His Folk Into Classical Mix CD just arrived (ETA: Discussed here), and since I mailed mine earlier than he did, I'm going to post this now. (And I get to fix some typos in the crystal case listing...)
Here is the track listing of calimac 1a, with [comments]. I'll put the track listing for calimac 1b: background and bonus behind a cut, to save scrolling.
1. Lady In Black – Uriah Heap 4:49 [I believe this was a hit at the time, but I missed it too]
2. The Truth Won't Fade Away – Procul Harem 4:19 [a later song by a top-40 group]
3. I Know A Place – Petula Clark 2:52 [bouncy pop at its best! Almost used "Color My World"]
4. The Monkees – The Benzadrine Monks of San Bernadino** 3:06 [the first song that is informed by the bonus disk]
5. Reynardine – Fairport Convention 4:35 [this fell off my listening schedule for many years, but now it haunts me]
6. Murder Was The Play – the great Luke Ski 3:19 [one of the best introductions to modern Demented music for those who don't like rap]
7. Ride'em Jewboy – Kinky Friedman 5:10 [the most powerful song by a guy who got 12% of the vote in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial election]
8. Once In A Lifetime – Big Daddy ** 3:43 [The Talking Heads song sung in the style of "Day-O". Both on the bonus disk]
9. Fugu Fish – Timothy Leary 3:02 [seem like the type of song he'd like]
10. Eskimo Pie – Worm Quartet 2:35 [Full title: " Eskimo Pie is Not Pie and Contains Very Little Eskimo". We wordslingers love this sort of thing]
11. Ha Ha Thisaway – Rooftop Singers ** 1:36 [a new (to me) version of an old standard]
12. Impressionists 2-Step – Pop Wagner 3:06 [another intersection of highfalutin' and country]
13. Lawyers, Guns and Money – Warren Zevon 2:58 [the song he's most likely to have heard, but it's great and if he hasn't than he should]
14. Love Radiates Around – The Roches 4:48 [one of my favorite Roches songs, and seemed to fit into his taste]
15. Sikelele – Manfred Mann 3:41 [a great later song by a hitmaker in the 60s]
16. Tide Is High – Blondie 4:41 [bouncy pop of the type I hope he'll like]
17. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Rik Ocasek ** 4:25 [Cars frontman covers Disney. Two other versions on the bonus disk]
18. The Possible Dream – Shockwave Radio Theater 3:50 [proselytizing, and another wordslinger cut]
19. The Supreme Personality – The Gandharvas 4:19 [bouncy Krishna pop; fulfills my dj itch to give airplay to obscure songs]
20. Seventeen Come Sunday – Steeleye Span 5:04 [I've made mixes without SSpan, but not many. This felt similar to the songs on his list. And besides, I like it and it's a great way to end a CD.]
** ancillary material on calimac 1b: background and bonus disk
** 1. Ave Mundi Spes Maria
–The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos 4:20
** 2. (Theme From) The Monkees – The Monkees 2:20
[these two inform the Benzadrine Monks song]
** 3. Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads 4:21
** 4. Day-O – Harry Belafonte 3:04
[these two inform the Big Daddy song]
** 5. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Song Of The South 2:20
** 6. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah – Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans 2:51
[the original and a different cover of the Ric Ocasek]
** 7. Ha-Ha This A-Way – Pete Seeger 4:11
[the original, or at least the verson I grew up on]
8. Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah – Bonzo Dog Band 3:05
9. Bombay Girl – Alisha 4:50
[two vaguely related songs; BDB was a great British conceptual humor group and Alisha is a major pop star in India]
10. Powerpuff girl – Lojo Russo 1:55
[a friend and sometime Minneapolis musician. I'm not sure this has been released on a CD, but my five-year-old niece loved it]
11. Come Go with Me –The Del-Vikings 2:43
[a Mpls doo-wop group from the 50s]
12. Electric Hoedown – Dweezil Zappa 3:24
[Not exactly Aaron Copeland, but nifty 80s electronic music]
13. Rawhide – Michael Jackson impersonator 2:45
[the tv theme as done in the style of "Billy Jean". If I'd had a copy of the Jackson, I would have put it on the first CD and referenced both songs on this one]
14. William Tell Overture – Spike Jones 3:26
[I don't know how much calimac likes his classical ripped to shreds. We shall see]
15. Old Egypt – Boogie Knights 3:22
[nifty filk to the Beach Boy's "Kokomo". Another cut that if I'd had the original, this would have been on the first CD with the related song on this one]
16. If Pigs Could Fly – Sandy Andina 2:38
[Chicago fan, from her great "vanity CD"]
17. Preposterous – Nate Bucklin 3:24
[one of my favorite songs from Mpls fan Nate's latest CD]
18. Home – Riverfolk 3:06
[one of my favorite songs from Mpls fans latest CD]
19. Wabash Cannonball – The Chieftans w/Ricky Skaggs 3:25
[Country collides with Celtic]
20. Roll Over Beethoven – Electric Light Orchestra 4:35
[Beethoven collides with Chuck Berry and disco]
21. Gettysburg Address – Lord Buckley 5:15
[Beat poetry. An amazing cut.]
22. Man of Constant Sorrow – Tonic Sol-Fa 2:29
[local Minnesota a cappella group]
23. Streets of London – Ralph McTell 4:07
[And I end on what is perhaps my favorite song of all time]
** informs a song on calimac 1a