A game instead of content

[newman]

This is about all I can handle right now. Maybe content later.

Inspired by gyzki... "iTunes on shuffle, first lines of the first twenty songs (skipping instrumental pieces, and ones in languages I don't understand). In the Age of Google, this isn't really a challenge anymore, just a peek into part of my life. My eccentric little life."

For my part, I'm amused how many of these songs use the first line as the title.

1. We laughed at love
(Instrumental - Boogie Bumper - I don't count things like "You ready?" and "Yo!" as lyrics)
2. This cat's on a hot tin roof
3. Have you seen the well-to-do ...
4. Hey Louis Prima, you gotta' get the Hell outta' town
("Moanin' -- Art Blakey)
5. It's a wonderful night
6. In eighteen hundred and forty-one I put my corduroy britches on
("Like Young" -- another one that has some words like things, but not really lyrics)
7. Well my temperature's rising, got my feet on the floor
8. I found my thrill
9. There's a burlesque theater where the gang loves to go
("Pride of San Jacinto", Rev. Horton Heat -- another one with "Ho! Ha!")
10. (several minutes of scat) Frosty the Snowman, he's a jolly happy soul
11. Where do you think you're going
12. You must remember this
13. I got a little boogie but it ain't too clean
14. I'm just a gigolo
15. If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
16. I'm gonna tell you a story from way back
17. Yes, la chica alboratada
(skip 'Danse du Sabre')
18. I've got a gal who's always late
19. Baby did a bad, bad thing
20. Swinging through the jungles, I have sailed the seven seas

Comments

[tracytris.livejournal.com]

8 blueberry hill (fats domino?)
12 smoke gets in your eyes (dunno)

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Yes and no

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

8. Blueberry Hill
12. As Time Goes By
14. Just a Gigolo (actually, I have no idea if that's the correct title, but it's how I think of it--same for no. 8, really)

And that's it. (I also have 'Danse du Sabre,' FWIW)

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, and yes. Technically, it's "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by Louis Prima. Presumably they're really two different songs.

[tracytris.livejournal.com]

15 - Putting on the Ritz-- don't recall who did that.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

It's a trick question. Lots of people have done it; by coincidence, two versions (with two different opening lines) showed up on my list.

This one is the Ella Fitzgerald version.

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

(7) Gimme Good Lovin'....The only version that comes to mind is the Blues Brothers' cover; dunno the original :-/

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Close enough - Gimme Some Lovin'. This is the Blues Brothers version. The original was The Spencer Davis Group, written by a very, very young Steve Winwood.

[oakleaf-mirror.livejournal.com]

2 "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by Brian Setzer (perhaps while he was still fronting Stray Cats)

6 "Paddy Works on the Railway" The version I know is by the Pogues, but I think it's rather older.

15 "Putting on the Ritz" I think it's from the 1930s, but the version I'm most familiar with Taco's from the 1980s.

18 "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" Buster Brown did the version I know

19 "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing" Chris Isaak

[new-man.livejournal.com]

2. Yes -- it's from his Orchestra days.

6. I have it as "The Railway Song" and the version I have is by Morwenna's favorite band, The Wages of Sin.

15. Yes, but it's a trick question. Lots of people have done it; by coincidence, two versions (with two different opening lines) showed up on my list. This one is the Ella Fitzgerald version.

18. Yes. Mine is Joe Jackson (although I also have the Dinah Washington version). I first heard this song performed by Tom the Cat in a Tom & Jerry cartoon when I was about 10.

[cimeara.livejournal.com]

No new guesses. I'm always (pleasantly) surprised in this meme by how many songs I -don't- know from people's playlists. Different interests in music is a good thing. *goes to listen to previously unknown tracks*

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Enjoy!

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Well, your #3 might be "Streets of London", and I've got gyzki's 17 and 20, and jducoeur's 3, but they're giveaways.

But I don't think that makes me "musically illiterate". I think that makes me "having a musical taste not entirely congruent with those of all of his friends". I think that's a different thing.

I consider myself, on several counts, rather more musically literate than the average bear. I didn't post my list, BTW, because it isn't something I've particularly maintained, and it isn't really representative of me.

[new-man.livejournal.com]

#3 - Might be... but it's not.

And I certainly don't really think any of my friends are musically illiterate. Thin-skiined and overly literal, sure ;-)