gts151 “dormish”
Hate to say I told you so. Not really.
01-01 Arthur Godfrey & Mary Martin & Archie Bleyer Orchestra – Columbia 38744 – Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep, Go To Sleep (1950)
— Mary was, of course, the original lead in Peter Pan, and also The Sound Of Music but she declined that movie role, and Julie Andrews made a career out of it.
01-02 Alvis Wayne – Westport 132 – Sleep, Rock-A-Roll Rock-A-Baby (1956)
01-03 The Romantics – Nemperor 4Z9 04203 – Talking In Your Sleep (1983)
— can’t hear this song without replacing “in your sleep” with “to your sheep”.
01-04 Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed – PRO A7508 – In Our Sleep (Single Mix) (1995)
— more sleeptalk.
01-05 unknown – The Scotsman
— sounds a little like Lonnie Donegan, but perhaps a wee bit too risque for him?
01-06 Linda Glover – Warwick M536 – Counting Sheep Over You (1960)
— still have sheep on the mind, blame The Romantics.
01-07 Jennifer Garner – Go The Fuck To Sleep
— this is an actual book, by Adam Mansbach.
02-01 Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper – Mojo Nixone And Skid Roper 205 – King Of The Couch (1985)
— for decades, mis-remembered the line as “sultan of the sofa”.
02-02 David Lindley & Wally Ingram – Twango Bango II 01 – King Of The Bed (2001)
02-03 Amy Denio – Varianti 06 – Bed Spreaders (2024)
— recurring nightmare: butter all over the bed.
02-04 Olivia Rodrigo – Guts 06 – Making The Bed (2023)
02-05 Candye Kane – Superhero 06 – Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed? (2009)
— uhhh Candye… don’t think there was any sleeping involved.
03-01 Ron Hargrave – MGM K12644 – Should Have Been Home In Bed (1958)
— 1950’s rockabilly is built on whiskey and domestic violence.
03-02 Message – From Books And Dreams 101 – Sleep! (1973)
03-03 Midnight Sun – Midnight Dream 202 – When You Sleep Alone (1974)
03-04 The Mars Volta – Universal 0602498803790 – The Widow (Never Sleep Alone) (2005)
— now you know why they’re one of my top-fav bands.
03-05 Romeo Void – Nvr Say Nvr 101 – Never Say Never (1981)
— definitely NOT the radio edit, and not the version which made them one of MTV’s famous 1-Hit Wonders.
04-01 Nita Bradley & Artie Shaw And His New Music – Brunswick 8054 – Goodnight, Angel (1938)
— recorded 1937-12-30 for “Radio City Revels”.
04-02 The Cure – 4:13 Dream 11 – Sleep When I’m Dead (2008)
— telling the angels to butt out.
04-03 The Parting Gifts – Strychnine Dandelion 10 – (Walking In The) Sleepy City (2010)
— super retro sound, the song Nancy Sinatra forgot to make.
04-04 Santo & Johnny – Santo & Johnny 106 – Sleepwalk (1959)
— when you take a thereminist’s instrument away, she’ll resort to this.
04-05 Jerry Dean & The Shades – Creole 1002 – Walkin’ In My Sleep (1959)
— he’s getting a lot done while supposedly sleeping.
04-06 Addison Project – Mood Swings 01 – Sleepwalking (2003)
05-01 Richy Dinu – Academy 101 – Sleeping Giant (1963)
— in the old days the love-sick fella didn’t ram his SUV through Jennifer Anniston’s gate, he just wrote a song about it.
05-02 Systems Theory – Demos 1999-2000 03 – Where Titans Sleep (2000)
05-03 The Chiffons – The Chiffons 206 – When I Go To Sleep At Night (1963)
05-04 Jackson Browne & Jennifer Warnes – 1994-06-18 Twee-Meter-Sessie 06 – Golden Slumbers (1994)
— never officially released, no matter how stunningly great it is.
06-01 Barry Dransfield – The Bounty OST 113 – Drowsy Maggie (1984)
— from the Mel Gibson movie.
06-02 Brad Marino – Basement Beat 09 – Nancy Is Narcoleptic (2022)
06-03 Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters – Deep Blues 14 – Narcolepsy (Mr. Earl Wakes Up Late) (1988)
06-04 Genesis – Wind & Wuthering 203 – ‘Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers…’ (1976)
06-05 Genesis – Wind & Wuthering 204 – …In That Quiet Earth (1976)
06-06 Genesis – Wind & Wuthering 205 – Afterglow (1976)
— all the punctuation above is [sic] right off the album. This is the last song of Genesis, before the outfit became Philesis.
… and a bonus track…
07-01 Perry Como & Lloyd Shaffer Orchestra – RCA Victor 2259 – Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep) (1947)
— brings the show to 1:59:36, so we’ll see if some of this one gets cut off?