Country Songs about Pickup Trucks

I made this mix to play in my pickup, because people kept joking about me becoming a country music fan after I bought one.

1 Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson – Redneck Woman – Single
2 What Was I Thinkin’ – Dierks Bentley – Dierks Bentley
3 Big Ol’ Truck – Toby Keith – Toby Keith: Greatest Hits, Vol.1
4 Pickup Man – Joe Diffie – Joe Diffie: Super Hits
5 Park the Pickup (Kiss the Girl) – Chad Brock – III
6 Passenger Seat – SHeDAISY – Passenger Seat – Single
7 She Want to Drive My Truck (Special Dance Mix Track) – Jim Wise – She Wants to Drive My Truck
8 That Ain’t My Truck (Back Porch Acoustic Version) – Rhett Akins – Friday Night in Dixie
9 My Ole Pickup Truck Never Lets Me Down – Doc Bates – You Should Be Here
10 The Truck Song – Lyle Lovett – My Baby Don’t Tolerate
11 Pickup Truck – Jason Spooner – Lost Houses
12 Ragged Old Truck – Johnny Paycheck – The Soul & The Edge – The Best of Johnny Paycheck
13 Corvette, Cadillac, Pickup Truck – Don Papillon – Corvette, Cadillac, Pickup Truck
14 Drive a Truck – J. Stephen Howard – Dreams
15 Girls in Pickups – Kent Earl Housman – Wham Bam Man
16 If This Old Truck Holds Out – Bryan James – Always Be Kind Pt.1
17 Love Like a Truck – Steve Goodbar – A Track in Time
18 My Truck – Pat Dailey – Freshwater
19 Pickup Truck – Rodney Carrington – Rodney Carrington: Greatest Hits
20 That Old Truck – J.C. Hyke – Fallin’
21 The More I Know About Women, the Better I Like My Truck – Tony Villar – Tima 2000
22 This Old Truck – John Williamson – John Williamson

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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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Ennui

01 – Origin of Love – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack
02 – Sugar Daddy – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack
03 – In the Jailhouse Now – The Soggy Bottom Boys – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 3:36
04 – Dora Goes To Town – Andrew Byrd’s Bowl of Fire – The Grandeur – 3:03
05 – Boogie Woogie #5 – Puffy Amiyumi – cmj new music july – 4:10
06 – Baby Please Don’t Leave Me – Buddy Guy – cmj new music july – 3:54
07 – I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow – The Soggy Bottom Boys – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 4:18
08 – I’ll Fly Away – Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 3:57
09 – Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby – Emmy Lou Harris, Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 1:58
10 – Mrs. Steven Rudy – Mark McGuinn – 3.26
11 – Underdog (Save Me) – Turin Brakes – cmj new music july – 3:34
12 – Stop (cover of Madonna’s Don’t Tell Me to Stop) – Joe Henry – cmj new music july – 4:40
13 – I’m So Open – Cowboy Junkies – cmj new music july – 4:09
14 – Night Shift Guru – Cash Brothers – cmj new music july – 4:15
15 – Najala’s Lament – Yma Sumac – The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection – 3:17
16 – Squares – The Beta Band – cmj august – 3:46
17 – “Fuzzy” – Incredible Moses Leroy – cmj new music july – 3:07
18 – Pretend to Be Nice – Josie And The Pussy Cats – Josie And The Pussy Cats Soundtrack
19 – Lover Please – Melissa Etheridge – Skin
20 – Hot Topic – Le Tigre – Le Tigre – 3:42 – 21 – Bang Bang – Le Tigre – From The Desk of Mr. Lady

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Happy Birthday, Riley (vol. 3)

01 – Big Rock Candy Mountain – Harry McClintock
02 – Potato – Cheryl Wheeler
03 – Sugar Sugar – The Archies
04 – Candy Man – Sammy Davis Jr. & The Mike Curb Congregation
05 – Chewy Chewy – Ohio Express
06 – Yummy Yummy Yummy – Ohio Express
07 – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep – Mac & Katie Kissoon
08 – Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead – The Fifth Estate
09 – Is This The Way To Amarillo – Tony Christie
10 – A Little Bit Me – The Monkees
11 – I Think I Love You – David Cassidy
12 – The Garden Song – Peter, Paul & Mary
13 – Bad Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce
14 – Black Superman [Muhammed Ali] – Johnny Wakelin
15 – Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
16 – Devil Went Down To Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band
17 – Elvira – The Oak Ridge Boys
18 – You Are My Sunshine – Riders in the Sky
19 – Don’t Fence Me In – Roy Rogers
20 – Thank God I’m A Country Boy – John Denver
21 – Convoy – C. W. McCall
22 – Pass The Dutchie – Musical Youth
23 – Up Up And Away – The Fifth Dimension
24 – Wonder Woman – New World Symphony
25 – BJ And The Bear – Greg Evigan
26 – Muskrat Love – Captain & Tennille

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Songs about Dangerous Women

I made this CD of songs about dangerous women after a lunch-time conversation with friends about the difference between “devil woman” and “evil woman,” and how there are two different version of “devil woman” and how we were all getting the songs mixed up with “Black Magic Woman.” Then we started a list of all the songs we could think of… and this is where it ended up.

1 Black Betty – Leadbelly
2 Black Betty – Blow Soundtrack
3 Black Magic Woman – Santana
4 American Woman – Led Zepplin
5 Witchy Woman – Eagles
6 Devil Woman – Marty Robbins
7 Devil Woman – Cliff Richard
8 Evil Woman – ELO
9 Honky Tonk Woman – Rolling Stones
10 Hard Headed Woman – Elvis Presley
11 Black Magic Woman [live] – Santana
12 Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress – The Hollies
13 Hanky Panky Woman (Loretta Lynn Cover) — Kelly Hogan – Kelly Hogan
14 Devil With A Blue Dress On – Little Richard
15 Long Tall Sally – Little Richard
16 Dark Lady – Cher
17 Hot Child In The City – Nick Gilder
18 Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day
19 Maneater – Hall And Oates
20 Jolene – Dolly Parton
21 Rich Girl – Hall And Oates
22 Lucille – Kenny Rogers
23 Rio – Duran Duran
24 Bitch – Meredith Brooks
25 L.A. Woman – Billy Idol
26 Ah! Leah! – Donny Iris
27 American Woman – Lenny Kravitz
28 Billy Jean – Michael Jackson
29 Ruby Red Dress – Helen Reddy
30 Angie – Rolling Stones
31 Kentucky Woman – Neil Diamond
32 Delia’s Gone – Johnny Cash
33 Femme Fatale – Tom Tom Club

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Cheesy Hits of the Seventies

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This is a creation of my friend Doug, who has thrown a 70s party every year for eleven years that is always a huge hit. Doug put this 9 disc set together several years ago, and it’s a staple of my music library. (Note: not all of these are cheesy songs; we put many iconic seventies songs on the playlist as well.)

1 Saturday Night – Bay City Rollers
2 Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree – Tony Orlando & Dawn
3 Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain & Tennille
4 Dark Lady – Cher
5 (You’re) Having My Baby – Paul Anka
6 Have You Never Been Mellow – Olivia Newton-John
7 I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
8 Afternoon Delight – Starland Vocal Band
9 The Candy Man – Sammy Davis Jr.
10 The Night The Lights Went In Georgia – Vicki Lawrence
11 The Night Chicago Died – Paper Lace
12 Billy Don’t Be a Hero – Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
13 One Tin Soldier – Coven
14 One Tin Soldier – Coven
15 The Morning After – Maureen McGovern
16 The Happiest Girl In The Whole USA – Donna Fargo
17 Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
18 Hooked On A Feeling – Blue Suede
19 I Feel The Earth Move – Carole King
20 Mandy – Barry Manilow
21 Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl) – Looking Glass
22 You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone
23 (They Long to Be) Close to You – The Carpenters
24 Stumblin’ In – Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman
25 Grease – Frankie Valli
26 Summer Nights – Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta
27 Hopelessly Devoted To You – Olivia Newton-John
28 You’re The One That I Want – Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta
29 Run Joey Run – David Geddes
30 Rocky – Austin Roberts
31 Burnin’ Love – Elvis Presley
32 Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves – Cher
33 Ballroom Blitz – Sweet
34 Venus – Shocking Blue
35 Dancing Queen – ABBA
36 Wildfire – Michael Murphy
37 All By Myself – Eric Carmen
38 Feelings – Morris Alpert
39 Seasons In The Sun – Terry Jacks
40 Cats In The Cradle – Harry Chapin
41 Midnight At The Oasis – Maria Mulduar
42 Angie Baby – Helen Reddy
43 I’d Really Love To See You Tonight – England Dan & John Ford Coley
44 Escape (The Pina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes
45 Stoney End – Barbra Streisand
46 After The Lovin’ – Englebert Humperdinck
47 Annie’s Song – John Denver
48 I’m Not Lisa – Jessie Colter
49 Rhinestone Cowboy – Glen Campbell
50 Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy
51 Half-Breed – Cher
52 Chevy Van – Sammy Johns
53 Me And You And A Dog Named Boo – Lobo
54 I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing – The New Seekers
55 Brand New Key – Melanie
56 Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) – Reunion
57 Lonely Boy – Andrew Gold
58 Da Doo Ron Ron – Shaun Cassidy
59 Lonely Night (Angel Face) – Captain & Tennille
60 At Seventeen – Janis Ian
61 Killing Me Softly With His Song – Roberta Flack
62 My Eyes Adored You – Frankie Valli
63 Laughter In The Rain – Neil Sedaka
64 Don’t Go Breaking My Heart – Elton John & Kiki Dee
65 You Don’t Have To Be A Star – Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
66 Copacabana – Barry Manilow
67 My Sharona – The Knack
68 Behind Closed Doors – Charlie Rich
69 Here You Come Again – Dolly Parton
70 Southern Nights – Glen Campbell
71 Please Mr. Please – Olivia Newton-John
72 Convoy – C. W. McCall
73 The Devil Went Down To Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band
74 Short People – Randy Newman
75 One Bad Apple – The Osmonds
76 Heartbeat – It’s A Love Beat – DeFranco Family
77 Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head – B. J. Thomas
78 Top of The World – The Carpenters
79 Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson
80 Watching Scotty Grow – Bobby Goldsboro
81 Lovin’ You – Minnie Ripperton
82 Touch Me In The Morning – Diana Ross
83 One Less Bell To Answer – The Fifth Dimension
84 Alone Again (Naturally) – Gilbert O’Sullivan
85 I’m Not In Love – 10cc
86 Band of Gold – Freda Payne
87 December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) – The Four Seasons
88 If I Can’t Have You – Yvonne Elliman
89 Best of My Love – Emotions
90 Telephone Man – Meri Wilson
91 Spirit in The Sky – Norman Greenbaum
92 Put Your Hand in The Hand – Ocean
93 Day By Day – Godspell
94 The Lord’s Prayer – Sister Janet Mead
95 Indian Reservation – The Raiders
96 Indiana Wants Me – R. Dean Taylor
97 Bad Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce
98 Happy Days – Pratt & McClain
99 Making Our Dreams Come True – Cyndi Grecco
100 Welcome Back – John Sebastian
101 Times of Your Life – Paul Anka
102 Kodachrome – Paul Simon
103 You And Me Against The World – Helen Reddy
104 That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be – Carly Simon
105 Dream Weaver – Gary Wright
106 Beth – KISS
107 I’m In You – Peter Frampton
108 Imagine – John Lennon
109 My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
110 You’re Sixteen (You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine) – Ringo Starr
111 Live and Let Die – Paul McCartney & Wings
112 The Streak – Ray Stevens
113 The Brady Bunch Theme – The Brady Bunch
114 ABC – The Jackson 5
115 Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) – Edison Lighthouse
116 I’ll Never Fall In Love Again – Dionne Warwick
117 Up The Ladder To The Roof – The Supremes
118 O-o-Child – The Five Stairsteps
119 Family Affair – Sly & The Family Stone
120 Theme from “Shaft” – Isaac Hayes
121 Want Ads – The Honey Cone
122 Patches – Clarence Carter
123 Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast – Wayne Newton
124 Don’t Pull Your Love – Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
125 United We Stand – Brotherhood of Man
126 Mr. Big Stuff – Jean Knight
127 She’s A Lady – Tom Jones
128 Precious & Few – Climax
129 Dancing in The Moonlight – King Harvest
130 Why Can’t We Be Friends – War
131 Cracklin’ Rosie – Neil Diamond
132 You’re So Vain – Carly Simon
133 I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More – Barry White
134 Love’s Theme – Love’s Unlimited Orchestra
135 Rock The Boat – Hues Corporation
136 Waterloo – ABBA
137 Do You Know Where You’re Going To (Theme From Mahogany) – Diana Ross
138 Hello It’s Me – Todd Rungren
139 The Air That I Breathe – The Hollies
140 Me And Mrs. Jones – Billy Paul
141 Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
142 Bad Blood – Neil Sedaka
143 Love Machine (Pt. 1) – The Miracles
144 Get Down Tonight – KC & The Sunshine Band
145 Love Rollercoaster – Ohio Players
146 Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1) – Marvin Gaye
147 Fly Robin Fly – Silver Connection
148 Right Back Where We Started From – Maxine Nightingale
149 Turn The Beat Around – Vickie Sue Robinson
150 More, More, More – Andrea True Connection
151 Car Wash – Rose Royce
152 Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me – Mac Davis
153 Don’t Give Up On Us – David Soul
154 Nobody Does It Better – Carly Simon
155 Sometimes When We Touch – Dan Hill
156 You Needed Me – Anne Murray
157 Torn Between Two Lovers – Mary MacGregor
158 Joy To The World – Three Dog Night
159 Funny Face – Donna Fargo
160 Go Away Little Girl – Donny Osmond
161 I Think I Love You – David Cassidy
162 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep – Mac & Katie Kissoon
163 Beach Baby – First Class
164 (Last Night) I Didn’t Get to Sleep At All – Fifth Dimension
165 Midnight Train to Georgia – Gladys Knight & The Pips
166 You’re No Good – Linda Ronstadt
167 This Will Be – Natalie Cole
168 Tell Me Something Good – Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan
169 MacArthur Park – Donna Summer
170 I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
171 Stayin’ Alive – The Bee Gees
172 I Love The Nightlife (Disco ‘Round) – Alicia Bridges
173 Heart of Glass – Blondie
174 Good Times – Chic
175 Boogie Oogie Oogie – A Taste of Honey
176 We Are Family – Sister Sledge
177 Ain’t No Stopping Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
178 Jeans On – David Dundas
179 Tighter And Tighter – Alive and Kicking
180 Draggin’ The Line – Tommy James
181 Playground In My Mind – Clint Holmes
182 Knock Three Times – Tony Orlando & Dawn
183 Ain’t No Mountain High Enough – Diana Ross
184 Stoned Love – The Supremes
185 Bring The Boys Home – Freda Payne
186 Black Superman – Johnny Wakelin
187 Another Saturday Night – Cat Stevens
188 Sunshine – Jonathan Edwards
189 It’s Too Late – Carole King
190 Rock On – David Essex
191 It’s A Heartache – Bonnie Tyler
192 Hot Child In The City – Nick Gilder
193 Let Your Love Flow – Bellamy Brothers
194 Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day
195 Shadow Dancing – Andy Gibb
196 Shame – Evelyn “Champaign” King
197 Got To Be Real – Cheryl Lynn
198 Makin’ It – David Naughton
199 Charlies Angels Theme – Henry Mancini
200 The Love Boat Theme – Jack Jones

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Merry Xmas Everyone (5 Disc Set)

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My friend Doug and I put this music set together because we both wanted a compilation of Christmas standards, but we wanted the most well-known versions of most of the songs, as well as some interesting or unusal versions. We also tried to get a diverse roster of songs, so that you don’t have to hear the same ten songs over and over again.

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