Thursday, 25 July 2024

Series 28, Prog 7

DANCE WITH ME!

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

Come Dance with Me - Shirley Horn: Shirley Horn with Horns
The Charleston - Louis Prima: Louis Prima
Cha Cha de Amor - Dean Martin: Cha Cha de Amor
Just Another Rhumba - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book (Vol 1)
After the Waltz is Over - Mel Tormé & George Shearing: An Elegant Evening
Just a Little Bit of Twist - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: The Hottest New Group in Jazz (bonus track)
Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney: The Voice of Your Choice
Rock and Roll - Jimmy Rushing: Listen to the Blues
Tango - Peggy Lee: Sings Leiber & Stoller (aka Mirrors)
GI Jive - Johnny Mercer: Personality
Ballerina - Nat King Cole: single
Samba Da Bencao (Samba Of The Blessing) - Bebel Gilberto: Eat, Pray, Love (Soundtrack)
The Continental - Fred Astaire & JATP All-Stars: The Astaire Story
Everybody’s Twistin’ - Frank Sinatra: single 
Begin the Beguine - Ann-Margaret: The Vivacious One
The Carioca - Mel Tormé & Marty Paich Dek-Tette: Lulu’s Back in Town

Photo: Pixabay



Thursday, 18 July 2024

Series 28, Prog 6

GO!

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

I Think You’d Better Go - Jo Harrop: The Heart Wants
Don'cha Go ’Way Mad - Lucy Ann Polk: Lucky Lucy Ann
Easy Come, Easy Go - Steve Lawrence: Portrait of Steve
Easy As You Go - The Dave Brubeck Quartet & Carmen McRae: The Real Ambassadors
If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas) - Frank Sinatra: My Way
Go Away Little Boy - Shirley Horn: Shirley Horn with Horns
Go Slow - Julie London: Make Love to Me
Don’t Let Her Go - Sammy Davis Jr: Here’s Lookin’ at You
Goin’ to Chicago Blues - Peggy Lee: Blues Cross Country with the Quincy Jones Orchestra 
Here We Go Again - Ray Charles: Ray Charles Invites You to Listen
Go Away, My Love! - Beverly Kenney: Born to Be Blue
Guy On the Go - The Mills Brothers: Dream
After the Lights Go Down Low - Freda Payne: After The Lights Go Down Low And Much More!!!
You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday: Solitude
So Very Hard to Go - Tower of Power: Tower of Power
I Go for That - Audrey Morris: The Voice of Audrey Morris
Go Away - Johnny Hartman: I Love Everybody
Never Let Me Go - Nancy Wilson: Yesterday’s Love Songs, Today’s Blues
I’m Gonna Go Fishin’ - Mel Tormé: I Dig the Duke/I Dig the Count

Photo: Ivan Samkov



Thursday, 11 July 2024

Series 28, Prog 5

THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

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

This Must Be the Place - Betty Hutton & Tennessee Ernie Ford with Billy May & His Orchestra: 78rpm single
Duke's Place (C-Jam Blues) - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington: Ella at Duke’s Place
My Safest Place - Ian Shaw: Lifejacket
No Place to Go - Sue Raney: All By Myself
I Know a Place - Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich: The Sounds of ’66
Something’ Stupid - Frank Sinatra & Nancy Sinatra: The World We Knew
No Place to Go - Connie Conway: The Very Best of Connie Conway (Vol 1)
A Place for Lovers - Ella Fitzgerald: A Place for Lovers (Soundtrack)
Far Away Places - Tommy Sands: Dream with Me
I Hope I Never Leave This Place - Lorraine Feather: Attachments
No Particular Place to Go - Chuck Berry: single
(Theme from) A Summer Place - Joanie Sommers: Johnny Get Angry
A Lonely Place - Tony Bennett: I’ve Gotta be Me
No Place to Be Somebody - Oscar Brown Jr: Movie’ On
A Rock and a Hard Place - Carol Kidd: Both Sides Now
Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home - Judy Garland: Judy

Photo: Tim Mossholder




 

Saturday, 6 July 2024

Series 28, Prog 4

FAMILY RELATIONS

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


Your Mother’s Son-in-Law - Billie Holiday with Benny Goodman & His Orchestra: The Real Billie Holiday

Night Time was My Mother - June Christy: The Song Is June

Gran’ma Plays the Numbers - Sy Oliver: 78rpm single

My Cousin in Milwaukee - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the George & Ira Gershwin Song Book (Vol 2)

Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father - Randy Newman: Little Criminals

Hey! Stop Kissin’ My Sister - Fats Waller: Fun with Fats

Four Brothers - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Sing a Song of Basie

Aunt Hagar’s Blues - Pearl Bailey: St Louis Blues

My Cousin Louella - Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years (1943-1952) - Vol 7

This Mother’s Daughter - Nancy Wilson: This Mother’s Daughter

Who Takes Care of the Caretaker’s Daughter - Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer: Two of a Kind

Sons of - Judy Collins: Whales & Nightingales

Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Annie Ross: Sings a Handful of Songs (bonus track)

Songs and Lullabies - Norma Winstone & Fred Hersch: Songs & Lullabies

My Father - Nina Simone: Baltimore

(Me and) Brother Bill - Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong: Bing & Satchmo

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


Photo: Pexels User



Series 28, Prog 3

BELIEVING

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


I Believe in You - Sarah Vaughan: The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan

Making Believe You’re Here - Nat King Cole: The Very Thought of You

Believe - Nat King Cole: Every Time I Feel the Spirit (bonus track)

Make Believe Dreams - Esther Phillips: And I Love Him (Esther Phillips Sings Great Love Songs)

I Believe - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton: The Two of Us

Do You Believe - Carol Kidd & Nigel Clark: Dreamsville

You Better Believe It - Billy Eckstine: For the Love of Ivy

I Believe in Dreams - Doris Day: I Have Dreamed

I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me - Helen O’Connell: Here’s Helen

I Believe - Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante & Bobby Long: Sinatra in Hollywood

Would You Believe - Claire Martin & Richard Rodney Bennett: Witchcraft/The Songs of Cy Coleman

You Must Believe in Spring - Ian Shaw: Somewhere Towards Love

I’m Making Believe - Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass: Easy Living

How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You (When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life) - Bing Crosby & Judy Garland: Bing Crosby Radio Show

I’m a Believer - Barb Jungr: The Men I Love/The New American Songbook

Believe It, Beloved - Al Hibbler with Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra: Favorites

Make Believe - Peggy Lee: Live in London


Photo: Brett Sayles