Book lists, movie lists, online crafting workshops and Zoom sessions for shut-ins

Book lists, movie lists, online crafting workshops and Zoom sessions for shut-ins: The internet (and my Outlook mailbox) is full of ideas on how to fill all the empty hours I suddenly have in my COVID-19 shelter-in-place day. How about you? Are you getting a never-ending stream of “happy projects” to help fill your day? Lockdown book and movie lists, online crafting workshops and Zoom sessions for shut-ins. Like we suddenly have nothing to do. (WTF?)

In fact, the workload in our house hasn’t changed. Additionally, we now spend hours (more) shopping online for paper towels. And how do those ladies clean your house so fast? It takes us three days. Most painfully, we used to cook and wash dishes for four (two) meals a week. It’s now twenty. (Brunch on Sunday.) For four! Not two.

Since everybody, it would seem, is taking advantage of their new-found down time to learn new languages, brush up on their Python coding skills and read Marcel Proust – we had to find time to do something to keep up with our neighbors. So, we made this Spring Fever Playlist (almost called it a Mixed Tape) to play when we’re dusting. We decided to share it here, since you have so much time on your hands, too.

What To Do’s Covid-19 Spring Fever Playlist (YouTube) 

“I Got the Spring Fever Blues”, Chick Webb and His Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald – The Complete Decca Singles Vol. 1: 1935-1939 (On YouTube)   

“Spring Fever”, Elvis Presley – Girl Happy (Original Soundtrack), (On YouTube)

“Springtime for Hitler”, – The Producers (Original Soundtrack), 1967 (On YouTube)

“April in Paris”, Dawn Upshaw – Upshaw Sings Vernon Duke, 1999 (On YouTube)

“Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”, Tom Lehrer – An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, 1959 (YouTube)

“When it’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)”, Johnny Horton – Sixteen Biggest Hits, 1959 (YouTube)

“Spring Again”, Lou Rawls, – The Essential Lou Rawls, 1977 (YouTube)

“Springtime in New York”, Jonathan Richman – Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow, 2001 (YouTube)

“Younger Than Springtime”, Richard Rogers – South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast Recording), 1949 (YouTube)

“Tip Toe Thru’ the Tulips with Me”, Annette Hanshaw – Annette Hanshaw, Vol. 6: 1929, 1929 (YouTube)

“When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along”, Louis Armstrong – The Essence of Louis Armstrong, 1956 (YouTube)

“April Love”, Pat Boone – Pat Boone’s Greatest Hits, 1956 (YouTube)

“Some Other Spring”, Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra – The Essential Billie Holiday, 1939 (YouTube)

“April Come She Will”, Simon and Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence, 1966 (YouTube)

“Spring Vacation”, The Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made The Radio, 2012 (YouTube)

“Spring, Spring, Spring”, Fred Astaire & Bing Crosby – The Complete London Sessions, 1975 (YouTube)

“Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most”, Ella Fitzgerald – Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie, 1961 (YouTube)

“I Love Paris”, Patti LuPone – Lady With the Torch… Still Burning, 2005 (YouTube)

“April in Paris”, Charlie Parker – The Essential Charlie Parker, 1950 (YouTube)