Word Association #15

[gary_james]

The Lord works in mysterious ways

[no_place_like_motown]

Leave It In The Hands Of The Lord - Tessie Hill

[Jerry Oz]

Don't Leave Nobody But The Baby - Allison Krauss with Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch

[gary_james]

Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston

[Jerry Oz]

Why Did She Have To Leave Me [[Why Did She Have to Go?) - The Temptations

[Methuselah2]

LEAVE IT TO HER BEAVER
[[Used in an old 'Harvard Lampoon' TV Guide parody)

Not to be confused with

MY BURNING BUSH
[[Used as background at a movie theatre in a John Waters' film)
"Sweet, fancy Moses!"
-- as they'd say on SEINFELD

[no_place_like_motown]

Where Does That Leave Me - Nancy Wilson

[westgrandboulevard]

Left With A Broken Heart - Four Tops

[no_place_like_motown]

What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin

[westgrandboulevard]

How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Bee Gees

[sophisticated_soul]

Silver Threads And Golden Needles - The Springfields

[westgrandboulevard]

Patches- Clarence Carter

[sophisticated_soul]

Rip Torn___

[Methuselah2]

Where Does That Leave Me - Nancy Wilson

Excellent one, Nplm!

Alfred Hitchcock's TORN CURTAIN [[1966)
Paul Newman, Julie Andrews

[westgrandboulevard]

Torn And Frayed - Rolling Stones

[gary_james]

Rip It Up - Bill Haley & The Comets

[midnight johnny]

Give It Up-KC

[sophisticated_soul]

Give Up - Diana Ross

[westgrandboulevard]

Giving Up - Gladys Knight & The Pips

[sophisticated_soul]

Giving Up, Giving In - The Three Degrees

[no_place_like_motown]

I Can't Give You Up - Shirley Brown

[westgrandboulevard]

Can't Break The Habit - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

[sophisticated_soul]

I Can't Let Go - Evie Sands

[westgrandboulevard]

Holding On To A Dream - Billy Ray Cyrus

[no_place_like_motown]

Keep Holding On - Temptations

[westgrandboulevard]

I'll Keep Holding On - The Marvelettes

[no_place_like_motown]

Still Holding On - C.P. Spencer

[westgrandboulevard]

Hang On In There Baby - Johhny Bristol

[sophisticated_soul]

Hold On! I'm A Comin' - Sam & Dave

[westgrandboulevard]

See You When I Git There- Lou Rawls

[Methuselah2]

Let's make it, say, September, shall we?

The Tempos/The Happenings

[westgrandboulevard]

September In The Rain - Dinah Washington

[sophisticated_soul]

Autumn In New York - Sarah Vaughan

[gary_james]

Fall In Philadelphia - Hall & Oates

[Methuselah2]

Honey Bunches of Oats

[westgrandboulevard]

A Taste Of Honey - Herb Alpert, The Beatles etc....

[gary_james]

Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers

[Doug-Morgan]

The Birds and The Bees -- Jewel Akens

[westgrandboulevard]

Bees Are Buzzin' - 'Gay's The Word', 1950

[rovereab]

Honey Bee [[Keep on Stinging Me) - Diana Ross & The Supremes

[Jerry Oz]

Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody - Kid 'n Play

[Doug-Morgan]

The Big Hurt -- Toni Fisher [[or Frank Thomas if your team was playing the White Sox.....)

[gary_james]

The Big Kahuna

[Methuselah2]

BIG FUN
Inner City

Great dance tune from 1988--check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omfiVkkJ1OU

[sophisticated_soul]

Big River Of Dreams

Johnny Cash/Billy Joel

[westgrandboulevard]

Deep River - Deep River Boys, featuring Harry Douglas with Pete Brown's Orchestra

[Methuselah2]

HARRY'S GIRLS [[TV, 1963)
Larry Blyden, Susan Silo

[westgrandboulevard]

'Harry's Game' [[UK TV miniseries, 1982, based on novel by Gerald Seymour)

[no_place_like_motown]

How Good Is Your Game - Billy Paul

[Methuselah2]

THE HUNTER GETS . . .

Need I go on?

[westgrandboulevard]

Passion Rules The Game - The Scorpions

[Methuselah2]

THE CURSE OF THE JADE SCORPION [[2001)
Woody Allen, Helen Hunt, Charlize Theron

[westgrandboulevard]

'Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl' - Johnny Depp etc, 2003

[Doug-Morgan]

The Pirates of Penzance

"It's from.....one of the ones about duty"

"They're all about duty."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk5NwLr3OmQ

[westgrandboulevard]

A Pirate's Life - 'Peter Pan', Walt Disney, 1953

[MotownSteve]

A Pirate Looks at 40 - Jimmy Buffett

[gary_james]

40 Pounds Of Trouble [[Tony Curtis, 1962)

[westgrandboulevard]

Trouble Weighs A Ton - Dan Auerbach

[gary_james]

You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes

[Methuselah2]

It only feels like

SIXTEEN TONS
Tennessee Ernie Ford

[westgrandboulevard]

The Weight - The Band

[gary_james]

Weight Watchers

[westgrandboulevard]

Take Good Care Of Yourself - The Three Degrees

[Methuselah2]

". . . you wear your foxy fur
when you step out late at night . . ."

SHE'S LOOKING GOOD
Rodger Collins

[westgrandboulevard]

Cruisin' - Vixen

[midnight johnny]

Russ Meyers "Vixen" [[1968)
6632

[gary_james]

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! [[Russ Meyer...1965)

[westgrandboulevard]

'Gone To Earth' - Jennifer Jones, 1950 [[US title 'The Wild Heart', 1952)

[gary_james]

Kitten With A Whip [[Ann-Margret, 1964)

[MotownSteve]

Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer

[westgrandboulevard]

Cell Block Tango - 'Chicago'

[Jerry Oz]

Riot In Cell Block #9 - The Coasters

[westgrandboulevard]

Whatever Makes You Happy - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

[Jerry Oz]

I Don't Wanna Cry - Mariah Carey

[gary_james]

Keep On Smilin' - Wet Willie

[sophisticated_soul]

Dry Your Eyes - Brenda & The Tabulations

[westgrandboulevard]

All Cried Out - Dusty Springfield

[Methuselah2]

"Blot, never rub."

Martha Stewart

or, as I like to say, Kitten With a Whisk.

[westgrandboulevard]

No More Tear Stained Makeup - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Marvelettes

[no_place_like_motown]

Looky Looky [[What I Got) - The Kittens

[westgrandboulevard]

Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

[no_place_like_motown]

Cradle Of Love - Gwen McCrae

[westgrandboulevard]

Rock Me In The Cradle of Love - Dee Dee Sharp

[no_place_like_motown]

Shape Your Arms Like A Cradle [[And Rock Me) - Sylvia Smith

[westgrandboulevard]

Take Me In Your Arms [[Rock Me A Little While) - Kim Weston, Isley Brothers

[no_place_like_motown]

Rock Me Gently - Andy Kim

[Methuselah2]

The arms akimbo of Kim Novak
[[and if they aren't, they should be)

[westgrandboulevard]

We Will Rock You - Queen

[gary_james]

We Shall Not Be Moved - Mavis Staples

[Methuselah2]

"Staples. That Was Easy."

[MotownSteve]

Friday on My Mind - The Easybeats

[Methuselah2]

MONDAY, MONDAY
The Mamas & the Papas

[sophisticated_soul]

Seven Day Fool - Etta James

[gary_james]

Three Days Of The Condor [[Robert Redford, 1975)

[Methuselah2]

101 Dalmatians
and I'll raise you 7 basset hounds

[sophisticated_soul]

3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds - Jefferson Airplane

[midnight johnny]

24 Hours From Tulsa-Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield

[gary_james]

99 Miles From L.A. - Albert Hammond

[Methuselah2]

99 bottles of beer in the frig . . . er . . . uh . . . on the wall. Burp. Oops.

[no_place_like_motown]

Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer - Billie Holiday

[westgrandboulevard]

The Bottle Let Me Down - Merle Haggard

[no_place_like_motown]

The Bottle Or Me - Dee Dee Sharp

[westgrandboulevard]

Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce

[midnight johnny]

Time-Ashford and Simpson

[no_place_like_motown]

Time Waits For No One - Jean Carn

[Jerry Oz]

I Will Wait For You - Cherrelle

[gary_james]

I'd Wait A Million Years - The Grass Roots

[no_place_like_motown]

One In A Million - Maxine Brown

[gary_james]

A Million To One - Jimmy Charles

[no_place_like_motown]

Never In A Million Years - Candace Love

[sophisticated_soul]

If I Had a Million - Melba Moore

[gary_james]

I Had A Dream - Paul Revere & The Raiders

[no_place_like_motown]

Daydreamin' - Aretha Franklin

[Methuselah2]

And what a day it is.

DAYDREAM
Lovin' Spoonful

[no_place_like_motown]

Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Mama Cass Elliot

[westgrandboulevard]

Dream On Little Dreamer - Perry Como

[sophisticated_soul]

"Dream on, little broomstick cowboy,
of rocket ships and mars...
Of big green frogs, and puppy dogs,
and reaching for the stars"

Broomstick Cowboy - Skeeter Davis

[westgrandboulevard]

Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell

[sophisticated_soul]

Thank The Cowboy For The Ride - Tammy Wynette

[no_place_like_motown]

A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done - Sonny & Cher

[westgrandboulevard]

Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - Willie Nelson

[gary_james]

The Ballad Of Billy The Kid - Billy Joel

[Methuselah2]

"Dream on, little broomstick cowboy,
of rocket ships and mars...
Of big green frogs, and puppy dogs,
and reaching for the stars"

Broomstick Cowboy - Skeeter Davis

"No one ever leaves a star--that's what makes one a star."
-- Star Jones
Oops. Make that Gloria Swanson as "Norma Desmond" in SUNSET BLVD. [[1950)

The ballads of Florence Ballard.

[no_place_like_motown]

Save Me A Star - Supremes feat Florence Ballard

[sophisticated_soul]

Florence Nightingale

[Methuselah2]

Save Me A Star - Supremes feat Florence Ballard

[[2-in-1. Excellent, Nplm!)

Just for the record: I think Flo knew!

[gary_james]

Watching The River Flow - Bob Dylan

[no_place_like_motown]

Take Me To The River - Al Green; Syl Johnson

[no_place_like_motown]

[[2-in-1. Excellent, Nplm!)

Just for the record: I think Flo knew!

I think so as well, Meth. BTW, "Sunset Boulevard" is one of my favorite movies. I loved when Carol Burnett spoofed her as "Nora Desmond"!

[Methuselah2]

I think so as well, Meth. BTW, "Sunset Boulevard" is one of my favorite movies. I loved when Carol Burnett spoofed her as "Nora Desmond"!

Love the CB spoof, too. "Maaaax!"

And the CB LOVE STORY spoof is terrific.

Whaddayaknow--here 'tiz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAPUYeDgJcw

[westgrandboulevard]

Many Rivers To Cross - Jimmy Cliff, UB40

[sophisticated_soul]

Cross Over The Bridge - Patti Page

[westgrandboulevard]

Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Simon & Garfunkel

[gary_james]

Still Water - The Four Tops

[sophisticated_soul]

[[Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

[westgrandboulevard]

Down By The Water - P J Harvey

[sophisticated_soul]

Down By The River - Neil Young

[gary_james]

Down By The Old Mill Stream

[144man]

Windmills of your Mind [from The Thomas Crown Affair] - Noel Harrison

[westgrandboulevard]

"There's an old mill by the stream, Nellie Dean..."

[[You're My Heart's Desire, I Love You) Nellie Dean - Gertie Gitana

[midnight johnny]

There's A Small Hotel-Rodgers and Hart

[144man]

I Was Checkin' Out, She Was Checkin' In - Don Covay

[westgrandboulevard]

Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash

[gary_james]

Stay Awhile - The Bells

[144man]

It's Time to Go Now - Gladys Knight & Pips

[westgrandboulevard]

Go [[Before You Break My Heart) - Gigliola Cinquetti

[midnight johnny]

You-Marvin Gaye

[sophisticated_soul]

Next To Me - Emeli Sande

[gary_james]

Us And Them - Pink Floyd

[MotownSteve]

Gloria - Them

[sophisticated_soul]

Guess Who - Jesse Belvin

[midnight johnny]

This Is Us -Emmylou Harris [[http://soulfuldetroit.com/artist/emmylou-harris?feature=watch_video_title) & Mark Knopfler

[sophisticated_soul]

Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr. and Bill Withers

[gary_james]

You And Me - Alice Cooper

[sophisticated_soul]

You And I - Eddie Rabbitt & Crystal Gayle

[Methuselah2]

Crusader Rabbit & Rags

[no_place_like_motown]

Rag Doll - Four Seasons

[westgrandboulevard]

Wind Up Doll - Little Peggy March

[midnight johnny]

My Living Doll-Bob Cummings, Julie Newmar [[CBS, 1964-1965)

[westgrandboulevard]

She's A Living Doll - Tommy Good

[no_place_like_motown]

Kewpie Doll - Diana Ross

[westgrandboulevard]

Barbie Doll - Aqua

[no_place_like_motown]

Party Doll - Buddy Knox

[gary_james]

Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen - Neil Sedaka

[no_place_like_motown]

Happy Happy Birthday Baby - Tuneweavers

[westgrandboulevard]

It's A Hap-Hap-Happy Day - 'Gullivers Travels', 1939

[no_place_like_motown]

Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers

[gary_james]

Happy Summer Days - Ronnie Dove

[no_place_like_motown]

One Summer Night - Danleers

[westgrandboulevard]

[[I Love A) Warm Summer Night - Mary Wilson

[Methuselah2]

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Wm. Shakespeare

[westgrandboulevard]

Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer - Stevie Wonder

[no_place_like_motown]

Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft

[westgrandboulevard]

Summer Wind - Michael Buble

[gary_james]

The Wind In The Willows [[Kenneth Grahame)

[no_place_like_motown]

Gone With The Wind Is My Love - Rita & The Tiaras

[westgrandboulevard]

'Whistle Down The Wind' - novel, film and stage musical

[gary_james]

"Put your lips together and blow"

Lauren Bacall - To Have & Have Not

[sophisticated_soul]

To Have and to Hold - [[1900) Mary Johnston

[westgrandboulevard]

From This Day Forward - Frank Sinatra

[Jerry Oz]

What Will I Leave Behind - Alabama

[sophisticated_soul]

Alabama Song [[Whisky Bar) - The Doors

[westgrandboulevard]

Alabama Waltz - Hank Williams

[gary_james]

Alabama Rain - Jim Croce

[sophisticated_soul]

When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam' - Irving Berlin

[westgrandboulevard]

Choo Choo Train - Little Lisa

[no_place_like_motown]

Love Train - O'Jays

[westgrandboulevard]

Friendship Train - Gladys Knight & The Pips

[gary_james]

Pain Train - The Guess Who

[no_place_like_motown]

Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers

[westgrandboulevard]

Runaway Train - Elton John, with Eric Clapton

[no_place_like_motown]

Party Train - Gap Band

[midnight johnny]

Wait, Stop That Train-Milt Matthews

[no_place_like_motown]

Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips

[westgrandboulevard]

Don't Stop The Train - Phyllis Nelson

[midnight johnny]

Stop To Love-Luther Vandross

[no_place_like_motown]

Stop! In The Name Of Love - Supremes

[westgrandboulevard]

Pride [[In The Name Of Love) - U2

[sophisticated_soul]

Love Has No Pride - Bonnie Raitt

[no_place_like_motown]

Love Runs Deeper Than Pride - Jenny Burton

[westgrandboulevard]

A Love So Deep Inside - The Velvelettes

[sophisticated_soul]

Amazing Love - Charley Pride

[no_place_like_motown]

Deeper And Deeper - Bobby Wilson

[gary_james]

The First Cut Is The Deepest - Cat Stevens

[MotownSteve]

Beach Baby - First Class

[westgrandboulevard]

First I Look At The Purse - The Contours

[sophisticated_soul]

Second Time Around - Shalamar

[westgrandboulevard]

Let's Go Around Again - The Average White Band

[sophisticated_soul]

Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

[westgrandboulevard]

Circle Of Life - 'The Lion King'

[sophisticated_soul]

The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell

[westgrandboulevard]

Will It Go Round In Circles - Billy Preston

[sophisticated_soul]

Going In Circles - The Friends of Distinction

[westgrandboulevard]

The Windmills Of Your Mind - 'The Thomas Crown Affair', 1968 & 1999

[rovereab]

Mind Games - John Lennon

[sophisticated_soul]

Mem'ries, light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories of . . .

The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand

[midnight johnny]

Time Out Of Mind-Steely Dan

[sophisticated_soul]

All In My Mind - Maxine Brown

[midnight johnny]

In My Life-The Beatles

[sophisticated_soul]

In My House - Mary Jane Girls

[Jerry Oz]

A Heart Is A House For Love - The Dells

[sophisticated_soul]

A House Is Not A Home - Dionne Warwick

[gary_james]

Home On The Range

[sophisticated_soul]

Deer Lover

[gary_james]

Bare Necessities

[midnight johnny]

Bare Naked Ladies

[sophisticated_soul]

$3.99 a minute

[midnight johnny]

Minute Rice

[gary_james]

Second Base

[midnight johnny]

Three Little Pigs

[gary_james]

... Hog Wild ...

[midnight johnny]

Wild Honey

[gary_james]

... Honey West ...

[midnight johnny]

Honey Don't-The Beatles

[sophisticated_soul]

Honey Do List

[midnight johnny]

Honey Boo Boo

[sophisticated_soul]

"Hey there, Boo Boo!" - Yogi

[midnight johnny]

Yogi Berra

[sophisticated_soul]

Yogi Horton

[gary_james]

Horton Hears A Who!

[sophisticated_soul]

Horton Hatches The Egg

[no_place_like_motown]

Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch - Honey Cone

[westgrandboulevard]

Chicken Hearted - Roy Orbison

[no_place_like_motown]

Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas

[westgrandboulevard]

Funky Gibbon - The Goodies

[midnight johnny]

Gilbey's Gin

[westgrandboulevard]

[[in case it's a different 'mother's ruin' in the UK than in the US...:))

Gilbey's Gin.....

[midnight johnny]

[[in case it's a different 'mother's ruin' in the UK than in the US...:))

Gilbey's Gin.....

[[whoops! Sorry...it was a long night...and a rough morning!)

[westgrandboulevard]

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning - Thelma Houston

[no_place_like_motown]

Sunday Morning People - Honey Cone