Some friends have been kidding me about the basis for my latest lists of books and movies (they had to have “of” in their titles). So I figured I’d confirm that by adding a list of SONGS with “of” in their titles.
I came up with this last night to help me fall asleep. As always, they have to be things I dig, not just any old song with “of” in the title. And as these lists always do, it worked (i.e. helped me fall asleep).
ALL OF YOU (Sinatra) [woops, I meant ALL OF ME! thanx Tom]
BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY (Elvis), BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER and BALLAD OF A THIN MAN (both Dylan), BRIGHT SIDE OF THE ROAD (Van Morrison) and THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (Terence Winch)
COMBINATION OF THE TWO (Janis & Big Brother) and CHAIN OF FOOLS (Aretha)
DUKE OF EARL (Gene Chandler)
EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON (Charlie Parker on that album he made with strings)
F?
G? [of course: GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, can't believe I didn't think of that one, thanks Lonnie]
HEARTS OF STONE (The Charms, but I also dug the cover by The Fontane Sisters), HOUSE OF THE RISIN’ SUN (Eric Burdern and The Animals) and HEART OF GLASS (Blondie)
I’M SITTIN’ ON TOP OF THE WORLD (Les Paul & Mary Ford), [PS: left off one I did think of last night but then forgot to write here so am now: IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT (the Five Satins)] I LET A SONG GO OUT OF MY HEART (Monk’s version), I DON’T STAND A GHOST OF A CHANCE WITH YOU (Chet Baker), I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU (Clifford Brown & Max Roach), IN MY TIME OF DYIN’ (Dylan) and IN PRAISE OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE (Terence Winch)
JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS (Bud Powell)
KEEPIN’ OUT OF MISCHIEF (Barbra Streisand) and KISS OF LIFE (Sade)
THE LONESOME DEATH OF HATTIE CARROLL (Dylan)
MEMORIES OF YOU (Sinatra) and MASTERS OF WAR (Dylan)
THE NEARNESS OF YOU (Nat Adderly)
OUT OF MY DREAMS (Shirley Jones) and OUT OF NOWHERE (Miles Davis’s version)
PIECE OF MY HEART (Janis & Big Brother)
QUEEN OF THE SLIPSTREAM (Van the man)
RIVERS OF TEXAS (The Bog Wanderers)
STRING OF PEARLS (Glen Miller), SOUTH OF THE BORDER (Bing and the Andrews Sisters), STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN (Dylan), SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE (Cream), THE STREETS OF BELFAST (Terence Winch), SHE’S OUT OF MY LIFE (Michael Jackson) and STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN (Van Morrison with The Chieftans)
THESE ARMS OF MINE (Otis Redding), A TASTE OF HONEY (Streisand), THESE DREAMS OF YOU (Van Morrison) and TOWER OF SONG (Leonard Cohen)
U?
VISIONS OF JOHANNA (Dylan)
WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF LOVE (The Monotones?)
X?
YOU STEPPED OUT OF A DREAM (Glen Miller) and YOU BROUGHT A NEW KIND OF LOVE TO ME (Sinatra)
ZING WENT THE STRINGS OF MY HEART (Judy Garland)
By All of You do you mean All of Me?
ReplyDeleteHow about Shadow of Your Smile.
Peg of My Heart
ReplyDeleteGive Me a Pig's Foot and a Bottle Of Beer
Hearts Made Of Stone (doodiewhap/doodiewhap"
In the Still Of the Night
All of Me. Why Not Take All of Me?
The Treasure of Love
Who Wrote the Book of Love
In the Still Still Still of the Evening,
tell 'em I'll be there
Sins of Our Fathers
Hey Ed, Four of those you list are on my list. Are you just agreeing or did you think they weren't? (Like "Hearts of Stone" (which you call Hearts Are Made of Stone but on my forty-five, which I still have, it's Hearts of Stone, or All of Me which I inadvertently wrote as All of You (I'd like to hear that song)!
ReplyDeleteHEY Curtis..
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother known far and wide as Aunt Fannie
was a friend of Sophie Tucker..
whenever Sophie came to D.C. The Casino Royal
Sophie always had a front table waiting for my grand-mother
I once went to a show about 1954 or so
Sophie
was
s.o.m.e.t.h.i.n.g. ELSE
lots of girl comedians following her imitated/stole from her
schtick
songs?
One OF these Days, You're Gonna Miss Me, Baby
she once came over to our DGS (we lived over the store) to visit and have my grandmother's gademptuh pot roast
they played some records out of an Al Jolsan album and
Sophie sat on the album breaking all of the records except the one in the record player 78 s
I still got the album with one Jolson record and 2 Gene Autry records and one by The Three Haircuts, and a cpl of Lanza things!
OPPPPS I mistook "Lally" for "Faville" ..
45 s I could tell you what happened to my ENTIRE collectrion (almost all) my 45's!
from the 50's and early 60's
when I started buying the 12 " vinyl ones..
first purchase was The Clovers.. that green cover.. I still got it!
(heck.. I forgot your question!
The second album I got was given to me by my cousin (Robie Rakusin) who was their first manager The Platters.
hey
Sophie Tuckers parents came from same town/place in Russia that my grandmother's parents came from! Damn lucky for us (and them) to bee here!
this (through the 'magic of google) is phun and "write-on"!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/stay-free/6/sophie.htm
well
it s almost 11 am
time to do a Buddha Beer Run
and check out TCM the Picture of Dorian Gray just over...
hey The Harvey Girls next up!
just one more..
ReplyDeleteon one of my Al Martino albums..
To the Door OF the Sun
listen to the lyrics!
Burning question: At your advanced age how can you remember all this stuff after you wake up the next morning? I can't make it much further than ABC!
ReplyDelete~ Willy
well at my "advanced age"
ReplyDeletemy long-term memory is "boss"
it's the spelling and short term 'stuff' that muddles..
it s very simple...
when trying to remeber something it is best remebered when experienced...
entirely!
the main trick is
to not think/connect in a straight line
like they teach you in school or in a crowd!
just
'get in your bag
and do yopur thing'!
and
it will be most likely that
you will become
what
you pretend to be!
Willy,
ReplyDeleteThat's why I make it an alphabet list, or do couplets or triplets that fit together, at least in my mind. But doing an alphabet and picturing it in my mind makes it pretty easy to recall the next day.
Lal
As an aside for Ed Baker, my aunt played Sophie Tucker on Broadway. That said:
ReplyDeleteThe Nearness of You (Hoagy Carmichael)- whoops, you got that one in the Nat Adderley version
One Of These Days (Louvin Brothers, later covered by Emmylou Harris)
Some Kind of Wonderful, the Drifters
Poor Side of Town, Johnny Rivers
These Dreams of You, Van Morrison
That Makes One of Us, Willie Nelson (actually not such a great song, but I like the title)
Deck of Cards, T. Texas Tyler (great spoken-word country song where soldiers in a war zone are told to put away the deck of cards they're playing with and a soldier gives a Bible sermon with them)
End of the World (Jackie de Shannon?)
Pride of Man, Quicksilver (written by Hamilton Camp)
Father of Night, Bob Dylan
Lily Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, also Dylan
Queen of Hearts, Dave Edmunds
Rose of England, Nick Lowe
Out of My Mind, Buffalo Springfield
Out of Time, Rolling Stones
Time is On My Side, Irma Thomas
Two of Us, Beatles
RJ
ReplyDeleteKnock it out brother. Great list, many of which I totally forgot and some of which I never knew so will check them out (I did add, late, Van the man's These Dreams of You before you wrote this though).
Cool. Great tune of Van's.
ReplyDeleteAnd I forgot Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash.
Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
ReplyDelete(I'm here by way of Fr. Tim)
and
ReplyDeletewho can forget ever Deano's version of
Peg o' My Heart I love you?
Peg O’ my heart, I love you
Don’t let us part, I love you
I always knew, it would be you,
Since I heard your lilting laughter
It’s your Irish heart I’m after
Peg O’ my heart, your glances
Make my heart say, how’s Chances
Come be my own, come make your home
In my heart
Peg O’ my heart, I love you
We’ll never part, I love you
Dear little girl, sweet little girl
Sweeter than the Rose of Erin
Are your winning smiles endearing
Peg O’ my heart, your glances
With Irish art, entrance us
Come be my own, come make your home
In my heart
EB
Did I really forget Ring of Fire, Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands and Peg O' My Heart? Thanks, I needed that.
ReplyDeleteor ho about
ReplyDeleteStill's
Find the Cost of Freedom?
Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you, lay your body down
or the never popular
Song of a Scoundrel?