#1. Blue Moon Baby

Hello! And Welcome to the first installment of Bloo Moon Baby's Pick of The Day!

I hope to daily post a song that I think deserves your attention and then give a little (or big) background check on the origins of this particular song, depending on what I can find out about it. Knowing me I will probably post to this blog daily for two weeks and then think "Fuck this" I only have one follower :D And then not do it daily. Just for a little warning. Anyway lets get into the first song.

It is none other then Blue Moon Baby! The version I will be posting is actually a cover by The Cramps, the band that originally got me into this song, and wanting me to adopt it as an username of sorts as well as Blue Moon Baby who also possibly thought the same and took advantage that the name was free before I did.... Oh well!

Anyway the original version of the song was penned and performed by none other then Dave 'Diddlie' Day. Who is that you may ask? Well I don't know much about him myself but I've found out that his real name is actually David Fatalsky, and that Blue Moon Baby was released on a little LP in 1957 called "Fee Bee" accompanied by a little ditty called 'Suzanne My Love'. A video is posted on youtube of this original song which you can find here. Except for this his life work, if he worked his life to music as we do not know, is somewhat living in obscurity. Somewhat but not completely.

Thanks to The Cramps who were quite fiendish with their covers, at one point having enough material to actually release an album of their best covers, at least this one song by Davey Day (He goes by a lot of names) is still alive and throbbing in the hearts, and groins, of fans from all walks of life. The Cramps cover is pretty similar to the original, nothing too extreme has been added or taken away. Instead the authentic Crampish Zombi Surfer style, as I like to call it, is very much there, the country bass, the twangish twangs, the foot stomping beats, and for the Zombi effect, Lux Interior (R.I.P) wailing out desperately in his woe for "Blue Moon Baby".

So why should you listen to Blue Moon Baby? As a fellow Cramps fiend said; "He's (Lux) just singin' damn sexy." True,true true. But if you are not one to go for a song on how sexy the singer sounds moaning and groaning to you. I think that you should listen to this song anyway. I like the story weaved into the lyrics about "A Crazy Little Chick" who can change the lives of naive young men in bars with just a glance, spend a little time with him, possibly sleep with him for a little cash, and then completely ruin him and his naivety and once finished turn around to find the next. The name Blue Moon Baby gives the impression that she, herself is naive but she is most definately a devilish fiend.

If I haven't convinced you yet, whether you don't agree with my points or my arguments are badly laid out I recommend that you take a listen to the song and tell me what you think. A little comment won't go amiss... Blue Moon Baby by the Cramps can be found on a Re-Issue of "A Date With Elvis, or here in this little link. Read the info up above this post about downloading these sample songs.

Anyway I better go for now, See you later, Baby See you later!

Strych

Ps: If anyone has a better site to recommend buying Hardcopy albums from except for Amazon I would love to be linked to it.Thanks! :D