Desert Island 95: Jonathan Benfield
June 13, 2023 #2129
A radio station executive identifies some of the recordings he'd like to have with him id stranded in the middle of the ocean.
Playlist
- There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight
- Bessie Smith
- Mood indigo
- Harlem Footwarmers
- Don’t worry ‘bout me
- Count Basie
- Swing for my supper
- Dorothy Dandridge
- A hi-hat, a piccolo, and a cane
- Putney Dandridge
- Chirri birri bin
- Pearl Bailey
- He beeped when he should’ve bopped
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Dedicated to you
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Two lovers
- Eartha Kitt
- Linda Brown
- Bill Robinson
- Saturday night fish fry
- Bailey/Mobley
- White silver sands
- Dave Gardner
- Stormy weather
- Lena Horne
- Blues before sunrise
- Pigmeat Markham
- Someone’s rocking my dreamboat
- Ink Spots
- Bahama Joe
- Louis Jordan
- Nobody
- Bert Williams