‘Something’ in Music 93
Something in music: origin
One evening at a hot, trendy L.A. nightclub on a rare solo outing, yours truly found himself standing alone at the bar preparing to review the upcoming act. Before he had taken more than a few notes, however, he was bookended by a pair of vivacious vixens who insisted on engaging your rockin’ writer in cozy conversation. Strangely, the subject of “marriage” arose.
One of the young ladies noted that when a gal is about to get hitched she needs “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.” Your provocative penman was immediately inspired. After all, those very same terms could be applied to music too: “Something old” or classic, “something new” or recently released, “something borrowed” (a cover), and “something blue” (a blues song or a song with “blue” in the title.) The rest is history.
Something Old
Our “something old this edition is the classic cut “American Woman” written and recorded by the Canadian rock group The Guess Who. The song first appeared on their sixth studio platter titled *American Woman( which hit the record racks in 1970. The track was also later released as a single.
Something New
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The “something new” this time is the new music video “Big Big Bad Bad John” by the Liverpool-born band Rob Clarke and The Wooltones. The song is off the group’s most recent release Putting the L in Wootones. In an inline missie, frontman Clarke spoke of the work:
He said: “It’s sort of a psych/60s/Mersey/West Coast feel, varied and with lashings of wider cultural references including 60s America, Trump, Beat Poetry and Adrian Henri, Brexit, Johnson and even the UK’s switch to decimal currency back in a long lost 1971. So it's a pretty wide tableau.”
Something Borrowed
This time around our “something borrowed” is the song
“I Wonder What's Inside Your Butthole.” The juvenile song was actually written by an 8-year-old girl named Jolee Dunn. The tune is a quarantine smash and went viral on Twitter some time in May 2020,
It led to a number of remixes and adaptations. This acoustic cover is one of them. It’s by an American act known as Radnor & Lee. On social media the tuneul twosome said: “We fell in love with the original and did a version ourselves. Enjoy!”
Something Blue
Finally, our “something blue” this edition is the interesting audio offering known as “Blue Rosebuds.“ It was written and recorded by the image-nihilistic, American avant-garde band known only as The Residents. The cut is originally off of the group’s Duck Stab/Buster & Glen release which first hit stores in 1978.
Did we mention your favorite “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”? If not, let us know. Don’t forget to send us your sexy or funny bride photos too!
(Images courtesy of original owners)