Songs mentioned in Inherent Vice

Songs, bands, music mentioned in the text

1 - Country Joe and the Fish
3 - "Can't Buy Me Love" by The Beatles
10 - "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies
11 - "Runaround Sue" by Dion
36 - Dick Dale
37 - Jimi Hendrix, Earl Bostic, Stan Getz, Lee Allen, The Chantays, The Trashmen, The Halibuts (mentioned in anachronism, as they apparently started out in the 1980s?)
55 - "The Great Pretender" by The Platters
56 - "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" covered by The Bonzo Dog Band
69 - "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison
72 - "Wouldn't It Be Nice" by The Beach Boys
75 - "Fly Me to the Moon" by Frank Sinatra
77 - "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors, "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino
81 - "People Are Strange" by The Doors
92 - Iron Butterfly
95 - Blue Cheer
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" (by Miles Davis)
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, Ronda" by the Beach Boys