Songs About Wind

Cafe Society
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My cousin has asked me for an odd gift for her 60th birthday. I offered to make her a mix CD and she wants it to include only songs about wind. (Odd request but not at all odd for her; this is a woman who once wore only green for a year and who introduced the family to her fiance [the man who was to be her fourth husband] at her third husband’s funeral.)

Anyway, she loves songs about the wind (and the wind itself). I have a few onhand already:

-They call the wind Maria(h) from Paint Your Wagon

-Cat Stevens/The Wind

-Where Do I Go? from Hair (lyrics include “Follow the wind song”)

-Bob Dylan/Blowin’ in the Wind

-Bette Midler/Wind Beneath My Wings

I have a trial database subscription. Can anybody recommend some good “wind songs”? I have the feeling there are some great ones I probably have on CD or can get online but I’m just not thinking of them.

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“The Wind Cries Mary,” by Jimi Hendrix.

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Might I direct you to this album? Windsong, Spirit, Calypso, and Fly Away all are good choices. Calypso to me has the feel of being on the ocean on a sailboat, though it doesn’t mention wind specifically it mentions sailing, Fly Away also doesn’t mention wind specifically but has the feeling of wind. Not sure if she’d dig the style of music though. My parents owned this album on vinyl, and I remember in the liner notes John Denver spoke of the difficulty of trying to record the sounds of the wind. He’d wanted to put those sounds directly into his songs, but wasn’t satisfied with the quality of the recordings so made this album instead.

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Meant to also say Windsong is one of my favorites lyrical songs, since it’s a rare day in Kansas when the wind is stilled.

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Good choices, thanks. John Denver is huge in my branch of the family (my father used to teach him and, as we heard many many times, my mother once burned off his eyelashes . Calypso is one of my sister’s favorite songs.

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Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft

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“Ride Like the Wind” by Christopher Cross

“Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan

“Mandolin Wind” by Rod Stewart

“Break Like the Wind” by Spinal Tap

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Kansas - Dust in the Wind

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“The Midnight Wind”–John Stewart
“She’s Like the Wind”–Patrick Swayze

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Frank Sinatra does a great rendition of Summer Wind.

I’m trying to think of a song that describes flatulence in the lyrics but I’m coming up completely blank.

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• Nina Simone (and many others), Wild Is the Wind
• Frank Sinatra, The Summer Wind
• Colors of the Wind (from the Pocahontas soundtrack)
• The Association, Windy
• Donovan, Catch the Wind
• Fleetwood Mac, Rhiannon ("Taken by the wind . . . ")

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Notably David Bowie, on the album Station To Station.

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Two of my favourite songs:

I Talk to the Wind - King Crimson (Gentle, melodic)
Where the Wind Don’t Whine - Richard Thomson

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Gypsy Wind, Dan Fogelberg.

Cyclone Season. Graeme Connors

My Friend the Wind Demis Roussos

Whispering WInd, Moby

Santa Ana Winds, Beach Boys

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Some country covers from my personal music collection…

Suzy Bogguss: Music on the wind, from her Aces album.

Kathy Mattea seems rather fond of wind: Willow in the wind from her Willow in the wind album & Walk the way the wind blows, from her Walk the way the wind blows album & (a personal favorite with it’s country/celtic/nautical fusion) Ready for the storm from her Time passes by album.

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An old 50’s thing – The Wayward Wind – Gogi Grant
Pat Boone – With the Wind and the Rain in Your Hair

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“Four Strong Winds,” by Waylon Jennings.
“What I’d Give to Be The Wind,” by Roger Miller.
“Sonic Wind,” by Calexico.
“Windfall,” by Son Volt.
“Sauget Wind,” by Uncle Tupelo
“I Envy the Wind,” by Lucinda Williams

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This is getting too fun.

John Anderson’s Seminole Wind is another personal fave.

Barbara Streisand’s Like a straw in the wind.

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“Let the Wind Blow” - The Beach Boys

There’s a different song with this title by Todd Rundgren.

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Bowie also did “When the Wind Blows” - about Nuclear war, the ‘theme’ for this film based on a Raymond Briggs book of the same name.

Nick Heyward “Whistle Down the Wind”.