From long ago and far away, here are some of my faves from mostly pop-culture closets.
1 - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere Neil Young with Crazy Horse (2:29) 1969
1970
2 - Let It Be Beatles/BRG/Veech (3:59)
3 - Your Song (live) Elton John (3:48)
4 - Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) Melanie (3:49)
5 - (I Know) I'm Losing You Rare Earth (3:36)
6 - Everything Is Beautiful Ray Stevens (3:33)
7 - We Can Work It Out Stevie Wonder (3:11)
8 - Moondance Van Morrison (4:31)
1971
9 - Let Your Love Go (album version) Bread (2:22)
10 - What Is Life? George Harrison (4:15)
11 - Footstompin' Music Grand Funk Railroad (3:46)
12 - Here Comes the Sun Richie Havens (3:43)
1972
13 - Immigration Man Crosby & Nash (2:57)
14 - The Sage (live) Emerson, Lake & Palmer (4:01)
15 - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (live) Rick Wakeman (6:29)
16 - Thomas The Rhymer Steeleye Span (3:12) 1974
17 - Life's Been Good Joe Walsh (8:03) 1978
18 - Juke Box Fury Rickie Lee Jones (4:12) 1990
19 - Pity Jude Beatles/BRG/SB (7:41) 2005
Don't take Track One personally. But take Track 19 to the bank as a great mashup of two suspiciously similar songs!
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01 - Be What You Is - The Flys - 1966 (2:02)
02 - Hook in Your Heart - The Shades - 1980 (2:28)
03 - Norwogian Weed - The Beatles - Sacred Cowboy - 2014 (2:06)
04 - I'm Alive - The Hollies - 1964 (2:25)
05 - Contact In Red Square - Blondie - 1978 (1:59)
06 - Creeps - Q4U - 1982 (1:49)
07 - Love in a Vacuum - 'Til Tuesday - 1985 (3:36)
08 - Run Home to Your Mama - Evie Sands - 1965 (2:31)
09 - Every Kiddie Gets A Prize (live) - Xiro - 1988 (2:27)
10 - Hey! Puppet Man - Bob Morrison - 1965 (2:27)
11 - It's So Difficult - Dislocation Dance - 1980 (2:58)
12 - Tell Me in the Sunlight - Margie Day - 1963 (1:54)
13 - Mind - Kas Product - 1990 (2:42)
14 - Grin and Bear - Screaming Sneakers - 1982 (4:37)
15 - Magnetic Heart - VS. - 1980 (2:16)
16 - It Was a Happening - Unknown Detroit Artist - 1966 (2:05)
17 - Too Much to Take - Stark Raving - 1987 (3:40)
18 - No One Listens - Legal Weapon - 1981 (2:49)
19 - Allergy - The Petticoats - 1997 (2:18)
20 - (Drowning Out the) Big Jets - Action Pact - 1983 (2:01)
21 - It's a Groovy World! - The Unifics - 1968 (3:20)
22 - I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett - 2014 (4:10)
23 - (Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All - The Fifth Dimension - 1972 (3:12)
24 - Can't Take It - Barb Wire and the Fences - 1982 (2:28)
25 - Maybe Tomorrow - Angel Pavement - 1969 (4:07)
26 - Wrong Yo Yo - Carl Perkins - 1957 (2:35)
27 - Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - Gore Gore Girls - 2002 (3:02)
You can't beat the advice of Track One! Track 12 is a song which references another classic, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" Track 25 is notable in that it's a cover of a Badfinger song, but its intro is straight of a Chicao cover band's version of "25 or 6 to 4"! And keep your hands off my baby, she's not your yo-yo. See you Thursday!
