Name Five!

[GA Russell]

Here's a game I found at Amazon. We start with a word. The next player names five song titles or album titles that include the word. Then he suggests the word for the next player.

I'll start. The word is LOVE.

Love is Just Around the Corner - The Four Freshman

I Love You - Julie London

Theme from "Love Story" - Tony Bennett

Like Someone in Love - John Coltrane

I Wish I Were in Love Again - Frank Sinatra

OK, at this point I suggest a new word for the next contestant. And the word will be BLUES.

[BillF]

St Louis Blues (W C Handy)

Blues In Time (Mulligan/Desmond)

Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gave to Me

The "Y" Blues (Alan Barnes)

502 Blues (Drinkin' and Drivin') (Jimmy Rowles)

Next word: COOL

[brownie]

I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues (Louis Armstrong)

Midnight Blues (Bessie Smith)

Blues in the Night (Jimmie Lunceford)

C Jam Blues (Duke Ellington)

Blues My Naught Sweetiee Gave to Me (Jimmy Noone)

Now let's reach for the MOON

[brownie]

BillF beat me by a few minutes... and I'll play it COOL:

Cool Blues (Charlie Parker)

Let's Cool One (Thelonious Monk)

Cool Breeze (Dirry Gillespie)

In the Cool, Coool, Cool of the Evening (Frank Sinatra)

Cool Bunny (Art Pepper)

so I'll renew my earlier choice: MOON

[jeffcrom]

How High the Moon

Moon and Sand (Alec Wilder!)

Moon Country (a nice Hoagy Carmichael song)

Get Out and Get Under the Moon (the Boswell Sisters did a nice version)

Moon Nocturne (I have Basie and Herbie Fields recordings of this)

Next up: TIME

Edited November 16, 2011 by jeffcrom

[JSngry]

Time After Time

Time Is On My Side

I Didn't Know What Time It Was

It's Time

Nation Time

Next Word = RIVER

[BillF]

Cry Me a River

Up the Lazy River

Ol' Man River

Way Down Upon the Swanee River

Moon River

Next word BIRD

Edited November 16, 2011 by BillF

[Big Beat Steve]

Bird Feathers

Bird of Prey Blues

Bird Gets The Worm

And so as not to stay in a rut, I'll add:

Little Bird (Pete Jolly)

Surfin' Bird (Trashmen)

Next one: ROAD

Edited November 16, 2011 by Big Beat Steve

[Michael Weiss]

Bird Feathers

Bird Gets the Worm

Ladybird

Lazy Bird

Free Bird

Next Word: WHY

Edited November 16, 2011 by Michael Weiss

[JSngry]

Why Did I Choose You?

Ask Me Why

Tell Me Why

Do You Know The Why To San Jose?

I Don't Know Why ( I Love you Like I Do)

Why do Fools Fall In Love?

Next up = SUN

[GA Russell]

Guys, I think it would be more fun if you listed the artist as well. For example, I've never heard of Nation Time before.

[Big Beat Steve]

Guys, I think it would be more fun if you listed the artist as well. For example, I've never heard of Nation Time before.

Next up = SUN

O.K.:

Island in the Sun (Harry Belafonte) (obviously...)

Sun Ship (John Coltrane)

Sun Snog (Pharoah Sanders)

Sun Valley Jump (Glenn Miller)

That Lucky old Sun (Frankie Laine a.o.)

Next one ('cause sidetracked above): ROAD

[JSngry]

Guys, I think it would be more fun if you listed the artist as well. For example, I've never heard of Nation Time before.

Sorry. It's by Joe McPhee.

[JSngry]

Next one ('cause sidetracked above): ROAD

The Long And Winding Road (Beatles)

Hit The Road, Jack (Percy Mayfield/Ray Charles)

On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)

King Of The Road (Roger Miller)

Long Promised Road (Beach Boys)

Next up = Wheel

[jeffcrom]

I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday (Fats Domino)

Spinning Wheel (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

Driving Wheel (numerous blues guys)

Six Wheel Chaser (Meade Lux Lewis)

Jesus, Take the... No! I can't do it.

Wheel Within a Wheel (Art Blakey/Bobby Watson)

Next up: HAIR

[Big Beat Steve]

She Ain't Got No HAIR (Professor Longhair)

Some Gremmie Stole My HAIR Bleach (Jack Marshall Band)

Short HAIRed Ugly Woman (Gene Phillips)

Tearing HAIR (Joe Thomas)

Long Blond HAIR (Johnny Powers)

Next, please: BONES

[BillF]

Hip Bones (Jay and Kai)

Bones for the King (Dickie Wells)

Dem Dry Bones (Trad.)

Bones (The Killers)

Bones (Radiohead)

Next word: DREAM

Edited November 16, 2011 by BillF

[seeline]

Dream (Everly Brothers)

You Stepped Out of a Dream (lotsa folks)

Dream in Blue (Los Lobos)

Last Night I had the Strangest Dream (again, many people)

Dreamsville (H. Mancini; many artists)

Next word: WIND

[JSngry]

Gone With The Wind (lots of people, first name that comes to my mind is Brubeck)

They Call The Wind Mariah (from some show, don't know at this moment)

Wild Is The Wind (Dimitry. Tiompkin, comp.)

Swift As The Wind (Tadd Dameron)

Catch the Wind (Donovan)

Next up = FACE

Edited November 16, 2011 by JSngry

[seeline]

The show is Paint Your Wagon.

[seeline]

I See Your Face Before Me

Let's Face the Music and Dance (Fred Astaire debuted this one, I think)

Nancy with the Laughing Face

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Ewan MacColl, Roberta Flack etc.)

Funny Face (Gershwins - Astaire sang this one, too)

Next word: WALK

Edited November 16, 2011 by seeline

[paul secor]

Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers

I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino

Walkin' to New Orleans - Fats, once again

The Walk - Jimmy McCracklin

Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke

Next word - WINTER

Edited November 16, 2011 by paul secor

[jeffcrom]

Can't resist replying to this, starting with two songs written by the great Alec Wilder:

Blackberry Winter

The Winter of My Discontent

A Hazy Shade of Winter (Simon & Garfunkel)

Winter Wonderland (You knew that was coming!)

Winter Moon (Hoagy Carmichael)

Next up: FALL. (If that seems too lame, remember that it's both a noun and a verb.)

[paul secor]

I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline

When I Fall in Love

Falling in Love with Love

Why Do Fools Fall in Love? - Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers

A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall Dylan

Next: TEARS (noun or verb)

Edited November 17, 2011 by paul secor

[jeffcrom]

Tears Inside (Ornette Coleman)

Tears of a Clown (Smokey!)

It Tears Me Up (Percy Sledge)

96 Tears (? and the Mysterians)

Drown in My Own Tears (Ray Charles)

Only got one example of the verb in there.

Next up: RAIN