The Hollies "Sandy"

My daughter overheard my wife and I talking about the storm and she wanted to chip in.

She was concerned about the storm being "big" and she had heard from kids at school, that the storm was going to be sandy.

My wife and I scratched our heads for a moment, before figuring out the mangled meteorology.

I explain that the storm wasn't going to be sandy---it wasn't going to be a sand storm---the storm was named Sandy.

This caused my (almost)-five-year-old to give me that look and accompanying smile, that says, "Are you pulling my leg?"

Yeah, to a five year old (and now to a 43 year old), it does sound like a joke that we name storms with people names.

Anyway, now that you are likely in the thick of Sandy (but hey, if you are reading this, you've still got power!), perhaps you are looking for some "Sandy" songs.

Yes, of course you can play storm songs and hurricane songs, too ("Riders On The Storm" and "Like A Hurricane" always work), but here are a few "Sandy" songs.  Did you know The Hollies covered Springsteen?

I'm not sure any of these songs really sound like a storm, but have at it . . .


Hear "Sandy" by The Hollies on Youtube.


Hear "Sandy" from Grease on Youtube.



Hear Eartha Kitt's "Sandy's Tune" on Youtube.


Hear Dolly Parton's "Sandy's Song" on Youtube.


Hear "Hey Sandy" by Polaris on Youtube.


Hear "Sandy" by Ronny And The Daytonas on Youtube.


Hear Dion sing "Sandy" on Youtube.


Hear "Sandy" by The Carpenters on Youtube.

Whitney Houston "I Will Always Love You"

Though I didn’t mention it in the previous post, I suppose a large part of my distaste for requests has everything to do with my 6 years of hosting Request Radio.

Night after night I was asked to play songs that I simply didn’t like.  Pop tunes in the era of N’Sync and Britney Spears and “Mmmm Bop” and “Wannabe” over and over again.

Worse, was that there was always a dedication that went with it.  And often they were just inappropriate.

Now, the bulk of the audience was high school age, so there was just something wrong about being asked to say and play:

“From Matt to Andrea, this song is for you,” and then play Boyz II Men’s “I’ll Make Love To You.”

Or have a 6th grader ask another kid out by requesting “Nightmare On My Street.”

The one that really drove me nuts was when someone---sometimes a kid and sometimes an adult---would request Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” and send out a dedication to their boyfriend or girlfriend saying “I love you so much!”

It was annoying, because “I Will Always Love You” is perhaps one of the greatest break-up songs of all time.  It’s about leaving someone, giving them up and letting them go.

And people kept using it to “say how they really feel” about someone. 

Irony!!!

Worse, if I’d try to explain this to the requester (“You know this is a break-up song, right?”) I’d just come off like I was some kind of prick.  So I gave up offering my helpful, and correct, advice, and just resigned myself to this truth: 

Requests are stupid.


Hear the song on Youtube.

Dolly Parton "9 To 5"

Here's a Labor Day Weekend Post:

Hope you are enjoying a day off from the typing pool!


Hear the song on Youtube.

Weekend posts are a chance to revisit songs that have happy memories, not of anything in particular, other than just hearing the tunes.

Many of these songs were tracks that I played during my 90s stint as an Alternative/Modern Rock radio show.  They're tunes that I hardly hear these days, but are wonderful to revisit.

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