What song have you played the most?


Not heard on the radio, but you mechanically involved with the selection. 
Poco- Rose of Cimarron

(My wife says I ruin songs.)
jpwarren58

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Singling out just 1 is very much "a complete impossibility", like the girl in Herman’s Hermits’ "A Must To Avoid" perhaps. In the spirit of some of the great ’deep tracks’ you have selected here I will nonetheless offer up the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ performance of "You Wreck Me", included on a "Live In Chicago" recording released just after Petty’s passing. It has a distinctly wistful feel to what is essentially a rocker. Outstanding contributions are made by Campbell and Tench. Now, if I was to attempt a Top 10, I could slot in...

2. Randy Newman’s "Last Night I Had A Dream" from his 1972 Sail Away LP

3. The late great Warren Zevon’s "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" from Excitable Boy (1978)

4. "She Comes In Colors" from the 1967 Love LP, Da Capo

5. Steely Dan’s "Any Major Dude" from Pretzel Logic (1974)

6. "Hypnotized" by Fleetwood Mac from the 1973 LP Mystery To Me

7. "Skateaway" - Dire Straits (Making Movies, 1980)

8. "She Has Funny Cars" - Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967)

9. Muddy Waters’ "Good Morning School Girl" on the 1964 Folk Singer LP from Mobile Fidelity

10. The 1986 Chris Isaak recording of "You Owe Me Some Kind Of Love"
from the album, Chris Isaak

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And now, a shout out to the following picks coming out of this thread:

"Last Chance Texaco" (and how about "Love Junkyard?")

"Witchwood" (Strawbs cuts got good coverage on WNEW-FM, New York, early 70’s)

"Green River" ('Bayou' at its best)

"Cheyenne" (Clint Walker as the phlegmatic Cheyenne Brody). The TV Western trilogy included Sugarfoot (Will Hutchins) and Bronco Lane (Ty Hardin)

"Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" (Agree with you on Jacquie McShee. I have the song on a decently recorded compilation ("Early Classics") from the Shanachie label)

"Bop Till You Drop" (1979 release from Ry - his parents could have named him "Wry" - Cooder, featuring the sarcastic "Down In Hollywood" - "they’ll drag you right out of your car, and literally kick your ass")

"The Nightfly" (..."with jazz and conversation, from the foot of Mount Belzoni." Fagen, the ’Man from Bard’, the ’Prince of Pallor’, the once accidental tourist of Annandale On The Hudson, is the embodiment of that gaunt, chain smoking late night DJ)

"In The Gallery" (So many good ones to choose from off that LP and off Communique) 

Sorry all. I can get carried away. :

What a fabulous compilation recording could be made from this music!  For context, "in '65 I was 17; in '69 I was 21."

"Spoonful" - Great rendering of one of those old American Blues that was Cream's trademark.  Bruce was underappreciated as a vocalist.

Chet Baker.  West Coast Cool.  Like many of his time and genre, left us too soon.  "Everything Happens To Me."

"Today" -  Marty Balin...another underappreciated vocalist.  Surrealistic Pillow easily makes my best albums of all time list.

Patricia Barber.  Vocalist/pianist.  Very unique style.  Have most of her albums, including Cafe Blue.  "A Taste Of Honey" is one of her many standouts.  "It's A Shame" is my fave.

"What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" - whoa, there's a good one.  Jimmy Ruffin, brother of the yet another great vocalist - original lead singer of the Temptations, David Ruffin.

Then there's that nod to Dire Straits' "Industrial Disease."  I'm a big Dire Straits fan.  I put you at being born around say '61-'63 if you were in college at the time of the Love Over Gold LP release.  I'm reminded that lately I've been listening to an all-time favorite of mine released in 1962 by maybe my all time favorite duo, the late great Everly Brothers.  It is "Crying In The Rain." 

Cheers