Thursday, 13 April 2023

Series 24, Prog 20

THE MICHEL LEGRAND SONG BOOK

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


What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life - Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand

Once Upon a Summertime - Janet Seidel: Comme Çi, Comme Ça

The Windmills of Your Mind - Mark Murphy: North Sea Jazz Sessions (Vol 5)

I Will Say Goodbye - Carmen McRae: Sarah/Dedicated to You

Where’s the Love - Astrud Gilberto: I Haven’t Got Anything Better to Do

I Forget the Time - Frankie Laine & Michel Legrand: Reunion in Rhythm

Blue, Grey, Green and Gone - Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand

Summer Me, Winter Me - Leslie Uggams: On My Way to You

Sweet Gingerbread Man - Marion Montgomery: Marian in the Morning 

The Summer Knows - Frank Sinatra: Some Nice Things I’ve Missed

A Piece of Sky - Barbra Streisand: Yentl (Soundtrack)

Pretty Polly - Matt Monro: Stranger in Paradise/The Best of Matt Monro

How Do You Keep the Music Playing - Susannah McCorkle: How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

Watch What Happens - Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love

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

I Will Wait for You - Lena Horne & Michel Legrand: Lena & Michel


MICHEL LEGRAND

February 24, 1932 - January 26, 2019


Photo: Universal Music/Stan Wiezniak (1961)



Thursday, 6 April 2023

Series 24, Prog 19

HERE’S TO THE LADIES

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


Jazz Is His Old Lady (and My Old Man) - Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines & Marva Josie: Jazz Is His Old Lady

Don’t Weep for the Lady - Betty Carter: The Modern Sound of Betty Carter

The Lady Is a Tramp - Mel Tormé & The Marty Paich Dek-Tette: Lulu’s Back in Town

Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Day - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra & Company

Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More - Cleo Laine: Cleo Sings Elizabethan

The Lady’s in Love with You - Ian Shaw: The Abbey Road Sessions

Sea Lady - Norma Winstone: Somewhere Called Home

Lady Luck - Billy Eckstine: No Cover, No Minimum

Lady Lonely - Toni Harper & Marty Paich Orchestra: Lady Lonely

The Lady in Red - Mark Murphy: Let Yourself Go

Sophisticated Lady - Carol Sloane: Sophisticated Lady

Oh, Lady Be Good - Ella Fitzgerald: At The Opera House (2nd Concert)

You’re a Lady - Peter Skellern: You’re a Lady

Two Ladies in de Shade - Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson: Double Exposure


Photo: Murat Esibatir 



Saturday, 1 April 2023

Series 24, Prog 18

OH, BABY!

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


Steppin’ Out with My Baby - Fred Astaire: The Astaire Story - Vol 2

Baby, Baby - Carmen McRae: Something Wonderful

Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You - Nancy Wilson: Tender Loving Care

I’m Nobody’s Baby - Vic Damone: My Baby Loves to Swing

My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue

Get On the Right Track Baby - Ray Charles: Yes Indeed!

My Melancholy Baby - Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra: 78rpm single

Lean Baby - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra/The Great Years

Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby - June Christy: Big Band Specials

I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store) - Nat King Cole: The Very Thought of You

Everybody Loves My Baby - Jimmy Rushing: Jimmy Rushing and the Smith Girls

Nobody Like My Baby - Ann Richards & Stan Kenton: Two Much!

Baby, Don’t You Quit Now - Tony Bennett: I’ve Gotta be Me

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby - Peggy Lee: Somethin’ Groovy!

Talk to Me, Baby - Mark Murphy: Who Can I Turn To?

Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home - Sarah Vaughan: Sarah + 2

Juke Box Baby - Perry Como: single

Don’t Cry Baby - Aretha Franklin: The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin

One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book (Vol 2)

Ooo-Wee Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey, Mrs Jones





Thursday, 23 March 2023

Series 24, Prog 17

LIVE IN LONDON

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


A Foggy Day (in London Town) - Carmen McRae: Carmen McRae in London

They Can’t Take That Away from Me - Carmen McRae: Carmen McRae in London

Old Devil Moon - Tony Bennett & London Philharmonic Orchestra: Get Happy

When I Live My Dream - Georgia Mancio & Ian Shaw: Live at ReVoice!

Like Someone in Love - Sarah Vaughan: Ronnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan Live

I Get Along Without You Very Well - Frank Sinatra: Lost London Concert

The Laziest Gal in Town - Marlene Dietrich: Dietrich in London

I’m Not in Love - Peggy Lee: Live in London

Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’ - Cleo Laine & Tubby Hayes: Palladium Jazz Date

I’m Hip - Blossom Dearie: Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott’s

There Foolish Things - Frank Sinatra: London: Disc 3 (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)

You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To - Anita O’Day: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

By Myself - Judy Garland: I Could Go On Singing (Soundtrack)

Take the “A” Train - Ernestine Anderson: From Concord To London (Live at Ronnie Scott’s)

A Song for You - Rosemary Clooney: Live at The London Palladium

A Foggy Day (in London Town) - Sarah Vaughan: Ronnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan Live


Photo: Stephen + Alicia 



Thursday, 16 March 2023

Series 24, Prog 16

LIGHT

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


I’m Beginning to See the Light - Ella Fitzgerald: The Duke Ellington Song Book

I Saw the Light - Barb Jungr: The Men I Love/The New American Songbook

Lights Out - Nat King Cole: Touch of Your Lips

Light of Love - Peggy Lee: single

Someone to Light Up My Life (Se Todos Fossem Iquais a Voce) - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra & Company

When Lights are Low - Dena DeRose: Introducing Dena DeRose

Winter Light - Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent - single

Long as I Can See the Light - Creedence Clearwater Revival: single

Light Out of Darkness - Shirley Horn: Quiet Now, Come a Little Closer

Then the Lights Go Out - Jimmy Witherspoon: Singin’ the Blues

Speed of Light - Lorraine Feather: Café Society

You Light Up My Life - Aretha Franklin: Aretha

There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway - Mel Tormé: Sings Sunday In New York

City Lights - Polly Gibbons: Many Faces of Love

Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep - Lena Horne: Give the Lady What She Wants

After the Lights Go Down Low - Vic Damone: Linger Awhile with Vic Damone


Illustration: Sébastien Loïc Sauvêtre




Thursday, 9 March 2023

Series 24, Prog 15

SOMETHING NEW

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


It Only Happens Once - Samara Joy: Samara Joy

On the Street Where You Live - Steven Feifke Big Band featuring Veronica Swift: Kinetic

The Man with the Horn - Calabria Foti: Prelude to a Kiss

No More - Jazzmeia Horn: Love & Liberation

I Remember - Paul Marinaro: Not Quite Yet

Guess Who I Saw Today - Samara Joy: Linger Awhile

I’m Hip - Veronica Swift: Confessions

It Could Happen to You - Steven Feifke Big Band featuring Benny Benack III

The Month of May - Georgia Cécile: Only the Lover Sings

Ghost Song - Cécile McLorin Salvant: Ghost Song

He’s a Real Gone Guy - Judith Owen: Come On and Get It

Social Call - Benny Benack III & Veronica Swift: A Lot of Living’ to Do


Photo: Ithalu Domingue



Thursday, 2 March 2023

Series 24, Prog 14

THE SCHWARTZ-DIETZ SONG BOOK

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


Dancing in the Dark - Diana Krall: The Look of Love

Alone Together - Bob Manning: Lonely Spell

By Myself - Gogi Grant with Johnny Mandel & His Orchestra: Granted, It’s Gogi

If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You - Dick Haymes: Rain or Shine

You And The Night And The Music - Claire Martin & Callum Au: Songs and Stories

Something to Remember You By - Carol Sloane: We’ll Meet Again

I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan - Bobby Darin: Love Swings

Then I’ll Be Tired of You - Dinah Shore & André Previn: Dinah Sings, Previn Plays

A Gal in Calico - Steve Lawrence: Swinging West

There’s No Holding Me - Marlene VerPlanck: One Dream at a Time

The Love I Long For - Jo Stafford: V-Discs/Jo Stafford

Jungle Fever - The Mills Brothers: Golden Greats

A Shine on Your Shoes - Mel Tormé: My Kind of Music

A Rainy Day - Tony Bennett: The Art of Excellence

Confession - Pearl Bailey: More Songs for Adults Only

I See Your Face Before Me - Johnny Hartman: Songs from the Heart

Magic Moment - Nat King Cole: Thank You, Pretty Baby

That’s Entertainment - Judy Garland: Judy at Carnegie Hall


HOWARD DIETZ (Sep 8, 1896 - Jul 30, 1983)

& ARTHUR SCHWARTZ (Nov 25, 1900 - Sep 3, 1984)