Covers: Cry Me a River
“Cry Me a River” is another song that was prominent in the film The Girl Can’t Help It. Julie London performs is as a hallucination her old agent sees when he is drunk.
I know it from the Joe Cocker version.
Covers: Twenty Flight Rock
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.
Posts on AI hallucinations-
Trump’s corrupt effort to halt the opening of a new bridge
Trump’s excessive defense spending
from the article:
The roughly $900 billion defense budget approved last year was the largest in U.S. history. While other nations have also increased their military spending, the United States already spends more on defense than the next nine countries combined, according to 2023 data from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.
New York Times on how Trump appointed judges support him
Covers: Be-Bop-a-Lula
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:
Blue Monday (Smiley Lewis/Fats Domino song)
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.
Soda vs. Pop
I call it soda.