"Jolene" is a 1973 single by Dolly Parton that re-entered the charts 53 years later this week in light of her passing. This mix features her iconic original along with covers by Candi Staton, The Little Willies featuring Norah Jones, Kellee Patterson and The Replacement performing live in December of 1984 in NYC's CBGB's.
John Barry wrote the music for "Diamonds Are Forever", and while Don Black wrote the lyrics, Barry gave Bassey the direction to sing it like she was singing about male genitalia instead of diamonds in order to achieve a more carnal delivery. This mix features an alternate version with a lost 4th verse that adds more suggestion to the original as well as Bassey singing it in Italian as "Vivo Di Diamnati".
California's Pennikurvers recorded, in the spring of 1995, just four song in their existence and one of them,"Halo", is featured here.
The rest: a Tom Moulton mix of Madonna's "Borderline", a Mexican Institute Of Sound remix of Run The Jewels' "Ooh La La" featuring Santa Fe Klan, "She's A Runaway" from the BoDean's 1986 T-Bone Burnett-produced debut album "Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams", a demo of Josh Rouse's "Slaveship" from his 2003 album 1972, a demo version of Bobbi Genrty's version of PJ Proby's "Niki Hoeky" from her 1967 debut album Ode To Billie Joe, Ultra's menacing "No Face" featuring Tim Dog with support from Kool Keith, the unreleased 1974 Dionne Warwick track "And Then He Walked Right Through The Door" written and produced by Burt Bacharach, Samantha Sinclair's mid-70s cover of Edison Lighthouse's "On A Plane To Nowhere", the 1986 B-side "We Found A Way To The Sun" by The Primitives, the 1938 country gospel song "When Gabriel Blows His Trumpet For Me" by The Dixon Brothers, Clipse's "By The Grace Of God" with Pharrell Williams from their 2025 album Let God Sort Em Out, a cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" by Bryan Ferry and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, a cover of Neil Young's "Old Man" by Cindy Wheeler and an extended version of Donna Summer's 1979 single "Heaven Knows"with Brooklyn Dreams.
