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Thursday, 27 February 2020

Inside Laine

You know me as a taste-making, trend-spotting, genre-hopping surfer of the zeitgeist - and I would modestly suggest that I am all of those things and more. 😇, as I believe they say (or possibly 😉).

But sometimes, after a long hard day, I find I'm not in the mood for Tsonga disco or Bulgarian prog or psychedelic cumbia or such like. For comfort listening, I need some classic cowboy crooning, which means either Marty Robbins or Frankie Laine.

Last night it was Frankie's turn. Here are a couple of tracks from a CD called "Country Laine" which is a reissue of two 1961 albums, "Deuces Wild" and "Hell Bent For Leather!".

"Moonlight Gambler" - Frankie Laine

"The 3.10 To Yuma" - Frankie Laine

For an extra treat, here are a couple of fine cover versions of two of Frankie's biggest hits.

5 comments:

  1. Let's face it Ernie you are just a polymath

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  2. Thanks for that Bob Blackman clip. Cheered me up no end on a freezing February day.

    Is the "3.10 To Yuma" song from the film of that name (too lazy to Google)?

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    1. It is. I'm not sure the lyrics have anything much to do with the plot though.

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  3. That's an interesting way to make a living that Bob Blackman had.

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