Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Southern Nights
Currently working through a particularly unshakeable earworm - Allen Toussaint's 'Southern Nights' (1975).
Glen Campbell took it to number one on the pop and country charts in 1977 - here he is performing it live in short shorts, with a little help from a friend.
Compare the hit version to the Toussaint original - with eerie lead vocals run through a Leslie speaker...
Meanwhile the Lawrence Welk version from 1979 makes the song sound like Huey Long might have used it as his campaign theme in the thirties...
Glen Campbell took it to number one on the pop and country charts in 1977 - here he is performing it live in short shorts, with a little help from a friend.
Compare the hit version to the Toussaint original - with eerie lead vocals run through a Leslie speaker...
Meanwhile the Lawrence Welk version from 1979 makes the song sound like Huey Long might have used it as his campaign theme in the thirties...
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