Playlist form the Barbara Manning/Gerard Love gig

Of course, one of the best things about putting on a pop show is the opportunity to inflict your music taste on a fairly captive audience via a mood-setting playlist. Last Friday morning was spent picking tunes and compiling them into a playlist on my laptop (no 'original vinyl only' policy here!). Unfortunately, it turned out not to be time well spent as you couldn't really hear the music before, between and after the artists. I did ask for a wee volume boost or two but to no avail. Ah, well - next time! So, for no other reason than posterity, here's what made the air molecules in the room vibrate just a little (all song titles are links):

1. Tia Blake "Wish I Was A Single Girl Again"
2. Yo La Tengo "Polynesia #1"
3. The Umpteens "People Ride Their Scooters"
4. Carolyn Sullivan "Dead"
5. Hortense Ellis "Can I Change My Mind"
6. Irma Thomas "Two Winters Long"
7. Summer Snow "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong"
8. The Happy Couple "Another Sunny Day"
9. Clydie King "Missin' My Baby"
10. Lee Hazlewood "The House Song"
11. Dino, Desi and Billy "The Rebel Kind"
12. The Sequins "He's A Flirt"
13. Tight Knit "I Want You"
14. East Village "Cubans in the Bluefields"
15. The Springfields "Sunflower"
16. Oh-OK "Choukoutien"
17. The Siddleys "Bedlam on the Mezzanine"
18. The Foggy Notions "Need A Little Lovin'"
19. Birdie "Folk Singer"
20. Club 8 "A Place In My Heart"
21. Rachel Love "Down The Line"
22. The Cookies "Wounded"
23. Linda Smith and Nancy Andrews "A Passing Cloud"
24. Aluminum "Solar"
25. The Tills "One Sided Love"
26. The Umbrellas "Near You"
27. Seablite "Breadcrumbs"
28. Chime School "Love You More"
29. Buzzcocks "Sixteen Again"
30. Tammi Terrell "I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back)"

Summer Snow's ultra-gentle take on Buffalo Springfield's divine "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong" has been something of an obsession of late. It appears on this fine mix of Capitol Records' sunshine pop/pop-psych output. On the evidence of it, The Guess Who's beautifully-sung rendition and The Sneetches' slightly more rollicking verison, it's a song that seems to be done well by everyone smart enough to cover it.