Eclectique 29:05:10

“If you’ve made an instrumental track, what’s the point of naming it something boring and unremarkable?” says The Sheik, “there’s no lyrics to give people the chance to remember it by either”. As anyone who has tried to hum a song to a disinterested music shop worker would agree, it doesn’t help when you’re trying to track it down for purchasing.

Leo Kottke must have considered such matters when he named one of his instrumental tracks ‘When Shrimps Learn to Whistle’. “And there’s no doubt that sales would have been better for it. Cause I bet they were!”.

Well Sheik, maybe playlist perusers will remember it at the very least.

Here’s the full playlist.

Gove Scrivenor- ‘Makes my Love Come Rollin Down’

Ry Cooder- ‘How Can You Keep Movng’

Gordon Bok- ‘Tune For Bannard’

Leo Kottke- ‘When Shrimps to Whistle’

Paul Madigan- ‘Prick’

Z Z Top- ‘Hot Blue & Righteous’

Kenny Rogers- ‘Just Dropped In’

Tracy Nelson- ‘Slow Fall’

Harriet Schock- ‘Hollywood Town’

Maree Cunnington- ‘Proud’

Randy Newman- ‘Maree’

Ronny Whyte- ‘New York State of Mind’

Mickey Jupp- ‘Old Rock N Roller’

Manzanilla- ‘Close To You’

XTC- ‘Punch & Judy’

Pseudo Echo- ‘Lonely Without You’  (can someone tell me why I played this….?)

Non Stop Dancers- ‘Dancing’

The Lovin Spoonfull- ‘Till I Run With You’

Lou Rawls- ‘You’ve Made me so Very Happy’

Vanilla Fudge- ‘Ticket To Ride’

The 5th Dimension- ‘Sunshine of Your Love’

The Trammps- ‘Trammps Disco Theme’

King Curtis- ‘Memphis Soul Stew’

Keith Herman- ‘There Must Be Love’

FLloyd Cramer- ‘Forever’

Carlos- ‘Wienerblut’

Burt Bacharach- ‘Stripping Isn’t Really Sexy Is It?’

Lou Reed- ‘I Believe in Love’

Roberta Flack- ‘Hey That’s No Way To Say Goodbye’

Underworld- ‘Promised Land’

Hagood Hardy- ‘Misty’