Counting Down my iTunes Play Count (VANITY) – Day #6

AC’s iTunes Directory | 8/12/2024 | Alberta's Child

[Alberta's Child]

Day #6 of the Top 50 songs on my iTunes playlist -- ranked in reverse order by play frequency from #50 to #1 and presented here on a series of FR threads. I'm posting them here on a new thread that compiles the growing list one day at a time over the next couple of months. I only post them on weekdays and may miss a day or two here and there, so it will take at least ten weeks to do this.

And to show my gratitude to the FR management for giving us all a forum to post vanity threads like this, I'll be making a contribution for the current quarterly fundraiser. I would encourage everyone on these threads to do the same! :-)

Have fun with this, folks!

(One thing I noticed when I started is that there was a tie at the end of the list for #50, so there will actually be 51 songs on 51 threads here.)

[Alberta's Child]

#46 -- "Midnight On the Interstate" by Trampled By Turtles … Click Here (YouTube version)

[Alberta's Child]

List to Date:

#50T -- "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel
#50T -- "Fly Over States" by Jason Aldean
#49 -- "Sara" by Fleetwood Mac
#48 -- Bagpipe Medley by the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band (2009 World Pipe Band Championships)
#47 -- "How I'll Always Be" by Tim McGraw
#46 -- "Midnight On The Interstate" by Trampled By Turtles

[Alberta's Child]

Pinging to those from the previous threads. A little bit of modern bluegrass for today's tune.

Let me know if you’d like to be added or removed from the ping list!

[MtnClimber]

Interesting song. Had not heard of this band before.

It made me think (which can be dangerous).....Would you rather be trampled by turtles or pecked to death by ducks?

[Alberta's Child]

LOL. On the interstate, I think I’d rather be pecked to death by ducks.

[SamAdams76]

Thank you again for this series of posts. I had not heard that bluegrass song before but I do have some bluegrass in my library and one of my favorite ones (from about 10 years ago) is "McKinley Blues", a version done by Jack Lawrence.

Jack Lawrence - McKinley Blues

With the refrain "hard times, hard times, they're coming", it could well be true today in light of world events.

Now for my #46 song, it's a song that gets stuck in the head of anybody that knows it. A one-hit wonder by Norman Greenbaum, who grew up not too far from me in Massachusetts (I could have walked to his house from my childhood home).

The song was a massive hit in the early 1970s and still gets a lot of airplay today on the classic rock stations. Whenever it comes on the radio, I crank it up and increase my speed by at least 10mph. So far, it has not cost me a traffic ticket.

My favorite story about Norman Greenbaum is that this one song pretty much set him up for life. He's not a rich man but the steady royalties over the decades, including movie placements, and live gigs, have allowed him a pretty decent living without having to get a 9-5 job.

Now that's a pretty good deal for being a one-hit wonder.

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (1970),

• #50 - Jack's Mannequin - The Lights And Buzz (2005)
• #49 - The Cars - It's All I Can Do (1979)
• #48 - Lobo - Me And You And A Dog Named Boo (1971)
• #47 - Zach Bryan - Oklahoma Smokeshow (2022)
• #46 - Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky (1970)

[gibsonguy]

“Now that’s a pretty good deal for being a one-hit wonder.“

Especially when you consider the song is built on a basic generic blues riff that is one of first things you learn on the guitar.

[Fiji Hill]

“I’ve never been a sinner; I’ve never sinned. I have a friend in Jesus.”

That’s a rather curious theological viewpoint.

[SamAdams76]

The writer of the song was Jewish. Probably didn’t write it from a theological standpoint.