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Monday, 11 November 2024

Snapshots Spillover - More Elvis Cos-Covers

Here are some more songs sung by Elvis when he's not singing his own songs. Compare and contrast, if you've got nothing better to do today.

We'll start with one from my third (or possibly fourth, or possibly fifth) favourite Springsteen album...

Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise

Elvis Costello - Brilliant Disguise

Next up, a classic from Gram and co... even if Elvis chose to change the title.

Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito No. 1

Elvis Costello - I'm Your Toy

Let's go way back now, to 1953, and one of the founders of rock n roll...

Big Joe Turner - Honey Hush

Elvis Costello - Honey Hush

Sadly, I couldn't find a photograph of Teacher's Edition, otherwise I would definitely have featured them in this week's quiz, for obvious reasons...

Teacher's Edition - I Wanna Be Loved

Elvis Costello - I Wanna Be Loved

Quite a fun video, I hadn't seen that before.

Here's something strange to make you scream...

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Strange

Elvis Costello - Strange

And also from Kodak Variety, a singer who always makes me think of Somewhere Down The Crazy River...

Little Willie John - Leave My Kitten Alone

Elvis Costello - Leave My Kitten Alone

Meanwhile Elvis is obviously a big fan of Memphis Soul Man James Carr, having covered him twice...

James Carr - Pouring Water on a Drowning Man

Elvis Costello - Pouring Water on a Drowning Man

James Carr - The Dark End of the Street

Elvis Costello - The Dark End Of The Street

I like to pick a couple of obscure acts for Snapshots every week, just to stretch your braincells. But this Aussie band might have been pushing the obscurity factor a bit much, even for Ernie.

Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons - So Young

Elvis Costello - So Young

Far less obscure, in fact one that's been covered by everybody and his dog...

The Kinks - Days

Elvis Costello - Days

And I need no excuse to feature these guys, ever...

Louvin Brothers - Must You Throw Dirt in My Face

Elvis Costello - Must You Throw Dirt in My Face

I had a load more, but you're probably getting sick of them now, so let's finish today with the song that almost tipped Ernie off to this week's answer, and probably helped Parsley The Goat clinch it.

Monday, 3 June 2024

Cnut Songs #29: Screen Test

Graham Parker - Crying For Attention

It was rather a wet Half Term, so Sam and I went to the cinema twice. The first film, John Krasinski's If, I would recommend to anyone. It's one of the best kids films I've seen in a long time, up there with the inestimable Paddington 2 as a fun family movie with real heart. And I say that as someone with a very low tolerance for schmaltz.

And then we saw Garfield, which was a bag of shite.

Les Gams - Attention! Accident (Sur L'autoroute De L'Ouest

I like Garfield. But this movie was only a Garfield film for the first 20 minutes, then it became a Chris Pratt / Samuel L. Jackson buddy movie... only not even as interesting as that might sound. Garfield was there on the screen, but there was very little Garfield. If that makes sense.

Clifford T. Ward - Screen Test

Anyway, about halfway through the movie, I noticed a mum a few rows in front of us with two young daughters. I'd seen them arrive (late) and then watched the mum leave the girls to go fetch popcorn. The older girl (who I reckon was still a few years younger than Sam) was clearly even less enamoured with the movie than I was. So Mum gave her a mobile phone and she sat watching Tiktok videos, hypnotised, her instant-gratification-dopamine-fix sated till the credits rolled.

The Lowlies & Sara Watkins - Screen Goes Black

By the end of the movie, I wanted to cry.