Songs About Towns & Villages

Cities get all the attention these days, but towns and villages are really where it's at! So I put together a collection of Songs About Towns & Villages as a meager yet sincere tribute to them. I trust you shall...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus  ~  “Old Town Road”

2)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Village Ghetto Land”

3)  Thin Lizzy  ~  "The Boys Are Back In Town"

4)  Alpine  ~  “Villages”

5)  The Kooks  ~  “Around Town”

6)  The Kinks  ~  “Village Green Preservation Society”

7)  Sam Hunt  ~  “Break Up In A Small Town”

8)  Blackmore’s Night  ~  “The Village In The Sand”

9)  Jay-Z ft. Kanye West & Rihanna  ~  “Run This Town”

10)  Cam  ~  “Village”

11)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town”

12)  Andy Williams  ~  “Village Of St. Bernadette”

13)  Miranda Lambert  ~  “Famous In A Small Town”

14)  New Order  ~  “The Village”

15)  Adam Lambert  ~  “Ghost Town”

16)  Frank Zappa  ~  “Village Of The Sun”

17)  Lady Antebellum  ~  “Goodbye Town”

18)  Bizzle ft. Jin, Sho Baraka, & V. Rose  ~  “It Takes A Village”

19)  Dream Academy  ~  “Life In A Northern Town”

20)  Wrabel  ~  “The Village”

21)  Johnny Rivers  ~  “Poor Side Of Town”

22)  Pete Yorn  ~  “Crystal Village”

23)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Small Town”

24)  Andy Gullahorn  ~  “Village”

25)  Bronski Beat  ~  "Smalltown Boy"

“Whisper” & “Scream” Songs, Vol. 1

I'm returning to oft-treaded ground with this two-part "opposites" series of posts. Here we have a bunch of Songs About Whispers and Screams. Next time, we will have more of the same. Plenty of good stuff to hear here, so check it out already. And...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  George Michael  ~  “Careless Whisper”

2)  Judas Priest  ~  “Screaming For Vengeance”

3)  A Fine Frenzy  ~  “Whisper”

4)  Bim  ~  “Scream”

5)  New Kids On The Block  ~  “The Whisper”

6)  Anna Blue  ~  “Silent Scream”

7)  Randy Travis  ~  “Whisper My Name”

8)  Ozzy Osbourne  ~  “Let Me Hear You Scream”

9)  Donna Summer  ~  “Heaven’s Just A Whisper Away”

10)  UB40  ~  “The Earth Dies Screaming”

11)  Evanescence  ~  “Whisper”

12)  Tokio Hotel  ~  “Scream”

13)  Elvis Costello & The Attractions ft. Glenn Tilbrook  ~  “From A Whisper To A Scream”

14)  Kate Ryan  ~  “Scream For More”

15)  Harry Connick, Jr.  ~  “(I Could Only) Whisper Your Name”

16)  Margaret Berger  ~  “Scream”

17)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Sensuous Whisper”

18)  Funeral For A Friend  ~  “Kicking And Screaming”

19)  Earl Klugh  ~  “Whispers And Promises”

20)  Frightened Rabbit  ~  “The Loneliness And The Scream”

21)  Chastity Brown  ~  “Whisper”

22)  Kelis  ~  “Scream”

23)  Dionne Warwick  ~  “Whisper In The Dark”

24)  Chris Cornell  ~  “Scream”

25)  Passenger  ~  “Whispers”

26)  Third Day  ~  “Kicking And Screaming”

27)  Alison Moyet  ~  “Whispering Your Name”

28)  Amen Corner  ~  “Scream And Scream Again”

29)  The Dear Hunter  ~  “Whisper”

30)  Europe  ~  “Scream Of Anger”

"My" Songs 4

I'm going to call this the fourth and final post in this ongoing series, but I won't swear to it. Because there are countless possibilities of qualifying songs that I could add in a later post. So...last but not least, or until next time...Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Loren Gray  ~  "My Story"

2)  Fall Out Boy  ~  "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark"

3)  Wale ft. Major Lazer, WizKid, & Dua Lipa  ~  "My Love"

4)  Majid Jordan ft. Drake  ~  "My Love"

5)  Genevieve  ~  "My Real Name"

6)  Julio Iglesias & Stevie Wonder  ~  "My Love"

7)  Trentemøller ft. Marie Fisker  ~  "My Dreams"

8)  Akcent  ~  "My Passion"

9)  Nicole C. Mullen  ~  "My Redeemer"

10)  Masoud ft. Tara Louise  ~  "My Dreams"

11)  Matthew West  ~  "My Own Little World"

12)  Kita Alexander  ~  "My Own Way"

13)  Wild Child  ~  "My Town"

14)  Camera2  ~  "My Favorite Secret"

15)  Aretha Franklin  ~  "My Country 'Tis Of Thee "

16)  Paul McCartney  ~  "My Valentine"

17)  Evanescence  ~  "My Heart Is Broken"

18)  Lene Marlin  ~  "My Love"

19)  Breathe Carolina & Robert Falcon  ~  "My Love"

20)  Ava Max  ~  "My Way"

21)  Big Daddy Weave  ~  "My Story"

22)  Kovacs  ~  "My Love"

23)   Lionel Richie  ~  "My Love"

24)  Barbra Streisand  ~  "My Man"

25)  Selena  ~  "My Love"

Songs About Mistletoe

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming of Christmas-themed music posts. Here's a bunch of Songs About Mistletoe for your listening pleasure. So pucker up and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Mistletoe And Holly”

2)  Sia  ~  “Underneath The Mistletoe”

3)  Tanya Tucker & Glen Campbell  ~  “It Must Have Been The Mistletoe”

4)  Aretha Franklin  ~  “Kissin’ By The Mistletoe”

5)  Kendall Schmidt  ~  “Blame It On The Mistletoe”

6)  Courtney Act  ~  “From Head To Mistletoe”

7)  Randy Travis  ~  “Meet Me Under The Mistletoe”

8)  Lucy Hale  ~  “Mistletoe”

9)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  “Mistletoe (The Christmas Sweater Song)”

10)  Ari B  ~  “Under The Mistletoe”

11)  Luther Vandross  ~  “The Mistletoe Jam (Everybody Kiss Somebody)”

12)  Never Shout Never ft. Did Frampton  ~  “Under The Mistletoe”

13)  Colbie Caillat  ~  “Mistletoe”

14)  Nikki Yanofsky  ~  “Mistletoe”

15)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  “Hangin’ ‘Round The Mistletoe”

16)  Lynn Anderson  ~  “Mr. Mistletoe”

17)  Justin Bieber  ~  “Mistletoe”

18)  Mariah Carey  ~  “All I Want For Christmas Is You”  (Here begins the portion of our post featuring songs that memorably mention mistletoe but don't bear the word in their titles.)

19)  Nat King Cole  ~  “The Christmas Song”

20)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Present Without A Bow”

21)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “That’s What Christmas Means To Me”

22)  Enya  ~  “White Is In The Winter Night”

23)  John Mellencamp  ~  “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”

24)  Britney Spears  ~  “My Only Wish (This Year)”

25)  Ricky Van Shelton  ~  “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”

26)  Girls Aloud  ~  “I Wanna Kiss You So (Christmas In A Nutshell)”

27)  Chris Brown  ~  “This Christmas”

28)  Leona Lewis  ~  “One More Sleep”

29)  Burl Ives  ~  “A Holly Jolly Christmas”

30)  New Hope Club  ~  “Whoever He Is”