Playlist: Listen, my friends! ~ January 2016

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In the words of Moby Grape… listen, my friends! Yes, it’s the (hopefully) monthly playlist presented by George’s Journal just for you good people.

There may be one or two classics to be found here dotted in among different tunes you’re unfamiliar with or have never heard before – or, of course, you may’ve heard them all before. All the same, why not sit back, listen away and enjoy…

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CLICK on the song titles to hear them

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Bing Crosby ~ Let’s Start The New Year Right (1942)¹

Sonny and Cher ~ Little Man (1966)

Joni Mitchell ~ Little Green (1967)²

Fenwyck ~ Mindrocker (1967)

Spirit ~ Life Has Just Begun (1970)

Junior Parker ~ Taxman (1971)

Stelvio Cipriani ~ La Polizia Chiede Aiuto (1974)³

UFO ~ Let It Roll (1975)

Kansas ~ Dust In The Wind (1978)

Joan Armatrading ~ Flight Of The Wild Geese (1978)⁴

Musique ~ In The Bush (1978)

Aztec Camera ~ Walk Out To Winter (1983)

Kate Bush ~ Under The Ivy (1985)

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¹ As featured in the musical movie hit Holiday Inn (1942), which was effectively remade 12 years later as White Christmas; the song of the same name also first appeared in the former film

² Mitchell’s terribly moving song written for the daughter she put up for adoption when a struggling singer in 1965, here performed at New York City’s Café Au Go Go two years later; the tune would later be included on her seminal album Blue (1971)

³ The wonderfully idiosyncratic title track from the score of the 1974 Italian giallo/ poliziottesco movie (English translation: What Have They Done To Your Daughters?), which was also used to unforgettable effect in the pyschological-cum-comic thriller Amer (2009)

⁴ From the Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris-toting, mercenaries-on-a-mission pseudo-classic The Wild Geese (1978)

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