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Raining Cats And... Even More Cats!

By H William Stine | Turntable For One
April 20, 2022
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I wanted to do a special show for a special audience who never choose to listen to the show but listen to the show nearly every week, often sitting in someone's lap or, more likely, sitting in exactly the chair someone else wants to sit in. So I dedicated the show to all the cats who are probably my furriest and? also my most loyal listeners with songs about cats and songs sung by Cats and Kats. During the show listeners in AZ sent me a photo of their cat, Baxter, listening to my show with them. Baxter is different from most of my audience not because he has whiskers and a tail, but because he's clearly awake. And I also played a song by another Ukrainian jazz artist because...

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Cody Owen Stine "Paris Mismatch (Theme Music) " from (Unreleased Master) 00:00

Jamie Cullum

vocals
b.1979

" data-original-title="" title="">Jamie Cullum "Everybody Wants To Be A Cat" from Jazz Loves Disney (Blue Note) 02:2200

Gemma Sherry

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Gemma Sherry "The Alley Cat Song" from Let's Get Serious (Tunley Records) 06:0000

Catherine Russell

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Catherine Russell "All The Cats Join In" from Inside This Heart Of Mine (World Village) 10:23

Lorraine Feather

vocals
b.1948

" data-original-title="" title="">Lorraine Feather "Sweet Little Creature" from My Own Particular Life (Relarion) 10:08

Erroll Garner

piano
1921 - 1977

" data-original-title="" title="">Erroll Garner "Kitten On The Keys" from Too Marvelous For Words (Verve Reissues) 20:5800

Tony Bennett

vocals
1926 - 2023

" data-original-title="" title="">Tony Bennett, k.d. lang "Dream A Little Dream of Me" from A Wonderful World (Columbia Records) 25:01

Cathi Walkup

" data-original-title="" title="">Cathi Walkup "Cat Back Blues" from Magic Of A Song (Flying Weasel Enterprises) 29:00

Kat Edmonson

vocals
b.1983

" data-original-title="" title="">Kat Edmonson "Angel Eyes" from Take To The Sky (Convivium) 33:00

Loston Harris

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Loston Harris "I've Got The World On A String" from Swingfully Yours (Loston Harris Music) 41:47

Elizabeth Taylor "Send In The Clowns" from A Little Night Music (Masterworks Broadway) 47:56

Laura Nyro "The Cat Song" from Smile (Columbia Records) 51:00

Jeff Goldblum

" data-original-title="" title="">Jeff Goldblum "The Cat" from I Shouldn't Be Telling You This (Decca) 54:00

Ola Rud "St. Louis Funk" from (Studio Performance) 57:00

Blossom Dearie

piano and vocals
1926 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">Blossom Dearie "It's Too Good To Talk About" from My Gentleman Friend (Verve) 01:05:51

Lambert

" data-original-title="" title="">Lambert "It's Sand, Man!" from Havin' A Ball At The Village Gate (RCA) 01:09:27

Duke Ellington

piano
1899 - 1974

" data-original-title="" title="">Duke Ellington,

Cat Anderson

trumpet
1916 - 1981

" data-original-title="" title="">Cat Anderson "Satin Doll" from 70th Birthday Concert (Blue Note Records) 01:13:24

Annie Sellick

" data-original-title="" title="">Annie Sellick "Some Cats Know" from Street Of Dreams (Chalice Music) 01:18:53

Jennifer Lawrence "The Hanging Tree" from The Hanging Tree Soundtrack (UMG) 01:24:46

Mark Winkler

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Mark Winkler "Your Cat Plays Piano" from Jazz & Other Four-Letter Words (Cafe Pacific) 01:28:45

Kate McGarry

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Kate McGarry "Girl Talk" from Girl Talk (Palmetto Records) 01:34:54

Henry Mancini

composer / conductor
1924 - 1994

" data-original-title="" title="">Henry Mancini "The Pink Panther Theme" from Playboy Jazz Cocktail Mix (Concord Records) 01:4027

Kenny Rankin

vocals
1940 - 2009

" data-original-title="" title="">Kenny Rankin "Killed A Cat" from Silver Morning (Mack Avenue Records) 01:45:52

Kat Gang

vocals
b.1980

" data-original-title="" title="">Kat Gang "Blame It On My Youth" from The Kat Gang Jazz Band (Kat Gang) 01:50:48

Cody Owen Stine "Paris Mismatch (Theme Music)" from (Unreleased Master) 01:55:00

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