Monday, January 5, 2015

1000 SONGS - DAY 333 SONG #364

Day 333: Introducing the Great Leftover Cuties

The Leftover Cuties are a band from L.A., California, with members Shirli McAllen (lead vocals, ukulele), Austin Nicholsen (bass, vocals), Mike Bolger (brass, keys, accordion, vocals ) and Stuart Johnson (drums, percussion, vocals [I copied this from Wikipedia, I have to confess]. They are most widely known for their song "Game Called Life", which is the theme song of the TV-Series "The Big C" [never seen any episode of this, btw]. And they really do some beaUtiful cover versions of otherwise widely known songs, f.e. of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice". Nice version, nevertheless, I chose to include two other cover versions done by TLC, "You are my Sunshine" and "At Last". All of this is simply cool, at least according to my definition of "cool", baby. So here we go: