I remember seeing the 1959 British film, Room at the Top, for the first time - roughly 'round 1986 or so at The Film Forum in the Lower East Side, NY. I was floored - by the strong, independent female lead character and the actress who performed her: Simone Signoret. A long, long "distant" love affair started (and never ended) with the brilliant French actress (who won the Academy Award that year for Best Actress). Happy Valentine's Day, y'all.
BOY WONDER'S HOT CIRCLES/ 10PM-MIDNIGHT
Didn’t It Rain/ SISTER ROSETTA THARPE (’47, ’02 collection, Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Original Soul Sister)
Gospel Train/ THE GOLDEN NUGGET (’73, ’11 collection, The Oxford American Southern Music CD #13)
I Need You’re Lovin’ Baby/ THE 5 ROYALES (’55)
I Wanna Know What’s Going On/ THE DETROIT COBRAS (’07, Tied & True)
Pass the Hatchet/ ROGER & THE GYPSIES (’69)
That’ll Work/ THE SKELETONS (’92, Waiting)
King of the Mountain/ SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS (’00, Liquored Up and Lacquered Down)
Bang a Gong (Get It On)/ T. REX (’71, Electric Warrior)
One More Time/ IAN HUNTER (’04, Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo)
Train From
The End of That/ PLANTS AND ANIMALS (’12, The End of That)*
Don’t You Want It?/ GOLDEN MEAN (’05, Black Operation)
Lindsay/ ELLIOTT BROOD (’12, Days Into Years)*
Divine Intervention/ MATTHEW SWEET (’91, Girlfriend)
Love Goes Where My Rosemary Goes/
Wheels On Fire/ THE MAGIC NUMBERS (’05, self titled)
Emily (live)/ FREEDY JOHNSTON (’00, Live at 33 1/3)
Why She’s Acting That Way (live)/ TOWNES VAN ZANDT (’73, ’08 reissue, Live at the Old Quarter,
So Long Marianne/ BILL CALLAHAN (’12 comp., The Songs of Leonard Cohen Covered)* [Mojo Magazine]
Someone Else’s Song/ WILCO (’96, Being There)
We Are Fine/ SHARON VAN ETTEN (’12, Tramp)*
King of Carrot Flowers Pt 1/ NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL (’98, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
Into the Mystic/ JOHNNY RIVERS (’70)
Knots/ LISA HANNIGAN (’11, Passenger)
See How We Are/ X (’95, Unclogged)
Ape-like/ CALIFONE (’09, All My Friends Are Funeral Singers)
Steel Stings No. 1/ PETER CASE (’11, The Case Files: Demos, Outtakes & Other Rarities)
Pale Blue Eyes/ THE VELVET UNDERGROUND ('69, self titled)
*new or recent release
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