Season 24, Prog 5

NEW YEAR 2023 - BACK TO '23

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

Swingin’ Down the Lane - Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swinging’ Lovers!

(I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate - Madeleine Peyroux: Celebrating 20 Years of The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (1980-2000)

Wonderful One - Mel Tormé: It’s a Blue World

Carolina in the Morning -  Dinah Shore: Dinah Down Home

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

Gulf Coast Blues - Teresa Brewer & Count Basie: The Songs of Bessie Smith

'Tain't Nobody's Bizness - Billie Holiday: 78rpm single

Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home - Steve Lawrence: Sings Of Love And Sad Young Men

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

Last Night on the Back Porch - Bing Crosby & Bob Scobey’s Frisco Jazz Band: Bing with a Beat

Downhearted Blues - Alberta Hunter: Remember My Name

Linger Awhile - Vic Damone: Linger Awhile with Vic Damone

Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye - Eydie Gormé: Vamps the Roaring '20s

Who’s Sorry Now - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

I Cried for You - Ella Fitzgerald: Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Yes, We Have No Bananas - Louis Prima: single

The Charleston - Louis Prima: single

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Series 24, Prog 4

Series 24, Prog 4

WINTER TALES

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

I Concentrate on You - Claire Martin & Callum Au: Songs and Stories

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: Pixabay

Series 24, Prog 3

 Series 24, Prog 3 (17 Dec 2022)

A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

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

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Diana Krall: Christmas Songs

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole: 78rpm single

A Yellow Ribbon (and Love) - Blossom Dearie & Mike Renzi: Christmas Spice So Very Nice

Christmas Auld Lang Syne - Bobby Darin: single

Christmas Present - Doris Day: The Doris Day Christmas Album

Let Me Be The First (To Wish You Merry Christmas) - Steve Lawrence: Goodyear Best of the Great Songs of Christmas (Vol 7)

Christmas Island - Ella Fitzgerald: Juke Box Ella

Jingle Bells - Sammy Davis Jr: Frank Sinatra & His Friends Invite You To Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Coventry Carol - Carol Kidd: Christmas with Carol

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

Love Never Fails - Janet Seidel: Hooray for Christmas

Hurry Home for Christmas - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé: single

Little Jack Frost Get Lost - John Sheridan's Dream Band featuring Rebecca Kilgore: Hooray for Christmas!

Do You Hear What I Hear - Andy Williams: Merry Christmas

I’d Like You for Christmas - Julie London: single

Christmas Dreaming - Harry Connick Jr: When My Heart Finds Christmas

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

A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer: More Of Tom Lehrer (Song & More Songs By Tom Lehrer)

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love: A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector

Photo: Capitol Records Archive

Series 24, Prog 2

REMEMBERING MARION MONTGOMERY

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

Skylark - Marion Montgomery - For the Love of Mercer - Vol 2

Confessin’ the Blues - Marian Montgomery: Marian Montgomery Swings for Winners and Losers

Breezing’ Along with the Breeze - Marian Montgomery: Marian Montgomery Swings for Winners and Losers

I Wonder - Marian Montgomery: Let There be Love, Let There be Swing, Let There be Marian Montgomery

There, I’ve Said It Again - Marian Montgomery: Lovin’ is Living’ and Living’ is Lovin’

I Got Lost in His Arms - Marion Montgomery: Skylark

Love Makes Two People Swing - Marian Montgomery: single

Me and My Shadow - Marian Montgomery: What’s New?

That’s Life - Marian Montgomery: single

That’s Life - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra New York (Disc 2)

Moon River - Marion Montgomery: For the Love of Mercer - Vol 1

Love - Marian Montgomery: Marian in the Morning

I Wanna be Loved - Marian Montgomery: Lovin’ is Livin’ and Living’ is Lovin’

Charade - Marion Montgomery: For the Love of Mercer - Vol 2

What’s New? - Marian Montgomery: What’s New?

Dayton Ohio 1903/Tea for Two - Marion Montgomery & Richard Rodney Bennett: Surprise, Surprise

Just a Dream (I Had on My Mind) - Marian Montgomery: Lovin’ is Livin’ and Living’ is Lovin’

If I Should Lose You - Marion Montgomery: And Now… Marion Montgomery: That Lady from Natchez

It Must be Love - Marian Montgomery: Marian in the Morning

Marion (aka Marian) Montgomery

November 17, 1934 - July 22, 2002

Series 24, Prog 1

A LITTLE MEANS A LOT

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

Three Little Words - Nellie Lutcher: Our New Nellie

Dream a Little Dream of Me - Janet Seidel: Moon of Manakoola

Go Away Little Girl - Steve Lawrence: Winners

Goodbye Little Dream, Goodbye - Susannah McCorkle: East to Love/The Songs of Cole Porter

Little Brown Jug - The Modernaires: The Modernaires Sing the Great Glenn Miller Instrumentals

I Had a Little Sorrow - June Christy: Ballads for Night People

I Was a Little Too Lonely (and You Were a Little Too Late) - Nat King Cole: After Midnight

Every Little Bit Hurts - Aretha Franklin: Run-in’ Out of Fools

Little Girl Blue - Johnny Hartman: And I Thought About You

Take a Little Time to Smile - Shirley Horn: A Lazy Afternoon

A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Give a Little, Get a Little (Love) - Carmen McRae: Something Wonderful

Little Green Apples - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ’n Basie

What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday & Teddy Wilson Orchestra: Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday

Little Unhappy Boy - Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley: Nancy Wilson with Cannonball Adderley

Little Jazz Bird - Mark Murphy: Let Yourself Go

A Little Bit - Madeleine Peyroux: Half the Perfect World

Little Pony - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Sing a Song of Basie

Try a Little Tenderness - Frank Sinatra: Nice ’n’ Easy

Photo: Min An

Series 23, Prog 20

THE UNFORGETTABLE NAT KING COLE

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

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole: The Nat King Cole Story

Sweet Lorraine - Nat King Cole: 78rpm single

Ballerina - Nat King Cole: single

You’re My Everything - Nat King Cole: I Don’t Want to be Hurt Anymore

Send for Me - Nat King Cole: Billy May Sessions

Nature Boy - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings the Blues

When My Sugar Walks Down the Street - Nat King Cole: Billy May Sessions

When I Fall in Love - Nat King Cole: Love Is the Thing

Once in a While - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

The Rules of the Road - Nat King Cole: Let’s Face the Music!

Paradise - Nat King Cole: The Very Thought of You

Let There be Love - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Quintet Plays

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Nat King Cole: Sings My Fair Lady

There’s Love - Nat King Cole: L-O-V-E

This is Always - Nat King Cole: Tell Me All About Yourself

Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer - Nat King Cole: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer

Tenderly - Nat King Cole: Sings for Two in Love

Joe Turner’s Blues - Nat King Cole: At The Sands

Nat King Cole 

(March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965)

Series 23, Prog 19

LIVE AT GREAT AMERICAN VENUES

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

I Wish I Were in Love Again - Mel Tormé: Live at The Crescendo

Secret Love - Carmen McRae: Live at Bubba’s!

Have You Met Miss Jones? - Joe Williams: Swingin’ Night at Birdland

You’ve Got a Friend - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie Orchestra: Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic ’72

I’m Way Ahead of the Game - Tony Bennett: Live at The Sahara

I’m Having a Good Time - Alberta Hunter: Downhearted Blues (Live at The Cookery)

What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Dee Dee Bridgewater: Live at Yoshi’s

How Blue Can You Get? - BB King: Live at The Regal

God Bless the Child - Esther Phillips: CTI Summer Jazz at The Hollywood Bowl

I’ve Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (Madison Square Garden)

Call Me Darling - Peggy Lee: Peggy at Basin Street East (The Unreleased Show)

Spirit in the Dark - Aretha Franklin: Live at The Fillmore West

The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole at the Sands

When You’re Smiling - Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall

Photo: Brandin T

Series 23, Prog 18

READY FOR TAKE-OFF

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

Come Fly with Me - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

Flying - Carmen McRae: For Once in My Life

Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary: Album 1700

Flying Home - Ella Fitzgerald: 78rpm single

One Day I’ll Fly Away - Randy Crawford: Now We May Begin

Straighten Up and Fly Right - Nat King Cole: Super Best Nat King Cole (Vol 1)

Where Flamingos Fly - Toni Harper & Marty Paich Orchestra: Night Mood

Flip, Flop & Fly - Big Joe Turner with Count Basie & His Orchestra: Flip, Flop & Fly

Fly Me to the Moon - Peggy Lee: Pretty Eyes

Flying Down to Rio - Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

Song of the Jet (Samba Do Avião) - Salena Jones: Salena Sings with the Jobims

I’d Fly - Diane Schuur & Richard Cocciante: Friends for Schuur

Let’s Fly Away - Lee Wiley: ’S Wonderful

Fly Too High - Janis Ian featuring Steve Madaio: Night Rains

Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes: Today I Sing the Blues

Hi-Fly - Mel Tormé: Comin' Home Baby!

Photo: Tove Liu

Series 23, Prog 17

MEDLEYS

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

1. Blue Skies/On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)/A Foggy Day - Ella Fitzgerald: Live from The Cave Supper Club, Vancouver, Canada

2. Porgy & Bess Medley: Summertime/They Pass By Singin'/I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'/It Take a Long Pull to Get There/It Ain't Necessary So/Strawberry Women/Oh, Bess, Oh Bess, Where's My Bess/Bess, You Is My Woman - Mel Tormé: Mel Tormé & Friends

3. Easy Living/Days ff Wine and Roses/It's Impossible - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook

Say It Isn't So/Blue Skies/Here's That Rainy Day - Perry Como: Sing to Me, Mr C

4. Gershwin Medley: Rhapsody in Blue/Swanee/The Man I Love/Oh, Lady Be Good/Somebody Loves Me/I Got Rhythm/It Ain't Necessarily So/Summertime/Strike Up the Band! - Bing Crosby & Al Jolson: Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson: The Complete Radio Duets

5. Beatles Medley: Golden Slumbers/Here, There And Everywhere - Roberta Gambarini: So in Love

6. Fabulous Forties Medley: Little White Lies/Tangerine/Love Walked In/Mam'selle/Cherokee/On the Sunny Side of the Street - Dick Haymes: Dick Haymes Comes Home! Live At The Cocoanut Grove 1973

7. One Kiss/My Romance/The Most Beautiful Man in the World - Peggy Lee: Peggy At Basin Street East (The Unreleased Show)

8. West Side Story Medley: Jet Song/Something's Coming/Cool/Tonight/A-Me-Ri-Ca/Gee, Officer Krupke/Maria - Sammy Davis Jr & Johnny Mendoza: At the Cocoanut Grove

Photo: Tara Winstead

Series 23, Prog 16

FEEL THE HEAT

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

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

Too Dar Hot - Mel Tormé: Swings Shubert Alley

My Old Flame - Margaret Whiting: Past Midnight !

Warm Kiss (and a Cold Heart) - Jeri Southern: Southern Breeze

Steam Heat - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Sings Broadway

Warm All Over - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Sings Broadway

It’s Too Hot for Words - Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra: The Real Billie Holiday

The Long, Hot Summer - Dick Haymes: Look at Me Now!

Le Jazz Hot - Julie Andrews: Victor, Victoria (Soundtrack)

I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Dinah Washington: September in the Rain

Just One of Those Things - Rosemary Clooney: Sings the Music of Cole Porter

Heat Wave - Susannah McCorkle: Let’s Face the Music (The Songs of Irving Berlin)

Slow Hot Wind - Sarah Vaughan: Sings the Henry Mancini Songbook

It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) - Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Jones Trio, Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring Ray Nance: Côte d'Azur Concerts (Disc 7)

Photo: Jeremy Bishop

Series 23, Prog 15

THAT’S PRETTY DEEP!

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

Deep in the Night - Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Dick Haymes: Moondreams

How Deep is the Ocean - Dena DeRose: A Walk in the Park

(Close Your Eyes) Take a Deep Breath - Eydie Gorné & Steve Lawrence: Eydie Gormé’s Delight

River Deep, Mountain High - Annie Lennox: Coldest (EP)

Deep in a Dream - Ed Townsend with Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra: Glad to be Here

A Thousand Kisses Deep - Barb Jungr: Hard Rain - The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen

A Deeper Blue - Full Swing (Featuring Lorraine Feather, Angel Rogers & Tom Stone): The End of the Sky

Dig a Little Deeper - Mahalia Jackson: 78rpm single

Deep Down Love - Jackie Wilson: Somethin’ Else

Deep Song - Billie Holiday: Love Songs

Deep Night - Frank Sinatra & Harry James: Love is a Kick

How Deep is Your Love - Jacqui Naylor: You Don’t Know Jacq

Deep in the Heart of Texas - Ray Charles: The Genius Hits the Road

Deep Purple - Carol Sloane: I Never Went Away

Photo: 7inchs

Series 23, Prog 14

SUNSHINE

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

Hello Sunshine - Aretha Franklin: Aretha Now

Sunshine Cake - Frank Sinatra & Paula Kelly: 78rpm single

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

Brighter than Sunshine - Aqualung: Strange and Beautiful

You Brought Me More Sunshine Than I Can Use - Pearl Bailey: For Adults Only

Sunshine Superman - Donovan: Sunshine Superman

Sunny - Ernestine Anderson: Sunshine

You are My Sunshine - Count Basie & The Alan Copeland Singers: Basie Swingin’ - Voices Singin’

Hello Sunshine - Bobby Darin: Inside Out (bonus track)

Sunshine After the Rain - Elkie Brooks: single

Walking in the Sunshine - Frank Sinatra & Harry James: 78rpm single

You are the Sunshine of My Life - Ella Fitzgerald: Montreux ’77

Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles: Revolver

Bring Me Sunshine - The Mills Brothers: My Shy Violet

We’ll Sing in the Sunshine - Jane Morgan: In My Style

Sunshine - Nancy Wilson: Life, Love and Harmony

Ain’t No Sunshine - Nancy Wilson: Kaleidoscope

The Best is Yet to Come - Todd Gordon & RAF Squadronaires: Evergreen

Photo: Hassan Ouajbir

Series 23, Prog 13

EASY ’N' NICE!

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

Nice ’n’ Easy - Frank Sinatra: Nice ’n’ Easy

Living is Easy - Cleo Laine: Born on a Friday

It’s Easy to Remember - Perry Como: An Evening with Perry Como

You’re Not so Easy to Forget - Morgana King: For You, For Me, For Evermore

Easy Living - Kurt Elling: Flirting with Twilight

Easy as You Go - Carmen McRae with the Dave Brubeck Quartet

You’re East to Dance With - Fred Astaire: The Astaire Story (Vol 4)

Am I That Easy to Forget - Diane Schuur: The Gathering

Make It Easy on Yourself - Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines & Marva Josie

Easy Street - Anne Phillips: Born to be Blue

Easy Rider - Bobby Darin: If I Were a Carpenter/Inside Out (Bonus Track)

Be Easy, Be Tender - Ann Richards: The Many Moods of Ann Richards

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

Easy Evil - Peggy Lee: Let’s Love

Easy Come, Easy Go - Johnny Hartman: I’ve Been There

Take It Slow and Easy - Barbara Dane: On My Way

(You’d Be So) Easy to Love - Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding, Ding!

Photo: Leonie Fahjen

Season 23, Prog 12

LOST

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

I’m Lost - Arthur Prysock with Count Basie & His Orchestra: Arthur Prysock-Count Basie

You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’ - Nancy Wilson: Today - My Way

Lost in Another Time - Norma Winstone & Fred Hersch: Songs & Lullabies

Lost in a Fog - Tommy Leonetti with Marion Evans & His Orchestra: Dream Street

Let’s Get Lost - Callum Au & Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Lost for Words - Claire Martin: Time & Place

Lost in a Memory of You - Connie Conway: The Very Best of Connie Conway

Lost in a Summer Night - June Christy: Gone for the Day

When I Lost You - Tony Bennett: Bennett/Berlin

I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City - Peggy Lee: Blues Cross Country with Quincy Jones

Lost in You - Liza Minnelli: Gently

Is it Better to have Loved and Lost? - Nat King Cole: Looking Back (sans rhythm)

I Got Lost in His Arms - Marion Montgomery & Laurie Holloway: Skylark

Lost Up in Loving You - Carmen McRae: Can’t Hide Love

Lost in the Stars - Frank Sinatra: The Concert Sinatra 

Photo: Jens Johnsson

Season 23, Prog 11

EVERYTHING…

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

Everything Happens for the Best - Billie Holiday: The Real Billie Holiday

Everything I’ve Got Belongs to You - Blossom Dearie: Blossom Dearie

You’re Everything but Mine - Joe Williams: Swingin’ Night at Birdland

Everything I Love - Marlene VerPlanck: Once There was a Moon

Everything Must Change - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

Everything but You - Ella Fitzgerald: The Duke Ellington Song Book

You’re My Everything - Nat King Cole: I Don’t Want to be Hurt Anymore

Everything Happens to Me - Rosemary Clooney: Ring Around Rosie

I’ve Got Just About Everything - Tony Bennett: When Lights are Low

Everything That Happens to You - Lena Horne & Michel Legrand: Lena & Michel

Everything I Have is Yours - Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones: At Basin Street East

Everything’s Been Done Before - Susannah McCorkle & Dave Frischberg: No More Blues

(Everything I Touched Turned to) Gold - Joe Valino: single

You are My Everything - Oliver Bohovic: single

Uptight (Everything’s Alright) - Nancy Wilson: A Touch of Today

Everything I Love - Morgana King: For You, For Me, For Evermore

The Best of Everything - Frank Sinatra: LA is My Lady

Photo: DS Stories

Series 23, Prog 10

YES, YES, YES!

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

Yes We Can Can - Harry Connick Jr: Oh, My Nola

I Love You, Yes I Do - Chris Connor: I Miss You So

Say ‘Si, Si’ - Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney: Fancy Meeting You Here

Yes - Doris Day & André Previn: Duet

Oh Yes, Take Another Guess - Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra: 78rpm single

She Didn’t Say Yes - Margaret Whiting: Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book (Vol 2)

Yes I Can - Sammy Davis Jr: If I Ruled the World

Yes, I Know When I’ve Had It - Shirley Horn: Travelin’ Light

Yes Indeed! - Dinah Shore: Dinah, Yes Indeed!

All You Need to Say (Never Say Yes) - Karrin Allyson & Nancy King: Footprints

Yes It Is - The Beatles: single (B-side to Ticket to Ride)

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection

Telling Me Yes, Telling Me No - Peggy Lee & Mel Tormé: single

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby - Buddy Greco: Buddy

Yes - Merry Clayton: Dirty Dancing (Soundtrack)

Yeh Yeh - Jon Hendricks: In Person at The Trident

Yeh Yeh (reprise) - Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames: Yeh Yeh

I Said No - Ella Fitzgerald: Whisper Not

Photo: Cottonbro

Series 23, Prog 9

TOP HATS!

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

A Tip of the Hat - Dena DeRose: Ode to the Road

Putting’ on the Ritz - Fred Astaire: The Astaire Story (Vol 1)

A Straw Hat Full of Lilacs - Barbara Lea: Lea in Love (Bonus Track)

You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker: The Best of Joe Cocker

Top Hat, White Tie and Tails - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book

Gonna Buy a Hat - Chris Rea: Dancing with Strangers

The Ladies Who Lunch - Eydie Gormé: single

They Can’t Take That Away from Me - Billie Holiday: Body and Soul

Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home) - Marvin Gaye: The Complete Mowtown Singles Vol 9 (1969)

Misty - Sarah Vaughan: Sassy Swings The Tivoli

Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat - Bob Dylan: single

I Can’t Get Started - Hildegarde: 78rpm single

On the Sunny Side of the Street - Ella Fitzgerald: JATP in Tokyo (Live at The Nichigeki Theatre, 1953)

High Hat - Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Cleo Laine: Born on a Friday

Photo: Sam Lion

Series 23, Prog 8

ROYALTY

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

The King - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Sing Along with Basie

Street of Dreams - Lou Rawls: That’s Lou

The Lady is a Tramp - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Rodgers & Hart Song Book

You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me - Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!

At Seventeen - Janis Ian: Between the Lines

If I Had You - Johnny Hartman: I Love Everybody

Marie - Judy Collins: Hard Times for Lovers

Star! - Frank Sinatra: Greatest Hits, Vol 2

The Moon Got in My Eyes - Mildred Bailey: Harlem Lullaby

Little Queen - Chuck Berry: single

You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You - Dinah Washington: Dinah ’62

Sun King - The Beatles: Abbey Road

The Other Woman - Nina Simone: Nina Simone at Town Hall

Mythical Kings and Iguanas - Dory Previn: Mythical Kings and Iguanas

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

That’s Life (alternate orchestration) - Frank Sinatra: Ultimate Sinatra (The Centennial Collection)

Someday My Prince Will Come - Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince Will Come

Photo: Mike B

Series 23, Prog 6

WALTER DONALDSON SONG BOOK

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

It’s Been So Long - Benny Goodman Orchestra featuring Helen Ward: 78rpm single

Did I Remember? - Nancy Wilson: Hollywood My Way

Sleepy Head - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats

Mister Meadowlark - Bing Crosby & Johnny Mercer: Personality 

Cuckoo in the Clock - Lena Horne: Lena Like Latin

At Sundown - Morgana King: The Greatest Songs Ever Swung

My Mammy - Liza Minnelli: Liza with a “Z”

'Tain't No Sin (To Dance Around In Your Bones) - Mark Murphy: Let Yourself Go

What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry - Keely Smith: Swingin’ Pretty

Little White Lies - Dick Haymes: Rain or Shine

My Buddy - Claire Martin: Secret Love

You’re Driving Me Crazy - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

Carolina in the Morning - Dinah Shore: Dinah Down Home

My Blue Heaven - Sy Oliver & His Orchestra & Chorus: Jimmie Lunceford in Hi-Fi

Makin’ Whoopee! - Dinah Washington: The Swingin’ Miss “D”

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

Love Me or Leave Me - Peggy Lee: Black Coffee

Yes Sir, That’s My Baby - Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the Night

WALTER DONALDSON 

February 15, 1893 - July 15, 1947

Series 23, Prog 7

THE CHARMS OF ARMS

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

Almost in Your Arms - Nancy Wilson: Hollywood My Way

I Got Lost in His Arms - Carol Kidd & Nigel Clark: Tell Me Once Again

Cinderella (Stay in My Arms) - Jackie Paris: The Song is Paris

I’ve Never Left Your Arms - Peggy Lee: Peggy at Basin Street East

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

Back in My Arms - Nat King Cole: The Beautiful Ballads

Here in My Arms - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Rodgers & Hart Song Book

In the Arms of Love - Matt Monro & Nelson Riddle: Matt Sings, Nelson Swings

Time On My Hands (You In My Arms) - Billie Holiday: 78rpm single

Into My Arms - Ian Shaw: Somewhere Towards Love

My Honey’s Login’ Arms - The Gotham Stompers Featuring Ivie Anderson: The Chronological Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 1937

The Shelter of Your Arms - Sammy Davis Jr: The Shelter of Your Arms

Take Me in Your Arms - Dinah Washington: Dinah ’63

In My Arms - Glen Campbell: Ghost on the Canvas

Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey - Ella Mae Morse: single

Full Moon and Empty Arms - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra Sings Nancy (EP)

World in My Arms - Nat King Cole: Looking Back (original version)

All of Me - Jimmy Rushing & Eddie Condon: Eddie Condon in Japan

Photo: Lilartsy

Series 23, Prog 5

HAVE YOU HEARD…

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

Don'cha Go ’Way Mad - Lucy Ann Polk: Lucky Lucy Ann

Maybe You’ll Be There - Sue Raney: All By Myself

I’ll Never Be the Same - Thelma Gracen: Thelma Gracen

Once Bitten - Lorraine Feather: Dooji Wooji

Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week) - Anne Phillips: Born to be Blue

The Movie About Us - Eva Dahlgren: Fimen Om Oss

40 Cups of Coffee - Ella Mae Morse: The Hits of Freddie Slack

Maybe - Clairdee: A Love Letter to Lena

You’re the Cream in My Coffee - Jacy Parker: Spotlight on Jacy Parker

Quietly - Marlene VerPlanck: One Dream at a Time

Will You Still be Mine? - Carol Sloane: Out of the Blue

You’re the Top - Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

I’d Rather Talk About You - René Marie: Vertigo

Social Call - Alexis Cole: Sky Blossom (Songs from My Tour of Duty)

Come Summertime - Georgia Cécile: Only the Lover Sings

After You’ve Gone - Teresa Brewer & Count Basie: The Songs of Bessie Smith

Photo: Dziubi Steenbergen