The Illusions - Jezabel (Jezebel - Frankie Laine Cover)

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Available on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hM54Th8oFakwJiRxXL4xs
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/jezebel/445178213?i=445178217
and Deezer:
https://www.deezer.com/en/track/92372968

From ''' Jezabel / Nite Mare ''
Label: Round – 1018
Format: Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1963

Tracklist
A Jezabel
Written-By – Bobby Mason, Tom Brown
B Nite Mare

Bobby Mason and Tom Brown rearranged Frankie Laine's 1951 hit into an aggressive surf rock instrumental.
Recorded in Long Beach California and later re-released on Rhino Records' Cowabunga Surf Box Set. And then eventually re-released on The Illusions' Retrospective Surfin' & Stompin' in 1998.

This release was a 45 with a yellow label housed in a plain sleeve.

© 2011 Purple Pyramid Records

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"Jezebel" is a 1951 popular song written by Wayne Shanklin.
It was recorded by Frankie Laine with the Norman Luboff Choir and Mitch Miller and his orchestra on April 4, 1951 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39367.
The record reached No. 2 on the Billboard chart and was a million seller.
The B-side, "Rose, Rose, I Love You", was a hit too and reached No. 3.

The title refers to the biblical woman Jezebel of the Old Testament.

Covers

Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour recorded a French version of the song.
Brazilian singer Leny Eversong recorded another popular version in the early 1950s.
Alexander Veljanov recorded a cover of the song.
Czechoslovak singer Waldemar Matuška performed a Czech version of this song.
The Belgian singer Wendy Van Wanten recorded a Dutch-language version of the song in 1995.
Desi Arnaz sings the song in an episode of I Love Lucy (1950s).
Gene Vincent recorded this song with his group The Blue Caps for his first LP record Blue-Jean Bop (1956), Capitol Records.
The Everly Brothers recorded the song for their 1962 album Instant Party!.
The Illusions, a surf music band, recorded an instrumental version in 1963.
Herman's Hermits recorded the song for their 1967 LP There's a Kind of Hush All Over the World, and it became a regular feature of their live performances afterward.
The Rumbles, Ltd, a band from Lincoln, Nebraska, recorded a pop-psychedelic version of the song in 1967. It was a regional hit in the Midwest.
The Controllers, a band from Los Angeles, recorded a punk rock version of this song in 1978.
Reverend Horton Heat covered this song on his album Liquor in the Front in 1994.
Anna Calvi covered this song in 2010 and recorded it as a single in february 2012.

Influence of the song

Leonard Cohen's song "Memories" from the 1977 album Death of a Ladies' Man starts with the line: 'Frankie Lane, he was singing Jezebel'.

The first helicopter in the Netherlands, a Sikorsky S-51 H-1, was bought in 1951 by the Royal Netherlands Navy. There the heli was called 'Jezebel' after Frankie Laine's song.

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