Sunday, September 30, 2018

264/365/(Some Minor-Key) Songs

Benny Goodman, “Sing Sing Sing”*
Talking Heads, “Slippery People”
Justin Timberlake, “SexyBack”
Bruno Mars, “Uptown Funk”
Aerosmith, “Walk This Way”
Art Blakey, “Dat Dere”**
Robert Johnson, “Come On in My Kitchen”
Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love,” “Dazed and Confused”***
Joan Jett, “Bad Reputation”
Bob Dylan, “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”
The Go-Go’s,**** “We Got the Beat”
Flight of the Conchords, “Business Time”****

*By the great Louis Prima, but oh, the Goodman performance.
**Check out the cover by Rickie Lee Jones. Sigh.
***Almost anything Zeppelin.
****[sic], as properly noted in their Wikipedia entry.
*****For Mali. Conditions are perfect.

3 comments:

  1. Yes, the editor knows she should look up proper notation marks here and not just keep adding asterisks. Not gonna happen today, folks.

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  2. I will have to look these up in the morning.

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  3. I loved my footnote. Thank you.

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