A few days ago a friend posted some of T.S. Eliot's 1915 poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html), which was one of my favorite poems from my high school English days. The Facebook posts took off in silly directions and I didn't think of it until today when I was reading this week's New Yorker, and came across a notice about kylie minogue who had a hit with the song Locomotion in the 1980s finally touring the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcPofgs7vSs
Nice to hear an old song redone
Which reminded me of another version of the same song by Grand Funk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSQOeQakExU&feature=PlayList&p=EEE6A473BCF6E70E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=17
That took me back to the first time I heard it on a record. Little Eva, the record version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su8weltdZQE
which, of course, had a different sound to hearing it on tv shows of the era. Little Eva on tv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5OoQadZTPk&feature=related So I investigated where it came from and, like the inspiration of this blog, we have Carole King to thank for the song, done here recently: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hdMbr1rZic&feature=related
Made me remember a friend's win of a singing contest in a Philly Black Pride. Josh sang Killing Me Softly and in his blog (http://justjoshfunk1.blogspot.com/) he referred to the Lauryn Hill version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KpeCk6NyZU), which made me remember the Roberta Flack rendition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpNdMIAnKko)of the song by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel. I mentioned it in a comment on Josh's blog, and someone said I was nasty to do so. I just thought he would appreciate the info on another version. Oh well, perhaps in my old age, I rely too much on history. At least my hair isn't thin. But, do I dare to eat a peach?
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