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There are some more recently recorded songs like two from O Brother Where Art Thou (which are very old songs). I put one Tina Turner song that I like (the only one I have). Aimee Mann (formerly of Til Tuesday) did a nice version of Harry Nilsson's "One" [is the loneliest number] in the soundtrack of the 1999 movie Magnolia, but the song starts off with one of Tom Cruise's lines. Well, I didn't want that and found out that in the properties of a song iTunes will let you start and end the song at any point during the song. So I started it at 2 seconds and it came out perfect. I didn't even know that feature was there until today. It would also work great for some songs where there is a long silence leading into it (Lyle Lovett's Road to Ensenada has a song like that) and a Smashing Pumpkins song on the Singles sountrack that ends in 3 minutes of mind-numbing feedback.

I put Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" on there and that made the Partridge Family's "I Think I Love You" seem to fit. Harry Nilsson appears on his own on the mix doing the song from Midnight Cowboy, "Everybody's Talkin" and I should have probably bought another of his songs, [Put the Lime in the] "Coconut", which Mom likes. I guess these are mostly late 60's pop songs. But I have Paul Young's 80's hit (written by Darryl Hall of Hall n Oates) "Every Time You Go Away" which I like anyway and threw in an Enya song too from the otherwise lackluster album by the same name of "Shepherd Moon". To close I picked two songs, Neil Diamond's great anthem "I Am . . . I Said" and the very fun song "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, the only song I can think of that features the theremin, a kind of hand-operated synthesizer.

Anyway . . . Happy Birthday, Mom! If you need me to make any revisions to the CD, just let me know.

1. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline
   
2. Captain and Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
   
3. B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
   
4. The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
   
5. Tina Turner - Better Be Good to Me
   
6. Aimee Mann - One
   
7. Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
   
8. Neil Diamond - Holly Holy
   
9. Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away
   
10. Dusty Springfield - Wishin' and Hopin'
    
11. Don McLean - Vincent
    
12. Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
    
13. O Brother Soundtrack - I'll Fly Away
    
14. Enya - Shepherd Moon
    
15. Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
    
16. Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
    
17. Sonny and Cher - I Got You Babe
    
18. O Brother Soundtrack - I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)
    
19. Judy Collins - Send in the Clowns
    
20. Neil Diamond - I Am . . . I Said
    
21. Beach Boys - Good Vibrations