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.)

Monday, February 22, 2016

#107 A Donut And A Dream – The Mills Brothers (1972)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flR-b8lupjc
 
I first heard this great (if totally obscure) trucking song almost two years ago on a Carolina Beach Music station located in Rockingham, NC. The Mills Brothers were a black vocal group that was huge from the 1930s through the 1950s, but they were still spry enough to have a Top 40 hit with “Cab Driver” in 1968. C. Carson Parks II wrote that one as well as “A Donut And A Dream”, not to mention “Somethin’ Stupid”, which Frank and Nancy Sinatra took to the top of the charts. Trivia note: he’s the older brother of the somewhat-better-known composer Van Dyke Parks.
 
Unfortunately neither the album nor the song ever made it to CD, much less into iTunes or other digital music stores. You can hear ticks and pops from the vinyl record on the YouTube video.
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