Thursday 28 July 2022

Series 23, Prog 3

CELEBRATING FEMALE COMPOSERS

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

The Best is Yet to Come - Carmen McRae: Sarah - Dedicated to You
Just for a Thrill - Peggy Lee: Norma Delores Egstrom from Jamestown North Dakota
Close Your Eyes - Vic Damone: Linger Awhile with Vic Damone
My Silent Love - Sue Raney: When Your Lover Has Gone
Close as Pages in a Book - Maxine Sullivan & Bob Wilber: Close as Pages in a Book
Now or Never - Billie Holiday with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra: 78rpm single
Drinking Again - Frank Sinatra: The World We Knew
How Am I to Know? - Rosemary Clooney & Nelson Riddle: Rose Solves the Swingin’ Riddle
Lucky to be Me - Norma Winstone: Manhattan in the Rain
My Secret Place - Joni Mitchell: Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm
Can’t We Be Friends - Sammy Davis Jr: The Wham of Sam
Go Away Little Boy - Shirley Horn: Shirley Horn with Horns
The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush: The Kick Inside
Inside a Silent Tear - Carol Sloane: Love You Madly
I’m in Love Again - Blossom Dearie: May I Come In?
Come in from the Rain - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel
Make Me Rainbows - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie: A Perfect Match (Ella & Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1979)

Photo: Cottonbro


Monday 25 July 2022

Series 23, Prog 2

STRANGERS

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

Strangers in the Night - Jack Jones: The Impossible Dream
Don’t Go to Strangers - Barbara Morrison: Live at The Dakota (Vol 2)
Passing Strangers - Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan: Passing Strangers
Love with the Proper Stranger - Nancy Marano: You’re Nearer
Stranger - Ian Shaw: A Ghost in Every Bar (The Lyrics of Fran Landesman)
Love’s No Stranger to Me - Peggy Lee: Love Held Lightly/Rare Songs by Harold Arlen
A Stranger in Town - Mel Tormé: Live at The Crescendo
A Stranger Called the Blues - June Christy: Something Cool (Stereo)
Stranger in the World - Vic Damone: You Were Only Fooling
Stranger in Paradise - Della Reese: Classic Della
The Beautiful Strangers - Frank Sinatra: A Man Alone
Would You Dance with a Stranger? - Peggy Lee: The Singles Collection (1952-1958)
Wayfaring Stranger - Charlie Haden Quartet West: The Art of the Song
Stranger on the Shore - Chris Connor: Sings Gentle Bossa Nova
Not as a Stranger - Frank Sinatra: Look to Your Heart
Strangers in the Night - Erroll Garner: Feeling is Believing

Photo: Max Flinterman


Thursday 14 July 2022

Series 23, Prog 1

HIGH OCTAVE: 7-UP!


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


Bo Mambo - Yma Sumac: Mambo!

Come Back to Me - Cleo Laine: Born On a Friday

Send in the Clowns - Sarah Vaughan & The Count Basie Orchestra: Send in the Clowns

My Reverie - Betty Carter: The Modern Sound of Betty Carter

Just One Of Those Things/On Green Dolphin Street - Mel Tormé: The Great American Songbook/Live at Michael’s Pub

Cloudburst - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: The Hottest New Group in Jazz

Air Mail Special - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Hollywood

Gopher - Yma Sumac: Mambo!

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues - Cleo Laine: All About Me

A Garden in the Rain - Sarah Vaughan: The Explosive Side Of Sarah Vaughan (Benny Carter Sessions)

By the Bend of the River - Betty Carter: Out There with Betty Carter

Perdido - Mel Tormé: North Sea Jazz Festival (12 Jul 1981)

Things Ain’t What They Used to Be - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross with Ike Isaacs Trio: Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sing Ellington

C-Jam Blues - Ella Fitzgerald & JATP All-Stars: Jazz at The Santa Monica Civic ’72


Photo: Erik McLean


 

Thursday 7 July 2022

Series 22, Prog 20

CRAZY OR WHAT?!

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


Crazy Rhythm - Mark Murphy: Let Yourself Go

Crazy He Calls Me - Cassandra Wilson: Coming Forth By Day

Crazy Feet - Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

You’re Driving Me Crazy - Betty Carter: Out There with Betty Carter

Crazy World - Janet Seidel: Charade (The Henry Mancini Songbook)

I’m Crazy ‘Bout My Baby - Louis Armstrong: Satch Plays Fats

You Could Drive a Person Crazy - Barbara Cook: Sings Mostly Sondheim (Live at Carnegie Hall)

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

Crazy Blues - Barbara Dane: On My Way

Crazy Love - Frank Sinatra: This Is Sinatra (Vol 2)

Oh, You Crazy Moon - Tina May & The Frank Griffith Big Band: Holland Park Non-Stop

Crazy ‘Bout My Baby - Randy Newman: Meet the Fockers (Soundtrack)

Crazy - Vic Damone: Country Love Songs

Crazy Arms - The Andrews Sisters: single

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

Crazy Butterfly - Nancy Wilson: Live from Las Vegas


Photo: Eva Bronzini