New cd Idea
Oct. 10th, 2003 01:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2Another cd idea that I've thought of before is songs based on days of the week. You know, "Monday Monday" by the Mommas and Poppas... "Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones, etc. Only when you get to Wednesday and Thursday it's not as easy to think of songs... and there are tons of Saturday songs to choose from... "Saturday Night" by the Bay City Rollers, "Saturday Ninght's All Right For Fighting" by Elton John, etc.
One trick that's fun to do is to go to All Music Guide and do a search on song titles that include the word "Wednesday".
While doing this I discovered something. Not only could you do a cd of day of the week songs... you could limit it to songs with titles like "Monday's Child" "Tuesday's Child" etc. or "Monday Blues" "Tuesday Blues" etc. Could probably do "Monday Girl" etc. too if I wanted.
Monday's Child Mick Byrd, Tony Coe, and Quiet Revolution have each done songs by this title.
Monday Blues Songs by Dwarves, James Moody, Tiger Okoshi and Billy Vaughn. Also "Blue Monday" is a Fats Domino song that has been covered by dozens of people including Dave Edmunds, Dion, Bobby Darrin, etc. Meanwhile John Lee Hooker has his own "Blue Monday", Buddy Guy has his own song by that title, and New Order did their own song by that title.
The "Monday" song title with the most hits (strictly based on how many albumns that song title appears on... not how popular any given song or song title is)... not Monday Monday (132), not Blue Monday (with 218 hits) but "Stormy Monday" with 344 hits overall... this is a T-Bone Walker hit that's apparently been covered by everyone, including the Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, The Jackson Five, Manfred Mann, and apparently Count Basie and Lou Rawls? Some of the info at AMG can get a little muddy so the last two might have been doing different songs by the same name.
Tuesday's Child CCM artist Steven Curtis Chapman has a song by this title, as does the Sabbath-influenced band Trouble on their "Run Into The Light" cd (which I probably should own but don't). Also songs by All About Eve, Copper, Donkey, Speed Limit, and Zwarte. Whoever they are.
Tuesday Blues Paul Lamb and also Bobby Shew. "Tuesday's Blues" by Aynsley Dunbar and Phil Krauth. Also a "Tuesday Blue" by Fludd. No I don't know any of these people, but they're out there somewhere.
Most popular "Tuesday" song is of course Ruby Tuesday, but "Tuesday" has been used a lot and also "Tuesday's Gone" which is a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song.
Wednesday's Child Film music composer John Barry has a song by this title that's been covered by others including Matt Monro, Mike Hurst Orchestra, and Sounds Spectacular (on their "Play Great Motion Picture Themes" albumn). Other songs with this title were done by Thomas Talbert, Emiliana Torrini, Glenn Wilson, Frances Wayne, and several others I don't know.
Wednesday's Blues Done by the Joe Newman Quintet on the cd "Jive at Five" which apparently is in the Count Basie vein, partly because three of the five members are from Count Basie's orchestra. John Lee Hooker has a "Wednesday Evening Blues" that has appeared on about a billion albumns of his.
These two songs would appear to be the most popular "Wednesday" titles.
Thursday's Child This is the title of a David Bowie song. Also the Chameleons UK did a song by this title (aha! NOW we're getting somewhere... I have all of their cds... but this song only appears on some weird live cds that I don't have. Wah!). Yet another version has been covered by Eartha Kitt and a couple of others, but it's credited to "Boyd/Grand".
Thursday Blues Dick Carey and Jimmy Rushing have used this song title. "Blue Thursday" has been used by Franz Jackson, Larry Elgart, and Machineries of Heaven.
Most popular "Thursday" title is "Thursday", although "Thursday's Child" is second. Songs called Thursday were performed by Jim Croce and Count Basie among others... also Country Joe & The Fish.
Friday's Child Was a song performed by Nancy Sinatra, and Van Morrison also did a song by this title.
Friday Blues Is performed by a bluegrass outfit named "Open Road".
I just realized that if I type in "Blue Friday" I get some different hits that I didn't get with just the word Friday. Ex: "Blue Friday" "Blues for Friday" "Good Friday Blues" "Friday Night Blues" "Friday Nite Blu" "Friday Evening Blues" "Lonely Friday Blues" "Friday Moan Blues" and "Friday the Thirteenth Blues".
Most popular "Friday" title is "Friday Night" which has been the name of many different songs by many different people. For example, a europop group called Arabesque.
Saturday's Child The Monkees did a song by this title... and Herman's Hermits also covered the same song. A few others used this title including John Barry.
Saturday Blues Ishman Bracey did this. I don't know who he is but apparently he was a country blues artist. Some covered his song, some other people I don't know used the song title for their own songs. Big Bill Broonzy, a blues musician I do know about, did "Saturday Evening Blues".
Hmmm... after some quick research at AMG, it seems that Ishman Bracey was a contempory of Tommy Johnson's and worked with him. Like Johnson, all of Bracey's recordings fit on a single cd. I should buy it... but no copies are available at Amazon, so it might be out of print or hard to track down. The AMG listing also notes that Bracey was rediscovered in the 50's but had "got religeon" and refused to discuss his blues past... but he provided information that led to the rediscovery of Skip James, who happens to be my personal favorite old country blues artist.
Most popular title is of course "Saturday Night".
Sunday's Child Guitarist extraordinaire Phil Keaggy and fellow CCM artist Randy Stonehill formed a group called Sunday's Child, and had a song by this title. I might even own that. John Martyn and Bacuzzi used the title, and Chyanna Davis and Dave Barrett.
Sunday Blues Done by Johnnie Johnson, Julie London, Les Brown & a few others. "Blue Sunday" was done by the Doors and by Tom Petty, and also by Herb Albert. But personally I'd take Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday". ^_^
Most popular song title is actually "Sun Day" which has been used by the Cranberries and one version has been covered by many people including John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra. David Bowie also wrote a song with this title.
But the most popular song title that actually uses "Sunday" as one word is "Come Sunday", a Duke Ellington song that has been covered many many times.
One trick that's fun to do is to go to All Music Guide and do a search on song titles that include the word "Wednesday".
While doing this I discovered something. Not only could you do a cd of day of the week songs... you could limit it to songs with titles like "Monday's Child" "Tuesday's Child" etc. or "Monday Blues" "Tuesday Blues" etc. Could probably do "Monday Girl" etc. too if I wanted.
Monday's Child Mick Byrd, Tony Coe, and Quiet Revolution have each done songs by this title.
Monday Blues Songs by Dwarves, James Moody, Tiger Okoshi and Billy Vaughn. Also "Blue Monday" is a Fats Domino song that has been covered by dozens of people including Dave Edmunds, Dion, Bobby Darrin, etc. Meanwhile John Lee Hooker has his own "Blue Monday", Buddy Guy has his own song by that title, and New Order did their own song by that title.
The "Monday" song title with the most hits (strictly based on how many albumns that song title appears on... not how popular any given song or song title is)... not Monday Monday (132), not Blue Monday (with 218 hits) but "Stormy Monday" with 344 hits overall... this is a T-Bone Walker hit that's apparently been covered by everyone, including the Allman Brothers, Eric Clapton, The Jackson Five, Manfred Mann, and apparently Count Basie and Lou Rawls? Some of the info at AMG can get a little muddy so the last two might have been doing different songs by the same name.
Tuesday's Child CCM artist Steven Curtis Chapman has a song by this title, as does the Sabbath-influenced band Trouble on their "Run Into The Light" cd (which I probably should own but don't). Also songs by All About Eve, Copper, Donkey, Speed Limit, and Zwarte. Whoever they are.
Tuesday Blues Paul Lamb and also Bobby Shew. "Tuesday's Blues" by Aynsley Dunbar and Phil Krauth. Also a "Tuesday Blue" by Fludd. No I don't know any of these people, but they're out there somewhere.
Most popular "Tuesday" song is of course Ruby Tuesday, but "Tuesday" has been used a lot and also "Tuesday's Gone" which is a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd song.
Wednesday's Child Film music composer John Barry has a song by this title that's been covered by others including Matt Monro, Mike Hurst Orchestra, and Sounds Spectacular (on their "Play Great Motion Picture Themes" albumn). Other songs with this title were done by Thomas Talbert, Emiliana Torrini, Glenn Wilson, Frances Wayne, and several others I don't know.
Wednesday's Blues Done by the Joe Newman Quintet on the cd "Jive at Five" which apparently is in the Count Basie vein, partly because three of the five members are from Count Basie's orchestra. John Lee Hooker has a "Wednesday Evening Blues" that has appeared on about a billion albumns of his.
These two songs would appear to be the most popular "Wednesday" titles.
Thursday's Child This is the title of a David Bowie song. Also the Chameleons UK did a song by this title (aha! NOW we're getting somewhere... I have all of their cds... but this song only appears on some weird live cds that I don't have. Wah!). Yet another version has been covered by Eartha Kitt and a couple of others, but it's credited to "Boyd/Grand".
Thursday Blues Dick Carey and Jimmy Rushing have used this song title. "Blue Thursday" has been used by Franz Jackson, Larry Elgart, and Machineries of Heaven.
Most popular "Thursday" title is "Thursday", although "Thursday's Child" is second. Songs called Thursday were performed by Jim Croce and Count Basie among others... also Country Joe & The Fish.
Friday's Child Was a song performed by Nancy Sinatra, and Van Morrison also did a song by this title.
Friday Blues Is performed by a bluegrass outfit named "Open Road".
I just realized that if I type in "Blue Friday" I get some different hits that I didn't get with just the word Friday. Ex: "Blue Friday" "Blues for Friday" "Good Friday Blues" "Friday Night Blues" "Friday Nite Blu" "Friday Evening Blues" "Lonely Friday Blues" "Friday Moan Blues" and "Friday the Thirteenth Blues".
Most popular "Friday" title is "Friday Night" which has been the name of many different songs by many different people. For example, a europop group called Arabesque.
Saturday's Child The Monkees did a song by this title... and Herman's Hermits also covered the same song. A few others used this title including John Barry.
Saturday Blues Ishman Bracey did this. I don't know who he is but apparently he was a country blues artist. Some covered his song, some other people I don't know used the song title for their own songs. Big Bill Broonzy, a blues musician I do know about, did "Saturday Evening Blues".
Hmmm... after some quick research at AMG, it seems that Ishman Bracey was a contempory of Tommy Johnson's and worked with him. Like Johnson, all of Bracey's recordings fit on a single cd. I should buy it... but no copies are available at Amazon, so it might be out of print or hard to track down. The AMG listing also notes that Bracey was rediscovered in the 50's but had "got religeon" and refused to discuss his blues past... but he provided information that led to the rediscovery of Skip James, who happens to be my personal favorite old country blues artist.
Most popular title is of course "Saturday Night".
Sunday's Child Guitarist extraordinaire Phil Keaggy and fellow CCM artist Randy Stonehill formed a group called Sunday's Child, and had a song by this title. I might even own that. John Martyn and Bacuzzi used the title, and Chyanna Davis and Dave Barrett.
Sunday Blues Done by Johnnie Johnson, Julie London, Les Brown & a few others. "Blue Sunday" was done by the Doors and by Tom Petty, and also by Herb Albert. But personally I'd take Billie Holiday's "Gloomy Sunday". ^_^
Most popular song title is actually "Sun Day" which has been used by the Cranberries and one version has been covered by many people including John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra. David Bowie also wrote a song with this title.
But the most popular song title that actually uses "Sunday" as one word is "Come Sunday", a Duke Ellington song that has been covered many many times.
