As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Shuffle #109 (September 1, 2018)


How She Threw It All Away – The Style Council
Angie – The Rolling Stones
Sara – Fleetwood Mac
Son’s Gonna Rise – Citizen Cope
Chapel In The Moonlight – The Bachelors
Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces – The Jayhawks
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Crosseyed And Painless – Talking Heads
Do I Love You? – The Ronettes

Monday, August 27, 2018

#192 We'll Sing In The Sunshine – Gale Garnett (1964)


 
We'll sing in the sunshine
Then I'll be on my way
 
Gale Garnett both wrote and recorded this classic, which won the 1964 Grammy for Best Folk Recording. Just a year after Little Peggy March topped the charts with “I Will Follow Him”, this one stands with Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me” as an early anthem of female empowerment. (More importantly, they're both great songs.)

#191 Hole In The Wall – The Packers (1965)


 
This is one of those instrumentals that stuck in my head ever since I first heard it. The overall sound is very similar to the live version of “The In-Crowd” by the Ramsey Lewis Trio earlier that same year. Although the Packers were apparently an actual band that recorded two albums, it’s worth noting that this one was co-written by three of the members of Booker T. & The MG’s, two of whom also play on the recording.