“Have” & “Hold” Songs, Vol. 3

These posts have been fun so far (I think so, at least, though I may be biased). So let's have another, shall we? (And another after that.) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Willie Nelson ft. Merle Haggard  ~  “Have I Stayed Away Too Long?”

2)  Santana  ~  “Hold On”

3)  The Style Council  ~  “Have You Ever Had It Blue?”

4)  The Trammps  ~  “Hold Back The Night”

5)  Bonnie Raitt  ~  “Have A Heart”

6)  Jamie Grace ft. tobyMac  ~  “Hold Me”

7)   Bon Jovi  ~  “Have A Nice Day”

8)  Kansas  ~  “Hold On”

9)  Céline Dion  ~  “Have You Ever Been In Love?”

10)  John Michael Montgomery  ~  “Hold On To Me”

11)  Morphine  ~  “Have A Lucky Day”

12)  Menudo  ~  “Hold Me”

13)  Incubus  ~  “Have You Ever”

14)  Nina Nesbitt & Ed Sheeran  ~  “Hold You”

15)  Chris de Burgh  ~  “Have A Care”

16)  Rob Thomas  ~  “Hold On Forever”

17)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Have You Never Been Mellow?”

18)  Tom Waits  ~  “Hold On”

19)  Steve Lee  ~  “Have A Little Faith”

20)  Genesis  ~  “Hold On My Heart”

21)  Imogen Heap  ~  “Have You Got It In You?”

22)  Drake ft. Majid Jordan  ~  “Hold On, We’re Going Home”

23)  Paul Dempsey  ~  “Have You Fallen Out Of Love?”

24)  Dum Dum Girls  ~  “Hold Your Hand”

25)  Sting  ~  “Have You Seen The Bright Lily Grow?”

Songs About Murder & Mayhem

This post is not nearly as violent or scandalous as it would seem. It is, however, exactly what it purports to be: a collection of songs either about "Murder" or "Mayhem," or which include one of those words within their titles. Umm...enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  The Avett Brothers  ~  “Murder In The City”

2)  Halestorm  ~  “Mayhem”

3)  Michael Bolton  ~  “Murder My Heart”

4)  Imelda May  ~  “Mayhem”

5)  AFI  ~  “Miss Murder”

6)  Rick Springfield  ~  “Miss Mayhem”

7)  PJ Harvey  ~  “The Words That Maketh Murder”

8)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Mayhem Maybe”

9)  Jesca Hoop  ~  “Murder Of Birds”

10)  Kansas  ~  “Mysteries And Mayhem”

11)  Coldplay  ~  “Murder”

12)  Billy May and His Orchestra  ~  “Mayhem”

13)  The Police  ~  “Murder By Numbers”

14)  Julissa Veloz  ~  “Mayhem”

15)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Murder Incorporated”

16)  Universal Sigh  ~  “Marcus Mayhem”

17)  Better Than Ezra  ~  “One More Murder”

18)  Bettie Serveert  ~  “Mayhem”

19)  Counting Crows  ~  “A Murder Of One”

20)  Pop Will Eat Itself  ~  “Chaos And Mayhem”

Songs With "In The" In The Title, Vol. 2

As promised, here's the second half of this two-part series, featuring songs with the phrase "In The" in their titles. For those of you more inclined to like "oldies" music, you may be happy to know that at least half of these – if not more – would qualify as such. You're welcome!  ~  JH

1)  Elton John  ~  "Candle In The Wind"

2)  Bob Dylan  ~  "Blowin' In The Wind"

3)  George Strait  ~  "Ace In The Hole"

4)  Ginger Rogers  ~  "We're In The Money"

5)  The Gap Band  ~  "Early In The Morning"

6)  Frank Sinatra  ~  "Strangers In The Night"

7)  Stevie Wonder  ~  "A Place In The Sun"

8)  Gwen Stefani  ~  "4 In The Morning"

9)  Mat Kearney  ~  "Ships In The Night"

10)  Ozzy Osbourne  ~  "Shot In The Dark"

11)  P!nk  ~  "Glitter In The Air"

12)  Phil Collins  ~  "In The Air Tonight"

13)  Gene Autry  ~  "Back In The Saddle Again"

14)  Kansas  ~  "Dust In The Wind"

15)  Carrie Underwood  ~  "Something In The Water"

"25" Songs

As of yesterday, my wife is 25 weeks pregnant with our daughter. So here's a collection of 25 songs with the number "25" either in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics. Yeah, I'm getting a little desperate in attempting to continue this ongoing series, but still... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Chicago  ~  "25 Or 6 To 4"

2)  Michael Learns To Rock  ~  "25 Minutes"

3)  Mary J. Blige  ~  "25/8"

4)  Johnny Cash  ~  "25 Minutes To Go"

5)  The Hooters  ~  "25 Hours A Day"

6)  Artists For Haiti  ~  "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

7)  Edwin Starr  ~  "25 Miles"

8)  Sammy Davis, Jr.  ~  "I Am Over 25, But You Can Trust Me"

9)  Zager & Evans  ~  "In The Year 2525"

10)  4 Non Blondes  ~  "What's Up"

11)  10CC  ~  "One, Two, Five"

12)  Kansas  ~  "Two Cents Worth"

13)  Janis Joplin  ~  "Kozmic Blues"

14)  Sugar Ray  ~  "Fly"

15)  Smash Mouth  ~  "Walkin' On The Sun"

16)  Vitamin C  ~  "Graduation (Friends Forever)"

17)  Megadeth  ~  "Of Mice And Men"

18)  Mungo Jerry  ~  "In The Summertime"

19)  Bruce Dickinson  ~  "All The Young Dudes"

20)  India.Arie & Raul Midón  ~  "Back To The Middle"

21)   David Gray  ~  "Nightblindness"

22)  The Highwaymen  ~  "City Of New Orleans"

23)  Night Ranger   ~  "The Secret Of My Success"

24)  Tori Amos  ~  "Curtain Call"

25)  ZZ Top  ~  "I Gotsta Get Paid"

Songs With "South" In The Title

Yesterday it was "North" songs. Today it's "South" songs. It would have been so easy to make this one entirely a collection of country songs, as there are so, so many songs written about the South (i.e., the Southern United States). But I didn't want to take the easy way out. Nearly half of these ARE country songs, but the rest are decidedly not. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Kings Of Leon  ~  "Back Down South"

2)  Alabama  ~  "Song Of The South"

3)  Albert Hammond  ~  "It Never Rains In Southern California"

4)  Glen Campbell  ~  "Southern Nights"

5)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  "South City Midnight Lady"

6)  Kansas  ~  "People Of The South Wind"

7)  Moonlight Social  ~  "Heading South"

8)  Iron and Wine  ~  "Sodom, South Georgia"

9)  Crosby, Stills, & Nash  ~  "Southern Cross"

10)  Gene Autry  ~  "South Of The Border"

11)  Tennis  ~  "South Carolina"

12)  Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers  ~  "Down South"

13)  Charlie Daniels Band  ~  "The South's Gonna Do It Again"

14)  Willie Nelson  ~  "My Window Faces The South"

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15)  Louis Armstrong  ~  "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"  (With bonus song: "C'est si bon!")