Shuffle #38 (November 29, 2014)

Looking For An Echo – The Persuasions

Hold Back The Night – Graham Parker

Up The Junction – Squeeze

You Keep Me Hanging On – Joe Simon

Telegraph Road (LIVE) – Dire Straits

They Can’t Take That Away From Me – Patti Austin

Johnny One Time – Brenda Lee

#6 Over The Rainbow -- Eva Cassidy (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGaVQN-en2A

With the possible exception of Sinatra, I’ve never heard anyone approach Eva Cassidy as a singer, in terms of voice quality, phrasing, and the overall ability to interpret a song, whether it be a standard like this one, a blues classic like “Stormy Monday”, a soul number like “People Get Ready”, or a folk tune such as “Who Knows Where The Time Goes.” I first saw her on a side stage at the Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival one year, when she was performing with go-go legend Chuck Brown, and was instantly hooked. I was fortunate enough to see her a few more times before her untimely death from melanoma, once more with Chuck and a couple of times by herself at free summer/fall concerts outside the old Silver Spring Armory and at A Taste of DC downtown.

A few years after her death, BBC Radio 2 and the Top of the Pops British TV show picked up Cassidy’s recording of “Over The Rainbow”, eventually sending her Songbird album to the top of the British charts and bringing Cassidy much more fame and appreciation than she ever had during her lifetime. The posthumous success is richly deserved, not just for her stunning version of this song but for her entire body of work.

Serendipity #27

(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May – Suzanne Vega

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFs4isCJQEI

Heard 11/25/2014 around 5:30, at Jerry’s Subs (Fallsgrove)

Shuffle #37 (November 23, 2014)

Red Sails In The Sunset – The Spaniels

Sunny Came Home – Shawn Colvin

Do What You Want, Be What You Are – Hall & Oates

Leader Of The Pack – The Shangri-Las

Let’s Say Goodnight – Los Lobos

Caroline No – The Beach Boys

In These Shoes? – Kirsty MacColl

Twilight Zone – Golden Earring

Feel A Whole Lot Better – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Some Enchanted Evening – Jay & The Americans