Episode #15: Jazzy Ladies and Pretty Young Things
Friday, March 29th, 2013Our sets this week include numbers recorded before you were born by jazzy ladies with beautiful voices as well as more recent recordings by famous Brits most of whom are still alive. We also have cover tunes, a Eurovision Song Contest winner, Bollywood soundtrack music, Hawaiian steel guitar, coconuts (some as big as your head), a song that's had six million views on YouTube, and a selection from what was at one time the best-selling album in history. And we end with an instrumental by one of The Men from U.N.C.L.E. (though they weren't real uncles).
We're already plotting what comes next. You will benefit from our plotting.
- Ruth Etting — It All Depends on You
- Peggy Lee — Them There Eyes
- Dinah Shore — Blues in the Night
- Billie Holiday — Sugar
- Paul McCartney — Man We Was Lonely
- Paul McCartney — Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
- Herman's Hermits — A Must to Avoid
- Peter and Gordon — A World Without Love
- Joni Mitchell — Why Do Falls Fall in Love?
- Kalyanji & Anandji Shah — The Great Gambler
- Sal Hoopii's Quartet — Hula Girl
- Danny Kaye — I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
- Kate Bush — Rubberband Girl
- Michael Jackson — P. Y. T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Lena Meyer-Landrut — Satellite
- Mandy Moore — Umbrella
- Katy Perry — Hackensack
- The Thrills — Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)
- David McCallum — The Edge