"If" & "When" Songs, Vol. 1

What do you do when you've just done three posts featuring (at least in part) songs with the word "If" in their titles, and you have too many good "If" songs left over that you still want to use? Why, you come up with another related word to pair with "If" and you do two more posts, of course! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Weezer  ~  “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To”

2)  Keith Whitley  ~  “When You Say Nothing At All”

3)  Nickelback  ~  “If Today Was Your Last Day”

4)  Prince  ~  “When Doves Cry”

5)  Justin Moore  ~  “If Heaven Wasn’t So Far Away”

6)  Percy Sledge  ~  “When A Man Loves A Woman”

7)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  “If We’re Honest”

8)  Adele  ~  “When We Were Young”

9)  HAIM  ~  “If I Could Change Your Mind”

10)  Eric Clapton  ~  “When Somebody Thinks You’re Wonderful”

11)  Beyoncé  ~  “If I Were A Boy”

12)  Avril Lavigne  ~  “When You’re Gone”

13)  Matchbox 20  ~  “If You’re Gone”

14)  Cliff Edwards  ~  “When You Wish Upon A Star”

15)  Katie Melua  ~  “If You Were A Sailboat”

16)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “When The World Breaks Your Heart”

17)  London Grammar  ~  “If You Wait”

18)  Anita Baker & James Ingram  ~  “When You Love Someone”

19)  OneRepublic  ~  “If I Lose Myself”

20)  Diana Krall  ~  “When I Look In Your Eyes”

21)  Maroon 5 ft. Rihanna  ~  “If I Never See Your Face Again”

22)  Nico & Vinz  ~  “When The Day Comes”

23)  Dido & A.R. Rahman  ~  “If I Rise”

24)  Sting  ~  “When We Dance”

25)  KT Tunstall  ~  “If Only”

Songs With The Letters Of The Alphabet In Their Titles

If, after reading the title of this post, you are arching your eyebrows in my direction at the inanity of it all, please let me explain. Yes, of course, all songs with words in their titles use the letters of the alphabet to form those words. However, some songs use a single letter (not a full word) somewhere in their title – and those are the ones I'm showcasing here. For example, Ed Sheeran's "The A Team," Pachelbel's "Canon In D," and MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This," just to name a few. In this post, you will find one song representing each letter of the alphabet. Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ed Sheeran  ~  "The A Team"

2)  The Avett Brothers  ~  "Paranoia In B Flat Major"

3)  Lilly Wood & The Prick  ~  "Prayer In C"

4)  The Piano Guys  ~  "Rockelbel's Canon (Pachelbel's Canon In D)"

5)  Bruce Springsteen ft. The Roots  ~  "E Street Shuffle"

6)  Disclosure ft. Mary J. Blige  ~  "F For You"

7)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "Illusions In G Major"

8)  R.E.M.  ~  "Swan Swan H"

9)  Live  ~  "I Alone"

10)  James  ~  "Jam J"

11)  McFly  ~  "The Ballad Of Paul K"

12)  Jamiroquai  ~  "Little L"

13)  The Cure  ~  "M"

14)  Oasis  ~  "Rock 'N' Roll Star"

15)  Coldplay  ~  "O"

16)  The Rentals  ~  "Friends Of P."

17)  Fink  ~  "Q & A"

18)  Kesha  ~  "We R Who We R"

19)  Diana Krall  ~  "'S Wonderful"

20)  The Who  ~  "Bucket T"

21)  MC Hammer  ~  "U Can't Touch This"

22)  Gregory And The Hawk  ~  "First Flying V"

23)  TobyMac  ~  "Fresher Than A Night At The W"

24)  Green Day  ~  "X-Kid"

25)  Maite Perroni  ~  "Tu Y Yo"

26)  Toni Basil  ~  "Shoppin' From A To Z"

Songs About Fruit

A few weeks ago, I was brainstorming some ideas for new music posts, and my wife asked if I'd ever done one about songs with fruit in their titles. I replied that of course I had, and that it had gone over quite well. And then I began to second-guess myself. So I looked over my previous music posts and – to my surprise – I was wrong! I had never done a fruit songs post. So here it is. Twenty-five songs, twenty-five different fruits. Every one of them juicy. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Tori Amos  ~  "Raspberry Swirl"

2)  Angus and Julia Stone  ~  "Mango Tree"

3)  Sarah Jaffe  ~  "Clementine"

4)  Mista  ~  "Blackberry Molasses"  (I included this one for my friend, Eric. He knows why.)

5)  First Aid Kit  ~  "Tangerine"

6)  Fats Domino  ~  "Blueberry Hill"

7)  Goldfrapp  ~  "Black Cherry"

8)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  "Peaches"

9)  Margot & The Nuclear So And So's  ~  "Cold, Kind, & Lemon Eyes"

10)  Tom T. Hall  ~  "(Old Dogs, Children, And) Watermelon Wine"  (The actual song starts at the 4:00 mark.)

11)  Lady Gaga  ~  "Orange Colored Sky"

12)  Harry Belafonte  ~  "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"

13)  Islander  ~  "Coconut Dracula"

14)  Neil Diamond  ~  "Cherry, Cherry"

15)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree"

16)  Coldplay  ~  "Strawberry Swing"

17)  KT Tunstall  ~  "Honeydew"

18)  Los Campesinos!  ~  "Avocado, Baby"

19)  Diana Krall  ~  "Peel Me A Grape"

20)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Queenie Wahine's Papaya"

21)  Dwight Yoakam  ~  "3 Pears"

22)  Brooklyn Roebuck  ~  "Lemon & Lime"

23)  Peter Frampton  ~  "Fig Tree Bay"

24)  Herbie Hancock  ~  "Cantaloupe Island"

25)  Kate Nash  ~  "Pumpkin Soup"  (Yes, it's a fruit. I looked it up.)

"Wonderful" Songs

Every so often, there is truth in advertising. While the point of this post was to gather a group of songs with the word "Wonderful" in their titles (a follow-up to my previous "Terrible" songs post), the resulting songs themselves are, for the most part, actually quite wonderful. So enjoy them already!  ~  JH

1)  Angel  ~  "Wonderful"

2)  Gary Go  ~  "Wonderful"

3)  Estelle  ~  "Wonderful Life"

4)  Chris Tomlin & Matt Redman  ~  "The Wonderful Cross"

5)  Black  ~  "Wonderful Life"

6)  Janet Devlin  ~  "Wonderful"

7)  Louis Armstrong  ~  "What A Wonderful World"

8)  Hurts  ~  "Wonderful Life"

9)  Poison Ivory  ~  "Mr. Wonderful"

10)  Eric Clapton  ~  "Wonderful Tonight"

11)  James Morrison  ~  "Wonderful World"

12)  Erakah  ~  "Wonderful"

13)  Everclear  ~  "Wonderful"

14)  Michael Bolton  ~  "Love Is A Wonderful Thing"

15)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  "Wonderful Unknown"

16)  Jason Mraz  ~  "Life Is Wonderful"

17)  Sam Cooke  ~  "Wonderful World"

18)  Sandi Patty & Larnelle Harris  ~  "More Than Wonderful"

19)  Eels  ~  "Wonderful, Glorious"

20)  Desperation Band  ~  "Wonderful"

21)  Diana Krall  ~  " 'S Wonderful"

22)  Don McLean  ~  "Wonderful Baby"

23)  Annie Lennox  ~  "Wonderful"

24)  Marvin Gaye  ~  "You're A Wonderful One"

25)  Joss Stone  ~  "Some Kind Of Wonderful"