Popular Songs Of 1948, Vol. 2

Here's the second and final installment in a miniseries of posts featuring the most Popular Songs of 1948. Because 70 years is a long time ago, and these songs are still amazing! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ernest Tubb  ~  “That Wild And Wicked Look In Your Eye”

2)  Kay Kyser & His Orchestra ft. Gloria Wood  ~  “Woody Woodpecker Song”

3)  Freddy Martin & His Orchestra ft. Glenn Hughes  ~  “On A Slow Boat To China”

4)  Dinah Shore  ~  “Buttons And Bows”

5)  Al Jolson  ~  “Is It True What They Say About Dixie?”

6)  Jimmy Wakely  ~  “One Has My Name”

7)  Frankie Laine  ~  “Rosetta”

8)  Georgia Gibbs  ~  “Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams”

9)  Roy Rogers  ~  “ Blue Shadows”

10)  Merle Travis  ~  “Merle’s Boogie Woogie”

11)  Al Trace & His Orchestra ft. Bob Vincent  ~  “You Call Everybody Darlin’”

12)  Dick Haymes ft. Four Hits And A Miss  ~  “Little White Lies”

13)  Russ Morgan & His Orchestra  ~  “So Tired”

14)  Pee Wee King  ~  “Tennessee Waltz” / “You Belong To Me”

15)  Art Mooney  ~  “I’m Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover”

16)  Vaughn Monroe  ~  “Someday You’ll Want Me To Want You”

17)  Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra ft. Charles La Vere  ~  “Maybe You’ll Be There”

18)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  “Toolie Oolie Doolie”

19)  Glenn Miller Orchestra ft. Tex Beneke  ~  “St. Louis Blues March”

20)  Cowboy Copas  ~  “Tennessee Moon”

21)  Hawkshaw Hawkins  ~  “Doghouse Boogie”

22)  Tex Williams  ~  “Talking Boogie”

23)  Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra ft. Harry Prime & The Clark Sisters  ~  “Until”

24)  Bing Crosby  ~  “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes”

25)  Roy Acuff  ~  “Waltz Of The Wind”

“Taboo” Songs

Here's a bunch of "Taboo" Songs for your listening pleasure. No, there's nothing to be found here that's prohibited or restricted by social custom. Nothing forbidden, illegal, illicit, unmentionable, or unspeakable, either. Nonetheless, the word "taboo" – which, of course, means what all of the aforementioned terms and phrases describe – does appear in the title of each tune. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  September  ~  “Taboo”

2)  Santana ft. Derek Trucks  ~  “Taboo / The Calling”

3)  There Is No Mountain  ~  “Wave Of Taboo”

4)  CocoRosie  ~  “Smokey Taboo”

5)  Karne Murta  ~  “Swingin’ Taboo”

6)  Bloom Twins  ~  “Taboo”

7)  Alena Toymintseva  ~  “Taboo To Love”

8)  Don Omar  ~  “Taboo”

9)  Good Lovelies  ~  “Taboo”

10)  Dinah Shore  ~  “Is It Taboo?”

11)  Arthur Lyman Group  ~  “Taboo”

12)  Hannah Trigwell  ~  “Taboo”

13)  Jimi Sobara  ~  “Taboo”

14)  Emma van Heyn  ~  “Taboo”

15)  White Heart  ~  “No Taboo”

16)  Phy  ~  “Taboo”

17)  Flamingods  ~  “Taboo Groves”

18)  Sade  ~  “The Sweetest Taboo”

19)  Hugh Cornwell  ~  “Totem & Taboo”

20)  Connie Francis  ~  “Taboo”

21)  House Of Wallenberg ft. Ari Up  ~  “Sunshine Taboo”

22)  Sandra  ~  “No Taboo”

23)  Palladium Electric Band  ~  “Taboo”

24)  Tristan Prettyman  ~  “Taboo”

25)  Black Sugar Transmission  ~  “Taboo”

Songs About Bows & Arrows, Vol. 2

Part 2 of 2 in this miniseries featuring songs with "Bow" and/or "Arrow" in their titles. Don't ask why – just enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Elton John  ~  “One More Arrow”

2)  Carly Rae Jepsen  ~  “Tiny Little Bows”

3)  Steve Wariner  ~  “Arrows At Airplanes”

4)  Chris Rea  ~  “Bows And Bangles”

5)  Sarah Blasko  ~  “An Arrow”

6)  Xavier Rudd  ~  “Bow Down”

7)  Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds  ~  “AKA… Broken Arrow”

8)  Russ Taff  ~  “Not Gonna Bow”

9)  Fat Freddy’s Drop  ~  “Slings And Arrows”

10)  Muse  ~  “Take A Bow”

11)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Follow Your Arrow”

12)  The Smiths  ~  “Sheila, Take A Bow”

13)  Lucy Rose  ~  “Like An Arrow”

14)  Little May  ~  “Bow And Arrow”

15)  Nick Jonas & The Administration  ~  “Olive & An Arrow”

16)  R.E.M. ft. Patti Smith  ~  “E-Bow The Letter”

17)  Rod Stewart  ~  “Broken Arrow”

18)  Duncan Sheik  ~  “Take A Bow”

19)  Avicii ft. Zac Brown  ~  “Broken Arrows”

20)  Dinah Shore  ~  “Buttons And Bows”

21)  Kaiser Chiefs  ~  “Bows & Arrows”

22)  Sister Hazel  ~  “Take A Bow”

23)  Geoff Rickly  ~  “Time’s Arrow”

24)  Cold Chisel  ~  “Bow River”

25)  Crowded House  ~  “Archer’s Arrows”

Popular Songs Of 1947, Vol. 3

Here's part 3 of 3 in the Popular Songs Of 1947 series. Plenty to see and hear here, folks. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bing Crosby  ~  “But Beautiful”

2)  Merle Travis  ~  “Steel Guitar Rag”

3)  The Mills Brothers  ~  “Across The Alley From The Alamo”

4)  Dorothy Shay  ~  “Feudin’ And Fightin’”

5)  Frankie Laine  ~  “Two Loves Have I”

6)  Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra ft. Billy Williams  ~  “The Old Lamplighter”

7)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “To My Sorrow”

8)  The Andrew Sisters & Danny Kaye  ~  “Civilization”

9)  Buddy Clark ft. Ray Noble & His Orchestra  ~  “Linda”

10)  Dinah Shore  ~  “How Soon Will I Be Seeing You?”

11)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Mean To Me”

12)  Ernest Tubb  ~  “Don’t Look Now”

13)  Jo Stafford  ~  “Make Believe”

14)  Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five  ~  “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

15)  Tex Williams  ~  “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”

16)  Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians ft. Kenny Gardner  ~  “Frankie And Johnny”

17)  Georgia Gibbs  ~  “Fool That I Am”

18)  Red Foley & The Cumberland Valley Boys  ~  “Freight Train Boogie”

19)  Art Lund  ~  “Mam’selle”

20)  Jimmie Davis  ~  “Bang Bang”

21)  Freddy Martin and his Orchestra ft. Stuart Wade  ~  “Managua, Nicaragua”

22)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “Bouquet Of Roses”

23)  Roy Brown  ~  “Good Rockin’ Tonight”  (This guy was ahead of his time. Sounds remarkably similar to the earliest rock and roll tunes that would come out a full decade later.)

24)  Frankie Laine  ~  “On The Sunny Side Of The Street”

25)  Mary Martin  ~  “Almost Like Being In Love”