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This is the third Major Babes collection. Like its predecessors, it comprises a list of songs with girls’ names in the title. This time around, things were a little more flexible, in that it wasn’t required that the name be evoked in the lyrics, giving me an excuse to throw in an instrumental for once. The Scott English track, incidentally, was remade with a different (but not that different) title. A car show somewhere along the Pacific Rim was the background for the cover photo.

Track listing for 111134-2:

1. Rod Stewart: Maggie May
2. Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart: Alice Long (You’re Still My Favorite Girlfriend)
3. Scott English: Brandy
4. Kenny Rogers and the First Edition: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
5. Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Wind Cries Mary
6. Ritchie Valens: Donna
7. Tommy Roe: Hooray for Hazel
8. The Dovells: Betty in Bermudas
9. Blood, Sweat & Tears: Lisa, Listen to Me
10. Jimmy Soul: Twistin’ Matilda
11. Boomer Castleman: Judy Mae
12. Curtis Lee: Beverly Jean
13. Glen Campbell: Brenda
14. Neil Diamond: Cherry, Cherry
15. The Contours: Shake Sherrie
16. The Hollies: Dear Eloise
17. Jan and Dean: Linda
18. The 4 Seasons: Dawn (Go Away)
19. Bobby Goldsboro: Honey
20. The Charts: Deserie
21. The Strangeloves: Cara-Lin
22. Larry Hall: Sandy
23. The Association: Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies
24. The Crickets: Deborah
25. Chubby Checker: Lazy Elsie Molly
26. Los Indios Tabajaras: Maria Elena

Get your kicks, indeed: Steph’s put together a mix for a trip down the Mother Road, and the proposed cover art is truly wondrous. And you have to like anything which finds room for Voice of the Beehive’s “There’s A Barbarian In The Back Of My Car,” right?

Not a Bryan Ferry reference, but a description of this set of cover versions at Middledawn, including some well-known (Pearl Jam’s “Last Kiss,” for instance) and some I’d not heard before (Dishwalla’s take on “Tainted Love”). Definitely worth some of your time, and you can actually listen to the tracks onsite.

Los Angeles Times sportswriter Christine Daniels has something like seventy-five tracks in this ongoing mix, and she’s posted 20 of them (so far) for public consumption. I’ll mention one here: “Black Metallic” by Catherine Wheel, which, says a friend of hers, is “the most majestic, awe-inspiring song of the 1990s,” and she’s not inclined to disagree.