Whatever Next Elvis Costello's Version Of IYCRMM

[johnfowles]

Whilst I was never a fan of the punk music scene ,indeed as with rap hip hop and other modern attempts to reinvent music I never understood the appeal let alone the necedssity of punk, yet one its the products young Elvis Costello,

who I thought was the son of UK bandleader Geoff (Manuel Music Of The Mountains) Love, but I now find he was originally Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (his father, Ross MacManus, sang with The Joe Loss Orchestra.
I rather liked his early (1979) hit "Oliver's Army", even if I never worked out what that song was all about and later from his Country and Western styled album "Almost Blue" his cover of George Jones's "Good Year For The Roses".
I was therefore pleased to find on a bootleg copy of a 1996 Supper Club, New York NY live concert a track lengthily entitled
"Oliver's Army / Kid [Pretenders] / Unchained Melody / If You Could Read My Mind [Gordon Lightfoot] (4:16)"
Elvis sings just the title of IYCRMM then says
"that's just a couple of the songs that could have turned into at any moment... you want to hear one it did turn into .. they're all the same song! "
he then apparently sang "Black Sails in theSunset" which is not on the bootleg set because is "officially" on a collector's 5CD box set

used $65.00 up and where I found no track clips.
But still wishing to hear whether Mr Coselo mangled the song I googled on and eventually I found a regularly priced CD
Trust deluxe edition
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and once there I did manage to hear a 30 second clip.
However I have to conclude that Mr Costello has a vivid imagination!!
But I was thankful that this is no punk version
In 2003 Elvis married the fine Canadian singer Diana Krall. and they now reside in New York.
I must admit that when I first heard the news of that I immediately thought of this fine jazzy vinyl LP album, which is itself an early candidate for digitalization (as per my thoughts in another thread in this forum)

Finally Costello's wiki includes this:-
"His eclecticism extends to his choice of collaborators; he has worked with Tony /bennet,Lucinda Wiliams/Lee Konitz and Brian Eno, just a few of the artists not mentioned above. Costello has inadvertently made himself capable of challenging
Kevin /bacon's
role in a musical version of the six degrees of separation game, as his associations span the gamut in the music industry"