PLAYLIST FOR “PRODUCT PLACEMENT” (12.7.13)

Product placement is encroaching everywhere and into everything – TV shows, movies, on the news, and in our songs, too, for heaven sake. Tonight wasn’t so much a protest or cautionary tale as it was my attempt to get in on this lucrative cash cornucopia.  

 SONG TITLE  /  Artist  /  CD Or Album Title

• A FINE ROMANCE  /  Lena Horne  /  “Valentine Friends”
• THEY ALL LAUGHED  /  Steven Pasquale  /  “Somethin’ Like Love”
• TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS  /  Helen Merrill  /  “Casa Forte”
• THE LADY IS A TRAMP  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “The Main Event”
• LADIES IN MERCEDES  /  Laura Collins  /  “Baltimore Oriole”
• I’M GONNA MOVE TO THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN  /  Ray Charles  /  “Genius+Soul=Jazz”
• MR. SANTA  /  Chaise Lounge  /  “A Very Chaise Lounge Christmas”
• YOU’RE THE TOP  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Cary Grant & Ginny Sims  /  “Did You Know These Actors Sang?”     
• GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP  /  Ruth Brown  /  “Softly”
• I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE  /  Sachal Vasandani  /  “Eyes Wide Open”
• DADDY  /  Joanie Sommers  /  “Look Out It’s Joanie Sommers”
• GEE BABY AIN’T I GOOD TO YOU  /  Lyle Lovett  /  “Smile”
• SANTA BABY  /  The Real Group  /  “The World For Christmas”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  Cody Owen Stine  /  (Theme Music)  /  (Unreleased Master)

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