A-Z of Favourite Songs.

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Lindum

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A favourite song for each letter. Any word the A-Z. Any genre.

A - Ave Maria. After a little deliberation I've chosen the Schubert one sung by Mario Lanza from the 1956 film, Serenade. Some will find the church scene a little cheesy but I'm a cheesy kind of guy. Video on YouTube. In some ways I actually prefer this sung by women and Maria Callas and Janet Baker (in German) do lovely versions.
 
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A favourite song for each letter. Any word the A-Z. Any genre.

A - Ave Maria. After a little deliberation I've chosen the Schubert one sung by Mario Lanza from the 1956 film, Serenade. Some will find the church scene a little cheesy but I'm a cheesy kind of guy. Video on YouTube. In some ways I actually prefer this sung by women and Maria Callas and Janet Baker (in German) do lovely versions.
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Mario all the way for me too
 
There has to be lots and lots but

B BABY Love - The Supremes from 1964 which got to number one in a few countries including the UK. Probably two reasons - the first I think it was this song that got me into listening to Motown and secondly whenever I hear it it makes me think of the 'Caterpillar' ride at the Statis in Rotherham. They played it the first time my cousins and I went on that ride. I can smell the fairground now!
 
C - Carrickfergus. A traditional Irish song I've been known to sing after a bottle or two of red. A slightly better rendition is that by Jim McCann and The Dubliners. Video on YouTube.
 
D DANCING IN THE STREET - Martha and the Vandellas got into the top 30 in the UK in 1964 and there have been various versions since. My favourite is actually the David Bowie and Mick Jagger version from 1985.
 
E - Everlasting Love. 1967 no.1 by Love Affair with Steve Ellis on vocals. I liked the official video which had two women dancing behind the band, one dressed like Charlie Chaplin. Takes me back to Saturdays in Rotherham in the sixties at some cellar disco place in a house I think was on Moorgate. Can't remember what the place was called but you queued down the side and went in at the back to a cellar area.
 
F FUNNY FUNNY - Sweet song from the early 70's - don't think it reached the top 10 in the UK. Remember dancing with my niece in the kitchen when it came on the radio.
 
G - Get Back. Quite a few songs with G in the title I like but in the end I went with the Beatles 1969 single mainly because I remember it from the famous Rooftop Concert.
 
H HONEY - Bobby Goldsboro from 1968. Sad but nice. Was the first song I thought of with an H.

Could have had Hey Jude, Help, Hello, Goodbye, Here Comes the Sun from the Beatles or another favourite is Heroes from David Bowie.
 
"Heroes" (y)

Also got the Steve Ellis album, "Riding on the crest of a slump", which is quite good.
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I INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE - classic psychedelic space-rock track from Pink Floyd. Features on the album "The piper at the gates of dawn" album (1967).

...or... "IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA" - psychedelic anthem from US rock band, Iron Butterfly (1968).
 
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K KEEP On Running - Spencer Davis Group from the mid-60's. I had a distance relative we saw a handful of times a year and their daughter played this song over and over and over again on a little record player in her room one summer.
 
L - Lorena. Written in 1856 the song was a favourite with soldiers on both sides in the Civil War. The tune is used extensively in Ken Burns The Civil War, in homecoming scenes in the western, The Searchers and in Gone With the Wind, The Beguiled, Horse Soldiers and Lonesome Dove. Johnny Cash had a hit with it but I like John Hartford's rendition on his 1991 LP, Songs of the Civil War.
 
M MY white bicycle - single released in 1967 by British pyschedelic band, Tomorrow, which featured Steve Howe (later of Yes) on guitar . Scottish band Nazareth had a chart single with their version of the song in 1975. Clips on YouTube.
 
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N NA NA Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - song from 1969 sung by Steam which got into the UK Top Ten. Of course, Millers fans know it as 'na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey Trevor Phillips'.
 
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