Series 29, Prog 7

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2024

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: Season’s Greetings from Perry Como

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

Let Me Be the First (to Wish You Merry Christmas) - Steve Lawrence: That Holiday Feeling!

Santa Claus Is Back in Town - Elvis Presley & Wynnona Judd: Christmas Duets

Winter Weather - Jo Stafford: Happy Holiday

Image: Brigitte Tohm

Series 29, Prog 6

ALONE AGAIN

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: But Beautiful

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 - Dolores Gray: Warm Brandy

Alone Again (Naturally) - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Image: Domen Mirtič Dolenec

 

Series 29, Prog 5

CHICAGO

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

Goin’ to Chicago Blues - 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

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

Image: Cam Casey