- Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody
- Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe
- Link Wray - Rumble
- The Coasters - Yakety Yak
- Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite
- Chips - Rubber Biscuit
- The Vipers - Don't You Rock Me Daddy - O
- Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame
- Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Elvis Presley - His Latest Flame
- Connie Francis - Robot Man
- Sam Cooke - (What A) Wonderful World
- Georgie Fame - The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde
- Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line
- Gene McDaniels - Tower Of Strength
- The Ronettes - Be My Baby
- Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me
- Dana Gillespie - You Just Gotta Know My Mind
- Glenda Collins - If You Gotta Pick A Baby
- Inez & Charlie Foxx - Mockingbird
- The Kinks - Tired Of Waiting For You
- The Beach Boys - You're So Good To Me
- Unit 4 Plus 2 - Concrete and Clay
- Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction
- The Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself
- The Who - My Generation
- Donovan - Colours
- Roy Orbison - In Dreams
- Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
- Linda Scott - I've Told Every Little Star
- Skeeter Davis - End Of The World
- The Beatles - If I Fell
On September 14th 2005, whilst browsing through the latest ‘Rough Guide to the Internet’ book, and in particular the ‘Music’ section I chanced upon a description of a site named ‘Art of the Mix’. I quite liked the look of it so thought I’d give it a go.
Within minutes of looking at the site I’d made my mind up, I would submit one of my own mixes. A mix I’d made for myself some 18 months earlier and still listened to on a regular basis (still do now in fact).
All I needed was a username. Simple, a few of my friends and work colleagues referred to me as Sammy G, and that’s how I wanted to be known on this new site. But, wait, someone else had already taken it. Not a particularly consistent mixer either, a couple of ambient efforts and he (or indeed she ) was gone.
This threw me a little. And for what ever reason it was, ‘cos for the life of me I cannot remember, I stuck a few numbers after the name and the username sammyg123 was born.
And today my alter-ego is 5 years old!
I’d been mindful of this milestone approaching for some time, and had thought about big for it. And this is what I decided on. 100 songs from 4 eras that define me and the music I love. So we have 1950 – 1965, then ’65 thru ’80. ’80 thru 1995 and then ’95 to the present day. The way I’ve worked out this out means songs from 1965 for instance could be used on two different discs. This was deliberate, and I’ve taken full advantage of this.
These aren’t my favourite 100 songs of all time ( although if I was to try and attempt such a task at least 50% of the tracks here would feature ). But it is as close as I have ever gone to doing such a thing on Aotm or ZerO. And I am delighted with the end result…
..so Happy Birthday sammyg123. This will be the soundtrack to my day.
RS MF
