Sleep

(Santo and Johnny-sleepwalk)
It's night time in the Big City
A man regrets using a gas station restroom
birds are still a couple hours away from getting the worm Your queen size home for themes, dreams and schemes. Please do not remove tag under penalty of law.

The Singers and Songs

  • Santo and Johnny
    Sleep Walk
    “an instrumental duo from Brooklyn”
  • Louis Jordan And His Tympany 5
    A Man's Best Friend Is a Bed
  • Sammy Myers
    Sleeping in the Ground
    “You know, every shut-eye ain't sleep. Sometimes you're sleeping in the ground, taking a dirt nap, saying the big good bye.”
  • 100 Proof (Aged In Soul)
    Somebody's Been Sleeping
  • Berna-Dean
    I Walk In My Sleep
    “Here's a woman who sure doesn't sound like she sleeps alone.”
  • Hoagy Charmichael
    Two Sleepy People
    “This song is featured in the Bob Hope movie, Thanks For The Memory, and also this week on Theme Time Radio Hour.”
  • George Jones
    I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep
    “I was looking through my records the other night. Ya know, I have over 70 George Jones Records?! If you look at them all, it gives you a great history of men's haircuts. Here's George in a period of time when he had just grown out his brush cut and had a bit of a mutton chop sideburn look going.”
  • Peter Wolf
    Sleepless
    “I ran into Pete at an all night drugstore, and he told me about this song.”
  • Belton Richard
    Another Sleepless Night
    "..one of the original members of the Cajun French Music Hall of Fame , which was established in 1997, not a moment too soon.”
  • Little Miss Cornshucks (“the former Miss Mildred Cummings”)
    Rock Me To Sleep
  • The Monkees
    Love Is Only Sleeping
    “Another finely crafted pop classic”
  • Little Willie John
    Sleep
    “Hmmm, sounds like me playin' the organ!”
  • Jody Reynolds and the Storms
    Endless Sleep
    “This next song is not for the faint of heart. Death rock was a phenomenon that happened in the late 50s and early 60s – maybe it was because of people's fear of the atomic bomb during the Cold War…This record is one of the most atmospheric of the bunch.”
  • The Band
    Sleeping
    “Here's a distinctive voice with an unquiet heart, Richard Manuel, singin with The Band, a voice of dreams…”
  • Louis Armstrong
    When It's Sleepy Time Down South
    “This is how Louis used to close his shows; we'll use it to close ours.”

The Other People and Players

  • Eydie Gorme
  • Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil
  • Lauren Bacall
  • Neil Sedaka
  • J. Geils Band
  • Dave Bartholomew
    "...who wrote and arranged a log of Fats Domino's big hits. He's still down in New Orleans playin. He would show up at Preservation Hall on a regular basis to play just for the love of the music, despite his millionaire status. You gotta respect that."
  • General Johnson
    "...is an interesting guy. First of all, his name is General Johnson, and that's interesting right there. Second of all, he had two hit records, and you never heard his name before."
  • Elmore James
  • Humphrey Bogart
  • Otis Redding

The Other Songs and Albums

The Books and Poems

  • Hamlet
    "'To die, to sleep
    To sleep, perchance to dream.
    Ay, there's the rub
    For in that sleep what dreams may come
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil' -- Don't shuffle off too soon, we got a lot more music to play ya!"
  • Chamber Music - James Joyce
    Sleep now, O sleep now,
    O you unquiet heart!
    A voice crying "Sleep now"
    Is heard in my heart. The voice of the winter
    Is heard at the door.
    O sleep, for the winter
    Is crying "Sleep no more."
    My kiss will give peace now
    And quiet to your heart--
    Sleep on in peace now,
    O you unquiet heart!
  • 1st Corinthians, Chapter 11, Verse 30
    "'For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep' (Paul). And by sleep, he means dead."
  • To Say Before Going To Sleep - Rainer Rilke
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • Snow White
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

The Movies and TV Shows

The Places

  • Pearl Harbor
  • Walla Walla, WA
  • Cullendale, AR
  • Washington State Prison
  • Preservation Hall
  • Greenwich Village
  • New York
  • Boston
  • New Orleans

Commercials and Public Service Announcements

Famous Night Owls

  • Fran Lebowitz
  • Ludwig II of Bavaria
  • Winston Churchill
  • Marcel Proust
  • Ann Coulter

Well, it's sleepy time everywhere right now, so it's time for me to hang up my headphones, get out of the Abernathy Building, and slip into a dry martini. See ya next week. Pleasant dreams, schemes and themes.