Here’s the playlist of iPodded tunes to which I worked out on Saturday:
– Billy Joel, “Big Shot”
– The Beatles, “Birthday”
– Rosanne Cash, “Black Cadillac” (an excellent do-this-or-die choice for lazy heart patients)
– The Violent Femmes, “Blister in the Sun” (which I first heard on the soundtrack of Grosse Pointe Blank)
– Una Mae Carlisle, “Blitzkrieg Baby” (with Lester Young on tenor saxophone)
– Fats Waller, “Blue, Turning Grey Over You” (the 12-inch 78 version)
– Count Basie, “Blues in Hoss’ Flat”
– The Benny Goodman Sextet, “Boy Meets Goy” (with Charlie Christian on guitar)
– Swing Out Sister, “Breakout”
– The Rolling Stones, “Brown Sugar”
– Pat Metheny, “Bright Size Life” (with Jaco Pastorius on bass)
– Henry “Red” Allen and Pee Wee Russell, “Bugle Call Rag” (this is one of the celebrated Billy Banks Rhythmakers 78s that Philip Larkin loved so much)
– Elvis Presley, “Burning Love” (a song I’d forgotten all about until I heard it on the soundtrack of Lilo and Stitch)
Incidentally, I saw the following caption on one of the overhead TV sets in the gym midway through my workout:
DON KNOTS [sic] DIES LAST NIGHT OF POOR HEALTH
Hey, it happens.