We’ve played The Desert Island game before when I’ve asked listeners to choose songs or singers to take with them to a desert island. Of course I laughed at their pain and deliberations and difficulty in choosing to take one thing and leave behind another equally good choice — but not this week because it was my turn to play the game. Suddenly the Sondheim lyrics, “the choice may have been mistaken, but choosing was not” didn’t sound as easy or certain.
SONG TITLE / Artist / ALbum Or CD Title
- RING-A-DING-DING / Frank Sinatra / “Ring-A-Ding-Ding”
- TIME TO SMILE / Tony Bennett / “The Art Of Romance”
- YOU TURNED THE TABLES ON ME / Delicatessen / “Goodnight Kiss”
- BODY AND SOUL / The Real Group / “Unreal”
- BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH / Nat Cole / “After Midnight”
- BLAME IT ON MY YOUTH / Jamie Cullum / “Twentysomething”
- JUST IN TIME / (Mystery Vocalist) / Lorne Greene / “Young At Heart”
- JUST IN TIME / Nina Simone / “At The Village Gate”
- I KNOW THE WAY TO BROOKLYN / Lorraine Feather / “Dooji Wooji”
- CRY IF YOU WANT TO / Holly Cole Trio / “Don’t Smoke In Bed”
- MOON RIVER / Nancy LaMott / “Come Rain Or Come Shine”
- LOST ON THE RIVER / Rhiannon Giddens / “The New Basement Tapes”
- PARIS MISMATCH / (Theme Music) / Cody Owen Stine
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