My oldies/AC iPod

[ATSFGuy]

Hmm, I don't see Flashdance, Fame, Roll Me Away, We've Got Tonite, Heavy Fuel, Lady Writer, So Far Away, Money For Nothing, La Isla Bonita, or Conga anywhere.

Is the Overall list 60-80 songs?

You need some instrumental tracks as well.

 

[oldies76]

Hmm, I don't see Flashdance, Fame, Roll Me Away, We've Got Tonite, Heavy Fuel, Lady Writer, So Far Away, Money For Nothing, La Isla Bonita, or Conga anywhere.

Is the Overall list 60-80 songs?

You need some instrumental tracks as well.

Yeah, that list is missing some great tunes, but he does have a lot that I enjoy. "La Isla Bonita", my personal favorite by Madonna, 1987 smash! Instrumentals would add to the mix! "Lady Writer" (1979) is an incredible song. Personally, I think it's Dire Straits best along with "Sultans of Swing".

 

[vchimpanzee]

Hmm, I don't see Flashdance, Fame, Roll Me Away, We've Got Tonite, Heavy Fuel, Lady Writer, So Far Away, Money For Nothing, La Isla Bonita, or Conga anywhere.

Is the Overall list 60-80 songs?

You need some instrumental tracks as well.

And you won't see most of those. Is that second one David Bowie or Irene Cara? Nothing by David Bowie will be in my list. There is a longer list I haven't posted. "We've Got Tonight" is one I could add. The Kenny Rogers/Sheena Easton version my be in the standards iPod which is another thread.

"Conga" should be there too. I'm debating "So Far Away".

 

[vchimpanzee]

Yeah, that list is missing some great tunes, but he does have a lot that I enjoy. "La Isla Bonita", my personal favorite by Madonna, 1987 smash! Instrumentals would add to the mix! "Lady Writer" (1979) is an incredible song. Personally, I think it's Dire Straits best along with "Sultans of Swing".

Instrumentals will likely be in the standards iPod, which is another thread.

"TSOP" and "Pick Up the Pieces" are there. Those are technically instrumentals.

 

[CTListener]

And you won't see most of those. Is that second one David Bowie or Irene Cara? Nothing by David Bowie will be in my list. There is a longer list I haven't posted. "We've Got Tonight" is one I could add. The Kenny Rogers/Sheena Easton version my be in the standards iPod which is another thread.

"Conga" should be there too. I'm debating "So Far Away".

The only Bowie I think might work among the songs ATSF suggested would be "Modern Love." Cara's "Fame," though, definitely has the right sound for the mix.

 

[ATSFGuy]

Here's some more:


Young Holt Unlimited
Soulful Strut

Grazing In The Grass
Hugh Masekela

Brooker T. and the M.G.'s
Time Is Tight

Wipe Out
The Surfaris

The Ventures
Walk, Don't Run

The Ventures
Perfidia

Classical Gas
Mason Williams

The T-Bones
No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)

Paul Mauriat
Love Is Blue

Bob Crewe Generation
Music to Watch Girls By

Washington Square
The Village Stompers

The Bar-Kays
Soul Finger

The Mar-Kets
Last Night

Out of Limits
The Marketts

The "In" Crowd
Ramsey Lewis Trio

Santo & Johnny
Sleep Walk

Wonderland By Night
Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
Hugh Montenergo

Herp Alpert & The Tijuana Bass
Mexican Shuffle

 

[vchimpanzee]

Here's some more:


Young Holt Unlimited
Soulful Strut

Grazing In The Grass
Hugh Masekela

Brooker T. and the M.G.'s
Time Is Tight

Wipe Out
The Surfaris

The Ventures
Walk, Don't Run

The Ventures
Perfidia

Classical Gas
Mason Williams

The T-Bones
No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)

Paul Mauriat
Love Is Blue

Bob Crewe Generation
Music to Watch Girls By

Washington Square
The Village Stompers

The Bar-Kays
Soul Finger

The Mar-Kets
Last Night

Out of Limits
The Marketts

The "In" Crowd
Ramsey Lewis Trio

Santo & Johnny
Sleep Walk

Wonderland By Night
Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly
Hugh Montenergo

Herp Alpert & The Tijuana Bass
Mexican Shuffle

Look at my standards iPod and some of those are there.

I do have to add the T-Bones after hearing that yesterday.

 

[oldies76]

Here's some more:


Young Holt Unlimited
Soulful Strut

Grazing In The Grass
Hugh Masekela

Brooker T. and the M.G.'s
Time Is Tight...........

All great instrumentals ATSF (i shortened your list so it wouldn't cut off), but I did see the other titles. Two great instrumentals vchimp could add is "Hang Em High" and "Melting Pot" by Booker T & the MG's. Those two are fabulous along with the above mentioned song.

 

[ATSFGuy]

As a kid growing up in the late 1990's - late 2010's, I used to hear the first seven on KRTH all the time.

 

[vchimpanzee]

All great instrumentals ATSF (i shortened your list so it wouldn't cut off), but I did see the other titles. Two great instrumentals vchimp could add is "Hang Em High" and "Melting Pot" by Booker T & the MG's. Those two are fabulous along with the above mentioned song.

I may have added some Booker T & the MGs to my standards iPod but I'm not sure.

 

[ATSFGuy]

I may have added some Booker T & the MGs to my standards iPod but I'm not sure.

Make sure you check that.

Here’s another one;

Keem O Sabe
Electric Indian

 

[kevtronics]

But does "Wipe Out" count as an instrumental if it includes some intelligible vocals? IIRC the old Beautiful Music rule was that it could count as an instrumental as long as any vocals were not intelligible words, like the Ray Conniff singers singing "baa baa baa, doo doo doo..." instead of the original lyrics.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Make sure you check that.

Here’s another one;

Keem O Sabe
Electric Indian

I added the Booker T songs to the oldies iPod, and that one.

 

[vchimpanzee]

But does "Wipe Out" count as an instrumental if it includes some intelligible vocals? IIRC the old Beautiful Music rule was that it could count as an instrumental as long as any vocals were not intelligible words, like the Ray Conniff singers singing "baa baa baa, doo doo doo..." instead of the original lyrics.

"TSOP" isn't an instrumental, then.

 

[kevtronics]

"TSOP" isn't an instrumental, then.

But "Louie Louie" would count as one, because it's entirely incomprehensible.

 

[davideduardo]

These are just some of the songs I should have included above. Amazingly, I made four lists back ten years ago, when the web site I was on limited the size of posts. And these songs weren't on any of them. Some of the songs here I put on lists of what I intended to add to the four lists, and just never did. I don't think any of these are on my standards list, but my intention was not to include any of the songs from there.

I see the point.

Sheb Wooley--Purple People Eater

You pretty much had me up to there, although "Popcorn" was at the edge. But the Purple song is where I vomit and tune out.

 

[ATSFGuy]

I see the point.

You pretty much had me up to there, although "Popcorn" was at the edge. But the Purple song is where I vomit and tune out.

I'm dropping the Purple People Eater one.

 

[ATSFGuy]

I'm dropping the Purple People Eater one.

and replacing it with

Brooker T. & the M.G.'s
Green Onions

 

[vchimpanzee]

There are cases like "Susie Q" by Creedence where I am tempted, but there are just parts of the song I don't like, and I can't just put the good parts in my iPod.

 

[oldies76]

You pretty much had me up to there, although "Popcorn" was at the edge. But the Purple song is where I vomit and tune out.

Sheb Wooley's classic isn't nearly as bad as other novelties. Try listening to "Bat Dance" from 1989. Cannot stand that song!! And how that junk became #1 on Billboard is beyond comprehension.