This song is lifted directly from my Great 60s Pop blog to counter the malicious rumour spread about by Lisa Miller with her cover of same that it's simply a dreary, insipid, polite radio-friendly, breathy (OH MY GOD!, hands to face) tune to drink overpriced coffee in Melbourne's lanes to.
The video to the original song, of course, features perhaps the greatest dance routine in the history of girl groups.
Are you on drugs and where can I get them? When did Lisa Mitchell cover either of those songs? I think you should go back to Reading and push Kurt's wheelchair around the block a couple of times. It's a shame when credibility expires and you're left as an empty husk.
ReplyDelete'You Can Have Him' is on Lisa Mitchell's new album. The other video is there because I like it.
ReplyDelete"There's no way I can argue with logic like that" ~ Albert Goldman writing about Elvis justifying shooting at the roof in his hotel room with "If it's really the penthouse who can get hurt?"
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ReplyDelete@Martin_Carr They look like one of those girls you used to see at parties slumped in a corner with cider smelling sick down their front..
@camera_obscura_ COR. RT @everetttrue brighten yr day up with the greatest 60s girl group video ever http://tinyurl.com/2euhq2d
@samjay67 The Cake are now my new favourite band. Thank you for posting brilliance.
Wow, you were right--that video totally brightened up my night!!
ReplyDeleteI really, really thought you were on psychedelics or senile when I read this post but now I find you're dyslexic (not good for a journalist). It's Lisa MILLER who's covered You Can Have Him (it's on Car Tape 2) not Lisa MITCHELL. I suggest new reading glasses or a couple of weeks on a health farm.
ReplyDeleteUm, is my face red. Actually, I own FOUR different pairs of prescribed glasses so... fair call. Post accordingly amended.
ReplyDelete...mind you, I got the city spot on!
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ReplyDeleteTim Footman
Bet Lisa wasn't even off her tits on anti-epilepsy medication when she recorded it. Lightweight.
20 May at 22:46 ·
Clem Conti
but she's cute.
21 May at 01:01 ·
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ReplyDeleteTegan Christmas
Mr True, why on EARTH had I never seen your 60s girl group blog before?! I've just died and gone to heaven! ♥
21 May at 08:01 ·
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Scotty Regan
Wow. That's weird. I put a cake record on five minutes ago (that i haven't heard in years) and then I read this. Trippin' balls.
21 May at 18:46 ·
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Jodi Biddle
Why isn't the first one dancing???
21 May at 21:50 ·
Everett True
dude, that's the whole point! pure genius.
21 May at 21:51 ·
Jodi Biddle
Ahaha. Oh dear. I'm going to forgive you because this girl punk epic mixtape is blowing my fucking mind.
21 May at 21:52 ·
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Keir Hardie
I need to check out the albums - presumably their baroque stuff is like The Carousel, except not disappointing after the Razorcuts.
22 May at 09:23 ·
Kevin Birchall
fantastic girl group
22 May at 09:50 ·