Walking. Germantown.
Bye & Bye/Saints – Gregg Stafford & Dr. Michael White
That’s Alright – Ranky Tanky
Once Upon a Time – Mary Wells & Marvin Gaye
Black Is – The Last Poets
Whole World – Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding
I’m on My Way – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Mama’s Cryin’ Long – Our Native Daughters
Dis Generation – A Tribe Called Quest
People Get Ready – The Impressions
The Lord’s Prayer – Aaron Neville
Down to Zero – Joan Armatrading
Everything – Ben Harper
Agolo – Angelique Kidjo
Rise Up – Audra Day
Maduna – Miriam Makeba
Motownphilly – Boyz II Men
Category Archives: Music
10 February 2024
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
6 February 2024
Walking. Germantown. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Bob Marley’s birthday.
All songs by Bob Marley & The Wailers unless otherwise noted.
Redemption Song
No Woman No Cry
Three Little Birds
Buffalo Soldier
Get Up Stand Up
Stir It Up
Exodus
Jamming
Put It On – Bob Marley
One Love – Bob Marley
One Love/People Get Ready
Rainbow Country
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
5 February 2024
Walking. Louisville. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Trayvon Martin killing anniversary.
Trayvon Martin – Watoto from the Nile
Don’t Believe the Hype – Public Enemy
Renegades of Funk – Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force
Colors – Ice-T
Control – Janet Jackson
Proud to Be Black – Run-DMC
Stand Your Ground – Pharoahe Monch
Super Life – Chaka Khan
Rest in Power – Black Thought
Don’t Tread on Trayvon Martin – Truth on Earth
Everyday I Pray – Kreepa
Trayvon Martin – Big Poppa & BMayneBeatz
Throw on My Hoodie – Cecil Morris
Filed under Antiracism, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
4 February 2024
Walking. Germantown. Stretching. Gym in the Apartment.
Rosa Parks birthday. Amadou Diallo killing.
Sister Rosa – The Neville Brothers
Rosa Sat – MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir
Rosa Parks – Outkast
Diallo – Wyclef Jean
American Skin – Bruce Springsteen
A.D. 2000 – Erykah Badu
I Find It Hard to Say – Lauryn Hill
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Freedom – Joi
That’s Who I Am – Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
We’ll Never Turn Back – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Eyes on the Prize – Mavis Staples
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
3 February 2024
Walking. Gym in the Apartment.
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Pearls – Angelique Kidjo, Carlos Santana, Josh Groban
The Guitar Man – Gary Clark, Jr.
Campfire – Wu Tang Clan
I Still Love You – Jennifer Hudson
Sandra’s Smile – Blood Orange
Union – The Black-Eyed Peas
The House I Live In – Paul Robeson
Slippin’ Away – Toshi Reagon
Kids… – A Tribe Called Quest
One Love/People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Save Our Children – Carlos Jones and the PLUS Band
Computer Blues – Prince & The Revolution
Watch Your Step – Joan Armatrading
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
2 February 2024
Pata Pata 2000 – Miriam Makeba
Bring the Noise – Public Enemy
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free – Nina Simone
I’m Lucky – Joan Armatrading
Pastime Paradise – Stevie Wonder
Is This Love – Bob Marley & The Wailers
I Can See Clearly Now – Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Girl Can’t Help It – Little Richard
KwaZulu – Hugh Masekela, feat. Themba Mokoena
Take Me Where You Go – Elmore James
Our Side Won – Sweet Honey in the Rock
You Must Be Born Again – Mahalia Jackson
Mr. Highway Man – Howlin’ Wolf
Violet – Seal
Interlude #1 – Earth, Wind & Fire
My Sweet Lord – Aretha Franklin
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
1 February 2024
Walking. Apartment. Germantown.
Let America Be America Again – James Earl Jones
Why U Turn On Me – 2Pac
Kindhearted Woman Blues – Robert Johnson
Crescendo in Blue – Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
I Guess I’ll Get the Papers – Louis Armstrong
A Single Woman – Nina Simone
Spirit in the Dark – Aretha Franklin
Red River – Lead Belly
All By Myself – Fats Domino
Fading Flower – Yuna
How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye
The Bottle – Gil Scott-Heron
Listen to the Lambs – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Use Me – Bill Withers
Lift Every Voice and Sing – The Boys Choir of Harlem
Filed under Antiracism, Current Events, Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist
31 January 2024
Walking. Grove City. Germantown.
Third Movement of the Violin Concero by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Some Girls – Isaac Powell
Roll Me Away – Bob Seger
Miller’s Angels – Counting Crows
Roses – Annale
Baby Step Back – Gordon Lightfoot
Down the Road – Steve Earle
If I Fall You’re Going Down With Me – The Chicks
The Ballad of Harriet Tubman – Magpie
Terry’s Song – Bruce Springsteen
King Harvest – The Band
Wild Cherry Canyon – Paul Horn & R. Carlos Nakai
Grond – The Hammer of the Underworld – The Return of the King
On the Road Again – Willie Nelson & Johnny Cash
Filed under Exercise, Louisville, Music, playlist, Travel
30 January 2024
Walking. Grove City.
WKRP in Cincinnati – Television’s Greatest Hirs Band
Planting the Tree of Peace – Joanne Shenandoah
What Y’all Come to Do – Aretha Franklin & John Legend
Margarita – The Traveling Wilburys
Opening Song for the Maker – Joy Harjo
East Street Dream – Eva Cassidy
Something to See – Tracy Chapman
Stoned Love – The Supremes
Our Very Own – Nanci Griffith
Run On – Moby
Te Ata – J25
Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Domhnach Na Fola – T with the Maggies
Minds Locked Shut – Christy Moore
Bloody Sunday – Cruachan
Sunday Bloody Sunday – The Wolfe Tones
Bloody Sunday – U2
28 January 2024
Most days no introduction to the playlist is provided. Today, as does every January 28, marks an exception.
About today’s playlist.
Fifty years ago today, my father, William H. Koenig, died in a plane crash. A private pilot, he was flying with a colleague to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to advocate for funds for the school district where they were working. The plane went down. Both men died. My father served as the assistant superintendent.
Prior to becoming a school administrator he had been a high school band director. He kept his hands in music as he career moved in a different direction. He played string bass in the pit orchestra for high school musicals and he was the first director of the hand bell choir at our church.
He also directed a community band for several years. For two years, I played baritone horn in that band.
One or another of the bands my father directed, played almost all of the songs on this playlist at some point. Many of them I played under my father’s direction.
Dad – since it fell unto your lot
That you should rise and I should not
I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call
Good night and joy be with you
Walking. Apartment. Germantown.
Unless otherwise noted, the artist performing the songs is the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein.
Semper Fidelis
The Thunderer
Washington Post
Hands Across the Sea
Radetsky March, Op. 228
Scotland the Brave – The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Tank Regiment
Under the Double Eagle
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Stars and Stripes Forever
The British Grenadiers
The National Emblem
Rakoczy March/Hungarian March
Light Calvary Overture – London Festival Orchestra
March of the Toreadors from Carmen, Suite No. 1
Coronation March from Le Prophete
Grand March from Aida
Pomp and Circumstance
Along the Graybeard Trail 