Murakami Music

I did what must at least once fly through head of any M reader. I took a pencil, I took a piece of paper and I started putting down the music mentioned in his works.
Actually wouldn't it be great if there was a CD included in each of M's books containing the "OST" you could listen while reading?
However, I put down the songs from Afterdark and here's what I've got..

Go Away Little Girl – Percy Faith and His Orchestra
Five Spot After Dark – Curtis Fuller
You’re Still A Young Man – Tower of Power
The April Fools – Dionne Warwick
My Ideal – Art Tatum/Ben Webster
Sophisticated Lady – Duke Ellington
Jealousy – Pet Shop Boys
I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) – Hall & Oates
English Suite No. 2 in A minor – Glenn Gould
Theme From Love Story – Francis Lai
Ferma ormai, fugace e bella – Andreas Scholl
Sonnymoon For Two – Sonny Rollins

...Then I figured there must be someone who's went through this before me - and there was!!

(through http://amapedia.amazon.com )


- Norwegian Wood Apart from the Beatles we also get Laura Nyro, Creedence Clearwater Revivial, Cream, Rolling Stones, The Doors and the Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto whose pop single Ue o Muite Aruku, known in the west as "Sukiyaki" was a global hit. Sakamoto was a victim of the August 1985 plane crash of JAL 123 which killed more than 500 passengers and crew. (Very Best of Kyu Sakamoto.) This sad novel also includes music by Bach, Brahms (2nd Piano Concerto) and the sweet, evocative Claire de Lune by Debussy and, equally late in the novel, Pavane for a Dying Princess (Pavane pour une Infante défunte) by Ravel.
- Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Here Murakami employs music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Woody Herman, Johnny Mathis, Charlie Parker. Meanwhile in one riff, Bob Dylan gets multiple mentions with mostly early songs including Like a Rolling Stone and Positively 4th Street. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel (Vintage International)
- The Elephant Vanishes. Murakami cites Herbie Hancock, Charlie Parker, Glen Miller, Sinatra and Ravi Shankar.
- South of the Border, West of the Sun tells of the reunion between two childhood sweethearts, Hajime and Shimamoto, the former having found success, with the ownership of two jazz clubs: a subject with which Murakami writes with expertise. Here Jobim, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Duke Ellington lend a nostalgic mood. South of the Border, West of the Sun : A Novel (Vintage International)
- Kafka on the Shore is named after a fictional single, but the novel also works out musically between the pop of Beach Boys, Beatles, Cream, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Prince and Radiohead’s Kid A and the Jazz of Duke Ellington and Stan Getz.