Hello friends. Welcome to another episode of Vinyl-O-Matic. I am Your Old Pal Will and this time around we continue our journey through songs that begin with the letter C, as in Charlie. For those of you wondering what this week's listener challenge will be, let us turn to the season. What are your Top 3 Summer Songs. Leave a comment in the show notes by visiting vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e16. To start the show off, we have a song from Robert Johnson. No, not that Robert Johnson, the other Robert Johnson. Well that was a White Shade of Help. We heard from the Carpenters with their version of the Fab Four's song. I saw that song on the album and thought, hmm... let's give it a whirl. I think Richard was definitely going for a Procol Harum feel there. It kinda works. Prior to that we had Frank bringing us the Jimmy van Heusen number "It Could Happen to You" from his 1957 Capitol Records release Close to You. Not to be confused with the Carpenters album we just heard. The Tom Tom Club brought us a new wave funk track "Atsababy! (Life Is Great)" from their sophomore outing Close to the Bone on Sire Records from 1983. The album made it to number 73 on the US charts and of course features artwork by James Rizzi. Kicking things off, we had some excellent Memphis power pop from Robert Johnson and his song "I'll Be Waiting" from the 1978 Infinity Records release Close Personal Friend. If that track sounds like your kinda jam, definitely check out that album which was recently re-released by Burger Records. What's it like to wake up in your New York apartment located in the West mid-20s? Here's Joni Mitchell's answer. Aw yeah. Up at the top of that set we heard from Joni Mitchell and her classic tune "Chelsea Morning" from her 1969 Reprise record Clouds (as in Little Fluffy). That was followed up with the goofy Jimmy Buffett tune "The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful" from his goofy 1981 album Coconut Telegraph. And again, just to clarify: I am not now nor have I ever been a parrothead. Bonnie Prince Billy sang a song about being Cold & Wet from the Drag City EP of the same name (DC318 for those of you playing along at home). That featured Will accompanied by brother Paul on bass and Emmett Kelly on guitar. Finally we heard from the one, the only Rick James with get down song "New York Town" from his 1983 Gordy album Cold Blooded, evidently named after Rick's then girlfriend Linda Blair. And now for a selection from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money. Evidently big band dixieland was a thing. That was Mugsy Spanier and his Huge Dixieland Band peforming "Chicago". Before that we heard John Coltrane on tenor sax, Wynton Kelly on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums performing "Like Sonny" from the 1961 Atlantic album Coltrane Jazz. Starting off that set, I was originally going to pick a Willie Dixon song from the Color of Money soundtrack, but unfortunately it suffers from Mid-80s Over-Production Syndrome so I went with Warren Zevon instead. All right cats and kittens, it's time for the Duke. Congratulations, you made it! In that last set we heard from Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing "El Gato" as recorded at the Newport Jazz Fest in 1958. We heard a selection from an album entitled Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center entitled "Leiyla and the Poet", a tape manipulation electronic drama by Halim El-Dabh from 1964. Rounding things out, we heard from the excellent Oakland band Worm Ouroboros and their song "Further Out" from their 2012 album Come the Thaw, released by The Flenser on sublime smoke gray translucent vinyl. If you have any questions or comments about what you have heard, please drop me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. Show notes, archived episodes and podcast platform links can be found at vinylomatic(dot)com. When next we meet, our journey continues through albums with titles that begin with the letter C as in Charlie. Join me, won't you?