What's The Connection? Let's Dance 1

This seems like it is a lot of covers of one song, but really it is a few songs. The connection is Let's Dance. When you think of that song, you probably think of one of two different songs. David Bowie or Chris Montez. But in reality there are many covers of both. And even a song or two with the same name that have nothing to do with those songs. Go listen to all of these. One you will see is by DOA and does not have the same title. If you are offended, too bad (skip it). It is a parody? of Chris Montez. The funny thing about this song is I had it on a 12 inch single. I bought it without knowing anything about the song except the title. I brought it home with a few other albums. I played it 33 rpm for quite some time, thinking Flipper and actually still finding it interesting. Later I realized my mistake and it's better at 45. 

What's The Connection? Let's Dance 1

01 The Tremeloes - Let's Dance

02 Chris Rea - Let's Dance

03 The Beatles - Let's Dance

04 Ramones - Let's Dance

05 Something Weird - Let's Dance!

06 Atrocity - Let's Dance

07 Del Shannon - Let's Dance

08 Jimmy Cliff - Let’s Dance

09 Benny Goodman - Let's Dance

10 Jake Shimabukuro - Let's Dance

11 DOA - Let's Fuck

12 Miley Cyrus - Let's Dance

13 Excels - Let's Dance

14 David Bowie - Let's Dance

15 Tom Browne - Lets Dance

16 Richie Furay - Let's Dance

17 Five - Let's Dance

18 Pleasure - Let's Dance

19 Super Junior - Let's Dance

20 Rainbow - Let's Dance

21 Chris Montez - Let's Dance

22 Gregory Isaacs - Let's Dance

23 Bill Nelson - Let's Dance

24 Slade - Let's Dance '88

25 Shakin' Stevens - Let's Dance

What's The Connection? Boots 2

This continuation of the Boots Connection has several versions of one song: These Boots Are Made For Walking. I know it as a Lee Hazlewood song that Nancy Sinatra made famous. There are probably hundreds of versions of this song, but I picked from the ones I have. Obviously not all of them. There are a couple I really like. One being the British Electric Foundation with Paula Yates. Paula was married to Bob Geldoff (who you should know) and also had affairs with Michael Hutchence (INXS) and Terrence Trent D'Arby and Rupert Everett. I guess she got around. I don't care but she had a tragic life and death. I only wish she would have sang on more songs. I love her version of this. I am not from the UK so I never watched her show on the Tube. So that was never impressive to me. I also like the Bay Area band Big Hair. Unfortunately they didn't record much. One of their spin offs was Whistling Bullets and they recorded a little and it was good. Old or new, sweet or raunchy, this song is pretty darn good. Notice, no Nancy (get that from two days ago Boots WTC).

What's The Connection? Boots 2

23 Geri Halliwell - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

24 French Affair - My Boots Are Made For Walking

25 Loretta Lynn - These Boots Are Made For Walking

26 KMFDM - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

27 The Coconutz - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

28 The Ventures - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

29 The Supremes - These Boots Are Made For Walking

30 Billy Ray Cyrus - These Boots Are Made For Walking

31 Mrs. Miller - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

32 Jessica Simpson - These Boots Are Made For Walking

33 British Electric Foundation featuring Paula Yates - These Boots Are Made For Walking

34 David Byrne - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Solo Acoustic Version)

35 Teddy & Darrel - These Boots Are Made For Walking

36 Big Hair - Boots-12th Street Blues

37 Too Slim & The Taildraggers - These Boots Are Made For Walking

38 Javier Alvarez - These Boots Are Made For Walking

39 Pure Hell - These Boots Are Made For Walking

40 Beau Brummels - These Boots Are Made For Walking

41 Rose & The Heavenly Tones - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

42 The Meteors - These Boots Are Made For Walking

43 Megadeth - These Boots (Censored)

44 Crispin Hellion Glover - These Boots Are Made For Walking

45 Robert Gordon - These Boots Are Made For Walking

46 The Fixx - These Boots are Made for Walkin'

47 Lee Hazlewood - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

48 Barry Adamson - These Boots Are Made For Walking

Xmas G Pick (Christmas songs with a G rating for kids) (repeat)

It's December 5th! So, for little Dutch and Indo boys and girls, it's Christmas. Happy St. Nicholas Day to you. I grew up with this being the start of Christmas. We would put out our shoes by the fireplace and hope that St Nick would come and leave us some chocolate. And hope we weren't so bad that Zwarte Piet would come take us and bring us on a ship to Spain. I always got chhocolate and some dutch treats. and a note from Saint Nicholas that told me how I could improveover the next year. We still celebrated Christmas as well. I guess I was lucky to get to celebrate twice. In honor of St. Nick, here is a Pick of all G rated Christmas songs. Perfect to play on Christmas morning with the kids unwrapping presents. Enjoy the playlist cover!

WTC Xmas G

01 Tom Paxton - Reindeer on My Roof

02 Peter Alsop - When Jesus Was A Kid

03 Thurl Ravenscroft - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch

04 Spike Jones - All I Want For Christmas (Is My 2 Front Teeth)

05 Porky Pig - Blue Christmas

06 Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells

07 Ricky Zahnd & the Blue Jeaners - (I'm Gettin') Nuttin' For Christmas

08 Gene Autry - Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer

09 Art Carney - Santa And The Doodle-Li-Boop

10 The Chipmunks - Christmas Don't Be Late

11 Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas

12 Gayla Peevey - I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

13 Stan Francis - Jingle, Jingle, Jingle

14 Santa and His Helpers - Santa's Laughing Song

15 The Ronettes - Frosty The Snowman

16 Elmo & Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

17 Mel Blanc - I Can't Wait Till Quithmuth Day

18 Jackson 5 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

19 Drew Barrymore - My Favorite Day (Reprise)

20 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Mr. Heatmiser

21 Jimmy Boyd - Santa Claus Got Stuck In The Chimney

22 Dick & Richard - Santa Caught A Cold On Christmas Eve

23 Marty Gold Children's Chorus - The Kitty Ate The Tinsel On The Christmas Tree

24 The Little Stinkers - I Farted On Santa's Lap (Now Christmas Is Gonna Stink For Me)

25 Tom Hanks - Hot Chocolate

26 The Wombles - Wombling Merry Christmas

27 The Wiggles - Here Come The Reindeer

28 The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy's Christmas

29 Bobby Boris Pickett - Monster's Holiday

30 Elvis Presley - Here Comes Santa Claus

31 Linus VanPelt with Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Monologue (with music)

What's The Connection? Boots 1

One of my favorite Boots songs is by Nancy Sinatra and she's on this Connection, but believe it or not that's not the song that started me on the path of this WTC. It was of all people: Candyman. His song when it came out with the multiple samples was controversial, but popular. He was discovered by Tone Loc (who did an intro on the song) I had the original 12 inch of the song. It sampled, Rose Royce, who I loved. And Brick and Betty Wright and even Doug E Fresh. Great song. Anyways, I hadn't heard it in awhile, so I dug it out and decided to make a What's The Connection around it. What I found is that I had a ton of Nancy Sinatra covers (so I will do another volume of Boots with all those) and I a bunch of cool songs, so probably yet another volume of the ones that didn't fit on here. I had to put Nancy on here since I like that song so much, but none of the rest are covers of that song.

What's The Connection? Boots 1

01 Dave Dudley - Cowboy Boots

02 Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking

03 Deep Purple - Hip Boots

04 Jon Pardi - Dirt On My Boots

05 Joe Bonamassa - Spanish Boots

06 Lee Perry featuring Mad Professor - Dancing Boots

07 Candyman - Knockin' Boots

08 Adam And The Ants - Puss 'n' Boots

09 Barmy Army - Leroy's Boots

10 Le Sisters - Kick Your Boots Off

11 Jeff Beck - Led Boots

12 Syd Dale - Kinky Boots

13 Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On

14 Devo - Knock Boots

15 Shania Twain - Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under

16 Pretenders - Boots Of Chinese Plastic

17 Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots

18 Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots

19 New York Dolls - Puss 'N' Boots

20 U2 - Get On Your Boots

21 The Clash - All The Young Punks (New Boots And Contracts)

22 Cheers - Black Denim Trousers And Motorcycle Boots

Bo Diddley Beat 2

This is the second one in the Bo Diddley Beat pick series. Yesterday I had volume one, so if you didn't get that yet, you should. Lots of great songs in this serries, just because it's Bo Diddley's Beat. Pretty much any song with this beat will be at minimum passable, and probably quite good. Judge for yourself. Only Tom Petty and The Rolling Stones are bands that are repeated from volume one to two. So many to choose from. Let me know if you know any bands with songs that have that Bo Diddley Beat. Leave suggestions in the comments. Anyway, another couple dozen songs for your perusement.

Bo Diddley Beat 2

25 Bruce Springsteen - She's The One

26 David Bowie - Panic in Detroit

27 Primal Scream - Movin' on Up

28 The Smiths - How Soon Is Now

29 George Michael - Faith

30 Rihanna - If It's Lovin' That You Want

31 The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

32 Thomas Dolby - Europa And The Pirate Twins

33 George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Willie And The Hand Jive

34 The Pretenders - Cuban Slide

35 KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

36 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl-

37 Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone

38 REO Speedwagon - Don't Let Him Go

39 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Bo Diddley Is Jesus

40 Talking Heads - Ruby Dear

41 U2 - Desire

42 Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away

43 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl

44 Husker Du - Hare Krsna

Bo Diddley Beat 1

This will be a multi volume compilation. There is so much to pick from. Once you hear the Bo Diddley beat you can't unhear it. Some people have called it a variation of Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits. There is some truth to that but it is more. As you listen to these it will automatically trigger some memories of other songs with a similar beat. I hope you enjoy this selection of two dozen songs with that beat. Including the original Bo Diddley himself. Side note that has nothing to do with this pick and is me just name dropping. I got to have lunch with Bo Diddley. A BBQ, with "Mrs Bo" (the fourth one) and he was very gracious, very nice. It wasn't long after their marriage so kinda lovey dovey still. Got to see but not carry his guitar. Very good in concert, even then.

Bo Diddley Beat 1

01 Supremes - When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes

02 The Miracles - Mickey's Monkey 

03 Jefferson Airplane - She Has Funny Cars

04 Buddy Holly & the Crickets - Not Fade Away

05 Dick Dale - Tribal Thunder

06 Johnny Otis Show - Willie And The Hand Jive

07 The Allman Brothers Band - No One To Run With

08 Shirley And Company - Shame Shame Shame

09 Tom Petty - A Mind With a Heart of It's Ow

10 The Strangeloves - I Want Candy

11 Stan Ridgway - That Big 5-0

12 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

13 Elvis Presley - (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame

14 Electric Prunes - Get Me To The World On Time

15 The Stooges - 1969

16 Rolling Stones - Please Go Home

17 Pretty Things - Rosalyn

18 Duane Eddy - Cannonball

19 Love - Bummer In The Summer

20 Them - Mystic Eyes

21 Yardbirds - I'm a Man (Bo Diddley)

22 Neil Sedaka - Bad Blood

23 The Andrews Sisters - Rum And Coca Cola

24 Who - Magic Bus

Feel Like It 2

It's not quite fair for me to call this pick Feel Like It 2, because it really doesn't match at all with feel like it 1. The songs are not based off the same seed song. These are completely separate. It is only because I am lazy and didn't want to make a new cover. I just added volume 2 to the other cover. And I didn't want to make a whole new folder. Like I said: lazy. I was calling it "newcomp" until the last second. That being said, I did use two songs that I considered for volume one (and rejected because I didn't think they quite fit) . They fit nicely here and I did like the songs. See if you can guess which two. Also at the time I was making this I realized that KC (Harry Casey) had written George McCrae's biggest hit and even recorded it and gave it to him. So I wanted to make a compilation with George, his wife Gwen (and her response song), a KC song and another song written by Casey for Jimmy Bo Horne. Not for any reason except I felt like it. There's also no reason to continue the numbering, but I did.

Feel Like It 2

24 Imagine Dragons - Bones

25 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)

26 George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (12 inch)

27 Shakatak - Down on the street (Original 12 inch)

28 Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Graymatter Remix)

29 Pitbull & Ne-Yo - Time Of Our Lives

30 S.O.S. Band - Two Time Lover

31 KC and The Sunshine Band - That's the Way I Like It (12 inch)

32 Kungs - This Girl (Kungs Vs. Cookin' On 3 Burners) (Original Mix)

33 The O'Jays - I Love Music

34 Jimmy Bo Horne - Dance Across The Floor

35 Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

36 Gibson Brothers - Non Stop Dance

37 Flo Rida featuring Robin Thicke & Verdine White - I Don't Like It, I Love It

38 Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair

39 Miley Cyrus - Flowers

40 Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (GRAYMATTER Remix)

41 John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Thru The Night