gts093 “shiver”
As predicted, the groundhog did not see his shadow.
01-01 Alma Cogan – Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo
— her voice makes me giddy.
01-02 Frank Zappa – Apostrophe (‘) 101 – Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow (1974)
01-03 Frank Zappa – Apostrophe (‘) 102 – Nanook Rubs It (1974)
01-04 Spike Jones & His City Slickers – Winter (1953)
01-05 Trans-Siberian Orchestra – The Lost Christmas Eve 04 – Wizards In Winter (2004)
01-06 The Radiators – Welcome To The Monkey House 16 – First Snow (2018)
02-01 Karla Devito – Is This A Cool World Or What 101 – Cool World (1981)
— was used in a Budweiser commercial
02-02 Gurf Morlix – Blaze Foley’s 113th Wet Dream 15 – Cold Cold World (2011)
02-03 Julia Lee – Cold-Hearted Daddy
02-04 Yoko Ono – Approximately Infinte Universe 210 – Is Winter Here To Stay (1972)
— had three winter songs to choose from by Yoko, this one was the weirdest, by a hair. Another one ended with lyrics about sliding off the road and “I don’t want to die yet.”
02-05 She And Him – Volume 3 10 – Snow Queen (2013)
03-01 Aretha Franklin – First Snow In Kokomo
03-02 Kokomo Arnold – Cold Winter Blues
03-03 Albert Collins – Snowed In
— great guitar sounds, mimicking a tired old car.
03-04 De Staat – Let It Snow (2011)
04-01 Kenny Sargent & Glen Gray Orchestra – Brunswick 6964 – Out In The Cold Again (1934)
04-02 The Mama’s & The Papa’s – California Dreamin’ (1965)
04-03 Hellbound Hayride – Who Shot The Hole In My Sombrero 03 – Five Feet Of Snow (2002)
04-04 Little Feat – Down On The Farm 02 – Six Feet Of Snow (1979)
04-05 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part 05 – Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow (2001)
04-06 Barnaby Taylor – Born In China 26 – Snow Monkeys (2017)
05-01 Sinead O’Connor & The Colourfield – Collaborations 16 – Monkey In Winter (2005)
05-02 100th Monkey – Strange-Eyed Constellations 03 – The Inuit Snow Song (Icescape Secret Beats Remix) (2015)
05-03 Membranes – What Nature Gives… Nature Takes Away 11 – Snow Monkey (2019)
05-04 Flickerfall – Serious Monkey Business 05 – Us Monkeys Together (In A Snow-Bound Land) (2010)
— in Mandarin, some of the lyrics are “Go quick grab the banana” and “Watch out for dangerous bees!”
06-01 Homer & Jethro – RCA 20-4397 – Cold, Cold Heart No. 2
06-02 Alphonse Mouzon – Mind Transplant 02 – Snow Bound (1975)
06-03 Genesis – …And The There Were Three 104 – Snowbound (1978)
— sounds sweet, but the song is full of violence.
06-04 Smith & Burrows – Funny Looking Angels – In The Bleak Midwinter When The Thames Froze (2011)
… and a bonus track…
07-01 Golden Sandpipers & Jimmy Carroll Orchestra – FF 616 – Mr Snow