On Friday Five on Songs Old and New

1. What are the five oldest songs on your iPod, computer, or phone (whatever device you store your music on)?

I currently stream all my music from Spotify. So this depends a bit on the definition of old. Are we talking oldest composition or oldest recording? If it's the oldest composition, then the oldest thing I'm aware of will likely be some Gregorian chants or other plainsong or perhaps some early Jewish religious music. I don't think there are extant compositions from classical Rome or Greece. There's a possibility that there are some older folk songs.

As for the oldest recording. I wonder if Edison's original recording is on Spotify?

2. And the five newest songs?

Similar answer to the first question. The five newest songs will be whatever the five most recently published songs on Spotify are.

3. What’s your favorite song to sing along to?

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by Robbie Robertson is a firm sing along favourite, usually the cover by Sophie B Hawkins or American Tune by Paul Simon.

Or Sit Down by James, where, despite being literally the target audience for the song I seem to have missed its adoption (or perhaps cultural appropriation) by young people. Except they're not young people any more, just younger.

Flower of Scotland probably scores highly on a measure of songs I actually sing along with with other people even though I dislike the song. See also, I Would Walk (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers

4. What’s the first song you ever memorized?

Wellies by Billy Connoly, on a roadtrip around Tasmania with my father and siblings.

5. What song is your current earworm?

I can always earworm myself with the Famine Song, traditional, with arrangement by Brian Wilson and the Sevco Supporters Club.