Album Cover: Hello, Dolly!

Usually, I feature an album or EP cover from a track featured in the current show, but I discovered this cover which is so much of its time. Wonderful!

This week's show...

I am touring in Germany and Belgium so there isn't a new edition of The Singers and The Songbook this week. Normal service will be resumed shortly! Meantime, UK Jazz Radio will be repeating an earlier programme.

Album Cover: Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home

The Ella Fitzgerald single released in 1962 and featured on this week's show: Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home

Playlist: 13 Apr 2013

ELLA FITZGERALD (Apr 25, 1917-June 15, 1996)

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

1. Undecided - Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb Orchestra: The Best of Ella (Coral)

2. Get Happy - Ella Fitzgerald: Harold Arlen Songbook

3. Solitude - Ella Fitzgerald: Duke Ellington Songbook

4. Now It Can Be Told - Ella Fitzgerald: Irving Berlin Songbook

5. You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Ella Fitzgerald: Montreux ’77

6. Single-O - Ella Fitzgerald: Johnny Mercer Songbook

7. Jersey Bounce - Ella Fitzgerald: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!

8. Got to Get You into My Life - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella (Reprise)

9. Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home - Ella Fitzgerald: Jukebox Ella

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

11. Airmail Special - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Hollywood

12. This Girl's in Love with You - Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love 

13. Pick Yourself Up - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Album Cover: These Are the Days

Someone who was initially being branded as “the new Sinatra” and “Sinatra in Sneakers” is Jamie Cullum. I first met Jamie when he performed in a little jazz club in Edinburgh and the audience totalled 33 people. His return visit resulted in a 50% increase. Then he hit the big time. But I clearly remember, as he was scribbling out his set list at the bar, he told me about a new song he and his brother had written. This was the song... 

Playlist: 6 Apr 2013

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

1. The Way You Look Tonight - Stephanie Rebecca: Deep Inside of Me

2. Teach Me Tonight - Clare Teal: Live at Ebenezer Chapel

3. I Ain’t Got Nobody - Sy Oliver: Sycholoswing

4. By Myself - Judy Garland: I Could Go On Singing

5. The Party’s Over - Blossom Dearie: Sings Comden & Green

6. This Time the Dream's On Me - Nancy Wilson: Something Wonderful

7. Pineapple Pete - Johnny Mercer: Singer-Songwriter

8. ‘Deed I Do - Judy Carmichael: Come and Get It

9. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? - Ready Willing & Mabel: Cocktail for the Ears

10. I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues (Duke Ellington Medley) - Pointer Sisters: Retrospect

11. You Took Advantage of Me - Ella Fitzgerald: Rodgers & Hart Songbook

12. I've Heard That Song Before - Frank Sinatra: Come Swing with Me!

13. These Are the Days - Jamie Cullum: Twentysomething

14. I’m Having a Good Time - Alberta Hunter: Amtrak Blues

15. As Long As I'm Singin' - Bobby Darin: Bobby Darin Hits

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Album Cover: Nobody In Mind

One of the best of the series of albums that Big Joe Turner recorded for Pablo - the label set up by jazz impresario Norman Granz.