Ten Day meme, day 5

[cactuswatcher]

6 Songs you are addicted to.

Day of the tunes.
I usually prefer instrumentals to songs. The first five are tunes I play with some frequency. The last is a song I ran across again recently that was popular when I was in high school.

19th century tunes. Forgive the military bands. I don't play them in the military style, but it's the easiest way to find instrumentals.

The Girl I Left Behind Me.

Bonnie Blue Flag. No, I do not approve of the lyrics to this one! But it makes a nice banjo tune.

Buffalo Gals. Pete plays it a lot better than I, so I'll let him sing. ;o) (And he sneaks in a 5-string banjo version of The Girl I Left Behind Me!)

20th century. Two with singing, the other always an instrumental.

Believe It Or Not (the theme from The Greatest American Hero)

"The California Quail" (Watch on YouTube)

Topkapi (theme from the movie). Sorry about the sound quality.

I'll Never Find Another You. With Australia's own legend, Judith Durham.

Comments

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Some of those are timeless! Glad to hear the disclaimer about the flag, though...I'm sorry to say that we used to have to sing that in kindergarten. It does have a great tune, but Wikipedia says the tune was originally a song called "The Irish Jaunting Car," so maybe you could go for that instead!

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that Wikipedia article. It's possible it's another Irish tune called "Irish Jaunting Car." But the "Irish Jaunting Car" I know is different, the tune otherwise know as "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" or "The Man That Waters the Worker's Beer," which I've also been known to play on occasion.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Hah, Ramblin' Wreck! We knew dirty words to that one back in the day. Not very racy by today's standards, but we thought we were hilarious.