The Quest for the Dark Tower - Reshuffle: The Songs of Roland - Part 2

***Spoiler warning! Though I've made every attempt to avoid giving away key plot points during this quest, it's still very possible that information discussed herein may spoil a new reader's experience, so consider yourself warned! ***

This entry covers Books V-VII, Part I (covering books I-IV) was posted in a previous entry.

There are a lot of songs on this list, and I'm sure I've missed a few, so if there's anything missing, or if any of the links turn out to be broken, please feel free to mention it. This list wouldn't be nearly as complete as it is if not for several playlists that had been posted on the now defunct web community, www.TheDarkTower.net, so I'd like to take moment to say thanks to those good folks for sharing and helping to enrich so many readers' listening experience.

I've included links to Youtube (or other sources, on those rare occasions when Youtube came up dry) and page numbers to the hardcover trade editions for easy reference. In several cases, I've included some commentary notes (for example, where a band or singer is mentioned, I've tried to include the song that best suits the situation, or vice versa). Some song references have been mentioned repeatedly, so for simplicity's sake, I've only included the first page where a song is made reference to.

Dark Tower V: The Wolves of the Calla

- New York Groove – Hello (pg. 48)

- Kansas City Blues – Jim Jackson (pg. 49)

- 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones (pg. 179)

- Maid of Constant Sorrow - Joan Baez (pg. 228)

- Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed (pg. 276)

- Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John (pg. 277)

- M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me) - Howard Johnson/Theodore Morse (pg. 428) - "Put them all together . . ."

- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan (pg. 435)

- I Can’t Go For That - Hall & Oates (pg. 463)

- I Need A Hero - Bonnie Tyler (pg. 503) - "Holding out for a hero . . ."

- Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful (pg. 514)

- In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry (pg. 515)

- Follow the Pied Piper - Crispian St. Peters (pg. 593)

Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

- The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson (pg. 13)

- Night and Day - Fred Astaire (pg.91)

- Stormy Weather – Ethel Waters (pg.95)

- Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan (pg. 139) - "And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice"

- Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan (pg. 153)

- Pinhead - The Ramones (pg. 274) - "Gabba-Gabba-Hey!"

- Bad Man’s Blunder – The Kingston Trio - "Ninety-nine years on the hard rockpile." (pg. 289)

- The Wreck of the Old '97 - Johnny Cash (pg. 289) - Sai King mistakes this song as

- The Wreck of the Hesperus – Procol Harum (pg. 289)

- 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall - Trad. (pg. 289)

- That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly (pg. 290)

- Walking Through My Dreams - Big Bopper (pg. 290)

- Come On, Let's Go - Ritchie Valens (pg. 290)

- Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys (pg. 302)

- This Time - Troy Shondell (pg. 303)

- Pop Goes the Weasel - Trad. (pg. 328) - "Round and round the mulberry bush . . ."

- Man of Constant Sorrow - Ralph Stanley (pg. 339)

- I Shall Be Released - Traditional (pg. 353)

- Blowin in the Wind - Joan Baez & Bob Dylan (pg. 353)

- Hesitation Blues - Reverend Gary Davis (pg. 353)

- I Ain’t Marching Anymore – Phil Ochs (pg. 353)

- Alfie – Burt Bacharach & Nancy Wilson (pg. 404)

Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

- Bad Company – Bad Company (pg. i)

- Hurt - Johnny Cash (pg. i)

- Moonlight Becomes You - Frank Sinatra (pg. 7)

- I left My Heart in San Francisco - Tony Bennett (pg. 7)

- The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens (pg. 81) "Wimeweh . . ."

- Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard (pg.77)

- Harrigan - George M. Cohan (pg. 90) - "H-A-double R-I; Harrigan, that's me!"

- Roll Tide - University of Alabama Fight Song (pg. 95) - "Go wide, go wide, roll you Tide, we don't run and we don't hide, we're the 'Bama Crimson Tide!"

- Walk Like A Man - Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons (pg. 96)

- Funny How Time Slips Away - Wanda Jackson (pg. 96)

- Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey (pg. 96)

- Yankee Doodle Boy - James Cagney (pg. 97)

- Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder? – Edward M. Favor (pg. 167)

- Nowhere to Run - Martha and the Vandellas (pg. 227)

- Drive My Car - The Beatles (pg. 317)

- That’s Amore - Dean Martin (pg. 351)

- Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen (pg. 404)

- I’m Late - Bill Thompson (pg. 432)

- Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan (pg. 434)

- Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne (pg. 444)

- Amazing Grace - Trad. (pg. 478)

- Rockin’ in the Free World - Neil Young (pg. 600)

- Wild Blue Yonder - Air Force Anthem (pg. 603)

- What Child Is This? - Trad. (pg. 645)

- California Sun - The Rivieras (pg. 707)

- Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs (pg. 716)

- Heat Wave - Martha and the Vandellas (pg. 716)

- She Loves You - The Beatles (pg. 716)

- Silent Night - Trad. (pg. 724)

- Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings (pg. 728)

Long days, pleasant nights!

-DE