An Erotic Soundtrack for The Best American Erotic Poetry: The Movie [by Catherine Bowman]

A highly subjective list after looking over my CDs and albums. 

1. All six tracks on the self-titled Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane album

2. “The Very Thought of You” as sung by Billie Holiday or Albert Collins

3. The Canadian Nick Gilder’s pop hit “Hot Child in the City” on The City Nights album

4. “Salt Marie Celeste” from Nurse with Wound. A lost ghost ship at sea. 

5. Portishead’s Dummy

6. Arto Lindsay’s cover of “Simply Beautiful” on Mundo Cililizado

7. Neil Young’s song “Harvest Moon”

8. Gal Costa singing “Dindi." Lyrics by Tom Jobim

9. Tony Joe White’s “Rainy Night in Georgia" as covered by Shelby Lynn.

10. Black Angels. Passover 

11. “Too Marvelous for Words,” lyrics by Johnny Mercer

  as recorded by Ella Fitzgerald or Frank Sinatra

12. Stevie Wonder’s song “As (Wonder)” from Songs in the Key of Life

13. Prince’s “If I was your Girlfriend”

14. All of the Sarah Vaughn in Hi-Fi album

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Ok. Better stop now, though I did leave out my recordings of cheetahs purring.

Any additions?  Favorite make-out music or erotic soundtracks? 

Or what songs would you bring to a dirty song/dirty martini/clean underwear

 party? 

from the archives; originally published February 11, 2008

Comments

[shoshanadh]

I love this play list! I would add Prince's "Kiss" as sung by Prince or Tom Jones.

[Wayne Zade]

Bill Evans playing "My Foolish Heart"

[lally]

ditto to bill evans's my foolish heart from the waltz for debbie lp, plus peggy lee's fever and johnny mathis's and sarah vaughan's misty and sinatra's almost entire output but let's go with "all the way," and same for barry white and jo stafford...I could go on...fun challenge...

[Sydney Lea]

"Ruby,My Dear" by Thelonious Monk,as performed on Paul Motion's album, MONK IN MOTION.

Exile's"I Want to Kiss You All Over."