Series 22, Prog 5

WHY…

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

Why Don’t You Do Right - Ella Fitzgerald: JATP in Japan/The Ella Fitzgerald Set

I Know Why (and So Do You) - June Christy: Fair and Warmer

Why Try to Change Me Now - Frank Sinatra: No One Cares

Wonder Why - Claire Martin: Too Much in Love to Care

I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do) - Joe Williams & Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison: Together

Why Can’t I - Judy Garland: Classic Garland (The Capitol Years 1955-1965)

Why - Ernie Andrews: This Is Ernie Andrews

Why Shouldn’t I - Margaret Whiting: Margaret Whiting Sings for the Starry-Eyed

Why’d You Do Me The Way You Did - The Royal Bopsters: Party of Four

Why Was I Born - Cher: Bittersweet White Light

Why Keep On Breaking My Heart - Nina Simone: Wild Is the Wind

Why and How - Mark Murphy: Midnight Mood

Why Don’t We Try Staying Home - Susannah McCorkle: Easy to Love (The Songs of Cole Porter)

Why Not - Johnny Mathis: Live It Up!

Don’t Know Why - Norah Jones: Come Away with Me

Why Should I Cry Over You - Andy Williams: single

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

I Wonder Why - Ella  Fitzgerald: Ella

Photo: Magda Ehlers

Series 22, Prog 4

PRAYER FOR PEACE

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

Prayer for Peace - Jacqui Dankworth: Back to You

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

What the World Needs Now - Lena Horne: Soul

Imagine - Dena DeRose: A Walk in the Park

Gonna Build a Mountain - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ’n Basie

Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Marlene Dietrich: Dietrich

As Time Goes By - Carmen McRae: Alone, Live at The Dug

Blowin’ in the Wind - Stevie Wonder: Greatest Hits

The Fields of St Etienne - Mary Hopkin: Those Were the Days

What a Wonderful World - Tony Bennett & k d lang: A Wonderful World

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Peggy Lee: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) - Nina Simone: To Love Somebody

Over the Rainbow - Harry Nilsson: A Little Schmilsson in the Night

Give Peace a Chance (Edit) - John Lennon: Working Class Hero

Climbing Higher Mountains - Diane Schuur: Diane Schuur & The Count Basie Orchestra

Photo: Disha Sheta

Series 22, Prog 3

CAFÉ SOCIETY

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

Café Society - Lorraine Feather: Café Society

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

Pick Yourself Up - Nat King Cole & George Shearing: Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Quintet Plays

Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart - Pearl Bailey & Louie Bellson: Pearl Bailey & Louie Bellson in New York

I Didn’t Know What Time It Was - Carmen McRae: Dream of Life

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

Too Marvelous for Words - Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues

My Melancholy Baby - Dinah Shore & André Previn: Dinah Sings, Previn Plays

I Only Have Eyes for You - Mark Muphy: Mark Murphy’s Hip Parade

Did I Remember? - Ernestine Anderson: Hot Cargo

My Romance - Sammy Davis Jr: The Wham of Sam

This Can’t Be Love - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Rodgers & Hart Song Book

June in January - Dean Martin: A Winter Romance

Jeepers Creepers - Cleo Laine: Cleo Laine Sings

Manhattan - Todd Gordon & RAF Squadronaires featuring Jacqui Dankworth: Evergreen

There’s a Small Hotel - Elaine Delmar: But Beautiful

Mountain Greenery - Patti Page: In the Land of Hi-Fi

You Turned the Tables on Me - Louis Armstrong: I’ve Got the World on a String

The Peanut Vendor - Anita O’Day: Sings the Winners

Photo: Pixabay

Series 22, Prog 2

LONG, LONG, LONG…

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

It’s Been So Long - Jo Stafford: single

Alone Too Long - Mark Murphy: Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields & Cy Coleman

It’s Been a Long, Long Time - Harry James & His Orchestra featuring Helen Forrest: Harry James in Hi-Fi

As Long As I’m Singing - Bobby Darin: Ultra-Lounge Artist Series

It Takes Too Long to Learn to Live Alone - Peggy Lee: Norman Dolores Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota

You Came a Long Way from St Louis - Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney: Fancy Meeting You Here

All Night Long - Shirley Horn: You’re My Thrill

As Long as I Live - Ernestine Anderson: Never Make Your Move Too Soon

As Long as There’s Music - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra in Hollywood: 1940-1964

Don’t Wait Too Long - Blossom Dearie: May I Come In?

Long Ago and Far Away - Margaret Whiting: Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book (Vol 2)

I’ll Get By (As Long as I Have You) - Jackie Paris: The Jackie Paris Sound

At Long Last Love - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole

How Long Has This Been Going On? - Elaine Delmar: But Beautiful

As Long as She Needs Me - Sammy Davis Jr: That’s All

How Long, How Long Blues - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

Photo: Oladimeji Ajegbile