Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912

Read in August 1970

I was recently looking at my Goodreads stats trying to determine the author with the most entries of books that I've read. I had about a dozen or so authors with 10 to 15 books of theirs that I've read but the writer with the most books in my Goodreads stats by far was Edgar Rice Burroughs at 32 novels. It was interesting to note that all of those books I read in the 1970 to 1973 time period while I was in the Navy. Cruising around the world with Edgar Rice Burroughs in my pocket.

Those 32 books from the Tarzan series, The John Carter of Mars series, the Carson of Venus series, The Land That Time Forgot series and the Pellucidar At the Earth's Core series. 

I was always a big Tarzan movie fan and as a kid I saw everything that played in the neighborhood theater and then of course I watched all the old Johnny Weismueller Tarzan movies that played on TV.

It wasn’t until I was 18 and serving in the Navy that I read any of the Tarzan books and then discovered all the science fiction novels.

Since I have almost all of my readings from 1970 on in Goodreads I was able to use their stat program to determine all the books I’ve read over the years by any particular author. There was about a dozen writers that I’d read 10 to 15 books each but it was ERB that was by far the author I’ve read the most books. 32.

When looking through that list of 32 compared with his actual output I seen that there a few Tarzan books that I missed and should put on my current reading list.

I started reading his books when I found a shelf devoted to him in the small library located on the military base where I was stationed in the summer of 1970. I was finished my training program and was waiting for orders to my next duty assignment. I had a lot of free time and started reading and exploring Burroughs’ worlds.  When I went to sea I had grabbed a bag full of his books from a store to take with me. I also learned that he was popular among young sailors and it was easy to trade and pass around his books.

I don’t think I’ve read any of his novels since that time of my life. I should really read some more and maybe also a biography of him.

 

Turn Off The Water

Throughout this ongoing pandemic there have been people who continue to ignore the health warnings and safety precautions and I have been referring to them as zombies. There have been many stories about these zombies in the news and throughout social media where they are seen having large house parties, crowding in bars, motorcycle rallies and other social gatherings where they have been violating social distancing recommendations. There have even been specifically called "covid parties".

In Los Angeles there have been many stories about certain young people having parties in the Hollywood hills that have regularly happening and causing problems in the neighborhoods including noise and traffic congestion but also for spreading the virus throughout the community. One house in particular had a series of parties thrown by a couple of Tik-Tok stars whatever that means. After several unsuccessful attempts to stop the parties at that house the city began proceedings to turn off the water supply to that home. Nice. Hopefully that will wake up these people.

Our Hitler

I was recently reminded of the nearly 8 hour experimental film Our Hitler directed by Hans-Jurgen Syberberg released in 1977. It came to Buffalo in August 1979 if I recall right. I had heard a lot about this film and looked forward to seeing it. I had also recently graduated with a degree in film studies from Temple University's School of Communications and Theater and had seen lots of experimental films but never anything quite like this project.

Becky and I went down to the Shea's Buffalo theater for the all day two part showing but we couldn’t last through the whole thing and left the theater after the 6 hour mark. Tedious was not quite the right word.  It was a long avant-garde experimental film that went for hours and scenes that quickly made their impact were dragged on and on way beyond the normal bounds of a filmmaker. There were endless scenes of people talking into the camera and using puppets too. Obviously Syberberg did not have an editor.  

I did like the fictional scenes of Hitler's valet but the director's relentless use of mind numbing pseudo talking head interviews went on for hours. There were some interesting philosophical constructs inserted throughout the verbal mayhem and chaos but nothing I saw in film school was as boring, tedious and self indulgent as this "masterpiece". The hardest part was going back to the theater after dinner for the second half because after about six hours the film degenerated into a talking head reading the script of scenes that were never shot.. We left. There were moments of great film making which could have been edited into a brilliant two hour film. IMHO

Becky’s sister stayed and watched the entire 8 hours and she later told us at the end during the credits someone in the audience shouted “play it again”.

The film is available on YouTube broken into smaller parts.

Yes, and ow we have our own "Our Hitler" in America right there on Twitter every day. His ongoing daily racists rants and calls for hate and violence has become worse and practically his only response to the pandemic and the racial justice demonstrations. His Law and Order mantra. Reminds us of someone else.

Editing the Blog

One of the ways I've been keeping busy is writing and editing the blog. I write every day. I also edit. The blog is a work in progress and by that I mean it is setup to be constantly edited and updated. The entire blog is really a rough draft of things that interest me.

I set it up in categories with an index that makes it easy to move about and make edits, updates, additions and just change things, Categories have their pages and some entries may have multiple categories. Items can also be found by date published. Over the past several months I've published many articles spread out over many different months and sometimes even going back a few years. So it really isn't a chronology of anything and the published dates are arbitrary. It is a writing tool for me and has been keeping me very busy.

I have a notebook which I take with me everywhere and I'm constantly writing down ideas and potential topics. Sometimes I write long essays in the notebook and then transfer them to the blog as part of the editing process. I even keep the notebook beside my bed when I sleep and have on occasion written things down in the middle of the night.

Someone asked me if this was a memoir. No, not really. It is a writing exercise that focus on things that capture my attention both now and in the past. There are a lot of memories and I use books, music and other things to trigger stories that often have a lot to do with things that happened in my life. However, everything is scattered.

The category section is very important for me to find articles and to make sense of my writings. Each category has a page and is indexed.

Chicago 1970

In the spring of 1970 I finished basic training in San Diego and after a two week leave to visit family I was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Training Center outside of Chicago to attend two programs. First was a basic Naval ship engineering course and then I went to Machinist Mate A School. This was all part of a program to prepare me for the Navy’s nuclear power program and submarine school that would continue at the Naval Base in New London, Conn. after this program.

My training was interrupted when my father suddenly died of his ruptured brain aneurysm in July. It was not a good thing when the people in your unit tell you that the chaplain is looking for you. After my two week emergency family leave I went back to my classes but I didn’t do well. My heart and soul wasn’t into it and I barely passed the program. They let me drop out of the nuclear program and offered me the option of a family hardship discharge but my mother convinced me to stay in. I did.

Because of the interruption in the program I was off the scheduled deployment and when I finished the courses I did not have orders to my next duty station which was going to be a ship. I waited around for orders for about four months. During the summer and fall of 1970 I was able spend a lot of my free time in Chicago which was a short train ride from the base. I would get a room at the YMCA which catered to sailors and would stay for the weekend. There was a nearby club and concert scene and in particular the Aragon Ballroom. There were also concerts at the nearby Lincoln Park on the waterfront. Went to a few Cubs games at Wrigley Field that was in the neighborhood.

I saw too many concerts to list. One example was a show that included Shocking Blue opening for Pacific Gas & Electric and Country Joe & The Fish. Another show at the Aragon Ballroom with The Guess Who and Creedence Clearwater Revival. I saw Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performing one of the shows that would make it on to the 4 Way Street live album. Some other bands and artists I saw in Chicago 1970 was Traffic, Poco, Ten Years After, Mott the Hoople, Al Kooper, The Byrds, Spirit, The Doors, Janis Joplin, The Mothers of Invention, Jethro Tull and many more I'm having trouble remembering. Another memorable show was Miles Davis touring the Bitches Brew album along with the Steve Miller Blues Band opening up for Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

I mostly stayed the weekends at the YMCA and occasionally at a cheap hotel farther downtown. There was also a USO nearby and together with the Y they would sponsor activities for the soldiers and sailors coming into town. The Fort Sheridan Army Base was also nearby. When you stayed at the Y they would offer dinner banquets with lots of girls in attendance. It was nice to get the free food on your way out the door for the night but the girls were all Christians looking to convert the wayward military guys. It was like running a gauntlet of false temptation. It was like I was heading for the door to go out and see The Doors which of course I did along with dozens of other bands over that summer and fall.

Blues People

Blues People: The Negro Experience In White America And The Music That Developed From It by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), 1963.

Read in May 1977.

I recently came across this classic study of jazz and blues on one of our book shelves and took it down to look at it. I remember reading it very well. It was a time in my life when I was very interested in black music including blues, jazz and reggae. I had been buying lots of albums at that time in those areas. This book helped me understand what I was listening to at that time. Becky read this book back in 1971 and was also influenced by it.

I was in school at that time and really looked forward to the end of the semester so I could read what I wanted to and not what the professor was assigning although I did read a lot of great books in many of those classes. Nothing really prepared me for LeRoi Jones.

I have this book sitting on the table in front of me and I'm ready to read it again but this time in the context of the current Black Lives Matter campaign for racial justice in America. Much of the book is devoted to the social experience of African-American people that led to the development of jazz and the blues and their influences on American culture and history. It also clearly demonstrates the horrors of slavery and it's bigoted aftermath that led to the desperation of the blues.

I'm looking forward to experiencing this book again.

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Savoy Brown - Vinyl Spins

A friend was posting about this band today and made me really need to go up on the 3rd floor and play this record loud on those very big speakers. Raw Siena by Savoy Brown, 1970. That was a treat.

I got to see them during the summer of 1970 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago.

I only had one other album Blue Matter from 1969 and then a double CD collection from 1993.

Zombies

This is my descriptive term for people who refuse to wear a mask in public when near other people and also folks who do not maintain social distancing. You can see these zombies all over social media and the news. They're everywhere but especially among trump supporters.

I first started seeing zombies when Becky and I went down to Canalside on a sunny summer afternoon. There were a lot of people there and we were surprised by all the people not wearing masks and not maintaining social distancing. Most of the zombies we saw that day were also older people although there were a significant number of young joggers without masks that ran by very closely to people walking along the paths. 

We also see lots of zombies when we walk through Delaware Park. In fact so many zombies that we've been limiting our times going to the park. It just isn't worth it to be aggravated so much by so many inconsiderate people.

One phenomenon that I've been vicariously enjoying has been the new game of chicken zombie I've seen played out in the park and other places. Two zombies walking or running toward each other and both waiting for the other to move out of the way first. They glare at each other without masks and get closer and closer. I've seen some of them get within inches of each other as they pass and very occasionally I'll see on of them actually step aside and maintain a little tiny bit of social distancing. It would be amusing if it wasn't actually unhealthy and potentially deadly.

Sometimes we encounter a zombie while on our daily evening walk around the neighborhood and they are almost always young people ignoring the pandemic. They make the older couple walk out into the street as they saunter down the sidewalk.

The other place were zombies seem to hang out is in stores. Locally for us mask are mandatory in stores but the zombies wander around resentfully masked but ignoring social distancing as if the mask is the only form of health safety they can tolerate at one time.

Backyard Refuge

We are very fortunate to have our backyard during these months of the pandemic. Not everyone has a place of refuge like we do. Our yard has been described as park like because of the trees and the many gardens. It is very big for the city and a terrific place to hang out during these trying times. 

Becky has created wonderful gardens and the many trees provide a much needed solace. The birds and other wildlife are a joy. We especially love the humming birds and the many rabbits. One bunny in particular likes to hang out with me when I'm sitting in a chair reading. This rabbit will lay down within a couple of feet of me. 

Our cabana shed has been well used this year as always although we haven't had anyone else sitting there with us as we've had for so many years previously. We've actually only had people over twice all summer and both times was when Katie was visiting and people came over to see her, Todd and the kids. We certainly did not have our usual social activities in the backyard as usual. However, I did spend a lot of time this summer sitting in that room and sitting on chairs in the backyard. 

We made some changes to the cabana room this year including moving a comfy sofa chair back there. I rearranged the chairs and the table and added a desk chair so that I had a comfortable place to sit with my laptop. I sat there writing many times and especially enjoyed sitting there in the evenings, writing and watching the activities of the birds and animals. I've also enjoyed sitting in chairs out in the yard writing in my notebook.  Much of this essay was initially written that way. It's been a joy to sit in either place and experience the backyard.

During the warmest times of the summer I had a fan in the room. As we approach the colder temperatures I've contemplated putting a heater in the room and using it farther into the season. I always take out the screens and replace the glass all around which makes the room more comfortable but I have also used the room to store furniture and lawn tables over the winter. 

Another wonderful thing about the room is the stereo. I've always had music in the room which has somewhat evolved over the years but still is always there to play my music. I can play CDs, my iPod or music from a flash drive. Sometimes I sit in the backyard with my headphones on listening to something on my iPod while reading a book. Very relaxing.

The Gentle Side

Morning kitchen listening with The Gentle Side of John Coltrane. One of my favorite albums of all time. I've been especially playing this in the morning while drinking tea since the mid 1970's. 

This double album compilation came out in 1975 and I bought it at 3rd Street Jazz in downtown Philadelphia. It was quite the revelation when we discovered that store in the mid 1970's and it was one of our go to places for buying records. There was a large wall on one side of the store that was completely covered by John Coltrane albums facing outward. It was an awesome display. The people at the store were very knowledgeable about jazz and pointed us in the right direction as we developed our jazz collection.

Sometime in the 1990's I got the CD version of this album. This album has always been in high rotation and contains some of Coltrane's best lyrical music which was created for the body and the mind. Also this gentle side of his music was every bit as intense and thought provoking as anything he recorded.  I was very impressed with the selections from his session with the vocalist Johnny Hartman and would later obtain that album too. So many classic ballads on the collection.

After playing the CD in the morning I went upstairs to the 3rd floor in the afternoon and played the vinyl version. Oh my god, his horn sounded perfect.

Blame Obama

I’ve seen the online discussions. There are people who believe all the racial problems and tensions began with Obama. It's all Obama's fault. They say he is a racists and favored black people over white people. They argue everything was fine until he became president.

Well, in a way they are right but just not in the way they think or feel. Race tensions did increase when he was elected but the reason was because he was elected and not due to any policies or statements he made. The problems were that so many conservative racists took the election of a black man as president as a reason to suddenly express all their racists views that they now believed was OK because now America was suddenly in a post-race society.

The racists came out of the woodwork with the election of a black man as president. They saw everything as race motivated and whenever someone called them out on their bigoted hate speech they claimed that liberals were just playing the race card.

For eight years the racists and the people in Congress who cater to them have done everything in their power to block and belittle the accomplishments of the president. After eight years of having a black man in the White House these racists bigots were shocked at the prospect of the next president being a woman so they rallied behind another racist bigot running on the birther platform. With help from the Russians Trump became president and immediately started blaming Obama for anything and everything. He also made racism a part of the Republican party and his hate speech became the new normal that allowed anyone to make similar comments and get away with it.

Now after three years of the blame game he has turned up the hate rhetoric even more and continues to loudly blow racist dog whistles over and over day after day. The new normal on steroids. His followers still blame Obama for anything they don't like about race relations in America. Unbelievable. 

Pumking 2020 - Glass of Beer

First time this season having my favorite pumpkin ale... Pumking Imperial Ale from Southern Tier Brewing in Lakewood NY. 

I love a good pumpkin ale and I'll always try a few but so far Southern Tier Brewing makes the best one. IMHO. I had this one while visiting Sean and Ashley at their new house. I like to get a 4 pack of bottles or also one of the large bottles but I'm really looking forward to having it on tap soon. Then that will be enough to hold me over to next year.

Typing Class

I spent my senior year of high school at a new school. My family moved away from our old neighborhood in Philadelphia to a rural Pennsylvania community closer to my father's workplace after he had several years of very long commutes after long days of overtime.

When I finished up putting a school schedule together there was a slot for one more elective but not a lot of options. I selected a typing class. I learned to type and got good at it which turned out to be a very fortunate decision that impacted my work environment throughout my life.

A year after taking that class I was serving in the US Navy and undergoing basic training in San Diego where I was selected to be in the company color guard because of my high school marching band experience. Shortly after that they discovered I could type and that helped me avoid some of the more tedious and obnoxious jobs that were handed out so frequently. 

Later that year I was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center near Chicago taking classes where I again had the opportunity to use my typing skills to improve my work situation. After finishing my training I was put into a special temporary unit awaiting orders for a ship. Earlier my training was interrupted by the death of my father that required me to take a two week emergency leave to go home for his funeral. After my training I waited in this unit for about three months and during that time because of my ability to type I was assigned as an assistant/gopher to a chief petty officer where I worked in his office typing reports and paperwork for him which was much better than working in the mess hall or grounds maintenance.  Eventually that ended and I went to sea for the next three years.

My typing skills were very much appreciated when I went to college at Temple University in 1974.  It made it so much more efficient to be able to type of a research paper and I had to do a lot of them over the next four years. Knowing how to type quickly was a big plus.

A few years later knowing how to type would help in those early computer days and fortunately the computer keyboard was modeled after the typewriter. I became very good working with a word processor document on the computer. This would be a big help in 1990 when I started graduate school and was once again writing research papers but instead of a typewriter it would be on the PC. Same skills.

Later in my library career I would need to be constantly writing reports and such. Knowing how to type and use the computer for communicating emails made my job more effective and once again those skills learned in that long ago high school class I registered for in 1968 made my life easier.

Cock 'n Bull Patio - Glass of Beer

Bear Naked Ale from Adirondack Brewery.

We had a wonderful BBQ dinner on the patio of the Cock 'n Bull Restaurant in Galway, NY down the road from Sean and Ashley's new house in Glenville NY.  

The patio was very spacious and we felt very comfortable with the social distancing. We had been on the road all afternoon and this was a very nice dinner treat. The beer was very good too.

We had a very nice time there with Sean and Ashley.

Moving to Schenectady

When Sean and Ashley moved to the Schenectady area I had a flashback of sadness. It wasn't just that my son was moving several hours away but the idea of moving to Schenectady brought back some other sad memories of losing friends. 

General Electric once had a large multiple factories in Philadelphia including a very large plant in North Philly.  There were also several much smaller facilities scattered around the city including a manufacturing plant on the other side of the avenue in our Germantown neighborhood. Many local men worked there.

Sometime in the early 1960's or perhaps in '58 or '59 GE closed that plant in our neighborhood and moved the operation to Schenectady NY. Several of my friend's fathers worked at that plant and when their jobs moved to NY State so did the families. Suddenly several of my friends moved away all at once and just like that we had a bunch of empty desks in our classroom. It was very sad. I had never heard of Schenectady but then everyone knew that city with the funny name because it was a GE town.

In the 1960's and 1970's there were over 70,000 people employed at GE in Schenectady but ten years ago there were barely 3,000. I wonder if any of those boys that I knew whose fathers worked for the company eventually worked there too in the late 1960's and 1970's. Were they able to stay there until they retired or were they forced to leave the city looking for work in the 1980's and 1990's as GE downsized those plants and gradually moved their manufacturing overseas. Even the GE headquarters moved from Schenectady to Atlanta in the 1990's but then moved back a much smaller version in 2012. 

I always had an interest in GE when I was a kid because we had the same initials. 

All Tomorrow's Parties in New York... the mix

The CD mix called All Tomorrow’s Parties was one of the last mixes I posted to the Art of the Mix site in early 2007. 

Here is the statement I made when I posted the mix...

"Andy Warhol was on my mind after viewing the recent PBS program and then getting the DVD. We came back from a visit to the Warhol museum in Pittsbugh with some great books on him and a deeper understanding. This CD mix came out of me like some "Exploding Plastic Inevitable". Andy Warhol was everywhere in NY during that time and these songs are all somehow connected to him.

The Factory, CBGB, The Velvets, The Dolls, Bowie, the Sticky Fingers cover, Nico, the entire New York scene. Warhol's influence was immense.

Of course this mix just uses Warhol as a touchstone to put together a collection of songs about him, the people around him and the NY scene in general.

The picture is from one of Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitible parties/shows."

And here is a link to that post on AotM.   

However, this mix was originally put together in a slightly different form in the early 1980s on cassette. Like many of my mixes it has evolved over time. The early mix was an attempt to have the feel of an early 80’s artist hangout party with a particular emphasis on New York. It was a lot of NY 60’s, 70’s and 80’s music and other influences like the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed, David Bowie, New York Dolls, punk and New Wave. I have a copy of that first mix somewhere on the 3rd floor.

Then there was this hour long CD mix from 2007. Later it evolved into an hour and a half expanded edition around 2015 but kept close to the original idea of the mix.

Recently I made the really expanded mega mix that has a greater emphasis on all things New York. This was clocks in at almost 10 hours and explores the New York art and music scenes and everything on the mix I have in my collection. As with my other mega mixes I created this as a long playlist for an all day road trip or to play around the house. It also works well on shuffle.

The mix has the above mentioned punk and new wave but also funk, disco, rock and folk in blended mini sets that flow across the musical landscape. It also includes some interesting cover songs.

This mega mix has also moved to Spotify and is available to listen from the link below.

        1.       All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
        2.       Andy Warhol - David Bowie
        3.       Artists Only - Talking Heads
        4.       Venus - Television
        5.       Who Are The Mystery Girls? - New York Dolls
        6.       Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
        7.       Sweet Jane - Mott the Hoople
        8.       Femme Fatale - R.E.M.
        9.       Chelsea Girls - Nico
      10.      I'll Be Your Mirror - Lou Reed
      11.      White Light/White Heat (BBC Live) - David Bowie
      12.      No Fun - The Stooges
      13.      Sister Morphine - The Rolling Stones
      14.      Song For Nico - Marianne Faithfull
      15.      You Know More Than I Know - John Cale
      16.      Sunday Morning - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs
      17.      Hello It's Me  - Lou Reed & John Cale
      18.      Rock & Roll - The Velvet Underground
      19.      Not a Young Man Anymore - Dean & Britta
      20.      What New York Used To Be - The Kills
      21.      Dreaming - Blondie
      22.      Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - The Ramones
      23.      Modern World - The Modern Lovers
      24.      Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
      25.      Art School - The Jam
      26.      (My Baby Does) Good Sculptures - The Rezillos
      27.      Pablo Picasso - John Cale
      28.      Gloria: In Excelsis Deo - Patti Smith
      29.      Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
      30.      Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
      31.      NYC Man - Lou Reed
      32.      Waiting For The Man (BBC Live)  - David Bowie
      33.      All Tomorrow's Parties - Japan
      34.      Andy Warhol - Dana Gillespie
      35.      Art School Girl - Stone Temple Pilots
      36.      Modern Art - Matthew Sweet
      37.      New York - Cat Power
      38.      Empty Sky - Bruce Springsteen
      39.      NYC - Interpol
      40.      NY in The '70s - Luke Haines
      41.      Conversation And Music At 51st St. And 6th Ave. - Moondog
      42.      The Ballad of New York City - David Peel and The Lower East
      43.      Turn On / Tune In / Drop Out - The Fugs
      44.      Talkin' New York - Bob Dylan
      45.      Bleecker Street - Simon & Garfunkel
      46.      City Lights - Flamin' Groovies
      47.      The Last Mile - Nico
      48.      Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell
      49.      King Of The New York Streets - Dion
      50.      Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More - Steely Dan
      51.      Wild In The Streets - Garland Jeffreys
      52.      People Who Died - The Jim Carroll Band
      53.      NYCNY - Daryl Hall
      54.      First We Take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen
      55.      New York Was Great - The Raveonettes
      56.      The Artist's High - Acid Ghost
      57.      Christ Versus Warhol - The Teardrop Explodes
      58.      Andy Warhol’s Dream - Trevor Sensor
      59.      Lou Reed Lou Reed - Luke Haines
      60.      Satellite Of Love - U2
      61.      Stephanie Says - Joseph Arthur
      62.      Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed
      63.      Femme Fatale - Big Star
      64.      In The Flesh  - Blondie
      65.      Chelsea Hotel #2 - Leonard Cohen
      66.      An Artist's Song - Lost In The Trees
      67.      I'll Keep it With Mine (Scott Hardkiss Electric Remix) - Dean & Britta
      68.      Life on Bleecker Street - Willie Nile
      69.      The Modern Age - The Strokes
      70.      Friction - Television
      71.      Contort Yourself - James White
      72.      Dream Baby Dream - Suicide
      73.      Helen Fordsdale - Mars
      74.      New York City - T. Rex
      75.      The City - Fleetwood Mac
      76.      New York City - John Lennon
      77.      New York Kiss - Spoon
      78.      New York's In Love - David Bowie
      79.      NYC - Dido
      80.      Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega
      81.      Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
      82.      Come Away - ESG
      83.      Getting Uptown (To Get Down) - United 8
      84.      Harlem - Bill Withers
      85.      Uptown - The Chambers Brothers
      86.      Down And Out In New York City - James Brown
      87.      Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield
      88.      Uptown - Prince
      89.      Out Come The Freaks - Was (Not Was)
      90.      Annie  - Kid Creole & The Coconuts
      91.      Deputy Of Love - Don Armando's 2nd Av. Rhumba Band
      92.      Que Pasa / Me No Pop I - Coati Mundi
      93.      New York Soul - Ray Barretto
      94.      Living For The City  - Stevie Wonder
      95.      Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack
      96.      Soulsville - Isaac Hayes
      97.      On Broadway - George Benson
      98.      Birdland - Manhattan Transfer
      99.      Angel Of Harlem - U2
    100.    Streets Of New York - Willie Nile
    101.    I'll Take New York - Tom Waits
    102.    New York City Serenade - Bruce Springsteen
    103.    The Only Living Boy In New York - Simon & Garfunkel
    104.    Leaving New York - R.E.M.
    105.    New York, New York - Ryan Adams
    106.    N.Y.C. - Steve Earle
    107.    Livin' In America - Black 47
    108.    New York City's Killing Me - Ray LaMontagne
    109.    New York City - Damon & Naomi
    110.    A Girl in New York City - Son,Ambulance
    111.    New York - Richard Ashcroft
    112.    New New York - The Cranberries
    113.    Sister Morphine - Marianne Faithfull
    114.    I Found A Reason - Hollis Brown
    115.    Welcome To New York - Ryan Adams
    116.    Times Square - Destroyer
    117.    Coney Island Winter - Garland Jeffreys
    118.    Hey Manhattan! - Prefab Sprout
    119.    Subway Train - New York Dolls
    120.    53rd And 3^rd - The Ramones
    121.    X Offender - Blondie
    122.    Uptown - The Crystals
    123.    The Boy From New York City - The Ad Libs
    124.    Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful
    125.    The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Simon & Garfunkel
    126.    Spanish Harlem - Laura Nyro & Labelle
    127.    14th Street - Rufus Wainwright
    128.    Bleecker & MacDougal - Fred Neil
    129.    Cold Hands From New York - Gordon Lightfoot
    130.    I Guess the Lord Must Be In New York City - Harry Nilsson
    131.    (I Used To Be A ) Brooklyn Dodger - Dion
    132.    Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
    133.    Andy's Chest - Lou Reed
    134.    Avenue B - Iggy Pop
    135.    Englishman In New York    - Sting
    136.    Seventh Avenue - Rosanne Cash
    137.    Hotel Chelsea Nights - Ryan Adams
    138.    Downtown Train - Tom Waits
    139.    Incident On 57th Street - Bruce Springsteen
    140.    New York State Of Mind - Billy Joel
    141.    I'm Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground
    142.    All Tomorrow's Parties - Nick Cave

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