Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits

A Greatest Hits compilation album is a type of playlist and because the following "Greatest Hits" of songs from Saturday morning children's television shows and cartoons (mostly) from the 1960s and 1970s is an interesting example of popular culture a reference to its songs on the album is provided here - see Wikipedia for play list.

 

Album cover courtesy of MCA.

 

 

Play a few tracks...and move on: Divorce or the end of an "Our Song" Playlist

This is a playlist for breaking up, the anniversary of a divorce or the end of an "Our Song." (Disclaimer - not the editor's and not autobiographical).

Celebrate by Three Dog Night

Celebration by Kool & the Gang

Cold As Ice by Foreigner

Don't the Moon Look Fat and Lonesome Tonight by Joy of Cooking

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright by Peter, Paul & Mary - You just kinda wasted, my precious time."

Feeling Good by Nina Simone - "It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life, for me."

Goodbye's All We Got Left by Steve Earle - "Talkin' won't do any good anyway. Goodbye is all we've got left to say"

I'm Looking Through You by the Beatles

I Should Have Known It by Tom Petty

Love Stinks by J. Geils Band 'All I Can Say is Love Stinks."

One Less Cross to Bear by Joe Bonamassa

Over You by Daughtry "Well, I never saw it coming, I should have started running, A long, long time ago"

Roll WIth It by Steve Winwood

The Sign by Ace of Base

Space by Hootie and the Blowfish - "The house we share is not a home, when you're inside it."

Stronger (What doesn't kill you) by Kelly Clarkson

That's Life by Frank Sinatra

Time for Me to Fly by REO Speedwagon

Wasting Time by Collective Soul

 

 

Rob's Top Fives from "High Fidelity"

Rob Gordon, played by John Cusack, lacks many redeeming qualities in terms of his relationships with women. His enjoyment in having a record store, making lists and mixing tapes are the interesting subjects of the movie for Friends of the Phonograph including his bantering with his 'employee Barry (Jack Black) about records, songs and top five lists -- classic and perfect for this page.

 

Barry and Dick's Top Five songs about death, 'a Laura's Dad tribute list.'

 

'Leader of the Pack', the Shangri-Las

'Dead Man's Curve', Jan & Dean

'Tell Laura I Love Her', Ray Peterson

'One Step Beyond', Madness

'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald', Gordon Lightfoot.

Barry briefly included 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' by the Rolling Stones but then ruled it out because of its appearance in The Big Chill.

Rob's Top Five side one, track ones

'Janie Jones', The Clash

'White Light / White Heat', Velvet Underground

'Smells Like Teen Spirit', Nirvana

'Let's Get It On', Marvin Gaye

'Radiation Ruling the Nation', Massive Attack.

Rob's Top Five angry songs about women

Rob never finishes this list: 'You kind of have to start with Elvis Costello, but where?'

Songs Rob would like to have sung at his funeral

'Many Rivers to Cross', Jimmy Cliff

'Angel', Aretha Franklin

"and I've always had this fantasy that some beautiful, tearful woman would insist on "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" by Gladys Knight. But who would that woman be?"

 

Rob's Top Five Desert Island

'Sin City', Flying Burrito Brothers

'New Rose', The Damned

'Hit It and Quit It,' Funkadelic

'Shipbuilding,' Elvis Costello

'Mystery Train,' Elvis Presley

'Spaced Cowboy', Sly and the Family Stone

Which is actually six, but Rob finds this list almost impossible to complete, and subsequently asks if he can change it.

 

 

Playlist "of my childhood for my grandson."

Candorville, January 25, 2020, by Darrin Bell

"Feel Good" Playlist

Sally Forth, June 20, 2020 by Francesco Marciuliano & Craig Macintosh

Thanks to AKSA for Tracklist Logo