Saturday, April 4, 2009

An anomaly

This song popped into my head tonight. Usually, I prefer the original version of a song. But this one is a bit different. No knock on the original, of course, it's great.

And in fact, here it is, the original:



And here's Ray doing again, more than 50 years later:



And here's one by the great Gram Parsons:



But the definitive version is by the great Jerry Lee Lewis. Can't find a youtube version of his studio version, nor can I find one of the duet he did with Dennis Quaid on the soundtrack album from the movie. But I did find this very creditable version from 1983:



Unfortunately, it's still not quite the bluesy, Rock 'n' Roll style he did in the duet with Quaid, but still not bad. Rock on, 73 year old Jerry. Who'd-a thought you'd live this long?

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