Difference between revisions of "Songs mentioned in Inherent Vice"

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Songs, bands, music mentioned in the text

1 - Country Joe and the Fish Listen to CJ & the Fish playing "Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die" or "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" at Monterey Pop (1967)
3 - "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles - Listen...
10 - "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies- Listen...
11 - "Runaround Sue" by Dion Listen...
36 - Dick Dale - Dick Dale & the Deltones performing "Misirlou"
37 - Jimi Hendrix, Earl Bostic, Stan Getz, Lee Allen, The Chantays - Wikipedia Look & Listen..., The Trashmen Listen..., The Halibuts Listen... (mentioned in anachronism, as they apparently started out in the 1980s?)
55 - "The Great Pretender" by The Platters Look & Listen...
56 - "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" covered by The Bonzo Dog Band Listen to the original Cher version...
69 - "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison Listen...
72 - "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by The Beach Boys Look & Listen...
75 - "Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra Look & Listen...
77 - "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors Look & Listen..., "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino Listen...
81 - "People Are Strange" by The Doors Listen...
92 - Iron Butterfly Wikipedia Listen to "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (1968)
95 - Blue Cheer Wikipedia Listen to "Summertime Blues" (1968)
103 - The Electric Prunes
108 - "The Ice Caps Are Melting" by Tiny Tim
121 - Pearls Before Swine
124 - "Pipeline" & "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen, "Bamboo" by Johnny & The Hurricanes, Eddie & the Showmen, The Bel-Airs
125 - The Hollywood Saxons, The Olympics, "Tequila" by The Champs
129 - Pink Floyd
130 - George Formby, Herman's Hermits, Pat Boone
131 - "Donna Lee" (Miles Davis) (by Wikipedia) Look & Listen to 1958 performance with Miles & Charlie Parker
134 - "Here Come the Hodads" by the Marketts
135 - "Eight Miles High" by The Byrds
146 - Frank Zappa
153 - "Happy Trails" by Roy Rogers
155 - Wild Man Fischer
156 - "White Rabbit" (by Jefferson Airplane), "This Guy's in Love with You" by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
159 - Antonio Carlos Jobim
160 - "It Never Entered My Mind" by Rodgers & Hart (show tune from the musical Higher and Higher), "Alone Together" by Dietz & Schwartz
162 - "Samba Do Avião" (by Antonio Carlos Jobim)
165 - Tommy James and the Shondells
176 - Theme from the ABC TV show "Dark Shadows"
193 - "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" by the Rolling Stones
198 - Floyd Cramer
220 - Liberace, "Grande valse brillante" by Chopin
221 - "There's No Business Like Show Business" sung by Ethel Merman
222 - Mick Jagger
223 - Frank Zappa
224 - “One Fine Day” by the Chiffons
225 - Ernest Tubb, Jim Reeves, Web Pierce
227 - "The Wabash Cannonball", Merle Haggard
229 - Les Paul
232 - The Monkeys, Elvis Presley
233 - "Wunderbar" Cole Porter song from 'Kiss Me Kate', Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., "Haunted Heart" by Dietz & Schwartz
234 - "Viva Las Vegas" by Elvis Presley
239 - The Rat Pack, Marty Robbins
240 - Pat Boone
243 - Elvis Presley
244 - Dolly Parton, Roy Acuff
247 - "(You're not Sick) You're Just in Love" Irving Berlin song sung by Ethel Merman, "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Tiny Tim
249 - Roza Eskenazi, Bessie Smith
271 - "All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley
278 - "That's Amore" by Dean Martin
289 - Bonzo Dog Band
299 - "Interstellar Overdrive" by Pink Floyd
300 - "Tears on My Pillow" by Little Anthony & The Imperials
330 - "Elusive Butterfly" by Bob Lind
331 - Glen Campbell
332 - "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express (covered by Herb Alpert)
352 - Theme from Hawaii Five-O
356 - "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman
360 - "We Should Be Together" sung by Shirley Temple and George Murphey[1]
363 - Dick Dale
364 - "Help Me Rhonda" by the Beach Boys
365 - "Volare", "Java Jive"
368 - "Super Market" by Fapardokly, Elephant's Memory, "Stranger than Love" covered by The Spaniels, "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys