Category Archives: New York

5 July 2020

Pacing. The Shire.
Woodstock – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
I Don’t Live Today – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
It Was So Easy – Carly Simon
As She Moved through the Fair – New Potatoes
The Letter – Natalie Merchant
Ain’t She Sweet – The Beatles
Come and Get Your Love – Redbone
Pretty Peg/Craig’s Pipes – Bothy Band
Mandolin Wind – Rod Stewart
Golden Feather – Robbie Robertson & The Red Road Ensemble
Outro Lado – Zuco 103
Ko’u Mana’o – Kimo Watanabe of Rebel Zion
Chrome Plated Heart – Melissa Etheridge
Republic – John Munro
Make Our Garden Grow – Candide (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
Brotherhood of Man – How to  Succeed in Business without Really Trying (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
Why Do the Wrong People Travel – Sail Away (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)

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4 July 2020

Pacing. The Shire.
Happy Birthday Patty.
Mary’s Boy Child – Harry Belafonte
Do You Hear What I Hear – Ed Ames
The Sound of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
I Dreamed a Dream – Les Miserables
Orinico Flow – Enya
Our House – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught – South Pacific
Let the Riverrun – Carly Simon
Boris the Spider – The Who
American Pie – Don McClean
Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning – Oklahoma
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
Fields of God – Eva Cassidy
Both Sides Now – Judy Collins
We Are the Champions – Queen
Cool, Cool, Considerate Men – 1776
Goodbye Earl – The Chicks
King Herod’s Song – Jesus Christ Superstar
Octopus’s Garden – The Beatles
Piano Man – Billy Joel
Time in a Bottle – Jim Croce
Seventy Six Trombones – The Music Man
Sunrise, Sunset – Fiddler on the Roof
The Tracks of My Tears – Smoky Robinson & The Miracles
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
The City of New Orleans – Arlo Guthrie
Why Can’t the English – My Fair Lady

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3 July 2020

Walking. Morningside Park. NK Body Philosophy
I Want to Be in Love – Melissa Etheridge
Clarao De Lua – Nazare’ Pereira
Cotton Jenny – Gordon Lightfoot
Malcolm’s Theme – Terence Blanchard
I Can Love You Better – The Chicks
End of the Land – Van Morrison
Heartbreak Even – Ani DiFranco
My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
Love Gone By – Dan Fogleberg
Gulf Coast Highway – Nanci Griffith
Tapwe Oma – Fawn Wood
El Aparecido – Victor Jara
My Closest Roaddogz – 2Pac
Black Mountain Blues – Bessie Smith
Damaged – TLC
Shiver Me Timbers – Bette Midler
The Lily and the Poppy – Eric Bogle
Into the Fire – The Scarlet Pimpernel (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
First You Dream – Steel Pier (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)
She Used to Be Mine – Waitress (Playbill 30-Day Song Challenge, thanks Sean)

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2 July 2020

Happy Birthday, Paul Koenig!
Walking. Morningside Park. NK Body Philosophy.
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah – Allan Sherman
Seven Bridges Road – The Eagles
Nostradamus – Al Stewart
The Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I Got a Name – Jim Croce
This Is the Time – Billy Joel
Shut up and Dance – Walk the Moon
Day by Day – The Hooters
Fool’s Parade – Michael Stanley Band
Thunder Island – Jay Ferguson
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Icarus – Kansas
Fishin’ in the Dark – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Africa – Toto
What Is Life – George Harrison
Desperado – Linda Ronstadt
Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen

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Black History Bootcamp – Day 1

Daughters of Audre Lorde.
Pacing. The Shire.
Through the Fire – Chaka Khan
My Beliefs – Assata Shakur
U.N.I.T.Y. – Queen Latifah
Weary – Solange
Everybody Loves the Sunshine – Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Cherish the Day – Sade
Bag Lady – Erykah Badu, Roy Ayers
I Gotta Find Peace of Mind – Ms. Lauryn Hill

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1 July 2020

Walking. Morningside Park. NK Body Philosophy.
Akua Tuta – Kashtin
My Greatest Masterpiece – Bif Naked
Northern Plains – Alan Doyle
Four Seasons – Melanie Durrant
A Dream Like Mine – Bruce Cockburn
Soul Run – Tanika Charles
Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah – Leonard Cohen
Native North American Child – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Prairie Wind – Neil Young
Helpless – k.d. lang
Fallen Angel – Robbie Robertson
Catharsis – Natalie MacMaster
Share the Land – The Guess Who
Canadian Railroad Trilogy – Gordon Lightfoot
We Shall Remain – Kalolin Johnson
Forgive Yourself – Kelly Fraser
O Canada – Canadian Anthem Singers

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30 June 2020

Walking. Morningside Park. NK Body Philosophy
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dessner
I Want to Break Free – Queen
Just the Way I Like – Shawnee
Singing for Our Lives – Holly Near
We Are Family – Sister Sledge
What I Need – Hayley Kiyoko
Candy Says – The Velvet Underground
Lost Angel – Mya Byrne
Constant Craving – k.d. lang
True Colors – Cyndi Lauper
Walk on the Wild Side – Lou Reed
Make Me Feel – Janell Monae
Born This Way – Lady Gaga
We Belong – namoli brennet

 

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29 June 2020

Stretching. The Shire. NK Body Philosophy.
Cherokee Morning Song – Walela
Electric Lady – Janell Monae
Four Women – Nina Simone
Doubt – Mary J. Blige
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
Flawless Remix – Beyonce
I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
Ella’s Song – Sweet Honey in the Rock
Different Drum – Linda Rondstadt
U.N.I.T.Y. – Queen Latifah
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man – Aretha Franklin
You Let Me Down – Billie Holiday
You Don’t Own Me – Grace
Thorn in Your Side – namoli brennet

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Purple flowers, Morningside Gardens 69

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Morningside Gardens
Manhattan, New York
5 June 2020

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28 June 2020

Pacing. The Shire.
For Marsha P. Johnson – Bryce Dressner
I Turned You On – The Isley Brothers
Everybody’s Talkin’ – Harry Nilsson
You’ve Made Me So Very Happy – Brenda Holloway
One – Three Dog Night
Put a Little Love in Your Heart – Jackie DeShannon
Black Pearl – Sonny Charles & The Checkmates, Ltd.
Destination: Anywhere – The Marvelettes
Only the Strong Survive – Jerry Butler
Nothing But a Heartache – The Flirtations
Good Lovin’ Ain’t Easy to Come By – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
In the Ghetto – Elvis Presley
The Nitty Gritty – Gladys Knight & The Pips
Oh Happy Day – The Edwin Hawkins Singers
My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder
You Came, You Saw, You Conquered
I Want to Take You Higher – Sly & The Family Stone
Good Morning Starshine – Oliver
No Matter What Sign You Are – Diana Ross & The Supremes
Build Me up Buttercup – The Foundations
This Is My Life – Shirley Bassey

With one exception, these songs are among the “Top 40” songs on the jukebox in the Stonewall Inn during June, 1969 as reported by the Stonewall Veterans Rebellion Association

 

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