I took a look back at some of my favorite themes from 2019 and some of my favorite songs from them. (BTW: The first song refers to one of my favorite jokes from this year: Because of climate change and rising sea levels, what city will become the new capital of the East Coast?) So what have we learned this year? I learned we’d better hope we’re being graded on a curve.
(Musical Theme) / SONG TITLE / Artist / CD Or Album Title
- (Climate Change) / GARY INDIANA / Janet Planet / “Of Thee I Sing”
- INTO EACH LIFE / Andrew Distel / “It Only Takes Time”
- (Musical Tribute To Laziness) / UP A LAZY RIVER / The Mills Brothers & Count Basie / “The Board Of Directors”
- WHAT’S WRONG WITH BEING LAZY? / Jean Laughlin m / “Miracle Of Life”
- (The “I” Word) / IMAGINATION / Jesse Belvin / “Mr. Easy”
- (Morning People vs Night Owls) /OUR DELIGHT / 3rd Coast Vocals / “3VC”
- IN THE EVENING / Joe Williams / “At Newport ‘63”
- (Happy Birthday, Nat King Cole) / HOW DOES IT FEEL / Dannah Garay / “Remembering Nat King Cole”
- THE RULES OF THE ROAD / Yannick Bovy / “Celebrates Nat King Cole”
- (I’m In A Subjunctive Mood) / IF I HAD YOU / Nnenna Freelon / “Live”
- (The Known & Unknown) / I KNOW YOUR HEART BY HEART / Mel Torme / “That’s All”
- I DON’T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT YOU / Delicatessen / “Goodnight Kiss”
- (Uncivil Discourse) / IT’S TOO LATE / Kevin Mahogany / “The Vienna Affair”
- YOU IRRITATE ME / Carla Starkie / “New Dawn”
- (International Jazz Day) / ON S’EST AIME / Sarah Lancman / “A Contretemps”
- (Give & Take) / TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE / Carol Sloane / “Live At 30th Street”
- GIVE ME THE SIMPLE LIFE / Paul Jost / “Simple Life”
- (Bitterness) / THIS BITTER EARTH / Imelda May, Jeff Goldblum & Mildred Snitzer Orch. / “The Capitol Sessions”
- (Everything Old Is Still Old) / DEAR OLD STOCKHOLM / Stan Getz & Chet Baker / “The Stockholm Concerts”
- (Two Words) / EMBRACEABLE YOU / Laura Nyro / “Angel in The Dark”
- (Talk The Talk) / SAY IT ISN’T SO / Roberta Donnay / “A Little Sugar”
- (Uncle Bill’s Storytime) / THAT AFTERNOON IN HARLEM / Mark Winkler / “The Company I Keep”
- I KEEP GOING BACK TO JOE’S / Julie Kelly / “Everything I Love”
- (Violin Week) / CLOSE ENOUGH FOR LOVE / Tony Bennett / “The Art Of Romance”
- GOODBYE FOR NOW / Rigmor Gustafsson w/ Radio String Quartet Vienna / “Calling You”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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