I Beg Your Parton
Welcome to Day 16 of the badly titled Everyone Has Got one Good Song blog thing.
I was thinking
of building the ultimate playlist with one simple rule. One artist. One song.
Each day will feature a song by an artist whose birthday is that day and then nine
other songs by nine different artists just because people like things to be in
tens.
The playlist
is here - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4exU9MUJMWaouOgnu7zmSl?si=I5fqk7VpQX6aDGec7xvqsQ&pi=e-IfIWXc5GT56R
So, the idea was
that you might want to follow and share and either have the playlist yourself
or do your own or chat about it with me, you could use the hashtag #EHGOGS.
I’m on Twitter X
thing as @fourfoot
Today’s selection.
Our featured
birthday artist is latter-day American saint, country icon, style guru and champion
of good causes Dolly Parton. Jolene is one of the greatest songs of all time
and no amount of eloquent wordsmithery (hardly my strong point) will do it
justice so I’ve gone for 9 to 5 instead.
The other songs
today….
Nantucket Sleighride
- Mountain. If the sound of the Last of the Antiques Roadshow Wine theme
tunes triggers a kind of school centred Sunday evening despair in you, and it
probably does, then think of this, the sound of an impending Sunday lunch and
the possibility of catching Brian Moore introducing The Big Match after. The
old theme to Weekend World with weasel-faced Bwian Walden (misspelling
deliberate) is a belter.
Welfare Bread –
King Khan and the Shrines. A bit of tight as fuck garage soul-rock revival
to take you into the weekend, eh? Why not…
Never Get Ahead –
Bobby Conn – Imagine Leo Sayer singing with the MC5. Well, this isn’t that
but it could almost be.
Sweeping the
Nation - Spearmint. No Northern Soul sample has ever been deployed as well
as this Dobie Gray one.
Maroon – Ken Nordine.
Bit of spoken word to break the mood. Ken’s album Colours is an acquired
taste for sure but a little now and then is to be encouraged.
A Matter of
Trust – Billy Joel – This is the kind of thing I wanted to start this blog
for. Billy’s largely unfashionable now but he could write a fucking tune and
this is what lesser minds would probably call a guilty pleasure.
Bridge to Your
Heart - Wax. This is the 7th greatest single of the 1980s. (FULL
TOP 100 list available for a fee). Absolute pop majesty.
People Power in
the Disco Hour - Clinton. Sometimes a title is enough for me to know I’m
about to hear greatness.
Love is Not a
Romantic Song – My Little Airport. I like to end on a high note. What a
title. What a band name. 67 seconds of fragile joy.
Tomorrow, we have
ten more….including one from birthday boy Nicky Wire.
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