Album Cover: Dick Haymes Comes Home!

This week's show also featured a couple of tracks from a rare Dick Haymes album which was issued on the short-lived Daybreak label, founded by long-time Sinatra producer, Sonny Burke.

Album Cover: The Late, Late Show

A cover from a Capitol album by one of the four featured artists in this week's show: Dakota Staton - The Late, Late Show. So 1950s... Wonderful!

Playlist: 27 Jul 2013

THREE GIRLS AND A BOY... DINAH WASHINGTON, JANET SEIDEL, DAKOTA STATON & DICK HAYMES

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

1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Dinah Washington: Dinah Jams

2. Mad About the Boy - Dinah Washington: Single

3. A Rockin' Good Way - Dinah Washington & Brook Benton: The Two of Us

4. All of Me - Dinah Washington: Queen of the Blues

5. Fools Rush In - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge (Vol 1)

6. Love for Sale - Janet Seidel: The Art of Lounge (Vol 1)

7. Sentimental Journey - The Art of Lounge (Vol 2)

8. Moonglow - The Art of Lounge (Vol 3)

9. Forties Medley - Dick Haymes: Dick Haymes Comes Home (Live at the Cocoanut Grove 1973)

10. Whistling Away in the Dark - Dick Haymes: Comes Home (Live at the Cocoanut Grove 1973)

11. You Stepped Out of a Dream - Dick Haymes: Look at Me Now!

12. The More I See You - Dick Haymes: Rain or Shine

13. Anything Goes - Dakota Staton: Dynamic!

14. You Showed Me the Way - Dakota Staton: The Late, Late Show

15. Willow Weep for Me - Dakota Staton: Time to Swing

16. Indiana - Dakota Staton: 'Round Midnight

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Album Cover: Como Swings

This week's show includes Perry Como's version of Linda. It comes from an unusually upbeat album of his entitled, Como Swings. Recorded in April and May 1959, the album was  designed to show off the latest stereophonic capabilities.

Playlist: 20 Jul 2013

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

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

1. Sweet Lorraine - Nat King Cole: 78rpm single

2. Margie - Johnny Mercer: Sweet Georgia Brown

3. I’ll Take Tallulah - Jo Stafford: Getting Sentimental Over Tommy Dorsey

4. Whatever Lola Wants - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella sings Broadway

5. Linda - Perry Como: Como Swings

6. Johnny - Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

7. Frankie and Johnny - Mae West: The Fabulous Mae West

8. Emily - Tony Bennett: The Movie Song Album

9. Julia - Todd Gordon: Julia (dowload single)

10. Ode to Billie Joe - Nancy Wilson: Welcome to My Love

11. Alfie - Carol Kidd & Nigel Clark: Tell Me Once Again

12. Liza - The Four Freshmen: Four Freshmen & Five Saxes

13. Bill - Helen Humes: T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do

14. Harry - Catherine Howe: Harry

15. Hello, Dolly! - Bobby Darin: Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie

16. Message to Michael - Lena Horne: Watch What Happens

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Playlist: 13 Jul 2013

THE GENIUS OF GEORGE GERSHWIN (repeat)

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

1. Peter Sellers sings Gershwin - Peter Sellers: Songs for Swingin’ Sellers!

2. Who Cares? - Ella Fitzgerald: The George & Ira Gershwin Songbook

3. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Margaret Whiting: Past Midnight

4. Do It Again - Vic Damone: In Concert

5. Embraceable You - Chet Baker: Songs for Lovers

6. I Was Doing All Right - Diana Krall: From This Moment On

7. Soon - Sammy Davis Jr: The Wham of Sam!

8. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve (Disc 10)

9. A Foggy Day - Rosemary Clooney: Dedicated to Nelson

10. Bidin’ My Time - Nat King Cole: Let’s Face the Music!

11. Strike Up the Band - Tony Bennett & Count Basie: Strike Up the Band

12. That Certain Feeling - Jo Ann Greer: Fascinatin’ Rhythm/Capitol Sings Gershwin

13. I Got Rhythm - Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

14.  But Not for Me - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook

15. The Man I Love - Dinah Shore & André Previn: Dinah Sings, Previn Plays 

16. Love Walked In - Frank Sinatra: Swing Along with Me

17. Love Is Here to Stay - Dick Haymes - Rain or Shine

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea

Playlist: 6 Jul 2013

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

1. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Ella Fitzgerald: The Harold Arlen Songbook (Vol 1)

2. Warm and Willing - Nat King Cole: The Billy May Sessions

3. Superstar - Peggy Lee: Norma Dolores Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota

4. Down in the Alley - Memphis Minnie: Hoodoo Lady: 1933-1937

5. Mountain High, Valley Low - Morgana King: It's a Quiet Thing

6. Summer Wind - Royal Air Force Squadronaires & Todd Gordon: Helping the Heroes

7. Georgia on My Mind - Mavis Rivers: We Remember Mildred Bailey

8. Ode to Billie Jo - Nancy Wilson: Welcome to My Love

9. Passing Strangers - Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan: Passing Strangers

10. Day In - Day Out - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

12. Just One of Those Things - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea