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The Box Tops
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I'm Your Puppet
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from The Letter / Neon Rainbow
(2008)
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Alex Chilton, Bobby Previte, David Hofstra, Fernando Saunders, George Cartwright, Kip Hanrahan, Paul Haines, Peter Scherer & Wayne Hurvitz
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Darn It!
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from Darn It!
(2006)
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Alex Chilton
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Like Flies On Sherbert
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from Like Flies On Sherbert
(2011)
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Big Star
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When My Baby's Beside Me
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from #1 Record Radio City (Bonus Track Version)
(2009)
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Comment:
A true musical historian, Alex Chilton joyously processed the legendary and the obscure, from pop, blues, soul . . . you name it, putting it all back out into the world with that indescribable, off-kilter "Alex" touch. James & Bobby Purify's Southern soul sensation "I'm Your Puppet" was still fresh in folks' ears when the Box Tops covered it, but that didn't stop 16-year-old Chilton from coming off like a seen-it-all soul man on his band's punchy cover version. The zoot-suited sound of '40s Fats Waller hit "You's a Viper" gets jazzed up in a way no one could have envisioned when Chilton leans — and leers — into its night-life narrative. And while he may have cut 1958 Italian pop smash "Volare" with a wink, it's clear that he brought the same honest passion to it that he had for everything inside his overflowing, eclectic grab bag of tunes.
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