Songs About People Named Betty

If your name happens to be Betty, this post is for you. If you just like the name Betty, this post is for you. If you just stumbled upon this post and have no idea what you're doing here, have no fear: this post is for you as well. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Taylor Swift  ~  "Betty"

2)  Ram Jam  ~  "Black Betty"

3)  Kim Carnes  ~  "Bette Davis Eyes"  (Betty...Bette...what's the difference?)

4)  Chuck Berry  ~  "Betty Jean"

5)  Pam Tillis  ~  "Betty's Got A Bass Boat"

6)  Al Jarreau  ~  "Betty Bebop's Song"

7)  Pink Martini  ~  "Bitty Boppy Betty"

8)  Bobby Vee  ~  "A Letter From Betty"

9)  Tiffany  ~  "Betty"

10)  Neil Sedaka  ~  "Betty Grable"

11)  Brooke Fraser  ~  "Betty"

12)  Gene Pitney  ~  "Little Betty Falling Star"

13)  Jamila Woods  ~  "Betty"

14)  John Prine  ~  "Iron Ore Betty"

15)  Chuck Willis  ~  "Betty An' Dupree"

16)  Cowboy Junkies  ~  "Betty Lonely"

17)  Split Enz  ~  "Betty"

18)  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band  ~  "Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight"

19)  Sawyer Brown  ~  "Betty's Bein' Bad"

20)  Derry Weaver & Eddie Cochran  ~  "Itty Bitty Betty"

21)  The Dandy Warhols  ~  "Grunge Betty"

22)  Lorrie Morgan  ~  "Charlie And Betty"

23)  Hunters & Collectors  ~  "Betty's Worry, Or The Slab"

24)  Ini Kamoze  ~  "Betty Brown's Mother"

25)  Bobby Darin  ~  "Pretty Betty"

Songs About Cardboard

Because sometimes beautiful things can be found among the most mundane of subjects...there's this post of Songs About Cardboard. You'll be surprised how good these songs actually are. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Natasha Zimbaro  ~  "Cardboard Box"

2)  Jean Morrison  ~  "Cardboard Skies"

3)  Keili Fernando  ~  "Cardboard Spaceship"

4)  Yon Yonson  ~  "Cardboard"

5)  Wimps  ~  "Wet Cardboard"

6)  Mandy Patinkin  ~  "Coffee In A Cardboard Cup"

7)  Jessica Hannan  ~   "Cardboard Box"

8)  Sawyer Nunes ~  "Cardboard Castle"

9)  Maxine Baker  ~  "Cardboard Box"

10)  Rooves  ~  "Cardboard Grin"

11)  Haley Jonay  ~  "Cardboard Castles"

12)  Neil Sedaka  ~  "Cardboard California"

13)  Diana DeGarmo  ~  "Cardboard Castles"

14)  The Guess Who  ~  "Cardboard Empire"

15)  Diet Cig  ~  "Cardboard"

16)  HRVRD  ~  "Cardboard Houses"

17)  Katie Armiger  ~  "Cardboard Boxes"

18)  Hello Noon  ~  "Cardboard Box"

19)  Rebekah  ~  "Cardboard Boxes"

20)  Little Image  ~  "Cardboard Box Spaceship"

21)  Weezer  ~  "Mansion Of Cardboard"

22)  Watsky  ~  "Cardboard Castles"

23)  The Accidentals  ~  "City Of Cardboard"

24)  Grateful Dead  ~  "Cardboard Cowboy"

25)  Lullaby Baxter & Players Chamber Ensemble  ~  "Cardboard Armoured Car"

Songs About Laughing

It's Monday, and that's hard on everybody. So why not have a laugh? Or at least have a listen to a bunch of Songs About Laughing. Some of which will probably make you laugh. Makes perfect sense to me. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Laughing With”

2)  Bob Dylan & Eric Clapton  ~  “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”

3)  Bastille ~  “Laughter Lines”

4)  Jessie J  ~  “Who’s Laughing Now”

5)  Donald O’Connor  ~  “Make ‘Em Laugh”

6)  Over The Rhine  ~  “The Laugh Of Recognition”

7)  Neil Sedaka  ~  “Laughter In The Rain”

8)  The Front Bottoms  ~  “Laugh Till I Cry”

9)  Mary Poppins Cast ft. Ed Wynn, Julie Andrews, & Dick Van Dyke  ~  “I Love To Laugh”

10)  R.E.M.  ~  “Laughing”

11)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  “Laugh About It”

12)  Neil Young  ~  “The Old Laughing Lady”

13)  Nathaniel Rateliff  ~  “Laughing”

14)  Mark Wills  ~  “Don’t Laugh At Me”

15)  Norah Jones  ~  “Once I Had A Laugh”

16)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Nancy (With The Laughing Face)”

17)  Jason Gray  ~  “Laugh Out Loud”

18)  St. Vincent  ~  “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood”  (I know I just posted this song a few weeks ago for an unrelated theme, but it was a perfect fit for this set and far too good to exclude.)

19)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “It’s A Laugh”

20)  Teddy Pendergrass  ~  “The Whole Town’s Laughing At Me”

21)  The Guess Who  ~  “Laughing”

22)  Jason Aldean  ~  “Laughed Until We Cried”

23)  Chelsea Jade  ~  “Laugh It Off”

24)  Quiet Riot ft. Randy Rhoads  ~  “Laughing Gas”

25)  Sarah Vaughan  ~  “They All Laughed”

26)  Clay Walker  ~  “Live Laugh Love”

27)  Mark Knopfler  ~  “Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes”

28)  Gemma Hayes  ~  “Laughter”

29)  Cat Stevens  ~  “If I Laugh”

30)  Paper Route  ~  “Laugh About It”

"40" Songs

Yesterday, I celebrated my 40th birthday. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of that number – it's just a number. When my wife was pregnant with our second child, I was doing weekly posts with songs featuring a number in their titles that corresponded with the number of weeks of her pregnancy. Our daughter was born a few days early, so I never got a chance to put together the "40" Songs. For both of those reasons, there's this lengthy post. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Jimmy Buffett  ~  “A Pirate Looks At Forty”

2)  Sesame Street  ~  “Forty Blocks From Home”

3)  Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers  ~  “40 Days & 40 Nights”

4)  Royal Crown Revue  ~  “40 Cups Of Coffee”

5)  Alabama  ~  “Forty Hour Week (For A Livin’)”

6)  Yonder Mountain String Band  ~  “40 Miles From Denver”

7)  Caedmon’s Call  ~  “40 Acres”

8)  Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks  ~  “40 Days”

9)  U2  ~  “40”

10)  Tom T. Hall  ~  “The Ballad Of Forty Dollars”

11)  The Longing  ~  “40 Days”

12)  The Mountain Goats  ~  “Psalms 40:2”

13)  Third Day  ~  “40 Days”

14)  Ricky Skaggs  ~  “Highway 40 Blues”

15)  Dido  ~  “See You When You’re 40”

16)  Johnny Horton  ~  “When It’s Springtime In Alaska (It’s Forty Below)”

17)  Franz Ferdinand ~  “40’”

18)  Duane Eddy  ~  “Forty Miles Of Bad Road”

19)  Vienna Teng  ~  “Love Turns 40”

20)  Chris Norman  ~  “Forty Years On”

21)  The Twilight Singers  ~  “Forty Dollars”

22)  Sophie Tucker  ~  “Life Begins At Forty”

23)  Frank Turner  ~  “Love Forty Down”

24)  Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, & Jonny Lang  ~  “Forty Days And Forty Nights”

25)  Newsong  ~  “Psalm 40”

26)  Eric Johnson  ~  “Forty Mile Town”

27)  Porter Wagoner ft. Christie Lynn  ~  “Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff”

28)  Wire  ~  “Forty Versions”

29)  Cursive  ~  “Dorothy At Forty”

30)  Neil Sedaka  ~  “Forty Winks Away”

31)  The Devil Makes Three  ~  “Forty Days”

32)  Paul Kelly  ~  “Forty Miles To Saturday Night”

33)  The Violet Burning  ~  “40 Weight”

34)  Skinny Lister  ~  “Forty Pound Wedding”

35)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Forty Shades Of Green”

36)  Bruce Cockburn  ~  “40 Years In The Wilderness”

37)  Spinning Lucy  ~  “Forty”

38)  Modern Kin  ~  “40 Winks”

39)  John Berry  ~  “Forty Again”

40)  Ray Price  ~  “Forty And Fading”