Series 20, Prog 20

SMOKING

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

My Last Cigarette - k d lang: Drag

Black Coffee - Julie London: Around Midnight

Smoke Rings - The Mills Brothers: 78rpm single

Smokey Joe’s Café - The Robins: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Dinah Washington: Dinah

Don’t Smoke in Bed - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

These Foolish Things - Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things

Smoke Dreams - k d lang: Drag

Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories - Jeri Southern: Coffee, Cigarettes and Memories

London By Night - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

Drinking Again - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable (A Tribute to Dinah Washington)

When the World was Young - June Christy: Gone for the Day

Dream - The Pied Pipers: Dream

Gone with the Wind - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Berlin

Why Try to Change Me Now? - Jimmy Scott - Falling in Love is Wonderful

Smoke Rings - k d lang: Drag

Photo: Pixabay

Series 20, Prog 19

RANDY NEWMAN: THE NEWER AMERICAN SONGBOOK

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

Guilty - Madeleine Peyroux: The Blue Room

Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear - Randy Newman: Sail Away

Have You Seen My Baby - Fats Domino: Sweet Patootie/Complete Reprise Recordings

Baltimore - Nina Simone: Baltimore

Love Story - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

Dayton, Ohio 1903 - Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Sings Newman

You Can Leave Your Hat On - Joe Cocker: Cocker

Every Time It Rains - Jacqui Dankworth: Back to You

Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield - Lou Rawls: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy

I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore - Lorez Alexandria: In a Different Bag

I Wonder Why - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella

I Think It’s Going to Rain Today - Curtis Stigers: I Think It’s Going to Rain Today

Only a Girl - Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

Let Me Go - Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand

Look at Me - Bobby Darin: Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie

Better Off Dead - Carol Grimes: Mother

Marie - Randy Newman: Good Old Boys

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Haze Quinn

Series 20, Prog 18

LESSER-HEARD SINGERS

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

A Hard Day's Night - Rene Marie: Serene Renegade

Walk On By - Morgana King: Gemini Changes

(You'd Be So) Easy to Love - Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

It's Tomorrow's World - Jacqui Dankworth: Live to Love

Reminiscing In Tempo - James Tormé: Love for Sale

A Sleepin' Bee - Toni Harper & Marty Paich Orchestra: Night Mood

Everybody Knows - Barb Jungr: Hard Rain (The Songs of Bob Dylan & Leonard Cohen)

Where Do the Children Play? - Jess Abrams: Cat Stevens Reconstructed 

Stairway to the Stars - Toni Lincoln: Toni Lincoln

These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Spencer Day: A Day's Work

I Get Along Without You Very Well - Clare Teal, Grant Windsor & Pee Wee Ellis: In Good Company

Make Someone Happy - Rebecca Kilgore: A Further Remembrance of Maxine Sullivan 

Only a Girl - Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

Across the Universe - Fiona Apple: Pleasantville (Soundtrack) 

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Tima Miroshnichenko

Series 20, Prog 17

STARS, PLANETS & SPACE

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

Stairway to the Stars - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella In Hollywood

Out of This World - Norma Winstone: Somewhere Called Home

Fly Me to the Moon - Tony Bennett: The Singles Collection

Venus Rising - Barb Jungr & Laurence Hobgood: Shelter from the Storm/Songs of Hope for Troubled Times

Space Captain - Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand

If - Frank Sinatra: Some Nice Things I’ve Missed

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Sheila Jordan: Jazz Child

To Love and be Loved - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

Midnight Sun - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza

Earthbound - Sammy Davis Jr: single

Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to be a Long, Long Time) - Kate Bush: single

The Man Who Sold the World - Claire Martin: Time and Place

Star Eyes - Clairdee: Destination Moon

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Adam Krypel

Series 20, Prog 16

OBSCURE VERSES

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

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Johnny Mercer: Personality

I Remember You - Nat King Cole: Touch of Your Lips

The Man I Love - Carmen McRae: Can’t Hide Love

There’s No Business Like Show Business - Harry Connick Jr: Come By Me

Night and Day - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra and Sextet/Live In Paris

‘S Wonderful - Susannah McCorkle: Most Requested Songs

The Floks Who Live On the Hill - Sammy Davis Jr: Sammy Davis Jr Sings, Laurindo Almeida Plays

I Want to be Happy - Cleo Laine: All About Me

Over the Rainbow - Tony Bennett: Here’s to the Ladies

Stardust - Daniel Nahmod: Jazz Audiophile Voices

After You’ve Gone - Dinah Washington: Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith

What’ll I Do - Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmilsson In the Night

What Is This Thing Called Love - Sue Raney: All By Myself

For All We Know - Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin

Anything Goes - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Sofia Alejandra

Series 20, Prog 15

THE BEAT OF THE HEART

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

Heart - Peggy Lee: Latin Ala Lee

This One's from the Heart - Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle: One from the Heart

How Many Hearts Have You Broken? - Frank Rosolino: Turn Me Loose!

What Will I Tell My Heart? - Dinah Washington: In the Land of Hi-Fi

Take These Chains from My Heart - Madeleine Peyroux: The Blue Room

Cold, Cold Heart - Nat King Cole: The Billy May Sessions

Keep Your Hand On Your Heart - Joe Williams: Joe Williams & That Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra

I’ll Follow My Secret Heart - Lee Wiley: Manhattan Nights

With a Song In My Heart - Sammy Davis Jr: That's All

I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Irene Kral: The Band and I

(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings - Nellie Lutcher: Our New Nellie

I Left My Heart In San Francisco - Tony Bennett: The Singles Collection

Raining In My Heart - Liane Carroll: Ballads

My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole

My Heart Belongs to Only You - June Christy: This Is June Christy

Dear Heart - Janet Seidel: Hooray for Christmas

Dear Hearts and Gentle People - Perry Como: Como Swings

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Photo: Luan Rezende

Series 20, Prog 14

FOR EVER

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

Did You Ever - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul

Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You - Dinah Washington: In the Land of Hi-Fi

Don’t Ever Go Away - Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: Sinatra & Company

Evergreen - Todd Gordon & Royal Air Force Squadronaires: Helping the Heroes

Did I Ever Really Love - Carmen McRae: Live at Century Plaza

I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles - Charlie Ventura and His Band with Jackie Cain & Roy Kral: Jackie and Roy

If Ever I Would Leave You - Nancy Wilson: Gentle Is My Love

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Dick Haymes: Dick Haymes Comes Home! Live At The Cocoanut Grove 1973

No One Ever Tells You - Cynthia Crane & Mike Renzi: Smokey Bar Songs

Have You Ever Seen the Rain - The Spin Doctors: Philadelphia (Soundtrack)

For You, For Me, For Evermore - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book - Vol 3

On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) - Frank Sinatra: Strangers In the Night

Don’t Ever Leave Me - Margaret Whiting: Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book - Vol 1

Only Forever - Dean Martin: Pretty Baby

If You Ever Should Leave - Mildred Bailey: The Blues Singer 1937-1939

Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles: Love

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Love dot com 

Photo: Molly Champion