A highly subjective list after looking over my CDs and albums.
1. All six tracks on the self-titled Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane album
2. “The Very Thought of You” as sung by Billie Holiday or Albert Collins
3. The Canadian Nick Gilder’s pop hit “Hot Child in the City” on The City Nights album
4. “Salt Marie Celeste” from Nurse with Wound. A lost ghost ship at sea.
5. Portishead’s Dummy
6. Arto Lindsay’s cover of “Simply Beautiful” on Mundo Cililizado
7. Neil Young’s song “Harvest Moon”
8. Gal Costa singing “Dindi." Lyrics by Tom Jobim
9. Tony Joe White’s “Rainy Night in Georgia" as covered by Shelby Lynn.
10. Black Angels. Passover
11. “Too Marvelous for Words,” lyrics by Johnny Mercer
as recorded by Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra
12. Stevie Wonder’s song “As (Wonder)” from Songs in the Key of Life
13. Prince’s “If I was your Girlfriend”
14. All of the Sarah Vaughn in Hi-Fi album
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Ok. Better stop now, though I did leave out my recordings of cheetahs purring.
Any additions? Favorite make-out music or erotic soundtracks?
Or what songs would you bring to a dirty song/dirty martini/clean underwear
party?
from the archives; originally published February 11, 2008