“Old-Fashioned” Songs, Vol. 1

Here's a bunch of "Old-Fashioned" songs you're sure to love, like, or tolerate. And if you happen to enjoy them, lucky for you, Volume 2 is coming tomorrow!  ~  JH

1)  Queen  ~  “Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy”

2)  Cee Lo Green  ~  “Old-Fashioned”

3)  George Jones & Tammy Wynette  ~  “Good Old-Fashioned Singing”

4)  The Wild Man Of Europe  ~  “Old-Fashioned Flames”

5)  All-4-One  ~  “Ol’ Fashion Lovin’”

6)  Willie Nelson  ~  “A Little Old-Fashioned Karma”

7)  Frightened Rabbit  ~  “Old Old-Fashioned”

8)  The Mills Brothers  ~  “Old-Fashioned Love”

9)  Dawn Sears  ~  “Old-Fashioned Broken Heart”

10)  Steve Goodman  ~  “Old-Fashioned”

11)  Frank Sinatra & Doris Day  ~  “Let’s Take An Old-Fashioned Walk”

12)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Old-Fashioned Girl Like You”

13)  Three Dog Night  ~  “Old-Fashioned Love Song”

14)  John Coltrane  ~  “I’m Old-Fashioned”

15)  Smokey Robinson  ~  “Old-Fashioned Love”

16)  B.J. Thomas  ~  “Whatever Happened To Old-Fashioned Love?”

17)  Teresa Brewer  ~  “A Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl”

18)  Tracy Byrd  ~  “Good Ol’ Fashioned Love”'

19)  Donovan  ~  “In An Old-Fashioned Picture Book”

20)  Eartha Kitt  ~  “Just An Old-Fashioned Girl”

“Slip” & “Slide” Songs, Vol. 1

Here's a bunch of songs with the words "Slip" and/or "Slide" in their titles. And there's more where these came from. Part 2 of 2 will follow tomorrow. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Simon & Garfunkel  ~  “Slip Slidin’ Away”

2)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Slide”

3)  Gabrielle Aplin  ~  “Slip Away”

4)  The Verve  ~  “Slide Away”

5)  David Bowie  ~  “Slip Away”

6)  Marcia Griffiths  ~  “Electric Boogie (The Electric Slide)”

7)  Clarence Carter  ~  “Slip Away”

8)  Oasis  ~  “Slide Away”

9)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “It Keeps Slipping My Mind”

10)  Nipsey Russell  ~  “Slide Some Oil To Me”

11)  Alter Bridge  ~  “Slip To The Void”

12)  Joanna  ~  “Let It Slide”

13)  Pink Floyd  ~  “One Slip”

14)  Badly Drawn Boy  ~  “The Further I Slide”

15)  ABBA  ~  “Slipping Through My Fingers”

16)  Nick Lowe  ~  “Lately I’ve Let Things Slide”

17)  Switchfoot  ~  “Slipping Away”

18)  Shaggy ft. Melissa Musique  ~  “If U Slip, U Slide (You Could Be Mine)”

19)  Austin Webb  ~  “Slip On By”

20)  Son Volt  ~  “Left A Slide”

21)  The Joy Formidable ft. Paul Draper  ~  “Greyhounds In The Slip”

22)  Boz Scaggs  ~  “Full-Lock Power Slide”

23)  Patrick Watson  ~  “Slip Into Your Skin”

24)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  “Don’t Let Me Slide”

25)  Pat Metheny Group  ~  “Slip Away”

Songs About Standing By

While you wait with bated breath (yeah, right!) for the next installment in my "Down" & "Out" series, here's a collection of Songs About Standing By. Herein, you'll hear about folks who vow to stand by "Me," "You," "Love," "Your Gun," "Your Man," "My Woman," "The Bedside Of A Neighbor," and much, much more! So what are you waiting for? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ben E. King  ~  “Stand By Me”

2)  Rachel Platten  ~  “Stand By You”

3)  Oasis  ~  “Stand By Me”

4)  Marlisa  ~  “Stand By You”

5)  Simple Minds  ~  “Stand By Love”

6)  True Violet  ~  “Stand By You”

7)  George Ezra  ~  “Stand By Your Gun”

8)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “Stand By Your Man”

9)  Shayne Ward  ~  “Stand By Me”

10)  Jessy Dixon  ~  “God Is Standing By”

11)  Jewel  ~  “Angel Standing By”

12)  LL Cool J  ~  “Stand By Your Man”

13)  The Cox Family  ~  “Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor”

14)  The Imperials  ~  “Stand By The Power”

15)  MaidaVale  ~  “Standby Swing”

16)  Lenny Kravitz  ~  “Stand By My Woman”

17)  The Pretenders  ~  “I’ll Stand By You”

18)  Tennessee Ernie Ford  ~  “Stand By Me”

19)  The KLF ft. Tammy Wynette  ~  “Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs)”  (This is a very odd song and music video. Odder still is Wynette’s involvement in it.)

20)  The Clash  ~  “Train In Vain (Stand By Me)”

Popular Songs Of 1976, Vol. 3

Last but certainly not least...the final installment of the most Popular Songs of 1976. Plenty of familiar tunes here, as well as a few forgotten gems. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  KC and the Sunshine Band  ~  “That’s The Way (I Like It)”

2)  Wings  ~  “Let ‘Em In”

3)  George Benson  ~  “This Masquerade”

4)  Merle Haggard  ~  “The Roots Of My Raising”

5)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  “Rhiannon”

6)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  “Evil Woman”

7)  Keith Carradine  ~  “I’m Easy”

8)  Don Williams  ~  “Till The Rivers All Run Dry”

9)  Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ft. Teddy Pendergrass  ~  “Wake Up, Everybody”  (What a great song...unfortunately, its message is still very apropos today.)

10)  Crystal Gayle  ~  “I’ll Get Over You”

11)  John Travolta  ~  “Let Her In”  (This video is more interesting for the post-song interview than it is for the tune itself. Travolta excitedly tells Dick Clark about getting a role in his first "serious" movie, Carrie, which incidentally was the first film made from a Stephen King novel. He also mentions having acted in the stage version of Grease. Two years later, he would star in the film version of Grease, which became a smash hit.)

12)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “She’s Gone”

13)  Queen  ~  “You’re My Best Friend”

14)  Johnny Cash  ~  “One Piece At A Time”

15)  Rufus  ~  “Sweet Thing”  (Yes, that IS a young Chaka Khan.)

16)  Orleans  ~  “Still The One”

17)  Foghat  ~  “Slow Ride”

18)  Marty Robbins  ~  “El Paso City”  (What is it with Marty Robbins and hideously ugly shirts? Blame it on the '70s? Or is it simply Marty's bad sense of style?)

19)  Thin Lizzy  ~  “The Boys Are Back In Town”

20)  Candi Staton  ~  “Young Hearts Run Free”

21)  Peter Frampton  ~  “Baby, I Love Your Way”

22)  David Ruffin  ~  “Walk Away From Love”

23)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Take The Money And Run / Rock’n Me”  (This is a classic "HOGO" video. Hear One, Get One Free! Both songs were big hits in '76.)

24)  England Dan & John Ford Coley  ~  “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight”  (I'd totally forgotten about this wonderfully catchy song!)

25)  George Jones & Tammy Wynette  ~  “Golden Ring”

Popular Songs Of 1976, Vol. 2

We now return to a funkier time, when the clothes were flashier, the hair was longer, and the music was...pretty good, actually. Here's Part 2 (of 3) of the most Popular Songs of 1976. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ohio Players  ~  “Love Rollercoaster” 

2)  Eagles  ~  “Take It To The Limit”

3)  Bee Gees  ~  “You Should Be Dancing”

4)  Conway Twitty  ~  “This Time I’ve Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me”

5)  Vicki Sue Robinson  ~  “Turn The Beat Around”

6)  Lou Rawls  ~  “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”

7)  David Bowie  ~  “Golden Years”

8)  KC and the Sunshine Band  ~  “Shake Your Booty”

9)  Starbuck  ~  “Moonlight Feels Right”

10)  Maxine Nightingale  ~  “Right Back Where We Started From”

11)  Dr. Hook  ~  “Only Sixteen”

12)  The Bellamy Brothers  ~  “Let Your Love Flow”

13)  Gary Wright  ~  “Dream Weaver”

14)  Emmylou Harris  ~  “Together Again”

15)  Eric Carmen  ~  “All By Myself”

16)  Diana Ross  ~  “Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To?)”

17)  Henry Gross  ~  “Shannon”

18)  Chicago  ~  “If You Leave Me Now”  (Video repeats itself in silence around the 3:50 mark. May as well stop watching it there. You won’t hear anything else anyway.)

19)  Peter Frampton  ~  “Show Me The Way”

20)  Aerosmith  ~  “Dream On”

21)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “You And Me”

22)  Boz Scaggs  ~  “Lowdown”

23)  John Sebastian  ~  “Welcome Back”

24)  Bay City Rollers  ~  “Saturday Night”

25)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  “Say You Love Me”