PLAYLIST FOR “A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO THE MINISTER OF LONELINESS” (12.27.18)

Britain just installed its first Minister of Loneliness.  I thought I’d give her an idea of what she’ll be dealing with. Just listen to all these sad sausages. 

SONG TITLE  /  Artists  /  CD Or Album Title

• IT’S A LONESOME OLD TOWN  /  Lena Horne  /  “Love Is The Thing”
• DON’T LET ME BE LONELY TONIGHT  /  Kevin Mahogany  /  “My Romance”
• ALONE TOGETHER  /  Alexis Cole  /  “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”
• ONLY THE LONELY  /  Frank Sinatra  /  “Only The Lonely”
• ONLY THE LONELY  /  Kellye Gray  /  “And, They Call Us Cowboys”
• SATURDAY NIGHT IS THE LONELIEST NIGHT OF THE WEEK  /  Tom Rust  /  “Are We There Yet?”
• LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME  /  Cyrille Aimee  /  “It’s A Good Day”
• THE LONELY ONE  /  Gregory Porter  /  “Nat ‘King’ Cole & Me”
• BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING TRAM  /  Stacey Kent  /  “Dreamer In Concert”
• WHEN YOUR LOVER HAS GONE  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Ricky Nelson  /  “More Songs By Ricky”
• LONELY IN NEW YORK  /  Sophie Milman  /  “Sophie Milman”
• LONELY TIME  /  Maynard Ferguson  /  “A Message From Birdland”
• SUCH A LONELY GIRL AM I  /  Jackie Cain  /  “So Many Stars”
• SOMETIMES WHEN YOU’RE LONELY  /  Mark Murphy & The Metropole Orchestra  /  “The Dream”
• GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE  /  Jamie Cullum & Laura Mvula  /  “Interlude”
• KILLING TIME  /  Ian Shaw  /  “A Ghost In every Bar”
• KILLING TIME  /  Carol Welsman  /  “Alone Together”
• ALL ALONE AM I  /  (Mystery Vocalist)  /  Brenda Lee  /  “Anthology 1956-1980”
• I WAS A LITTLE TOO LONELY  /  Nat King Cole  /  “After Midnight”
• CALL ME LONELY  /  Rigmor Gustafsson  /  “When You Make Me Smile”
• WHAT’LL I DO  /  Chet Baker  / “She Was Too Good To Me”
• IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE MORNING  /  Lissy Walker  /  “Life Is Sweet”
• ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT  /  Chris Botti & Paul Buchanan  /  “To Love Again”
• IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND  /  Liane Carroll  /  “Billy No Mates”
• PARIS MISMATCH  /  (Theme Music)  /  Cody Owen Stine

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