I have posted a few times about songs performed in the film The Girl Can’t Help It. “Twenty Flight Rock” was performed by Eddie Cochran who co-wrote it.

The original version of “Be-Bop-a-Lula” was by Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. Last night, I saw them perform it in the 1956 film “The Girl Can’t Help It”. John Lennon and Paul McCartney both covered it.

The film version:

Last night, I watched The Girl Can’t Help It which has Fats Domino performing the song “Blue Monday”. The original version was by Smiley Lewis and has a great guitar solo. Both versions were produced by Dave Bartholomew who wrote it. I bet they had a large overlap of backing musicians.

Something similar that I recommend are the three discs of Black covers of country songs on Ace Records

“Madison Blues” is an Elmore James song from 1960. James is one of the all-time great blues artists.

“Nobody’s Fool” is a Dan Penn song covered by Alex Chilton

“Cry Like a Baby” was a the 1968 record by the Box Tops, most famous for their big hit “The Letter”.

“Bury Me Beneath the Willow”