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Todd's Turntable - Todd Gordon's weekly radio show devoted to great singers... and all that jazz!
This is the companion blog site to Todd Gordon's popular radio show. Entitled Todd's Turntable, it's a weekly, one-hour show that airs on various FM and Internet radio stations worldwide. To listen to a few examples click on Soundcloud or Mixcloud in the links section.
Thursday 11 April 2024
Series 27, Prog 12
Thursday 4 April 2024
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
Thursday 28 March 2024
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
Thursday 21 March 2024
Series 27, Prog 9
THE JULE STYNE SONG BOOK
Thursday 14 March 2024
Series 27, Prog 8
PATERNAL INFLUENCES
Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com
Papa Loves Mambo - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings… (EP)
Fine Fat Daddy - Dinah Washington: Sings Bessie Smith
My Heart Belongs to Daddy - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Loves Cole
Father of Girls - Perry Como: In Person (at the International Hotel, Las Vegas)
Shack Daddy - Betty Jean Morris: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller
Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar - Woody Herman: The Many Faces of Boogie Woogie
Poppa Don’t Preach to Me - Lena Horne: Lena Sings Your Requests
Wailin’ Daddy - Mabel Scott: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller
Cool Kind of Papa (Good Kind Daddy) - Mildred Anderson & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis: Person to Person
Goodbye, Daddy, Goodbye - Barbara Dane: On My Way
Aggravatin' Papa (Don’t You Try to Two-Time Me) - Pearl Bailey: More Songs for Adults Only
Jet Propelled Papa - Helen Humes: Today I Sing the Blues
Daddy - Della Reese: Della Cha Cha Cha
A Piece of Sky - Barbra Streisand: Yentl (Soundtrack)
Honest Papas Love Their Mamas Better - Fats Domino: Fats Is Back
Salty Papa Blues - Dinah Washington: The Best in Blues
My Father - Nina Simone: Baltimore
My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) - Mae West: The Fabulous Mae West
Photo: Dan Gold
Thursday 7 March 2024
Series 27, Prog 7
THE GOOD EARTH
Intro: A Little White Ship - Todd Gordon: Love dot com
Mississippi Mud - Ray Charles: The Genius Hits the Road
This Bitter Earth - Aretha Franklin: Unforgettable (A Tribute to Dinah Washington)
Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield - Lou Rawls: You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
La Gadoue - Jane Birkin: Birkin/Gainsbourg/Le Symphonique
Magic Garden - Johnny Mathis: I’ll Buy You a Star
Fields of Gold - Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: Float Like a Butterfly/The Songs of Sting
Muddy Water - Jimmy Rushing: Jimmy Rushing and the Smith Girls
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning - Ethel Ennis: My Kind of Waltztime
Cotton Fields - The Hi-Lo’s: The Hi-Lo’s Happen to Folk Songs
The Fields of St Etienne - Mary Hopkin: Those Were the Days
Greenfields - The Four Freshmen: Stars in Our Eyes
Abandoned Garden - Salena Jones: Salena Sings Jobim with the Jobims
The Garden of Eden - Frankie Vaughan: single
Down By the Sally Gardens - Clare Teal: Hey Ho
Plant Your Garden - Big Joe Turner: Life Ain’t Easy
A Garden in the Rain - Sarah Vaughan: The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan (The Benny Carter Sessions)
Photo: Tom Fisk
Thursday 29 February 2024
Series 27, Prog 6
THE BETTY COMDEN-ADOLPH GREEN SONG BOOK