Fifteen Songs Part 1

[theodosia]

So, vonnie_k showed me the way to a Frankenmix challenge that sounds pretty neat, over in calikali's LJ, the monthly challenge this time being Your Fifteen Desert Island songs:

Imagine you're stuck on a desert island (for the rest of your life). There are fifteen songs you can listen to, ever again. What songs would you want them to be?

That made me go look at my iTunes stats and try to pick out the ones that I know I have listened to over and over again, and could do so again. So from a really scientific viewpoint, what are they?

I know I can't do them all in one go, but 5 of the 15 tonight would certainly be possible....

Not in any particular order, but if I don't number them I know that I'll lose count, so here goes:

1. Believe What You Say, Ricky Nelson. Yes, he was the son of Ozzie & Harriet, and responsible for a couple tepid hits, but when you get away from those, you find a truly delightful body of work, like this favorite gem of mine. Especially, listen for the guitar break which just goes over the top about halfway through. Sheer love!

2. Heartaches, The Marcels. Has heart ache ever sounded so much fun? There's a playfulness to doo wop that I find irresistible, and songs like this are why, like little acapella sonnets, born of an illicit romance between gospel and Broadway show tunes.

3. Harlem Nocturne, The Viscounts. My list is going to be heavily weighted toward instrumentals (not so much this first five) -- this in particular is an old jazz standard, rocking out like a well-oiled machine. Jazz never really died, but it disguised itself a whole lot for a while....

4. You Know What I Mean, The Turtles. So many Turtles songs that I could have gone with, but I grabbed one that you're a little less likely to have heard, from a period when their Beatlesesque production was at its height.

5. You've Got To Taste All The Fruit, Leroy Holmes. I'm just fascinated by this slinky slinky song, and if I ever develop enough vidding skills, I'm going to riffle through Singin' in the Rain and montage my way through the whole thing, because to me this song sounds as though it should have been part of it!

(All links got to Box.Net, which I'm experimenting with.)

Comments

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

Gonna grab 1, 2 and 4! Thanks so much! =>}