Those sneaky Skatalites. They renamed "Comin' Home Baby" as "Christine Keiler". As you would imagine, my first question was "Who the hell is Christine Keiler and why does she rate?" Through the magic of the internut I know now that she was tabloid fodder in the UK back in the sixties and parts of her story are woven into Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up. For you Yardbird nuts, that's the film that shows the Beck/Page era Yardbirds playing "Train Kept A Rollin'" in a club. Beck rams his guitar into a shorting out amp and then breaks the damn thing. It's going to be one of those nights, I can already tell.
Nice try there Skatalites, misspelling her last name. You won't get sued by the "Comin' Home Baby" writer, and you won't get sued by the Keeler lady. But your record will get noticed in the UK. Just what I'd expect from an LP that begins with a song called "Lee Oswald".
Nice try there Skatalites, misspelling her last name. You won't get sued by the "Comin' Home Baby" writer, and you won't get sued by the Keeler lady. But your record will get noticed in the UK. Just what I'd expect from an LP that begins with a song called "Lee Oswald".
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Listen:The Skatalites - Christine Keiler mp3 at Pixie Radio
Mel Torme - Comin' Home Baby mp3 at ATumblr (?)
Video:
The Yardbirds - Train Kept A Rollin' (from Blow Up) at YouTube
Visit:
Blow Up - The Christine Keeler connection at Seen and Heard At the Movies
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