Tom Jones is known for his earlier hits like It's Not Unusual. In a sense, his version of Jerry Lee Lewis' It'll Be Me inherits much of this. I particularly like his fringe jacket in the video here. But this sounds unmistakably Country. Maybe that shouldn't be a real surprise for a boy from coal country - even if it was from a land a thousand leagues away.
It'll Be Me (Songwriter: Jack Clement)
Well, if you hear somebody knocking on your door
If you see something crawling across the floor
Baby, it'll be me and I'll be looking for you
If you see a head a-peeping from a crawdad hole
If you see somebody climbing up a telephone pole
Baby, it'll be me and I'll be looking for you
I'm gonna look on the mountain and in the deep blue sea
Gonna search all the forests and look and look in every tree
Well, if you feel something heavy on your fishing hook
If you see a funny face in your comic book
Baby, it'll be me and I'll be looking for you
If you hear a thought calling out in the night
If you see somebody hanging from a lamp post bright
Baby, it'll be me and I'll be looking for you
Well if you see somebody looking in all the cars
If you see a rocket ship on its way to Mars
Baby, it'll be me and I'll be looking for you
Are those musicians actually playing their instruments or were they selected for another reason?
ReplyDeleteCowboy Jack Clement was one of country music‘s finest songwriters; among the songs that came from his pen are Charley Pride’s “Just Between You And Me,” Dolly & Porter’s “Just Someone I Used to Know,” and Johnny Cash’s “Ballad of a Teenage Queen.”
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