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Part of the fun of the iTMS is the chance to play stream of
consciousness games and see where they lead. In yesterday's selection
I mentioned Natacha Atlas's cover of From Russia With Love,
which is unavailable at the store. But a bunch of other versions are
available, both traditional versions like
Matt
Monro's original and goofier versions by
Kenny
Ball & His Jazzmen and a Jamaican band called
Roland
Alphonso & Soul Vendors. The latter came from a disc of ska
tracks, including a marvelous cover of
Guns
of Navarone by The Skatalites. But it was the Kenny Ball
collection that had the real prize, a cover of an old Russian folk
tune I remember from my childhood. They called it
Midnight
in Moscow, although I remember it as Moscow Nights.
That got me thinking. So I told the iTMS to search for
Moscow. And among the results were several other versions of
the song, under both names. And some classic movie recordings by the
Moscow
Symphony Orchestra. And a disc by a woman named Annie Moscow.
Which I might have ignored, if one of the tracks hadn't been entitled
Buy
the Bitch a Cadillac. How could I resist that?
A couple of minutes later I had another album downloading to my
iPod. Ms. Moscow has the gentle voice of a classic folk singer and
lyrics that are rather more direct. A sweet delivery of a snarky
message; just what I was looking for. Or would have been, if I'd been
doing more than just poking around aimlessly.
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