Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

       There are books of the month clubs, flowers of the month, etc. so why not songs of the month? Besides, I did hours and days of the week, so this seemed the natural continuation. You can go through all the months in one day here:  Songs of the Month - YouTube

       Since today the United States celebrates declaring independence from Great Britain 250 years ago I put together this collection. To start off, all rise for the National Anthem. Written by Francis Scott Key in 1814, it is traditionally played before baseball games. This version Jimi Hendrix adapted for his appearance at Woodstock. "The Liberty Bell March" belongs here for two reasons: it was written by John Philip Sousa, who has USA in his name and it's named after an American icon, as seen in National Treasure . Ironically, when most people hear it, they think of the British comedy troupe Monty Python. "Yankee Doodle Boy" was written by George M. Cohen in 1904. I chose the version from the 1942 movie, Yankee Doodle Dandy , where James Cagney played Cohen. "Saturday in the Park" is by a band named after an American city. Since a lot of Americans will be in parks today frying hot dogs and drinking Coca-Cola, this seemed appropriate. The song ...

       I'm not sure how this fits the theme of this blog but I couldn't stop thinking about it. Instead of just a playlist of bands with colours in their names, I made it harder on myself by finding songs from them that also had colours in the titles. I wanted each band to be a different colour but allowed some repetition of colour in the title. I just couldn't pass on two different songs called "Black Night". A tip of the hat to my buddy Henry Desmond for suggesting the twofer "Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver ". Colorful Music - YouTube