Monday, August 28, 2017

"Harmony" Songs, Vol. 2

Part 2 of 2 featuring songs with the word "Harmony" in their titles. I saved some of the best for last. So enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Buzzcocks  ~  “Harmony In My Head”




2)  Raz Tilley  ~  “Mellow Harmony”




3)  Ian Thomas  ~  “Harmony”




4)  Shelby Blondell ft. B-Doe  ~  “Harmony”




5)  Old Californio  ~  “Harmony”




6)  Sly & The Family Stone  ~  “Harmony”




7)  The Beloved  ~  “Sweet Harmony”




8)  Beebs & Her Money Makers  ~  “Harmony”




9)  The Early November  ~ “Harmony”




10)  Butterscotch  ~  “Perfect Harmony”




11)  Cliff Richard  ~  “Living In Harmony”




12)  Jordan Nicole  ~  “Let The Harmony Flow”




13)  Liquid  ~  “Sweet Harmony”




14)  Kim Wilde  ~  “World In Perfect Harmony”




15)  The Beach Boys  ~  “Endless Harmony”




16)  Ásgeir  ~  “In Harmony”  (I don’t need to speak Icelandic – though I wouldn’t mind learning – to understand that this is a gorgeously rendered song.)




17)  Elton John  ~  “Harmony”




18)  Born Cages  ~  “Perfect Harmony”




19)  Julie Gaulke  ~  “Harmony”




20)  Sol Cat  ~  “Harmony Safari”




BONUS TRACK:  Ray Conniff & The Singers  ~  “Harmony”  (This is the same song as the one by Artie Kaplan in the previous post. Kaplan did it first and arguably best, but Ray Conniff and company made it way more famous.)


Friday, August 25, 2017

"Harmony" Songs, Vol. 1

As promised, here's the first of two sets of songs with the word "Harmony" in their titles. Some good stuff here! So...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Harry Connick, Jr.  ~  “Hear Me In The Harmony”




2)  The New Seekers  ~  “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)”




3)  Smokey Robinson  ~  “Sweet Harmony”




4)  Public Property  ~  “Harmony”




5)  Artie Kaplan  ~  “Harmony”




6)  The Little Mermaid Cast  ~  “In Harmony”




7)  The Byrds  ~  “Natural Harmony”




8)  Ivana Raymonda  ~  “In Harmony”




9)  Frank Black & The Catholics  ~  “Bad Harmony”




10)  Anne Murray  ~  “Harmony”




11)  Steven Wilson  ~  “Harmony Korine”




12)  Belle Of The Fall  ~  “Sweet Harmony”




13)  Home Free  ~  “Good Ol’ Country Harmony”




14)  JoJo Desmond  ~  “Beautiful Harmony”




15)  Never Shout Never  ~  “Harmony”




16)  Alice Stuart  ~  “Harmony”




17)  Gordon Lightfoot  ~  “Harmony”




18)  Susie Suh  ~  “Harmony”




19)  Hammer No More The Fingers  ~  “Black Harmony”  (These guys win Best Band Name of the Day – hands down! Pun fully intended.)




20)  Jillian Jensen  ~  “Perfect Harmony”


Thursday, August 24, 2017

“Melody” Songs, Vol. 2

Here's a second and final set of songs with the word "Melody" in the titles. But we're not done yet. Next up, "Harmony Songs," of course! Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Kenny Rogers  ~  “The World Needs A Melody”




2)  Chaka Khan  ~  “And The Melody Still Lingers On (A Night In Tunisia)”




3)  Dave Days ft. Jake Broido  ~  “Your Melody”




4)  Donna Summer  ~  “Winter Melody”




5)  The Black Angels  ~  “Melanie’s Melody”




6)  Lena Meyer-Landrut  ~  “Beat To My Melody”




7)  Leeland  ~  “Sound Of Melodies”




8)  Cadmium ft. Jon Becker  ~  “Two-Tone Melody”




9)  Squeeze  ~  “Melody Motel”




10)  Mavis Staples  ~  “Melody Cool”




11)  Liberace  ~  “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody”




12)  Clark Owen ft. Lena Katina  ~  “Melody”




13)  Talking Heads  ~  “Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)”




14)  Feist  ~  “Bittersweet Melodies”




15)  Bing Crosby & Harry Crosby  ~  “Play A Simple Melody / Gone Fishin’”




16)  Kirk Franklin  ~  “Melodies From Heaven”




17)  Iris DeMent  ~  “Sweet Is The Melody”




18)  Gossip  ~  “Melody Emergency”




19)  Nico & Vinz  ~  “My Melody”




20)  Bleached  ~  “Wednesday Night Melody”


Wednesday, August 23, 2017

“Melody” Songs, Vol. 1

Odd that I've never thought of this "theme" before now. But...here's a collection of songs with the word "Melody" (or "Melodies") somewhere in their titles. One more set of these is coming tomorrow. And then..."Harmony" Songs, of course! Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Kate Earl  ~  “Melody”




2)  Butch Walker  ~  “Pretty Melody”




3)  Sixpence None The Richer  ~  “Melody Of You”




4)  Caribou  ~  “Melody Day”




5)  Blonde Redhead  ~  “Melody”




6)  The Grass Roots  ~  “A Melody For You”




7)  Oliver Heldens  ~  “Melody”




8)  Beck  ~  “Dead Melodies”




9)  Madison Beer  ~  “Melodies”




10)  Kendall Schmidt  ~  “Memories And Melodies”




11)  Katie Sky  ~  “Sweet Sweet Melody”




12)  The Osborne Brothers  ~  “Bluegrass Melodies”




13)  Paramore  ~  “Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody)”




14)  Alphaville  ~  “Sounds Like A Melody”




15)  India.Arie  ~  “Complicated Melody”




16)  Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings  ~  “Melody”




17)  Brenda Lee  ~  “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody”




18)  Righteous Brothers  ~  “Unchained Melody”




19)  Anna Nalick  ~  “More Than Melody”




20)  Harry Chapin  ~  “Stranger With The Melodies”


Tuesday, August 22, 2017

"Assault" & "Battery" Songs

I have to be kidding you, right? These songs are *actually* about physically harming someone? No, not really. Well...most of them aren't, at least. But they all do have either the words "Assault" or "Battery" (or in many cases, both) in their titles. So there's that... Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  Genesis  ~  “Robbery, Assault, And Battery”




2)  Blur  ~  “Battery In Your Leg”




3)  John Carpenter  ~  “Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Title)”




4)  Joan Osborne  ~  “Bury Me On The Battery”




5)  Empyray  ~  “Assault”




6)  Metallica  ~  “Battery”




7)  Words From Willis  ~  “Silent Assault”




8)  Pitchshifter  ~  “Dead Battery”




9)  Howard Jones  ~  “Assault And Battery”




10)  Mac McCaughan  ~  “Box Batteries”




11)  Michael Schenker Group  ~  “Assault Attack”




12)  Stornoway  ~  “We Are The Battery Human”




13)  Ride  ~  “Charm Assault”




14)  Fleet Foxes  ~  “Battery Kinzie”




15)  Moulettes  ~  “Assault”




16)  Millencolin  ~  “Battery Check”




17)  Hawkwind  ~  “Assault & Battery”




18)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Batteries Not Included”




19)  Blasted Mechanism  ~  “New Assault”



20)  Les Dudek  ~  “Assault And Battery”