Continuing with songs in my collection from the Songs of the Century as compiled by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
1. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor (#89)
2. Shake, Rattle and Roll – Bill Haley & The Comets (#99, Joe Turner)
3. Friends In Low Places – Garth Brooks (#102)
4. A Tisket A Tasket – Stevie Ray Vaughan (#104, Ella Fitzgerald)
5. I Fall To Pieces – Patsy Cline (#107)
6. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry – Johnny Cash (#114, Hank Williams)
7. Proud Mary – Creedence Clearwater Revival (#115)
8. Puttin’ On The Ritz – Taco (#117, Harry Richman)
9. Layla – Eric Clapton (#118, Derek and The Dominoes)
10. Jump – Big Daddy (#119, Van Halen)
As you know, I also have (and prefer) the CAKE version of “I Will Survive”. I also have the Ike & Tina version of “Proud Mary”. The version of “Layla” listed is from Clapton’s “Unplugged” CD. And I must confess, Stevie Ray Vaughan didn’t record “A Tisket A Tasket” as a standalone song. A verse of it was a bridge in his version of Buddy Guy’s “Mary Had A Little Lamb”, which is on his “Live Alive” album. Which I have on vinyl, and hadn’t ripped to MP3 yet, but I knew I had it and I thought it had a dual title, but it doesn’t. So sue me.
Round 2 report: Started with “Hip To Be Square”, by the Rice MOB. Finished with “Ice Cream Man”, by Van Halen, song #519, for another 74 tunes this week. The last H song was “Hypnotized”, by Linda Jones. The first I song was “I’ll Be Back”, by the Beatles. No, I have no idea why songs that begin with I-apostrophe come before songs that begin with just the word “I” in this playlist; I checked the listing of all songs, and the “I” ones come before the “I’d” and “I’ll” ones. Frankly, I have no idea what kind of sorting algorithm would do that. But there it is.