Black + White (CAVR Pick) 1

Mostly I post my own compilations, but every now and again I post someone else's pick. This one was a cassette made by my ex-wife. Two parts to it. I post side one today and side 2 tomorrow. Yes, we still get along. Both remarried. She had full range of my album collection for years and this is one of her picks from that collection. I'm guessing this is the "white" side, since it's a little more light and happy. The darker side will be tomorrow. I hope you enjoy this. And I know, I don't usually put two songs from the same artist on the same compilation, let alone right after each other, but this is how she had the cassette. I also don't know if I would consider Tones On Tail to be on this side. How would you organize this playlist?

Black + White (CAVR Pick) 1

01 Dead Or Alive - Brand New Lover

02 ABC - When Smokey Sings

03 Bananarama - Venus

04 Tones on Tail - Twist

05 Blancmange - Don't Tell Me

06 The Communards - Never Can Say Goodbye (Shep Pettibone Mix)

07 Madonna - Holiday

08 Madonna - Everybody

Billy Preston Pick

Sometimes called the fifth Beatle, but generally just an amazing artist, Billy Preston played with some artists that I had no idea about. I compiled some of my favorite solo picks here, added some Beatles tracks together and solo and threw in a couple surprising guest spots (surprising to me, at least.) I put in two versions of You Are So Beautiful because I like the song and to hear both versions is interesting to say the least. Same with the song Get Back. I know there are other tracks that I am missing (be sure to mention them in the comments.) Hope you like what I did add.

Billy Preston Pick

01 Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus

02 Neil Diamond - Hell Yeah

03 John Lennon - God

04 Billy Preston with Syreeta Wright - With You I'm Born Again

05 Aretha Franklin - I've Been Loving You Too Long

06 Billy Preston - You Are So Beautiful

07 Ringo Starr - Only You (And You Alone)

08 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

09 Brighter Side Of Darkness - Love Jones

10 Beatles - Get Back

11 Sly And The Family Stone - Family Affair

12 Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking

13 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Warlocks

14 Fastball - You're An Ocean

15 Billy Preston - Outa-Space

16 Billy Preston - Girls on Film

17 Billy Preston - Nothing from Nothing

18 Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles

19 Billy Preston - Space Race

20 Billy Preston - Get Back

21 Joe Cocker - You Are So Beautiful

Who Dunnit? 4

This is the last of this pick. Volume 4 of the series. Not because I don't have more, but because I haven't finished cleaning them up and assembling them. And by now, I'm sure you have a few suggestions. Do NOT include any that are on the Heart Full Of Soul compilation as that is a separate category for me. Although there are some great covers that sound totally different than the originals on that playlist. Obviously I know about the artists on these picks that have multiple albums of covers. This volume also has some interesting mashups, which technically are not covers, but they made some completely different songs out of them. I have all the Bossa Nova albums that cover different eras in a bossa nova style. They are great. And several of the country bands that do the same. If you haven't seen the artist on these lists and you really like them, let me know. I want my socks to blown off!

Who Dunnit? 4

01 Dan Finnerty - Candy Shop

02 The Brian J White Trio - Shout

03 Jamie Lancaster & Karen Souza - Billie Jean

04 Zacharias - Light My Fire

05 Paul Anka - True

06 The Coconutz - Everybody Hurts

07 The Dynamics - Miss You

08 Aloha Sex Juice - More Than Words

09 Evolution Control Committee - Stairway To Britney (Britney Spears vs Led Zeppelin)

10 John Lennon vs Van Halen - Imagine A Jump

11 INXS vs Smokey Robinson - Need To Be With You Tonight

12 Black Eyed Peas vs Frank Sinatra - I Got New York

13 Nouvelle Vague - Master & Servant

14 Oysterband - Love Vigilantes

15 Big Daddy - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

16 Better Beatles - Penny Lane

17 Richard Cheese - Brass Monkey

18 Jimmy Fallon - Reading Rainbow

19 Red Star Belgrade - Highway To Hell

20 Charo & The Salsoul Orchestra - Let's Spend The Night Together

21 Voice of the Beehive - I Think I Love You

22 Depeche Mode - Route 66

23 Devo - Don't Be Cruel

Who Dunnit? 3

More covers, from more bands. Yet another from the amazing Storm and the Balls. I discovered Storm Large as she opened for someone else. I arrived early to the show (which I rarely do) and found Storm. I must say it was a happy accident. This was before all her TV fame and all that. I was mesmerized. What an amazing performance. I could not take my attention off her. And then getting the album and discovering amazing covers in mashups like the ones on this series. Wow. A couple other picks to mention. Barenaked Lady Kevin Hearn's Thin Buckle doing War Pigs was a fun time . Saw him do that live on a Barenaked cruise. Beatnix doing Zeppelin songs as if they were the Beatles. I wish I had more of that. A couple of tracks from the amazing movie Welcome To Woop Woop. Go see it. And lastly, I need to mention the greatness of Senor Coconut. He's great. Never saw him live, but I wish I did.

Who Dunnit? 3

01 Eve St. Jones - Take On Me

02 Carmen McRae - The Sound Of Silence

03 Jazzystics - Walking On Sunshine

04 Axel Boys Quartet - Barbie Girl

05 Leika & the Waiters - In My Life

06 Danni Carlos - Don't Speak

07 Victor Malloy - Boys Don't Cry

08 Storm and The Balls - Van Ministry

09 The Dynamics - Seven Nation Army

10 Señor Coconut - Smoke On The Water

11 Soul II Soul - Kiss The Girl

12 Richard Cheese - Somebody Told Me

13 Nouvelle Vague - Ever Fallen In Love

14 Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle - War Pigs

15 Beatnix - Stairway to Heaven

16 Big Daddy - Like A Virgin

17 Paul Anka - The Way You Make Me Feel

18 Pat Boone - Enter Sandman

19 Bryan Ferry - You Do Something To Me

20 Lisa Stansfield - Ain't What You Do

21 The Fixx - These Boots are Made for Walkin'

22 Cake - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

23 Poe - I Cain't Say No

Who Dunnit? 2

Volume 2 in the series of covers mostly done in different styles than the original. Pat Boone and Paul Anka both had albums out of rockin songs done in "swing" style (sorta). More Big Daddy with fifties rock and roll and several jazzy versions of new wave songs. Other bands that started to do this type of cover is Nouvelle Vague with some Bossa Nova versions of New Wave songs. And Richard Cheese doing comedy parody versions as a lounge singer. Add in the various others that I just have collected and you have my next pick.

Who Dunnit? 2

01 Brave Combo - No, No, No, Cha, Cha, Cha

02 Stella Starlight Trio - Tainted Love

03 Storm and The Balls - Can Your Pussy Do the Dog

04 Buckwheat Zydeco - On A Night Like This

05 Everything But The Girl - Night and Day

06 Willy Deville - Hey Joe

07 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

08 The Brian J White Trio - Shout

09 Big Daddy - Ice Ice Baby

10 Kate Bush - Sexual Healing

11 Japan - I Second That Emotion

12 Bryan Ferry - The Way You Look Tonight

13 Lydia Lunch - Spooky

14 Nouvelle Vague - Blue Monday

15 Jamie Lancaster & Karen Souza - Billie Jean

16 Tom Tom Club - Under the Boardwalk

17 Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love

18 Cassandra Beck - Material Girl

19 Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit

20 Pat Boone - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock And Roll)

21 Richard Cheese - Fight For Your Right

22 New Morty Show - Enter Sandman

23 Will To Power - Baby, I Love Your Way-Freebird

Who Dunnit? 1

I like cover versions of songs. That's clear if you have been watching this space for any length of time. I especially like cover versions that do not sound at all like the original. Doesn't mean that I don't like original versions. I do. But there is something about an artist completely re-interpreting a song. This pick is that completely. Cover versions where you have to think, "Is this the original or was the original the original?". For me it really started with a band called Big Daddy. They were on Rhino records and they had a backstory that they were a 50's rock band that got lost somewhere for thirty years or so and came back to find all this new music, but they did the music in the style they were used to. Some great songs of the 80's done in "Sock Hop" style. Some really great covers (with just a few misses). Overall great. If you look for that kind of stuff, you find it everywhere. Here a few of my picks of those kind of songs where you wonder Who Dunnit.

Who Dunnit? 1

01 Barefoot - White Lines

02 Nouvelle Vague - I Melt with You

03 Pussycat Dolls - Sway

04 Stan Ridgway - Behind Closed Doors

05 Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra - Black Dog

06 Paul Anka - Wonderwall

07 Hayseed Dixie - Walk This Way

08 Big Daddy - I Want Your Sex

09 Storm and The Balls - Anarchy En Espanol

10 New Morty Show - White Wedding-Rebel Yell Medley

11 Jamie Cullum - Frontin'

12 Chris Isaak - I Want You To Want Me

13 Booker T. & The MG's - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

14 Aztec Camera - Jump

15 Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus

16 David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo-I Ain't Got Nobody

17 Paul Anka - It's My Life

18 Richard Cheese - Add It Up

19 Lesley Gore - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

20 Big Daddy - Super Freak

21 Richard Cheese - Let's Get It Started

22 Señor Coconut & His Orchestra - Beat It

Pol's Country Pick 3

This is the last of this series for now, I actually have more to pick from but they are not assembled. See the previous two days for how and why I started this series. For this one I want to mention the previously posted Country Stones compilation. I made that compilation after these three in the series. One of the "bonus" tracks in the Stones pick I already had on Volume 2 of this pick. Not an accident. And if you look at the covers of each they all match, just with an extra set of lips on the Stones volume. They are meant to go together. What I haven't posted yet is my first one. My first country-ish pick. Made way before these and I did not make it to match. One day I will post that one. In the meantime, this one will have to do. Leave comments about what your first country song was that made you realize you liked the genre. Or were you brought up a little bit country?

Pol's Country Pick 3

47 Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue

48 Rolling Stones - Memory Motel

49 Mojo Nixon & World Famous Blue Jays - UFOS, Big Rigs And BBQ

50 Blondie - Ring Of Fire (live)

51 The Belmont Playboys - Tore Up

52 Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue (Live)

53 Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man

54 The Greenhornes With Holly Golightly - There Is An End

55 Wall Of Voodoo - Tomorrow

56 Everything But The Girl - I Fall To Pieces

57 Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A.

58 The Scotchgreens - There You Go

59 Scott Goddard - Cowpunk

60 Gear Daddies - Zamboni

61 Johnny Paycheck - Take This Job and Shove It

62 Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

63 Hank Williams, Jr. - All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight

64 Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel

65 Son Volt - Afterglow 61

66 The Del Lords - Love on Fire

67 The Bottle Rockets - Baggage Claim

68 Flatt And Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

69 Jason Ringenberg - Half The Man

70 Remy Zero - Bitter