Series 24, Prog 3

 Series 24, Prog 3 (17 Dec 2022)

A TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

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

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Diana Krall: Christmas Songs

The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole: 78rpm single

A Yellow Ribbon (and Love) - Blossom Dearie & Mike Renzi: Christmas Spice So Very Nice

Christmas Auld Lang Syne - Bobby Darin: single

Christmas Present - Doris Day: The Doris Day Christmas Album

Let Me Be The First (To Wish You Merry Christmas) - Steve Lawrence: Goodyear Best of the Great Songs of Christmas (Vol 7)

Christmas Island - Ella Fitzgerald: Juke Box Ella

Jingle Bells - Sammy Davis Jr: Frank Sinatra & His Friends Invite You To Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Coventry Carol - Carol Kidd: Christmas with Carol

Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - The Mills Brothers: Merry Christmas

Love Never Fails - Janet Seidel: Hooray for Christmas

Hurry Home for Christmas - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé: single

Little Jack Frost Get Lost - John Sheridan's Dream Band featuring Rebecca Kilgore: Hooray for Christmas!

Do You Hear What I Hear - Andy Williams: Merry Christmas

I’d Like You for Christmas - Julie London: single

Christmas Dreaming - Harry Connick Jr: When My Heart Finds Christmas

This Time of Year - June Christy: This Time of Year

A Christmas Carol - Tom Lehrer: More Of Tom Lehrer (Song & More Songs By Tom Lehrer)

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love: A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector

Photo: Capitol Records Archive

Series 24, Prog 2

REMEMBERING MARION MONTGOMERY

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

Skylark - Marion Montgomery - For the Love of Mercer - Vol 2

Confessin’ the Blues - Marian Montgomery: Marian Montgomery Swings for Winners and Losers

Breezing’ Along with the Breeze - Marian Montgomery: Marian Montgomery Swings for Winners and Losers

I Wonder - Marian Montgomery: Let There be Love, Let There be Swing, Let There be Marian Montgomery

There, I’ve Said It Again - Marian Montgomery: Lovin’ is Living’ and Living’ is Lovin’

I Got Lost in His Arms - Marion Montgomery: Skylark

Love Makes Two People Swing - Marian Montgomery: single

Me and My Shadow - Marian Montgomery: What’s New?

That’s Life - Marian Montgomery: single

That’s Life - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra New York (Disc 2)

Moon River - Marion Montgomery: For the Love of Mercer - Vol 1

Love - Marian Montgomery: Marian in the Morning

I Wanna be Loved - Marian Montgomery: Lovin’ is Livin’ and Living’ is Lovin’

Charade - Marion Montgomery: For the Love of Mercer - Vol 2

What’s New? - Marian Montgomery: What’s New?

Dayton Ohio 1903/Tea for Two - Marion Montgomery & Richard Rodney Bennett: Surprise, Surprise

Just a Dream (I Had on My Mind) - Marian Montgomery: Lovin’ is Livin’ and Living’ is Lovin’

If I Should Lose You - Marion Montgomery: And Now… Marion Montgomery: That Lady from Natchez

It Must be Love - Marian Montgomery: Marian in the Morning

Marion (aka Marian) Montgomery

November 17, 1934 - July 22, 2002

Series 24, Prog 1

A LITTLE MEANS A LOT

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

Three Little Words - Nellie Lutcher: Our New Nellie

Dream a Little Dream of Me - Janet Seidel: Moon of Manakoola

Go Away Little Girl - Steve Lawrence: Winners

Goodbye Little Dream, Goodbye - Susannah McCorkle: East to Love/The Songs of Cole Porter

Little Brown Jug - The Modernaires: The Modernaires Sing the Great Glenn Miller Instrumentals

I Had a Little Sorrow - June Christy: Ballads for Night People

I Was a Little Too Lonely (and You Were a Little Too Late) - Nat King Cole: After Midnight

Every Little Bit Hurts - Aretha Franklin: Run-in’ Out of Fools

Little Girl Blue - Johnny Hartman: And I Thought About You

Take a Little Time to Smile - Shirley Horn: A Lazy Afternoon

A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Give a Little, Get a Little (Love) - Carmen McRae: Something Wonderful

Little Green Apples - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ’n Basie

What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday & Teddy Wilson Orchestra: Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday

Little Unhappy Boy - Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley: Nancy Wilson with Cannonball Adderley

Little Jazz Bird - Mark Murphy: Let Yourself Go

A Little Bit - Madeleine Peyroux: Half the Perfect World

Little Pony - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Sing a Song of Basie

Try a Little Tenderness - Frank Sinatra: Nice ’n’ Easy

Photo: Min An

Series 23, Prog 20

THE UNFORGETTABLE NAT KING COLE

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

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole: The Nat King Cole Story

Sweet Lorraine - Nat King Cole: 78rpm single

Ballerina - Nat King Cole: single

You’re My Everything - Nat King Cole: I Don’t Want to be Hurt Anymore

Send for Me - Nat King Cole: Billy May Sessions

Nature Boy - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings the Blues

When My Sugar Walks Down the Street - Nat King Cole: Billy May Sessions

When I Fall in Love - Nat King Cole: Love Is the Thing

Once in a While - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

The Rules of the Road - Nat King Cole: Let’s Face the Music!

Paradise - Nat King Cole: The Very Thought of You

Let There be Love - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Quintet Plays

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face - Nat King Cole: Sings My Fair Lady

There’s Love - Nat King Cole: L-O-V-E

This is Always - Nat King Cole: Tell Me All About Yourself

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

Tenderly - Nat King Cole: Sings for Two in Love

Joe Turner’s Blues - Nat King Cole: At The Sands

Nat King Cole 

(March 17, 1919 - February 15, 1965)

Series 23, Prog 19

LIVE AT GREAT AMERICAN VENUES

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

I Wish I Were in Love Again - Mel Tormé: Live at The Crescendo

Secret Love - Carmen McRae: Live at Bubba’s!

Have You Met Miss Jones? - Joe Williams: Swingin’ Night at Birdland

You’ve Got a Friend - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie Orchestra: Jazz at the Santa Monica Civic ’72

I’m Way Ahead of the Game - Tony Bennett: Live at The Sahara

I’m Having a Good Time - Alberta Hunter: Downhearted Blues (Live at The Cookery)

What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Dee Dee Bridgewater: Live at Yoshi’s

How Blue Can You Get? - BB King: Live at The Regal

God Bless the Child - Esther Phillips: CTI Summer Jazz at The Hollywood Bowl

I’ve Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (Madison Square Garden)

Call Me Darling - Peggy Lee: Peggy at Basin Street East (The Unreleased Show)

Spirit in the Dark - Aretha Franklin: Live at The Fillmore West

The Surrey with the Fringe on Top - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole at the Sands

When You’re Smiling - Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall

Photo: Brandin T

Series 23, Prog 18

READY FOR TAKE-OFF

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

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

Flying - Carmen McRae: For Once in My Life

Leaving on a Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary: Album 1700

Flying Home - Ella Fitzgerald: 78rpm single

One Day I’ll Fly Away - Randy Crawford: Now We May Begin

Straighten Up and Fly Right - Nat King Cole: Super Best Nat King Cole (Vol 1)

Where Flamingos Fly - Toni Harper & Marty Paich Orchestra: Night Mood

Flip, Flop & Fly - Big Joe Turner with Count Basie & His Orchestra: Flip, Flop & Fly

Fly Me to the Moon - Peggy Lee: Pretty Eyes

Flying Down to Rio - Fred Astaire: The Complete London Sessions

Song of the Jet (Samba Do Avião) - Salena Jones: Salena Sings with the Jobims

I’d Fly - Diane Schuur & Richard Cocciante: Friends for Schuur

Let’s Fly Away - Lee Wiley: ’S Wonderful

Fly Too High - Janis Ian featuring Steve Madaio: Night Rains

Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes: Today I Sing the Blues

Hi-Fly - Mel Tormé: Comin' Home Baby!

Photo: Tove Liu

Series 23, Prog 17

MEDLEYS

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

1. Blue Skies/On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)/A Foggy Day - Ella Fitzgerald: Live from The Cave Supper Club, Vancouver, Canada

2. Porgy & Bess Medley: Summertime/They Pass By Singin'/I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'/It Take a Long Pull to Get There/It Ain't Necessary So/Strawberry Women/Oh, Bess, Oh Bess, Where's My Bess/Bess, You Is My Woman - Mel Tormé: Mel Tormé & Friends

3. Easy Living/Days ff Wine and Roses/It's Impossible - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook

Say It Isn't So/Blue Skies/Here's That Rainy Day - Perry Como: Sing to Me, Mr C

4. Gershwin Medley: Rhapsody in Blue/Swanee/The Man I Love/Oh, Lady Be Good/Somebody Loves Me/I Got Rhythm/It Ain't Necessarily So/Summertime/Strike Up the Band! - Bing Crosby & Al Jolson: Bing Crosby Meets Al Jolson: The Complete Radio Duets

5. Beatles Medley: Golden Slumbers/Here, There And Everywhere - Roberta Gambarini: So in Love

6. Fabulous Forties Medley: Little White Lies/Tangerine/Love Walked In/Mam'selle/Cherokee/On the Sunny Side of the Street - Dick Haymes: Dick Haymes Comes Home! Live At The Cocoanut Grove 1973

7. One Kiss/My Romance/The Most Beautiful Man in the World - Peggy Lee: Peggy At Basin Street East (The Unreleased Show)

8. West Side Story Medley: Jet Song/Something's Coming/Cool/Tonight/A-Me-Ri-Ca/Gee, Officer Krupke/Maria - Sammy Davis Jr & Johnny Mendoza: At the Cocoanut Grove

Photo: Tara Winstead