Thursday 30 December 2021

Series 12, Prog 13

NEW YEAR SPECIAL: SONGS FROM 1922

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


My Man - Peggy Lee: I Like Men!

I’m Just Wild About Harry - Cleo Laine: All About Me

Do It Again - Vic Damone: The Best of Vic Damone

I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise - Nancy Sinatra: Shifting Gears

My Buddy - Clare Martin: Secret Love

April Showers - Judy Garland: Judy

Chicago - Frank Sinatra: The Hollywood Years

Second Hand Rose - Barbra Streisand: Funny Girl (Soundtrack)

Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo’ Bye) - Eydie Gormé: Vamps the Roaring 20s

Aggravatin’ Papa - Pearl Bailey: More Songs for Adults Only

Downhearted Blues - Mildred Bailey: Blues by Mildred Bailey

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong: Bing & Satchmo

My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms - The Gotham Stompers featuring Ivie Anderson

Runnin’ Wild - Marilyn Monroe: Some Like It Hot (Soundtrack)

Some Sunny Day - Lee Wiley: Lee Wiley Sings Irving Berlin

The Sheik of Araby - Fats Domino: A Lot of Dominos!

Limehouse Blues - Rosemary Clooney & Nelson Riddle: Rosie Solves the Swinging’ Riddle!

‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business (If I Do) - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Montreux


Photo: Anna Tarazevich



Thursday 23 December 2021

Series 21, Prog 12

WINTER

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


Winter Weather - Joe Williams & Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison: Together

Blackberry Winter - Marlene VerPlanck: Marlene VerPlanck Sings Alec Wilder

Winter Night - Eydie Gormé: Love Is a Season

Summer Me, Winter Me - Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down

In the Winter - Janis Ian: Between the Lines

Love Turns Winter to Spring - The Four Freshmen: Freshmen Favorites

Winter in May - Carmen McRae: Second to None

Look Out the Window (The Winter Song) - Rosemary Clooney & Gene Autry: The Night Before Christmas (single)

Violets for Your (My) Furs - Billie Holiday: Lady in Satin

Winter Moon - Hoagy Carmichael: Hoagy Sings Carmichael

Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind - Cleo Laine: Cleo Sings Elizabethan

The Winter of My Discontent - Ben Sidran & The Bob Rockell Quartet: Walk Pretty (The Songs of Alec Wilder)

A Winter Romance - Dean Martin: A Winter Romance

Snow - Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - John Altman Orchestra featuring Joan Viskant: Sure Thing

I Remember Sky - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

When Winter Comes - Joanie Sommers: Sommers’ Seasons


Photo: Ruvim Miksanskiy



Thursday 16 December 2021

Series 21, Prog 11

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2021

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


It Looks a Lot Like Christmas - Bob Saker & Bill Conner: Swingin’ Christmas

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song

Snowfall - Doris Day: The Doris Day Christmas Album

The Christmas Blues - Dean Martin: Holiday Cheer

Little Drummer Boy - Lou Rawls: Merry Christmas - Ho! Ho! Ho!

The Secret of Christmas - Ella Fitzgerald: single

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Andy Williams: The Andy Williams Christmas Album

Cool Yule - John Sheridan’s Dream Band featuring Rebecca Kilgore

I’ll Be Home for Christmas - Frank Sinatra: A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

Hooray for Christmas - Janet Seidel: Hooray for Christmas

White Christmas - Perry Como: Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music

Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - The Mills Brothers: Merry Christmas

Christmas in San Francisco - Vic Damone: single

The Merriest - June Christy: This Time of Year

No Room at the Inn - Mahalia Jackson: Christmas with Mahalia


Photo: Tom Mossholder



Thursday 9 December 2021

Series 21, Prog 10

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

Photo: Thomas B Didgeman


Saturday 4 December 2021

Series 21, Prog 9

TREES

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

Tenderly - Georgia Cécile - Live studio recording
Willow Tree - Mildred Bailey: The Blues Singer (1927-1937)
Gone with the Wind - Frank Sinatra: Sings for Only the Lonely
Poinciana (Song of the Tree) - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge (Vol 2)
I Talk to the Trees - Danny Williams: Moon River
The White Birch and the Sycamore - Peggy Lee: Seas Shells
The Best Is Yet to Come - Todd Gordon & RAF Squadronaires: Evergreen
Lullaby of the Leaves - Keely Smith: Politely
Peach Trees - Rufus Wainwright: Want Two
The Apple Tree - Matt Monro: Stranger in Paradise - The Lost New York Sessions
(Ah the Apple Trees) When the World was Young - Blossom Dearie: Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott’s
Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me) - Barry Manilow: Singin’ with the Big Bands
Willow Weep for Me - Lena Horne: Feelin’ Good
The Sweetheart Tree - Steve Lawrence: The Steve Lawrence Show
An Olive Tree - Basia: The Sweetest Illusion

Photo: Johannes Plenio



Friday 19 November 2021

Series 21, Prog 7

MOMENTS

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


Take the Moment - Lena Horne: Feelin’ Good

A Moment with Me - Harry Connick Jr: Come By Me

Girl of the Moment - Jackie Paris: Jackie Paris Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin

The Moment of Truth - Morgana King: Wild Is Love

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

Golden Moment - Frank Sinatra: My Kind of Broadway

Magic Moment - Nat King Cole: Thank You, Pretty Baby

Moment to Moment - Janet Seidel: Charade - The Henry Mancini Songbook

A Moment - Bitter:Sweet: Drama

Moment of Love - Bobby Darin: single (B-side)

Stolen Moments (You Belong to Her) - Carmen McRae & Betty Carter: Duets

This Magic Moment/Dance with Me - Rick James: Rock, Rhythm & Blues

Until (A Matter of Moments) - Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: Float Like a Butterfly - The Songs of Sting

For a Moment of Your Love - Nat King Cole: single

In a Matter of Moments - Ian Shaw: A Ghost in Every Bar (The Lyrics of Fran Landesman)

From This Moment On - Diana Krall: From This Moment On


Photo: Karolina Grabowska




Thursday 11 November 2021

Series 21, Prog 6

SWEET

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


Ain’t She Sweet - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra and Swingin' Brass

Sweet Alibis - Carmen McRae: I’m Coming Home Again

My Sweet Thing - Nancy Wilson: single

Sweet Georgia Brown - Diane Schuur: In Tribute

Stay as Sweet as You Are - Mel Tormé: It’s a Blue World

Sweet Affection - Sarah Vaughan: The Magic of Sarah Vaughan

I Wanna Be Around - Mark Murphy: Who Can I Turn To?

Sweet and Lovely - Keely Smith: Politely

Sweet Lorraine - Gregory Porter: Nat King Cole and Me

Sweet and Low-Down - Lee Wiley: ’S Wonderful

My Sweet Lord - Peggy Lee: Where Did They Go?

How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You) - Joe Williams: Presenting Joe Williams & Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

Some Sweet Day - Alberta Hunter: Remember My Name

Sweet and Slow - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Gently with Nelson

Sweet Sue, Just You - Fats Waller: Fun with Fats

Sweet Thing - Lena Horne: Stormy Weather 

Embraceable You  - Claire Martin: Too Much in Love to Care

Sweet Talkin’ Hannah - Matt Monro: Here’s to My Lady


Photo: Arminas Raudys



Friday 5 November 2021

Series 21, Prog 5

ALONE

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

Trav’lin’ All Alone - Billy Eckstine & Count Basie: Basie/Eckstine Incorporated
Alone Together - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson
Alone Too Long - Nat King Cole: Sings Ballads of the Day
Alone on My Own - Ernestine Anderson: When the Sun Goes Down
I Can’t Make It Alone - Lou Rawls: Your Good Thing
When Your Lover Has Gone - Keely Smith: I Wish You Love
Alone - Johnny Hartman: And I Though About You
I’ll Walk Alone - Nancy Wilson: Thanks for Nothing
A Man Alone - Frank Sinatra: A Man Alone
Louisiana Sunday Afternoon - Linley Hamilton, Cian Boyal & The Camden Orchestra featuring Dana Masters
Alone in Paris - Michael Dees: The Michael Dees Affair
It Takes Too Long to Learn to Live Alone - Peggy Lee: Norma Delores Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota
Bird Alone - Sheila Jordan: Little Jazz
Penthouse Serenade (When We’re Alone) - Dolores Gray: Warm Brandy
Alone Again (Naturally) - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Lukas Rychvalsky


Thursday 28 October 2021

Series 21, Prog 4

CHICAGO

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

Goin’ to Chicago - Peggy Lee & The Quincy Jones Orchestra: Blues Cross Country
When the Levee Breaks - Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie
Chicago Style - Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald & Bill Taylor: Swingin’ with Bing (Bing Crosby’s Lost Radio Performances)
On the South Side of Chicago - Vic Damone: On the South Side of Chicago
Chicago - Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall
Dead End Street - Lou Rawls: Too Much!
My Kind of Town - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra at the Sands
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce: Life and Times
Put the Blame on Mame - Anita Ellis: The World in My Arms
Born in Chicago: The Butterfield Blues Band: single
Just Blew In from the Windy City - Doris Day: Calamity Jane (Soundtrack)
Red Hot Chicago - The Hot Air Men: 78rpm single
Dancing in the Street - The Mamas and The Papas: single
She was in Chicago - John Lee Hooker: She was in Chicago
Sweet Home Chicago - Robert Johnson: 78rpm single
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrews Sisters: Andrews Sisters in Hi-Fi
In the Ghetto (aka The Vicious Circle) - Elvis Presley: single
Gone to Chicago - The Pied Pipers: single
Born in Chicago - The Butterfield Blues Band: single
Chi-Chi-Chi-Chicago - Nellie Lutcher: single

Photo: Cameron Casey


Saturday 23 October 2021

Series 21, Prog 3

NIGHT, NIGHT

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


All Through the Night - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Cole Porter Songbook

Blues in the Night (Parts 1 & 2) - Billy May & His Orchestra featuring Trummy Young - Jimmie Lunceford in Hi-Fi

The Night We Called It a Day - Callum Au & Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Black Night - Frank Sinatra Jr: Spice

Every Night - Peggy Lee: single

Night Time Is the Right Time - Joe Williams: Presenting Joe Williams & Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

Summer Night - Helen Carr: Why Do I Love You?

In the Still of the Night - Steve Lawrence & Nelson Riddle: Portrait of Steve

Night and Day - Clare Teal: Live at Ebenezer Chapel

Lonely Night in Paris - The Four Freshmen: Freshmen Favorites

In the Heat of the Night - Nancy Wilson: Welcome to My Love

Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever - Frank D’Rone with Billy May & His Orchestra: After the Ball

Thief in the Night - Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg: The Starlit Hour

The Morning After the Night Before - Ann Richards with Stan Kenton & His Orchestra: Two Much!

You and the Night and the Music - Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding Ding!


Photo: Alex Fu



Thursday 14 October 2021

Series 21, Prog 2

HEY!


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


Hey, Good Looking’ - Ray Charles: Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music

Hey, John - Carmen McRae: Ms Jazz

Hey, Laura - Gregory Porter: Live in Berlin

Hey, Baby - Rosemary Clooney with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Blue Rose

Hey, Baby - Lucy Yeghiarazaryan & Vanisha Gould featuring Richard Cortez: In Her Words

Hey, Little Girl - Big Joe Turner: Things That I Used to Do

Hey Look, No Crying - Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down

Hey, Love - Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines & Marva Josie - Jazz Is His Old Lady… and My Old Man

Hey, There - Sammy Davis Jr: Mr Wonderful!

Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye - ChristineTobin: A Thousand Kisses Deep

Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl! - Louis Prima & Keely Smith: Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl!

Hey, Look Me Over - Mel Tormé & Margaret Whiting: Broadway, Right Now !

Hey! Stop Kissing’ My Sister - Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller: Fun with Fats

Hey! Jealous Lover - Frank Sinatra: This Is Sinatra - Vol 2

Hey, Mrs Jones - Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey, Mrs Jones

If Love Were All - Ian Shaw: Somewhere Towards Love

Hey, Lawdy Mama - Dakota Staton: ‘Round Midnight


Photo: Markus Spiske

Friday 8 October 2021

Series 21, Prog 1

SLEEP

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

Sleepy Time Gal - Dinah Shore: Dinah Sings, Previn Plays
Two Sleepy People - Jean Sablon with Django Reinhardt: single
Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep - Lena Horne: Give the Lady What She Wants
A Sleep with No Dreaming - k d lang: Sing It Loud
Sleepy Head - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats
A Sleepin’ Bee - Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley: Nancy Wilson with Cannonball Adderley
Rock Me to Sleep - Irene Kral: Just for Now
I’ll Sleep Tonight - Vic Damone: On the South Side of Chicago
Night After Night - Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent: Quiet Is the Star
The City Never Sleeps at Night - Nancy Sinatra: single
Sleep Warm - Dean Martin: Sleep Warm
I Go to Sleep - Peggy Lee: That Was Then, Now Is Now
Hit the Road to Dreamland - Betty Hutton: single
I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night - Frank Sinatra: Close to You
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Armstrong: Satchmo in Style
I’m Only Sleeping - Bob Belden Orchestra featuring Holly Cole: Bob Belden Presents Strawberry Fields
There’s a Small Hotel - Elaine Delmar: But Beautiful
Have a Nice Day - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ’n Basie

Photo: Pixabay


Thursday 30 September 2021

Series 20, Prog 20

SMOKING

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


My Last Cigarette - k d lang: Drag

Black Coffee - Julie London: Around Midnight

Smoke Rings - The Mills Brothers: 78rpm single

Smokey Joe’s Café - The Robins: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Dinah Washington: Dinah

Don’t Smoke in Bed - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

These Foolish Things - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

Smoke Dreams - k d lang: Drag

Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories - Jeri Southern: Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories

London By Night - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

Drinking Again - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable (A Tribute to Dinah Washington)

When the World was Young - June Christy: Gone for the Day

Dream - The Pied Pipers: Dream

Gone with the Wind - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Berlin

Why Try to Change Me Now? - Jimmy Scott - Falling in Love is Wonderful

Smoke Rings - k d lang: Drag


Photo: Pixabay





Thursday 23 September 2021

Series 20, Prog 19

RANDY NEWMAN: THE NEWER AMERICAN SONGBOOK

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


Guilty - Madeleine Peyroux: The Blue Room

Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear - Randy Newman: Sail Away

Have You Seen My Baby - Fats Domino: Sweet Patootie/Complete Reprise Recordings

Baltimore - Nina Simone: Baltimore

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

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

Dayton, Ohio 1903 - Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Sings Newman

You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker: Cocker

Every Time It Rains - Jacqui Dankworth: Back to You

Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield - Lou Rawls: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore - Lorez Alexandria: In a Different Bag

I Wonder Why - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella

I Think It’s Going to Rain Today - Curtis Stigers: I Think It’s Going to Rain Today

Only a Girl - Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

Let Me Go - Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand

Look at Me - Bobby Darin: Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie

Better Off Dead - Carol Grimes: Mother

Marie - Randy Newman: Good Old Boys


Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Photo: Haze Quinn





Friday 17 September 2021

Series 20, Prog 18

LESSER-HEARD SINGERS

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


A Hard Day's Night - Rene Marie: Serene Renegade

Walk On By - Morgana King: Gemini Changes

(You'd Be So) Easy to Love - Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

It's Tomorrow's World - Jacqui Dankworth: Live to Love

Reminiscing In Tempo - James Tormé: Love for Sale

A Sleepin' Bee - Toni Harper & Marty Paich Orchestra: Night Mood

Everybody Knows - Barb Jungr: Hard Rain (The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen)

Where Do the Children Play? - Jess Abrams: Cat Stevens Reconstructed 

Stairway to the Stars - Toni Lincoln: Toni Lincoln

These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Spencer Day: A Day's Work

I Get Along Without You Very Well - Clare Teal, Grant Windsor & Pee Wee Ellis: In Good Company

Make Someone Happy - Rebecca Kilgore: A Further Remembrance of Maxine Sullivan 

Only a Girl - Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

Across the Universe - Fiona Apple: Pleasantville (Soundtrack) 


Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Photo: Tima Miroshnichenko



Thursday 9 September 2021

Series 20, Prog 17

STARS, PLANETS & SPACE

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

Stairway to the Stars - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella In Hollywood
Out of This World - Norma Winstone: Somewhere Called Home
Fly Me to the Moon - Tony Bennett: The Singles Collection
Venus Rising - Barb Jungr & Laurence Hobgood: Shelter from the Storm/Songs of Hope for Troubled Times
Space Captain - Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand
If - Frank Sinatra: Some Nice Things I’ve Missed
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Sheila Jordan: Jazz Child
To Love and be Loved - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel
Midnight Sun - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza
Earthbound - Sammy Davis Jr: single
Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to be a Long, Long Time) - Kate Bush: single
The Man Who Sold the World - Claire Martin: Time and Place
Star Eyes - Clairdee: Destination Moon

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Adam Krypel


Thursday 2 September 2021

Series 20, Prog 16

OBSCURE VERSES

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


Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Johnny Mercer: Personality

I Remember You - Nat King Cole: Touch of Your Lips

The Man I Love - Carmen McRae: Can’t Hide Love

There’s No Business Like Show Business - Harry Connick Jr: Come By Me

Night and Day - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra and Sextet/Live In Paris

‘S Wonderful - Susannah McCorkle: Most Requested Songs

The Floks Who Live On the Hill - Sammy Davis Jr: Sammy Davis Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays

I Want to be Happy - Cleo Laine: All About Me

Over the Rainbow - Tony Bennett: Here’s to the Ladies

Stardust - Daniel Nahmod: Jazz Audiophile Voices

After You’ve Gone - Dinah Washington: Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith

What’ll I Do - Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmilsson In the Night

What Is This Thing Called Love - Sue Raney: All By Myself

For All We Know - Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin

Anything Goes - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole


Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com


Photo: Sofia Alejandra



Thursday 26 August 2021

Series 20, Prog 15

THE BEAT OF THE HEART

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

Heart - Peggy Lee: Latin Ala Lee
This One's from the Heart - Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle: One from the Heart
How Many Hearts Have You Broken? - Frank Rosolino: Turn Me Loose!
What Will I Tell My Heart? - Dinah Washington: In the Land of Hi-Fi
Take These Chains from My Heart - Madeleine Peyroux: The Blue Room
Cold, Cold Heart - Nat King Cole: The Billy May Sessions
Keep Your Hand On Your Heart - Joe Williams: Joe Williams & That Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
I’ll Follow My Secret Heart - Lee Wiley: Manhattan Nights
With a Song In My Heart - Sammy Davis Jr: That's All
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Irene Kral: The Band and I
(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings - Nellie Lutcher: Our New Nellie
I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Tony Bennett: The Singles Collection
Raining In My Heart - Liane Carroll: Ballads
My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole
My Heart Belongs to Only You - June Christy: This Is June Christy
Dear Heart - Janet Seidel: Hooray for Christmas
Dear Hearts and Gentle People - Perry Como: Como Swings

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Luan Rezende




Thursday 19 August 2021

Series 20, Prog 14

FOR EVER

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


Did You Ever - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul

Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You - Dinah Washington: In the Land of Hi-Fi

Don’t Ever Go Away - Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: Sinatra & Company

Evergreen - Todd Gordon & Royal Air Force Squadronaires: Helping the Heroes

Did I Ever Really Love - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza

I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles - Charlie Ventura and His Band with Jackie Cain & Roy Kral: Jackie and Roy

If Ever I Would Leave You - Nancy Wilson: Gentle Is My Love

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Dick Haymes: Dick Haymes Comes Home! Live At The Cocoanut Grove 1973

No One Ever Tells You - Cynthia Crane & Mike Renzi: Smokey Bar Songs

Have You Ever Seen the Rain - The Spin Doctors: Philadelphia (Soundtrack)

For You, For Me, For Evermore - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book - Vol 3

On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) - Frank Sinatra: Strangers In the Night

Don’t Ever Leave Me - Margaret Whiting: Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book - Vol 1

Only Forever - Dean Martin: Pretty Baby

If You Ever Should Leave - Mildred Bailey: The Blues Singer 1937-1939

Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles: Love


Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com 


Photo: Molly Champion



Thursday 12 August 2021

Series 20, Prog 13

THEY’VE GOT RHYTHM

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

Rockin’ In Rhythm - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book
The Rhythm of Life - Sammy Davis Jr: Sweet Charity (Soundtrack)
I’m an Errand Girl for Rhythm - Carmen McRae: You’re Looking at Me
That Rhythm Man - Louis Armstrong: Satch Plays Fats
I Got Rhythm - Ann Richards & Stan Kenton: Two Much!
Rhythm Saved the World - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats
London Rhythm - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats
Slave to the Rhythm - Richard Niles: tbc
Jungle Rhythm - Lorraine Feather: Café Society
Fascinating Rhythm - Cleo Laine: Spotlight On Cleo Laine
Spreadin’ Rhythm Around - Billie Holiday: The Real Billie Holiday
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Sarah Vaughan: Duke Ellington Song Book - Vol 2
All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm - Mel Tormé: An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé
Lullaby In Rhythm - Peggy Lee: Things Are Swingin’
Crazy Rhythm - Johnny Mercer: Sweet Georgia Brown
We’re Rockin’ In Rhythm - Lorraine Feather: Café Society

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com




Series 20, Prog 12

FAVOURITES

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

A Beautiful Friendship - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings, George Shearing Plays
Heartache - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul
Starting Over - Kat Edmonson: Take to the Sky
Moments Like This - Tony Bennett: The Art of Excellence 
What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve [Disc 3]
Teach Me Tonight - Sarah Vaughan: How Long Has This Been Going On
That's Life - Alan Cumming: I Bought a Blue Car Today
Pennies from Heaven - Helen Humes: Swingin' with Humes 
These Foolish Things - Frank Sinatra: Point of No Return
Fortune in Dreams - Pete Longo's Superband with Frank Sinatra Jr: Billy May for President
I Ain't Here - Carmen McRae: I Am Music
Nancy (with the Laughing Face) - The Four Freshmen: Four Freshmen & Five Guitars
When the Red, Red Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along - Eydie Gormé: Vamps the Roaring ‘20s
Desafinado - Ella Fitzgerald: Jukebox Ella
Swan Lake - Barbara Long: Soul
Route 66 - Perry Como: Como Swings
Sunday in New York - Shirley Horn: Trav’lin' Light

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com