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Summer’s here, the time is right for the Friday Music Shuffle! Yes, it’s here: what you haven’t been waiting for all week. Ten songs played randomly by my musical device and I tell you what they are and if you want to play along – and why would you not? – then click on the song title!
Let’s rock!
- Light Flight by Pentangle. Fancy an ear worm for starters? Well, this old folk tune is certainly that!
- Spiral Into The Sea by the North Atlantic Explorers. Lush tune from their brilliant album My Father Was A Sailor. My father was a sailor, too
- Champion The Underdog by the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver. Desperately underrated merged band from the early 1970s. The Sutherland Brothers wrote ‘Sailing’, which was a big hit for Rod Stewart.
- Empty Sky by Bruce Springsteen. Perhaps only The Boss could write a great album about 9/11 and The Rising was it. This is from the album.
- Once I Had A Love AKA the Disco Song by Blondie. Basically a grossly inferior version of Heart of Glass.
- 99 Days by jo Jo Gunne. From their album Jo Jo Gunne – how original is that? – comes this piano driven rocker.
- The Bob (Medley) by Roxy Music. First track side two of their eponymous first (fantastic) album from – get this, mind – 1972. It’s about the Battle of Britain. Listen and you will hear.
- My Girls by Animal Collective. Taken from 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, this sing is consistently in my all time top ten tunes. The Beach Boys meet Kraftwerk? I am deeply in love with this song.
- Waiting by Harry Nilsson. Lovely old Nilsson tune going back to 1970.
- When I Stop Dreaming by Don Henley feat Dolly Parton. Wonderful duet between the Eagle and Ms Parton from Henley’s 2015 countrified LP Cass County.
That’s all, folks!
