Artist	Song
Johnny Cash	Sunday Morning, Coming Down
Cartoon Theme	Minnie Yoo-Hoo
Spike Jones and His Orchestra	Barney Google
Eddie Bo	Check Mr. Popeye, Part I
The Tornadoes	The Popeye Twist
Jasper Mills	Mutt 'n' Jeff Blues
The Electric Prunes	The Toonerville Trolley
Cartoon Theme	Donald Duck
Spanky and Our Gang	Sunday Mornin'
Radio Theme	Bringing Up Father
Promenadorquestren	Krazy Kat
Kristin Hersh	The Key (Strings Version)
Rod Stewart	Gasoline Alley
The Hollies	Gasoline Alley Bred
The Hollywood Argyles	Alley Oop
Spanky and Our Gang	Sunday Will Never Be the Same
Radio Theme	Little Orphan Annie
Sopwith Camel	Little Orphan Annie
Walt Kelly and Norman Monath	Potlucky
The Skatalites	Dick Tracy
Radio Theme	Ambushes Everywhere - Terry and the Pirates
Genesis	Scenes from a Night's Dream
The Royal Guardsmen	Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
Boots Randolph	Charlie Brown
Dave Brubeck	Linus and Lucy
What's with 31?	Blue Charlie Brown
The Velvet Underground	Sunday Morning

Comment:

The quest: to construct a mix about that feeling of Sunday morning and reading the funnies.
The four songs about Sunday aren't about the funnies, but rather the slipperiness of that Sunday morning feeling. Spanky and Our Gang, a group I'm always somehow confounding with the Young Rascals, charted with Sunday Mornin' and then again a year later with a sequel. Johnny Cash and VU provide darker but no less nostalgic visions.
Krazy Kat is an Artie Shaw number, I think, but I couldn't get my hands on it -- Promenadorquestern appears to be a stage band from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Pretty cool.
Kristin Hersh's The Key is inspired by the zany and incessant celebration of life in George Herriman's strip, Krazy Kat. This version is heavily orchestrated.
Neither of these Gasoline Alley songs appear to be about the comic strip, but they get included here for their intense homesick atmospherics. I think perhaps they were some sort of response to the Nashville Teens' big hit, Tobacco Road. You know, middle-class Brits getting all Little House on the Prairie on your ears.
Potlucky is a Pogo the Possum song. Word salad in a Cuisinart. Whee!
The Genesis song would have been much improved for Peter's presence, but it was not to be -- it seems to be inspired by Winsor McKay's influential Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Enjoy.

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