So it wound up that I am more or less DJ'ing my Aunt Dot's memorial party thing. The editorial decisions are awkward, probably because it's tough to judge the tenor of the thing before it happens. I should probably be prepared with several playlists. One of the few dictates I've gotten was that it should probably be kinda Sinatra-heavy, which, hey, is no problem for me. It's what I'd want.

I guess this post isn't about anything really. I'm just awake and listening to music, and I just felt like posting some songs I really like but have discarded as unsuitable for one reason or another. Mostly because they're depressing. But I like depressing songs. Or maybe because they're too solipsistic, being more about me than anything else.

Frank Sinatra - The Night We Called it a Day

Frank Sinatra - I'll Be Around

Frank Sinatra - Someone to Watch Over Me

Frank Sinatra - Stormy Weather

Frank Sinatra - When I Take My Sugar to Tea

Ray Charles - Cry

Ray Charles - I Wake Up Crying

Billy Eckstine - Bewildered

Billie Holiday - Easy Living

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald - Dream a Little Dream of Me

Blossom Dearie - Like Someone in Love

Blossom Dearie - Someone to Watch Over Me

Doris Day - Close Your Eyes

all files zipped together

Somehow, despite actually being the son of a preacher man, I've never been able to parley this fact into any action. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, or perhaps being the spawn of Christian schizophrenia isn't as sexy as it used to be. By the time I was dating, my dad's pulpit days were more or less post hoc, ergo propter hoc anyway.

Anyway, it's a waste of my time to post the Dusty Springfield version of this song because everyone has it, right? Right.

Bobbie Gentry - Son of a Preacher Man

The Gaylettes - Son of a Preacher Man

Eddie Jefferson - Son of a Preacher Man

Mavis Staples - Son of a Preacher Man

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Bring Me the Head of the Preacher Man

I'm especially fond of the Gaylettes version, although I must admit I've got quite a reggae fixation these days.