Series 30, 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

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

Photo: Life of Pix

Series 30, Prog 2

HOW LONG, HOW 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: Thomas Brenac

Series 30, Prog 1

LIQUID REFRESHMENT

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

Cocktails for Two - Keely Smith: Politely

The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding, Ding!

You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me - Anita O’Day: An Evening with Anita O’Day

It Never Entered My Mind - Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson: Double Exposure

I’d Rather Drink Muddy Water - Barbara Morrison: Live at The Dakota (Vol 2)

Corn Whiskey - Jimmy Witherspoon: single

Drinking Water (Agua de Beber) - Astrud Gilberto: The Astrud Gilberto Album

Tea for Two - Sylvia Syms: Sylvia Syms Sings

Little Ol’ Wine Drinker, Me - Dean Martin: single

A Wet Night (and a Dry Martini) - Cynthia Crane & Mike Renzi: Smoky Bar Songs (For the No-Smoking Section)

Me and My Gin (aka Gin House Blues) - Nina Simone: Forbidden Fruit

Days of Wine and Roses - Peggy Lee: Mink Jazz

Pink Champagne - Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey, Mrs Jones

You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday Sings

Gimme That Wine - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: The Hottest New Group in Jazz

Hard Hearted Hannah - Ella Fitzgerald: Pete Kelly’s Blues (Soundtrack)

Rum and Coca-Cola - The Andrews Sisters: In Hi-Fi

Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer) - La Vern Baker: Sings Bessie Smith

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Series 29, Prog 20

FUN! FUN! FUN!

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

Funny (But I Still Love You) - Ray Charles: Hallelujah, I Love Her So!

Ain’t We Got Fun - Peggy Lee: Jump for Joy

Fun to Be Fooled - Jackie Paris: Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin

Funnier Than Funny - Nancy Wilson: Gentle Is My Love

Funny (Not Much) - Buddy Greco: Big Band and Ballads

Funny What Love Can Do - Bobby Darin: single

My Funny Valentine - Carmen McRae: After Glow

She’s Funny That Way - Frank Sinatra: Nice ’n’ Easy

Funny Face - Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book

This Funny World - Tony Bennett: Sings... Life Is Beautiful (The Complete Improv Recordings)

All in Fun - Tony Bennett: The Art of Romance

Getting Some Fun Out of Life - Carol Sloane: Love You Madly

What a Funny Girl (You Used to Be) - Frank Sinatra: Watertown

Funny World - Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is!

Are We Just Having Fun - Sarah Moule: Stormy Emotions

Just for the Fun of It - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

I’ve Had My Fun - Ray Charles: The Greatest Collection Ever Made

Photo: Alex Dummer

Series 29, Prog 19

JIMMY VAN HEUSEN SONG BOOK

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

I Thought About You - Johnny Hartman: And I Thought About You

Darn That Dream - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Gently with Nelson

Heaven Can Wait - Dean Martin: This Time I’m Swingin’

(We’re Off on) The Road to Morocco - Bing Crosby & Bob Hope: 78rpm single

But Beautiful - Jacqui Dankworth: Detour Ahead

Swinging on a Star - Mark Murphy: Playing the Field

Moonlight Becomes You - Dick Haymes: Moonbeams

Here’s That Rainy Day - Sammy Davis Jr: Sammy Davis Jr Sings, Laurindo Mlmeida Plays

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

All the Way - Clairdee: Music Moves

Love and Marriage - Peggy Lee: Olé ala Lee!

Call Me Irresponsible - The Four Freshmen: More 4 Freshmen with 5 Trombones

Come Dance with Me - Shirley Horn: Shirley Horn with Horns

Only the Lonely - Liane Carroll: Ballads

(Love Is) The Tender Trap - Mel Tormé: At The Crescendo

I’ll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her - Matt Monro: Stranger in Paradise (The Lost New York Sessions)

The Second Time Around - Ernestine Anderson & George Shearing: A Perfect Match

My Kind of Town - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra at The Sands

Jimmy Van Heusen 

(January 26, 1913 - February 6, 1990)

Series 29, Prog 18

SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG

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

Together (Wherever We Go) - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé: We Got Us

Together - Frank Sinatra: All Alone

I Love You - Julie London: Julie is Her Name

I Love You - Billy Eckstine: Once More with Feeling

I Love You - Earl: single

Tonight - Michael Dees with Don Trenner & His Orchestra: Michael Dees Sings Steve Allen

Tonight - Nancy Wilson: Broadway My Way

To Know You Is to Love You - Thelma Houston & The Pressure Cooker: I’ve Got the Music in Me

To Know You (Is to Love You) - Perry Como: Como Swings

(They Long to Be) Close to You - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook

Close to You - Frank Sinatra: Close to You

Don’t Wait Too Long - Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love

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

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

(What a) Wonderful World - Art Garfunkel: 

Why - Louise Phelan: Moments of Light

Why - Clare Teal: Hey Ho

Photo: Tembela Bohle

Series 29, Prog 17

TENDER

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

(Love Is) The Tender Trap - Frank Sinatra: This Is Sinatra!

I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You - Billie Holiday: Music for Torching

Love’s Been Good to Me - Nina Simone: A Single Woman

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

There’s Love - Nat King Cole: L-O-V-E

Tender as a Rose - Carol Stevens with Phil Moore’s Music: That Satin Doll

Yellow Days - Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett’s “Something”

Tenderly - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis

The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella

Tender Is the Night - Steve Lawrence: Love Songs from the Movies

The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) - Dinah Shore: Dinah, Yes Indeed!

Love Me Tender - Barb Jungr: Love Me Tender

Begin the Beguine - Perry Como: Como Swings

Try a Little Tenderness - Peggy Lee: unreleased single

I Concentrate on You - Judy Garland: Judy In Love

Image: Designecologist

Series 29, Prog 16

UNCONVENTIONAL VOICES

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

I’m Walkin’ Through Heaven with You - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul

This One’s from the Heart - Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle: One from The Heart (Soundtrack)

I Still Suits Me - Bobby Troup: The Distinctive Style of Bobby Troup

I Wanna Be Loved by You - Marilyn Monroe: Some Like It Hot! (Soundtrack)

That’s Life - Alan Cumming: I Bought a Blue Car Today

I’ll See You in My Dreams - Jimmy Durante: Jimmy Durante’s Way of Life

Everyone’s in Love with You - David Byrne: Look into the Eyeball

I’m in the Mood for Love - Mae West: The Fabulous Mae West

Lullaby in Ragtime - Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night

So, Relax - Leon Redbone: Sugar

Bo Mambo - Yma Sumac: Mambo!

C’est Si Bon - Louis Armstrong: Satchmo Serenades

Roll ‘Em Pete - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

You’ll Be Sorry - Big Maybelle: The Okeh Sessions

Good Night, Irene - Dr John: Goin’ Back to New Orleans

Honeysuckle Rose - Marlene Dietrich: Dietrich In London

The Time of Your Life - Randy Newman: A Bug’s Life (Soundtrack)

Photo: Jaasiel Mora

Series 29, Prog 15

REMEMBERING STEPHEN SONDHEIM

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

All I Need Is the Girl - Frank Sinatra with Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Francis A & Edward K

Small World - Barbara Long with Herb Geller & His All-Stars: Selections from Gypsy

Together (Wherever We Go) - Peggy Lee: Olé ala Lee

Not While I’m Around - Kurt Elling: Flirting with Twilight

Old Friend - Lena Horne: An Evening with Lena Horne (Live at The Supper Club)

Broadway Baby - Elaine Stritch: Follies in Concert

West Side Story Medley - Sammy Davis Jr & Johnny Mendoza: At The Cocoanut Grove

The Ladies Who Lunch - Eydie Gormé: single

Send In the Clowns - Carmen McRae: Live at Bubba’s!

Everything’s Coming Up Roses - Johnny Mathis: The Rhythms of Broadway

One Hand, One Heart - Kiri Te Kanawa & José Carreras: West Side Story

Somewhere - Aretha Franklin: Aretha’s Jazz

Good Thing Going - Frank Sinatra: She Shot Me Down

Stephen Sondheim

(March 22, 1930 - November 26, 2021)

Photo: Bernard Gotfryd/Library of Congress