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Happy birthday, perennialanna!

Return of the music letter meme

schemingreader gave me an M

Here are the rules: Comment with a request, and I'll give you a letter. You go and post five favorite songs/music videos that start with that letter.

In no particular order of preference:

Noel Coward, Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

Barrett Strong, Money and Me: I like this better than his much more successful 'Money', to which it is pretty much an 'answer song', although these were not usually by the original artiste. (Here is the weird 70s yuppie-ish version of Money by the Flying Lizards).

Bobby Bloom, Montego Bay.

Many a New Day from Oklahoma - this is a genre of song I don't have a name for, except it's the opposite of a torch song (song begins a fair way into that clip).

Elvis Presley, (Marie's The Name of) His Latest Flame.

and another five, because I can't really choose:

Johnny Rivers, Mountain of Love.

Manfred Mann, Mighty Quinn.

Mike Oldfield, Moonlight Shadow.

The Angels, My Boyfriend's Back - okay, the gender politics of this one make me cringe, but it's still one of those girl group gems of its period.

Buddy Holly, Midnight Shift.