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Topic History of: Celebrity knockout: Amy Winehouse vs. The Stray Cats
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JK2006 I don't know what provoked you to dig up this 6 year old thread Danny but you may be interested to know that, in that time, it's had 2653 views!
Danny Vee Finally, yes finally! I round up my Green Day take on The Stray Cats/Amy Winehouse connection on a thread almost 6 years old, with another song from 'Dos'(which was apparently going to be a Foxboro Hot Tubs album).
The very last track is a tribute to the late Miss Winehouse, simply entitled 'Amy' & it sounds very Stray Cats or Brian Setzer solo cut/demo. Using (only) reverbed vintage guitar tone & vocal croon: youtu.be/al0ASwwbDZI
Danny Vee Then on Green Day's most recent (trilogy of) albums. The second, 'Dos' contains a song 'Stray' Heart' (another subtle nod to The Stray Cats?), with that same rhythm/bass line & vintage feel. Which now I think about it, may derive from the Bo Diddly beat used famously in Bow Wow Wow's cover of The Strangeloves I Want Candy:
youtu.be/CJPZp_KZ3wY
I was reminded of this when I saw the female record store clerk's hair do in the Green Day video is the same as lead singer of BWW; I have feeling this is deliberate: youtu.be/sN0b-adUt9I
Danny Vee Green Day were clearly influenced by The Stray Cats in certain areas & also use that Funk Brothers/Motown bassline rhythm heavily in couple of songs of YCHL. Firstly as one of their band alter egos, The Foxboro Hot Tubs on their single Mother Mary, the girl in the video even sports a 60's black beehive, that Amy styled herself with: youtu.be/YnOgE7anEFc
Danny Vee First heard The Stray Cats cover on a B-Side of one of their singles.Like their version of
The Supremes song & agree that it acts as bridge between them & Amy Winehouse & her love of those type of Girl Groups.youtu.be/GE56s78Sr7E
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