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Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge 3-25-15 Birthdays

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Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge Playlist: March 25, 2015

On this week’s show we once again celebrated the birthdays of just some of the fine musical artists who slid onto this mortal coil during the magniloquent month of March.

Dr. Zarkov’s Tiki Lounge is broadcast on Wednesdays, 5-6 pm EDT 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

  1. “Moonlight and Roses” came from our Birthday Boy’s ample anthology: Sol Hoopii in Hollywood – His First Recordings, 1925, with the Waikiki Hawaiian Trio, including Mr. Hoopii on Lap Steel Guitar and Dave Mahuka on Vocals.

  2. “Riverboat Shuffle,” written by Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish and Dick Voynow, was waxed in 1927 by our Birthday Celebrant Bix Beiderbecke on Cornet and is found on his rigorous retrospective: In a Mist, with Don Murray on Clarinet, Eddie Lang on Acoustic Guitar and Irving Riskin on Piano.

  3. The W.C. Handy composition “Aunt Hagar's Blues” was performed in 1928 by King Oliver and is found on his swankish CD: Riverside Blues, featuring our March Natal Notable Barney Bigard on Clarinet, along with His Royal Highness on Cornet, Omer Simeon on Alto Sax and J.C. Higginbotham on Trombone.

  4. “Them There Eyes,” the song composed in 1930 by Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber and William Tracey, recorded by our Birthday Boy – the Hawaiian master musician, arranger, conductor and composer Matt Catingub – on his 1999 soigne CD: Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack: Hawaiian Swing.

  5. “Interlude,” which was the original title for “A Night in Tunisia,” written by Dizzy Gillespie, Raymond Leveen and Frank Paparelli, sung by our March Birthday Celebrant Sarah Vaughan in 1944 and taken from her bodacious Box Set: Young Sassy, featuring Mr. Gillespie on Trumpet and the famed jazz writer Leonard Feather on Piano, along with Aaron Sachs on Clarinet, Georgie Auld on Tenor Sax, Chuck Wayne on Guitar, Jack Lesberg on Bass and Morey Field on Drums.

  6. “Minor Romp” (A/K/A “Jacquet and Coat”), recorded in 1946 by the tenor sax master and featured on his copacetic collection: The Illinois Jacquet Story, including our Birthday Boy Sir Charles Thompson on Piano, Russell Jacquet on Trumpet, John Simmons on Bass and Johnny Otis on Drums.

  7. “Girl From Uganda” was composed and conducted by our Birthday Celebrant Les Baxter, his Orchestra and Chorus and appears on his 1967 atmospheric album: African Blue.

  8. The Johnny Noble classic “Ku'u Pua Lei Mokihana,” was recorded by the Hawaiian music master on his 1975 landmark LP: The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, Vol. 1, including Mr. Pahinui on Vocals and 12-String Guitar, with our Natal Numinary Ry Cooder on Mandolin.

  9. “All of Me,” the 1931 song by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons for the 1932 movie: Careless Lady, recorded by the vocalease pioneer and our Birthday Boy King Pleasure on his scintillacious CD: Interpretation of Moods.

  10. The Shorty Rogers composition, “Curbstone Scuffle,” recorded in 1946 by Serge Chaloff and found on his righteous retrospective: The Baritone Sax Master, featuring our Birthday Celebrant Flip Phillips on Tenor Sax as part of Sonny Berman’s Big Eight, along with: Sonny Berman and Bill Harris on Trumpet, Ralph Burns on Piano, Chuck Wayne on Electric Guitar, Artie Bernstein on Bass and Don Lamond on Drums.

  11. “S'posin',” written by the lyricist Andy Razaf and composer Paul Denniker and recorded in 1956 by the singer Maxine Sullivan & Her All-Stars for her ambitious album: Memories of You -- A Tribute to Andy Razaf, with our March Natal Notable Dick Hyman on Piano, Charlie Shavers on Trumpet, Buster Bailey on Clarinet, Hilton Jefferson on Alto Sax, and Organ, Milt Hinton on Bass and Louis Burnam on Drums.

  12. “Pick Yourself Up,” composed by Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern for the 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie: Swing Time, sung in 1957 by our young Birthday Boy Mark Murphy on his able album: Let Yourself Go, with the band arranged and conducted by Ralph Burns.

  13. “Our Love Rolls On” was written by our Birthday Boy David Frishberg and was waxed in 1988 on the album: Full Circle by Jackie & Roy – who were the husband-and-wife team of Jackie Cain on Vocal and Roy Kral on Piano, supported by Bill Watrous on Trombone; Conte Candoli on Flugelhorn; Bill Perkins on Baritone Sax; Bob Cooper on Tenor Sax; Monty Burrows on Bass and Jeff Hamilton on Drums.

  14. “Samba Saravah,” composed by the Brazilians Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes and Frenchman Pierre Barouh for the 1966 movie: A Man and a Woman, sung by our February Natal Notable Stacey Kent on her comestible compact disc: Breakfast on the Morning Tram, accompanied by John Parricelli on Acoustic Guitar, Graham Harvey on Piano, her husband Jim Tomlinson on Tenor Sax, Dave Chamberlin on Bass and Matt Skelton on Drums.

  15. “Afternoon in Paris,” composed by John Lewis and performed by pianist and our March Birthday Girl Marian McPartland on her august album: Twilight World, recorded in 2007 when she was nearly 90 years old, with Gary Mazzaroppi on Bass and Glenn Davis on Drums.

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