It never Hurts...

Back in the day (70's) I used to make a lot of mix tapes.  I'd pick a song, then see where it led me.  The end result would be a 90 minute cassette.  These would get a lot of use, from parties to road trips.  Most of those tapes have disappeared w/o a trace, but the rise of iPod led to a whole new generation.  And now I make occasional spotify playlists.

So:  Today (in the car, via iPod) I was listening to a playlist "Various Artists 17 - It Never Hurts".  This is an iPod recreation (or approximation) of an old mix tape,  The starting song was "It Never Hurts To Be Nice To Somebody" from the New Riders Of The Purple Sage album "Who Are These Guys".  Not a great album, but a very solid one with several very good songs, that got regular plays during my college days.

Anyway, I decided I'd create a Spotify version of the playlist.  EXCEPT:  the seed song (It Never Hurts..." is not available on Spotify.  Spotify has most of what I want, but every once in a while I find a miss.  Like this, or the Mike Nesmith album "Infinite Rider On The Big Dogma".  

Anyway, it ticked me off, so I won't make the playlist.  But then I couldn't find the studio version on YouTube, just a live one.  The, to add insult to injury, the Poco's album Head Over Heels is not on there, and I had to use a live version of "Keep On Tryin'".

This is why I'll never switch completely over to Spotify.

Here's the playlist if you want to check it out:

It Never Hurts