Obscure Singles Heard at CVS

Halsey: "I'm Not A Woman, I'm A God" at Cafe Express

Junior - “Mama Used To Say” at the gas station. Love that song, haven’t heard it in ages. It was followed by a great song that sounded exactly like James Brown, yet I’m fairly sure wasn’t.

Oh, duh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsljwYOaVIk

Crap, not that, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbpA-BuSdU

Los Lobos: "We Belong Together" at Liberty Taco

Brenda Lee’s “Is It True?” was playing loudly in the elevator at a corporate convention-center hotel! I played air guitar along with Page’s solo as I swiftly descended, alone…

(coming back up later, I heard a track I had to Shazam; it was a 1980 jam by Gladys Knight and the Pips called “Add It Up.” Some absolute king or queen put this hotel’s playlist together…)

(Fate must be smiling upon me on this final morning of my work conference, bc I heard another favorite song – Wolf Parade’s “Shine a Light” – while eating breakfast at another hotel. That place was working a “2000s indie” playlist, so it fit in.)

Two at the coffee shop, low-medium volume: "Uncle John's Band" (perfect) and "Blitzkrieg Bop" (much less so).

Followed by "In God's Country," the one and only U2 song I unequivocally love.

Oldies Dairy Queen was nosier and playing the muzak at a lower volume than normal. Still could make out:

Buddy Holly: "Not Fade Away"
Cleveland Crochet: "Sugar Bee"

The latter was the first and one of the only Zydeco Rock hits, charting in 1960, a good 25 or so years before "My Toot-Toot."

That particular Dairy Queen is really doing some good cultural preservation work