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”
Here's a bunch of Songs About "Junk" that you're sure to listen to, or not. Some good stuff here, despite what the songs' titles would indicate. In case you're worried, there are no "in the trunk" songs or the like to be found here. ~ JH
Apparently, this past Thursday was Talk In An Elevator Day. And I missed it! Didn't even have the opportunity to be in an elevator, as a matter of fact. To make up for it, here's a bunch of songs about elevators – or at least, with the word "Elevator" in their titles. Some surprisingly good stuff here. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Beck ~ “Elevator Music”
2) Hawk Nelson ~ “Elevator”
3) Erin McCarley ~ “Elevator”
4) Aerosmith ~ “Love In An Elevator”
5) Dot Hacker ~ “Elevator”
6) Stars ~ “Elevator Love Letter”
7) Outkast ~ “Elevators (Me & You)”
8) The Apples In Stereo ~ “Hey Elevator”
9) The Pussycat Dolls ~ “Elevator”
10) House Of Heroes ~ “Elevator”
11) David Archuleta ~ “Elevator”
12) Jess Moskaluke ~ “Elevator”
13) Mr. Coldstone ~ “Elevator”
14) Incubus ~ “Crowded Elevator”
15) LABtrio ~ “Elevator”
16) Mads Langer ~ “Riding Elevators”
17) Oingo Boingo ~ “Elevator Man”
18) Courtney Barnett ~ “Elevator Operator”
19) Group 1 Crew ~ “Elevator Doors”
20) I Am Empire ~ “The Elevator”
21) Monique Bingham ~ “Elevator (Going Up)”
22) Sesame Street ~ “The Elephant Elevator Operator”