Series 27, Prog 16

BOYS

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Forget About the Boy - Veronica Swift: Confessions

Nature Boy - Alison Burns & Martin Taylor: Songs for Nature

Big Boy Blue - The Mills Brothers & Ella Fitzgerald: 78rpm single

Looking for a Boy - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The George & Ira Gershwin Song Book - Vol 2

Danny Boy - Harry Connick Jr: Come By Me

Go Away Little Boy - Shirley Horn: Shirley Horn with Horns

Charley, My Boy - Peggy Lee: I Like Men!

The Boy Next Door - Sandy Stewart & Bill Charlap: Love Is Here to Stay

My Little Boy: Nellie Lutcher: Real Gone (1960 reissue)

A Boy and His Dreams - Tommy Sands: Dream with Me

My Kind of Boy - Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood

The Boy from Ipanema - Lena Horne: Feelin’ Good

Boy On a Dolphin - Julie London: Our Fair Lady

Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy - Bing Crosby & Joe Venuti: Swingin’ with Bing

First Boy I Loved - Judy Collins: Who Knows Where the Time Goes

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrews Sisters: 78rpm single

Photo: Cottonbro

Series 27, Prog 15

THE YIP HARBURG SONG BOOK

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

I Like the Likes of You - Dick Haymes: Moondreams

April in Paris - Rosemary Clooney & Nelson Riddle: Rosie Solves the Swingin’ Riddle!

What Is There to Say - Sylvia Syms - Sylvia Syms Sings

The Great Come-and-Get-It Day - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra in Hollywood

Then I’ll Be Tired of You - Ella Fitzgerald: Like Someone in Love

Down with Love - Bobby Darin: This Is Darin

Here’s to Your Illusions in Times Like These - Susannah McCorkle: Over the Rainbow (The Songs of E Y ‘Yip’ Harburg)

If This Isn’t Love - Sarah Vaughan: At Mister Kellys

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime - Bing Crosby: American Songs During the Great Depression

Buds Won’t Bud - Peggy Lee: Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen

Old Devil Moon - Mel Tormé: Swings Shubert Alley

Poor You - Maxine Sullivan: The Lady’s In Love with You (Maxine Sullivan Sings the Music of Burton Lane)

Lydia the Tattooed Lady - Groucho Marx: At the Circus (Soundtrack)

Moanin’ in the Mornin’ - Dinah Shore: Holding Hands at Midnight

Last Night When We Were Young - Carmen McRae: Torchy

It’s Only a Paper Moon - Nat King Cole: After Midnight

Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe - Carol Kidd: Dreamsville

Over the Rainbow - Harry Nilsson: A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night

Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead - Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich: The Sounds of ’66

Edgar Yipsel Harburg 

(April 8, 1896 - March 5, 1981)

 

Series 27, Prog 14

IN THE COUNTRY

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

It’s So Peaceful in the Country - Rosemary Clooney: Dedicated to Nelson

Heart of the Country - John Pizarrelli: Midnight McCartney

Bye, Bye Country Boy - Susannah McCorkle

Country Girl - Tony Bennett & London Philharmonic Orchestra: Get Happy

The Old Country - Shirley Horn: I Love You, Paris

Mountain Greenery - Barbara Lea: Lea in Love

Mother Nature’s Son - The Beatles: The Beatles (White Album)

In the Country - Cliff Richard & The Shadows: single

Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas: 78rpm single

Going Up the Country - Canned Heat: single

The Folks Who Live on the Hill - Peggy Lee: The Man I Love

Mister Meadowlark - Johnny Mercer & Bing Crosby: Personality

Love Is Sweeping the Country - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the George & Ira Song Book (Vol 4)

Let’s Go and Live in the Country - Claire Martin, Scott Dunn & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: I Watch You Sleep

Take Me Home, Country Roads - Ray Charles: A Message from the People

Like an Old Song (Fairy Tale Countryside) - Denise Donatelli: What Lies Within

Don’t Fence Me In - Steve Lawrence: Swinging West

Photo: Quang Nguyen Vinh

Series 27, Prog 13

THE HAROLD ADAMSON SONG BOOK

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Everything I Have Is Yours - Billie Holiday: Billie Holiday

Daybreak - Frank Sinatra: I Remember Tommy

An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair) - Nat King Cole: Sings the Great Songs!

The Little Things That Mean So Much - Carmen McRae: After Glow

It’s a Most Unusual Day - June Christy: Gone for the Day

Moonlight Mood - Frank Sinatra: Moonlight Sinatra

Around the World - Steve Lawrence: Winners

You’re a Sweetheart - Dinah Washington: In Love

Time On My Hands (You in My Arms) - Mark Murphy: I’ll Close My Eyes

You - Teri Thornton: Sings the Open Highway

A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening - Ernestine Anderson: A Song for You

I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night - Frank Sinatra: Close to You

Winter Moon - Barbara Lea, Bob Dorough & Dick Sudhalter: Hoagy's Children: Songs of Hoagy Carmichael (Vol 2)

My Resistance Is Low - Hoagy Carmichael & Jane Russell: The Las Vegas Story (Soundtrack)

When Love Goes Wrong - Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Soundtrack)

Too Young to Go Steady - Kurt Elling: This Time It’s Love

It’s a Wonderful World - Peggy Lee: Big Spender

Harold Adamson 

(December 10, 1906 - August 17, 1980)

Series 27, Prog 12

BEAUTY

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Oooh! Look-a-There, Ain't She Pretty - Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul

Came So Far for Beauty - Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Raincoat

Finding Beauty - Ann Hampton Callaway: At Last

I Feel Pretty - Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan: Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan

The Beautiful Strangers - Frank Sinatra: A Man Alone

Still We Dream (Ugly Beauty) - Carmen McRae: Carmen Sings Monk

Beautiful - Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand

The Bad and the Beautiful - June Christy: Off Beat

I Ain’t Mad at You, Pretty Baby - Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey, Mrs Jones

Pretty Eyes - Peggy Lee: Pretty Eyes

The Lies of Handsome Men - Margaret Whiting: Then and Now

(The End of) A Beautiful Friendship - Nat King Cole & George Shearing: Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Quintet Plays

Oh, Pretty Woman - Sharleen Spiteri: The Movie Song Book

But Beautiful - Elaine Delmar & Brian Dee: But Beautiful

Warm and Beautiful - John Pizzarelli: Midnight McCartney

Beautiful Moons Ago - Carmen McRae: You’re Looking at Me

You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby - The Hi-Lo’s & Frank Comstock Orchestra: The Hi-Lo’s in Stereo

Photo: Lisa Fotios

Series 27, Prog 11

SOULFUL

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Love Letters - Patti Austin: The Real Me

So Very Hard to Go - Tower of Power: Tower of Power

Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) - Irma Thomas: Take a Look

What Do You Want the Girl to Do - Lowell George: Thanks I’ll Eat It Here

Unforgettable - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable/A Tribute to Dinah Washington

Ain’t That Peculiar - Martha Reeves: Martha Reeves

For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder: For Once in My Life

Always Be Right - Georgia Cécile: Only the Lover Sings

It Was a Very Good Year - Lou Rawls: Soulin’

To Know You Is to Love You - Thelma Houston & The Pressure Cooker: I’ve Got the Music in Me

Save Me (Ballad) - Alex Briley: single

I Don’t Want to Do Wrong - Esther Phillips: Alone Again, Naturally

Lovely Day - Bill Withers: single

Ain’t No Way - Jean Carne: You’re a Part of Me

Rehab - Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

Image: Magda Ehlers

Series 27, Prog 10

WAITING

Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com

Baby, Baby, Wait for Me - Peggy Lee: single

Wait for It - Lorraine Feather: Flirting with Disaster

Don't Wait Too Long - Frank Sinatra: September of My Years

Don't Wait Too Long - Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love

I Just Can’t Wait to See You - Carmen McRae: Live at Bubba’s

Wait Until Dark - Mel Tormé: Right Now! (bonus track)

I Will Wait for You - Lena Horne & Michel Legrand: Lena & Michel

I’ll Wait - Dinah Washington: Dinah Washington Story

Wait Till You See Her - Tony Romano: A Moonlight Affair

I’m Waitin’ for the Junkman - Ella Fitzgerald & Sy Oliver: 78rpm single

Heaven Can Wait - Horse McDonald: Coming Up for Air

Should I Wait (Or Should I Return to Her) - Johnny Mathis: I’ll Buy You a Star

Waitin' for Charlie (to Come Home) - Nancy Wilson: Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

Heaven Can Wait - Barbara Lea: Barbara Lea Sings Jimmy Van Heusen (Leacock Does Babcock)

September Song - Nat King Cole & George Shearing: Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Quintet Plays

I Wait for Late Afternoon and You - Patricia Barber: The Cole Porter Mix

Waitin’ for the Robert E Lee - Dean Martin: Swingin’ Down Yonder

Photo: Lukas Hartmann