This is (I think) all the music mentioned by name in the book, mostly in order.

  • Alice’s Restaurant
  • Eleanor Rigby (Michael is canonically the kind of person who would think this was a reasonable way to name a baby, even though I don’t think I specify this is how she got her name)
  • Greensleeves (Susan is playing it on the guitar)
  • Love is All Around
  • The Lovin Spoonful (I think I just mention the band, but assume it’s Summer in the City)
  • A Sailor’s Life (traditional ballad that Susan recorded; the Fairport Convention version is similar in mood)
  • The Byrds
  • Jefferson Airplane
  • The Doors ( I just mention that a Doors album is on, but assume it’s People are Strange)
  • Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
  • A Well Respected Man (Kinks)
  • America (Simon and Garfunkel)
  • Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Jimi Hendrix)
  • Heart and Soul (on the piano)
  • Unchained Melody
  • Mr. Sandman
  • Only You
  • Que Sera Sera
  • I Was Made to Love Her (Stevie Wonder)
  • Motown (in general)
  • Frank Sinatra (in general)
  • Latin music on somebody’s radio, heard through the window
  • Rolling Stones (I just mention that there’s a Stones album on the turntable)
  • Jefferson Airplane (again)
  • Hey Jude
  • Once I Was (Tim Buckley)
  • Little Green Apples
  • Big Brother and the Holding Company (Iris likes Janis Joplin)
  • One song I fail to mention is Those Were the Days, which felt too on the nose, but Mary Hopkin’s cover was wildly popular in the fall of 68 and I think it would have been playing everywhere