Playlist 18

[stoutfellow]

I've kind of fallen behind on these. (Yes, I intend to do this for all twenty-six playlists.)

• Where You Lead, Carole King. The fact that this is the theme song for "Gilmore Girls" doesn't hurt, but I liked it even before that.


• Vincent, Don McLean. I feel the need to give McLean a full post sometime.


• Deacon Blues, Steely Dan. "They got a name for the winners in the world / I want a name when I lose / They call Alabama the Crimson Tide / Call me Deacon Blues." Gotta love it.


• Goodbye to Love, the Carpenters. More sniffles for Karen.


• Are You Lonesome Tonight, Elvis. It's the spoken part that really gets me: "If you won't come back to me, then they can ring the curtain down." (For me, this hooks into a powerful passage from The City and the Stars, oddly enough.)


• Right Before Your Eyes, America. This one and the next are more of the soft-and-beautiful work that America does (did?) so well.


• Only In Your Heart, America.


• What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, Jimmy Ruffin. A classic bit of Motown.


• I Take My Chances, Mary Chapin Carpenter.


• Beginnings, Chicago. Bright, joyful, and full of hope.