"D. Ray White" Hank Williams III Straight To Hell
"Da Doo Ron Ron" The Crystals Back To Mono (1958-1969)
"Da Feelin" Nightmares On Wax Thought So . . .
"Da Funk/Daftendirekt" Daft Punk Alive 2007
"Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" Wu-Tang Clan Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
"Dadaist Rhetoric in Boston" The Mekons New York: On The Road 1986-1987
"Daddy's Cup" Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South
"Daddy's Gone" Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Dark Night of the Soul
"Daddy's Home" The Jackson 5 The Ultimate Collection
"Daddy's Home" Toots & The Maytals Funky Kingston/In The Dark
Happy New Year! So I fell well short of my goal of getting through the alphabet somewhere between 4-6 times. Instead of 4 posts a week, I have been lucky to do one after the broken arm sapped most of my will to do anything at all On the other hand, I didn't abandon this completely (which is better than some other things - I haven't been running or exercising and am rapidly turning into so much pudding - I guess we can see what cliched resolutions I will be making this year). We will see how it plays out in 2012; right now I am feeling good about it, but that might just be some resolution fever as well.
In retrospect, I think this has been an exercise with more good than bad. I haven't really got as good a grip on the music library as I would hope, nor have I become a particularly great or disciplined writer. But last night I was making a playlist for our new year's party and came across "Fuck Hodges," from way back in January and was able to throw it into the mix, so I at least found one song.
Maybe I read too much into it that Hank III would choose to sing about a deceased patriarch of a musical clan who occasionally run afoul of the law.
The Jackson's version of "Daddy's Home" is not sung by Michael but by Jermaine. The Toots version bears little resemblance to the others - he plays pretty fast & loose with the lyrics.
I feel like I should be writing more, but mostly I want to get this post up since it is now past MLK Day without a post in 2012. Maybe the E's will include a SOPA rant!
