This is going to read like one of Miles Kington's spoof obituaries but please bear with me. I may already have written here about my scoring when my mate Graham went in to bat in a school match when Buddy Holly's posthumous hit It doesn't matter anymore started playing on a pavilion trannie (as we called them then). In one over, Graham was out after scoring four fours and he returned to the pavilion just as the Holly track finished. The song had been written by Paul Anka and marked a deliberate change of direction by Holly after his hits with The Crickets. Another part of that change was his choice of the Bryants to provide the B-side, It's raining in my heart, the words of which by Felice Bryant may have been inspired by Paul Verlaine. Sadly, she is no longer around to ask.
Anyway, the tune has just been revived by the Barmy Army in Pakistan with an adapted lyric describing the ground conditions in Karachi, along the lines of: "The sun is hot, the pitch is dry [etc.]" In this morning's transmission on Test Match Special, BBC's cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew promised to mug up on the original, which had been recorded eighteen months before he was born.
There must have been an even bigger gap in the case of Cush Jumbo's performance of Everyday on a bed to an overhead camera in The Good Fight. (Marvellous, but totally irrelevant to the plot.) Not only was the early Crickets hit before Cush Jumbo's time, it must have been before her mother's time. I would love to know whose choice it was to include it in the episode.
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