IV Playlist - LA Times blog

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Quite a few songs referenced in IV are missing from this playlist -
it's really a selection by OBA.

Off the top of my head, "Tears on My Pillow" by Little Anthony & the
Imperials, a-and "We Should Be Together" by TRP's perennial favorite
Sherley Temple (and George Murphy) are not there.

"The Ice Caps Are Melting" is a line from the Tiny Tim song "The
Other Side".

But Roza Eskenazi; to which song does "Tiatimo meraki" refer? Afaik,
not the song "Ime prezakias" ("I'm a junkie") whose Youtube link I sent
to the list some time ago. Am very impressed by the Rembetika genre.
Basileios and/or Tsianides, can you help?


Heikki





On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Dave Monroe wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:45 PM, John Bailey<sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can I recommend not including the Ohio Express song on your playlist?
> > I haven't hit 'skip' so many times in years. It's even worse than I
> > remember.
>
> "YYY" isn't a favorite of mine, either, even so far as OE tracks go.
> Try "Beg, Borrow and Steal" (originally released [as] by The Rare
> Breed, but it's the same recording; not to be confused, however, with
> the Mouse and The Traps track later covered--brilliantly--as "Lie,
> Beg, Borrow and Steal" by The Plimsouls) and/or "Mercy" instead, maybe
> "Down at Lulu's," not to mention their kickass cover of The Standells'
> "Try It" ...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8UpHeo0ag
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX-nHcgnBLM
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rK6aowxlsk
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRNRUcY6svY
>
> ... but do note/recall that IV refers specifically to a (nonexistant,
> so far as I know, or can find, online, at least) Herb Alpert
> arrangement/recording of the song.  Sonny Stitt, on the other hand,
> DID record Crazy Elephant's "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" ...
>