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May 7, 2009

If I Only Had a Brain

We are still assembling "headliner" videos of me and Brooke, but here is a solo version of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's "If I Only Had a Brain"



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May 21, 2009

Till There Was You

jk solo here on "'Till There Was You," from Meridith Wilson's The Music Man.

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June 2, 2009

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

I'm the guest this week with a solo rendition of Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" ©1942.


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August 6, 2009

Frim Fram Sauce

All my favorite players are on vacation, but I've dug up a golden oldie from last year. I played at my cousins' wedding reception:

Mazel Tov Mosh and Annabelle!

And special thanks to rustyvision.com for this video and buckets of good advice and technical direction. All the cool things you see around here are his, all the mistakes are mine.

September 3, 2009

I've Got You Under My Skin

Something about a Telecaster® and a Cole Porter tune: "I've Got You Under My Skin."

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September 10, 2009

Days of Wine and Roses

Music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer -- how you gonna beat that?

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September 24, 2009

Moonlight in Vermont

My Dad played piano and once told me that all the great players viewed this as their favorite tune: great changes, pretty melody. John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf are not exactly household names, but in a just world they would be for writing "Moonlight in Vermont."

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October 8, 2009

Since I Fell for You

The crimsonburst telecaster gets another workout on Buddy Johnson's "Since I Fell for You."

[Note to wardrobe: don't schedule the red shirt with the red guitar again. Maybe a maple colored shirt with a black pickguard or something...]

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October 15, 2009

How High the Moon

How Red the Guitar! How Strong the coffee!

How long we gotta talk like this?

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November 12, 2009

Pennies from Heaven

What a great old Johnny Burke tune. My favorite version is from New Orleans trumpet master Leroy Jones but I snuck in a little homage to Louis Prima ("Sunshine and Ravioli").

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January 14, 2010

Alfie

I used to sing this song to my friends' cat. Now I understand Alfie has gone to kitty heaven after 17 years.

Neither my feline friend nor I ever made it past the first eight bars, so I had to learn this tune for the coffeehouse's first special dedication.

It's an unusual and pretty song from Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 1966.

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January 28, 2010

It Could Happen to You

In a just world, Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy (you bet I had to look that up) wold be household names for this wonderful tune.

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February 2, 2010

Misty

I'm my own guest this week. I found some old video laying around that my friend Byurhan had shot with his new camera. He bought it when he was visiting from Ireland 2003-4, sometime around then. Here's Errol Garner's Misty:

It is "our song" and it is fun to see the old house and my lovely bride's clapping with two hands. Can't say I remember the shirt -- but it goes with the Cinema Verite, n'est ce pas?

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February 5, 2010

La Vie En Rose

Edith Piaf's classic, La Vie En Rose. I started using the "Kindhearted Woman" intro and thought if I was going to play it as a blues, I better get out the telecaster.

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February 18, 2010

If I Ruled the World

Here's one for you Angel fans. "If I Ruled the World" by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel,

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February 25, 2010

All the Way

Keep them Sammy Cahn tunes coming! Sammy Cahn and Jimmie Van Huesen's "All the Way."

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March 4, 2010

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Gotta get Brooke into the coffeehouse to sing it, but in the meantime...


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March 11, 2010

All the Things You Are

Mister Jerome Kern

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March 18, 2010

Over the Rainbow

Harold Arlen's bewitching melody. (And those are E Y Harbirg's lyrics running in your mind.)

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March 25, 2010

Jeepers Creepers

A beloved relative was over and picked up my Johnny Mercer book, It is truly amazing how many incredible songs he enlyriced.


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April 22, 2010

This Nearly Was Mine

Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific, 1949). Too sad to sing, so here's an instrumental:

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June 10, 2010

Sunny Side of the Street

Longtime fave. Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields ©1930

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June 17, 2010

Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

What a great song. I heard a terrible elevator-music version in a Chinese restaurant and the tune stuck in my head. (You should have heard their version of "Whiter Shade of Pale.")

The coffeehouse muse ran down the tune for me. It was written by John D. Loudermilk.

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June 24, 2010

Girl from Ipanema

The standard of standards: Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Girl from Ipanema."

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July 1, 2010

It Takes a Lot to Laugh

It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.

I always liked this Bob Dylan tune. And we needed a little more blues around here...

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July 8, 2010

Misty

Erroll Garner's classic -- our song.

July 15, 2010

The Deal

Can't have a coffeehouse with no Dead tunes, it's in the rules. This is one of my favorites.


July 22, 2010

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Watching the Tour de France, and the "King of the Mountains" is awarded a Polka Dot jersey by two attractive young French women in Polka Dot dresses.

Made me think of this great Jimmy Van Huesen-Johnny Burke song:


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August 5, 2010

Sabor a Mi

Love this tune! Original words and music by Alvaro Carrillo. English lyrics by Mel Mitchell.

Thanks to my lovely Mother-in-law for the charts!

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September 30, 2010

Everything Happens to Me

Love this Tom Adair & Matt Dennis tune. A bit of Googling shows a Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael song by the same name. I've got to go hunting for that -- I've never heard it.


October 7, 2010

I'm in the Mood for Love

Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields's "I'm in the Mood for Love" from 1935.

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October 28, 2010

Witchcraft

Happy Halloween from Live at the Coffehouse dot Com!

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November 4, 2010

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

The Halloween medley continues (I think we can milk this for this week and next...)

Rodgers and Hart's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered:

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November 11, 2010

That Old Black Magic

How can you not close out the Halloween medly with Johnny Mercer's "That Old Black Magic?"

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November 18, 2010

Kindhearted Woman Blues

By the one and only Robert Johnson.

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November 25, 2010

Freight Train

The 60's folk revival brought this song back, but most did not credit Elizabeth Cotten who wrote it.

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December 9, 2010

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

jk keeps them Sammy Cahn tunes coming -- in a Santa Hat!

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February 8, 2011

My Funny Valentine

My mother was born on Valentine's Day. And she always did a great job pretending to like my music. So this one's for her:

Rodgers & Hart meet the new mandolin.

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March 17, 2011

Stars Fell on Alabama

jk solo on this great Frank Perkins -Mitchell Parish tune.


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September 1, 2011

How High the Moon

Nancy Hamilton (lyrics) and Morgan Lewis (music) wrote this great tune, but I will always associate it with the immortal Les Paul. And I just bought a this new Les Paul guitar...

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September 8, 2011

Heaven Please

By the great Percy Mayfield. I learned this "on the street" and may not have all the right lyrics. But it's a great tune for a blue guitar.

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November 17, 2011

Birth of the Blues

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November 23, 2011

Misty (Instrumental)

Errol Garner, ©1951. But, more importantly, "Our Song."

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December 8, 2011

Christmas in New Orleans

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December 21, 2011

Let it Snow (2011)

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December 24, 2011

Jingle Bell Rock

Jingle Bell Rock was written by Joseph Carleton Beal and James Ross Boothe, but the song owes its popularity to Hank Garland's guitar work. Just sayin'

Now I know how Santa feels, because I recorded this on Christmas Eve and rushed to get it out to the good little boys and girls (but you can listen to...)

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January 19, 2012

Prelude to a Kiss

Duke!

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