Fron 1962, and the soundtrack to the cinema classic Girls! Girls! Girls!, please enjoy the King, the incomparable Elvis Presley, and his immortal ode to my all-time favorite hors d'oeuvre, the haunting "Song of the Shrimp."
I've actually never seen Girls! Girls! Girls!, or at least I don't think I have; with a lot of the in-decline Elvis movies, it's pretty difficult to keep them etched in your memory, if you know what I mean.
In any case, the song in question first came to my attention on the conceptually interesting Elvis bootleg Elvis' Greatest Shit, which I have written about here on an earlier occasion or two. And of course, given the on-going tragedy in the Gulf, "Song of the Shrimp" now takes on a metaphorical and emotional heft undreamed of by anyone connected with the original recording.
And as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who glean's the song's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
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What are calypso based pop rock tunes?...
Not a bad idea, and perhaps I'll steal it.
But mah...
That's "nah" obviously.
I regret the error.
Songs by bands with short front men
Oh god, that's brilliant.
And I'm DEFINITELY stealing it.
But nope.
I guess songs about New Orleans is too obvious.
Songs Harry Belafonte passed on?
Nautical tunes?
I like nautical tunes. Songs of water.
And while this is a really stupid faux folk song, Elvis manages to sing it like it is Amazing Grace. Pretty professional.
Trey
More songs about buildings and food, hold the buildings?
Something by the Turtles (another highly threatened life form due to oil rig explosion)? Perhaps, "Let Me Be"?
Top versions of Octopus' Garden?
Fishing songs? Songs with great hooks?
AP
Singers named Shelly? AP
Entertainers who played cruise ships? Nah, Elvis' homo period? Nah, songs about the sea or seafood?
Okay...a clue.
As is almost always the case, it's specifically something in the title.
:-)
Songs that have "Song of" or "Ballad of" in the title like "Ballad of John and Yoko" or "Song of Norway"
Songs
Songs with the words "of the" in the title?
Songs about fish?
Oh god, I'm so torn....
:-)
Songs that "Jumped the Shark" in a musician's career!
ROTP(lumber)
Songs about unclean food?
Alliterative titles?
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