You know it’s been a long hard week when the Random 10 is my first post since Wednesday night. Someday, on the Final Reckoning, I hope I’ll get an extra day of eternal bliss in exchange for the day I had yesterday.
Anyway, the music:
- Alberta Adams, “Remember” (Chess Blues)
- Choir of St. John’s College (John Tavener, composer), “Song for Athene” (Christmas Proclamation)
- Petra Haden, “Our Love Was” (The Who Sell Out)
- Lou Ann Burton, “Shake Your Hips” (The Oxford American Southern Music Sampler, 2005)
- Bill Cosby, “Oops!” (I Started Out As A Child)
- The Velvet Underground, “Foggy Notion” (Peel Slowly and See)
- Shirley Horn, “Fever” (The Main Ingredient)
- Solomon Burke, “Diamond In Your Mind” (Don’t Give Up On Me)
- The Dramatics, “Get Up and Get Down” (Dead Presidents Soundtrack)
- Billy Jones & Ernest Hare, “Barney Google” (Edison Diamond Disc)
One last note: these are the random tunes playing in my iPod, but the tune playing in my head is Paul Simon’s “Mother and Child Reunion”:
Oh little darlin’ of mine
I just can’t believe it’s so
And though it seems strange to say
I’ve never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over againBut I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
When the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Special bonus: the connection between “Mother and Child Reunion” and Chinese cuisine.