Let's flog this blog series dead horse, with a third and final batch of posts featuring songs that have a day of the week in the title. Finally, Sunday - it ends here.
What better way to wake up on a Sunday morning than with late-70s Debbie Harry? So of course this is Sunday Girl by Blondie. I've gone for a live video, even though the sound quality is poor, simply because DH is mesmerising in it.
Not much is going to measure up to that, is it. Certainly not Joe Jackson. But here he is anyway, with a jerky guitar line that is vaguely reminiscent of XTC, and some questionable of-their-time lyrics, with Sunday Papers. Redeemed by the harmonica middle eight. Maybe.
To finish, not just this third batch of songs but also the series, one of the greatest pop songs ever written. Take a bow Gerry Goffin and Carole King, for the genius of Pleasant Valley Sunday. But I had The Monkees yesterday, so their original, brilliant though it is, is out. Instead then, here's The Wedding Present's cover, from 1992 when it was the b-side of the fifth single in their Hit Parade series.
There will be no part IV. Part IVs are for Star Wars episodes and Rocky. Don't even try to persuade me.
Debbie certainly is mesmerising there - none of the expensive beauty, hair and tooth procedures most girls seem to buy into today but she still looks perfect, and would do even if dressed in an old bit of sackcloth.
ReplyDeleteSpot on about the sackcloth. Would look good in a bin-liner, as we used to say in my neck of the woods.
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