Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Saturday Night at the Oldies: Some ‘Night’ Songs

Waits  Sat NiteThem, Here Comes the Night. Still gives me shivers up and down the spine as it did in '65. A blend of the Dionysian and the tender. A similar blend in Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman

Bob Dylan, "Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you are trying to be so quiet?" Visions of Johanna, live from '66. Marianne Faithfull does a good job with it.

Beatles, The Night Before

Don McLean, Starry, Starry Night

Sam Cooke, Another Saturday Night

The Band, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Tom Waits, The Heart of Saturday Night

 


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