Gordon Lightfoot Forums - Whatever Next Elvis Costello's Version Of IYCRMM

Whilst I was never a fan of the punk music scene ,indeed as with rap hip hop and other modern attempts to reinvent music I never understood the appeal let alone the necedssity of punk, yet one its the products young Elvis Costello,
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who I thought was the son of UK bandleader Geoff (Manuel Music Of The Mountains) Love, but I now find he was originally Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus (his father, Ross MacManus, sang with The Joe Loss Orchestra.
I rather liked his early (1979) hit "Oliver's Army", even if I never worked out what that song was all about and later from his Country and Western styled album "Almost Blue" his cover of George Jones's "Good Year For The Roses".
I was therefore pleased to find on a bootleg copy of a 1996 Supper Club, New York NY live concert a track lengthily entitled
"Oliver's Army / Kid [Pretenders] / Unchained Melody / If You Could Read My Mind [Gordon Lightfoot] (4:16)"
Elvis sings just the title of IYCRMM then says
"that's just a couple of the songs that could have turned into at any moment... you want to hear one it did turn into .. they're all the same song! "
he then apparently sang "Black Sails in theSunset" which is not on the bootleg set because is "officially" on a

collector's 5CD box set
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used $65.00 up and where I found no track clips.
But still wishing to hear:headbang: whether Mr Coselo mangled the song I googled on and eventually I found a regularly priced CD
Trust deluxe edition
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and once there I did manage to hear a 30 second clip.
However I have to conclude that Mr Costello has a vivid imagination!!
But I was thankful that this is no punk version
In 2003 Elvis married the fine Canadian singer Diana Krall. and they now reside in New York.
I must admit that when I first heard the news of that I immediately thought of this fine jazzy vinyl LP album, which is itself an early candidate for digitalization (as per my thoughts in another thread in this forum)
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Finally Costello's wiki includes this:-
"His eclecticism extends to his choice of collaborators; he has worked with Tony /bennet,Lucinda Wiliams/Lee Konitz and Brian Eno, just a few of the artists not mentioned above. Costello has inadvertently made himself capable of challenging
Kevin /bacon's
role in a musical version of the six degrees of separation game, as his associations span the gamut in the music industry":)