From Gerard's twitter recaps of listening to all the MCR albums: "Vampires is still my favorite song of all time. Ever." and "Bullets in closing- the most DIY,rawest album out at the time in the scene.We were The Damned to the scene's Sex Pistols".

It's like he's writing these things JUST FOR ME.

Fall Out Boy streaming their new album.

RIP, Annette Funicello.

RIP Annette Funicello: [link]

Oh, for fuck's sake, songs from the 30s*,why do you have to be so damn racist in your original forms? Now I have to figure out which non-original recording to use.

* Especially "Let's Do It" and "Puttin' on the Ritz"

* Especially "Let's Do It"

Joan Jett and Greg Graffin.

Though it does use the original lyrics.

and "Puttin' on the Ritz"

Young Frankenstein.

Or, Taco's anomalous hit version from '83.

Not useful for my purposes. This is a compilation for people in an Alzheimer's facility, so I need the versions that will be most resonant with the older generation. I've been trying to go with original recordings or those who made it famous (before 1952 or so)

Though it does use the original lyrics.

Don't think so. It's got birds and bees (which is the replacement lyric). They also take a smattering of lines from various verses.

I have an Ella Fitzgerald version of Let's do it from 1956 that uses birds and bees. Would that do?

ets: I also have an Ella version of Puttin' on the Ritz

"Puttin' on the Ritz" -- Maybe the Clark Gable version from Idiot's Delight? I don't have a copy, but it comes with its own video....

I found alternates for both of them. I went with a later Astaire re-recording for Ritz. I may actually have an Ella for Let's Do It. I don't recall with certainty. I'm fairly sure the Gable uses the original lyric, and I'm not putting a song that refers to "high browns" on a mix that I'm sending out into the wilds of older people with Alzheimer's.