New album from Royal Air Force Squadronaires & Todd Gordon

NEW CD RELEASE

The Royal Air Force Squadronaires and Todd Gordon release Helping the Heroes in the UK on November 5th.

This is the acclaimed big band's first vocal album and Todd duets on several tracks with wonderful guest vocalists (see artwork). Featuring new arrangements, it's a great "feel-good" album, recorded under the watchful eyes and ears of veteran producer Ken Barnes who's worked with many of "the greats" such as Bing Crosby, Peggy Lee, Fred Astaire, Johnny Mercer and Jack Jones.

All profits from the sale of the album will go to the British charity, Help for Heroes.

You can order it now from Amazon and other online retailers as well as record stores - and click here for the first review...

"Helping The Heroes brings some of Britain's finest singers together with one of the country's best big bands. The result is a definitive big band album: dynamic, technically impressive and hugely enjoyable." - All About Jazz (Canada)

Playlist: 29 Oct 2012 (4pm UKT) & 2 Nov 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Sunday - Frank Sinatra: Swing Easy

2. Deep in the Night - Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand

3. The Song Is You - Vic Damone: Live in Las Vegas

4. Days of Wine and Roses - Peggy Lee: Mink Jazz

5. Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Dean Martin: This Time I'm Swingin'

6. Travellin' Blues - Carmen McRae & Dave Brubeck: Take Five

7. Save the Last Dance for Me - Harry Connick Jr: Only You

8. Now It Can Be Told - Ella Fitzgerald: Irving Berlin Songbook

9. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle - Teresa Brewer & Count Basie: The Songs of Bessie Smith

10. Well, So Long - Tina May: No More Hanky Panky!

11. Slide, Mr Trombone - Ernie Andrews: In the Dark

12. Lonely Town - Blossom Dearie: Blossom Dearie Sings Comden & Green

13. I Get a Kick Out of You - Frank Sinatra: Live from Las Vegas

14. Before Love Went Out of Style - Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore: Smilin' Through

15. Every Time It Rains - Jacqui Dankworth: Back to You

16. Me and My Shadow - Frank Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr: The Summit

Playlist: 22 Oct 2012 (4pm UKT) & 26 Oct 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Poor Butterfly - Frank Sinatra & Duke Ellington: Francis A & Edward K

2. Stairway to the Stars - Johnny Hartman: I Just Dropped By to Say Hello

3. Down Among the Sheltering Palms - Bing Crosby: Bing with a Beat

4. I'm Through with Love - Bob Manning: Lonely Spell

5. Honey, Honey (Bless Your Heart) - Perry Como: Como Swings

6. Moments Like This - Tony Bennett: The Art of Excellence

7. If You Live the Life, You Pay the Price - Jimmy Witherspoon: Hey, Mrs Jones!

8. Let There Be Love - Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole Sings, George Shearing Plays

9. Brazil - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

10. Cherry Red - Big Joe Turner: Boss of the Blues

11. When Joanna Loved Me - Matt Monro: Here's to My Lady

12. My Kind of Girl - Mark Murphy: Who Can I Turn To?

13. The Girl from Ipanema - Sammy Davis Jr & Count Basie: Our Shining Hour

14. Make Someone Happy - Jimmy Durante: Jimmy Durante's Way of Life

15. Come In from the Rain - Todd Gordon: Ballads from the Midnight Hotel

16. I Love Paris - Long John Baldry: Looking at Long John Baldry

17. And I Love Her - Jack Jones: There's Love and There's Love and There's Love

18. Isle of Capri - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me

Playlist: 15 Oct 2012 (4pm UKT) & 19 Oct 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Three Coins in the Fountain - Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Singles Collection (Disc 1)

2. Some of These Days - Jimmy Rushing: The Jazz Odessey of James Rushing Esq

3. Everyday I Have the Blues - Sarah Vaughan: Sassy Swings Again

4. Please Be Kind - Mavis Rivers & Red Norvo: We Remember Mildred Bailey

5. Gotta Travel On - The Hi-Lo's: The Hi-Lo's Happen to Folk Songs

6. You Make Me Feel Brand New - Peggy Lee: Let's Love

7. Just One of Those Things - Billie Holiday: Songs for Distingue Lovers

8. What a Little Moonlight Can Do - Carmen McRae: Sings Lover Man and Other Billie Holiday Classics

9. That's Enough - Burton Cummings: Burton Cummings

10. Long Ago (and Far Away) - Jo Stafford: The Best of the Capitol Years

11. A Fine Romance - Ella Fitzgerald: Jerome Kern Songbook

12. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Dinah Washington: Dinah

13. Pick Yourself Up - Mark Murphy: Crazy Rhythm

14. On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) - Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the Night

Playlist: 8 Oct 2012 (4pm UKT) & 12 Oct 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. If You Go Away - Frank Sinatra: My Way

2. I'm Beginning to See the Light - Rosemary Clooney & Woody Herman: My Buddy

3. Nature Boy - Johnny Hartman: For Trane

4. If You Could See Me Now - Sarah Vaughan: Send in the Clowns

5. My Shining Hour - Ernestine Anderson: Nver Make Your Move Too Soon

6. Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) - Frank Sinatra: Nice 'n' Easy

7. Amtrak Blues - Alberta Hunter: Amtrak Blues

8. Do It Again - Trudy Richards: Crazy in Love!

9. Gone with the Wind - Ella Fitzgerald: Live from The Cave Supper Club, Vancouver

10. Bridges - Andy Bey: Tuesdays in Chinatown

11. Charleston - Louis Prima: Louis Prima

12. Street of Dreams - Billy May & His Orchestra with The Encores: Capitol Single

13. All of Me - Dinah Washington: Newport '58

14. Watcha Know, Joe? - Jo Stafford: Getting Sentimental Over Tommy Dorsey

15. I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Tony Bennett: Tony Sings for Two

Playlist: 1 Oct 2012 (4pm UKT) & 5 Oct 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. In the Still of the Night - Frank Sinatra: Ring-a-Ding, Ding!

2. Sunny - Ella Fitzgerald: Things Ain't What They Used to Be 

3. I Wonder - Lou Rawls: The Way It Was, The Way It Is

4. I've Got to Have You - Lena Horne: We'll Be Together Again

5. Darn That Dream - Ian Shaw: The Abbey Road Sessions

6. I Never Told You - Tina May: I Never Told You

7. I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) - Nina Simone: Nina Sings Duke Ellington

8. Stardust - Nat King Cole: Love Is the Thing

9. It's Twelve O'Clock (My Love) - Mavis Rivers: Take a Number

10. They All Laughed - Dakota Staton: Dynamic!

11. My Blue Heaven - Harry Connick Jr: Only You

12. Please Send Me Someone to Love - Barbara Morrison: Live at The Dakota, Vol 2

13. Can't Get Out of This Mood - Lee Wiley: West of the Moon

14. Bye Bye Blues - Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong: Bing & Stachmo

15. Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra in Vegas, Live! (Disc 1)

Playlist: 24 Sep 2012 (5pm PST) & 27 Sep 2012 (4pm UKT)

A TRIBUTE TO HAL DAVID

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Wives and Lovers - Frank Sinatra: It Might As Well Be Swing

2. (They Long to be) Close to You - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra and Company

3. Walk On By - Aretha Franklin: Running Out of Fools

4. Magic Moments - Perry Como: Catch a Falling Star

5. American Beauty Rose - Frank Sinatra: Come Swing with Me!

6. I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Ella Fitzgerald: Ella

7. Broken Hearted Melody - Sarah Vaughan: The Magic of Sarah Vaughan

8. The Look of Love - Vic Damone: Live from Las Vegas

9. Alfie - Carol Kidd & Nigel Clark: Tell Me Once Again

10. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head - Johnny Hartman: I've Been There

11. One Less Bell to Answer/A House Is Not a Home - Barbra Streisand: Barbra Joan Streisand

12. Do You Know the Way to San Jose? - Dionne Warwick: Dionne Warwick in Valley of the Dolls

13. Message to Michael - Lena Horne: Watch What Happens

14. This Guy's In Love with You - Herb Alpert: The Beat of the Brass

15. (They Long to be) Close to You - Carmen McRae: The Great American Songbook

16. Trains and Boats and Planes - Astrud Gilberto: The Very Best of Astrud Gilberto

17. What the World Needs Now - Sammy Davis Jr & Buddy Rich: The Sound of '66

18. We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong: On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Soundtrack)

Playlist: 3 Sep 2012 (4pm UKT) & 7 Sep 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. The September of My Years - Frank Sinatra: September of My Years

2. I Just Found Out About Love - Dianne Schuur: Dianne Schuur & The Count Basie Orchestra

3. Imagination - Sylvia Syms: Sylvia Syms Sings

4. Look at Me - Bobby Darin: Hello Dolly to Goodbye Charlie

5. I Could be Good for You - Peggy Lee: Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen

6. Poor Little Rich Girl - Ann Richards: I'm Shooting High

7. Sweet and Slow - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Gently with Nelson

8. All My Tomorrows - Frank Sinatra: My Way

9. My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone: My Baby Just Cares for Me

10. Some Other Time - Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album

11. Please Be Kind - Sarah Vaughan: Vaughan and Violins

12. Goodnight, Irene - Dr John: Goin' Back to New Orleans

13. All of Me - Mae West: The Fabulous Mae West

14. My Old Flame - Dinah Washington: For Those In Love

15. On a Slow Boat to China - Dick Haymes: Look at Me Now!

16. Come Dance with Me - Diana Krall: From This Moment On

17. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) - Frank Sinatra: Come Dance with Me! 

Playlist: 27 Aug 2012 (4pm UKT) & 31 Aug 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Change Partners - Frank Sinatra: Live at The Meadowlands

2. Easy Street - June Christy: June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days

3. A Taste of Honey - The Four Freshmen: More 4 Freshmen & 5 Trombones

4. Baby, It's Me - Diana Ross: Baby, It's Me

5. Fools Rush In - Doris Day & André Previn: Duet

6. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Sue Raney: All By Myself

7. A Tribute to Fred Astaire - Mel Tormé: Encore at Marty's, New York

8. Teach Me Tonight - Clare Teal: Live at Ebenezer Chapel

9. The Very Thought of You - Shirley Horn: You're My Thrill

10. I Had the Craziest Dream - Frank Sinatra: Trilogy (The Past)

11. The Beat Goes On - Patricia Barber: Companion

12. This Girl's in Love with You - Ella Fitzgerald: Sunshine of Your Love

13. Dancing in the Dark - Frank Sinatra: Come Dance with Me!

Playlist: 20 Aug 2012 (4pm UKT) & 24 Aug 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra: Vegas Live (Disc 2)

2. Old Devil Moon - Anita O’Day: Anita Sings the Most

3. Moon Love - Nat King Cole: Billy May Sessions (Disc 2)

4. East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) - Diana Krall: When I Look in Your Eyes

5. Moonlight Mood - Frank Sinatra: Moonlight Sinatra

6. Moonlight in Vermont - Billy Eckstine: No Cover, No Minimum

7. Magic Is the Moonlight - Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado: A Touch of Tobasco!

8. Moonlight Serenade - Kurt Elling: Flirting with Twilight

9. Polka Dots and Moonbeams - Sarah Vaughan: Sassy Swings the Tivoli (Disc 1)

10. Blue Moon - Tony Bennett: The Complete Improv Recordings (Disc 2)

12. Winter Moon - Hoagy Carmichael: Hoagy Sings Carmichael

13. Once There was a Moon - Marlene Ver Planck: Once There was a Moon

14. It's Only a Paper Moon - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra's Swingin' Session!

15. I Wished on the Moon - June Christy: The Song Is June

16. How High the Moon - Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood

17. Destination Moon - Dinah Washington: Dinah ’62

18. Fly Me to the Moon - This Is Astrud Gilberto

Playlist: 13 Aug 2012 (4pm UKT) & 17 Aug 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Night and Day - Frank Sinatra: A Swingin' Affair!

2. Fly Me to the Moon - Tony Bennett: Songs for the Jet Set

3. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams - Ernestine Anderson: Hot Cargo

4. My Old Addiction (aka Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song) - k d lang: Drag

5. On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) - Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the Night

6. You've Changed - Livia Devereux: Night Winds Whisper

7. Forties Medley - Dick Haymes: Dick Haymes Comes Home (Live at the Cocoanut Grove 1973)

8. My Foolish Heart - Jacqui Dankworth: It Happens Quietly

9. Buzz Me - Ella Mae Morse: The Hits of Freddie Slack

10. Somethin' Stupid - Nancy Sinatra (with Frank Sinatra): For My Dad

11. Falling In Love with Love - Dinah Shore: Dinah, Yes Indeed!

12. Take Love Easy - Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass: Take Love Easy

13. My Funny Valentine - Barbara Morrison: Live Down Under

Playlist: 6 Aug 2012 (4pm UKT) & 10 Aug 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Drinking Water (Aqua de Beber) - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra & Company

2. Darktown Strutter’s Ball - Alberta Hunter: Amtrak Blues

3. Never Let Me Go - Irene Kral: Second Chance

4. It was a Very Good Year - Keely Smith: Keely Sings Sinatra

5. What About the Heart? - Eliane Elias: Light My Fire

6. Things are Swingin’ - Peggy Lee: Things are Swingin’

7. It Happened in Monterey - Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!

8. Swinging on a Star - Mark Murphy: Playing the Field

9. Little Green Apples - Bing Crosby & Count Basie: Bing ‘n’ Basie

10. Swingin’ Down the Lane - Perry Como: We Get Letters

11. I Want a Little Girl - Vic Damone: The Lively Ones

12. Estate - Saskia Bruin: Jazz Audiophile Voices

13. T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness - Carmen McRae: Blue Note Live at the Roxy

14. One the Sunny Side of the Street: Ella Fitzgerald: JATP in Tokyo (Live at the Nichigeki Theatre)

15. There's Something About an Old Love - Syliva Syms: Sylvia Syms Sings

16. Don't Cry Joe - Frank Sinatra: Swing Along with Me (aka Sinatra Swings)

Playlist: 30 Jul 2012 (4pm UKT) & 3 Aug 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Just One of Those Things - Frank Sinatra: Swing Easy

2. Trouble In Mind - Helen Humes: 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do

3. I Can Dream, Can't I? - Cleo Laine: All About Me

4. Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year - Lee Wiley: Back Home Again

5. Why Can't You Behave? - Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years (1943-52) - Vol 9

6. Maybe I'm Amazed - Lena Horne: Lena on the Blue Side

7. Blue and Broken Hearted - Helen O'Connell: Here's Helen

8. Peter Gunn (aka Bye, Bye) - Sarah Vaughan: Sings The Mancini Songbook

9. On a Slow Boat to China - Dee Dee Bridgewater: Live at Yoshi's

10. I Want a Little Girl - Jimmy Witherspoon: Patcha, Patcha, All Night Long

11. Say It Isn't So - Billie Holiday: The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve (Disc 3)

12. Route 66 - Mel Tormé: Live at The Maisonette

13. When You Wish Upon a Star - Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle: For Sentimental Reasons

14. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues - Sammy Davis Jr: I Gotta Right to Swing

15. Sing, My Heart - Ella Fitzgerald: The Harold Arlen Songbook

16. You Do Something to Me - Frank Sinatra: Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!

Playlist: 23 Jul 2012 (4pm UKT) & 27 Jul 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. MacArthur Park - Frank Sinatra: Trilogy (Disc 2)

2. Begin the Beguine - Perry Como: Como Swings

3. By Myself - Judy Garland: I Could Go On Singing (Soundtrack)

4. Lonesome Cities - Frank Sinatra: A Man Alone

5. (If I Could be with You) One Hour Tonight - Clairdee: Music Moves

6. Sure Thing - Carole Simpson: All About Carole

7. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Charlie Venutra with Jackie & Roy: Jackie & Roy

8. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You? - Barbara Long: Soul

9. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You - Dinah Washington: Dinah '62

10. Turkey in the Straw - The Hi-Lo's: The Hi-Lo's Happen to Folk Music

11. I'm Glad There Is You - Jacqui Dankworth: It Happens Quietly

12. Eleanor Rigby - Mark Murphy: Satisfaction Guaranteed

13. Two Ladies in the Shade - Chris Connor & Maynard Ferguson: Double Exposure

14. PS, I Love You - Frank Sinatra: Close to You

15. If - Frank Sinatra: Some Nice Things I've Missed

16. Sentimental Journey - Dinah Shore: Yes, Indeed!

Playlist: 16 Jul 2012 (4pm UKT) & 20 Jul 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. Oh, You Crazy Moon - Frank Sinatra: Moonlight Sinatra

2. Deep in the Night - Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan with Michel Legrand 

3. The Song Is You - Vic Damone: Live from Las Vegas

4. Days of Wine and Roses - Peggy Lee: Mink Jazz

5. Until the Real Thing Comes Along - Dean Martin: This Time I'm Swingin'

6. Travellin' Blues - Carmen McRae & Dave Brubeck: Take Five

7. Save the Last Dance for Me - Harry Connick Jr: Only You

8. Now It Can Be Told - Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook

9. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle - Teresa Brewer & Count Basie: The Songs of Bessie Smith

10. Well, So Long - Tina May: No More Hanky Panky

11. Slide, Mr Trombone - Ernie Andrews: In the Dark

12. Lonely Town - Blossom Dearie: Sings Comden & Green

13. I Get a Kick Out of You - Frank Sinatra: Live from Las Vegas

14. Before Love Went Out of Style - Cleo Laine & Dudley Moore: Smilin' Through

15. Every Time It Rains - Jacqui Dankworth: Back to You

16. I Love Paris - Frank Sinatra: Come Fly with Me (Bonus Track)

Playlist: 9 Jul 2012 (4pm UKT) & 13 Jul 2012 (5pm PST)

Intro: Who Wants to be a Millionaire? - from Todd Gordon's forthcoming album with the Royal Air Force Squadronaires, Helping the Heroes

1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swingin' Lovers
2. You're the Top - Jean Turner: From the Creative World of Stan Kenton Comes Jean Turner

3. On the Sunny Side of the Street - The Four Freshmen: Voices In Fun

4. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps - Doris Day: Latin for Lovers

5. Manhattan Serenade - Jo Stafford: The Essence of Tommy Dorsey (Disc 1)

6. A Good Man Is Hard to Find - Alberta Hunter: Amtrak Blues

7. All I Do Is Dream of You - Dean Martin: Sleep Warm

8. Guys and Dolls - Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin: Rat Pack Live at The Sands

9. Paradise - Lena Horne: Lena On the Blue Side

10. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing - Harry Belafonte: Porgy and Bess

11. You're Nearer - June Christy: The Intimate Miss Christy

12. So Hard to Laugh, So Easy to Cry - Lou Rawls: Soulin'

13. There Will Never Be Another You - Julie London: Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

14. Downhearted Blues - Jimmy Rushing: Jimmy Rushing and The Smith Girls

15. Sweet and Slow - Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle: Ella Swings Gently with Nelson 

16. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You - Long John Baldry: Long John's Blues

17. Watch What Happens - Frank Sinatra: My Way