Wax and Tracks

Monday, March 13, 2017

Songs About Daylight, Vol. 1

Daylight Savings Time started yesterday. (Should've posted this then, but whatevs.) In honor of that, here's a bunch of Songs About Daylight. There were too many good ones for just one post, so Vol. 2 will come later today. Spring forward, and enjoy! ~ JH

1) Counting Crows ~ “Daylight Fading”

2) Matt and Kim ~ “Daylight”

3) John Mark McMillan ~ “Daylight”

4) Candy Dulfer & Chance Howard ~ “Daylight”

5) Coldplay ~ “Daylight”

6) Alison Krauss ~ “Daylight”

7) Hiss Golden Messenger ~ “Call Him Daylight”

8) The Mighty Mighty Bosstones ~ “The Daylights”

9) Lenay ft. Jeremy Lardani ~ “Daylight”

10) Better Than Ezra ~ “Daylight”

11) Mike Tompkins ~ “Daylight”

12) Abby Lee ~ “Daylight”

13) Joe Bonamassa ~ “Driving Towards The Daylight”

14) Maroon 5 ~ “Daylight”

15) Stars ~ “Wasted Daylight”

16) Rascal Flatts ~ “Prayin’ For Daylight”

17) Gardiner Sisters ~ “The Daylight”

18) Max Richter ~ “On The Nature Of Daylight”

19) Lacuna Coil ~ “Daylight Dancer”

20) Son Volt ~ “Dust Of Daylight”

Friday, March 10, 2017

“Truth” Or “Dare” Songs, Vol. 2

Tell the "Truth" – you liked the first post in this new series, right? I "Dare" you to keep listening. You never know how much you might like these. And there's still more 2 posts to go after this. So, what are you waiting for? Enjoy 'em already! ~ JH

1) Depeche Mode ~ “Policy Of Truth”

2) Shakira ~ “Dare (La La La)”

3) Jason Aldean ~ “The Truth”

4) Olivia Newton-John & John Farnham ~ “Dare To Dream”

5) ZAYN ~ “tRuTh”

6) Bea Miller ~ “I Dare You”

7) Jack White ~ “Love Is The Truth / You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket”

8) Iron Maiden ~ “Where Eagles Dare”

9) Foster The People ~ “The Truth”

10) The Pointer Sisters ~ “Dare Me”

11) Wild Beasts ~ “A Simple Beautiful Truth”

12) Gorillaz ~ “Dare”

13) Eric Clapton ft. Derek Trucks ~ “Tell The Truth”

14) Daya ~ “Dare”

15) Lucky Dube ~ “Truth In The World”

16) Thao & Mirah ~ “How Dare You”

17) Casting Crowns ~ “Voice Of Truth”

18) “Weird Al” Yankovic ~ “Dare To Be Stupid”

19) Gwen Stefani ~ “Truth”

20) The Mars Volta ~ “Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)”

Thursday, March 9, 2017

“Truth” Or “Dare” Songs, Vol. 1

I've been sitting on this series for a while now, waiting for a good time to post it. Now is as good a time as any, I suppose. Part 1 of what will be a 4-parter, featuring songs with the words "Truth" or "Dare" in their titles. Enjoy! ~ JH

1) India.Arie ~ “The Truth”

2) Boyce Avenue ~ “Dare To Believe”

3) Lacuna Coil ~ “Our Truth”

4) Commissioned ~ “Dare To Believe”

5) Lucinda Williams ~ “Ugly Truth”

6) Switchfoot ~ “Dare You To Move”

7) Bamboo ~ “Truth”

8) Rebecca Newman ~ “Dare To Dream (Always Believe)”

9) Neil Young & Crazy Horse ~ “Truth Be Known”

10) Tina Arena ~ “Dare You To Be Happy”

11) Amos Lee ~ “Truth”

12) I.D.A. ~ “Fight Me If You Dare”

13) The Police ~ “Truth Hits Everybody”

14) GENTRI ~ “Dare”

15) Brooks & Dunn ~ “Honky Tonk Truth”

16) Vanessa Paradis ~ “I Wouldn’t Dare”

17) The Oh Hellos ~ “The Truth Is A Cave / The Valley (Reprise)”

18) The Hooters ~ “Until You Dare”

19) Never Shout Never ~ “Lousy Truth”

20) Rachael Lynn ~ “Dare To Be Different”

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Popular Songs Of 1947, Vol. 3

Here's part 3 of 3 in the Popular Songs Of 1947 series. Plenty to see and hear here, folks. Enjoy! ~ JH

1) Bing Crosby ~ “But Beautiful”

2) Merle Travis ~ “Steel Guitar Rag”

3) The Mills Brothers ~ “Across The Alley From The Alamo”

4) Dorothy Shay ~ “Feudin’ And Fightin’”

5) Frankie Laine ~ “Two Loves Have I”

6) Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra ft. Billy Williams ~ “The Old Lamplighter”

7) Eddy Arnold ~ “To My Sorrow”

8) The Andrew Sisters & Danny Kaye ~ “Civilization”

9) Buddy Clark ft. Ray Noble & His Orchestra ~ “Linda”

10) Dinah Shore ~ “How Soon Will I Be Seeing You?”

11) Frank Sinatra ~ “Mean To Me”

12) Ernest Tubb ~ “Don’t Look Now”

13) Jo Stafford ~ “Make Believe”

14) Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five ~ “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

15) Tex Williams ~ “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)”

16) Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians ft. Kenny Gardner ~ “Frankie And Johnny”

17) Georgia Gibbs ~ “Fool That I Am”

18) Red Foley & The Cumberland Valley Boys ~ “Freight Train Boogie”

19) Art Lund ~ “Mam’selle”

20) Jimmie Davis ~ “Bang Bang”

21) Freddy Martin and his Orchestra ft. Stuart Wade ~ “Managua, Nicaragua”

22) Eddy Arnold ~ “Bouquet Of Roses”

23) Roy Brown ~ “Good Rockin’ Tonight” (This guy was ahead of his time. Sounds remarkably similar to the earliest rock and roll tunes that would come out a full decade later.)

24) Frankie Laine ~ “On The Sunny Side Of The Street”

25) Mary Martin ~ “Almost Like Being In Love”

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Popular Songs Of 1947, Vol. 2

Did you like that last batch of Popular Songs from 1947? Good? Then here's more. No? Then don't check these out. More of the same here...and it's all good stuff! Enjoy! ~ JH

1) Nat King Cole ~ “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons”

2) Dinah Shore ~ “You Do”

3) Bing Crosby ft. Fred Waring & The Glee Club ~ “The Whiffenpoof Song”

4) Frankie Laine ~ “All Of Me”

5) Ted Weems Orchestra ~ “Heartaches”

6) Ernest Tubb ~ “I’ll Step Aside”

7) Al Jolson ~ “April Showers”

8) Eddy Arnold ~ “It’s A Sin”

9) The Andrews Sisters ~ “Near You”

10) Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five ~ “Texas And Pacific”

11) Perry Como ft. Dinah Shore ~ “When You Were Sweet Sixteen”

12) Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys ft. Tommy Duncan ~ “Sugar Moon”

13) Frank Sinatra ~ “I’ve Got A Crush On You”

14) The Ink Spots ~ “Sincerely Yours”

15) Merle Travis ~ “Missouri”

16) James Baskett ~ “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” (Fun fact: Actor/singer James Baskett became the first African-American male to receive an Oscar, for his performance in this film, Song Of The South.)