bill-haley-comets_lSince we got so many great recommendations, I thought that an update on the antenatal music was in order.

A Free Fetus is a dancer, much moreso than Boy Z was in utero. Maybe #2 is going to be the musically inclined child. Almost everything that we play seems to elicit a response. Sometimes – somewhat to Dr. O’C’s chagrin – quite an exuberant one.

I’ve incorporated many of your suggestions, but recently have decided to take #2 on an in utero trip through the history of rock and roll. Starting with Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” – arguably the first rock and roll song – and finishing with, well finishing with the child being born I guess. So far we’re up to the early 1960’s.

•    Chuck Berry – “Johnny B. Goode”
•    Elvis Presley – “Heartbreak Hotel”
•    Patsy Cline – “Sweet Dreams of You”
•    Bob Dylan – “Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right”
•    The Beatles – “Can’t Buy Me Love”
•    Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – “The Tracks of My Tears”
•    The Rolling Stones – “Paint It Black”

antenatal1I’ve been mixing up the classics with songs that come to mind that seem like something I would like to hear if I were floating around in the proverbial primordial ooze. Some of the other song that have gotten A Free Fetus’ feet a’tapping include:

•    Ella Fitzgerald – “Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar” (Thanks Marcy.)
•    New Order – “Bizarre Love Triangle”
•    The Beatles – “Blackbird”
•    Wilco – “Candy Floss”
•    Radiohead – “Let Down”
•    Gladys Knight and the Pips – “Midnight Train to Georgia”
•    Frank Turner – “Photosynthesis”
•    The Decemberists – “Sons & Daughters”
•    Stevie Wonder – “Superstition” (Thanks Rassles.)

On the menu this evening – The Man in Black.

 
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