Under a Blanket of Blue

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• page 1: selected recordings, 1933-1947
• page 2: selected recordings, 1947-1963 (this page)
• page 3: list of selected recordings, 1933-1963

Red Norvo’s Nine — recorded on 14 October 1947; issued in May 1948 on Capitol 15083, b/w “Hollyridge Drive” (Benny Carter)

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Leslie Scott with Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra — recorded in NYC, 10 December 1947; issued in March 1948 on the 78 rpm single RCA Victor 20-2745, as the B-side of “You Were Meant for Me” — Coleman Hawkins, (tenor saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Chuck Wayne (guitar), Jack Lesberg (bass), Max Roach (drums), Leslie Scott (vocals), unidentified strings

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Helen Forrest – accompanied by either the Carmen Dragon Orchestra or the Ray Bloch Orchestra, 1949-50; included on the 1993 CD album Helen Forrest On The Sunny Side Of The Street, Audiophile ACD-47

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Benny Goodman Sextet – recorded in New York on 30 July 1952; released on the 1954 album The New Benny Goodman Sextet, Columbia CL 552

session personnel: Benny Goodman (cl), Terry Gibbs (vib), Teddy Wilson (p), Mundell Lowe (g), Sid Weiss (b),  Don Lamond (d)

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Art Tatum – Benny Carter – Louis Bellson — recorded on 25 June 1954 in Los Angeles, CA; originally released on the 1958 album Makin’ Whoopee, Verve Records MG V-8227

Benny Carter – alto sax
Art Tatum – piano
Louis Bellson – drums

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Stan Kenton – from the 1954 12-inch LP Portraits on Standards, Capitol T 462 —  The 10-inch album with the same title, Capitol H 462 (released in 1953), includes only eight of the twelve recordings found on the 12-inch LP, and “Under a Blanket of Blue” is not one of them.

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Bobby Hackett — from the 1955 LP Soft Lights and Bobby Hackett, Capitol Records T-458; the 1954 10-inch Bobby Hackett album of the same title (Capitol H-458) does not include this track

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(below) remastered, 2001

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Billy Tipton Trio — from the 1955 album Sweet Georgia Brown, Tops L1522

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Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong — recorded on 16 August 1956 and released on their first of three album collaborations for Verve Records, Ella and Louis, 1956

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Patti Page with Orchestra conducted by Jack Rael — from the 1956 LP Music for Two in Love, Mercury MG-20099

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Jane Froman — from the 1957 album Songs At Sunset, Capitol Records T889/T-889; also included on the 1957 EP Songs At Sunset, Part 2, Capitol EAP 2-889

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Doris Day — from her 1957 LP Day By Night, Columbia CL 1053

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Roberta Sherwood – from her 1957 album Show Stoppers, Decca DL 8426; also issued in 1957 on the EP Torch Songs – Show Stoppers, Decca ED 2475

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Charlene Bartley — from the 1957 album The Weekend of a Private Secretary, RCA Victor LPM-1478

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Lurlean Hunter, accompanied by Phil Moore and his Orchestra — from her 1958 LP Stepping Out, Vik ‎LX-1116; album recorded on 6, 8, and 10 May 1957

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The Lou McGarity Big Eight — originally released on the 1960 album Blue Lou, Argo LP 654, LP-654 (Mono), Argo LPS-654 (Stereo); album recorded 14 & 15 September 1959 at Bell Sound Studios in New York City

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Anita O’Day and Cal Tjader — from their 1962 Verve collaboration Time For Two; album recorded in Los Angeles, CA, 26-28 February 1962

Cal Tjader (vibraphone)
Lonnie Hewitt or Bob Corwin (piano)
Freddy Schreiber (bass)
Johnny Rae (drums)
Anita O’Day (vocals)

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Gene Ammons Quartet — recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 14 April 1962 — Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone), Patti Bown (piano), George Duvivier (bass), Ed Shaughnessy (drums) — released on the 1963 LP The Soulful Moods of Gene Ammons, US) Moodsville MVLP 28 (Mono), Moodsville MV 28, MVST 28 (Stereo)

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Ruth Olay — from the 1963 LP Olay! Okay!!, Everest 5218, LPBR 5218

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