"Spare" Songs

No, these aren’t a bunch of songs left over from previous posts, nor are they songs that simply wouldn’t fit in with any theme so I put them altogether in one post (although I wouldn’t put it past myself to do either of those things). These are, quite literally, a bunch of “Spare” Songs in that the word “Spare” appears in the title of each. Not surprisingly – because good music abounds, if you know where to find it – there are some real gems here, by both well-known and lesser-known artists. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  “Spare Me A Little Of Your Love”

2)  Adam Ostrar  ~  “Spare Me”

3)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  “Spare Change”

4)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “No Spare Parts”

5)  Irya’s Playground  ~  “Give Me A Spare Hour”

6)  the Big Nose Attack  ~  “Spare Some Change”

7)  Honeyblood  ~  “No Spare Key”

8)  Tom Paxton  ~  “Time To Spare”

9)  Shortly  ~  “Spare Time”

10)  Robert Cray  ~  “Spare Some Love?”

11)  The Love Compartment  ~  “Spare Parts”

12)  Mandy Patinkin  ~  “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?”

13)  Gossip  ~  “Spare Me From The Mold”

14)  The Republic Of Wolves  ~  “Spare Me”

15)  Victoria Reed  ~  “Spare Heart”

16)  Andrew Bird  ~  “Spare-Ohs”

17)  Cassie Taylor  ~  “Spare Some Love”

18)  Chris Rice  ~  “Spare An Angel”

19)  Connie Smith  ~  “Five Fingers To Spare”

20)  Merle Haggard ft. Willie Nelson & Freddy Powers  ~  “If You Can Spare The Time (I Won’t Miss The Money)”

21)  Caitlin Rose  ~  “Spare Me”

22)  Frankie Laine  ~  “There’s Not A Moment To Spare”

23)  Kiss The Curse  ~  “Spare Me”

24)  George Strait  ~  “Anything You Can Spare”

25)  Carla Bianco  ~  “Spare Window”

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”