It’s that time again. I do feel like I’m cheating, since I haven’t done much actual blogging this week, so I really should be dispensing incisive commentary, but as I said in my last post, the world of politics is getting too depressing for mere words, even if those words are strung together by a thinker as accomplished as me. In fact, I started out tonight figuring I would stick with the “depressing” theme, so I went straight to Neil Young, and sampled some versions of Helpless, which, just off the top of my head, was the first truly depressing song I could think of. But then I thought: “No, I will not give in. I shall seek out a happy song, a song which only the truly, truly clinical depressed can listen to and not feel happy.”
So, I may be cheating. At some point in the long ago, I may have played this song before, but it’s been a long winter, tomorrow is going to be the first warm day of the year, so I’ll break the no repeat rule, as well (I think, this is supposed to be live, but I don’t believe it) the no lip-sync rule, for an encore performance by Manfred Mann of Do Wah Diddy.
As an added bonus, I found the song below. I was totally unaware that Mann’s song was a cover of the first version, done by an early girl group called the Exciters. Their version was only a minor hit, but it’s pretty good, and well worth a listen. No video, unfortunately, but I pass it on anyway to help rectify the fact that this version of the song has slipped into Rock ‘N Roll Limbo
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