"You think I'm Psycho, dontcha Mama?"

[fudge stripe cookays]

A hand please for my first ever copycat thread!

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[Richardo]

1. Woo!

:hi:

[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Bwa ha!

Nice hand, buddy!

:hi:
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[quispquake]

2. I LOVE that song!!!

I've got this weird record by the artist "Joe Coleman", a picture disc that came out back in the 80's, where he compiles a bunch of serial killer type songs...that one is VERY intense...Momma, please wake up...

[electricmonk]

3. Who does that song?

I used to have it on a tape but it broke on me and never knew who sang it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. I think Elvis Costello did it first?

He has a writing credit for it.

I bought the soundtrack to the remade "Psycho" movie a few weeks ago (for soundtrack cuts for my Halloween party), and recognized it... (the "oh YEAH! I remember this song!" thing).

The one on the soundtrack is by a guy named Teddy Thompson. I find myself humming it a lot lately! Frightening, really. :D

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[electricmonk]

6. The version I had definitely wasn't EC

Sounded more like a Merl Haggard type country singer. I really want to hear that song now damnit. Wonder if I could splice the tape together long enough to transfer it to the computer?

[thatgemguy]

10. Psycho was written

by blind Texan Leon Payne. He wrote hundreds of songs including two songs best known through Hank Williams recorded versions, "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me", and "Lost Highway", and Elvis Presley's "Fools Rush In".

He wrote hundreds of others, too, but he was also a vital and versatile,e performer who recorded prolifically from 1941 through the 1960s. He gained only mid-level stardom nationwide, though he remained a popular performer in his native Southwest until his death. He also recorded under the name Rock Rodgers.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. Thanks, gemguy!

I'm thinking now maybe Elvis helped arrange that one or something.

I checked Amazon, and even Leon's daughter reviewed it and says she liked Teddy's version and thought her dad would be proud. So he did a good job.

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[quispquake]

7. Eddie Noack...

It was a weird country type tune...VERY creepy...

[fudge stripe cookays]

8. Thanks PP!

So there are at LEAST 2, possibly 3 versions of it floating around.

The Teddy Thompson version is pretty good. Kinda folksy and Steve Earle-ish; not too country, not too Elvis Costello.

Makes a nice contrast to the REALLY scary music and Bauhaus fr Halloween; it's just profoundly disturbing instead.

[electricmonk]

9. Thanks

I'll look for that and the Teddy Thompson versions.