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Barrett Strong, Money. Flying Lizards' parody.
Buckwheat Zydeco, Jackpot
Dolly Parton, Silver Dagger. Great version, but then so is Joan Baez's.
Elmore James, Dust My Broom
Since 1992, the most beat-to-crap broom on my premises was always given the name, 'Hillary's Broom.' "Wifey, hand me Hillary's Broom. I got me a dirty job to do."
Canned Heat, Dust My Broom
Ella Mae Morse (1945), The House of Blue Lights. Shows that 'square' and 'daddy-o' and 'dig' were already in use in the '40s. I had been laboring under the misapprehension that this patois first surfaced in Beat/Beatnik circles in the '50s.
Bonnie Owens, Philadelphia Lawyer
Curtis Lee, Pretty Little Angel Eyes (the original!) This one goes out to wifey with love.
Curtis Edwin Lee, one-hit wonder, hailed from Yuma, Arizona. He died at 75 years of age on 8 January 2015. Obituary here. His signature number became a hit in 1961, reaching the #7 slot on the Billboard Hot 100. The record was produced by the legendary Phil Spector, No wonder it is so good. After the limelight, Lee returned to Yuma for a normal life.
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