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VALENTINE'S DAY
Romance and passion with American Routes’ annual musical Valentine. With such musical couples as Les Paul and Mary Ford, Charles Brown and Bonnie Raitt and Astrud Gilberto with Antonio Carlos Jobim.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Our Love Is Here To Stay Bill Evans
The Giants of Jazz Play George Gershwin, Prestige - Our Love is Here To Stay Dinah Washington
Jazz Masters 19, Verve - Whole Lotta Loving Fats Domino
Out of New Orleans, Bear Family - How To Make Love Southern Moonlight Entertainers
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be Vol. 1, Yazoo - Cupid Boogie Johnny Otis Orchestra
The R & B Box: 30 Years of Rhythm & Blues, Rhino - He'll Have to Go Ry Cooder with Flaco Jimenez
Chicken Skin Music, Reprise - Amor Em Paz (Once I Loved) Astrud Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim
The Man from Ipanema, Verve - Instrumental: And I Love Her Count Basie
Basie's Beatle Bag, Verve - Prelude to a Kiss Duke Ellington
1938, Vol. 3, Classics - Knock Me a Kiss Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five
Let The Good Times Roll, Bear Family - Kisses Sweeter than Wine Jimmie Rodgers
Only Country 1955-1959, JCI - Every Kiss Acetone
Acetone, Vapor - Cinnamon Girl Neil Young
Decade, Reprise - Wild About You Baby Hound Dog Taylor
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers, Alligator - Me and My Baby Got a Good Thing Going Lyn Collins
James Brown's Original Funky Divas, Polydor - Instrumental: La femme d'argent Air
Moon Safari, Source - Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms George Jones & Melba Montgomery
Vintage Collections, Capitol - How High the Moon Les Paul & Mary Ford
Sentimental Journey: Pop Vocal Classics, Vol. 3: 1950-1954, Rhino - Someone to Love Charles Brown & Bonnie Raitt
Someone to Love, Bullseye Blues - Valentine Willie Nelson
Across the borderline, Columbia
HOUR two
- Love Letters Ruth Welcome
Zither Goes Hollywood, Capitol - John & Marsha Stan Freberg
The Very Best of Stan Freberg, Collectables - You Can Leave Your Hat On Randy Newman
Guilty - 30 Years of Randy Newman, Rhino - Take Off Your Dress Clifton Chenier
Bogalus Boogie, Arhoolie - I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl Nina Simone
Essential Blues Women, House of Blues - It Ain't the Meat The Swallows
Risque Rhythm, Rhino - Instrumental: Somebody Loves Me The Hot Club of Cowtown
Swingin' Stampede, Hightone - Sugar Magnolia Grateful Dead
American Beauty, Warner Brothers - Boogie Woogie Country Girl Sleepy LeBeef
The Human Jukebox, Sun - Don't Mess Up A Good Thing Fontella Bass & Bobby McClure
Chess Soul - A Decade of Chicago's Finest, MCA/Chess - I Found A True Love Buddy Guy
The Complete Chess Studio Recordings, Chess/MCA - Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye
The Master: 1961-1984, Motown - Instrumental: Valentine Stomp Fats Waller
His Best Recordings 1928-1942, Best of Jazz - If Ever I Cease To Love Original Zenith Brass Band
New Orleans 1946: Original Zenith Brass Band/ECLIP:se Alley Five/Avery-Tillman Band, American Music - Tipitina Professor Longhair
The Professor Longhair Anthology, Rhino - The Look of Love Dusty Springfield
The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection, Rhino - My Funny Valentine Chet Baker
Master of Jazz: Male Vocal Classics, Rhino - End Bed: Lover Come Back To Me Louis Prima
The Capitol Recordings, Bear Family
