Love this song but the worst part is suspecting that everybody born in the 21st century knows it as the background music to a montage of computer-animated guinea pigs plotting an Ocean’s Eleven-style heist.
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Savoy
Ella
Vogue (425)
Madonna’s 1990 music video:
Tearjerker
Loretta Lynn (1932-2022)
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Jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi grew up in North Beach and attended SFSU (then SFSC). Millions of people have heard his music, perhaps without knowing it. He composed “Linus and Lucy” for the Peanuts animated films.
Anti-Aunty
More Snakes Than Ladders:
I’d Rather Have the Blues
This song soundtracks Cloris Leachman’s breathless sobs in the opening sequence of Kiss Me Deadly.
Too Marvelous for Words (376)
A cover of Johnny Mercer and Richard Whiting’s song “Too Marvelous for Words” by Nat King Cole:
Mark Lanegan (1964-2022)
From his first solo album The Winding Sheet.
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