7. What unusual distinction is shared by these rock albums? Am I Not Your Girl by Sinead O'Connor, Autoamerican by Blondie, Blue Valentine by Tom Waits, Congregation by the Afghan Whigs, I Am Gloria Gaynor, It's A Shame About Ray by the Lemonheads, With The Beatles, and A Wizard, A True Star by Todd Rundgren..
frank sinatra songs?
i have no idea, but since my trip to senegal, "am i not your girl" has been featured prominently in my dreams. video to follow, i hope.
I suppose they all feature cover songs of some sort...the Lemonheads cover "Mrs. Robinson" and With The Beatles features Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven". Am I Not Your Girl is a complete album of covers, which is not at all uncommon, so the link surely must be more specific than that. No?
Yes! You're on right track with the covers, but it's a certain type of cover that I think he's after. All of those albums include songs that were in Broadway musicals:
Blondie--Follow Me (Lerner & Loewe;
Camelot)
Tom Waits--Somewhere (Bernstein, Sondheim;
West Side Story)
Afghan Whigs--The Temple (Lloyd-Webber, Rice;
Jesus Christ Superstar)
Lemonheads--Frank Mills (Macdermot, Rado, Ragni;
Hair)
Beatles--Till There Was You (Meredith Willson;
The Music Man)
Sinead O'Connor--Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (Rodgers & Hart;
Pal Joey) or Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Lloyd-Webber, Rice;
Evita)
Todd Rundgren--Never Never Land (Comden, Green, Styne;
Peter Pan)
I know this last album pretty well, and that was the only cover I could think of on it, which clued me in to what the connection was. Jennings also could have gone with Todd's cover of Something's Coming from
Another Live, also from
West Side Story.
There must be one on the Gloria Gaynor album but I couldn't pick it out in my research, so one of y'all can get extra Frink points if you can come up with that one.
