Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A Summer's Night With a Magic Moon

The great Jackie DeShannon in 1964, performing her self-penned "When You Walk in the Room."



Truly, one of the canonical power pop classics, and if it will make you feel any better until fairly recently I didn't know she'd had her own version of it out before The Searchers either.
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7 comments:

  1. Wendy4/29/2008 11:29 AM

    Always loved that song.

    Paul Carrack covered it, too.

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  2. Kid Charlemagne4/29/2008 12:05 PM

    She's cute!

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  3. steve simels4/29/2008 12:08 PM

    Also covered by Status Quo and Springsteen. And my skinny tie band in the 80s. And probably about a million other people.

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  4. Anonymous4/29/2008 1:14 PM

    Jeez...I can't help but note the contrast in quality between this clip and the one below it. It's sad. Just sad.

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  5. Anonymous4/29/2008 2:18 PM

    Uh...Of course, I meant quality as in song/talent; not visuals/SFX. Just wanted to be clear about that.

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  6. Anonymous4/30/2008 5:29 PM

    Great song, good version but Jackie dances as poorly as Evie Sands. White songwriters can't dance!

    ROTP(lumber)

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  7. Firehorsepower1/02/2009 8:47 PM

    Thanks for powerpopblogging my video-upload.

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