Tainted LoveOld Fool Compilation

Alan Mills - Tainted Love.mp3
Belltones - Tainted Love.MP3
Ben Wild & The Wild Band - Tainted Love.mp3
Big John Bates - Tainted Love.mp3
Boppin' Kids - Tainted Love.mp3
Coil -Tainted Love.mp3
Crazy Legs - Tainted Love.mp3
Cure & Soft Cell Tainted Love (Techno Remix).mp3
Dave Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang - Tainted Love.mp3
Depeche Mode - Tainted Love.Mp3
Flatline Rockers - Tainted Love.mp3
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love (Original) 1963.mp3
Go Getters - Tainted love.mp3
Grandmagneto - Tainted Love.mp3
Hormonauts - Tainted Love.mp3
Howlin' Moondoggies - Tainted Love.mp3
Living End - Tainted Love.mp3
Mark Harman & The Rattlesnakes - Tainted Love (Live).mp3
Marylin Manson - Tainted Love.mp3
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - Tainted Love.mp3
Phantom Rockers - Tainted Love.mp3
Skarekrows - Tainted Love.mp3
Soft Cell - Tainted Dub.mp3
Soft Cell - Tainted Love 1982.mp3
Soft Cell - Tainted Love 1999 (Club 69 Future Mix).mp3
Soft Cell - Tainted Love '91 (Mendelsohn Remix).mp3
Swampys - Tainted Love.mp3

Mister 78 PresentsOriginal SoundEarly Versions Of Rock Hits

Original Sound

01 Who's Sorry Now - Frank Bessinger - '23.mp3
02 Who's Sorry Now - Happy Six - '23.mp3
03 Who's Sorry Now - Isham Jones - '23.mp3
04 Who's Sorry Now - Bob Crosby - '38.mp3
05 The Way You LookTonight - Rudy Vallee - '36.mp3
06 Among My Souvenirs - Vernon Dalhart - '28.mp3
07 Among My Souvenirs - Revelers - '27.mp3
08 Are You Lonesome Tonight - Joe Wilbur - '27.mp3
09 Are You Lonesome Tonight - Henry Burr - '27.mp3
10 Are You Lonesome Tonight - Carter Family - '36.mp3
11 Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller - '40.mp3
12 Blueberry Hill - Kay Kyser - '40.mp3
13 My Blue Heaven - Gene Austin - '27.mp3
14 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Connee Boswell - '50.mp3
15 Tonight You Belong To Me - Regent Club Orch - '26.mp3
16 Keep A Knockin - Jimmy Dorsey - '40.mp3
17 I Told Every Little Star - Hildegarde & Clark - '46.mp3
18 La Bamba - Orq de S Garrido - '46.mp3
19 Love Letters In The Sand - Sam Lanin - '30.mp3

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MbubeakaThe Lion Sleeps TonightakaWimowehCompilation

Barbershop - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Mbube aka Wimoweh).mp3
Bert Kaempfert - Wimoweh aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Mbube).mp3
Brian Poole & The Tremeloes - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Cher & The Mavericks - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube Live).mp3
Cooldown Cafe & Gerard Joling - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Daniel Küblböck - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube Radio Edit).mp3
Dave Newman & The Baby Boomers - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Hans Theessink Band - Mbube aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh).mp3
Helmut Lotti - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Jimmy Cliff - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Johnny Gregory - Wimoweh (aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight aka Mbube).mp3
Karaoke - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Karl Denver Trio - Wimoweh (aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight aka Mbube - 1962).mp3
Kingston Trio - Wimoweh (aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight aka Mbube (Live At The Hungry I 12-09- - 1959).mp3
Ladysmith Black Mambazo & The Mint Julips - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Les Baxter & Yma Sumac - Wimoweh (aka The Lion Sleeps Tonight aka Mbube).mp3
Mahotella Queens - Mbube (aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight aka Wimoweh).mp3
Mia Martini - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Miriam Makeba - Lion Cries (Mbube aka Wimoweh aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight).mp3
Nanci Griffith - Wimoweh (aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Mbube).mp3
NSync - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube - The Lion King).mp3
Nylons - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Pete Seeger - Wimoweh (aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight aka Mbube).mp3
Robert John - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Mbube aka Wimoweh).mp3
Rockapella - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Serge Nelson - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds - Mbube (aka Wimoweh aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight - 1936).mp3
Soweto Gospel Choir - Mbube (aka Wimoweh aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight).mp3
Techno Remix - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube).mp3
Tight Fit - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube (Disney).mp3
Tokens - The The Lion Sleeps Tonight (aka Wimoweh aka Mbube - 1961).mp3
Vazelina Bilopphoeggers - Gjedda Kjaem I Kveld (Mbube aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight).mp3
Weavers - Wimoweh (aka Mbube aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight).mp3
Weavers & Pete Seeger - Wimoweh (aka Mbube aka The The The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Live - 1957).mp3
Weavers & Pete Seeger - Wimoweh (Mbube aka The The Lion Sleeps Tonight) Live - 1957).mp3

Your Mother Should Know

Anna (Go With Him) - Arthur Alexander.mp3
Blueberry Hill - Glenn Mille & Ray Eberle 1940.mp3
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ozzie Nelson Orch 1931.mp3
For Your Precious Love - Oscar Toney Jr.mp3
Ghost Riders In The Sky - Vaughn Monroe & Sons of Pioneers 1949.mp3
Handy Man - Sparks Of Rhythm.mp3
Happy Feet - Frankie Trumbauer Orch & Smith Balleway 1930.mp3
Hound Dog - Willie Mae Thornton.mp3
Just A Gigilo - Ted Lewis 1931.mp3
Mambo #5 - Perez Prado.mp3
Mdube - Solomon Linda's Evening Birds 1936.mp3
Money - Barrett Strong.mp3
Needles And Pins - Searchers.mp3
Piece Of My Heart - Erma Franklin.mp3
Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (Ike Turner Guitar) 1951.mp3
Rock The Joint - Jimmy Preston & The Prestonaires 1949.mp3
Shake, Rattle and Roll - Big Joe Turner 1954.mp3
Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates.mp3
Shine - Hoboken Four (Frank Sinatra's 1st) 1935.mp3
Sixteen Tons - Merle Travis 1947.mp3
Slumber Boat - Elva Ruby Connes aka Phoebe Phestoon aka Elva Miller aka Mrs Miller 1962 (1st Record).mp3
Tainted Love - Gloria Jones.mp3
That's All Right Mama - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup 1946.mp3
That's All Right - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup.mp3
Tip Toe Thru The Tulips With Me - Nick Lucas 1929.mp3
Try A Little Tenderness - Ted Lewis 1933.mp3
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On - Big Maybelle 1953.mp3

We Wrote 'em & We Sing 'emSong Writers Sing The Hits1961

01 Otis Blackwell - All Shook Up.mp3
02 Eddie Cooley - Fever.mp3
03 Winfield Scott - Tweedle Dee.mp3
04 Ollie Jones - Send For Me.mp3
05 Lincoln Chase - Jim Dandy.mp3
06 Billy Dawn (Smith) - The Angels Listened In.mp3
07 Billy Dawn - When I Saw You.mp3
08 Lincoln Chase - Hot Biscuits.mp3
09 Ollie Jones - Come On Come On.mp3
10 Otis Blackwell - Music And Fire.mp3
11 Winfred Scott - Some Cold Night Now.mp3
12 Eddie Cooley - Lay It On.mp3

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Better Or Worse?-Originals & Cover Versions-

20th Century Boy - 1973 T Rex.mp3
20th Century Boy - 1998 Big Six.mp3
A Groovy Kind Of Love - 1965 Diane & Annita.mp3
A Groovy Kind Of Love - 1988 Phil Collins.MP3
Anna (Go With Him) - 1962 Arthur Alexander.mp3
Anna (Go With Him) - 1963 Beatles (Arthur Alexander Cover).mp3
Are You Lonesome Tonight - 1927 Vaughn Deleath (Original).mp3
Are You Lonesome Tonight - 1960 Elvis Presley (Vaughn Deleath Cover).mp3
At My Front Door - 1955 El Dorados (Original).mp3
At My Front Door - 1972 Harry Nilsson & Ringo Starr.mp3
Black Betty - 1933 James 'Iron Head' Baker.mp3
Black Betty - 2002 Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE aka Tom Jones (Joe Cuttather mix).mp3
Blueberry Hill - 1940 Glenn Miller & Ray Eberle.mp3
Blueberry Hill - 1956 Fats Domino.mp3
Chains Of Love - 1951 Big Joe Turner.mp3
Chains Of Love - 1962 Brook Benton.mp3
Doo Wah Diddy - 1963 Exciters.mp3
Doo Wah Diddy - 1964 Manfred Mann.mp3
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) - 1964 Dick Holler & The Holidays.mp3
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) - 1966 Swinging Medallians.mp3
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - 1931 Ozzie Nelson's Orch.mp3
Dream A Little Dream Of Me - 1968 Mamas & Papas.mp3
Dueling Banjos - 1955 Arthur Guitar Boogie Smith (aka Appalachian Stomp).mp3
Dueling Banjos - 1973 Eric Weisberg & Steve Mandell.mp3
Everybody Needs Somebody - 1964 Solomon Burke.mp3
Everybody Needs Somebody - 1980 Blues Brothers.mp3
For Your Precious Love - 1958 Jerry Butler & The Impressions.mp3
For Your Precious Love - 1967 Oscar Toney Jr.mp3
Go Now - 1964 Bessie Banks.mp3
Go Now - 1965 Moody Blues.mp3
Good Lovin' - 1965 Olympics.mp3
Good Lovin' - 1967 Young Rascals.mp3
Handy Man - 1959 Sparks Of Rhythm.mp3
Handy Man - 1977 James Taylor.mp3
Hang On Sloopy - 1964 Vibrations.mp3
Hang On Sloopy - 1965 McCoys.mp3
Henry The Eighth - 1911 Harry Champion.Mp3
Henry The Eighth - 1959 Herman's Hermits.mp3
Hippy Hippy Shake - 1959 Chad Romero.mp3
Hippy Hippy Shake - 1963 Swinging Blue Jeans.mp3
Hound Dog - 1952 Big Mama Thornton.mp3
Hound Dog - 1956 Elvis Presley.mp3
I Put A Spell On You - 1957 Screamin' Jay Hawkins.mp3
I Put A Spell On You - 1968 Creedence Clearwater Revival.mp3
I Want Candy - 1965 Strangeloves (Original).mp3
I Want Candy - 1981 Bow Wow Wow [12-inch remix].mp3
I Want You To Want Me - 1977 Cheap Trick (Early Version Outtake).mp3
I Want You To Want Me - 1999 Letters To Cleo.mp3
I'm Into Something Good - 1964 Earl-Jean McCrea.mp3
I'm Into Something Good - 1964 Herman's Hermits.mp3
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - 1953 Four Lads.mp3
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - 1989 They Might Be Giants.mp3
Just A Gigilo - 1931 Ted Lewis Orch.mp3
Just A Gigilo - 1985 David Lee Roth.mp3
Little Green Bag - 1969 George Baker (aka Hans Bouwens) Selection.mp3
Little Green Bag - 1999 Tom Jones & Barenaked Ladies.mp3
Lollipop - 1958 1st recorded by Ronald & Ruby aka Lee Morris & Beverly Ross.mp3
Lollipop - 1958 Chordettes.mp3
Louie, Louie - 1957 Richard Berry & The Pharaohs.mp3
Louie, Louie - 1964 Kingsmen.mp3
Mambo #5 - 1949 Perez Prado.mp3
Mambo #5 - 1999 Lou Bega.mp3
Monkberry Moon Delight - 1971 Paul McCartney.mp3
Monkberry Moon Delight - 1973 Screamin' Jay Hawkins.mp3
Mr Moonlight - 1962 Dr Feelgood & The Interns.mp3
Mr Moonlight - 1964 Beatles.mp3
Mustang Sally - 1965 Sir Mack Rice.mp3
Mustang Sally - 1967 Wilson Pickett.mp3
My Boy Lollipop - 1956 Barbie Gaye.mp3
My Boy Lollipop - 1964 Millie Small.mp3
My Ding-A-Ling - 1952 Dave Bartholonew Orch (originally named Little Girl Sing).mp3
My Ding-A-Ling - 1972 Chuck Berry.mp3
My Little Red Book - 1965 Burt Bacharach (Song Writers Version).mp3
My Little Red Book - 1966 Arthur Lee & Love.mp3
Nobody But Me - 1963 Isley Brothers.mp3
Nobody But Me - 1968 Human Beinz.mp3
On Broadway - 1963 1st Recorded By The Cookies.mp3
On Broadway - 1963 Drifters.mp3
Piece Of My Heart - 1967 Erma Franklin.mp3
Piece of My Heart - 1968 Janis Joplin.mp3
Puttin' On The Ritz - 1920 Irving Berlin.mp3
Puttin' On The Ritz - 1982 Falco.mp3
Sea Of Love - 1959 Phil Phillips & The Twilights.mp3
Sea Of Love - 1989 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole.mp3
Soldier Of Love - 1962 Arthur Alexander.mp3
Soldier of Love - 1963 Beatles (Live At The BBC).mp3
Something In The Air - 1969 Thunderclap Newman.mp3
Something In The Air - 1993 Tom Petty.mp3
The Pusher - 1968 Hoyt Axton.mp3
The Pusher - 1970 Steppenwolf.mp3
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) - 1963 Merry Clayton.mp3
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) - 1964 Betty Everett.mp3
The Twist - 1958 Hank Ballard (King 5171).mp3
The Twist - 1960 Chubby Checker.mp3
The Wanderer - 1962 1st Recorded by Ernie Maresca (Songwriter Demo).mp3
The Wanderer - 1962 Dion & The Belmonts.mp3
Think About Your Troubles - 1971 Harry Nilsson.mp3
Think About Your Troubles - 1994 Jellyfish .mp3
Tip Toe Thru The Tulips - 1929 Nick Lucas.mp3
Tip Toe Thru The Tulips - 1968 Tiny Tim.mp3
Tonight You Belong To Me - 1927 Gene Austin.mp3
Tonight You Belong To Me - 1956 Patience & Prudence.mp3
Try A Little Tenderness - 1933 Ted Lewis.mp3
Try A Little Tenderness - 1967 Otis Redding.mp3
Twist & Shout - 1961 Top Notes (Original).mp3
Twist And Shout - 1964 Beatles.mp3
Unchained Melody - 1955 Al Hibbler.mp3
Unchained Melody - 1965 Righteous Brothers.mp3
War - 1970 1st recorded by Temptations.mp3
War - 1970 Edwin Starr.mp3
Without You - 1970 Badfinger.MP3
Without You - 1971 Harry Nilsson.mp3
You're No Good - 1963 Dee Dee Warwick.mp3
You're No Good - 1975 Linda Ronstadt.mp3


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Stagger Lee

Stagger Lee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lee Shelton (also known as Stagger Lee, Stagolee, Stackerlee, Stack O'Lee, Stack-a-Lee and by several other spelling variants) was a black cab driver and a pimp convicted of murdering William "Billy" Lyons on Christmas Eve, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri. The crime was immortalized in a blues folk song that has been recorded in hundreds of different versions.

Lee Shelton was not just a common pimp, but as described by Cecil Brown, "Lee Shelton belonged to a group of pimps known in St. Louis as the 'Macks'. The macks were not just 'urban strollers'; they presented themselves as objects to be observed."

Shelton died in prison in 1912, of tuberculosis.

The Story:

A story appearing in the St. Louis, Missouri Globe-Democrat in 1895 says:

William Lyons, 25, a levee hand, was shot in the abdomen yesterday evening at 10 o'clock in the saloon of Bill Curtis, at Eleventh and Morgan Streets, by Lee Shelton, a carriage driver. Lyons and Shelton were friends and were talking together. Bo th parties, it seems, had been drinking and were feeling in exuberant spirits. The discussion drifted to politics, and an argument was started, the conclusion of which was that Lyons snatched Shelton's hat from his head. The latter indignantly demand ed its return. Lyons refused, and Shelton withdrew his revolver and shot Lyons in the abdomen. When his victim fell to the floor Shelton took his hat from the hand of the wounded man and coolly walked away. He was subsequently arrested and locked up at the Chestnut Street Station. Lyons was taken to the Dispensary, where his wounds were pronounced serious. Lee Shelton is also known as 'Stagger' Lee.

Lyons eventually died of his injuries. Shelton was tried, convicted, and served prison time for this crime. This otherwise unmemorable crime is remembered in a song. In some older versions of the song, the name of the other party is given as "Billy Deslile" or "De Lion".

Stagger Lee as archetype:

Immortalized in song, Stagger Lee has become an archetype, the embodiment of a tough-guy black man -- one who is sly, streetwise, cool, lawless, amoral, potentially violent, and who often defies white authority.

Author and music critic Greil Marcus explicitly ties the Stagger Lee archetype to Sly Stone and his album There's a Riot Goin' On in his book Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music.

The Songs:

The song has been recorded hundreds of times by a great variety of performers. The version recorded by Mississippi John Hurt is considered by some commentators to be definitive, containing all of the elements that appear in other versions. A cover with different lyrics was a chart hit for Lloyd Price in 1959; Dick Clark felt that the original tale of murder was too morbid for his American Bandstand audience, and insisted that they be changed (with no murder taking place). The subject was changed from gambling to fighting over a woman, and instead of a murder, the two yelled at each other, and made up the next day. Despite the changes, it was the original version of the song that made #1 and was ranked #456 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

There is speculation that "Stag O Lee" songs predated even the 1895 incident, and Lee Shelton may have gotten his nickname from earlier folk songs. Other sources say that black roustabouts on Mississippi River docks were called "stack o lees" as they would stack cargo on the lee side of the docks. The first published version of the song was done by folklorist John Lomax in 1910. The song was well known in African American communities along the lower Mississippi River by the 1910s.

Before World War II, it was almost always known as "Stack O'Lee". W.C. Handy wrote that this probably was a nickname for a tall person, comparing him to the tall smoke-stack of the large steamboat Robert E. Lee. By the time that W.C. Handy wrote the explanation in the 1920s, "Stack O' Lee" was already familiar in United States popular culture, with recordings of the song made by such pop singers of the day as Cliff Edwards.

An early Blues recording of the song "Stack O' Lee Blues" from 1928 was made by Mississippi John Hurt, a blues musician. As in all such pieces, there are many (sometimes anachronistic) variants on the lyrics. Several older versions give Billy's last name as "De Lyons" or "Deslile".

Other well known artists who have recorded it include Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Taj Mahal, Ma Rainey, Professor Longhair, Sidney Bechet, New Monsoon, Johnny Dodds, Duke Ellington, Memphis Slim, Bill Haley & His Comets, Neil Diamond, Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner, Fats Domino, Doc Watson, Dr. John, Huey Lewis and the News, James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Tom Rush, Travis MacRae, Tommy Roe, Modern Life is War and Ken Colyer. A version by The Fabulous Thunderbirds can be found on the Porky's Revenge soundtrack. Johnny Otis's Snatch and the Poontangs perform a version in which the violence is matched by the sex.

The Grateful Dead recorded a version of the tale which focuses on the fictionalized hours after the death of "Billy DeLion", when Billy's wife Delia tracks down Stagger Lee in a local saloon and "she shot him in the balls" in revenge for Billy's death.

Elton John's 1976 "Blue Moves" album included the song "Shoulder Holster", about a vengeful woman out to kill her cheating ex. The song begins with the lyrics "It was just like Frankie and Johnny, And it was just like Stagger Lee".

The 1979 album London Calling by The Clash includes a ska version (a cover of a song by the Jamaican rocksteady group The Rulers) titled "Wrong 'Em Boyo", in which Stagger Lee is explicitly the hero and Billy the villain. Another variant by Austin blues artist Steve James retells the story from Stagger Lee's perspective, as the underprivileged child of a prostitute and a steamboat worker, and as with the Clash's version, Billy is not innocent.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, by contrast, present an even more violent and homo-erotic version of the song "Stagger Lee" on their 1996 album Murder Ballads. This version retakes a street "toast poem" on Stagolee. Toasts were 'pre-rap' poems and stories especially popular among those in the "life" and among prisoners. The song contains much swearing and shows the story from a neutral perspective..Stagger Lee refers to himself as "The Bad Motherfucker". The song also seems to set the story in the 1930's. This is evident in the opening line "It was back in '32 when times were hard".

More recently, the Black Keys recorded a song entitled "Stack Shot Billy" on their 2004 album Rubber Factory. In 2005, Chris Whitley and Jeff Lang recorded their own arrangement of the song, called "Stagger Lee", ultimately released on their 2006 CD Dislocation Blues.

A version of Staggolee performed by Pacific Gas & Electric was included on the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino's film Death Proof, the second portion of the 2007 double-feature Grindhouse.

In the 2007 film Black Snake Moan, Samuel L. Jackson's character sings a boastful version of the song from Stagger Lee's perspective, titled "Stackolee". This version is based on R. L. Burnside's rendition which can be heard on the album Well, Well, Well.

In 2007, Iowa hardcore band Modern Life Is War recorded the song "Stagger Lee" which was released on the album Midnight In America.

Contemporary interpretations and notable allusions:

In the 1980s, pro wrestler Junkyard Dog used the name (and theme song) Stagger Lee to surprise his rival Ted DiBiase, returning from a "Loser Leaves Town" match under a mask during an infamous feud in Mid-South Wrestling.

Stagg R. Leigh is the assumed name under which Thelonious Ellison, the protagonist of Percival Everett's novel Erasure (2001) writes his parody of blaxploitation literature My Pafology (later changed to Fuck).

Contemporary artist Beck covered Mississippi John Hurt's interpretation, "Stagolee," on Hurt's tribute album "Avalon Blues," released by Vanguard Records in 2001.

Stagger Lee, a graphic novel both telling the history of the story and a fictionalized version of it with political themes, was published by Image Comics in May 2006, written by Derek McCulloch and drawn by Shepherd Hendrix (ISBN 1582406073).

Josh Ritter references Stagger Lee in his song "Folk Bloodbath". (2008)

The main character of Jacqueline Woodson's young adult novel The House You Pass on the Way (1997) names herself Staggerlee after the song.

Stagger Lee Lyrics
Lloyd Price Version

The night was clear, and the moon was yellow
And the leaves came tumblin' down. . .

I was standin' on the corner
When I heard my bull dog bark.
He was barkin' at the two men
Who were gamblin' in the dark.

It was Stagger Lee and Billy,
Two men who gambled late.
Stagger lee threw a seven,
Billy swore that he threw eight.

"Stagger Lee," said Billy,
"I can't let you go with that.
"You have won all my money,
"And my brand-new Stetson hat."

Stagger Lee went home
And he got his .44.
He said, "I'm goin' to the ballroom
"Just to pay that debt I owe."

(bridge)
Go, Stagger Lee

Stagger Lee went to the ballroom
And he strolled across the ballroom floor.
He said "You did me wrong, Billy."
And he pulled his .44.

"Stagger Lee," said Billy,
"Oh, please don't take my life!
"I've got three hungry children,
"And a very sickly wife."

Stagger Lee shot Billy
Oh, he shot that poor boy so hard
That a bullet went through Billy
And broke the bartender's bar.

Go, Stagger Lee, go, Stagger Lee!
Go, Stagger Lee, go, Stagger Lee!
(to fade)




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Wonderwall & a bit of Cheese

In 1995 BBC1 DJ Chris Evans introduced the Mike Flower Pops' "Wonderwall" as the original version of the Oasis, a rare old '60s number on a crackling 7". Listeners bought the idea, despite the incongruity of those highly original monobrow lads being anything less than entirely original. Of course the whole thing was a very well executed gag, which the Gallagher boys themselves enjoyed enough to allow the thing being out out as a single. It eventually reached #2 in the UK charts (fucking Michael Jackson's fucking "Earth Song" kept it off the top spot).

Ten years later, Paul Anka covered "Wonderwall" for his Anka Swings album, a rather good collection of rock songs set to the big band sound, without introducing camp irony (which eventually became the Mike Flower Pops shtick). It works very well (the solo 2:22 in is great). A good song can transcend genres. By that standard, "Wonderwall" is a very good song.

Ryan Adams' version is not amusing or entertaining, so you'll need to look elsewhere for that.

Mike Flower Pops - Wonderwall.mp3
Paul Anka - Wonderwall.mp3

And, yes, Richard Cheese. He did a fine version of "Wonderwall" in cheesy lounge jazz style. But I can't find it at he moment. Instead, we give you his Sunday Bloody Sunday in mamba style ("Tonight we fiesta while tomorrow they die") and his Coldplay-deflating "Yellow", which he sings the only way it should be sung: life-affrmingly.

Richard Cheese - Sunday, Bloody Sunday.mp3
Richard Cheese - Yellow.mp3

You Load Sixteen Tons & What Do You Get?

Another day older and deeper in debt.


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Pico & Sepulveda

(Felix Figueroa's Orch 1947)




(Roto Rooter Goodtime Christmas Band)



(Fobidden Zone)

Pico And Sepulveda
Released: 1943
Music & Lyrics by: Eddie Maxwell & Jule Styne

Recorded by:
Felix Figueroa (Freddy Martin) & His Orchestra 1947
Various others

Lyrics:

Pico And Sepulveda
Pico And Sepulveda
Pico And Sepulveda
Pico And Sepulveda


Doheny....
Cahuenga....
La Brea....
Tar Pits! (Tar Pits!)

La Jolla....
Sequoia....
La Brea....
Tar Pits! (Tar Pits!)

You can keep Alvarado, Santa Monica even Beverly Drive.

Vine may be fine, but for mine I want to feel a live and settle down in my

La Brea....
Tar Pits....

Where nobody's dreams come true.

Pico And Sepulveda
Pico And Sepulveda
Pico And Sepulveda

repeat ad nauseam.

Right-Wing Rock

As we say goodbye — or, depending on your point of view, good damn riddance — to Bush/Cheney, it seems a good time to resurrect a fantastic mix right-wing songs compiled by the superb English music journalist Taylor Parkes, who also wrote outstanding sleeve notes (included in the file). The mix first appeared on the virtually dormant Touchedmix blog (which kindly gave us permission to relink) and created quite a stir at the time. A few artists are surprise inclusions, such as the Kinks or Merle Haggard (and even the Dixie Chicks-baiting Toby Keith says he is a Democrat). The weirdest songs of the lot are those dictated by John Lennon from beyond the grave to the medium Linda Polley. Give insanity a chance?


The Right Brothers - Bush Was Right
Robin & Crystal Bernard - The Monkey Song
The Strawbs - Part Of The Union
Janeen Brady - Free Enterprise
Charlie Daniels Band - A Few More Rednecks
The Exxon Singers - America's Way
The Spokesmen - Dawn Of Correction
Victor Lundberg - An Open Letter To My Teenage Son
John Lennnon (via Linda Polley) - Hussein's Butt Song
Toby Keith - Courtesy of The Red, White, And Blue (The Angry American)
KPMG - Our Vision Of Global Strategy
Merle Haggard - The Fightin' Side Of Me
The Conservative Party - Four Jolly Labourmen
The Jam - Time For Truth
Mormon Kids Sing - I Want to Be a Mother
Jackie Doll & His Pickled Peppers - When They Drop The Atomic Bomb
The Kinks - Get Back In Line
The Exxon Singers - Efficiency
The New Creation - Sodom And Gomorrah
Charles Ashman - An American's Answer (To Gordon Sinclair)
Leroy Van Dyke - Mister Professor
The Conservative Party - Nationalisation Nightmare
Gilbert O'Sullivan - A Woman's Place
John Lennon (via Linda Polley) - Vote Republican
The Beatles - Taxman
Janet Greene - Commie Lies
The Goldwaters - What Have You Done
Keith Everett - Conscientious Objector
Lil Markie - Diary Of An Unborn Child
The Conservative Party - John Citizen (version two)

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Ball And Chain

(not all the same song)


Catherine Curtin


Etta James


Freddy & The Four-Gone Conclusions


Janis Joplin With Big Brother


Janis Joplin #2


Janis Joplin #3


Stan Freberg
(Ba-Ba-Ball And Chain)
1952


Tommy James


Van Morrison & John Lee Hooker


Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton #1


Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton #2


Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton #3


Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton #4 (Live 1984)

Thanks to:
She'll Grow Back

COMAPOSTOSIS?

COMAPOSTOSIS: (plural: comapostoses)
1. coma-like condition post par-tay har-tay.




Sooth dat throbbin' thing atop yer shoulders.



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