SONGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL GOOD

I don’t have an ipod, but since my oldest son, Miles, got me some speakers, with a bass component for it, that hook up to my laptop, I’ve finally begun putting my CDs on my computer. I play them on shuffle so I’m always surprised at what pops up while I’m writing or doing things around the apartment.

I notice some recordings make me burst out in a big smile when they start playing, and some even get me dancing in my chair or as I move around my place.

So, last night, for my falling asleep (I’d say back asleep, but I don’t want my caring friends to worry that I don’t get uninterrupted sleep much) alphabet list, I thought I’d try to remember songs that make me smile and even dance when they come up in the shuffle randomness.

AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSTIVIE, Johnny Mercer
BIRTHDAY, Bjork (when she was the lead singer for The Sugarcubes)
CHERISH THE DAY, Sade
DESAFINADO, Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
EVONCE, Thelonious Monk
FOUR IN ONE, Thelonious Monk
GOOD DAY SUNSHINE, The Beatles
HYPOCHRISTMUTREEFUZZ, Eric Dolphy
I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU, Clifford Brown & Max Roach + (in concert)
JUKEBOX SATURDAY NIGHT, Glen Miller
KALAMAZOO, Glen Miller (with Tex Benecke vocal lead, just the sound of his voice always makes me smile)
LEAN BABY, Frank Sinatra
MILKCOW BLUES BOOGIE, Elvis Presley (from The Sun sessions)
NITA’S RAMBLE/THE FLAMING SHILLELAGH/THE THUNDER REEL, Celtic Thunder (three tunes played together by the original group written by Terence Winc and with him on squeezebox and his brother Jesse on bodrahn (or however you spell that Irish drum)
ONE FLIGHT DOWN, Norah Jones
PEOPLE GOT A LOTTA NERVE, Neko Chase
Q (I don’t have anything recorded that starts with this)
RETRUN TO ROAN INISH (Mist Covered Mountain/Shores of Lough Gowna), Maire Breatnach (from the soundtrack)
SYEEDA’S SONG FLUTE, John Coltrane
TALKIN’ NEW YORK, Bob Dylan
UNDER YOUR SKIN, Luscious Jackson
V (or this)
WHEN I WAS YOUNG, The Animals
X (or this)
YOU’RE GONNA MAKE ME LONESOME WHEN YOU’RE GONE, Madeleine Peyroux
ZOMBIE, The Cranberries (okay, not a happy song, but the way Dolores O'Riordan sings it, especially when she repeats the title with that gritty throaty snarl, it somehow makes me smile, maybe because she’s calling out some jive perspectives)