Archive for the ‘Music’ category

Teach Your Children: CSN&Y

August 8, 2010

Okay, you've heard it here before, but it is from Deja Vu, one of my deserted island albums, and I get to play those more often.

This is their first album with Neil Young added. It was released in 1970.

God Bless the Child: Billie Holiday

August 8, 2010

From God Bless The Child – The Very Best Of Billie Holiday

Society’s Child: Janis Ian

August 8, 2010

This was number 85 on Billboard's Top 100 of 1967. Janis Ian was fourteen when she finished writing it.

A Child’s Claim to Fame: Buffalo Springfield

August 8, 2010

I was always a Buffalo Springfield fan.

This is from Buffalo Springfield Again, a folk rock album released in 1967. It is ranked number 188 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Lazy River: Bobby Darin

August 7, 2010

From The Ultimate Bobby Darin

Lazy Lady: Fats Domino

August 7, 2010

From This is Gold, Volume 2.

Lazy Day: Spanky and Our Gang

August 7, 2010

From K-Tel Presents Land of 1000 Dances-Songs of the 60's.

Lazybones: The Mills Brothers

August 7, 2010

From 1934's Too Marvelous for Words

Beans, Bacon and Gravy: Cisco Houston

August 6, 2010

This is from a Folkways recording released in 1960 called Cisco Houston Sings Songs of the Open Road. It's still available here at Smithsonian-Folkways:

http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=373

Homegrown Tomatoes: Guy Clark

August 6, 2010

Every summer about this time I play this song.

The other day I saw tomatoes on the table in front of the house where I stop to buy vegetables. Paying is on the honor system, and I was more than happy to pay for my homegrown tomatoes.

This is from 1983's Better Days.