Friday, May 10, 2013

Girls! Girls! Girls! (An Occasional Series): Why Didn't I Get the Memo?

And speaking as we were earlier this week of the fetching Ellen Foley, from her 1979 debut elpee -- produced, quite wonderfully, by Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson -- please enjoy her absolutely fab cover of Timi Yuro's "What's a Matter Baby."





I don't know how I missed this album back in the day, but I gotta tell you, having now finally listened to the thing, I fully concur with the commenters here on Tuesday -- it's a keeper for sure.

That said, I can't imagine Foley was any less nonplussed by the video below...



...than, frankly, I was.

Seriously, whoever those people are, I'd be interested in a detailed accounting of what controlled substances they were on.

[h/t LG]

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

LOVe her you should post the video of her doing "stupid girl"

Anonymous said...

oops you did post "stupid girl "

Blue Ash Fan said...

Welcome to the club, Steve. Better late than never.

Anonymous said...

now you need to go back and check out the David Werner s/t album from the same summer. sonically, they sound like twins. seemed like Foley's "Young Lust" was always followed up by Werner's "Every New Romance" on Chicago radio.

your returns may diminish on the rest of the Foley catalog - "Spirit of St. Louis" is some arch cabaret, and her third album went into Pointer Sisters territory.

pete said...

Leave it to Germans to make dancing girls in revealing swimsuits in a tank full of soapsuds completely unsexy.

GLLinMO said...

If I recall, someone from the rag formeraly known as SR did a review of the albulm. Not sure it was given all around props. Late '70's was kind of a weird time in the pop music biz it seemed. Nore sure she seemed to fit into anything new. Much like the great but unlistened to Marti Jones.

James Lynch III said...

https://www.facebook.com/events/508968845823302/?ref=3

She's playing Iridium in NYC on 5/22, in support of her new album, first all-new material in 30 years...

BTW... Marti Jones is awesome... not married to Don Dixon anymore, methinks...