Shuffle #61 (July 7, 2015)

(large economy size)

 

Nick Of Time – Bonnie Raitt

Things We Do – Indigenous

Walking Down Madison – Kirsty MacColl

Island Girl – Elton John

Weekend In New England – Barry Manilow

The “In” Crowd – Ramsey Lewis

Drown In My Own Tears – Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown

Omaha – Counting Crows

You Send Me – Sam Cooke

Everything Your Heart Desires – Hall & Oates

You Never Need Nobody – The Lone Bellow

Go Ahead And Cry – The Righteous Brothers

Sight Unseen – Richard Thompson

Till The End Of The Day – The Kinks

Psycho Killer – Talking Heads

Things Have Changed – Bob Dylan

Talk To Me, Talk To Me --- Little Willie John

Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

Great Goodbye – Kwesi K

King Of Anything – Sara Bareilles

How Far We’ve Come – Dawes

The Heart Of Rock & Roll – Huey Lewis & The News

Kiss Away – Ronnie Dove

Fields Of Gold – Eva Cassidy

Step Right Up – Tom Waits

Inner City Blues – Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express

The Light – Brewer & Shipley

Talk It Over In The Morning – Anne Murray

Holiday – Green Day

Pretty As You Feel – Jefferson Airplane

I Can’t Understand – Los Lobos

Wooden Ships – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

July 5, 2015 – Nationals 3, Giants 1 – Nationals Park

http://m.nationals.mlb.com/news/article/134968464

 

Attendance: 33,157

Game Time: 3:02

Weather: 83 degrees, cloudy

Wind: 3 mph

Umpires: Home Plate - Phil Cuzzi, First Base - Gerry Davis, Second Base - Pat Hoberg, Third Base - Will Little

Seventh-inning stretch song: Higher Love – Steve Winwood

 

Highlights – 7 effective innings by Jordan Zimmermann (3 hits, 1 walk, 8 Ks, 100 pitches), with the only blemish being a fourth-inning homer by Brandon Crawford on a 3-0 pitch … 2^nd-inning RBI single by Michael A. Taylor after leadoff walks to Ramos and Espinosa … 6^th-inning solo homer by Ramos to restore the Nats’ lead … 8^th-inning insurance run on Harper double and Ramos single … another home save (and free Chick-Fil-A sandwich) courtesy of Drew Storen … periodic updates on the U.S. Women’s World Cup championship win over Japan, which elicited enthusiastic crowd chants of U-S-A

 

Other – beat the traffic by leaving Rockville 5 hours before game time (we wanted to arrive early enough to eat at Nando’s and get to the stadium in time for the Strasburg bobbleheads (no, they didn’t portray him clutching some body part on the way to the DL))

Serendipity #41

Move By Yourself – Donavon Frankenreiter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umUxPAWstQ

Heard 7/6/2015 around noon, at Zoe’s Kitchen (Kentlands)

Serendipity #40

Put The Message In The Box – World Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udCaa-Ju3dk

Heard 7/5/2015 around 12:15, at McDonald’s (Derwood)

Serendipity #39

Come Running – Van Morrison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78JvlJrA6wI

Heard 7/3/2015 around 3:40, at Wegman’s (Germantown)

Shuffle #60 (July 3, 2015)

I Am Your Man – Ryan Shaw

Love Story – Katharine McPhee

Have You Seen Her – The Chi-Lites

I’ve Got You Under My Skin – The Four Seasons

Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand

Rattle My Bones – The Secret Sisters

Love Will Lead You Back – Taylor Dayne

Let There Be Music – Orleans

Watershed – Indigo Girls

John Fogerty (“1969” tour), Wolf Trap, 6/30/2015

Row K, Seats 60-61 (right side)

 

The first third of Tuesday night’s show by John Fogerty and his five bandmates (including son Shane Fogerty on guitar and the ubiquitous Kenny Aronoff on drums) was good. The remainder of the show was superb.

 

The turning point was an extended version of “Keep On Chooglin’”, an album track from Bayou Country, the first of three LPs that Creedence released during 1969. They followed with a well-chosen mix of hit singles (such as “Lodi” and “Green River”), extended workouts (“Ramble Tamble” and of course “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”), and covers of early rock classics (“Good Golly Miss Molly” and shortened versions of “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”, both of which featured Fogerty on piano). I was particularly impressed by their versions of a couple of singles that I had never counted among my favorites: “Hey Tonight” and “Long as I Can See the Light.”

 

The band kicked it into overdrive near the end, winding up with “Down on the Corner”, “Centerfield” (which drew the biggest crowd reaction of the night), an extended version of “The Old Man Down the Road”, and “Fortunate Son”. The enthusiastic crowd was rewarded with two classic encores: “Bad Moon Rising” and “Proud Mary”. (For whatever it’s worth, by my count just 10 of the 27 songs actually came from the year 1969, not that I’m complaining.)

 

The show started at 8:20 and ran just over two hours. In lieu of an opening act, the evening started with a 15-minute video focusing on the tour’s title year, with photos, concert footage, and some reminiscing from Fogerty. It wasn’t bad (and no doubt was particularly useful for those in the audience who didn’t live through it), but it tended to ramble at times, and for me ran at least 5 minutes too long.

Shuffle #59 (June 28, 2015)

You Keep Me Hangin’ On – The Supremes

I’ve Got Dreams To Remember – Otis Redding

Channel Z – The B-52’s

Everything Your Heart Desires – Hall & Oates

Undercover Of The Night – The Rolling Stones

Soul On Fire – LaVern Baker

Disarm – The Smashing Pumpkins

Time The Avenger – Pretenders

Private Idaho – The B-52’s

Playlist for SCOTUS

This morning, the day after the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, I happened to hear The Platters’ classic “With This Ring” (on the world’s greatest oldies station). Naturally I took this as a sign that I should come up with a playlist marking the occasion.

 

(Yes, I know that this wasn’t the only significant Supreme Court decision this week, but I couldn’t really find any good songs about health insurance subsidies.)

 

With This Ring – The Platters

Same Love – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Chapel Of Love – The Dixie Cups

Power Of Two – Indigo Girls

Love And Marriage – Frank Sinatra

Serendipity #38

Satellite – Guster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekt6PELAcEg

Heard 6/26/2015 around 9:45, at Wegman’s (Germantown)