Musical Mix Help

I wouldn't normally take a forum for this but I'm running low on time. My friend (and fellow fruhead) is turning 30 in a week and there's a big par-tay. She just informed us that there is a blue theme (her favorite colour and it is at the Blue Room of the Capital Club in Seattle)� I thought I should make her a music mix with 'blue' songs.

As I've said before, Fruheads are the best reference in the world. What can you suggest?

Blue Guitar by Susan Werner

Blue moon

The afterschool daycare blues by Trout Fishing

"I'm Blue (Da ba dee)"

But if you're in need of more, go ti www.letssingit.com and pick "song name" and then type in "blue." You'll get over 700 choices. ;o)

Deep Blue - Peter Mulvey

Blue Parade - Sarah Slean

Blue Sky Mine - Midnight Oil

Blue Sky Night - Melissa Ferrick

Blue Jeans - EFO

Blue Dahlia - Luke Doucet

For You Blue�- Beatles

�Bluebird - Wings

Blue Chair - Elvis Costello

Blue Divide - Richard Shindell

Blue Glass Fall - David Poe

Blue Overall - XTC

Blue - Elastica

Lucky Blue Dot - Hotel Faux Pas

Favorite Shade of Blue - Jess Klein

Forest of Blue - Paperboys

Blue Jay Way - Beatles

Little Blue One - Cowboy Mouth

The Wild Blue - Christine Lavin

Blue Black - Heather Nova

Goodbye Blue Sky - Pink Floyd

Blue Moon of Kentucky - Sarah Harmer

Small Blue Thing - Suzanne Vega

Blue Dress - Depeche Mode

Ummmm...sorry I got carried away. :)

Blue Sky- Allman Brothers

Blue Suede Shoes

Blue Moon

Blue Savannah / My Heart So Blue - Erasure

Blonde over Blue - Billy Joel

Perfect Blue Buildings - Counting Crows

Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground

Blue Jean�- David Bowie

Blue Period / Blues Before and After -�The Smithereens

Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who

Wedding Bell Blues - 5th Dimension

Blue - The Thorns

No Blue Sky - Also The Thorns

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
Blue - Joni Mitchell
Grand Prairie TX Homesick Blues - Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Saggy Diaper Blues - Da Vinci's Notebook
Four Blue Walls - The Mammals

[joshw@foo joshw]$ find /home/mp3/ -name "*Blue*" | grep -v Blues

/home/mp3/Susan Werner/Turning Point Show/1-05-Blue Guitar.mp3
/home/mp3/Blur/Modern Life is Rubbish/06-Blue Jeans.mp3
/home/mp3/Benny Goodman/Live at the Rainbow Grill/01 Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea.mp3
/home/mp3/Benny Goodman/Recordings from Benny Goodman's Private Collection/11 Blue Hawaii.mp3
/home/mp3/Nick Drake/Five Leaves Left/04-Way To Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/XTC/The Big Express/08-Blue Overall.mp3
/home/mp3/Joni Mitchell/Ladies of the Canyon/09-Blue Boy.mp3
/home/mp3/Soul Coughing/Ruby Vroom/04_Blueeyed Devil.mp3
/home/mp3/Chris Smither/Another Way To Find You/Chris Smither - Another Way To Find You -06- Statesboro Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Squirrel Nut Zippers/Hot/Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot - 11 - Blue Angel.mp3
/home/mp3/Allman Brothers/abb1973-12-31.mp3f/106 Blue Sky.mp3
/home/mp3/Los Lobos/Kiko/Los Lobos - Kiko - 01 - Dream In Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Lyle Lovett/Smile/01-Blue Skies.mp3
/home/mp3/Gershwin/Piano Concerto in F, American in Paris, Rhapsody/05-Rhapsody in Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Townes Van Zandt/High, Low and In Between/The Late Great Townes Van Zandt - 10 - Blue Ridge Mountains.mp3
/home/mp3/Townes Van Zandt/Poet a tribute to Townes Van Zandt/Various-09-The Flatlanders _ Blue Wind Blew.mp3
/home/mp3/Townes Van Zandt/Miscellaneous/Townes Van Zandt - Katie Belle Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Pink Floyd/The Wall Part 1/07-Goodbye Blue Sky.mp3
/home/mp3/Pink Floyd/Is there anybody out there The wall LIVE 19801981 Disc 1/08-Goodbye Blue Sky.mp3
/home/mp3/CPR/Just Like Gravity/05-Eyes Too Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Roy Orbison/For the lonely_ 18 greatest hits/Roy Orbison-05-Blue angel.mp3
/home/mp3/Roy Orbison/For the lonely_ 18 greatest hits/Roy Orbison-15-Blue bayou.mp3
/home/mp3/David Gray/Lost Songs/01-Flame Turns Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Chuck Loeb/All There Is/08-Tenerife Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Johny Vegas/Super Cool American/05-Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Bob Dylan/Blood On The Tracks/Bob Dylan-01-Tangled Up In Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Matthew Sweet/Blue Sky On Mars
/home/mp3/Tom Waits/Asylum Years/10 - Blue Valentines.mp3
/home/mp3/Wilco/AM/Wilco - A.M. - 12 - Blue Eyed Soul.mp3
/home/mp3/5 Chinese Brothers/Let's Kill Saturday Night/5 Chinese Brothers-12-Blue Boy.mp3
/home/mp3/The Paperboys/Late As Usual/08-Forest Of Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers/The Last DJ/08-Blue Sunday.mp3
/home/mp3/Doc Watson/The Essential Doc Watson/08-Blue Railroad Train.mp3
/home/mp3/Doc Watson/The Essential Doc Watson/15-Blueridge Mountain Rag.mp3
/home/mp3/George Harrison/All Things Must Pass Disc 2/14-Out Of The Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Victoria Williams/Sings Some Ol Songs/02-Blue Skies.mp3
/home/mp3/Chris Botti/The Very Best of/04-Midnight Without You with The Blue Nile.mp3
/home/mp3/Counting Crows/Hard Candy/10-Black and Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Martin Klamt Rownd/Convergence/04-Blue Lake.mp3
/home/mp3/Pavement/Brighten The Corners/08-Blue Hawaiian.mp3
/home/mp3/Stevie Nicks/Enchanted Disc 1/14-Blue Denim.mp3
/home/mp3/Stevie Nicks/Enchanted Disc 3/08-Violet and Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Stevie Nicks/Enchanted Disc 3/11-Blue Lamp.mp3
/home/mp3/Bill Monroe/The Music Of Bill Monroe 1936 1994/10-Bluegrass Breakdown.mp3
/home/mp3/Bill Monroe/The Music Of Bill Monroe 1936 1994/14-Im Blue Im Lonesome.mp3
/home/mp3/Bill Monroe/The Music of Bill Monroe 1936 to 1994 Disc 3/02-Dark As The Night Blue As The Day.mp3
/home/mp3/Bill Monroe/The Music of Bill Monroe 1936 to 1994 Disc 3/19-Blue Night.mp3
/home/mp3/Bill Monroe/The Music Of Bill Monroe 19361994 Disc4/12-My Sweet BlueEyed Darlin.mp3
/home/mp3/Bill Monroe/Music of Bill Monroe Disc 2/15-Blue Moon of Kentucky.mp3
/home/mp3/Bill Monroe/Music of Bill Monroe Disc 2/16-The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band.mp3
/home/mp3/Arthur Joseph/Redemptions Son/15-Blue lips.mp3
/home/mp3/Leonard Cohen/Tower Of Song_ The Songs Of Leonard Cohen/05-Tori Amos _ Famous Blue Raincoat.mp3
/home/mp3/Billy McLaughlin/Guitar Meditations/02-Into the Blue Out of the Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Billy McLaughlin/Guitar Meditations/11-Into the blue Out of the Blue Part II.mp3
/home/mp3/Bing Crosby/Bing His Legendary Years 1931 1957/01-Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day.mp3
/home/mp3/Bing Crosby/Bing His Legendary Years Disc 2 1937 1942/01-Blue Hawaii.mp3
/home/mp3/Bing Crosby/Bing His Legendary Years Disc 4 1945 1957/24-Where the Blue of the Night Mets the Goild of the Day.mp3
/home/mp3/Dave Douglas/Freak In/09-Wild Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/Gabin/Gabin/08-Gabin Vs Cals Bluedo.mp3
/home/mp3/The Verve/No Come Down B Sides and Outtakes/02-Blue USA Mix.mp3
/home/mp3/Tommy Keene/The MerryGoRound Broke Down/06-Big Blue Sky.mp3
/home/mp3/Jackson Browne/The Next Voice You Hear The Best of Jackson Browne/12-Sky Blue And Black.mp3
/home/mp3/Joseph Arthur/Redemption's Son/15-Blue lips.mp3
/home/mp3/Neil Young & Crazy Horse/Rust Never Sleeps/01-My My Hey Hey Out of the Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/The Blasters/Trouble Bound/06-Blue Shadows.mp3
/home/mp3/The Thorns/The Thorns/03-Blue.mp3
/home/mp3/The Thorns/The Thorns/06-No Blue Sky.mp3

geek! :)

I'll see your challenge... I'm in the middle of consolidating, though, hence the odd disqualifiers in the initial statement :-) (Oh, and I should point out that some of this is Debbie's, or else I'm sure I'll get picked on :-) )

navratil@constantine:~$ find ~/mp3/ -name "*Blue*.m*" | grep -v Blues | grep -v Christmas | grep -v athame
/home/navratil/mp3/keep/Eddie From Ohio/2002-Oct-25 Great American Music Hall, S/05 Blue Jeans.mp3
/home/navratil/mp3/keep/Jayhawks/Tomorrow The Green Grass/01 Blue.mp3
/home/navratil/mp3/keep/Moxy Fr?�vous/5-17-97 MIT, Boston MA/19 Banter- Kasparov vs Deep Blue.mp3
/home/navratil/mp3/keep/Peter Mulvey/2001-Dec-01 Blue Moon Coffee House, Bloo/10 Deep Blue.mp3
/home/navratil/mp3/keep/Peter Mulvey/Ten Thousand Mornings Out-Takes/09 Just a Shade on the Blue Side (Carmichael_Adamson).mp3
/home/navratil/mp3/keep/The Byrds/Sweetheart Of The Rodeo/09 Blue Canadian Rockies.mp3
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Compilations/Hitsville U.S.A._ The Motown Singles Col/1-20 Devil With The Blue Dress.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Compilations/Aware 5/19 Blue Skies Black.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Compilations/Folkscene Collection Volume Two/08 I'm This Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Compilations/Swing_ Next Generation/06 Blue Suit Boogie.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Compilations/KFOG Live From The Archives 6/14 Blue Sky.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Compilations/The Wedding Singer/10 Blue Monday.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Nat King Cole/Nat King Cole/2-22 Blue Gardenia.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Nat King Cole/Nat King Cole/3-19 When Sunny Gets Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Acoustix/Jazz, Jazz, Jazz/10 Graduation Day_It's A Blue World.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Heather Nova/Oyster/08 Blue Black.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Ryan Adams/Gold/07 When The Stars Go Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Ryan Adams/Gold/15 Tina Toledo's Street Walkin' Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Louis Armstrong/Ken Burns Jazz_ Louis Armstrong/09 Black And Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Louis Armstrong/Ken Burns Jazz_ Louis Armstrong/12 Blue Again.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Louis Armstrong/Ken Burns Jazz_ Louis Armstrong/21 Blueberry Hill.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Tal Bachman/Tal Bachman/01 Darker Side Of Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/The Beautiful South/Blue Is The Colour/02 Little Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/David Bowie/The Deram Anthology 1966-1968/13 Silly Boy Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Jackson Browne/The Next Voice You Hear/12 Sky Blue And Black.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Dave Brubeck/This Is Jazz, Volume 3/04 Blue Rondo A La Turk.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Dave Brubeck/Dave Brubeck Jazz Collection/2-15 La Paloma Azul (The Blue Dove).m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Dave Brubeck/Dave Brubeck Jazz Collection/1-11 Blue Rondo A La Turk.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Dave Brubeck/Ken Burns Jazz_ Dave Brubeck/06 Blue Rondo A La Turk.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/The Cranberries/No Need To Argue/09 Electric Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Cream/Disraeli Gears/05 Blue Condition.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young/So Far/11 Suite_ Judy Blue Eyes.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Crosby, Stills & Nash/Crosby, Stills & Nash/01 Suite_ Judy Blue Eyes.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Da Vinci's Notebook/Bendy's Law/05 Blue Moon.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Disney/The Music Of Disney - A Legacy In Song/1-17 Lavender Blue (Dilly, Dilly).m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Bob Dylan/Blood On The Tracks/01 Tangled Up In Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Eddie From Ohio/A Juggler On His Blades/16 Blue Jeans.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Electric Light Orchestra/Out Of The Blue/12 Mr. Blue Sky.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Electric Light Orchestra/Discovery/06 Midnight Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Mark Erelli/The Memorial Hall Recordings/06 Blue-Eyed Boston Boy.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Falco/Falco 3/3-10 It`s All Over Now, Baby Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Peter Gabriel/Up [PG]/03 Sky Blue.m4p
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/John Gorka/Between Five And Seven/02 Blue Chalk.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Ben Harper/Burn To Shine/06 Suzie Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Indigo Girls/1200 Curfews/1-10 Tangled Up In Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Indigo Swing/All Aboard!/04 Blue Suit Boogie.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Janis Joplin/Pearl (Remastered)/12 Little Girl Blue (Live).m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Chantal Kreviazuk/Colour Moving And Still/01 Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Shelby Lynne/Epic Recordings/07 A Lighter Shade Of Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Shelby Lynne/I Am Shelby Lynne/10 Black Light Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/The Manhattan Transfer/The Offbeat Of Avenues/05 Blue Serenade.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Sarah McLachlan/Rarities, B-Sides, And Other Stuff/07 Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Joni Mitchell/Blue/05 Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Moxy Fr?�vous/Live Noise/19 Kasparov vs. Deep Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Peter Mulvey/Deep Blue/06 Deep Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/The Paperboys/Late As Usual/08 Forest Of Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/The Dave Brubeck Quartet/Time Out/01 Blue Rondo A La Turk.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Karen Savoca/Here We Go/09 Clear Blue Summer.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Michigan Marching Band/Hurrah For The Yellow And Blue/22 Yellow and Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Sting/Bring On The Night/1-06 The Dream Of The Blue Turtles _.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Sting/The Dream Of The Blue Turtles/08 The Dream Of The Blue Turtles.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Styx/Classics Vol. 15/02 Blue Collar Man.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Styx/Classics Vol. 15/12 Suite Madame Blue.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Andy Summers/Green Chimneys_ The Music of Thelonious/12 Light Blue_Rhythm-a-ning.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Chris Trapper/Songs From The Drive-In/09 Me And My Blue Water.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Shania Twain/Come On Over/13 Black Eyes, Blue Tears.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/U2/Joshua Tree/04 Bullet The Blue Sky.m4a
/home/navratil/mp3/iTunes/Susan Werner/New Non-Fiction/03 Blue Guitar.m4a

Wow, no wonder Apple's been profitable lately ;-)

/home/navratil/mp3/keep/Moxy Fr?�vous/5-17-97 MIT, Boston MA/19 Banter- Kasparov vs Deep Blue.mp3

best party mix ever if that's on it. :)

I think using using songs with blues in the title is a cheat. You can make a 100 CD mix of songs like that. It is an entire genre.

that's what "grep -v Blues" does.

I should probably point out that .m4p files are from the store. .m4a files are just ones I converted to AAC myself :-)

($29,500 in iTunes purchases? A pittance, I say... now where'd I put my overpriced gold mini-iPod this time? Did I put it through the wash in my jeans *again*?)

grep -v is your friend. Almost as useful as grep -f :-)

I'd still have to say it's cheating to grep a catalog rather than come up with song titles out of the.. er, off the top of my head.

Speaking of which, allmusic.com offers several thousand artists' versions of songs with 'Blue' in the title, all of which are three-word or smaller titles (their search engine only returns the top fifty or so options)

Then that's what this shall be...Right now it's on the playlist right after Blue Guitar but before Bullet the Blue Sky.

You guys all rock and my music collection is sorely lacking.

I surrender my geek badge...really, I no longer qualify.

I'll only list a couple, since I think the others have a pretty impressive list already.

Blue Monday - New Order

Blue Moon.� I know this is already on there, but since no one listed an artist, I'll list it as well.� The doo-wop version is by the Marcels.� Several others have their own versions.� The only other one that comes to mind is by Dave's True Story.

Heee I almost put Blue Monday on my list but didn't know if I'd be scorned for liking New Order. :)

Where can I find that Sarah Harmer cut?� And is it the same one Elvis (and countless others, I know) recorded?

Nothing wrong with liking New Order.� The two I left off for fear of scorn (I'll list them now... I can take it) were:

Electric Blue - Icehouse
Out Of The Blue - Debbie Gibson

Debbie's would be best in the 12" single version... extended dance mix and all.� Not that it would fit with the rest of the mix either way. :-)

It's on her "Songs For Clem" CD...not sure if that's still available or not. It's a great album of her singing classic old songs. She recorded it on a porch and it's got a great feel to it.

yay New Order and props to Dave who also mentioned Erasure. Ah..80s new wave synth pop..those were the days.

I think I have both of those songs on 45. *hides*

you can only buy it at shows, too.

or ... maybe from her website as well, not sure.

anyway, yah--hard to find, she recorded it for her father, it's all songs he likes and then she decided to release it.

I'd have listed Blue Monday, except I'm not sure those words are even legible within the song. I figured if you're going to have a "blue theme" the songs should clearly have 'blue' in the lyrics no?

�

Blue - The Thorns

No Blue Sky - Also The Thorns�

or the Jayhawks' version of "Blue," although if there is a live version out there somewhere of the Jayhawks AND the Thorns together doing it on tour... then... *sigh* that would rule.�

It should still be available through here

Blue - LeAnn Rimes
Lovesick Blues, Blue Moon of Kentucky - Patsy Cline
Blue Room - The Nields
Blue, Blue Day - Dean Martin
Dinah Washington - Salty Papa Blues
Born To Be Blue - Ella Fitzgerald
Blue Tango - Enoch Light
In The Blue Light - Jane Siberry
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

You could just play Rhapsody in Blue or Miles Davis' Kind of Blue in its entirety. :-)