Monday, November 27, 2023

Your Monday Moment of Why Didn't I Get the Memo?

From 2015, please enjoy power pop deity Marshall Crenshaw and his spectacular (and heretofore unknown to me) remake of The Easybeats' 1966 "Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It" (aka the B-side to the epochal "Friday on My Mind.")

Long-time readers are aware of my enthusiasm for the Easys (and Harry Vanda and George Young, the auteurs of the band and much else); when people talk about them as being simultaneously both the Beatles AND the Stones of Australia, it isn't hypberole,

In any case, I was unaware of Marshall's cover until Friend of PowerPop© Sal Nunziato mentioned it in the Weekend Listomania just passed, and herewith a hearty "Thanks, buddy!"

Hmmm...I think tomorrow an interesting Vanda & Young related story might be appropriate.

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7 comments:

  1. Sal Nunziato11/27/2023 7:42 AM

    You're welcome, except, it wasn't me.
    ChrisE suggested it after I suggeted MC cover The Easys "Heaven & Hell."

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  2. Sal Nunziato11/27/2023 7:46 AM

    Check your in box.

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  3. steve simels11/27/2023 8:46 AM

    Simels regrets the error.

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  4. ChrisE11/27/2023 10:37 AM

    Chris E's ego is bruised but he forgives Simels (and thanks Sal).

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  5. mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jsps11/27/2023 11:01 AM

    my acquaintance with the easybeats went only as far as having heard 'friday on my mind' on american radio

    youtube shows me "lost footage" of the band at the bbc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjnBFi-I28

    and also stevie wright soundcheck 1988

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsomkbNgFYQ

    wright had an eventful life, wikipedia tells me - but with triumphs as well as tragedies - ending up with an apparently natural death at a relatively appropriate age (68) after a 6 year retirement

    may his memory be a blessing

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  6. Anonymous11/27/2023 5:40 PM

    I roadied for a band in the 60s. Jennifer's Friends - they recorded " Land of Make Believe" on Buddah Records-'signed by the
    infamous Lew Merenstein.
    Anyway, this might have elicited a reunion of sorts with J/F on Burning Wood,as it caught their attention
    rob

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  7. Anonymous11/27/2023 5:42 PM

    PS - "Land of. " was an Easy Beats song

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