>Gloria Hasse runs an excellent ceramics gallery from her home in Darmstadt and I’ve got to know her and her husband, Rainer, quite well over the years.

As one does when one spends most of one’s disposable income at a place…

They were round for dinner last week and I figured I’d do a mix in iTunes and feed it through the WLAN to the hifi. Saves jumping up and down all night.

“Gloria”‘s not the problem, obviously – every bastard and his brother (or sister) has done a version of it at some stage in their career – and there’s Gloria Gaynor to contend with, too but Rainer was a definite problem.

“Hasse” pops up in “Tallahassee Lassie”, but I had to go back to his profession – he’s a nuclear physicist, who writes papers on Nuclear fluid dynamics with long-mean-free path dissipation: Multipole vibrations and isoscalar giant resonance widths and stuff like that, even got an element named after him – to find Margot and the Nuclear So And Sos and the Spin Doctors with “Pocket Full Of Kryptonite”

The rest was the meal – fresh green pea soup with herbs, rabbit in Pinot Noir with roasted red peppers and creamed potatoes with goat cheese and blueberry flan to finish.
Nice drop of Sauvignon Blanc.
Coffee.

You work it out.

And obviously with nice ceramics, hence Grace Potter…

Gloria – The Shadows of Knight from Billboard Top 100 Hits Of 1966
Sweet Pea – Tommy Roe from Billboard Top 100 Hits Of 1966
Gloria’s eyes – Bruce Springsteen from Human Touch
Slice of Heaven – Dave Dobbyn With Herbs from Nature’s Best
White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane from Billboard Top 100 Hits Of 1967
Gloria – Patti Smith from Horses
Red Rabbits – The Shins from Wincing The Night Away
Tallahassee Lassie – Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac from Live At The BBC
Gloria – Mineral
Pour The Wine – Dave Dobbyn from Available Light
Children’s Crusade On Acid – Margot & The Nuclear So And Sos from 91.7 WEEM/My Old Kentucky Blog in-studio
Gloria (live) – Van Morrison from It’s Too Late To Stop Now
Nuclear Soul – Lida Husik
Mashed Potato – Dee Dee Sharp from Billboard Top 100 Hits of 1962
Gloria (Feat. John Lee Hooker) – Van Morrison from Too Long in Exile
The Zephyr Song – Red Hot Chili Peppers from By The Way
Gloria – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from Live at the United Center
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor from Ministry Of Sound Disco Classics
Blueberry Hill – Elvis Presley from The Complete 1950s Masters Vol 3
Toothbrush and My Table – Grace Potter And The Nocturnals from Nothing But the Water
Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino from Dancing In The Street
Two Princes – Spin Doctors from Pocket Full Of Kryptonite
Blueberry Pie – Bette Midler from In Harmony
My Hands Are Tied – Al Kooper from Black Coffee

Graphics by Julia Beyer