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I was fortunate enough to find a bootleg ELVIS COSTELLO CD entitled ‘The Great Lost Album’ at a record fair. It comprises of various covers which, I assume, were to have appeared on ‘''Kojak Variety''’ the planned follow-up to ‘''Mighty Like A Rose''’. Could you provide any clues regarding the original recordings covered on the disc, as the tracks are pretty obscure to say the least!<br> | |||
S Crouch, Rainham, Essex<br> | |||
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This page has touched on the subject of this record before, but never listed the original versions. Here’s a partial rundown (pieced together with the aid of Terence Trent Staunton) listing the tracks we know about:<br> | |||
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1)’[[I Threw It All Away]]’: the [[Bob Dylan]] song from ‘''Nashville Skyline''’.<br> | |||
2) ‘[[Days]]’: the 1968 [[Kinks]] hit which Kirsty MacColl also took into the Top 20 in 1989. Costello’s version has seen the light of day on the soundtrack album to Wim Wender’s movie [[Until The End Of The World|Until The End Of The World]]. <br> | |||
3) ‘[[Must You Throw Dirt In My Face]]’: a country music song recorded by the [[The Louvin Brothers|Louvin Brothers]] back in 1962. Waylon Jennings and Roy Clark also covered it.<br> | |||
4) ‘[[Bama Lama Bama Loo]]’: the [[Little Richard]] stomper.<br> | |||
5) ‘[[Leave My Kitten Alone]]’: a staple of the Costello live set since the days of [[The Attractions]]. They played this on [[TV 1986-05-27 Old Grey Whistle Test|Whistle Test]] in 1986. Incidentally, the title gets a namecheck in the lyrics of ‘[[Crimes Of Paris]]’ on ‘''Blood And Chocolate''’. [[Little Willie John]] placed it in the R&B charts back in 1959. <br> | |||
6) ‘[[Everybody's Crying Mercy|Everybody’s Crying Mercy]]’: featured in Costello’s live set on the ‘''Mighty Like A Rose''’ tour of 1991. [[Bonnie Raitt]] also recorded a version on ‘Takin’ My Time’. But neither Tel nor myself can recall its parentage.<br> | |||
7) ‘[[Pouring Water On A Drowning Man]]’: [[James Carr]] had the initial hit with this during 1966, although [[Percy Sledge]] and [[Otis Clay]], among others, also recorded versions. One of the songs featured on the 1987 Confederates tour.<br> | |||
8) ‘[[The Very Thought Of You]]’: an age-old ballad originally penned and recorded by big band leader [[Ray Noble]] in 1934.<br> | |||
9) ‘This Time Be Different’: this Burt Bacharach song – properly titled ‘[[Please Stay|Please Stay (Don’t Go)]]’ – provided a hit for The Drifters in 1961.<br> | |||
10) ‘[[Running Out Of Fools|Runnin’ Out Of Fools]]’: the title song on a 1964 [[Aretha Franklin]] album. <br> | |||
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