Snapshots #395: Hot & Cold Songs

The temperature's been zooming up and down so much lately that it robbed half of Spain and Portugal of electricity... and we hate to think of our Portuguese correspondent without the necessary means to read this blog.

Here are some hot songs and some cold ones... let's see if we can arrive at a happy medium before summer.

15. A can of #3.

#3 is Big Joe Turner, a tin a'...

Tina Turner - Steamy Windows

14. Billy's sad sea or Frank's mucky pond?

Two Oceans, both blue in their own way...

The Ocean Blue - Frigid Winter Days

13. Typical!

The Normal - Warm Leatherette

12. Eccles, in a hurry.

Jennifer Eccles, in a bit of a Rush.

Jennifer Rush - Ring Of Ice

11. Freeman's crane.

A derrick is a crane, for Morgan Freeman...

Derrick Morgan - Blazing Fire

10. It's in the air tonight, Einstein!

Little known fact: Phil Collins wrote In The Air Tonight, 'specially for Albert Einstein.

Albert Collins - Frosty

9. Hell's Bile III: This time it's perplexed.

Hell's Bile III was a perplexing anagram.

Billie Eilish - OverHeated

8. Church, Hatherley, Bronte.

The Charlottes - Cold

7. The man in the gabardine suit was a spy.

That's a lyric from America by S&G.

America - Molten Love

6. Filthy weasel.

Blue Mink - Melting Pot

5. Spasmodic fools. 

The Jerks - Cool

4. Mottled church.

A roan is a mottled horse...

Chappell Roan - Hot To Go

3. Large coffee for #15!

Cup of Joe for Tina...

Big Joe Turner - The Chill Is On

2. Book that will increase in value, thanks to a saxophone in the key of G... and 80s bin man.  

Kenny G played sax... Ted Rogers had a Dusty Bin...

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Something's Burning

1. Morally pure and chaste.

Or not, as the case may be.

Madonna - Frozen

The heat is back on next Saturday... cool!

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.