Desmond Dekker "Israelites:"

"get up in the morning, same thing for breakfast ... "

"shirt them a-tear up, trousers ago ... "

When lyrics web sites appeared, they revealed much of my "Israelites" lyrics to be misheard.

Listen to radio for more than a day or two. Songs cut off -- not faded to hit a break or network newscast, just bang, gone -- network content upcut by local breaks with too many ads stuffed in them, etc etc ... the same DIY / unfinished chic approach applied to everything else now applied to radio. ...

"Driving Home For Christmas" by Chris Rea. Never heard it until I started listening to UK classic hits stations. Still have never heard it on a US or Canadian station. I delivered Bill Lamb's mail now and then. There's a mailman in "Little Becky's Christmas Wish," the bringer of bad news that made B...

I heard "I'm Gettin Nothin For Christmas" today, on WCXI. They played the Fontane Sisters version. The one I grew up on, that I heard on Dr Demento every year, was by Stan Freberg. Also heard was "Look Around You (It's Christmas Time)" by Bobby Goldsboro, from 1968, that I always liked. "Last Christ...

From "Venus," the Shocking Blue version:

"Black as the door knob she was, got what no one else had ... "

I hear it often after midnight in Lakeport MI (up by Port Huron).