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Friday, December 6, 2013

It's: The Food Show!

I was pre-empted on the day itself, but did the Thanksgiving Dinner show on Dec. 5. It was some toothsome fare, if I do say so myself. Take a look at the playlist and then listen to the show. Bon appetit!

Here's the show

Ray Charles “One Mint Julep”  (ABC 1961)

Louis Armstrong “Cornet Chop Suey” (Okeh 1926)

Mickey Katz “Herring Boats”  (Capital 1961)

Dizzy Gillespie “Salt Peanuts” (Guild 1945)

Eddie Lang “Cheese and Crackers”  (1927)

Benny Goodman, Fats Navarro “Stealin Apples”  (Capital 1948)

Howard McGhee “Turnip Blood”  (Savoy 1947)

Louis Jordan “Beans and Cornbread” S (1949)

Bessie Smith “Gimme a Pigfoot”  (Okeh 1933)

John Lee Hooker “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”
from one bourbon, one scotch, one beer MP3 (chess 1975)


Leadbelly “Grey Goose” (RCA)

Memphis Minnie “Keep On Eatin'”  (Vocalion 1938)

Louis Armstrong “Struttin With Some Barbeque” (Okeh 1927)

Morganna King “Taste Of Honey”  (Mainstream 1971)

Bob Dorough “The Coffee Song”  (Blue Note 2000)

Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra “Fine Dinner” (1939)

Jazztet “Milano”  (ARGO 1961)

5 comments:

  1. Hi Steve --

    Hilarious choice of titles ;) -- Here's my listing of food-tunes; maybe there are some doubles, anyway, it's big fun:

    01 - Hungry Man 2:19 Bobby Troup

    02 - Mama, Don't Want No Peas And Rice And Coconut Oil (Jimmy Rushing, voc) 2:49 Count Basie & His Orchestra

    03 - Sing For Your Supper (Helen Humes, voc) 2:41 Count Basie & His Orchestra

    04 - Hey Pete, Let's Eat More Meat 3:04 Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra

    05 - The Frim Fram Sauce 3:12 Ella & Louis

    06 - You're Not The Only Oyster In My Stew 3:16 Fats Waller & His Rhythm

    07 - It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That) (GM) 3:00 Glenn Miller & His Orchestra

    08 - Fat Meat Is Greasy 2:49 Jackie Brenston
    Pineapple Pete 2:39 Johnny Mercer

    09 - All That Meat And No Potatoes 5:17 Louis Armstrong

    10 - Salt Pork, West Virginia 3:00 Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five

    11- Flambee Montalbanese 3:04 Madeleine Peyroux & William Galison

    12 - Dinner At Eight 3:30 Mavis Rivers

    13 - Gelato Al Limon 4:28 Paolo Conte

    14 - All That Meat And No Potatoes (Ray McKinley, voc) 3:21 Will Bradley & His Orchestra

    15 - Chicken Gumboog(ie) (Ray McKinley, voc) 2:53 Will Bradley & His Orchestra

    16 - Fry Me A Cookie, With A Can Of Lard (Ray McKinley, voc) 3:16 Will Bradley & His Orchestra

    17 - It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That) (Woody Herman & Frances Wayne, voc-1) 3:20 Woody Herman & His Orchestra

    18 - It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That) (Woody Herman & Frances Wayne, voc-2) 2:53 Woody Herman & His Orchestra

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  2. HI Brew-Thanks for your great choices. I don't think there are a lot of jazz anorexics.

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  3. Yeah, Steve, I don't think that either; most of our heros - when there were no hard drugs involved of course - most of those folks were full of sap, and great eaters ;)

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  4. I would have thrown Josh White's One Meat Ball into the pot. :)

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  5. The problem is getting it to stay in the pot.

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