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  • You Can Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder

    From eichler2@eichler2@comcastsucks.net (Bice) to alt.fan.frank-zappa on Mon May 10 14:02:23 2021
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    I recently got a big pile of old 78s that originally belonged to a
    great uncle - he left them to my parents, and my mom was recently
    cleaning out a closet and asked if I wanted them. That's how I
    stumbled on this song:

    https://archive.org/details/78_you-can-cry-on-somebody-elses-shoulder_skip-farrell-frank-devol-and-his-orchestra_gbia0160926a

    It's from 1946 - someone named Skip Farrell with the Frank DeVol
    orchestra, singing a song called "You Can Cry on Somebody Else's
    Shoulder".

    The music doesn't bear any relation to the Zappa song, but the title
    made me wonder if Frank ever heard it.

    Ironically, when I tried to google the song to look for a YouTube link
    or something, even though I included "Skip Farrell" in the search
    terms, the first four results were for Zappa's "Go Cry on Somebody
    Else's Shoulder".

    -- Bob

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  • From Martin Gregorie@martin@mydomain.invalid to alt.fan.frank-zappa on Mon May 10 16:56:09 2021
    From Newsgroup: alt.fan.frank-zappa

    On Mon, 10 May 2021 14:02:23 +0000, Bice wrote:

    I recently got a big pile of old 78s that originally belonged to a great uncle - he left them to my parents, and my mom was recently cleaning out
    a closet and asked if I wanted them. That's how I stumbled on this
    song:

    https://archive.org/details/78_you-can-cry-on-somebody-elses-
    shoulder_skip-farrell-frank-devol-and-his-orchestra_gbia0160926a

    It's from 1946 - someone named Skip Farrell with the Frank DeVol
    orchestra, singing a song called "You Can Cry on Somebody Else's
    Shoulder".

    The music doesn't bear any relation to the Zappa song, but the title
    made me wonder if Frank ever heard it.

    Ironically, when I tried to google the song to look for a YouTube link
    or something, even though I included "Skip Farrell" in the search terms,
    the first four results were for Zappa's "Go Cry on Somebody Else's
    Shoulder".

    I've just run the two back to back. I think its a fair bet bet that FZ
    heard the Skip Farrell version and some point: the general structure of
    the track is similar even though the words and arrangement differ.

    One thing that does surprise me though: WTF wuz FZ thinking when he stuck
    that 'come back to me, baby' bit on the end? It doesn't fit with the rest
    of the song at all.

    Bottom line: I've never been keen on FZ's first two albums and I wouldn't
    go out of my way to listen to either of those tracks, again.

    Besides, IMO anyway, the Benny Goodman Small group was streets ahead of
    Skip Farrell and that orchestra as well as being 10 years earlier. I
    mean, what's not to like about the Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Teddy
    Wilson and Gene Krupa combo?

    But thanks for posting. Listening to both songs made an interesting comparison.
    --
    Martin | martin at
    Gregorie | gregorie dot org

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