After the Table for One department at my regular site, this is a collection of songs about the state or condition of being alone, from the mildly depressed to the utterly despondent. The cover shot is a still from the motion picture Untitled: A Love Story.

Track listing for 111111-2:

1. Neil Diamond: Solitary Man
2. Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
3. The Four Tops: Ask the Lonely
4. Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops
5. The Shepherd Sisters: Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)
6. Art Garfunkel: All I Know
7. The Poppy Family: That’s Where I Went Wrong
8. Peter and Gordon: I Go to Pieces
9. Patsy Cline: I Fall to Pieces
10. Gilbert O’Sullivan: Alone Again (Naturally)
11. The Friends of Distinction: Love or Let Me Be Lonely
12. Gene Pitney: It Hurts to Be in Love
13. Little Anthony and the Imperials: Tears on My Pillow
14. Billy Joe Royal: The Greatest Love
15. Faron Young: Hello Walls
16. Reparata and the Delrons: I’m Nobody’s Baby Now
17. Jimmy Ruffin: What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
18. Linda Ronstadt: Hurt So Bad
19. The Vogues: Magic Town
20. Brenda Lee: All Alone Am I
21. The Rascals: (I’ve Been) Lonely Too Long
22. Dionne Warwick: Trains and Boats and Planes
23. Al Green: Tired of Being Alone
24. Roy Orbison: Crying
25. Three Dog Night: One
26. Carpenters: Goodbye to Love
27. The Walker Brothers: The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine (Anymore)

From a few months back:

This site is not in any way related to wendex.com, which is owned by someone who hopes to sell the domain, perhaps to me.

Today they made me an offer: $99.95. I don’t know whether I should be pleased or insulted.

Some more of that pre-British Invasion pop/R&B stuff, and yet another two-dimensional doll from the wondrous world of Belle-Sharmeer.

Track listing for 111110-2:

1. The Danleers: One Summer Night
2. Del Shannon: Hats Off to Larry
3. Rosie and the Originals: Angel Baby
4. Brook Benton: The Boll Weevil Song
5. The Jive Five: My True Story
6. Connie Francis: Lipstick on Your Collar
7. Sunny and the Sunglows: Talk to Me
8. The Five Satins: In the Still of the Nite
9. Ernie K-Doe: Mother-in-Law
10. Mary Wells: You Beat Me to the Punch
11. Dion and the Belmonts: A Teenager in Love
12. The Tams: Untie Me
13. The Everly Brothers: All I Have to Do Is Dream
14. Bobby Darin: Mack the Knife
15. The Flamingos: I Only Have Eyes for You
16. Dick Dale and His Del-Tones: Let’s Go Trippin’
17. The Orlons: Don’t Hang Up
18. The Echoes: Baby Blue
19. Jack Scott: Goodbye Baby
20. Brenda Lee: Dum Dum
21. Cookie and His Cupcakes: Matilda
22. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on You
23. Elvis Presley: (You’re the) Devil in Disguise
24. The Cookies: Chains
25. Thurston Harris: Little Bitty Pretty One
26. The Coasters: Searchin’
27. Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue
28. Chubby Checker: The Twist
29. The 4 Seasons: Big Girls Don’t Cry
30. The Olympics: Western Movies
31. Gene Pitney: Every Breath I Take

Another batch of instrumentals, ending as usual with one with words of a sort, and decorated as usual with killer gams.

Track listing for 111109-2:

1. Cozy Cole: Topsy II
2. Angelo Badalamenti: Theme from Twin Peaks
3. Robert Maxwell and His Orchestra: Shangri-Las
4. Davie Allan and the Arrows: Blue’s Theme
5. Henry Mancini: Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet
6. Herbie Hancock: Rockit
7. Al Hirt: Java
8. Walter Wanderley: Summer Samba (So Nice)
9. Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass: Carmen
10. Meco: Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band
11. The Village Stompers: Washington Square
12. Lonnie Mack: Memphis
13. Kai Winding: More
14. Boots Randolph: Yakety Axe
15. Billy Joe and the Checkmates: Percolator (Twist)
16. Ray Charles: One Mint Julep
17. The Rumblers: Boss
18. Mason Williams: Greensleeves
19. Perez Prado: Patricia
20. Reg Owen and His Orchestra: Manhattan Serenade
21. Booker T. and the MGs: Time Is Tight
22. Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra: Love in Every Room
23. Link Wray and His Ray Men: Rumble
24. Charles Randolph Grean Sounde: Star Trek
25. The Virtues: Guitar Boogie Shuffle
26. Dave “Baby” Cortez: The Happy Organ
27. Les Baxter and His Orchestra: The Poor People of Paris
28. Neal Hefti and His Orchestra: Batman Theme

At some point I must have decided that I needed a single-disc Rolling Stones compilation, and this is it. About half these tracks are in mono, either because that’s all there is or because I thought it sounded better than the stereo. (I don’t think there’s ever going to be a really good-sounding “Have You Seen Your Mother Baby.”) David Osborne took the cover photo at Boulder Rock in Western Australia.

Track listing for 111108-2 (all tracks by The Rolling Stones):

1. I Wanna Be Your Man
2. Not Fade Away
3. It’s All Over Now
4. Tell Me
5. Time Is on My Side
6. Heart of Stone
7. The Last Time
8. Play with Fire
9. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
10. Get Off of My Cloud
11. As Tears Go By
12. 19th Nervous Breakdown
13. Paint It, Black
14. Mother’s Little Helper
15. Lady Jane
16. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing in the Shadow?
17. Ruby Tuesday
18. Dandelion
19. She’s a Rainbow
20. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
21. Sympathy for the Devil
22. Street Fighting Man
23. Honky Tonk Women
24. Brown Sugar