11/1/08 Playlist

It was a long afternoon. Either that or I must have played a lot of short songs.

I couldn't decide what version of a song I wanted to play so I played them both:
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - The Casinos
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye - Eddy Arnold
It's Up To You - Ricky Nelson
Young World - Ricky Nelson

First set of songs from "The Brill Building Sound" box set. I have this on cassette and I never used the tape deck before, so I held my breath that it would work. And it did--yay!

Halfway to Paradise - Tony Orlando
Take Good Care Of My Baby - Bobby Vee
Run To Him - Bobby Vee
Bless You - Tony Orlando

Tell It To The Rain - Four Seasons
Are You Lonely For Me Baby - Freddie Scott
Concrete & Clay - Unit 4 + 2

2nd set from "The Brill Building Sound":
I Can't Stay Mad At You - Skeeter Davis
Hey Girl - Freddie Scott
Oh No Not My Baby - Maxine Brown

Current (or non-oldie) section:
Walls - Mary Jane Alm and Pat Frederick (this month's "Wendy V's Encouraging Words" was inspired by this song)
All My Loving - Buddy Greene
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood

Personal reflection:
I grew up with an older sister who is 10 years older than me. It was a helpful thing growing up with this music in the 60s when she was 18 and I was 8. Obviously, she bought most of the records. But, it wasn't long after that when I started bugging my folks for an allowance so that I could buy some, too. In any event, we would have our little sessions where we'd play records and she'd always want to be the one to pick (or "dictate", as she put it) what to play. I did get my licks in often, though.

Maybe some of you, when you dig out your old record collections, just sort of poke through and start grabbing songs to play just on impulse, not caring about how they fit together. Well, I do that sometime on this show. Just so's you know what's going on...