Carole King’s 65th birthday was Feb. 9. I played one song from her best album…Tapestry… and later I played cover versions of two of the songs from Tapestry…one from Dusty Springfield and the other from Anne Murray… versions that may not be heard too much elsewhere!

SONG/ARTIST/ALBUM

Look Around/Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66/Foursider

More and More Amor/Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass/Going Places

Love to Love You-I Feel Love/Donna Summer/Live & More

My First, My Last, My Everything/Barry White/Best

It Looks Like Love/Josh Rouse/Subtitulo

Case of You/k.d. lang/Songs from the 49th Parallel

So Far Away/Carole King/Tapestry

The First Time Ever I saw Your Face/Roberta Flack/RF

The Luckiest/Ben Folds/Rockin’ the Suburbs

Come Undone/More Duran/More Duran

Love is Everything/Jane Siberry/when i was a boy

I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry/Al Green/Call Me

Waiting in Vain/Annie Lennox/Medusa

You’ve got a Friend/Dusty Springfield/Dusty in Memphis

Beautiful/Anne Murray/Annie

Your Bright Baby Blues/Jackson Browne/The Pretender

Answer Me My Love/Joni Mitchell/Both Sides Now

Tenderly/Rosie Clooney/16 Biggest Hits

Natural Woman/Laura Nyro & Labelle/Gonna Take a Miracle

Muddy Roads/Kate Wolf/Gold in California

In My Life/Judy Collins/In My Life

You I Love/Kathy Mattea/Special Collection

Do I Move You/Nina Simone/L Tunes

I Wanna Walk With You/Toni Childs/Ultimate Collection

Take a Chance With Me/Roxy Music/Avalon

I Want to Stay Here/Dusty Springfield/Reputation

I thought it was the “stomach flu”… but learned from a caller that it was not technically the flu, which is a respiratory illness. What I probably had, according to Susan, was “gastroenteritis.” Ew.

Here is an informational link on gastroenteritis. I learned a lot!

Anyway, I was sorry to miss out on the show, but thanks to Mad Doctor Matt for being “on call” for me that day.

Here is Matt’s playlist! I found his “alternative therapy” most healing while I laid there listening. (-:

Your Saving Grace” 2-3-2007
Subbed by Mad Doctor Matt

Sergio Mendes – Look Around
Jack Marshall – The River Kwai March
Ella Fitzgerald – Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Sam Buetra – Greenback Dollar Bill
Ray Charles – What’d I Say
Young-Holt Unlimited – Soulful Strut
The Jimmy Castor Bunch – The Bertha Butt Boogie
The Ohio Players – Funky Worm
Ted Heath and His Orchestra – Satisfaction
Van Morrison – The Dreams of You
Elton John – Elderberry Wine
Nilsson – Subterranean Homesick Blues
The New York Roll ‘N Soul Revue – Shakey Ground
War – Me And Baby Brother
Steely Dan – Josie
Tom Tom Club – Genius of Love
Link Wray – Jack The Ripper
Led Zeppelin – All My Love
Fleetwood Mac – Homeward Bound
Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down
Todd Rundgren – Love of the Common Man
Thin Lizzy – Dancin’ In The Moonlight (It’s Caught Me In It’s Spotlight)
Squeeze – Tempted
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Popcorn
Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man
Laura Nyro – Stoney End
Blood, Sweat & Tears – Lisa, Listen To Me
REM – The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
The Kinks – Come Dancing
Paul Simon – Kodacrome
Blondie – Rapture
Shaft In Africa OST – Shaft In Africa (Addis)

“Punxsutawney Phil is the only true weather forecasting groundhog. The others are just impostors.”

Punxsutawney Phil’s Website

Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — The groundhog called Phil emerged from his burrow this morning in central Pennsylvania and didn’t see his shadow, which according to a German legend signals there will be an early spring. Phil’s handlers removed him from his makeshift stump on a stage on Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney at 7:28 a.m. local time. They then said Phil hadn’t seen his shadow.”