... And This One's For The Sheer Fun Of It

[filkertom]

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[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

That's great.

And in the category of "*who* covered that?!", I present Julie London's version.

[sdelmonte]

Looked the group and the song up on Wikipedia, and found this great tidbit:

Dylan makes further reference to the song in his 2004 autobiography Chronicles Volume One: "On the way back to the house I passed the local movie theater on Prytania Street, where The Mighty Quinn was showing. Years earlier I had written a song called "The Mighty Quinn" which was a hit in England, and I wondered what the movie was about. Eventually I'd sneak off and go there to see it. It was a mystery, suspense, Jamaican thriller with Denzel Washington as the Mighty Xavier Quinn a detective who solves crimes. Funny, that's just the way I imagined him when I wrote the song The Mighty Quinn, Denzel Washington".

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

Every time we listento this song (and we listen to it quite a bit, as it's on our RuneQuest Playlist,) one of us says, "Denzel Washington is exactly who I had in mind when I wrote "The Mighty Quinn.""

[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

I like the guy who does the sidelines on the chorus in the second half of the song: "Here he comes now!"

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

I always think of Admiral Naismith's love Elli Quinn when I hear this song.

[it-aint-easy.livejournal.com]

Always a special song to me. :{)}