Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge 10-21-15 Birthdays - Tiki Music

DZ Dr. Zarkov Member Joined: Mar 07, 2008 Posts: 644	DZ Dr. Zarkov Posted posted on Wed, Oct 21, 2015 4:30 PM Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge Playlist: October 21, 2015 On this week’s show we took the time to celebrate the birthdays of an awesome aggregate of some of the superbalistic musical artists who joined us on planet earth in the operative month of October. Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge is broadcast on Wednesdays, 5-6 pm Eastern Time (2-3 pm on the West Coast) at http://www.radiofairfax.org. The show is broadcast live; no recorded shows are archived, but some listeners choose to record it on their computers to listen later. Radio Fairfax also can be heard on Tune In Radio at tunein.com, and streamed on smartphones by downloading the Tunein app. It also can be streamed on Roku and Google TV at: http://tinyurl.com/3uqfsz9 “Kauoha Mai” or “Keyhole Hula” was written and sung in 1962 by our Birthday Girl Lena Machado on her riotous retrospective: Hawaiian Song Bird, featuring Billy Hew Len on Steel Guitar, Cy Ludington on Guitar and Arranger Bennie Saks (Sakimaki) on Piano. This 1934 song refers to visiting a lover’s house only to see him though a keyhole making love to another woman. “Wai'anae Slack Key Hula” by our October Natal Notable Ray Kane on his scinitllatious CD: Punahele – Solo Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar. “Blue Hawaii,” composed by our Birthday Boy Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin for the 1937 Bing Crosby Movie: Waikiki Wedding, and comes from the reed recording by Gordon Samuelson: Sax Hawaiian Style: Jazz Interpretations of Favorite Hawaiian Melodies, with Curt Lee on organ-like Synthesizer. “Kapalua,” referring to the beauty of Kapalua Bay on Maui, was composed, sung and played on Steel Guitar by our multi-talented Birthday Girl Owana Salazar on her ample album: Wahine Slack ‘N Steel. A protege of Jerry Byrd, she is joined by Herb Ohta Jr. on Ukulele, Boisie Septimo on Tahitian Ukulele and Joe Koko on Bass. “The Very Thought of You,” the 1934 song by Ray Noble was found on the incomparable compact disc: A Night of Ukulele Jazz – Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, California, recorded in 2000 by the Ukulele Masters Lyle Ritz and our October Birthday Celebrant Herb Ohta Sr., who also is the father of Herb Ohta Jr., who we heard on the previous track. On this recording the Senior Ohta-san is playing a Standard Size and Mr. Ritz Tenor Martin Ukuleles, if you care to know. “Pass the Bounce,” inked by Henry Nemo and waxed in 1942 by our Birthday Girl Anita O’Day with the famed drummer Gene Krupa and His Orchestra, featuring Roy Eldridge on Trumpet and Milt Raskin on Piano, was snatched from the Bulging Box Set: Young Anita. “How High the Moon,” the classic tune by Morgan Lewis and Nancy Hamilton from the 1940 Broadway revue: Two for the Show, played by our Natal Notable Art Tatum on the re-creative recording: Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine – Zenph Re-Performance, which is a high-tech player piano recreation of the original poorly made recording of Tatum’s 1949 performance in concert. “Still We Dream (Ugly Beauty)” composed by Mike Ferro and our Birthday Celebrant Thelonious Monk, sung by Baltimore’s own Marianne Matheny-Katz on her ambitious album: Somewhere in Paradise, with Vince Evans on Piano, Eric Wheeler on Bass and Eric Kennedy on Drums. “Taking a Chance on Love,” written by John Latouche, Ted Fetter and one of our Birthday Boys Vernon Duke for the 1940 Broadway musical: Cabin in the Sky, sung by Toni Harper on her 1956 LP: Recital, with October Birthday Boy and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra, including Carl Perkins on Piano, another of our October Birthday Boys – Harry “Sweets” Edison – also on Trumpet, Melba Liston on Trombone, Willie Smith on Alto Sax, Ed Beel and Curtis Amy on Tenor Sax, Clyde Dunn on Baritone Sax, George Bledsoe on Bass and Al Bartee on Drums. “Hot Springs,” composed and played by our Natal Notable on his long unreleased 1954 session: Junior – Junior Mance and His Swinging Piano, accompanied by Buddy Smith on Bass and Israel Crosby on Drums. “Daddy” composed by our October Celebrant Bobby Troup and warbled in 1958 by his svelte spouse Julie London, drawn from the copious compilation: Classic Cocktail CD 3: Late Night Cocktails. “Say Si Si,” inked by Ernesto Lecuona, Francia Luban and Al Stillman, found on the 1966 Latinesque LP: Spanish Rice performed by the late trumpeter Clark Terry and arranged by our Birthday Boy Chico O’Farrill, spotlighting the talents of Grady Tate on Drums; and Julio Cruz, Frank Malabe, Chino Pozo and Bobby Rosengarden on Percussion. “Work Song,” the 1960 song by Nat Adderley with lyrics added the following year by our Natal Notable Oscar Brown Jr., taken from the collusive collection: The Best of Nina Simone – The Colpix Years, recorded by her in 1961. “Boogie Stop Shuffle,” by the composer, band leader and bassist Charles Mingus from his 1959 landmark LP: Mingus Ah Um, featuring our Birthday Boy Booker Ervin on Tenor Sax solo along with Horace Parlan on Piano, Willie Dennis on Trombone, Shafi Hadi also on Tenor Sax and Dannie Richmond on Drums. “It Could Happen to You,” composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by our October Celebrant Johnny Burke, introduced by Dorothy Lamour and Fred MacMurray in the 1944 musical comedy movie: And the Angels Sing, vocalized and pianistically rendered by Shirley Horn on her 1988 righteous recording: Close Enough for Love, with Buck Hill on Tenor Sax, Charles Ables on Bass and Steve Williams on Drums. “Con Alma,” the composition by our October Natal Notable Dizzy Gillespie, performed by the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Sextet on their 1965 Azurial album: Calypso Blues, with the Belgian arranger and co-leader Francy Boland on Piano, co- leader Kenny Clarke on Drums, Sahib Shihab on Flute, Fats Sadi on Hand Drums and Jimmy Woode Jr. on Bass.

Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge Playlist: October 21, 2015

On this week’s show we took the time to celebrate the birthdays of an awesome aggregate of some of the superbalistic musical artists who joined us on planet earth in the operative month of October.

Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge is broadcast on Wednesdays, 5-6 pm Eastern Time (2-3 pm on the West Coast) at http://www.radiofairfax.org. The show is broadcast live; no recorded shows are archived, but some listeners choose to record it on their computers to listen later. Radio Fairfax also can be heard on Tune In Radio at tunein.com, and streamed on smartphones by downloading the Tunein app. It also can be streamed on Roku and Google TV at: http://tinyurl.com/3uqfsz9

“Kauoha Mai” or “Keyhole Hula” was written and sung in 1962 by our Birthday Girl Lena Machado on her riotous retrospective: Hawaiian Song Bird, featuring Billy Hew Len on Steel Guitar, Cy Ludington on Guitar and Arranger Bennie Saks (Sakimaki) on Piano. This 1934 song refers to visiting a lover’s house only to see him though a keyhole making love to another woman.
“Wai'anae Slack Key Hula” by our October Natal Notable Ray Kane on his scinitllatious CD: Punahele – Solo Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar.
“Blue Hawaii,” composed by our Birthday Boy Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin for the 1937 Bing Crosby Movie: Waikiki Wedding, and comes from the reed recording by Gordon Samuelson: Sax Hawaiian Style: Jazz Interpretations of Favorite Hawaiian Melodies, with Curt Lee on organ-like Synthesizer.
“Kapalua,” referring to the beauty of Kapalua Bay on Maui, was composed, sung and played on Steel Guitar by our multi-talented Birthday Girl Owana Salazar on her ample album: Wahine Slack ‘N Steel. A protege of Jerry Byrd, she is joined by Herb Ohta Jr. on Ukulele, Boisie Septimo on Tahitian Ukulele and Joe Koko on Bass.
“The Very Thought of You,” the 1934 song by Ray Noble was found on the incomparable compact disc: A Night of Ukulele Jazz – Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, California, recorded in 2000 by the Ukulele Masters Lyle Ritz and our October Birthday Celebrant Herb Ohta Sr., who also is the father of Herb Ohta Jr., who we heard on the previous track. On this recording the Senior Ohta-san is playing a Standard Size and Mr. Ritz Tenor Martin Ukuleles, if you care to know.
“Pass the Bounce,” inked by Henry Nemo and waxed in 1942 by our Birthday Girl Anita O’Day with the famed drummer Gene Krupa and His Orchestra, featuring Roy Eldridge on Trumpet and Milt Raskin on Piano, was snatched from the Bulging Box Set: Young Anita.
“How High the Moon,” the classic tune by Morgan Lewis and Nancy Hamilton from the 1940 Broadway revue: Two for the Show, played by our Natal Notable Art Tatum on the re-creative recording: Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine – Zenph Re-Performance, which is a high-tech player piano recreation of the original poorly made recording of Tatum’s 1949 performance in concert.
“Still We Dream (Ugly Beauty)” composed by Mike Ferro and our Birthday Celebrant Thelonious Monk, sung by Baltimore’s own Marianne Matheny-Katz on her ambitious album: Somewhere in Paradise, with Vince Evans on Piano, Eric Wheeler on Bass and Eric Kennedy on Drums.
“Taking a Chance on Love,” written by John Latouche, Ted Fetter and one of our Birthday Boys Vernon Duke for the 1940 Broadway musical: Cabin in the Sky, sung by Toni Harper on her 1956 LP: Recital, with October Birthday Boy and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra, including Carl Perkins on Piano, another of our October Birthday Boys – Harry “Sweets” Edison – also on Trumpet, Melba Liston on Trombone, Willie Smith on Alto Sax, Ed Beel and Curtis Amy on Tenor Sax, Clyde Dunn on Baritone Sax, George Bledsoe on Bass and Al Bartee on Drums.
“Hot Springs,” composed and played by our Natal Notable on his long unreleased 1954 session: Junior – Junior Mance and His Swinging Piano, accompanied by Buddy Smith on Bass and Israel Crosby on Drums.
“Daddy” composed by our October Celebrant Bobby Troup and warbled in 1958 by his svelte spouse Julie London, drawn from the copious compilation: Classic Cocktail CD 3: Late Night Cocktails.
“Say Si Si,” inked by Ernesto Lecuona, Francia Luban and Al Stillman, found on the 1966 Latinesque LP: Spanish Rice performed by the late trumpeter Clark Terry and arranged by our Birthday Boy Chico O’Farrill, spotlighting the talents of Grady Tate on Drums; and Julio Cruz, Frank Malabe, Chino Pozo and Bobby Rosengarden on Percussion.
“Work Song,” the 1960 song by Nat Adderley with lyrics added the following year by our Natal Notable Oscar Brown Jr., taken from the collusive collection: The Best of Nina Simone – The Colpix Years, recorded by her in 1961.
“Boogie Stop Shuffle,” by the composer, band leader and bassist Charles Mingus from his 1959 landmark LP: Mingus Ah Um, featuring our Birthday Boy Booker Ervin on Tenor Sax solo along with Horace Parlan on Piano, Willie Dennis on Trombone, Shafi Hadi also on Tenor Sax and Dannie Richmond on Drums.
“It Could Happen to You,” composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by our October Celebrant Johnny Burke, introduced by Dorothy Lamour and Fred MacMurray in the 1944 musical comedy movie: And the Angels Sing, vocalized and pianistically rendered by Shirley Horn on her 1988 righteous recording: Close Enough for Love, with Buck Hill on Tenor Sax, Charles Ables on Bass and Steve Williams on Drums.
“Con Alma,” the composition by our October Natal Notable Dizzy Gillespie, performed by the Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Sextet on their 1965 Azurial album: Calypso Blues, with the Belgian arranger and co-leader Francy Boland on Piano, co- leader Kenny Clarke on Drums, Sahib Shihab on Flute, Fats Sadi on Hand Drums and Jimmy Woode Jr. on Bass.

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