FRIDAY RANDOM TEN - HOLIDAY SEASON EDITION

Holy Mackerel! Is it Friday already?

Yes, it is...and it’s Holiday Season. Jewish Holiday Season, that is.

This time of year is jam-packed with Jewish holidays. Last Friday evening, the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, sounded the opening gun for the current crop of Sacred Occasions. Monday, September 25 was the Fast of Gedaliah, and this Sunday evening, Jews everywhere will observe Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Twenty-five hours of no food, no drink, no leather shoes, no bathing (I’ll take a shower, but I won’t enjoy it), no shaving, and no Ficky-Fick.

But that’s not all. The seven-day holiday of Sukkot kicks off next Friday evening, followed by Shemini Atzeret on October 14 and Simchat Torah on October 15. Whew!

But in the meantime, we have our Little White Choon-Box, busily spewing out its Random Assortment o’ Moozik. What do we have for the folks today, Johnny?

1. Bumblebee - Leo Kottke
   
2. So Danço Samba - Stan Getz & João Gilberto
   
3. Spirit In The Night - Bruce Springsteen
   
   Crazy Janey and her mission man
   Were back in the alley tradin’ hands
   ’Long came Wild Billy with his friend G-man
   All duded up for Saturday night
   Well, Billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said
   Anybody wanna go on up to Greasy Lake
   It’s about a mile down on the dark side of Route 88
   I got a bottle of rose so let’s try it
   We’ll pick up Hazy Davy and Killer Joe
   And I’ll take you all out to where the gypsy angels go
   They’re built like light
   And they dance like spirits in the night (all night)
   In the night (all night)
   Oh, you don’t know what they can do to you
   Spirits in the night (all night)
   In the night (all night)
   Stand right up now and let ’em shoot through you
   
   Well now Wild Billy was a crazy cat
   And he shook some dust out of his coonskin cap
   He said, “Trust some of this, it’ll show you where you’re at,
   Or at least it’ll help you really feel it.”
   By the time we made it up to Greasy Lake
   I had my head out the window
   And Janey’s fingers were in the cake
   I think I really dug her ’cause I was too loose to fake
   I said, “I’m hurt.” She said, “Honey, let me heal it.”
   And we danced all night to a soul fairy band
   And she kissed me just right like only a lonely angel can
   She felt so nice, just as soft as a
   Spirit in the night (all night)
   In the night (all night).
   Janey don’t know what she do to you
   Spirit in the night (all night)
   In the night (all night)
   Stand right up and let her shoot through me
   
   Now the night was bright and the stars threw light
   On Billy and Davy dancin’ in the moonlight
   They were down near the water in a stone mud fight
   Killer Joe gone passed out on the lawn
   Well now Hazy Davy got really hurt,
   He ran into the lake in just his socks and a shirt
   Me and Crazy Janey was makin’ love in the dirt
   Singin’ our birthday songs
   Janey said it was time to go
   So we closed our eyes and said goodbye to Gypsy Angel Row,
   Felt so right
   Together we moved like
   Spirits in the night, all night
   Baby don’t know what it do to you
   Spirits in the night (all the night)
   In the night (all night)
   
   
4. One And One - Miles Davis
   
5. Magicians / Politics - Bobby Slayton
   
6. Zig Zag Wanderer - Captain Beefheart
   
7. I’ll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground
   
8. Spanish Key - Miles Davis
   
9. The King of the Golden Hall - Howard Shore, The Two Towers
   
10. Surf Wax America - Weezer
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?