SOLAR ECLIPSE PLAYLIST

Here are my song choices for a playlist for the total eclipse of the sun that will cross the USA from coast to coast tomorrow.

OK, the obvious:

And to follow that, a dramatic and unusually effective cover in Spanish.  Most English language pop hits do not translate very well into Spanish, but this one did, and Lissette (a Cuban/Puerto Rican American) pop star really captured the emotion as least as well if not better than Bonnie Tyler's original interpretation of the Jim Steinman song:

My favourite singer-songwriter overall is Al Stewart: his song "Timeless Skies" nearly ends with the lyrics, "the sun has the moon in his eyes":

These two hits from 1971 are obvious:

 You may have forgotten this rocker from 1985 from the album "Empire Burlesque," but I personally think it is one of Bob Dylan's best:

Let's not forget this one:

And in a different style altogether:

One of Texas's greatest songwriters is the legendary Rodney Crowell.  He wrote this tune, which was made into a big hit by Bob Seger:

It goes without saying that these should be included:

A radio station in Nebraska is going to be playing Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" at the right moment so that the concluding song "Eclipse" comes on at the exact moment of totality, which ends with the words "the sun is eclipsed by the moon."

Please, don't be doing this other than at moments of full totality, or with the proper eye protection:

or this could happen to you: