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<center><h3> Track by track </h3></center> | <center><h3> Track by track </h3></center> | ||
<center>''' Kojak Variety </center> | |||
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<center> Paul Gorman </center> | <center> Paul Gorman </center> | ||
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Label: WEA Records <br> | |||
Publisher; Various <br> | |||
Writers: Various <br> | |||
Recorded by: Kevin Killen <br> | |||
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"[[Strange]]" {{n}}2.39 <br> | |||
The Screaming Jay Hawkins oddity is given a suitably warped R&B reading, boosted by Marc Ribot's peculiar guitar attack. | |||
<br> | "[[Hidden Charms]]" {{n}}3.29 <br> | ||
Willie Dixon's chestnut is dusted off and freshened up. "It's a very lusty song," says Costello. "I didn't want to copy Howling Wolf's version because, unlike some other artists, I don't think I'm Howling Wolf. I'm perfectly secure in the knowledge of who I am." | |||
"[[Remove This Doubt]]" {{n}}3.52 <br> | |||
Costello acquired The Supremes original on a Motown compilation at "what may be the greatest record collecting store in the world" — Village Music in Mill Valley, California. | |||
"[[I Threw It All Away]]" {{n}}3.23 <br> | |||
Bob Dylan's plaintive classic, from the underrated ''Nashville Skyline'', has been a Costello live staple since 1984. Underpinned by Larry Knechtel's sensitive keyboard work. | |||
"[[Leave My Kitten Alone]]" {{n}}3.10 <br> | |||
Another live favourite, which was also featured in The Beatles' early repertoire. Costello takes his boisterous reading from the original, as written by Little Willie John. | |||
"[[Everybody's Crying Mercy|Everybody's Cryin' Mercy]]" {{n}}4.05 <br> | |||
Jazz/blues pianist and singer/songwriter Mose Allison has provided a rich source for The Who and Georgie Fame, and it was the Fame's Sixties albums which introduced Costello to the Allison oevre. | |||
"[[I've Been Wrong Before]]" {{n}}3.01 <br> | |||
The Randy Newman heartbreaker was covered by Cilla Black to great effect in the late Sixties, Costello first heard the ballad via Dusty Springfield's version and, by stressing its poignancy, makes it one of the album's highlights. | |||
"[[Bama Lama Bama Loo]]" {{n}}2.45 <br> | |||
Little Richard's rock's' roll rip-snorter is the album's most faithful rendition, although Costello reveals that he couldn't achieve the necessary "Whooo!" vocal effect, which is duplicated by guitarist and Elvis Presley's live sideman James Burton. | |||
"[[Must You Throw Dirt In My Face]]" {{n}}3.49 <br> | |||
Avoiding the temptation to go country with this Louvin Bros track, the ballad is given a soulful treatment. | |||
"[[Pouring Water On A Drowning Man]]" {{n}}3.39 <br> | |||
A heart-wrenching James Carr song which could have been tailor-made for Costello, who found it in a Japanese record shop. | |||
"[[The Very Thought Of You]]" {{n}}3.42 <br> | |||
Touching and deft arrangement of the oft-covered song, written by Thirties bandleader Ray Noble. | |||
"[[Payday]]" {{n}}2.57 <br> | |||
Country-rocker Jesse Winchester's paean to the joys of Friday night gives Costello full rein to whoop it up, | |||
"[[Please Stay]]" {{n}}4.49 <br> | |||
Having done Bacharach & David proud back in 1977 with "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself," Costello returns to their sterling body of work forthis cut which mines fresh seams of plangency. | |||
"[[Running Out Of Fools]]" {{n}}3.04 <br> | |||
Plucked from Aretha's days at Columbia, this forgotten classic was written by Jerry Ragavoy, composer of "Piece Of My Heart" and "Time Is On My Side." | |||
"[[Days]]" {{n}}4.54 <br> | |||
The sole ''Kojak Variety'' track to be previously released [on the soundtrack to Wim Wanders' ''UntlIThe End Of The World''] displays Costello's musical and vocal empathy with his only rival in the art of pithy and precise English pop music — Kinks mainman and Days author Ray Davies. | |||
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