I was contemplating "The Thing." And ooh, I didn't think about Sixteen Tons! Dean's definitely a Cash fan. I'm willing to exercise some wiggle room on the date for a good song.

Another one definitely on it is Ella Fitzgerald singing Ace in the Hole.

Sinatra - One More For My Baby (And One More for the Road)

Benny Goodman - Silhouetted in the Moonlight

Definitely a Sons of the Pioneers - maybe Empty Saddles, or Pistol Packin' Mama?

One of my Trinidadian calypso songs - possibly Some Girl Some Thing, or I Can Make More Love Than Romeo?

Then I get all bogged down in other songs by the same artists.

And somewhere I got this Time Life album full of songs from the 50s? Most of them fit really well too.

(And yeah, I gotta find some blues - don't have much in my collection yet.)