Gasp, Sing Me These Songs

Sometime last night, in that twilight space between sleep and wakefulness, I realized that nobody, but nobody, knows the songs that stir those deep memories in me when I hear them. These tunes seriously take me to very specific places and, just like "Name That Tune", the transport happens in seconds, to the strains of the first bar or two of music. So, here they are, for whatever they're worth to anyone reading this. They might be very worth my recording them here for posterity (see yesterday's blog) for dredging up at some distant point. (Some of you might well be able to conjure up the place that one or more of these sends me to?) The order is not significant and there are more that I'm leaving out, but those will have to wait. Can you hum bars from these titles? These are worth to listening to, you'll see...

Come Saturday Morning, 1969, Sandpipers (from The Sterile Cuckoo movie)
Jump, 1984, VanHalen
Valley of the Dolls, 1968, Dionne Warwick
Smooth Operator, 1985, Sade
Gone to Carolina, 1968, James Taylor
The Twelfth of Never, 1957, Johnny Mathis
Bohemian Rhapsody, 1975, Queen
Hotel California, 1976, Eagles,
Unchained Melody, 1955, Roy Hamilton, favorite, but also 1965, The Righteous Brothers
Watermelon Man, 1963, Mongo Santamaria
Coconut, 1971, Nilsson
The Girl from Ipanema, 1963, Astrud and Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, 1966, Simon and Garfunkel
Milord, 1959, Edith Piaf
Goin’ Out of My Head (Can’t Take My Eyes Off You), 1968, Lettermen
The Cuckoo Song (Dans La Foret Lointaine), Traditional French
Il Etait Un Petit Navire, (Traditional French)
Benny and the Jets, 1984, Elton John
Playground Love, 1999, Air (from the Virgin Suicides movie)
In the Air Tonight, 1981, Phil Collins
Could Be Anything, 2004, The Eames Era