Sunday, January 22, 2023

Selections from the Playlist

 

While no means a complete list of all my music, this is a collection of standards and oddities of my own choice, which gives a sort of mosaic of my tastes. There are plenty more hits from the 60's, 70's, and 80's, songs from TV specials and children's shows and movies, Christmas, Country, and Pop music. Some songs are here because they remind me of my childhood, some because they remind me of people who are now gone. And many have 'videos' unreeling in my mind that their creators could have never imagined. I tend not to have one favorite genre, but will collect whatever appeals to my fancy. 

A Horse with No Name – America

He is Jehovah – Bill and Gloria Gainer

Do You Hear What I Hear – Bing Crosby

Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult

Take Off – Bob and Doug McKenzie

Marie Lavaux – Bobby Jr Bare

Turn! Turn! Turn! – The Byrds

I Still Believe – The Call

Magic – The Cars

Rock the Casbah – The Clash

Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival

One More Time – Daft Punk

Red Sky at Night – David Gilmour

Money for Nothing – Dire Straights

Riders on the Storm – The Doors

Witchy Woman/Hotel California – The Eagles

I Love a Rainy Night – Eddie Rabbit

Mea Culpa – Enigma

Cursum Perficio – Enya

One Thing Leads to Another – The Fixx

Rhiannon – Fleetwood Mac

The Puppet Song – Frankie Avalon

Home by the Sea/ Illegal Alien – Genesis

My Sweet Lord – George Harrison

Battle of New Orleans – Johnny Horton

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald/If You Could Read My Mind Love – Gordon Lightfoot

Reel 10 - Iggy Pop

Sukiyaki – Kyu Sakamoto

Jokerman – Bob Dylan

The Old Home Guard – Sherman Brothers

Don’t Pay the Ferryman – Chris de Burgh

Take Me Home Country Roads – John Denver

Stand by Me – Ben B. King OR John Lennon

I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty OR Johnny Cash

Where Have All the Flowers Gone – Kingston Trio

The Highwayman/The Lady of Shalott – Loreena McKennitt

Coalminer’s Daughter – Loretta Lynn

Safety Dance – Men Without Hats

The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde – Merle Haggard

Pure Imagination – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Soundtrack

Born to be Alive – Patrick Hernandez

Walkin’ After Midnight – Patsy Cline

Mull of Kintyre – Paul McCartney

The Boy in the Bubble – Paul Simon

Red Rain – Peter Gabriel

In the Air Tonight – Phil Collins

Learning to Fly – Pink Floyd

Wrapped Around Your Finger/Secret Journey – The Police

It Don’t Come Easy – Ringo Star

The Powers That Be – Roger Waters

Avalon – Roxy Music

Gunning for the Buddha/Coelacanth – Shriekback

Scarborough Fair – Simon and Garfunkel

I Am Stretched on Your Grave – Sinead O’Connor

Run Runaway – Slade

Mithrandir/Following the Orcs/Helm’s Deep – Leonard Rosenman

The Donkey Serenade – Allan Jones

Fly Like an Eagle – Steve Miller Band

Love is the Seventh Wave/Moon over Bourbon Street/ Englishman in New York – Sting

Roll Muddy River – Stonewall Jackson

It’s My Life – Talk Talk

It’s Raining Again – Supertramp

Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads

Delta Dawn – Tanya Tucker

Tribute – Tenacious D

Sixteen Tons – Tennessee Ernie Ford

We Don’t Need Another Hero – Tina Turner

Free Fallin’/Rebels/Don’t Come Around Here No More – Tom Petty

Handle With Care – The Traveling Wilburys

With or Without You/Where the Streets Have No Name – U2

Marie’s Wedding – The Chieftains, Van Morrison

The Killing Moon – Echo and the Bunnymen

Orange Blossom Special – Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys

The Big Rock Candy Mountain – Burl Ives

Popcorn – Hot Butter

Big Bad John – Jimmy Dean

Can the Circle Be Unbroken – The Carter Family

You Are My Sunshine – Gene Autry

Ballad of Davy Crockett – Fess Parker OR The Mosquitos

El Paso – Marty Robbins

May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose – Little Jimmy Dickens

The Devil Went Down to Georgia – The Charlie Daniels Band

Highwayman – Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, etc.

Man of La Mancha/The Impossible Dream – Richard Kiley

Back on the Chain Gang – The Pretenders

Life in a Northern Town – Dream Academy

Oh Death – Ralph Stanley

Orinoco Flow – Enya

El Shaddai – Amy Grant

Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes

Tainted Love – Soft Cell

I Ran (So Far Away) – The Seagulls

She Blinded Me with Science – Thomas Dolby

Your Wildest Dream – The Moody Blues

Love Stinks – J. Geils Band

Owner of a Lonely Heart – Yes

Shock the Monkey – Peter Gabriel

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine – The Fifth Dimension

Ding Dong Merrily on High/The Holly and the Ivy – Roger Whittaker

Safety Dance – Men Without Hats

Leave My Monkey Alone/Keep Me in Your Heart – Warren Zevon

The Whole of the Moon/ The Stolen Child – The Waterboys

On the Road Again – Willie Nelson

Elektra – The Reivers

Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr.

Fame – Irene Cara

Werewolves of London/Johnny Strikes Up the Band – Warren Zevon

(Nothing But) Flowers – David Byrne

Salisbury Hill – Peter Gabriel

Castle in Spain – Buster Poindexter

The Man in the Long Black Coat – Bob Dylan

Nemesis – Shriekback

The Boar’s Head Carol – The Chieftains

My Thing is My Own – Anne Wilson

Hurt – Johnny Cash

The Hampster Dance – Hampton and the Hamsters

Fortuosity – Tommy Steele

Adiemus - Leroy Jenkins

Delia – Johnny Cash

Main Street Electrical Parade Disneyland

With a Flair/ Colonel Hathi’s March/Trust in Me – Sherman Brothers

Fidelity Fiduciary Bank – Dick Van Dyke

Be Our Guest/Le Poisson – Howard Ashman, Alan Mencken

Love Goes On and On – George Bruns, Floyd Huddleston

Lavender Blue – Burl Ives

Trust in Me – Sherman Brothers

The Minstrel Boy – James Galway

Dust in the Wind - Kansas

Year of the Cat – Al Stewart

Thing Called Love – Johnny Cash

Return to Innocence/Sadeness - Enigma

Stonehenge – Spinal Tap

Sneaky Snake – Tom T. Hall

Momma Tried/Silver Wings – Merle Haggard

This Ole House – Rosemary Clooney

Raggle Taggle Gypsy – The Waterboys

Waterloo – Stonewall Jackson

Mrs. McGrath – Bruce Springsteen

Nottingham Ale – The King’s Noyse

McCallister’s March – The Chieftains

East Texas Red - Arlo Guthrie

American Pie/Starry Starry Night

Different - Ma Cass

The Last Unicorn – America

Putting Out Fire – David Bowie

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner/Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon

Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin

Stand/End of the World as We Know It – R.E.M.

Caravan (?) - Kitaro

For My Lady – Moody Blues

Dream Weaver – Gary Wright

Ghost Riders in the Sky – Johnny Cash

Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel

Bubeck et Hungaricus – Yaroslav Krcek

Heart of Gold - Neil Young

Galveston – Glen Campbell

Time Passages – Al Stewart

Ore I In Eye Aye – George Harrison

White Wedding – Billy Idol

Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen

Long May You Run – Neil Young

When the Tigers Broke Free – Pink Floyd

It Don’t Matter (Where You Bury Me) – Emmylou Harris

Knights in White Satin – Moody Blues

Into the West – Annie Lennox

The Logical Song – Super Tramp

Follow (Into the Trees) – Tom Petty

Rock Me, Amadeus - Falco

Unchained – Johnny Cash

DeLessup’s Dance – from ‘Shakespeare in Love’

Orientus Partibus -

Our Hero – Sting

Riu Riu Chiu – Warren Zevon

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life – Eric Idle

Salterello – Dead Can Dance

Justified and Ancient – KLM (The Jams)

Blue Bayou – Linda Ronstadt

It’s a Heartache – Bonny Tyler

Against the Wind – Bob Seger

Wildfire – Michael Martin Murphey

The Mummer’s Dance – Loreena McKennitt

Caribbean Blue – Enya

Anvil of Crom – Basil Pouldoris

Send Lawyers Guns and Money Warren Zevon

Wrapped Around Your Finger – The Police

Bring Me My Bride – Stephen Sondheim (Movie Version)

Discworld Main Theme – Keith Hopwood & Phil Bush

Homeward Bound – Jack Trombey

Snow Miser/Heat Miser – Maury Laws and Jules Bass

The Northwest Passage – Stan Rogers

Wendy – The Association

Puff the Magic Dragon – Peter, Paul, and Mary

Up, Up and Away (In My Beautiful Balloon) – The Fifth Dimension

Seasons in the Sun – Terry Jacks

Jeremiah (Joy to the World) - Three Dog Night

Where Have All the Flowers Gone – The Kingston Trio

Blowing in the Wind – Bob Dylan

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head – B. J. Thomas

Fate Master of the World – Carl Orff

Man of the Hour – Pearl Jam

Further Up, Further In – The Waterboys

Grimstock – from “Restoration”

The Lees of Old Virginia – from “1776”

Jubilation T. Cornpone – from “Li’l Abner”

Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

Cut You Up – Peter Murphy

Forever Young - Alphaville

The Stolen Child – The Waterboys

Whenever God Shines His Light on Me/When Will I Ever Learn? – Van Morrison

Jerusalem – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

The Rain It Raineth Every Day -Tommy Steele

Let Me Be Your Song/Shine on Us Now (Moon Come Soon) – Fraggle Rock

The Fearless Vampire Killers – Krzystof Komeda

BBC Count Dracula End Theme


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