Buddy knows how to set a good musical challenge. Even though I love Green Onions and Mo’ Green Onions by Booker T. & the M.G.’s, I left them off this list because many of you have already served them up.
No cohesion to this list, just 11 tracks that struck me when I thought about food.
1. Louis Armstrong — “Blueberry Hill” (1949)
Written by Vincent Rose, Al Lewis, & Larry Stock
Glenn Miller and Fats Domino made this classic famous, but Satchmo’s 1949 rendering takes my Blueberry award. His deep, rasping throatiness gives the wistful romanticism a haunting, near-elegaic mood that inspired Fats to record it later.
2. Bobbie Gentry — “Ode to Billie Joe” (1967)
Written by Bobbie Gentry
I was still a prenatal bump during the legendary summer of ’67 when this Southern Gothic…
Kay, I think I've heard 4 of those 11 songs you mentioned. I've either got brain fog or I've been in a coma half my life 😆. How do you remember it all!!
