Coffeetime - 7/21 Guest Slot - MP3 & Playlist

Guest slots rule! I have been a fan of Angelynn Grant's Coffeetime for many years, going back to hearing the "featured soundtrack of the week" as I opened and priced endless boxes of books in the back room of a shopping mall bookstore back in the early 90's, loving the mix of cool jazz and vocal tracks that she has shaped into something special. I sweated out the selections for days prior, and Good Lord I never realized how hard it would be to read off all those session players! Many thanks to Angelynn for letting me fill in, and everyone please check out Coffeetime every Thursday from 2-4PM EST on 88.1 WMBR Cambridge, MA.
Click on the photo of legendary Bostonian Johnny Hodges below to hear me stutter and stammer my way through the recounting of bass trombonists and the guy who plays the tipple - plus 2 hours of the finest jazz I can provide!
Playlist provided further down for "blindfold test" hints...



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Playlist for Coffeetime, 7/21/05

title/artist/format/label/year

Set One: My Heart and I Agree

Intro: Java Jive/Ink Spots/LP/Magic/7-7-1940
1. Speedball/Charlie Earland/LP/Prestige/1973
2. Caravan/Mingus-Ellington-Roach/LP/UA/1963
3. Midnight Symphony/Lester Young/LP/Musicaire(Fr)/1941
4. Stella By Starlight/Red Rodney/LP/Onyx/1957
5. Stella By Starlight (from film "The Uninvited")/Frank Sinatra/CD/1944
6. Swing, Brother, Swing/Billie Holiday/LP/Vocallion/1939
7. If You Could See Me Now/Billy Eckstine/LP/MGM-Verve/1952-1985
BED: Samba de Orfeu/Grant Green/LP/Cobblestone/1972

Set Two: in this world, you are in love - with pain
1. I Hear a Rhapsody/Jackie McLean/LP/Blue Note/1964
2. Tijuana Gift Shop/Charlie Mingus/LP/RCA/1957
3. Three Times a Fool/Amos Milburn/LP/Aladdin/1952
4. Blues For New Orleans/Duke Ellington/LP/Atlantic/1970
5. Sunny Side of the Street/Lionel Hampton/LP/RCA/1937-1971
6. Gang Busters/Cats & the Fiddle/LP/Bluebird-RCA/1939-1976
7. Illusions (from film "A Foriegn Affair")/Marlene Dietrich/LP/Decca-MCA/1948-1982
BED: Third Man Theme/Mickey Baker/LP/Atlantic/1959






Set Three: was you ever stung by a dead bee?

1. We Diddit/Dolphy-Ervin-Waldron/LP/Prestige/1961
2. Gittin' Down/Freddie Hubbard/LP/Atlantic/1970
3. How Sweet It Is to Be In Love/Johnny Hartman/LP/Impulse/1963
4. How Little We Know (from film "To Have and Have Not")/Lauren Bacall & Hoagy Carmichael/VHS/1944
5. The Man From Harlem/Cab Calloway/LP/Stash/1932-197?
BED: First Bass Line/Eric Dolphy/LP/Prestige/1961

Set Four: Down There

1. Get Over Get Off and Get On/Yusef Lateef/LP/Atlantic/1968
2. Every Tub/Count Basie/LP/Clef/1952
3. If You're a Viper/Rosetta Howard/CD/1937
4. Rock (from film "Shoot the Piano Player")/Georges Delerue/GMS-Disc/1960
5. Lord, Bring Me Down/Supreme Angels/45/Nashboro/1974
6. Soulville/Dinah Washington/LP/Roulette/1962
BED: The Spies/Sonny Stitt & Bunky Green/LP/Cadet/1966
SOUL SEND OFF: Soul Sister/Allen Toussaint/LP/Reprise/1972

Special Guests: Humphrey Bogart, Marshall Bradford, Joan Leslie, James Cagney

MP3 & Playlist for Lost & Found, 7/11/05

THE HEAT IS ON

After a week of cool, wet weather - "April in July" as I heard it called, the mercury shot up today for my return to the airwaves. Why do I keep talking about the weather in these posts? I don't know - let's talk about the music. Some old favorites revisited, some new finds unearthed. A fun show, which flew by in no time - lots of funny & friendly phone calls. Love is all around!

So, I am now that much closer to posting much more listener-friendly archives...the software is on hand and being used, I just need to set up my hosting space and hopefully by the next show you will have a choice of hour one or two, available for download instead of just streaming, and with the long lead-ins cut off. For now, please CLICK on the picture of the late Ray Davis BELOW to listen to the WMBR stream of this week's show! Short lead in for this one, too, only 2 minutes or so.




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Playlist for Lost & Found, 07/11/05

title/artist/format/label/year

Set One: Soupcans or Sunsets?

Intro: Growlin' Guts/Link Wray/LP/Big Beat/1969-1987
1. You Gotta Push/Jodi Gales/45/Thomas/1970(?)
2. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You/Ben E. King/LP/Maxwell/1970
3. I'm Your Puppet/Box Tops/LP/Bell/1967
4. Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries/Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson/45/SSS/1968
5. Are You Lonely For Me Baby/The Heads/LP/Liberty/1968
6. Can You Get To That/Funkadelic/LP/Westbound/1971
7. Creations of Simon/1910 Fruitgum Co./LP/Buddah/1969
8. Hummin'/Majic Ship/45/Crazy Horse/1969
9. OM/Royal Guardsmen/45/Laurie/1967
10.I Can't Quit Her/Arbors/45/Date/1969
11.Seeds of Life/Harlem River Drive/LP/Roulette/1970
12.Heaven Is In Your Mind/Traffic/LP/United Artists/1968
13.Where Was You At/WAR/LP/United Artists/1972
14.A Hot Day Today/Blackbyrds/LP/Fantasy/1974
BED: Nautilus/Bob James/LP/CTI/1974

Set Two: And they ain't Argentine, they're Egyptian...

1. Bummer In the Summer/Love/CD/Elektra/1967
2. There's No Blood In Bone/Poppy Family/LP/London/1969
3. Don't Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone/Can/CD/Liberty/1970
4. Won't You See Me/Grass Roots/LP/ABC Dunhill/1967
5. My Butterfly/Nightcrawlers/45/Kapp/1967
6. Me and My Uncle/Dino Valente/LP/Epic/1967
BED: Summer Breeze/Charles Kynard/LP/Mainstream/1970






Set Three: You Need Confidence

1. Just Be True/Gene Chandler/LP/Constellation/1965
2. Down In the Basement/Etta James & Sugarpie DeSanto/LP/Chess/1966
3. Do Something for Yourself/Bobby Powell/45/Whit/1966
4. Lovin' Lies/The Third Guitar/45/Rojac/1969(?)
5. You Need Confidence/Van Dykes/45/Mala/1965
6. Put Yourself In My Place/Elgins/LP/VIP/1966
7. You're the Cream of the Crop/Lee Rogers/45/D-Town/1965
BED: Well I'll Be White Black/Junior Mance/LP/Atlantic/1970

Set Four: Lunch from a Bottle

1. Miss Fun City/Insect Trust/LP/Capitol/1968
2. Jail Bait/Flamin' Groovies/LP/Kama Sutra/1970
BED: I Can't Get Next To You/Woody Herman/LP/Cadet/1971

Special Guests: Humphrey Bogart, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Lauren Bacall, Trevor Howard, Peggy Knudson...and the good doctors of Ca**l cigarettes!

MP3 & Playlist for Lost & Found, 6/27/05

Cherry Valence - Not To Be Messed With.

Heatwave continues...I put this show together in the pseudo-sweatshop of my Sunday afternoon bedroom, and it shows. Odd mix of stuff today, phones generally quiet, but a shout out to J in Somerville for his words of appreciation, and to the JP Licks crew - you guys are due for another dedication!
MP3 is a go. Clicking on the image of THEM below will begin the stream. We have a slightly easier lead-in time this week, the final song of LRC - strangely enough a Wings tune - and we are underway with the MTM theme, around 3:20 in.
Do it for Johnny!!



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Playlist for Lost & Found, 06/27/05

title/artist/format/label/year

Set One: I Didn't Mean to Turn You On

Intro: Every Mother's Daughter/Dave Grusin - Candy OST/LP/ABC/1969
1. Mambo Sun/T. Rex/LP/Reprise/1971
2. Disguises(Live on BBC)/The Who/LP/Polydor UK/1965-2000
3. My Sweet Lord/Edwin Starr/LP/Gordy/1971
4. Midnight Confessions/Patti Drew/LP/Capitol/1969
5. Grab This Thing/Bar-Kays/LP/Volt/1968
6. Don't Turn Your Heater Down/Sam & Dave/LP/Atlantic/1968
7. Lookout For Lucy/Mike Millius/LP/UNI/1970
8. Florida Blues/Salloom, Sinclair & the Mother Bear/LP/Cadet Concept/1968
9. Out of the City (Into the Country)/Allen Toussaint/LP/Reprise/1972
10.Beginnings/Astrud Gilberto/LP/Verve/1970
BED: Summer In the City/Dee Felice Trio/LP/Bethlehem/1969

Set Two: Daydreaming of Rainstorms

1. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue/Them/LP/Decca/1966
2. Gone and Passes By/Chocolate Watchband/CD/Tower/1967
3. Monday's Rain/Bee Gees/LP/Atco/1966-1968
4. Rainy Day In June/The Kinks/LP/Reprise/1965
5. Rat Race/Gino Washington/LP/Washpan-Norton/1965-69-8?
6. Tell Him No/Smith/LP/ABC Dunhill/1968
7. You Must Believe Me(Live on the BBC)/The Zombies/LP/Rhino/1965-1985
8. Stronger Than Dirt/Jay & the Techniques/LP/Smash/1967
BED: People Make the World Go Round/Young Holt Unlimited/LP/Paula/1973

Set Three: I Kicks In Like a Turbo-Booster

1. Corrinna(live)/Taj Mahal/LP/Columbia/1972
2. So Long, Marrianne/Don Crawford/LP/Roulette/1970
3. Ain't Nothin' You Can Do/Big Mama Thornton/LP/Mercury/1969
4. Long Skirt Baby Blues/T-Bone Walker/LP/Bluesway/1969
5. I Got a Man/The Toys/LP/Dynovoice/1966
6. Monkey's Uncle/Ray Sharpe/45/LHI/1968
7. Bloody River/The Texans/45/Infinity/1958
8. Take Me Where the Sun Never Shines/Johnny Soul/45/SSS/1968
BED: The Night has a Thousand Eyes/McCoy Tyner/LP/Milestone/1973

Set Four: dancing sandwiches

1. Before the Beginning/Fleetwood Mac/LP/Reprise(ger)/196?-1976
2. Abdul Malek/Embryo/LP/MPS/197?-1974
3. Reap What You Sow/Merilee Rush & the Turnabouts/45/Bell/1968
BED: Sea of Grass/The Ventures/LP/Liberty/1969






Special Guests: Diane Lane, Dan Dureya, James Stewart, C. Thomas Howell, Jay C. Flippen, Groucho Marx, Shelly Winters, Stephen McNally, Marc Bolan, Margaret Dumont, Matt Dillon - phew!

Some poor time managment down the stretch, maybe, but a fun show overall, lots of Winchester '73 and The Outsiders intensity, and almost half of what I played I had bought within 48 hours of the show, which is fun for me, at least...

"Space is the Place" 6/21/05 Guest Slot Playlist & MP3

Big shout and a sincere thanks to Lauren and the whole crew of Space is the Place - one of the truly heavyweight WMBR programs, which I check out whenever possible - for letting me fill in this week. I really enjoyed putting this show together, and had an even better time when the records were spinning...lots of great phone calls, nice to just play music and barely speak for 2 hours. Click the image of Clifford Coulter kicking a cop's ass below to stream the MP3 (yes, as usual, the show doesn't start until the nightly news ends, around 5 & 1/2 minutes in..grrr...), I have pecked out the playlist further downward, and please check out SPACE IS THE PLACE every Tuesday, 6-8PM EST on 88.1 FM WMBR/http://www.wmbr.org !



CLICK on the image ABOVE to stream this show.
Show begins when the news ends, at 5:30 in.

Playlist for Space is the Place - 06/21/05

title/artist/format/label/year

Set One: Who God Bless

Intro: Theme from Star Trek/Secret Agents/LP/Design/196?
1. Bamboo Funk/Chris Hinze Combination/LP/MPS/1974
2. 1983 a Merman I Shall Be/Gil Evans/LP/RCA/1974
3. Pictures & Designs/The Seeds/LP/GNP/1967
4. Right On Y'all/The Eleventh House/LP/Vanguard/1974
5. Caterpillar/Lou Donaldson/LP/Blue Note/1971
6. Epilogue/Miroslav Vitous/LP/Atlantic/1972
7. Sweet Exorcist/Curtis Mayfield/LP/Curtom/1974
8. Flight Time/Donald Byrd/LP/Blue Note/1973
9. Idle Hands/Harlem River Drive/LP/Roulette/1970
BED: Voyager/Dexter Wansel/LP/Philly International/1978



Larry Coryell


Set Two: No Man Curse

1. Paranoia/Buddy Terry/LP/Mainstream/1972
*XM/Paul Kanter/LP/RCA/1970
2. Making Planets/Edan feat. Mr. Lif/LP/Lewis/2005
3. Oscillations/Silver Apples/LP/Kapp/1968
4. Dorian/Emanuel K. Rahim & the Kahliqs/LP/Cobblestone/1972
5. We Live In Brooklyn, Baby/Roy Ayers Ubiquity/LP/Polydor/1972
6. Worry 'Bout It Later/Clifford Coulter/LP/ABC/1971
7. Changing Things/Gregory James Experience/LP/Dakar/1972
8. 1990/The Undisputed Truth/LP/Gordy/1975
9. Mizrab/Gabor Szabo/LP/Impulse/1966
10.Ayiko Bia/Osibisa/LP/Decca/1971
BED: Sexy Sadie/Ramsey Lewis/LP/Cadet/1969


Special guest stars Hal 9000, and this incredibly cool 45, given to me by my Mom's good friend June just last month - it actually originally came with the G.I. Joe "Mercury Shuttle" playset in 1966, and supplied all the great authentic manned spaceflight dialogue for the show!.


Thanks again to Lauren & Nick, and if you ever need another breather, I'm ready to step in and take flight.

MP3 & Playlist for Lost & Found, 06/13/05

The Undisputed Truth, and undisputed mastermind of their sound, Norman Whitfield.

I won't bore you with my problems, but amazingly painful back spasms came out of nowhere an hour before the show, and I was a hurting man throughout...kept it together for the most part, with some nice hot weather tunes (it was the fourth 90 degree day in a row!) and a noisy sendoff to Sara J as she leaves Lost & Found for her new show, Gorilla Got Me , which will be on WMBR wednesdays 2PM-4PM EST, so check it out or suffer the consequences of not being down.

MP3 is all fired up and ready to go - look, I know it's annoying, but my show doesn't start until around 8 minutes into the file, I promise to get some editing software soon that will allow me to customize these files, and also to start slapping LRC DJ's who can't be done by 12:00!! - Anyway, a simple CLICK UPON THE GLASS PRISM boys in full Poe regalia BELOW will begin the download. And the playlist scrolls downward, if cheating is your game.




Playlist for Lost & Found, 06/13/05

title/artist/format/label/year

Set One: Box of Letters

Intro: Marvin's Groove/B.W. Souls/45/Round/196?
1. Funky/Chambers Brothers/LP/Columbia/1970 (courtesy OT)
2. Summertime/Al Green/LP/Hi/1972
3. Good Day Sunshine/Roy Redman/LP/MGM/1968
4. You Don't Want My Love/Inez Foxx/LP/Volt/1973
5. Spinning Wheel/Sammy Davis, Jr./LP/Motown/1970
6. Feel It for Me/Ten Years After/LP/Deram/1967
7. Blues 99/Cash McCall/LP/Paula/1974
8. Honey Love/Black Heat/LP/Atlantic/1972
9. Oh, Sister/Bob Dylan/LP/Columbia/1975
10.She Promises Everything/Ars Nova/LP/Atlantic/1969
11.Give It Up/Kool & the Gang/LP/De-Lite/1971
12.I Saw You When You Met Her/Undisputed Truth/LP/Gordy/1975
13.Summer Wine/Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood/LP/Reprise/1968
BED: The Trio/Ennio Morricone/LP/UA/1967

Set Two: As If It Were Yesterday

1. What Have I Got of My Own/Trini Lopez/45/Reprise/1964
2. Girl Don't Tell Me/Beach Boys/LP/Capitol/1965
3. Get Out of My Life/Little Anthony & Imperials/LP/DCP/1966
4. That's How It Is/Otis Clay/LP/Hi/1972
5. I Just Want To Be Me/Freedom Express/LP/Mercury/1969
6. Clouds(Both Sides Now)/Dave Van Ronk/LP/Verve Forecast/1968
BED: Loran's Dance/Idris Muhammad/LP/CTI/1974

Set Three: grisly death of the superego

1. Cock In My Pocket/Stooges/LP/Revenge/1973-1988
2. You Are My Sunshine/The Lively Ones/LP/MGM/1967
3. El Dorado/Glass Prism/LP/RCA/1969
4. The Conquerer Worm/Glass Prism/LP/RCA/1969
5. The Rake/The ID/LP/RCA/1967 (OT Redux)
BED:Happenings 10 Years Time Ago/Sandy Nelson/LP/Imperial/1967

Set Four: 45's In the Family (or "greatness 'skips' a generation?")

1. My Pride Won't Let Me/Eddie Purrell/45/Volt
2. Keep On Dancin'/Alvin Cash/45/Toddlin' Town/1969
3. Really Together/Billy Vera & Judy Clay/45/Atlantic/1967
4. Tramp/Lowell Fulsom/45/Kent/1966
BED: She's a Woman - And I Love Her/Chet Atkins/LP/RCA/1966

Tha Kiss-Off: I Don't Care Anymore/Doris Duke/45/Canyon/1970

I miss hockey.

Special Guests: Paul Newman, Cybil Sheppard (again!), Nicholas Cage, Jim Kelly, Andrew Duncan, Robert DeNiro

first hour was a dream, really nice - rest of the day had it's problems, but overall I like this show...fun phonecalls, giving away the 3D tix was neat - gee, let's do it all again in 2 weeks, I'm ready! (must be the prescription drugs, I would hug a mountain lion right now...)