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

Playlist: 3 Aug 2013

GREAT MEDLEYS

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

1. Gershwin Medley (But Not for Me, Love Is Here to Stay, Embraceable You, Someone to Watch Over Me) - Sarah Vaughan: Ronnie Scott's Presents Sarah Vaughan Live - Vol 2

2. West Side Story Medley (Jet Song, Something's Coming, Cool, Tonight, A-Me-Ri-Ca, Gee, Office Krupke, Maria) - Sammy Davis Jr: At The Cocoanut Grove

3. Ray Charles Tribute (Hallelujah! I Love Him So, I Got a Man, Just for a Thrill, Yes Indeed!) - Peggy Lee: Peggy at Basin Street East

4. Unthemed Medley (That Old Black Magic, Cheek to Cheek, Jersey Bounce, Sweet Georgia Brown, Lucky In Love, Hit The Road To Dreamland, For Me And My Gal) - Mark Murphy: This Could Be the Start of Something

5. Al Jolson Medley: Sonny Boy, My Mammy, Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody) - Cher: Bittersweet White Light

Outro: Holding On - Todd Gordon: Made in Korea