Presents Wrappin' Music - Solstice 2017

Gettin' thoz presents wrapped. Better eventually than never, I alus say.

Some tunes tuh wrap by...                                                 (I'll make a playlist in the near future)
(scroll over title or artist for link to tune)


I'm a King Bee - Pink Floyd

Cyndi Lauper, True Colors

Patti Smith - Gloria (Germany)

David Bowie - Heroes  ("....been watchin' too much TV.")

Lauper - Time After Time

Rascals - Good Lovin

Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun  (watch for the Matisse at 3:13)

Prince - Purple Rain

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares to U

Deep Purple - Smoke On the Water
  Double El hums this whenever I'm cooking. When she sings the lyrics are: Hiiiiiiiiigh burner cooooookkking....a fyyre in the kiiitchen.

Peter, Paul & Mary - The First Time (Ever I saw Your Face)

Hesitation Blues - Hot Tuna

Ry Cooder - Maria Elena

Mississippi John Hurt - You Are My Sunshine

Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues

Taj Mahal - Cakewalk into Town

Taj - Fishing Blues - 1993


Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' - Divin' Duck Blues

Keb' Mo' & James Taylor - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Keb' Mo' & Buddy Guy - Born To Play the Guitar

Joan Baez - Bachianas Brasileiras No 5

Victora de Los Angeles - Bachianas Brasileiras No 5

Kaori Fujii and Eric Cecil - Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 (flute & guitar)

Renee Fleming - Casta Diva (In the Palaces of the Czars in St. Petersburg)

Rachel Gilmore - Met Debut (December 23, 2009) - Les oiseaux dans la charmille" from Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann 

Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Prelude to Act I; Sir Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharomonic Orchestra

Lou Reed - Sweet Jane (Directed & set design by Julian Schnabel)

Dirty Blvd - Lu Reed & David Bowie

Dirty Blvd

Lou Reed

Pedro lives out of the Wilshire Hotel
he looks out a window without glass
The walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feet
his father beats him 'cause he's too tired to beg

He's got 9 brothers and sisters
they're brought up on their knees
it's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs
Pedro dreams of being older and killing the old man
but that's a slim chance he's going to the boulevard

He's going to end up, on the dirty boulevard
he's going out, to the dirty boulevard
He's going down, to the dirty boulevard

This room cost 2, 000 dollars a month
you can believe it man it's true
somewhere a landlord's laughing till he wets his pants
No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
they dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard

Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I'll piss on 'em
that's what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let's club 'em to death
and get it over with and just dump 'em on the boulevard

Get to end up, on the dirty boulevard
going out, to the dirty boulevard
He's going down, on the dirty boulevard
going out

Outside it's a bright night
there's an opera at Lincoln Center
movie stars arrive by limousine
The klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of Manhattan
but the lights are out on the Mean Streets

A small kid stands by the Lincoln Tunnel
he's selling plastic roses for a buck
The traffic's backed up to 39th street
the TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck

And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreaming
he's found a book on magic in a garbage can
He looks at the pictures and stares at the cracked ceiling
"At the count of 3" he says, "I hope I can disappear"

And fly fly away, from this dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from dirty boulevard
I want to fly, from dirty boulevard
I want to fly-fly-fly-fly, from dirty boulevard

I want to fly away
I want to fly
Fly, fly away
I want to fly
Fly-fly away (Fly a-)
fly-fly-fly (-way, ooohhh...)
Fly-fly away (I want to fly-fly away)
fly away (I want to fly, wow-woh, no, fly away)

Songwriters: Lewis Allen Reed / Lou Reed