Re: [RE: greatest covers?]

[Tom Hosier <tomhosier>]

"Gart, Mitch" <mgart> wrote:
> I think this question is about "My Mafia".  Also there was another song
> called "Snowball".  Both of these were things Patti sang a couple of times
> in concerts around 1975, and which are recorded on bootlegs.  I think they
> are covers but don't remember who did the originals.  Both are songs I've
> never personally heard sung by anyone but Patti.
> 
> - Mitch

"Snowball" was a staple of the set before they got Jay-Dee (God bless him). I
loved that song and saw it performed back then many times. My friend Sascha,
who brought me to my first Patti Smith show ("Let's go to this CBGB joint and
see this woman who wrote with Sam Shepard!")told me that "Snowball" referred
to a Jean Cocteau film ("Les Enfants Terrible", maybe?) where a boy is
powerfully bonked thusly. Anyway, on my Italian bootleg of the WBAI broadcast,
it is credited to "Robeson." Paul Robeson, I thought? When PSG played at
Nightingale Bar where I used to work, I asked Lenny, and he told me that it
was definitely an original, as I had thought. I think the "Robeson" credit may
have belonged to "Aisle of Love", which I don't think has been mentioned in
the covers conversations, and which I think Paul Robeson had nothing to do
with, just some other doo-wop genius named Robeson. Hey, is the Sherezade rap
a cover?

"When it hits me I'm so amazed"
-Tom

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