I'm just saying the song came out of a long tradition, much older than Elvis's version, and a tradition in which Lennon was steeped.
Sort of a rocked up version of a murder ballad, in other words.
I tend to ignore the lyrics - it's the sound of the song, and especially the singing, that makes it for me.
Tom! Thanks for the link. I hijacked it and now it is a pretty mp3 I can listen to over and over and over again. What a great version ...
Popstrology right now on Soundcheck. Per the website's terminology I seem to be a double Monkee -- i.e., born in the year of the Monkees (vaguely defined "dominant star of the year") with the Monkees at no. 1 when I was born (my "birthstar") -- with my birthsong "I'm a Believer". Not clear what it all means, but since the author was born a week before I was & we share the same popstrological chart maybe he'll explain it in a way that my feeble mind can grasp.
Lucky you. I'm from the Year of Gilbert O'Sullivan. My birthstar is Roberta Flack and song is "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Two days later and I'd be a Chi-Lites baby. Two weeks and I'd be bound to the Staples Singers. O, cruel misfortune!
I am a
double
Gilbert O'Sullivan. I've never even
heard
of Gilbert O'Sullivan.
People here familar with Wing? so wrong and yet.
I heard him on TAL- or maybe not. It was on NPR on a Sunday. I was born in the year of Elton John, under Silver Convention (not that I know who that is, but I'm about to look up the song- "Fly Robin, Fly")
ETA- I meant the popstrology guy, not Wing
I've never even heard of Gilbert O'Sullivan.
Aren't you the lucky one? You'd know the song if you heard it, though.
People here familar with Wing? so wrong and yet.
She's already been on South Park, msbelle.
I was born in the Year of the Fifth Dimension, under Sugar, Sugar by the Archies.
I'm from the Year of the Four Seasons, the Birthstar of Neil Sedaka. If I'd been born one day earlier, I'd have been under the Star of Bobby Vinton.