Phonographic Memory is a great name for a music blog. Like you, I have a great deal of affection for '60s and '70s pop music. I have a large collection of vintage singles by Phil Specter girl groups and UK Sixties girl singers like Lulu, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw, Marianne Faithfull, Dusty Springfield and Sandy Posey.
My all time favorite single is Linda Scott's 1962 song I Told Every Little Star. A few years ago film maker David Lynch used the song in the movie Mullholland Drive. Actress Susan George was lip syncing I Told Every Little Star at casting call for Justin Theroux who was playing a movie director in the scene.
Susan George's breezy performance of the song is loaded with irony because her character, Camilla Rhodes, is the mistress of a mob boss who has already threatened to break Theroux's legs if he doesn't cast Camilla as the leading lady in his film. Notice how Theroux says "This is the girl" under duress while the mob boss hovers over him at the audition. Theroux then turns and looks wistfully at Naomi Watts, the aspiring actress he really wants to cast in the role. And from her reaction, it appears that Naomi gets Theroux's non-verbal message that the audition is fixed.
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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff.
Townes Van Zandt
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