A Pop Stand Playlist: Blow Job

Gust for kicks, let’s rediscover songs about the wind

Wind sock. Photo courtesy Negrobike on Pixabay

Any way you gauge it, wind has been a musical trope since, well, the beginning of music. Early humans aped the sound of the the winds that whistled through the trees as surely as they mimicked the song of birds.

More recently songwriters have invoked the wind for its mystery, its power, its metaphorical implications.

Here’s a Pop Stand list devoted to songs that claim and name the wind.

Add more titles if you can and are so inclined.

Let the Four Winds Blow — Fats Domino

The Wind — Nolan Strong & the Diablos

Wind Beneath my Wings — Bette Midler

They Call the Wind Mariah — Harve Presnell

Born on the Wind — Roy Orbison

Chilly Winds — The Kingston Trio

Blowing in the Wind — Peter, Paul & Mary

Big, Cold Wind — Pat Boone

Windy and Warm — Chet Atkins

Dust in the Wind — Kansas

Idiot Wind — Bob Dylan

The Wind Cries Mary — Jimi Hendrix