September 2005

Choice of Colors

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

Cover art, Wendex 111073-2Track 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.

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That 70s Stuff: Volume 2

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

Cover art, Wendex 111072-2Track 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

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Mid-60s Mania: Volume 3

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.

Cover art, Wendex 111071-2Track 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

Mania
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Superlong

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.

Cover art, Wendex 111070-2Track 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”)

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Wait for Green

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.

Cover art, Wendex 111069-2Track 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

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Do You Want to Know a Secret?

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.

Cover art, Wendex 111068-2Track 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

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Mid-60s Mania: Volume 2

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.

Cover art, Wendex 111067-2Track 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

Mania
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It Takes Two

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?)

Cover art, Wendex 111066-2Track 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

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Still More Songs for People with Two Ears

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

Cover art, Wendex 111065-2Track 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.

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Rare Stereo

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Songs Without Words

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

Cover art, Wendex 111064-2Track 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.

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