“Give” & “Go” Songs, Vol. 1

What do you do when you've recently completed a series of songs with "Give" and "Take" in the title, but you still have a lot of good "Give" songs to spare?  You create a new two-part series with an obscure (outside the world of basketball, at least) sports phrase pairing the word "Give" with the word "Go" and you just roll with it. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Whitney Houston  ~  “You Give Good Love”

2)  Maroon 5  ~  “Won’t Go Home Without You”

3)  Eve ft. Sean Paul  ~  “Give It To You”

4)  Crosby, Stills, & Nash  ~  “Just A Song Before I Go”

5)  Sugarland  ~  “What I’d Give”

6)  Matt Redman  ~  “You Never Let Go”

7)  Barry White  ~  “I’ve Got So Much To Give”

8)  Whitesnake  ~  “Here I Go Again”

9)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Not Gonna Give In To It”

10)  New Kids On The Block  ~  “Please Don’t Go Girl”  (I’m willing to bet good money that more than a few ladies in their late 30s or early 40s are singing along to this song – unreasonably loudly, at that – even as they’re reading this sentence.)

11)  Jack Garratt  ~  “The Love You’re Given”

12)  Vince Gill ft. Patty Loveless & Ricky Skaggs  ~  “Go Rest High On That Mountain”

13)  Sigala ft. John Newman & Nile Rodgers  ~  “Give Me Your Love”

14)  Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso ft. Florida Georgia Line & Watt  ~  “Let Me Go”

15)  The Chairmen Of The Board  ~  “Give Me Just A Little More Time”

16)  Jennifer Knapp  ~  “Letting Go”

17)  George Harrison  ~  “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)”

18)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)”

19)  Metric  ~  “Gimme Sympathy”

20)  Prince  ~  “Let’s Go Crazy”

21)  John Lennon  ~  “Give Peace A Chance”

22)  Jess Glynne  ~  “Ain’t Got Far To Go”

23)  Babyface ft. Toni Braxton  ~  “Give U My Heart”

24)  Paul Young  ~  “Everytime You Go Away”

25)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Give In To Me”

"Beautiful" Songs

If I didn't tell you this "theme" was a reboot from four-and-a-half years ago (on my original "The Plural Of Hyena" blog, no less), I'm sure you never would have remembered. But it is. And with good reason. Four-and-a-half years ago, I wasn't quite as adept at finding the perfect mix of well-known and lesser-known songs, which should (in theory) tip slightly in favor of the more well-known ones. Also, some of the really good songs included in this two-parter weren't even released four-and-a-half years ago. So here they are. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lana Del Rey  ~  “Young And Beautiful”

2)  R.E.M.  ~  “At My Most Beautiful”

3)  Sofia Carson ft. Alan Walker  ~  “Back To Beautiful”

4)  Diamond Rio  ~  “Beautiful Mess”

5)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Beautiful”

6)  Zedd ft. Jon Bellion  ~  “Beautiful Now”

7)  Grace VanderWaal  ~  “Beautiful Thing”

8)  Prince  ~  “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”

9)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Beautiful Life”

10)  311  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

11)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “Beautiful”

12)  MIKA  ~  “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”

13)  Ellie Holcomb  ~  “The Broken Beautiful”

14)  The Rascals  ~  “A Beautiful Morning”

15)  Nightwish  ~  “Bye Bye Beautiful”

16)  Sean Kingston  ~  “Beautiful Girls”

17)  John Lennon  ~  “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”

18)  Aniri  ~  “Beautiful Life”

19)  Jeremy Camp  ~  “Beautiful One”  (To skip all the introductions, proceed directly to the 2:00 mark. Otherwise, you’ll get to know everyone in the band.)

20)  Joydrop  ~  “Beautiful”

21)  Mali Music  ~  “Beautiful”

22)  P!nk  ~  “Beautiful Trauma”

23)  Damian Marley ft. Bobby Brown  ~  “Beautiful”

24)  Tess  ~  “Dark But Beautiful”

25)  Moby  ~  “Beautiful”  (Really good song! Really creepy video!)

Whistling Songs, Vol. 1

Today begins a four-part series of songs with whistling (of the human variety, not the musical instrument) in them. Some of these are well-known as whistling songs, while others are popular songs that just happen to have some momentary whistling in them (in some cases, you may have never even noticed it). Thanks, Tim W., for suggesting this topic. This should be fun! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Otis Redding  ~  “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay”

2)  Paul Simon  ~  “Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard”

3)  Broken Bells  ~  “The Angel And The Fool”

4)  The Bangles  ~  “Walk Like An Egyptian”

5)  Peter Bjorn And John  ~  “Young Folks”

6)  The Bridge On The River Kwai Cast  ~  “Colonel Bogey March”

7)  Bobby Day  ~  “Rockin’ Robin”

8)  Maria McKee  ~  “If Love Is A Red Dress (Hang Me In Rags)”

9)  Fitz And The Tantrums  ~  “The Walker”

10)  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.  ~  “Simple Girl”

11)  Perry Como  ~  “Magic Moments”

12)  Mallu Magalhães  ~  “Make It Easy”

13)  John Lennon  ~  “Jealous Guy”

14)  Brother Bones And His Shadows  ~  “Sweet Georgia Brown”  (Better known as the Harlem Globetrotters theme song.)

15)  Phish  ~  “Guyute”

16)  KT Tunstall  ~  “Made Of Glass”

17)  Kyu Sakamoto  ~  “Sukiyaki”

18)  Bobby Bloom  ~  “Montego Bay”

19)  Lost Frequencies ft. Sandro Cavazza  ~  “Beautiful Life”

20)  Pat Benatar  ~  “Love Is A Battlefield”

21)  Jack Johnson  ~  “I Got You”

22)  Status Quo  ~  “Rock ’N’ Roll”

23)  Rock Mafia  ~  “The Big Bang”

24)  Goldfrapp  ~  “Lovely Head”

25)  Father John Misty  ~  “The Suburbs”

"36" Songs

Today, my wife is 36 weeks pregnant with our daughter. So here's a collection of songs (only 20 this time) with the number "36" (or "Thirty-Six") in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "#36"

2)  Placebo  ~  "36 Degrees"

3)  Mustasch  ~  "6:36"

4)  Third Day  ~  "Your Love, Oh Lord (Psalm 36)"

5)  Eric Church  ~  "A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young"

6)  John Grant  ~  "Pale Green Ghosts"

7)  Carrie Underwood  ~  "Change"

8)  M.I.A.  ~  "Attention"

9)  The Darkness  ~  "The Best Of Me"

10)  Barbra Streisand  ~  "I'm The Greatest Star"

11)  Trace Adkins  ~  "You're Gonna Miss This"

12)  David Gray  ~  "Knowhere"

13)  The Charlie Daniels Band  ~  "Jitterbug"

14)  Jamiroquai  ~  "Rock Dust Light Star"

15)  You, Me, And Everyone We Know  ~  "A Little Bit More"

16)  John Lennon  ~  "Cold Turkey"

17)  Van Morrison  ~  "Cleaning Windows"

18)  Kid Rock  ~  "Roll On"

19)  2raumwohnung  ~  "36 Grad"

20)  10cc  ~  "Good Morning, Judge"

Songs About Boys

Here we have a bunch of Songs About Boys. Well, at least they all have the word "boy" or "boys" in their titles. I think you'll recognize quite a few of these, though admittedly it's far from a comprehensive list. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Black Keys  ~  "Lonely Boy"

2)  Meiko  ~  "Boys With Girlfriends"

3)  Dropkick Murphys  ~  "The Boys Are Back"

4)  Beyoncé  ~  "If I Were A Boy"

5)  Hank Williams, Jr.  ~  "A Country Boy Can Survive"

6)  Miami Sound Machine  ~  "Bad Boy"

7)  Kenny Loggins  ~  "Playing With The Boys"

8)  Zara Larsson  ~  "Bad Boys"

9)  The Beatles  ~  "Boys"

10)  Brandy & Monica  ~  "The Boy Is Mine"

11)  Inner Circle  ~  "Bad Boys"

12)  Angus and Julia Stone  ~  "And The Boys"

13)  Gary Allan  ~  "Tough Little Boys"

14)  Janet Jackson  ~  "Nasty Boys"

15)  Don Henley  ~  "The Boys Of Summer"

16)  Mariah Carey ft. Cam'Ron  ~  "Boy (I Need You)"

17)  Woodkid  ~  "Run Boy Run"

18)  The Dresden Dolls  ~  "Coin Operated Boy"

19)  Mötley Crüe  ~  "Smokin' In The Boys' Room"

20)  Nina Nesbitt  ~  "Boy"

21)  Living Colour  ~  "Glamour Boys"

22)  Emma Hewitt  ~  "Foolish Boy"

23)  Traffic  ~  "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys"

24)  John Lennon  ~  "Beautiful Boy"

25)  Celtic Woman  ~  "Danny Boy"