Songs About Stockings

If you haven't hung your stockings by now, it's about time you did. After all, Santa is coming soon! Or perhaps, if you no longer believe in the jolly old elf, it's time to hang your stockings because you recently washed them and your dryer's on the fritz. Either way, here's a collection of Songs About Stockings that you're likely to appreciate. Or not... Thanks for listening!  ~  JH

1)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  “Dance With The Dolly With The Hole In Her Stocking”

2)  Count Basie Orchestra  ~  “Shiny Stockings”

3)  Palmyra Delran  ~  “Coal In My Fishnet Stocking”

4)  Jack Skuller  ~  “Empty Stocking Blues”

5)  Suzanne Vega  ~  “Stockings”

6)  The Donkeys  ~  “New Blue Stockings”

7)  Peter Combe  ~  “Hang Up Your Stocking”

8)  The Sensational Alex Harvey Band  ~  “Hole In Her Stocking”

9)  Jane Badler  ~  “Black Silk Stockings”

10)  Don Ameche  ~  “Silk Stockings”

11)  Frankie Avalon  ~  “Bobby Sox To Stockings”

12)  Lulu Belle and Scotty  ~  “The Empty Christmas Stocking”

13)  The Fabulous Trio  ~  “Stockings And Shoes”

14)  Evan Rachel Wood & Zane Carney  ~  “Blue Stockings”

15)  Alison Krauss  ~  “Shimmy Down The Chimney (Fill Up My Stocking)”

16)  Stray Cats  ~  “Fishnet Stockings”

17)  Blind Lemon Jefferson  ~  “Stocking Feet Blues”

18)  The Sports  ~  “Black Stockings (For Chelsea)”

19)  Sun Ra  ~  “The Lady With The Golden Stockings”

20)  Les Trois Tetons  ~  “Stocking Feet Boogie”

“Flat” & “Round” Songs, Vol. 2

More "Flat" & "Round" Songs? You bet your boots! And these songs are even better than the ones in the first post! I know, right? How is that even possible? So what are you waiting for? Enjoy them already!  ~  JH

1)  Counting Crows  ~  “Round Here”

2)  Dodie Clark ft. Evan Edinger  ~  “The Flat's A Mess”

3)  Dead Or Alive  ~  “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”

4)  Uncle Lucius  ~  “No Time Flat”

5)  Blake Shelton ft. Pistol Annies  ~  “Boys ‘Round Here”

6)  Massive Attack  ~  “Flat Of The Blade”

7)  Tony Orlando & Dawn  ~  “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree”

8)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Tennessee Flat Top Box”

9)  Paul Weller ft. Noel Gallagher  ~  “Echoes Round The Sun”

10)  Shane Harper  ~  “Flat World”

11)  Billy Preston  ~  “Will It Go Round In Circles?”

12)  Valentina Lisitsa  ~  “Chopin’s Nocturne In E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2”  (Far and away, my favorite classical piece of all time. It’s terribly depressing, but I adore it!)

13)  New Order  ~  “Round And Round”

14)  1/2 Orchestra  ~  “Flat Beat”

15)  Widespread Panic  ~  “Knocking ‘Round The Zoo”

16)  Jill Scott  ~  “He Loves Me (Lyzel In E Flat)”

17)  Imagine Dragons  ~  “Round And Round”

18)  Count Basie Orchestra  ~  “Blues In Hoss’ Flat”

19)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Merry Go ‘Round”

20)  Anya Marina  ~  “Felony Flats”

21)  Rosanne Cash & Rodney Crowell  ~  “No Memories Hangin’ ‘Round”

22)  Harmony James  ~  “Skinny Flat White”

23)  Spandau Ballet  ~  “Round And Round”

24)  Thomas Dolby  ~  “The Flat Earth”

25)  Ellie Goulding  ~  “Tessellate / Life Round Here”

Popular Songs Of 1937, Vol. 1

I'm not quite done with this seemingly never-ending series of "Popular Songs Of" posts quite yet. There's this set and the three volumes that follow it. Then I'll probably tackle the tunes of 1927 and call it done. I was surprised at how many "keepers" I found among songs that, at eighty years old, are clearly well before my time. Music was just better back in the day, I suppose. And boy, do I feel old in simply admitting THAT! Anyway, here goes... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Benny Goodman & His Orchestra  ~  “Sing, Sing, Sing”  (Man, that Gene Krupa could play some drums!)

2)  Fred Astaire  ~  “Things Are Looking Up”

3)  Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians  ~  “September In The Rain”

4)  Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra ft. Edythe Wright  ~  “Dipsy Doodle”

5)  Robert Johnson  ~  “Cross Road Blues”

6)  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Cast  ~  “With A Smile And A Song”

7)  Bing Crosby  ~  “Sweet Leilani”

8)  Roy Acuff  ~  “You’re The Only Star In My Blue Heaven”

9)  Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys  ~  “Steel Guitar Rag”

10)  Gracie Fields  ~  “It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane”

11)  Duke Ellington  ~  “Caravan”

12)  Mildred Bailey  ~  “Trust In Me”

13)  Louis Armstrong  ~  “On A Little Bamboo Bridge”

14)  Joyce Compton / Irene Dunne  ~  “My Dreams Are Gone With The Wind”

15)  Count Basie  ~  “One O’Clock Jump”

16)  Raymond Scott Quintette  ~  “Powerhouse”

17)  Mahalia Jackson  ~  “Peace In The Valley”

18)  Fred Astaire  ~  “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”

19)  Sophie Tucker  ~  “The Lady Is A Tramp”

20)  Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra  ~  “For Dancers Only”

21)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  “Jammin’”

22)  Robert Johnson  ~  “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom”

23)  Slim & Slam  ~  “The Flat Foot Floogie”

24)  Al Dexter  ~  “Honky Tonk Blues”

25)  Kenny Baker  ~  “Love Walked In”

Popular Songs Of 1947, Vol. 1

Continuing with the retro music posts, here's what folks were listening to 70 years ago. Crooners, jazz, swing, as well as country and western music are all represented well here. If you remember these when they came out, well...I don't really have to say it. You already know. Popular Songs Of 1947 begins...NOW!  ~  JH

1)  Frankie Laine  ~  “Shine / We’ll Be Together Again”

2)  Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, & The Andrews Sisters  ~  “Anything You Can Do”

3)  Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five  ~  “Jack, You’re Dead”

4)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “I’ll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms)”

5)  Merle Travis  ~  “Sixteen Tons”  (Tennessee Ernie Ford had greater success with this song a few years later, but Travis actually wrote the song and was its original performer.)

6)  Dinah Shore  ~  “The Anniversary Song”

7)  Dick Haymes  ~  “How Are Things In Glocca Morra”

8)  Bing Crosby  ~  “Galway Bay”

9)  Count Basie & His Orchestra  ~  “Open The Door, Richard!”

10)  Perry Como  ~  “Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep)”

11)  Al Jolson  ~  “Let Me Sing And I’m Happy”  (This song was actually a hit some seventeen years earlier, but in 1946 the biopic The Jolson Story propelled some of Jolson’s old hits back onto the charts in ’47. This was one of those songs.)

12)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Always”

13)  Jo Stafford ~  “Serenade Of The Bells”

14)  Lonzo and Oscar  ~  “I’m My Own Grandpa”

15)  Ernest Tubb  ~  “Filipino Baby”

16)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “What Is Life Without Love”

17)  Frankie Laine  ~  “Singing The Blues”

18)  Peggy Lee  ~  “Golden Earrings”

19)  Red Foley & The Cumberland Valley Boys  ~  “That’s How Much I Love You”

20)  The Harmonicats  ~  “Peg O’ My Heart”

21)  Doris Day & Buddy Clark  ~  “Love Somebody”

22)  Savannah Churchill & The Sentimentalists  ~  “I Want To Be Loved (But Only By You)”

23)  Hank Williams  ~  “Move It On Over”

24)  Vaughn Monroe  ~  “Ballerina”

25)  Julia Lee And Her Boy Friends  ~  “(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch And Grab It”

“Chicago” “Cubs” Songs

In honor of tonight's sure-to-be-exciting Game 7 World Series tiebreaker, here's a lively collection of songs with either the word "Chicago" or "Cubs" (sometimes "Cub") in their titles. Don't worry, Indians fans, your post is coming up next. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, John Mayer, Hubert Sumlin, & Jimmie Vaughan  ~  “Sweet Home Chicago”

2)  Lily & Madeleine  ~  “Chicago”

3)  Tom Waits  ~  “Chicago”  (This song would have been SO much better if Tom had never started singing! I’m pretty sure he gargles with razorblades on the regular.)

4)  The Mountain Goats  ~  “Cubs In Five”

5)  Merle Haggard  ~  “The Sidewalks Of Chicago”

6)  Sufjan Stevens  ~  “Chicago”

7)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “My Kind Of Town (Chicago Is)”

8)  Steve Goodman  ~  “Go, Cubs, Go!”

9)  Jason Isbell  ~  “Chicago Promenade”

10)  Ethan Leinwand  ~  “East Chicago Blues”

11)  Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers  ~  “Born In Chicago”

12)  Thundercat  ~  “Lone Wolf And Cub”

13)  Former Belle  ~  “I Woke Up In Chicago”

14)  Bee Gees  ~  “Living In Chicago”

15)  Count Basie ft. Joe Williams  ~  “Going To Chicago”

16)  The Wooden Birds  ~  “Folly Cub”

17)  Paper Lace  ~  “The Night Chicago Died”

18)  Buddy Guy  ~  “Meet Me In Chicago”

19)  Arek Religa  ~  “Chicago Guitar Knight”

20)  Mew  ~  “Fox Cub”

21)  Screaming Orphans  ~  “City Of Chicago”

22)  Spoon  ~  “Chicago At Night”

23)  Nat King Cole  ~  “Little Joe From Chicago”

24)  Steve Goodman  ~  “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request”

25)  Crosby, Stills, & Nash  ~  “Chicago”