13 April 2012: Songs About Luck

[yessongs]

Nice set today, plus a nice Mraz/Callait bonus...

[Nate]

This was the least-painful theme set in recent history, and mostly enjoyable.

Most painful: baseball/SF set when Giants won the series. It was the aural equivalent of Fisherman's Wharf on a July Saturday.

[Big Fingers McGee]

Nice set today, plus a nice Mraz/Callait bonus...

File Colbie Callait under the category "Reasons to be happy I'm alive today".

[Tinka Cat]

enjoyed the set, but I think at this point we've heard every single bit of dialogue from the movie Moonstruck.  AL sure loves her some Cher, I'm thinking.

[RGMike]

Nice set today, plus a nice Mraz/Callait bonus...

File Colbie Callait under the category "Reasons to be happy I'm alive today".

I assume that's a comment on her looks rather than her Feistalike vocals. Ugh. And don't get me started on Mrazzzz.

[RGMike]

enjoyed the set, but I think at this point we've heard every single bit of dialogue from the movie Moonstruck.  AL sure loves her some Cher, I'm thinking.

which is why I keep requesting "Believe" every time we hit 1999.

[RGMike]

This was the least-painful theme set in recent history, and mostly enjoyable.

Most painful: baseball/SF set when Giants won the series. It was the aural equivalent of Fisherman's Wharf on a July Saturday.

Bwahahaha!  It sure was.

But I've found AL's theme sets lately to be some of her most creative.

[ggould]

04/13/12 - Friday the 13th! Bad Luck? Good Luck!!
 1. Elvis Presley - Good Luck Charm
(Ad: Lucky Charms)
 2. JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky
 3. Paul McCartney and Wings -- With a Little Luck
(Ad: Lucky Strikes)/ That's bad luck
 4. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes - Bad Luck
(TV: Lost – (Jorge Garcia) Hurley's had nothing but bad luck since winning lottery)
 5. Robert Palmer - Some Guys Have All The Luck
 6. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man
 7. Madonna - Lucky Star
(Movie: Friday the 13th - trailer)
  8. Cream - Born Under A Bad Sign
(Movie: Moonstruck – Loretta (Cher) “Bad luck! Is that all I'm ever gonna have?”)
  9.Lene Lovich -- Lucky Number
(Movie: Guys and Dolls- Marlon Brando)
10. Frank Sinatra - Luck Be a Lady (B.O.S!)
(Movie: Dirty Harry- Do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?)

[RGMike]

I thought that was a delightful set today and was glad AL stuck to the "luck" theme specifically -- even tho' it's what she asked for, a bunch of unclear-on-the-concept Fogheads started asking for songs about superstition, which is a different thing, to be pedantic about it (who? me?).

Besides, if she had said "superstition songs" I'd've gotten in another request for Janet Jackson's "Black Cat" 

[RGMike]

For SHAME: a re-recorded (non-Teddy P) version of "Bad Luck". WOS.

listening to the replay and I'm still gobsmacked that AL played a re-recorded version of "Bad Luck" -- shouldn't KFOG have the original in their library? What would Dave Morey think?

Even more disconcerting was that nobody on FB had the faintest idea what I was talking about.

[Lightnin' Rod]

When I play golf, I usually have a semi-internal soundtrack going (it annoys people when I start singing on the golf course, but it happens .  As I was on the way to the course yesterday, flippin' through the pre-sets, Gotye's "Somebody I Used to Know" began and I instantly pushed another button, not so much because I'm sick of it, but more because I DID NOT WANT THAT STUCK IN MY HEAD for that round of golf.  But this is an aside...

Today, playing my second round of the weekend, about half way through the round I got onto "With A Little Luck", out of the blue.  There is no way I would have gotten on to that if I hadn't heard it in Friday's set.  So, it may not have been the best or the most necessary of set, but you have to give Sir Paul his due on writing memorable and catchy tunes...