Todd's back on air...

Todd's Turntable is the new show by Todd Gordon, airing on several internet and FM stations, and featuring terrific vocal recordings.

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Playlist: 7 Sep 2013

Intro: If You Could Read My Mind - Todd Gordon & Jacqui Dankworth: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

1. The Alley Cat Song - Peggy Lee: I'm a Woman

2. Straight to Baby - Janet Seidel: Charade

3. Dance Ballerina Dance - Nat King Cole: Big Band Cole

4. Seems Like Old Times - The Four Freshmen: Freshmen Favorites

5. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Dinah Washington: Drinking Again

6. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) - Helen O'Connell: Here's Helen

7. Bein' Green - Helen Merrill: Just Friends

8. Only You (and You Alone) - Ringo Starr: Goodnight Vienna

9. Passing By - Irene Kral: Better Than Anything

10. Star Eyes - Irene Kral: Second Chance

11. I Fall In Love Too Easily - Irene Kral: Just for Now

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

13. Only Why No More - Ian Shaw: A Ghost In Every Bar

14. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington & His Orchestra (with Ray Nance): Côte d'Azur Concerts (Disc 7)

15. Thou Swell - Carmen McRae: Live at Bubba's

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Playlist: 31 Aug 2013

Intro: If You Could Read My Mind - Todd Gordon & Jacqui Dankworth: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

1. Don't Rain on My Parade - Bobby Darin: In a Broadway Bag

2. The Midnight Sun - Mel Tormé & George Shearing: A Vintage Year

3. You're Making Me Crazy - June Christy: Something Cool

4. My Old Addiction (aka Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song) - k d lang: Drag

5. Too Little, Too Late - Nat King Cole: Let's Face the Music!

6. How Blue Can You Get? - Esther Phillips: From a Whisper to a Scream

7. Yes We Can Can - Harry Connick Jr: Oh, My Nola

8. S'posin' - Perry Como: We Get Letters

9. Lover Come Back to Me - Roberta Gambarini: Easy to Love

10. Everybody Needs Love - Jackie Paris: The Song Is Paris

11. At Sundown - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge 1

12. Lonesome Lover Blues - Billy Eckstine & Count Basie: Basie/Eckstine Incorporated

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Playlist: 24 Aug 2013

Intro: If You Could Read My Mind - Todd Gordon & Jacqui Dankworth: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

1. Mood Indigo - Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares for Me

2. Ellington Medley: Cotton Tail/I Didn't Know About You/Don't Get Around Much Any More/I'm Beginning to See the Light - Mel Tormé & George Shearing: Mel & George "Do" World War II

3. All or Nothing At All - Ann Richards & Stan Kenton: Two Much!

4. Something - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

5. My Sweet Lord - Peggy Lee: Where Did They Go?

6. All the Things You Are - Ella Fitzgerald: The Jerome Kern Song Book

7. Why Was I Born? - Ella Fitzgerald: The Jerome Kern Song Book

8. A Fine Romance - Ella Fitzgerald: The Jerome Kern Song Book

9. Am I Blue? - Eddie Condon & Jimmy Rushing: Eddie Condon in Japan

10. Cold, Cold Heart - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable (A Tribute to Dinah Washington)

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

12. You Never Give Me Your Money - Sarah Vaughan: Songs of The Beatles

13. In My Life - Sir Sean Connery & Sir George Martin: In My Life

14. Runnin' Wild - Marilyn Monroe: Some Like It Hot! (Soundtrack)

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Album Cover: Two from Dinah

The relatively underrated Dinah Shore had some classic Capitol-branded album covers. These two examples are from the tracks included in this week's show.

Playlist: 17 Aug 2013

SOMETIMES I'M HAPPY, SOMETIMES I'M BLUE

Intro: If You Could Read My Mind - Todd Gordon & Jacqui Dankworth: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

1. Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad - Nancy Sinatra: Nancy Sinatra

2. Things - Nancy Sinatra & Dean Martin: Movin' with Nancy!

3. Baby, Won't You Please Come Home - Della Reese: Della

4. Come-on-a My House - Della Reese: Della, Cha, Cha, Cha

5. Gone with the Wind - Frank Sinatra: Only the Lonely

6. Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the Night

7. Say It Isn't So - Peggy Lee: If You Go

8. I've Got Those Feelin' Too Good Today Blues - Peggy Lee: Sings Leiber & Stoller (aka Mirrors)

9. Day by Day - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook (Disc 1)

10. All By Myself - Carmen McRae: Can't Hide Love

11. Yes Indeed! - Dinah Shore: Dinah, Yes Indeed!

12. I'll Be Seeing You - Dinah Shore & André Previn: Dinah Sings, Previn Plays

13. Help Me Make It Through the Night - Johnny Hartman: Today

14. Isn't It Romantic? - Johnny Hartman: Unforgettable

15. Russian Lullaby - Ella Fitzgerald: The Irving Berlin Song Book, Vol 1

16. Old MacDonald - Ella Fitzgerald: Whisper Not

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Playlist: 10 Aug 2013

ALL THE WAY FROM AMERICA

Intro: If You Could Read My Mind - Todd Gordon & Jacqui Dankworth: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

1. Chicago - Anita O'Day: There's Only One...

2. Basin Street Blues - Dr John: Goin' Back to New Orleans

3. Los Angeles Blues - Peggy Lee: Blues Cross Country with The Quincy Jones Orchestra

4. You're In Kentucky (As Sure As You're Born) - Rosemary Clooney: Dedicated to Nelson

5. Mississippi Mud - Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer: Two of a Kind

6. St Louis Blues - Ella Fitzgerald & Count Basie: A Perfect Match

7. Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin: single

8. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans - Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong: Bing & Satchmo

9. New York State of Mind - Carmen McRae: Live at Umbria Jazz

10. Moonlight in Vermont - Margaret Whiting: Love Songs by Margaret Whiting

11. (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo - Royal Air Force Squadronaires & Todd Gordon (with The Swingcats): Helping the Heroes

12. Manhattan - Royal Air Force Squadronaires & Todd Gordon (with Jacqui Dankworth): Helping the Heroes

13. Autumn in New York - Royal Air Force Squadronaires & Todd Gordon (with Carol Kidd): Helping the Heroes

14. I Left My Heart in San Francisco - Royal Air Force Squadronaires & Todd Gordon: Helping the Heroes

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea