Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Strange’ Songs

In three categories:  Rock, Religion, Romanticism.

Cream, Strange Brew

Doors, People are Strange

Doors, Strange Days

Mickey and Sylvia, Love is Strange, 1956

Stanley Bros., Rank Strangers. Utterly deplorable.

Eva Cassidy, Wayfaring Stranger

Johnny Cash, Wayfaring Stranger

Frank Sinatra, Strangers in the Night  To be is to do (Socrates).  To do is to be (Sartre). Do be do be do (Sinatra).

Barbara Lewis, Hello Stranger, 1963. 1963 was arguably the best of the '60s years for pop compositions.

Emmylou Harris, Hello Stranger. Same title, different song.  This one goes out to Mary Kay F-D. Remember the Fall of 1980, Mary Kay? 

Get up, rounder/Let a working girl lie down/ You are rounder/And you are all out and down.

Carter Family version from 1939.

Acker Bilk, Stranger on the Shore. A memorable '60s instrumental.  More here.


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