Prodded by Both Sides Now, I put together twenty-six songs about fools, of which there have been an abundance during what Mr Kasem calls the Rock Era. The Mothers track is not the original from Freak Out!, but the doo-wop remake from Cruising with Ruben and the Jets. The original photo is “The Pigeon Crowd” by Andrew*, borrowed under Creative Commons.

Track listing for 111140-2:

1. Brenda Lee: Fool #1
2. Dino, Desi and Billy: I’m a Fool
3. The Rolling Stones: Fool to Cry
4. The Shirelles: Foolish Little Girl
5. Elvin Bishop: Fooled Around and Fell in Love
6. Ike and Tina Turner: A Fool in Love
7. The Main Ingredient: Everybody Plays the Fool
8. Freddie and the Dreamers: If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody
9. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers: Why Do Fools Fall in Love
10. Connie Francis: Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
11. Joe Barry: I’m a Fool to Care
12. The Drifters: Fools Fall in Love
13. Led Zeppelin: Fool in the Rain
14. Aretha Franklin: Chain of Fools
15. The Beatles: The Fool on the Hill
16. The Tams: Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
17. Lesley Gore: She’s a Fool
18. Bobby “Blue” Bland: I Pity the Fool
19. The Bobby Fuller Four: Love’s Made a Fool of You
20. Lulu: Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool For You Baby)
21. Sanford Clark: The Fool
22. Debbie Gibson: Foolish Beat
23. The Mothers of Invention: How Could I Be Such a Fool
24. The Demensions: My Foolish Heart
25. The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes
26. Rick Nelson: Fools Rush In

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