Counting Down my iTunes Play Count (VANITY) – Day #8

AC’s iTunes Directory | 8/19/2024 | Alberta's Child

[Alberta's Child]

Day #8 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]

TODAY'S ADDITION TO THE LIST:

#44 -- "Ventura Highway" by America ... 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
#45 -- "Your Love" by The Outfield
#44 -- "Ventura Highway" by America

[Alberta's Child]

Pinging to those from the previous threads. Took a couple of days off last week while traveling and posting from my mobile phone, but picking up where we left off!

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

[Fester Chugabrew]

Thank you. Finally another one that’s in my listening library.

[MtnClimber]

Thanks for posting. I have not heard that song in a very long time.

[ComputerGuy]

I forgot to mention that #50 Peter Gabriel made my still-favorite-after-all-these-years music video. Sledgehammer.

[SamAdams76]

America had a lot of great songs and "Ventura Highway" is one of them. Other favorites of mine include "Tin Man" and "Sister Golden Hair". Very underrated band. Even if they are a staple on "soft rock" radio stations!

My #44 song is a rather obscure hit from the summer of 1979.

Night - Hot Summer Nights (1979)

I turned 17 that summer and that song will always remind me of borrowing my father's car, a baby blue Chrysler Newport, and crusing up and down the beach on hot summer nights with the windows down. The smell of salt air and fried clams (from the local clam shacks) wafting through the windows. So here is my list so far...

• #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)
• #45 - Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (1989)
• #44 - Night - Hot Summer Nights (1979)

[SamAdams76]

Rumble link was an earlier song in my countdown on the last post.

I only found my #44 song on iTunes and here it is:

Night - Hot Summer Nights (1979)

[MtnClimber]

Riding down Ventura Highway on a horse with no name.