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