Thursday, March 12, 2020

A Canon: A Weekend Playlist to HEAL AMERICA!!!!

(this was done five years ago and somehow I never published it, probably because I didn't come close to finishing it)

Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei

Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings (world premiere recording)

Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915

William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony

Avery Parish: After Hours

Benny Goodman: Airmail Special

Benny Goodman: 1938 Carnagie Hall Concert

Benny Goodman: Sing, Sing, Sing

Irving Berlin: Alexander's Ragtime Band

Irving Berlin: God Bless America (sung by the Red Army Choir)

Ella Fitzgerald: All The Things You Are

Willie Nelson: Always On My Mind

Giancarlo Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors (original broadcast)

Bonnie Raitt and John Prine: Angel from Montgomery

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

Aaron Copland: Symphony no. 3

Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland: The Promise of Living

Count Basie: April in Paris

Count Basie: April in Paris (Blazing Saddles Version) 

Dooley Wilson: As Time Goes By

Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell

Clifton Chenier: Ay-Tete Fe

The Ronettes: Be My Baby

Jerome Moross: The Big Country (Soundtrack Suite)

Bob Dylan, The Band, and many other superstars: I Shall Be Released

The Band and The Staples Singers: The Weight

The Band: Up on Cripple Creek

Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi

George Crumb: Black Angels (a very dark sort of catharsis) 

Bob Dylan: Blowin' in the Wind (sung by Peter, Paul & Mary)

Bill Monroe: Blue Moon of Kentucky

Elvis Presley: Blue Suede Shoes

Cab Calloway: Blues in the Night (the original version)

Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul

John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillun

Bruce Springsteen: Jungleland

Bruce Springsteen: Thunder Road

Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen: Highway Patrolman 

Eddy Arnold: Bouquet of Roses

Thelonious Monk: Round Midnight

Sonny Rollins: St. Thomas 


T-Bone Walker: Call It Stormy Monday

Mel Torme: Christmas Song

Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come

A Chorus Line: What I Did for Love

A Chorus Line: Nothing

A Chorus Line: One

Pete Steele: Coal Creek March

Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter

Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors

Mamie Smith: Crazy Blues

Mahalia Jackson/Duke Ellington: Come Sunday

Clarence Ashley: Coo Coo Bird

Mary Lee: Jesus is Real to Me

Sacred Harp: Present Joys

Sacred Harp: Nearer My God to Thee

Sacred Harp: Alabama

Sacred Harp: Sardinia

Sacred Harp: Hallelujah

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (the whole album)

John Coltrane: Blue Train

John Coltrane: My Favorite Things

Sound of Music: My Favorite Things

Sound of Music: Do Re Mi

Sound of Music: The Hills are Alive

Sound of Music: Edelweiss

Sound of Music: So Long, Farewell

Sound of Music: Climb Every Mountain

Oklahoma: Oklahoma

Oklahoma: O What a Beautiful Morning

Carousel: If I Loved You

Carousel: What's The Use of Wonderin'

Carousel: You'll Never Walk Alone

Carousel Waltz

South Pacific: Younger than Springtime

The King and I: Getting to Know You

The King and I: Something Wonderful

William Warfield: Ol' Man River (Showboat)

Showboat: Make Believe

Ava Gardner: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Showboat)

Showboat: You Are Love

Showboat: Life Upon a Wicked Stage

Merle Travis: Dark as a Dungeon

Grateful Dead: Dark Star (live, what else?)

David Grisman: Dawgology

Doc Watson: Brown's Ferry Blues

Doc Watson: Deep River Blues

Marian Anderson: Deep River

Paul Robeson: Let My People Go

Paul Robeson: Goin' Home

Chanticleer: Shenandoah

Kate Smith: Dream a Little Dream

Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

Steve Reich: Tehillim

Steve Reich: Daniel Variations

Steve Reich: Different Trains

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Igor Stravinsky: Orpheus

Igor Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto 

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in C

Igor Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks

Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Bela Bartok: Piano Concerto no. 3

Ray Baretto: El Watusi

Sly & The Family Stone: Everyday People

Fiddler on the Roof: If I Were a Rich Man

Fiddler on the Roof: Sunrise Sunset

Fiddler on the Roof: Miracle of Miracles

Fiddler on the Roof: Matchmaker

Fiddler on the Roof: To Life

Carol Channing: Hello, Dolly

Hello, Dolly: Ribbons Down My Back


Ethel Merman & Bruce Yarnell: Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better

Annie Get Your Gun: There's No Business Like Show Business

Muppets & Ethel Merman: There's No Business Like Show Business

Kermit the Frog: The Rainbow Connection

Kermit: It's Not Easy Being Green

Muppet Theme Song

Kermit & Fozzie: Movin' Right Along

Muppets: Happiness Hotel

The Music Man: 76 Trombones

The Music Man: Piano Lesson

The Music Man: Pick a Little

The Music Man: Ya Got Trouble

The Music Man: Iowa Stubborn

The Music Man: Marion the Librarian

The Music Man: Shipoopi

The Music Man: Goodnight My Someone

The Music Man: My White Knight

The Music Man: Till There Was You

The Music Man: Rock Island

West Side Story: America 

West Side Story: Maria

West Side Story: Tonight

West Side Story: Mambo

West Side Story: One Hand, One Heart

West Side Story: Tonight (Quintet) 

West Side Story: Jet Song

West Side Story: Something's Coming

West Side Story: A Boy Like That


James Taylor: Fire and Rain

Parliament: Flash Light

Lionel Hampton: Flying Home

Earl Scruggs: Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson together

Flatt & Scruggs, and DocWatson: Liberty

Jerry Orbach: Lullaby of Broadway (42nd Street)

We're In The Money (42nd Street)

Elizabeth Cotton: Freight Train

Nat "King" Cole: Route 66

Max Steiner: Gone With the Wind (soundtrack suite)

Erich Korngold: The Sea Hawk (soundtrack suite) 

Erich Korngold: The Adventures of Robin Hood (soundtrack suite) 

Bascom Lamar Lunsford: Mountain Dew

Chic: Good Times

Beach Boys: Sloop John B

Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice

Beach Boys: God Only Knows

Beach Boys: Good Vibrations

Jess Morris: Goodbye Old Paint

Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel: Mrs. Robinson

Simon & Garfunkel: The Boxer

Simon & Garfunkel: The Sounds of Silence

Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire

The Platters: The Great Pretender

Ferde Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite

Guys and Dolls: A Fugue for Tinhorns

Guys and Dolls: A Bushell and a Peck

Guys and Dolls: Adelaide's Lament

Guys and Dolls: Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat

Guys and Dolls: Luck Be a Lady Tonight

Frank Sinatra: My Way

My Way on Mad Men

Frank Sinatra: The Way You Look Tonight

Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the Night

Frank Sinatra: That's Life

Frank Sinatra: New York, New York

Frank Sinatra: It Was A Very Good Year

Frank Sinatra: I've Got You Under My Skin

Frank Sinatra: Lady is a Tramp

Frank Sinatra: All The Way

Frank Sinatra: One For My Baby

Frank Sinatra & Grace Kelly: Something Stupid

Judy Garland: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Judy Garland: Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Judy Garland: This Joint is Jumpin'

Liza Minelli: Mein Herr (Cabaret)

Liza Minelli: Cabaret



















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