"The Johnny Green Songbook"

[ghost of miles]

I've posted an Afterglow program that I did last year on the songwriter Johnny Green ("Body and Soul," "Out of Nowhere," "I Cover the Waterfront") on the Night Lights site, since today would have been his 100th birthday:

The Johnny Green Songbook Part 1

The Johnny Green Songbook Part 2

Some of the music at the beginning of Hour 1 is non-Green. The Green tunes feature Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Mary Ann McCall, Dexter Gordon, Nat King Cole, and many others.

[alocispepraluger102]

I've posted an Afterglow program that I did last year on the songwriter Johnny Green ("Body and Soul," "Out of Nowhere," "I Cover the Waterfront") on the Night Lights site, since today would have been his 100th birthday:

The Johnny Green Songbook Part 1

The Johnny Green Songbook Part 2

Some of the music at the beginning of Hour 1 is non-Green. The Green tunes feature Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Mary Ann McCall, Dexter Gordon, Nat King Cole, and many others.

my kind of music. ...a big thank you, ghostly one.

[AllenLowe]

I'm a big Johnny Green fan and I had an interesting correspondence with him in the 1980s when I wrote to him about some sheet music - I happened to mention that I had based a tune on "Out of Nowhere" and he went off on a tirade (polite but firm) that the tune was still his, and mentioned suing Coleman Hawkins for doing a version of Body and Soul (Rainbow Mist) - and forcing Hawkins to pay him publishing -

[ghost of miles]

Did you mention him in DEVILIN' TUNE, Allen? For some reason, I think I knew that you're a Green fan. You should check out the RAINTREE COUNTY score...actually quite good.

Forgot to mention for Lee Wiley fans that I included a recording of her doing "Easy Come, Easy Go" with Green's 1930s orchestra.