Fall Survival Checklist: Autumn Playlist
AUTUMN PLAYLIST
No season has more soulful music than autumn. Here’s our playlist for the harvest.
SEPTEMBER SONG/Bryan Ferry: Move over Ute Lemper. Bryan “Love is the Drug” Ferry carries a big torch on As Time Goes By, his paean to ’30s pop standards.
WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS/Green Day: We don’t actually know what this song is about, but Billy Joe Armstrong has a mournful voice and great eyeliner.
MOONDANCE/Van Morrison: “A fantabulous night to make romance ’neath the cover of October skies.”
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS/Dinah Washington: What rhymes with Christopher Columbus? Why, compass and rumpus, of course.
SHOO FLY PIE AND APPLE PAN DOWDY/June Christy & Stan Kenton: See “Where To Pick Apples.” For a shoofly pie recipe, go to www.maplesprings.com.
URGE FOR GOING/Joni Mitchell: Only a great poet can sing about summer and winter just to capture the spirit of autumn.
AUTUMN LEAVES/Edith Piaf: The voice of the sparrow sings autumn’s theme song.
HALLOWEEN PARADE/Lou Reed: Christopher Street is a long way from School Street.
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK/Mel Tormé: For the many Manhattan expats among us.
KING HARVEST (HAS SURELY COME)/The Band: “Scarecrow and a yellow moon, And pretty soon a carnival on the edge of town, King Harvest has surely come.”
SWEET POTATO PIE/James Taylor & Ray Charles: From Genius Loves Company, Ray Charles’ last album before his death.
ALICE’S RESTAURANT/Arlo Guthrie: We listen to it every Thanksgiving.
FOREVER AUTUMN/The Moody Blues: Geez, what a beautiful song.
‘TIS AUTUMN/Stacey Kent: “… la-di-da, la-di-da, ’tis Autumn.”
GREAT PUMPKIN WALTZ/Vince Guaraldi Trio: Don’t forget to record It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
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