You can go ooh-wakka-doo-wakka-day (Gilbert O'Sullivan)

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Wie geht's?

The three amigos (me, Greg and Kevy) are preparing for our latest Spotify playlist by researching the musical preferences of our immediate loved ones (spouses and parents).

Luckily, the three of us have a spouse each and two parents each. Greg is luckiest of all because he still has his mother, Joan, around.

The idea is that we each supply clues about what each loved one enjoys/enjoyed. From those clues we each choose 5 songs we think they will/would have liked.

No easy thing!

By no means are each of our targets compulsive/obsessed music fans like us. Only one of them is/was an actual musician - that honour goes to Kevy's dad.

So, the research is taking me WAY out of my musical comfort zone. And so far that only includes our first two loved ones: Jacky and Joan. BTW, this is a good thing!

Finding 5 songs for Jacky was straightforward for me (less so for GK and KS), but Joan is a dilly of a pickle.

As Greg tells us - Joan finds a lot of our rock'n'roll collections appalling! For her, artists like The Seekers, Nana Mouskouri, Roger Whittaker, Trini Lopez, Harry Belafonte, Engelbert Humperdinck, Ray Conniff, Herb Alpert, Peter Posa, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Mike Curb Congregation and The Carpenters had some appeal. 

I suspect the trick is going to be finding the intersection points between the loved one and me as I navigate my way through those Spotify best of lists.

I'll post the link when we kick into it!

Love and peace - Wozza