THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
655-Gary Shearston-I Get A Kick Out Of You.
1974-Number 7 single.
Best Bit-At 3.10 A classic Cole Porter song,sung in deadpan fashion by Australia’s most successful ever Folk singer,Gary Shearston.
Cole Porter actually wrote this song in 1931 for the musical ‘Star Dust,’but it wasn’t used,instead it was introduced in the musical ‘Anything Goes’ and sung by Ethel Merman in 1934.
Over the years the song has become widely associated with Frank Sinatra who recorded his first version of the song for his 1954 Album ‘Songs For Young Lovers.’
‘Some get a kick in a plane,flying too high with some gal in the sky is my idea of nothing to do.’
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THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
656-Boz Scaggs-Lowdown.
1976-Number 32 single.
Best Bit-At 1.57 The word ‘Lowdown’ was popular slang meaning a summary of what’s going on for real.
The song is about a girl who doesn’t appreciate what her man gives her.The ‘dirty lowdown’ is the honest truth.
Most of the session musicians on this song would later go on to form the band ‘Toto’ including David Paich who co-wrote the song with Boz Scaggs.
‘Hey son better get back on to town face the sad old truth the dirty lowdown.’
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657-Roy Orbison-Oh,Pretty Woman.
1964-Number 1 single.
Best Bit-At 0.37 Mercy!
The song was co-written by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees.The title was inspired by Orbison’s wife,Claudette,interrupting a conversation to announce she was going out.When Orbison asked if she had enough cash,his co-writer Bill Dees interjected,’A pretty woman never needs any money.’Bill Dees said,’Mercy’ is mine,i used to say that all the time when i saw a pretty woman or had some good food.’
‘No one could look as good as you,mercy.’
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659-Laurie Anderson-O Superman.
1981-Number 2 single.
Best Bit-At 2.40 If you know of a more unusual sounding song to reach Number 2 in the chart i would like to know what it is.
The song became a surprise hit in the UK after it was championed by Radio 1 DJ John Peel.Laurie Anderson explained the songs meaning.’In 1979,Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran.America went blazing in with helicopters to get hostages out,but it backfired.A helicopter and a plane crashed in the desert,we were left with dead bodies and a pile of burning debris,so i thought I’d write a song about all that and the failings of technology.’
‘Here come the planes they’re American planes made in America.’
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660-The Mamas and The Papas-California Dreamin.’
1966-Number 23 single.When re-released in 1997-Number 9.
Best Bit-At 1.17 Instead of a guitar break The Mamas and The Papas wanted to try something different,the Alto Flute solo is performed by Bud Shank.
Co-authors of the song John and Michelle Philips were living in New York City which was having a particularly cold winter.It is a song about longing to be in another place and it was inspired by Michelle’s homesickness.
‘All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey,I’ve been for a walk on a winter’s day.’
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