisco
I Want to be Happy - Cleo Laine: All About Me
Happy Days Are Here Again - Mark Murphy: A Swingin’, Singin’ Affair
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy - Shirley Bassey: Love, Life and Feelings
Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe - Ella Fitzgerald: The Harold Arlen Songbook (Vol 2)
Stay with the Happy People - Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald: Swingin’ with Bing: Bing Crosby’s Lost Radio Performances (Disc 3)
This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca) - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra and Company
Get Happy - Claire Martin: Secret Love
Happy Feet - Dean Martin: Swingin’ Down Yonder
Happy Talk - Nancy Wilson: Nancy Wilson with Cannonball Adderley
Happy Heart - Andy Williams: Happy Heart
Sometimes I’m Happy - Erin Dickins: Nice Girls
Happy End - Judy Collins: Hard Times for Lovers
Happy Anatomy - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing Duke Ellington
Sweet Happy Life - Peggy Lee: Guitars a la Lee
I’m Happy Just to Dance with You - The Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night (Soundtrack)
Put On a Happy Face - Blossom Dearie: May I Come In?
Oh, Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers: Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Friday, 24 April 2020

Series 17, Prog 6

ELLINGTON

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

Love You Madly - Mark Murphy: Memories of You - Remembering Joe Williams
Mood Indigo/I’m Beginning to See the Light - Lena Horne: Lena Horne at The Waldorf Astoria
Love Call (Creole Love Call) - Lorraine Feather: Café Society
Can I Call You Sugar - Lorraine Feather: Such Sweet Thunder
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore/I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Mel Tormé, George Shearing & Gerry Mulligan: The Classic Concert Live
I’m Just a Lucky So and So - Sarah Vaughan: Duke Ellington Songbook (Vol 1)
Rocks In My Bed - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Sing Ellington
I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ - Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection 1958-1975 (Disc 4)
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) - Frank Sinatra: A Swingin’ Affair!
I’m Checking Out... Goombye - Rosemary Clooney with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Blue Rose
Sophisticated Lady - Billie Holiday: All Or Nothing At All
Reflections - Tony Bennett: Life Is Beautiful
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Thing) - Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Côte d'Azur Concerts (Disc 7)

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Friday, 17 April 2020

Series 17, Prog 5

ON THE STREET

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

When My Sugar Walks Down the Street - Nat King Cole: Love Is Here to Stay
On Green Dolphin Street - Carmen McRae: At The Great American Music Hall (Vol 1)
Basin Street Blues - Shirley Horn: I Remember Miles
The 59th Street Bridge Song - Johnny Hartman: I’ve Been There
Streets of London - Cleo Laine: Born On a Friday
Easy Street - Julie London: Julie Is Her Name
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty: City to City
On the Sunny Side of the Street - Dinah Washington: In the Land of Hi-Fi
Peachtree Street - Frank Sinatra & Rosemary Clooney: The Columbia Years (1943-1952)/The Complete Recordings (Vol 11)
On the Street Where You Live - Jacqui Dankworth: Detour Ahead
Lonely Street - Helen Carr: Why Do I Love You?
A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet - Tony Bennett: Unplugged
Dark End of the Street - Aretha Franklin: This Girl’s In Love with You
Street Beater (Sanford & Son Theme) - Ella Fitzgerald: Jazz at The Santa Monica Civic ’72
Forty Second Street - Mel Tormé: Mel Tormé Sings Sunday In New York

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Saturday, 11 April 2020

Series 17, Prog 4

A BED OF ROSES

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

Ramblin' Rose - Nat King Cole: Ramblin' Rose
Misty Roses - Irene Kral: Second Chance
Roses of Picardy - Bobby Darin: Oh! Look at Me Now
The Rose - Bette Midler: The Rose (Soundtrack)
One Dozen Roses - The Mills Brothers: One Dozen Roses
Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Wayne Newton: Red Roses for a Blue Lady
Honeysuckle Rose - Maxine Sullivan: A Tribute to Andy Razaf
Lollipops and Roses - Perry Como: By Request
Second Hand Rose - Barbra Streisand: Funny Girl (Soundtrack)
Bouquet of Roses - Vic Damone: Country Love Songs
Days of Wine and Roses - Ella Fitzgerald: Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It)
American Beauty Rose - Frank Sinatra: Come Swing with Me!
Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie/Everything's Coming Up Roses - Rosemary Clooney: Clap Hands! Here Comes Rosie
Hot-House Rose - Lee Wiley: Cole Porter Songs By Lee Wiley
Love and the Rose (O Amor e a Rose) - The Hi-Lo's: The Hi-Lo's Happen to Bossa Nova
La Vie en Rose - Marlene Dietrich: In London
Mighty Like a Rose - Mark Murphy: This Could Be the Start of Something
A Rose Is Still a Rose - Aretha Franklin: A Rose Is Still a Rose
Georgia Rose - Carmen McRae: By Special Request (bonus track)

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Friday, 3 April 2020

Series 17, Prog 3

BIRDS

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

Strange Meadowlark - Norma Winstone & John Taylor: Like Song, Like Weather
Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?) - Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer: Two of a Kind
Flamingo - Carmen McRae: Birds of a Feather
Blackbird - The Beatles: White Album
A Little Birdie Told Me So - Lee Wiley: Lee Wiley Sings Rodgers & Hart
Birdsong - Cleo Laine & Mel Tormé: Nothing Without You
Bye Bye Blackbird - Esther Phillips: Confessin’ the Blues
Night Bird - Anita O’Day: All the Sad Young Men
Snowbird - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ‘n Basie
Skylark - Clare Teal & Grant Windsor: And So It Goes
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Jacqui Dankworth: It Happens Quietly
When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along - Eydie Gormé: Eydie Gormé Vamps the Roaring 20’s
Bird On the Wire - Madeleine Peyroux: The Blue Room
Sliver Bird - Nat King Cole: Sincerely
Where Flamingos Fly - Toni Harper: Night Mood

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com