Mystery Songs

Corbett | March 4, 2010 11:52 PM

This past month I actually started doing something about my overflowing Gigs of random music, and cleaning up iTunes into something more than a place where you just dump stuff other people gave you. My train rides into the city are now a cornucopia of different music. Today I was cruising the "B" section. Everything from Bootsy to Beastie Boys to British Sea Power to Scarlett Johansson - wait where did that come from? She's singing Tom Waits songs? How did she get in the "B" section?

I still miss the tangible aspect of getting music down from somewhere and walking over a machine to play it. The whole analogue vs digital thing was a non issue for me, but not physically accessing music feels weird. It sort of devalues the meaning of playing music somehow, as if it's not an action anymore, but just an afterthought. Kind of like eating those mushy packs of energy food they sell at 7-11 rather than having a real meal. It certainly gets the job done but...

Anyway, I've now only got a handful of songs without titles - an amazing feat in itself, as a lot of songs I had to search the lyrics, dig up the song name, then figure out the artist by cross referencing Amazon or some other site.

This hit or miss system got me through ok with music from Eddie Bo, Bobby Womack, Esther Phillips, The Headhunters, Sir Joe Quarterman, Marlena Shaw, and O'donel Levy, but now I've got these few great songs left that I've heard a million times but don't know the artists.

Does anyone know the title and artists on these songs? These are great tunes and they need a home.

Super iTunes karma back to you if you do!

Mystery song 1
Mystery song 2
Mystery song 3
Mystery song 4
Mystery song 5
Mystery song 6
Mystery song 7

Category: Music

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