Drinking songs, anyone?

Maybe “road” songs: On the Road Again, Country Roads

On April 25, 1792, highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine.

Could feature the call Heads Rollaway

Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio.

Feature songs about radios: “Turn Your Radio On”, “Ain’t Nothing Wrong with the Radio”, etc.

Look for records featuring solo saxophones. Does anyone categorize their records by lead instruments?

lyricist, songwriter w/Richard Rodgers: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, Sound of Music; died Aug 23, 1960

Use songs from musicals.

• Find songs with “hot dog” in them.
• Songs about food

Relevant Records

• I Feel Lucky (Red Boot 3033)

Gordon Lightfoot is a folksinger/songwriter. Summertime Dream is the only song I could find that he’s written and I’ve got, although I use it exclusively for patter. I wondered if anyone had done a version of the “Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald,” but a quick search at Supreme showed naught.

Relevant Records

• Summertime Dream (Chaparral 403)