Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Celebrity Jukebox #76: Ray Liotta

Nancy Sinatra, and her sister Tina, once sent Ray Liotta a horse's head in the post after he turned down the chance to play their father in a TV mini-series they were developing. Ray would later play Old Blue Eyes in HBO movie The Rat Pack. Here he is giving it his best Frank..

Liotta is best known for his role as Henry Hill in the movie Goodfellas... though as movies go, I prefer Field of Dreams, in which he plays the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson. And I'm very much looking forward to his forward to his final movie, Cocaine Bear, filmed just before his death last May. Well, better that than Ray's starring role in an Ed Sheeran video...

Lots of rappers who always wanted to be gangsters have mentioned Ray Liotta in their lyrics, but we'll skip those guys, 'cos they're just a Neighborhood Full Of Nobodies. Still, it's not just rappers...

The crew and I will hang on the steps
Outside a chippy shop in Oldham
I'd make mistakes; they'd clean up the mess
We'll play Texas hold-em and talk about religion

I wanna be Ray Liotta
And live another day in the mafia

BC Camplight - I Want To Be In The Mafia

Here's what else will be playing on the jukebox in tribute to Ray, starting with this jazzy little number from Martin Sexton...

We meet at 3pm by the ATM on Saturday
You pick out the show
Then it's off we go to the matinee
You'll be who you want
I'll be who you want
I'll be your Ray Liotta
It's my lucky day

Martin Sexton - Diggin' Me

Followed by the inevitable titular name-checks...

Lomepal - Ray Liotta

French rappers sound so much more sophisticated, don't they?

Well, more sophisticated than German rappers anyway...

LX & Maxwell - Ray Liotta

As to music with guitars, I can offer you this...

King Of Summer - Ray Liotta

Nuch better is this, from a band who featured in Namesakes not so long ago... although they didn't go down particularly well. Perhaps this one will persuade you...



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