A mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/
Sweet Sixteen.
We posed 16 questions, you submitted 16 answers.
The result? An eclectic hour mix, in this case, supplied by radioShirley.
Tracklist:
1. A song written by a woman but sung by a man
*Billy Paul - Its Too Late*
2. A song from an album that features a photo of the artist on the cover
*Jean Wells - After Loving You*
3. A song that mentions a number/or numbers
*The Swingers - Counting the Beat*
4. A song from the past that you’ve only recently discovered
*Fenwyck - Mindrocker*
5. A song on the Island Records label
*Kevin Ayers - Guru Banana*
6. A song that names a city
*Malcolm McLaren - Jazz is Paris*
7. An instrumental version of a well known song
*California Dreaming - Enoch Light*
8. A song from a great writer/performer relationship (example Glen
Campbell/Jimmy Webb)
*Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way to San José*
9. The opening song from any album released between 80-84
*Asylums in Jerusalem - Scritti Politti*
10. A country song
*Minnie Pearl - How To Catch a Man*
11. A song that you wish you could - but never did - see performed in
concert
*Joe Cocker - Cry me a River*
12. A song sung in english by a foreign language artist
*Nina Hagen - I Love Paul*
13. A British jazz record
*Dudley Moore Trio - Song for Suzy*
14. A song about the weather
*John Martyn - Bless The Weather*
15. A song from a vocal group that contains at least 3 male or 3 female
vocalists
*Edwin Hawkins Singers with Melanie - Lay Down*
16. A song for late night car journeys
*Its Immaterial - Driving Away From Home *
