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What Do I Know Dumpster Diving playlist

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One of my favorite blog sites, What Do I Know, has a great iTunes Playlist of guilty pleasure songs from younger days, entitled the Dumpster Diving Playlist. It’s now available in the iTunes store as an iMix. What a great list!!

Oh my god… I’m totally buying these.

I’ve Never Been to Me (Remixed Single With Dialogue) – Charlene
The Warrior – Scandal

A couple of years ago, Doug and I put together a similar list from the 70’s entitled “Cheesy Hits from the 70’s.” I never posted the entire playlist to my site because it’s nine CDs worth of music. Someday, when I have more time, I’ll have to bite the bullet and put it on my site and link off to iTunes. But a number of the tunes on the Dumpster Diving list are on our compilation, too.

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Depressing Songs

I don’t know how you feel about these songs, but these always bring me down, so I refuse to play them.

01 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
02 If – Bread
03 Wildfire – Michael Murphy
04 Desperado – Johnny Cash
05 Time In a Bottle – Jim Croce
06 I’ll Have to Say I Love You – Jim Croce
07 Photographs and Memories – Jim Croce
08 Seasons In The Sun – Terry Jacks
09 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) – The Byrds
10 Billy Don’t Be a Hero – Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
11 Angie Baby – Helen Reddy
12 The Night The Lights Went In Georgia – Vicki Lawrence
13 Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy
14 Cats In The Cradle – Harry Chapin
15 Captain Of Her Heart – DOUBLE
16 Owner Of A Lonely Heart – Yes
17 Bliss – Alice Peacock

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Teen Death Songs

In the fifties, there was a whole trend of sappy songs about young love misunderstood and cut short by the tragedy of death. I tried to track down many of the titles, but they were pretty hard to come by. This is the CD of sorrowful tunes I was able to put together. If you know of any others, please comment.

1 Think of Laura – Christopher Cross
2 Patches – Dickie Lee
3 Ebony Eyes – The Everly Brothers
4 Last Kiss – J. Frank Wilson and the Cavali
5 Endless Sleep – Jody Reynolds
6 Running Bear – Johnny Preston
7 I Want My Baby Back – Mark Chesnutt
8 Teen Angel – Mark Dinning
9 Leader Of The Pack – Melissa Etheridge
10 Moody River – Pat Boone
11 Give Us Your Blessings – The Shangri-Las
12 I Can Never Go Home Anymore – The Shangri-Las
13 Leader Of The Pack – The Shangri-las
14 Johnny Angel – Shelley Fabares
15 Green, Green Grass of Home – Tom Jones
16 Tell Laura I Love Her – Valance, Ricky
17 The Night The Lights Went In Georgia – Vicki Lawrence
18 Laurie, Strange Things Happen – William Ward

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paper moon

I saw the 1973 movie “Paper Moon” on TCM on Monday. I’d never seen it before; it was a great movie. Tatum O’Neal was a terrific kid actor. The soundtrack was great, too — Depression era jazz. I searched around but found there was never officially a soundtrack released for it, although someone put together a long out of print LP a couple of years after the movie came out. I managed to find a playlist of the songs from the movie, however. I think I’ll try to put together my own version.
1. It’s Only A Paper Moon–Paul Whiteman
2. About A Quarter To Nine–Ozzie Nelson
3. (It Will Have To Do) Until The Real Thing Comes Along–Leo Resiman with Larry Stewart
4. Flirtation Walk–Dick Powell
5. Just One MOre Chance–Bing Crosby
6. One Hour With You–Jimmie Grier with Donald Novis
7. I Found A Million Dollar Baby–Victor YOung with The Boswell Sisters
8. The Object Of My Affection–Jimmie Grier with Pinky Tomlin
9. Georgia On My Mind–Hoagy Carmichael
10. A Picture Of Me Without You–Paul Whiteman with Ken Darby and Ramona
11. On The Banks Of The Ohio–The Blue Sky Boys
12. My Mary–Jimmy Favis
13. After You’ve Gone–Tommy Dorsey
14. Let’s Have Another Cup Of Coffee–Enric Madgriguera and His Hotel Biltmore Orchestra
15. Sunnyside Up–Johnny Hamp’s Kentucky Serenaders with Frank Luther

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Stuck in my head

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little wisps of song lyrics that drift through my brain and stay there…

hold up, slow up, stop, control
Don’t pull the thang out unless you plan to bang; Don’t even bang unless you plan to hit something
oh I want the way, the way you talk about her, to be the way, the way, the way you talk about me
Goddamn right, it’s a beautiful day, uh huh…
Just get your fingers clicking to the rhythm and the rhyme
You’d better stay away from him; he’ll rip your lungs out, Jim
Come on now, try and understand, The way I feel under your command
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
Don’t you understand what I’m trying to say, and can’t you feel the fears that I’m feeling today
I may have been young, but baby, that’s not what I wanted to be.
We can almost hear the echoes from the smoldering meadow; It’s the rapture of the angels and the rage of devil
And if I haver, I know I’m gonna be, I’m gonna be the man that’s havering to you
Like the car crash I can see but I just can’t avoid, like the train I’ve been told I never should board, like the film that’s so bad but I’ve got to stay ’til then end, let me tell you it’s lucky for you that we’re friends
Oh, the towering feeling, just to know, somehow you are near…
When you walk in a dream but you know you’re not dreaming, signore…
the priests and the friars approach me in dread because I still love you my love and you’re dead
now you be careful gotta go, I love you, have a beautiful day, and kiss the happiest girl in the whole USA.
I’d rather die, than give you control
Tearfully, joyfully, burn what is left of me; I don’t want these burdens at hand.
“Then this is a day of independence, for all the munchkins, and their descendants, if any!”
A promise carved in stone, deeper than the sea if you would sever flesh and bone, and offer it to me

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