Today's pick is "My Last Date (With You)," which saw Skeeter puts words to the immortal tune by pianist Floyd Cramer. Perhaps not surprisingly, I first fell in love with this one when R.E.M. produced a version for Debbie Harry's 1993 album, "Debravation." The boys from Athens had recorded the instrumental version (known as "Last Date") as the b-side of "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" -- a song many of us have had in heavy rotation these past few weeks -- then used their talents to flesh it out for Deb. The outcome has always been my favorite song on the album despite its being labeled a bonus track.
Skeeter style
R.E.M. style
1 comment:
Belated note on your original Skeeter Davis post:
Her single "The End of the World" was released a few weeks after the end of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when a lot of people thought the real end of the world had been narrowly avoided. Timely.
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