22 April 2010: Earth Day

[RGMike]

Guilty displeasure - Satchmo.  I actually like the song, but it keeps popping up in places I wish it wouldn't. 

Blame Robin Williams (who blames Canada).

[RGMike]

One I should've requested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_-KNNl-no

[Tinka Cat]

Guilty displeasure - Satchmo.  I actually like the song, but it keeps popping up in places I wish it wouldn't.  

I completely understand that.  It was used effectively in some war movie -- Good Morning Vietnam, maybe? -- and I liked it then, despite its sappiness.  but that was years ago.  I think that usage opened the floodgates.

[RGMike]

Guilty displeasure - Satchmo.  I actually like the song, but it keeps popping up in places I wish it wouldn't. 

I completely understand that.  It was used effectively in some war movie -- Good Morning Vietnam, maybe? -- and I liked it then, despite it's sappiness.  but that was years ago.  I think that usage opened the floodgates.

you are correct, sir! And it was re-released as a single and got higher on the charts in 1988 than it had in its original release year.

[urth]

Guilty displeasure - Satchmo.  I actually like the song, but it keeps popping up in places I wish it wouldn't. 

I completely understand that.  It was used effectively in some war movie -- Good Morning Vietnam, maybe? -- and I liked it then, despite it's sappiness.  but that was years ago.  I think that usage opened the floodgates.

you are correct, sir! And it was re-released as a single and got higher on the charts in 1988 than it had in its original release year.

Yep, that restored it to the public awareness, and it's been an evergreen ever since. Except it seems to be getting a little brown around the edges.

[RGMike]

4/22/10  Thursday! A Foghead generated Earth Day set!!

 1. Marvin Gaye- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(News: Walter Cronkite First Earth Day 1970)
 2. Cat Stevens- Where Do The Children Play?
 3. Three Dog Night- Out In The Country
(Movie: Harold and Maude)
 4.  Quicksilver Messenger Service- Fresh Air (locally grown B.O.S!!)
 5.  Thomas Dolby- Windpower
(TV: Colbert-sacrifice iPod)
 6.  Bruce Cockburn- If A Tree Falls
(TV: quick clip from Simpsons, the gun-shootin' Texan)
 7.  Johnny Cash- Don't Go Near The Water
 8.  Cake- Carbon Monoxide
(Jane Goodall-one person can make all the difference)
 9.  Ben Harper- With My Own Two Hands
(TV: Al Gore & Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock/Kermit- It's Not Easy Being Green)
10. Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World!!

[urth]

4/22/10  Thursday! A Foghead generated Earth Day set!!

 1. Marvin Gaye- Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
(News: Walter Cronkite First Earth Day 1970)
 2. Cat Stevens- Where Do The Children Play?
 3. Three Dog Night- Out In The Country
(Movie: Harold and Maude)
 4.  Quicksilver Messenger Service- Fresh Air (locally grown B.O.S!!)
 5.  Thomas Dolby- Windpower
(TV: Colbert-sacrifice iPod)
 6.  Bruce Cockburn- If A Tree Falls
(TV: quick clip from Simpsons, the gun-shootin' Texan)
 7.  Johnny Cash- Don't Go Near The Water
 8.  Cake- Carbon Monoxide
(Jane Goodall-one person can make all the difference)
 9.  Ben Harper- With My Own Two Hands
(TV: Al Gore & Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock/Kermit- It's Not Easy Being Green)
10. Louis Armstrong- What A Wonderful World!!

Really sorry to not be able to catch this one. There's not enough hours in my days right now. (I did listen to the 2002 Earth Day set yesterday, though.)

Btw, four of today's songs had made previous ED appearances. The other six, all Earth Day bustouts.  (The Dolby and Quicksilver have shown up previously in other years/themes however.)

[Lightnin' Rod]

I'll bos Cat Stevens.  Such a great song -- it's still stuck in my head, 23 hrs later.