Cheek to Cheek/Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong/Forever Gold. The gravel in Louis’s voice is matched by the sweetness in Ella’s. These two friends recorded at least two albums of material together and this is one of my favorites.

Louie, Louie/The Kingsmen/The Very Best of the Kingsmen. The unofficial rock anthem of the Pacific Northwest. This tune has been recorded by everyone and investigated by the FBI, (your tax dollars at work). I once worked for a gentleman who had managed the Kingsmen and one year for his birthday I found an album of Louie, Louie done by a multitude of bands from Black Flag to a university marching band. Wish I could find that again.

Green Peppers/Herb Albert and the Tijuna Brass/Whipped Cream and Other Delights. Herb Albert’s take on Booker T and the MG’s classic, it sounds wonderful. A nice mellow, but not too mellow song.

Ohio/Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young/ So Far. CSNY recounts the shootings at Kent State. On May 4, 1970 National Guardsmen opened fire on a crowd at Kent State University and four students were killed and nine were wounded. Some of those killed were traveling from class to class, the one of the four closest to the soldiers was 265 ft away. One of the dead was even enrolled in the ROTC chapter at Kent State. One of the photographs taken that day won a Pulitzer Prize and changed the attitudes of some Americans to the war.

Hey, Pretty Baby/Count Basie/ Count Basie Greatest Hits. I was reminded when I was reading Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s On the Shoulders of Giants how much I liked jazz, so I got a bunch of CD’s from the library and uploaded then to my itunes and put some on my ipod. Count Basie and his Orchestra makes a good mix between vocals and the band.