Phil’s Faves: Songs, September 9, 2012

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.

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Green Day is now on a good list and a bad one. That’s not easy to do! But Jessica Dayle has been placed in the odd position of being in competition with herself, and her singer friend is closing in on the top spot. It’s a good place to be as “Summertime” rules for a seventh week!
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of September 9, 2012

1. Summertime—Jessica Dayle
2. Maybe I’ll Fly—Barbara Lynn Doran
3. Pontoon—Little Big Town
4. My Bet’s I’m a Fool—Jessica Dayle
5. Tight Shoes—George Bedard (Original Single Version)
6. I Heard the Bluebirds Sing—The Browns
7. Here Comes the Sun—Yuna
8. Oh Love—Green Day
9. (Kissed You) Good Night—Gloriana
10. Over—Blake Shelton

1) “Summertime”Jessica Dayle sweetly sings to her boyfriend that I’m wearin’ my favorite dress/You waited all winter to see. Man, that must be some dress! Just another one of the many reasons to like “Summertime!”
2) “Maybe I’ll Fly”Barbara Lynn Doran’s song on its own is just great! That smoking hot guitar solo in the middle makes it even better!
3) “Pontoon”—Some big old speedboat cut in front of Lille Big Town and they had to slow down after being caught in its wake……………
4) “My Bet’s I’m a Fool”—I have used a variation of the advice that Jessica Dayle’s mother gives her about staying out late. I always told my children that, “When you’re out, nothing good ever happens after midnight.” Jessica’s quotes her mother as saying that there’s no respectable place to go after midnight. I wholeheartedly agree! Jessica does a great job and The Magnolia Buckskins on back-up vocals give her the right amount of female support as they throw away the validity of the boyfriend’s excuses!
5) “Tight Shoes”—Those shoes should be feeling pretty comfortable by now, since George himself has described the song as the one he’s probably played the most over the course of his career……..
6) “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing”—Earlier this year, I went through withdrawal symptoms for this song made famous by The Browns, a country singing group from the fifties and sixties. At the time, I couldn’t locate a copy of the original but I found a more than respectable replacement by Canadian singer, Tracey K. Houston, that wisely included Jim Ed Brown of The Browns, singing harmony with her. But my fix has been satisfied as I finally found a vinyl copy of the RCA single. It is everything I remember the song to be and then some as two singers describe a long time romance that sounds like it was pulled from a remote holler! Just sublime!
7) “Here Comes the Sun”Yuna’s version of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” was included on the soundtrack to “Savages,” which was released earlier this year. It has new age sensibilities with a little bit of Eastern psychedelic flavoring! It’s really enjoyable and one of the best covers of George Harrison’s song!
8) “Oh Love”Green Day put out a lousy video for this song, but it still has all of the qualities that I like about Green Day’s music: a catchy simplistic melodic within a basic rock framework. They’re just toying with us because this is the kind of song they could do in their sleep. But it gets under your skin!
9) “(Kissed You)” Good Night”—I think this week is the “good night kiss” for Gloriana………….
10) “Over”—I keep thinking “it’s over” with Blake Shelton, but he keeps hanging around………………..
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