Songs By Ten Singers Born On This Date

Apparently, June 26th was a great day to be born if you wanted to grow up to become a popular singer and/or musician. All ten of the artists in this small collection share a birthday today. Help them celebrate by listening to one of their best-known songs. And enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ariana Grande ft. Mac Miller  ~  “The Way”  (Ariana turns 24 years old today.)

2)  OneRepublic  ~  “I Lived”  (Ryan Tedder, the band’s lead singer, is celebrating his 38th today.)

3)  Gretchen Wilson  ~  “When I Think About Cheatin’”  (As of today, Gretchen has been alive for 44 years. Congrats, redneck woman!)

4)  Big Bill Broonzy  ~  “Backwater Blues”  (This blues legend would be 124 years old if he were alive today. Unfortunately, he passed away at age 65, a whopping 59 years ago!)

5)  The Sundays ~  “Summertime”  (Harriet Wheeler, the lead singer for The Sundays, turns 54 today.)

6)  The Clash  ~   “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?”  (Mick Jones, co-lead singer of The Clash and the main vocalist of this classic tune, is 62 years old as of today.)

7)  Berlin  ~  “Take My Breath Away”  (Terri Nunn, Berlin’s lead singer, celebrates her 56th today. Happy birthday!)

8)  Billy Davis, Jr. & Marilyn McCoo  ~  “You Don’t Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show)”  (This husband-wife duo produced some great R&B and soul music in the mid-1970s and beyond. Today, Billy is celebrating his 79th birthday with his wife of nearly 50 years. Yep, it’s still Marilyn!)

9)  Patty Smyth & Don Henley  ~  “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough”  (One of the great duets of the past 25 years, this song pairs birthday girl Patty Smyth – who turns 60 today – and Eagles alum Don Henley, who turns 70 next month.)

10)  Chris Isaak  ~  “Wicked Game”  (Hard to believe this modern classic is now 27 years old. Even harder to believe its singer turns 61 today!)

Songs About Strangling

Here's the latest in my ill-conceived yet oddly rewarding series of posts featuring songs about Things You Would Never Want To Happen To You. Of course, most if not all of the strangling herein is figurative, not literal. Because that would just be sick, right? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  My Morning Jacket  ~  “Strangulation”

2)  Four Star Mary  ~  “Strangled”

3)  The Maccabees  ~  “Hearts That Strangle”

4)  Bang Bang  ~  “Strangled Love”

5)  The Moonlandingz ft. Rebecca Lucy Taylor  ~  “The Strangle Of Anna”  (There's no other way to describe it. This music video is profoundly odd. Profoundly.)

6)  DefineD  ~  “Strangled”

7)  Therapy?  ~  “The Head That Tried To Strangle Itself”

8)  Citizen Zero  ~  “Strangle Hold”

9)  Strays At Home  ~  “Strangled”

10)  Burning Core  ~  “Don’t Strangle The Child”

11)  Goodwines  ~  “Heart To Strangle”

12)  Eldest 11  ~  “The Strangle”

13)  Eisenhower Field Day  ~  “Strangle The Days”

14)  Holliava  ~  “Strangle”

15)  Brother Firetribe  ~  “Strangled”

16)  Little Red Lung  ~  “Strangling Tree”

17)  Casino Shanghai  ~  “Strangling Me (With Your Love)”

18)  Calla  ~  “Strangler”

19)  Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal  ~  “Strangles”

20)  The Cardboard Crowns  ~  “Strangle”

Songs About The Color "Beige"

In the past, both on this and my original blog, I've done more than my fair share of posts featuring songs with a particular color in their titles. And let's face it, the possibilities are endless. However...I'd never tackled the color "Beige" before now – and as it turns out that was a mistake! Because there're actually a lot of great "Beige" songs to be heard; I just wasn't paying attention. I am now. And you should, too. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Being Beige”

2)  Geneviève Morissette  ~  “La Femme En Beige”  (I don't speak French, but I think this lady is singing – quite beautifully, I might add – about a woman in beige.)

3)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Beige To Beige”

4)  Kate Lee  ~  "Beige"

5)  Robert Earl Keen  ~  “Paint The Town Beige”

6)  Stephanie Ault  ~  “Where Everything Is Beige”

7)  The Good Routes  ~  "Beige"

8)  Rhode Island Red  ~  “Kerosene / Beige”

9)  Pheel  ~  “Pantalon Beige”

10)  The Lonesome Heroes  ~  "Dakota Beige"

11)  ÆGN  ~  “Beige Cartoon”

12)  Élodie Frégé  ~  “L’imperméable Beige”

13)  Klezmer Company Jazz Orchestra  ~  “Black, Brown, And Beige Suite”  (Composed by none other than the great Duke Ellington.)

14)  Anouk Asunder  ~  “Fennel And Beige”

15)  Nebula Forming  ~  “Sea Of Beige”

16)  Kill For Eden  ~  "Beige"

17)  The New Amsterdams  ~  “A Beacon In Beige”

18)  Toyface  ~  “Beige Walls”

19)  Yaya  ~  “Beige”

20)  Pistol Annies  ~  “Beige”

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Songs About Choking

Here the first in what – knowing me! – will probably be an ongoing series of posts featuring Things You Would Never Want To Happen To You. Case in point, this set of Songs About Choking. Umm...enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Choke”

2)  The Asteroids Galaxy Tour  ~  “Choke It”

3)  Bullet For My Valentine  ~  “4 Words (To Choke Upon)”

4)  Heirsound  ~  “Choke”

5)  Joss Stone  ~  “The Chokin’ Kind”

6)  Madilan  ~  “Choke”

7)  Red Jumpsuit Apparatus  ~  “Choke”

8)  King Charles  ~  “Choke”

9)  OneRepublic  ~  “Choke”

10)  Serene  ~  “Choke”

11)  Biffy Clyro  ~  “Toys Toys Toys Choke, Toys Toys Toys”

12)  Not Katies  ~  “The Hope You Choke”

13)  Austra  ~  “The Choke”

14)  Headwires  ~  “Choke”

15)  Ryan Bingham  ~  “All Choked Up Again”

16)  Allen Tate  ~  “Don’t Choke”

17)  Sepultura  ~  “Choke”

18)  Potet  ~  “Choke”

19)  Bif Naked  ~  “Choking On The Truth”

20)  The Hall Effect  ~  “Choke”

21)  AKS ft. Selah Sue  ~  “Choke”

22)  Seratones  ~  “Choking On Your Spit”

23)  Skinny Puppy  ~  “The Choke”

24)  All The Right Moves  ~  “Choke”

25)  ChocQuibTown ft. Ñejo   ~  “Salsa & Choke”

Songs About Bows & Arrows, Vol. 2

Part 2 of 2 in this miniseries featuring songs with "Bow" and/or "Arrow" in their titles. Don't ask why – just enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Elton John  ~  “One More Arrow”

2)  Carly Rae Jepsen  ~  “Tiny Little Bows”

3)  Steve Wariner  ~  “Arrows At Airplanes”

4)  Chris Rea  ~  “Bows And Bangles”

5)  Sarah Blasko  ~  “An Arrow”

6)  Xavier Rudd  ~  “Bow Down”

7)  Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds  ~  “AKA… Broken Arrow”

8)  Russ Taff  ~  “Not Gonna Bow”

9)  Fat Freddy’s Drop  ~  “Slings And Arrows”

10)  Muse  ~  “Take A Bow”

11)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Follow Your Arrow”

12)  The Smiths  ~  “Sheila, Take A Bow”

13)  Lucy Rose  ~  “Like An Arrow”

14)  Little May  ~  “Bow And Arrow”

15)  Nick Jonas & The Administration  ~  “Olive & An Arrow”

16)  R.E.M. ft. Patti Smith  ~  “E-Bow The Letter”

17)  Rod Stewart  ~  “Broken Arrow”

18)  Duncan Sheik  ~  “Take A Bow”

19)  Avicii ft. Zac Brown  ~  “Broken Arrows”

20)  Dinah Shore  ~  “Buttons And Bows”

21)  Kaiser Chiefs  ~  “Bows & Arrows”

22)  Sister Hazel  ~  “Take A Bow”

23)  Geoff Rickly  ~  “Time’s Arrow”

24)  Cold Chisel  ~  “Bow River”

25)  Crowded House  ~  “Archer’s Arrows”