Songs About Blankets

You never know what I'll come up with next. This time, it's Songs About Blankets. Go figure! Oh yeah...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Siv Jakobsen  ~  “Blanket”

2)  METZ  ~  “Wet Blanket”

3)  Miss Kenichi  ~  “Blanket”

4)  The Chills  ~  “Wet Blanket”

5)  Jennifer O’Connor  ~  “Black Sky Blanket”

6)  Gilbert O’Sullivan  ~  “Underneath The Blanket Go”

7)  Mary’s Danish  ~  “Julie’s Blanket”

8)  Hammock  ~  “Blankets Of Night”

9)  Robin Jackson  ~  “Red Blanket”

10)  Kiso ft. Kayla Diamond  ~  “Blanket”

11)  Jasmine Singh  ~  “Blanket”

12)  Elbow  ~  “The Blanket Of Night”

13)  Jess Connelly & Lustbass  ~  “Under Blankets”

14)  Dean Brody  ~  “Little Yellow Blanket”

15)  Oh, Be Clever  ~  “Blanket”

16)  Ari Herstand  ~  “Blanket-Go-Round”

17)  The Barberettes ft. Gilgu Bongu  ~  “White Blanket”  (This is a lovely K-pop Christmas song. Who knew there even WAS such a thing? What is it doing in a blog post in mid-May? Why are we asking so many questions?)

18)  Violent Soho  ~  “Blanket”

19)  Metric  ~  “Wet Blanket”

20)  Urban Species ft. Imogen Heap  ~  “Blanket”

21)  Sananda Maitreya  ~  “Blanket On The Ground”  (If this guy looks or sounds familiar but you don’t recognize his name, it may be because you know him as Terence Trent D’Arby, his former alter-ego.)

22)  Hundred Waters  ~  “Blanket Me”

23)  Billie Jo Spears  ~  “Blanket On The Ground”

24)  Trevor Hall  ~  “Under The Blanket”

25)  The Dejas  ~  “Blanket Song”

BONUS TRACK:  The Drifters  ~  “Under The Boardwalk”  (No, the word “Blanket” doesn’t appear in the title of this timeless tune. But the memorable phrase “on a blanket with my baby” is repeated often throughout the song. And no, these aren’t, in fact, the original Drifters. Most if not all of those guys are long-dead. But their replacements sound pretty darn good to me!)

“Fancy” Songs

Here's a bunch of songs, most of which have nothing to do with each other, except that the word "Fancy" appears in the title of each. Sound familiar? Oh yeah...maybe because I do these sorts of posts all the time. And then I sign off by imploring you to...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox ft. Ashley Stroud  ~  “Fancy”  (I much prefer this version to Iggy Azalea’s. But if you must, here’s the link to the original song.)

2)  Bread  ~  “Fancy Dancer”

3)  Jermaine Jackson & DEVO  ~  “Let Me Tickle Your Fancy”

4)  Reba McEntire  ~  “Fancy”

5)  Chromeo  ~  “Fancy Footwork”

6)  The-Dream  ~  “Fancy”

7)  The Weepies  ~  “Fancy Things”

8)  Ween  ~  “She Caught My Fancy”

9)  Steam Powered Giraffe  ~  “Fancy Shoes”

10)  Silver Convention  ~  “Fancy Party”

11)  Mayer Hawthorne  ~  “Fancy Clothes”

12)  Commodores  ~  “Fancy Dancer”

13)  Miss Li  ~  “The Boy In The Fancy Suit”  (It’s a shame the audio quality isn’t better on this song. From what I can hear, she does a bang-up job of singing it.) 

14)  Andrew Peterson  ~  “Fool With A Fancy Guitar”

15)  The Oak Ridge Boys  ~  “(I’m Settin’) Fancy Free”

16)  The Supremes  ~  “Fancy Passes”

17)  Dave Barnes  ~  “Nothing Fancy”

18)  Kenny  ~  “Fancy Pants”

19)  Lucinda Williams  ~  “Fancy Funeral”

20)  Fred Astaire  ~ “No Strings (I’m Fancy Free)”

21)  Umphrey’s McGee  ~  “Nothing Too Fancy”

22)  The Drowsy Chaperone Cast  ~  “Fancy Dress”

23)  Saxon  ~  “A Little Bit Of What You Fancy”

24)  the 4onthefloor  ~  “Fancy”

25)  Bobbie Gentry  ~  “Fancy”  (The original version of the Reba song – #4 above – Gentry’s rendition is distinctive and popular enough in its own right to also merit inclusion here.)

"Secret" Songs, Vol. 3

Last but not least, here's Vol. 3 in this miniseries featuring Songs About Secrets. I saved some really good ones for this post, and I hope you will enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Queens Of The Stone Age  ~  “The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret”

2)  dodie  ~  “Secret For The Mad”

3)  Bee Gees  ~  “Secret Love”

4)  Katie Melua  ~  “In My Secret Life”  (Yes, I already posted the original version of this Cohen classic in Vol. 1 of this series. But, let’s be honest, Katie sings it so much more beautifully than Leonard ever could have.)

5)  Van Halen  ~  “Secrets”

6)  Doris Day  ~  “Secret Love”

7)  Passion Pit  ~  “Little Secrets”

8)  Roxette  ~  “Secrets That She Keeps”

9)  The Cure  ~  “Secrets”

10)  Phil Wickham ft. Madison Cunningham  ~  “The Secret Place”

11)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “The Secret’s In The Telling”

12)  Kat Graham ft. Babyface  ~  “Secrets”

13)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Secret”

14)  Zara Larsson  ~  “Secret”

15)  Rick Springfield  ~  “What’s Victoria’s Secret?”

16)  Skunk Anansie  ~  “Secretly”

17)  Tears For Fears  ~  “Secrets”

18)  The Veronicas  ~  “Secret”

19)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Secret Garden”

20)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Secret (Take You Home)”  (For some reason, the video repeats without sound around the 3:25 mark. So you can probably just stop it there.)

21)  Pink Floyd  ~  “A Saucerful Of Secrets”

22)  Samantha Jade  ~  “Secret”

23)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Secret Door”

24)  Skillet  ~  “Best Kept Secret”

25)  James Taylor  ~  “Secret O’ Life”

"Secret" Songs, Vol. 2

OK, so this one is actually going to be a three-parter instead of the two-parter originally promised. Turns out there were way too many good "Secret" songs to leave out. Here's Vol. 2. Stay tuned till tomorrow for Vol. 3 (and final). Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Maroon 5  ~  “Secret”

2)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “It’s No Secret”

3)  Johnny Rivers  ~  “Secret Agent Man”

4)  Missy Higgins  ~  “Secret”

5)  Nada Surf  ~  “What Is Your Secret?”

6)  Carly Simon  ~  “We Have No Secrets”

7)  Megadeth  ~  “A Secret Place”

8)  The Bangles  ~  “He’s Got A Secret”

9)  Babyface  ~  “Never Keeping Secrets”

10)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “Your Little Secret”

11)  The Fixx  ~  “Secret Separation”

12)  The Corrs  ~  “Secret Life”

13)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  “Secret Messages”

14)  case/lang/veirs  ~  “Best Kept Secret”

15)  Pillar  ~  “Secrets & Regrets”

16)  Feist   ~  “Secret Heart”

17)  Pat Metheny Group  ~  “So May It Secretly Begin”

18)  Jennifer Lopez  ~  “Secretly / Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You’re Going To?)”

19)  Sonata Arctica  ~  “Victoria’s Secret”

20)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  “It’s No Secret”

21)  Angels & Airwaves  ~  “Secret Crowds”

22)  Anastacia  ~  “Secrets”

23)  Thriving Ivory  ~  “Secret Life”

24)  Judy Collins ft. Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops  ~  “Secret Gardens”

25)  Quincy Jones ft. Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge, & Barry White  ~  “The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)”