Misc - Mash This is our eclectic page ... one-hit wonders, things that are hard to categorize, a grab-bag, a mish-mash of things your webmaster likes.  For now, we’re not even gonna put ‘em in any particular order, so you gotta pick & choose! If we get enough of something to create a category, it might mean a new page.  Looks like Weird Al and Bobby Bare may be inching in that direction already.  In the meantime, this will be an interesting collection of surprises. Enjoy!  Spirit in the Sky ... Norman Greenbaum Dream a Little Dream of Me ... Mama Cass Elliott Gimme Dat Ding ... The Pipkins ... watch girl in green top! Scotch and Soda ... Kingston Trio ... read notes on this one City of New Orleans ... Arlo Guthrie  (live performance, very young) Blue Bayou ... Roy Orbison (live performance) Blue Bayou ... Linda Ronstadt & The Muppets Crazy ... Patsy Cline  (written by Willie Nelson) Hard to be Humble ... Mac Davis Boney Fingers ... Hoyt Axton & Renee Armand Oh Babe, What Would You Say ... Hurricane Smith At Seventeen ... Janis Ian My Way ... Frank Sinatra (was written by Paul Anka) The Summer Wind ... Frank Sinatra & Julio Iglesias Please Release Me ... Engelbert Humperdinck I Don’t Care if it Rains or Freezes ... Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke) Fever ... Peggy Lee I’m a Woman ... Peggy Lee Second Hand Rose ... Barbra Streisand  (from Funny Girl) You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore ... Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond Tonight You Belong to Me ... Patience & Prudence .... huge hit in 1956 Tonight You Belong to Me ... Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters ... “The Jerk” Our Town ... Iris Dement ... closing scene from last episode of “Northern Exposure” In Spite of Ourselves ... John Prine & Iris DeMent Are You Tired of Me, My Darling? ... Nanci Griffith, Iris DeMent, Emmylou Harris Stars & Stripes Forever ... Eubie Blake on piano Stars & Stripes Forever ... Chet Atkins on guitar There Goes My Everything ... Elvis Presley En Gang Ar Ingen Gang ... Swedish version of song above by Anni-Frid Lyngstad (ABBA) Deep Purple ... Nino Tempo & April Stevens Coat of Many Colors ... Dolly Parton (early recording) Long Black Veil ... The Chieftains w/ Mick Jagger  (cover of Johnny Cash song) Mo Ghile Mear ... The Chieftains w/ Sting  (traditional Celtic) Red Is the Rose ... The Chieftains w/ Nanci Griffith Little Love Affairs ... The Chieftains w/ Nanci Griffith Love is Teasin’ ... The Chieftans w/ Marianne Faithfull Nobody’s Darling But Mine... The Chieftains w/ Emmylou Harris Nobody’s Darling But Mine ... Merle Haggard Twilight Time ... The Platters Only You ... The Platters The Great Pretender ... The Platters Smoke Gets In Your Eyes ... The Platters  (slide show from “American Graffiti”) Rainbow ... Russ Hamilton Baby, You’ve Got What it Takes ... Brook Benton & Dinah Washington Big Mable Murphy ... Dallas Frazier (he wrote it) Big Mable Murphy ... Sue Thompson (her ‘60s hits included “Norman” and “Sad Movies”) He’s in the Jailhouse Now ... Tim Blake Nelson (from “O Brother”) I’m My Own Grandpaw ... Homer & Jethro Battle of Camp Kookamonga ... Homer & Jethro (parody of “Battle of New Orleans”) We Didn’t Sink the Bismarck ... Homer & Jethro (parody of Johnny Horton’s “Sink the Bismarck”) Mr Sandman ... The Chordettes ... my hometown heroines from Sheboygan WI Sweetheart of Sigma Chi ... The Chordettes Lonely Lips ... The Chordettes ... featured in a CarMax commercial in Super Bowl XLV Born to be With You ... The Chordettes Lollipop ... The Chordettes ... early fifties girl group made transition to rock with this one Wild Side of Life ... Hank Thompson Honky Tonk Angels ... Kitty Wells (a “reply” to Thompson’s song, above) Vincent (Starry Starry Night) ... Don McLean (tribute to Vincent Van Gogh) If Ever I Would Leave You ... John Gary It’s an Irish Lullaby ... John Gary When Irish Eyes are Smiling ... John Gary Ave Maria (Schubert) ... Nana Mouskouri La Paloma ... Nana Mouskouri & Mireille Mathieu La Vie En Rose ... instrumental Santa Baby ... Cynthia Basinet (this one’s been erroneously attributed to Marilyn Monroe) Someone To Watch Over Me ... Cynthia Basinet Someone To Watch Over Me ... Blossom Dearie Killing Me Softly ... Blossom Dearie (up-tempo, unusual) Everybody’s Talkin’ ... Harry Nilsson The Boxer ... Simon & Garfunkel Kodachrome ... Paul Simon  (interesting slide show) Slow Hand ... The Pointer Sisters Fairytale ... The Pointer Sisters Fairytale ... Elvis Presley Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart ... Elton John & Kiki Dee Lonesome 7-7203 ... Hawkshaw Hawkins It’s Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night ... Vince Gill Talking in Your Sleep ... Crystal Gayle Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue ... Crystal Gayle It’s a Heartache ... Bonnie Tyler In the Summertime ... Mungo Jerry A Little Bit of Soap ... Jarmels Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime ... Dean Martin You’re Nobody ‘til Somebody Loves You ... Dean Martin Love is Just a Sin Away ... The Kendalls You’re Sixteen ... Ringo Starr No No Song ... Ringo Starr Guess It Doesn’t Matter Anymore ... Buddy Holly Rave On ... Buddy Holly Hot Rod Heart ... John Fogerty Blue Moon NIghts ... John Fogerty Poor Jenny ... Everly Brothers Love Hurts ... Everly Brothers Walk Right Back ... Everly Brothers Detroit City ... Bobby Bare All-American Boy ... Bobby Bare (says Bill Parsons on label, that’s wrong) Drop Kick Me, Jesus ... Bobby Bare  (world’s only Christian football waltz) Rosalie’s Good Eats Cafe ... Bobby Bare (lyrics by Shel Silverstein) Worried Man Blues ... Bobby Bare Second Week of Deer Camp ... Da Yoopers Rusty Chevrolet ... Da Yoopers  (a Christmas tune) Happy Birthday Fungus Face ... Da Yoopers I Just Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore ... Stan Boreson Lasagna ... Weird Al Yankovic Alimony ... Weird Al Yankovic You Make Me ... Weird Al Yankovic I Think I’m a Clone Now ... Weird Al Yankovic Melanie ... Weird Al Yankovic Good Old Days ... Weird Al Yankovic I TOLD you my tastes were all over the map! Next up ... maybe we’ll get to some some marches & polkas, and a bit of classical.  Probably need to create sections in Country for Jim Reeves & Marty Robbins ... too many songs for each of ‘em to fit in this section.  Their stuff is fantastic, rarely heard these days, and though they’re often identified as country, a lot of their stuff crossed to the pop charts. Same for Patsy Cline ... only a few of her songs are heard frequently any more ... and the Kingston and Chad Mitchell Trios. I think this list is going to get pretty long ...