Miss Hanes, untroubled by the turmoil below, floats above this absurd concept of compiling songs that mention actual colors.

Track listing for 111073-2:

1. The Impressions: Choice of Colors
2. Chuck Berry: Brown Eyed Handsome Man
3. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Purple Haze
4. Grin: White Lies
5. Diane Renay: Navy Blue
6. Los Bravos: Black Is Black
7. The Tremeloes: Silence Is Golden
8. Love: My Little Red Book
9. Marty Robbins: A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation)
10. The Cyrkle: Red Rubber Ball
11. The Fleetwoods: Mr. Blue
12. Donovan: Mellow Yellow
13. Sammy Turner: Lavender Blue *
14. Bullet: White Lies/Blue Eyes
15. The Echoes: Baby Blue
16. Dodie Stevens: Pink Shoe Laces
17. Danny Williams: White on White
18. The Lemon Pipers: Jelly Jungle (of Orange Marmalade)
19. Bobby Vinton: Roses Are Red (My Love)
20. Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade of Pale
21. Christie: Yellow River
22. The Checkmates Ltd.: Black Pearl
23. Tommy James and the Shondells: Crimson and Clover
24. George Baker Selection: Little Green Bag
25. Cream: White Room

* Dilly, dilly.

Some more examples of, well, that Seventies stuff, though no solo Beatles this time around. Cover photo from an Elbeo ad.

Track listing for 111072-2:

1. Emerson, Lake and Palmer: From the Beginning
2. Jethro Tull: Bungle in the Jungle
3. The Stampeders: Sweet City Woman
4. Abba: Waterloo
5. Ian Gomm: Hold On
6. Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London
7. Albert Hammond: It Never Rains in Southern California
8. Stevie Wonder: Superstition
9. The Friends of Distinction: Love or Let Me Be Lonely
10. Alice Cooper: No More Mr. Nice Guy
11. Blondie: Heart of Glass
12. Raydio: Jack and Jill
13. Leon Russell: Tight Rope
14. Olivia Newton-John: If Not for You
15. James Gang: Walk Away
16. Danny O’Keefe: Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues
17. Yvonne Elliman: If I Can’t Have You
18. Electric Light Orchestra: Sweet Talkin’ Woman
19. Deniece Williams: Free
20. Stories: Brother Louie
21. T. Rex: Metal Guru
22. Eagles: Take It to the Limit

If you came in late, the rationale for this series is posted with Volume 1. The cover art continues to grow sexier and less appropriate; a package of Bellinda’s “Grand Chic” hosiery provided this picture.

Track listing for 111071-2:

1. The Rolling Stones: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
2. Jimmy Ruffin: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
3. The Lovin’ Spoonful: Do You Believe in Magic
4. The Four Tops: I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
5. Lesley Gore: That’s the Way Boys Are
6. The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night
7. Hedgehoppers Anonymous: It’s Good News Week
8. The Dixie Cups: Chapel of Love
9. The Beatles: She Loves You
10. The Mindbenders: A Groovy Kind of Love
11. Patty Duke: Don’t Just Stand There
12. The Who: I Can See for Miles
13. The Vogues: Five O’Clock World
14. Gary Lewis and the Playboys: Green Grass
15. The Spencer Davis Group: I’m a Man
16. Bob Lind: Elusive Butterfly
17. The Yardbirds: For Your Love
18. The Supremes: Come See About Me
19. Jay and the Americans: Come a Little Bit Closer
20. The Temptations: The Way You Do the Things You Do
21. Donovan: Hurdy Gurdy Man
22. The Mamas and the Papas: Dedicated to the One I Love
23. The Marvelows: I Do
24. The Buckinghams: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
25. Nancy Sinatra: These Boots Are Made for Walkin’
26. Cannibal and the Headhunters: Land of 1000 Dances
27. Jefferson Airplane: Somebody to Love
28. Fontella Bass: Rescue Me
29. Sounds Orchestral: Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Basically, this was an attempt to fit as few songs as possible on a CD-R without including Kraftwerk or “Thick as a Brick.” The shortest track here is a smidgen over six minutes.

Track listing for 111070-2:

1. Elton John: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
2. Don McLean: American Pie
3. It’s a Beautiful Day: White Bird
4. Herb Alpert: Rise
5. Rare Earth: (I Know) I’m Losing You
6. Iron Butterfly: In-a-Gadda-da-Vida
7. The Who: Won’t Get Fooled Again
8. King Crimson: Epitaph (including “March for No Reason” and “Tomorrow and Tomorrow”)

I like traffic lights, and not only when they’re green. The High Concept here: songs which contain either “Stop” or “Go.” No comment from anyone named Bamber.

Track listing for 111069-2:

1. 1910 Fruitgum Co.: 1, 2, 3, Red Light
2. Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go
3. Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth (Stop, Hey, What’s That Sound)
4. The 4 Seasons: Dawn (Go Away)
5. The Supremes: Stop! in the Name of Love
6. Garbage: Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
7. Archie Bell and the Drells: I Can’t Stop Dancing
8. Joan Weber: Let Me Go, Lover
9. The Hollies: Stop! Stop! Stop!
10. The Moody Blues: Go Now!
11. Ray Charles: I Can’t Stop Loving You
12. Them: Baby Please Don’t Go
13. Clefs of Lavender Hill: Stop! Get a Ticket
14. The Friends of Distinction: Going in Circles
15. McFadden and Whitehead: Ain’t No Stopping Us Now
16. The Miracles: Going to A-Go-Go
17. Dale and Grace: Stop and Think It Over
18. The Dell-Vikings: Come Go with Me
19. The Kinks: Stop Your Sobbing
20. The Routers: Let’s Go (Pony)
21. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Crosstown Traffic

A fairly straight transcription of Please Please Me and With the Beatles, motivated largely by the fact that the two albums combined would easily fit on a single CD.

Track listing for 111068-2 (all tracks by The Beatles):

1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Misery
3. Anna (Go to Him)
4. Chains
5. Boys
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
8. Love Me Do
9. P. S. I Love You
10. Baby It’s You
11. Do You Want to Know a Secret
12. A Taste of Honey
13. There’s a Place
14. Twist and Shout
15. It Won’t Be Long
16. All I’ve Got to Do
17. All My Loving
18. Don’t Bother Me
19. Little Child
20. Till There Was You
21. Please Mister Postman
22. Roll Over Beethoven
23. Hold Me Tight
24. You Really Got a Hold on Me
25. I Wanna Be Your Man
26. Devil in Her Heart
27. Not a Second Time
28. Money

This series is explained at Volume 1. The one thing you can count on is that I bought lots of these tunes on 45 back in the day.

Track listing for 111067-2:

1. Deep Purple: Hush
2. Brenda Lee: Coming On Strong
3. Los Bravos: Black Is Black
4. Jonathan King: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
5. Roy Head: Treat Her Right
6. Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction
7. Sam and Dave: I Thank You
8. The Murmaids: Popsicles and Icicles
9. Simon and Garfunkel: A Hazy Shade of Winter
10. Jackie Wilson: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
11. Ian Whitcomb: You Turn Me On
12. Paul Revere and the Raiders: Him Or Me — What’s It Gonna Be?
13. The Moody Blues: Go Now!
14. The Rolling Stones: 19th Nervous Breakdown
15. Peter and Gordon: I Go to Pieces
16. Stevie Wonder: Uptight (Everything’s Alright)
17. The Righteous Brothers: (You’re My) Soul and Inspiration
18. The Supremes: Stop! in the Name of Love
19. The Beatles: From Me to You
20. We Five: You Were on My Mind
21. Strawberry Alarm Clock: Incense and Peppermints
22. The Kinks: You Really Got Me
23. Eddie Floyd: Knock on Wood
24. Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street
25. Barbara Lewis: Make Me Your Baby
26. The Ad Libs: The Boy from New York City

Duets. You get one guy, one girl, and one song, and sometimes the results are incredible. (And how is it that three of these women are named Dee Dee?)

Track listing for 111066-2:

1. Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston: It Takes Two
2. Friend and Lover: Reach Out of the Darkness
3. Dean and Jean: Hey Jean, Hey Dean
4. Dick and Dee Dee: Thou Shalt Not Steal
5. Gene and Debbe: Playboy
6. Jerry Butler and Betty Everett: Let It Be Me
7. Otis and Carla: Tramp
8. Elton John and Kiki Dee: Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
9. Johnnie and Joe: Over The Mountain, Across the Sea
10. Paul and Paula: Hey Paula
11. Mickey and Sylvia: Love Is Strange
12. Jon and Robin and the In-Crowd: Do It Again a Little Bit Slower
13. Dale and Grace: I’m Leaving It Up to You
14. Sonny and Cher: The Beat Goes On
15. Billy and Lillie: La Dee Dah
16. Brook Benton and Dinah Washington: Baby (You’ve Got What It Takes)
17. The Captain and Tennille: Love Will Keep Us Together
18. Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharp: Slow Twistin’
19. Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan: Tennesse Bird Walk
20. Nino Tempo and April Stevens: Deep Purple
21. Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson: Lover’s Holiday
22. Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry: All I Have to Do Is Dream
23. Don Gardner and Dee Dee Ford: I Need Your Loving
24. Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens: Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)
25. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell: Your Precious Love
26. Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood: Some Velvet Morning

Yet another collection of songs that are seldom heard in stereo, with yet another variation on the same cover art.

Track listing for 111065-2:

1. The Ronettes: Baby I Love You
2. Donovan: Mellow Yellow
3. Dion: Donna the Prima Donna
4. The Beatles: I Should Have Known Better
5. Nino Tempo and April Stevens: All Strung Out
6. Three Dog Night: Joy to the World *
7. The Hollies: I’m Alive
8. The Fireballs: Bottle of Wine
9. The Beach Boys: Wouldn’t It Be Nice
10. Perez Prado and His Orchestra: Patricia
11. Peter and Gordon: Woman
12. Raspberries: Go All the Way
13. The Rose Garden: Next Plane to London
14. The Dave Clark Five: Glad All Over
15. The Reflections: (Just Like) Romeo and Juliet
16. Kyu Sakamoto: Sukiyaki
17. Jimmy Soul: If You Wanna Be Happy
18. Ritchie Valens: La Bamba
19. Freddie and the Dreamers: Do the Freddie
20. The Vogues: Five O’Clock World
21. The Miracles: You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me
22. Paul Revere and the Raiders: Kicks
23. The Shangri-Las: Give Him a Great Big Kiss
24. Whistling Jack Smith: I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman
25. The Halos: “Nag”
26. Del Shannon: Little Town Flirt
27. Martha and the Vandellas: Heat Wave

* With the proper guitar solo during the break, as on the 45.

A fistful of instrumentals, with one notable exception. And no, I have no idea what she’s looking at.

Track listing for 111064-2:

1. The Ventures: Walk — Don’t Run
2. Bill Pursell: Our Winter Love
3. Nelson Riddle: Route 66 Theme
4. The T-Bones: No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In)
5. Floyd Cramer: Last Date
6. Paul Mauriat: Love Is Blue
7. Kokomo: Asia Minor
8. Cliff Nobles & Co.: The Horse
9. San Remo Golden Strings: Hungry for Love
10. Duane Eddy: Rebel-’Rouser
11. The String-A-Longs: Wheels
12. Bert Kaempfert: Wonderland by Night
13. Lawrence Welk: Calcutta
14. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: Whipped Cream
15. Booker T. and the MGs: Green Onions
16. Dick Dale and his Del-Tones: Miserlou
17. Percy Faith: Theme from A Summer Place
18. Hot Butter: Popcorn
19. Jorgen Ingmann: Apache
20. Love Unlimited Orchestra: Love’s Theme
21. Sounds Orchestral: Cast Your Fate to the Wind
22. The Viscounts: Harlem Nocturne
23. Young-Holt Unlimited: Soulful Strut
24. Raymond Lefevre: Soul Coaxing (Ame Câline)
25. King Curtis and the Noble Knights: Soul Twist
26. The Chantays: Pipeline
27. Ferrante and Teicher: Exodus
28. The Trashmen: Surfin’ Bird

“… and His Orchestra” and similar constructions where appropriate.