Last week I asked readers to choose a number between 1 and 7000 to help me mark the appearance in the previous post of the 7000th song to be featured on the blog.
Six of you kindly did so. These are the songs that correspond to those numbers on my spreadsheet (on which songs are listed alphabetically by artist and then alphabetically for each artist where there has been one song from the aforementioned artist - for those of you taking notes).
The Big 6 have come up with a pretty cool playlist. Of course that would not have been possible if I hadn't been cool enough to share the songs in the first place. Collectively we're a pretty cool gang. Bonus points go to C and her ESP for picking a number with the word "number" in the title.
"Wild Mountain Thyme" - Marianne Faithfull (Walter - 1893)
"Something On Your Mind" - Karen Dalton (Charity Chic - 1314)
"Peculiar Number" - The Abyssinians (C - 15)
"Sister Carol" - Barrington Levy (Spence - 3535)
"On A Saturday" - Keith West (The Swede - 6666)
"Dark Eyed Sailor" - Folkdove (Pete From Minnesota - 2026)
Walter chose 1893 because it is the year the mighty VfB Stuttgart were founded. While I'm always happy to hear the young Marianne Faithfull singing old British folk songs - and similarly happy to hear a bunch of Breton hippies doing the same on Pete's selection - I can't help wishing Walter's team had been founded just a year earlier. If it had been he would have selected what I consider the greatest mash-up of all time. Here it is.
Ooh, spooky! I like that. Love Swede's pick too.
ReplyDeletePleased with my selection. Barrington Levy is a nod to Ken Barrington my cricket hero as a kid and Sister Carol is a further spooky thing as SC are my initials! Sister Carol comes from (OK I know I'm scraping the barrel of coincidences here) his 1979 alb, Englishman!
ReplyDeleteMust say though that I'm very jealous of CC who pulled out a plum with Karen Dalton's Something On Your Mind.
I missed your call out for a number I'm afraid. I missed Pun Fun 6 too. I need to be more in it. 6 good songs today, well done readers.
ReplyDeleteSwiss Adam
On it.
ReplyDeleteSwiss Adam
A splendid selection, testament to the strength in depth of the tunes you post from week to week.
ReplyDeleteThe mash-up is great fun.
I too missed your call out - sorry.
ReplyDeleteAs for the mash-up, that takes me back. The presenter is the legendary Aberdonian Robbie Shepherd who championed all things Doric and wrote in our local dialect in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. He was a local DJ and also hosted many events and came to our local Gala Week every year to perform his comedy routine.
As for Jimmy Shand, that was the music we had to dance to at our school dances whereas in the rest of the country you probably got T. Rex and the Sweet. Argh...
His take on Topol's famous song was, "If I were a rich man..., A widna hae tae puh neeps... (I wouldn't have to harvest turnips!)".
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