Song of the Day 7/20: The Box Tops, “Cry Like a Baby”
Diaper Donnie was at it again in his bonkers interview with Chris Wallace, whining, complaining and generally acting like the giant baby that ate America. So here’s another one for that ever-growing Trump crybaby play list.
This was the follow-up single to the Box Tops’ smash No. 1 hit “The Letter.” Producer Dan Penn was searching for a suitable song to piggyback on the blue-eyed soul sound, so he asked songwriter and session man Spooner Oldham to lend a hand. After a long, fruitless night, they went to a diner, where Oldham put his head in his arms on the table and told Penn, “I could just cry like a baby.” The song came together in a few hours and was recorded less than three days later. It reached No. 2 on the charts, kept out of the No. 1 position by Bobby Goldsboro’s sickeningly treacly “Honey.” That’s Oldham on the Hammond organ and session guitarist Reggie Young on the electric sitar, which was all the rage at that time.
Chris Wallace: “Whether it’s in 2021 or 2025, how will you regard your years as President of the United States?”
Trump: “I think I was very unfairly treated. From before I even won I was under investigation by a bunch of thieves, crooks. It was an illegal investigation.”
Gee Alby… Can’t we just stick to music? Admit I am obsessed and have a problem, that problem being it’s in me and needs to come out. Having said that way cool tune, not as good as that eternal favorite “The Letter” but cool none the less. So many of the groups of the sixties never got their due, crowded out by giants like the Beatles, the Stones, Hedrix… Ah, the list goes on.
I’ve been trying to make them topical as opposed to just choosing stuff I like, but I’ll probably start mixing in more non-topical tunes. The hardest part, if there’s no news peg, is narrowing down what to play next.
Anything, as long as it’s not “Honey.”
Rest assured.
Though, at the risk of annoying bamboozer, they could always remake it and have her dying of Covid-19.
ICK! Honey does ignite my nauseated glands unto excess. Sticky sweet beyond human endurance and a high risk of projectile vomiting.