Songs About Gravy

This week, I'll take a break from the "Popular Songs Of..." posts to regale you with a variety of posts featuring songs about extremely random things. Not that the songs contained within are anything to balk at – they're really good, for the most part – but the subjects I chose for song collections are, well, "interesting." For example: Songs About Gravy. Dig in...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beck  ~  “Nicotine & Gravy”

2)  Mark Knopfler & Sonny Landreth  ~  “Gravy Train”

3)  Áine Crehan  ~  “Gravy”

4)  George Benson  ~  “Giblet Gravy”

5)  Caballero Reynaldo & The Grand Kazoo  ~  “Lumpy Gravy”

6)  The Soul Motivators  ~  “Gravy Train”

7)  Flyying Colours  ~  “Wavygravy”

8)  Dale Watson & The Texas Two  ~  “My Baby Makes Me Gravy”

9)  Romeo ft. Christina Milian  ~  “It’s All Gravy”

10)  The Sagittarians  ~  “Good Gravy”

11)  Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition  ~  “Who’ll Sop My Gravy”

12)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Biscuits”  (No, the word “gravy” doesn’t appear in the title of this song, but it is prominent throughout. Plus, this is a super-cute ditty, so here it is…)

13)  Paul Kelly  ~  “How To Make Gravy”

14)  Bobby Bare ft. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Ray Sawyer, & Shel Silverstein  ~  “Greasy Grit Gravy”

15)  The Manhattan Transfer  ~  “Pork Chops And Gravy”

16)  Climax Blues Band  ~  “Sav’ry Gravy”

17)  Dingus Khan  ~  “Dustbin Gravy”

18)  Phantom Limb  ~  “Gravy Train”

19)  Okey Dokey  ~  “Wavy Gravy”

20)  Pirates Of The Mississippi  ~  “Gravy”

21)  Julie O’Hara  ~  “Gravy Waltz”

22)  Soulfinger  ~  “Grits & Gravy”

23)  Sideline  ~  “Soppin' The Gravy”

24)  Homer & Jethro  ~  “Bread ’N Gravy”

25)  Jo Stafford  ~  “Ridin' On The Gravy Train”

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 5

Well, here it is. My last chance to post your favorite song(s) from thirty years ago. Hopefully, I covered all the good ones. If not, let me know what I missed. I hope you will... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “I Get Weak”

2)  Bobby Brown  ~  “My Prerogative”

3)  R.E.M.  ~  “Stand”

4)  Tanya Tucker  ~  “Strong Enough To Bend”

5)  Terence Trent D’Arby  ~  “Sign Your Name”

6)  Aerosmith  ~  “Rag Doll”

7)  Vixen  ~  “Edge Of A Broken Heart”

8)  Ricky Van Shelton  ~  “Don’t We All Have The Right”

9)  Bobby McFerrin  ~  “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

10)  Patrick Swayze ft. Wendy Fraser  ~  “She’s Like The Wind”

11)  Rodney Crowell  ~  “I Couldn’t Leave You If I Tried”

12)  Amy Grant  ~  “Lead Me On”

13)  Exile  ~  “I Can’t Get Close Enough”

14)  Poison  ~  “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”

15)  Taylor Dayne  ~  “Prove Your Love”

16)  George Michael  ~  “Father Figure”

17)  Def Leppard  ~  “Love Bites”

18)  Highway 101  ~  “Just Say Yes”

19)  Richard Marx  ~  “Should’ve Known Better”

20)  Brenda Russell  ~  “Piano In The Dark”

21)  Kix  ~  “Don't Close Your Eyes"

22)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Smooth Criminal”

23)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Paradise City”

24)  Whitney Houston  ~  “One Moment In Time”

25)  Steve Winwood  ~  “Roll With It”

26)  The Judds  ~  “Turn It Loose”

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 4

If you haven't seen/heard your favorite song from 1988 thus fair, do not despair – it might be in this post. Or the final one tomorrow. If neither, I apologize – and please let me know what gem I might have missed. Regardless... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Terence Trent D’Arby  ~  “Wishing Well”

2)  George Michael  ~  “Kissing A Fool”

3)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”

4)  Poison  ~  “Nothin’ But A Good Time”

5)  Conway Twitty  ~  “That’s My Job”

6)  Neneh Cherry  ~  “Buffalo Stance”

7)  Foreigner  ~  “I Don’t Want To Live Without You”

8)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Cherry Bomb”

9)  Cher  ~  “I Found Someone”

10)  Dokken  ~  “Walk Away”

11)  Rich Mullins  ~  “Awesome God”

12)  Sheena Easton  ~  “The Lover In Me”

13)  White Lion  ~  “Wait”

14)  INXS  ~  “Never Tear Us Apart”

15)  Tanya Tucker  ~  “If It Don’t Come Easy”

16)  Milli Vanilli  ~  “Girl, You Know It’s True”

17)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Hungry Eyes”

18)  Highway 101  ~  “Cry, Cry, Cry”

19)  New Edition  ~  “If It Isn’t Love”

20)  David Lee Roth  ~  “Just Like Paradise”

21)  Pretty Poison  ~  “Catch Me (I’m Falling)”

22)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “Everything Your Heart Desires”

23)  Al B. Sure!  ~  “Nite And Day”

24)  Gloria Estefan  ~  “Can’t Stay Away From You”

25)  Van Halen  ~  “Finish What Ya Started”

26)  U2  ~  “Desire”

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 3

Hope you aren't tired of the most Popular Songs Of 1988 yet...because here's another set of 'em! (And there'll be another set after that. And one more.) No filler songs here, all good stuff from almost every conceivable genre. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bobby Brown  ~  “Don’t Be Cruel”

2)  Taylor Dayne  ~  “I’ll Always Love You”

3)  Cinderella  ~  “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)”

4)  Richard Marx  ~  “Endless Summer Nights”

5)  The Jets  ~  “Make It Real”

6)  George Strait  ~  “Famous Last Words Of A Fool”

7)  Breathe  ~  “Hands To Heaven”

8)  Joan Jett & The Blackhearts  ~  “I Hate Myself For Loving You”

9)  Ray Boltz  ~  “Thank You”

10)  Living Colour  ~  “Cult Of Personality”

11)  Jody Watley  ~  “Don’t You Want Me”

12)  Peter Cetera  ~  “One Good Woman”

13)  Paul Carrack  ~  “Don’t Shed A Tear”

14)  Natalie Cole  ~  “Pink Cadillac”

15)  Steve Winwood  ~  “Valerie”

16)  R.E.M.  ~  “Orange Crush”

17)  Debbie Gibson  ~  “Out Of The Blue”

18)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Dirty Diana”

19)  Ronnie Milsap ft. Mike Reid  ~  “Old Folks”

20)  Anita Baker  ~  “Giving You The Best That I Got”

21)  George Michael  ~  “Faith”

22)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Welcome To The Jungle”

23)  Whitney Houston  ~  “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”

24)  Cheap Trick  ~  “Don’t Be Cruel”  (Unsurprisingly, this is NOT the same song as Bobby Brown's at the beginning of this list.)

25)  Keith Whitley  ~  “When You Say Nothing At All”

26)  Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine  ~  “Anything For You”