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This is Alpha-Zed Playlist Y2, which means it is the second set from the ‘Y’ sections of the playlists from which these songs were taken.

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As always, I have selected a total of eleven songs. I present them here in alphabetical order. They represent several styles of music.

Hopefully, you will enjoy at least a few of them! Maybe all of them.

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PLAYLIST is available HERE if you’d like to listen to the songs in continuous order.

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First comes James Gang with their track Yadig? (1971), from their third (3rd) studio album Thirds.

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Next comes Nickelback, with their song Yanking Out My Heart (2003), which first appeared on the soundtrack from The Scorpion King, then on the Special Edition of their fourth (4th) studio album The Long Road.

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The third song on this list is a song by Shania Twain and The Stylistics called Yes, I Will (2025), from The Stylistics’ collaborative album Falling in Love with My Girl.

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In this next song, we come to Jackie Gleason and Yesterdays (1954), from his sixth (6th) studio album Music, Martinis, and Memories.

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Now we have a cover of the song Yesterday’s Wine (2023) by Charley Crockett, from the tribute album Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90 LIVE.

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Next in our little hit parade comes Earth, Wind and Fire performing their song You and I (1979) from their ninth (9th) studio album I Am.

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Number seven on this list is Todd Agnew with his song You Are (2003), from his debut (1st) album Grace Like Rain.

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Coming up next is You Can’t Hide (1986) from Koinonia‘s fourth (4th) studio album Frontline.

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Next on the list we have Kenny Rogers with his song You Decorated My Life (1979), from his eighth (8th) studio album Kenny.

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Tenth on the list is You Got Me (2015) by William Prince, from his debut (1st) studio album Earthly Days.

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Well, that is the end of the ten songs to which I plan to confine each of these posts.

HOWEVER!

There are many songs whose title begins with a NUMBER, so they don’t fit in a strictly alphabetical listing.

THEREFORE!

In each of these posts I will include a BONUS track until I run out of ‘number’ songs.

Your BONUS for this list is 40 Acres (2025) by Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bobby Rush, from their collaborative album Young Fashioned Ways.

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Photo by me. Outdoor Spigot; Monterey, California; September 2010.

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“Early morning light casts long shadows!

And the naturally neutral palette provides an unretouched vintage look.”

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Photo and quoted text originally posted on Shots That Snap!, December 5, 2010.

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Photo by me. Lovely old building in downtown Portland, Oregon; March 2021.

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#8 on Fast Eddie’s Highly Subjective List of ‘Favorite’ Female Vocalists is:

PEARL BAILEY

Date of Birth: March 29, 1918

Please click on Pearl’s name above to read details of her life and career.

Pearl Bailey’s career included clubs, film, television, Broadway, tours, performing for American troops, voice-overs for animated films, recording albums, writing books, and being appointed U.S. special ambassador to the United Nations for three presidents (Ford, Carter, and Reagan). She released more than thirty (30) albums over the course of her fifty-plus (50+) years of activity.

Pearl Bailey passed away in 1990 at the age of 72.

Here are five (5) videos to confirm and to convince you, if necessary, of her vocal prowess:

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Photo by me. Stairwell; Ybor City, Florida; August 2010.

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“Looking straight up from the bottom of a stairwell on the corner of a parking structure in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, 4 August 2010. “

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Photo and quoted text originally posted in Shots That Snap!, December 3, 2010.

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Photo by me. Actual billboard in Fresno, California; May 2022.

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MAINE – 3

Five videos from Al Hawkes.

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Photo by our Music Director. New Wrinkles cast; Fresno, California; May 2019. I am on the left side of the photo, long hair, behind the guy in the yellow shirt (Jim).

Paul Lynde and Kirk Douglas in The Villain.

Digital Collage by me. November 2019.

Photo by me. Orchids on our back patio. Fresno, California; March 2021.

Photo by me. New fence hiding the pool equipment. Fresno, California; March 2021.

Photo by me. At a restaurant in Fort Myers, Florida. March 2016. Can’t remember the name of it; and I think it is under new management now.

Photo by me. Irises Under Palm; Fresno, California; March 2021.

Photos at Kmart Photo Booth; FabGirl and me; Albuquerque, New Mexico; June 1973.

Photo by a friend; FabGirl and me; Fresno, California; April 2022.

Photo by me. From inside the Anaheim Convention Center; Anaheim, California; October 2010.

Photo by me. White Peacock; Casa de Frutas, California; May 2017.

Photo by me. American Windmill Museum; Lubbock, Texas; November 2024.

Photo by me. American Windmill Museum; Lubbock, Texas; November 2024.

Photo by me. Side of the fridge; Lubbock, Texas; June 2025.

Photo by me. Some of the neckties I had already stopped wearing when I took this photograph in August 2010, Seaside, California.

Photo by me. Flatbed Truck at Cherry’s Jubilee; Laguna Seca, California; September 2009.

Photo by me. Apples and Daisies; Monterey, California; November 2013.

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Response to Judy’s Numbers Game #99.

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