Songs About Cuddling

Sometimes you feel like cuddling. And sometimes you just want to listen to Songs About Cuddling. If it's the former, go find yourself somebody to cuddle. If it's the latter, this post is here for you. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Leslie & The LYs  ~  “Power Cuddle”

2)  Dean Martin  ~  “Pretty Baby”

3)  Biffy Clyro  ~  “Kittens, Cakes, And Cuddles”

4)  Jessica Cutter  ~  “Cuddle”

5)  A Perfect Circle  ~  “Get The Lead Out”

6)  Catey Shaw  ~  “Cuddle Up”  (So what if it’s a Christmas song? That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it all year long!)

7)  Passion Pit  ~  “Cuddle Fuddle”

8)  Joan Armatrading  ~  “Thinking Man”

9)  The Monkees  ~  “Cuddly Toy”

10)  Captain & Tennille  ~  “Cuddle Up”

11)  Nat King Cole  ~  “Just You, Just Me”

12)  Judy Garland  ~  “My Melancholy Baby”

13)  Har Mar Superstar  ~  “Gangsters Want To Cuddle Me”

14)  Alice Lon & Dick Dale  ~  “Cuddle Up A Little Closer”

15)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “Screaming Infidelities”

16)  Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley  ~  “The Old Piano Roll Blues”

17)  Roachford  ~  “Cuddly Toy”

18)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Uh-Merica”

19)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby”

20)  Doris Day & Gordon MacRae  ~  “By The Light Of The Silvery Moon”

21)  Johnnie Ray  ~  “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home”

22)  Dean Martin & Janet Leigh  ~  “Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey”  (Can you have too many Dean Martin songs in one post? Possibly, but unlikely!)

23)  Wasuremono  ~  “Cuddling”

24)  Judy Garland & Kirby Stone Four  ~  “Whispering”  (Can you have too many Judy Garland songs in one post? Certainly not!)

25)  Diana Dors  ~  “A Kiss And A Cuddle”

“Rendezvous” Songs

Hey, you! Let's meet up at an agreed time and place and listen to these songs together, what say? I'm sure we will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  INNA  ~  “Rendezvous”

2)  Queen  ~  “Seaside Rendezvous”

3)  Rainsford  ~  “Rendezvous”

4)  Christopher Cross  ~  “Rendezvous”

5)  Kelly Joyce  ~  “Rendez Vous”

6)  Sammy Kershaw  ~  “Third Rate Romance”

7)  Kris Karma ft. Tanto Blacks  ~  “Rendezvous”

8)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Rendezvous At Sunset”

9)  Matthias Linerdmayr Quartet  ~  “Rendezvous”

10)  Sheila E  ~  “Noon Rendezvous”

11)  Orange Tulip Conspiracy  ~  “Rendezvous”

12)  Karyn White  ~  “Secret Rendezvous”

13)  Casiopeia  ~  “Midnight Rendezvous”

14)  Elton John  ~  “Club At The End Of The Street”

15)  Bender & Schillinger  ~  “Rendezvous”

16)  Eve 6  ~  “Inside Out”

17)  Anda Adam & Mr. Sax  ~  “Rendez-Vous”

18)  The Travelin’ McCourys  ~  “Quicksburg Rendezvous”

19)  Doris Day  ~  “At The Café Rendezvous”

20)  Charlie Winston  ~  “Rendez-Vous”

21)  M People  ~  “Love Rendezvous”

22)  Natasha St-Pier  ~  “Nos Rendez Vous”

23)  Craig David  ~  “Rendezvous”

24)  Tina Charles  ~  “Rendezvous”

25)  Casey Desmond  ~  “Rendezvous”

Popular Songs Of 1948, Vol. 1

In celebration of my father's 70th year of life (his birthday was in September), here's the first in a two-part series of posts featuring the most Popular Songs of 1948. Most of you seeing/hearing these probably aren't old enough to remember any of these songs. Or maybe you are familiar with them, because you were raised listening to good music like I was. Either way...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Doris Day  ~  “It’s Magic”

2)  Pee Wee Hunt  ~  “Twelfth Street Rag”

3)  Georgia Gibbs  ~  “The Things We Did Last Summer”

4)  Ernest Tubb  ~  “Let’s Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello”

5)  Primo Scala’s Banjo & Accordion Orchestra ft. The Keynotes  ~  “Underneath The Arches”

6)  Ken Griffin & Jerry Wayne  ~  “You Can’t Be True, Dear”

7)  Johnny Bond  ~  “Oklahoma Waltz”

8)  Peggy Lee  ~  “Mañana (Is Soon Enough For Me)”

9)  Woody Herman  ~  “Four Brothers”

10)  Ray Noble & His Orchestra ft. Buddy Clark  ~  “I’ll Dance At Your Wedding”

11)  Francis Craig & His Orchestra  ~  “Beg Your Pardon”

12)  Gracie Fields  ~  “Now Is The Hour”

13)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “Molly Darlin’”

14)  Mahalia Jackson  ~  “Move On Up A Little Higher”

15)  Perry Como  ~  “Because”

16)  The Mills Brothers  ~  “Gloria”

17)  Margaret Whiting  ~  “A Tree In The Meadow”

18)  Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys  ~  “Texarkana Baby”

19)  Jo Stafford  ~  “Red River Valley”

20)  Hank Thompson & The Brazos Valley Boys  ~  “Humpty Dumpty Heart”

21)  Jon & Sondra Steele  ~  “My Happiness”

22)  Hank Williams, Sr.  ~  “Honky Tonkin’”

23)  Nat King Cole Trio  ~  “Nature Boy”

24)  Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra ft. Sons Of The Pioneers  ~  “Cool Water”

25)  Tex Ritter  ~  “Rye Whiskey”

"Secret" Songs, Vol. 3

Last but not least, here's Vol. 3 in this miniseries featuring Songs About Secrets. I saved some really good ones for this post, and I hope you will enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Queens Of The Stone Age  ~  “The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret”

2)  dodie  ~  “Secret For The Mad”

3)  Bee Gees  ~  “Secret Love”

4)  Katie Melua  ~  “In My Secret Life”  (Yes, I already posted the original version of this Cohen classic in Vol. 1 of this series. But, let’s be honest, Katie sings it so much more beautifully than Leonard ever could have.)

5)  Van Halen  ~  “Secrets”

6)  Doris Day  ~  “Secret Love”

7)  Passion Pit  ~  “Little Secrets”

8)  Roxette  ~  “Secrets That She Keeps”

9)  The Cure  ~  “Secrets”

10)  Phil Wickham ft. Madison Cunningham  ~  “The Secret Place”

11)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “The Secret’s In The Telling”

12)  Kat Graham ft. Babyface  ~  “Secrets”

13)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Secret”

14)  Zara Larsson  ~  “Secret”

15)  Rick Springfield  ~  “What’s Victoria’s Secret?”

16)  Skunk Anansie  ~  “Secretly”

17)  Tears For Fears  ~  “Secrets”

18)  The Veronicas  ~  “Secret”

19)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Secret Garden”

20)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Secret (Take You Home)”  (For some reason, the video repeats without sound around the 3:25 mark. So you can probably just stop it there.)

21)  Pink Floyd  ~  “A Saucerful Of Secrets”

22)  Samantha Jade  ~  “Secret”

23)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Secret Door”

24)  Skillet  ~  “Best Kept Secret”

25)  James Taylor  ~  “Secret O’ Life”