David Lynch's Weather Report Yesterday

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Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps - Be Bop A Lula (1956)

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B-Side: Woman Love

Sounds like there may be some sort of "quadrophenia" element to the lyrics. Apparently the song was banned on many radio stations.

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That earthquake messed up my hair! See Message to Elizabeth Grant.

Gene Vincent's Woman Love had a profound effect on Ian Dury: see this piece:

When the late Ian Dury appeared on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, it was no surprise that he would pick a song by Fifties rock'n'roller Gene Vincent.

The surprise was the song he chose as one of the eight to take to some isolated place.

Dury -- who wrote the terrific tribute Sweet Gene Vincent -- had his life turned around when he heard Vincent in the film The Girl Can't Help It.

"It's in the film for about 18 seconds," he said, "and you can hear him in the background. I couldn't believe it.

"I thought, 'What's that?' The voice, the song and the visuals together. My brain exploded, my heart exploded."

Here's the full BBC interview by Sue Lawley:

He mentions this song at 15:30.

See also This Internet Archive:

Today's castaway on Desert Island Discs confused the rock critics in the late 1970s with songs like Sweet Gene Vincent, Reasons to be Cheerful and outraged the BBC with Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll. Ian Dury and the Blockheads were part vaudeville act and part punk rock band. In his songs, he created the characters Clevor Trever and Billericay Dickie and so invented the original Essex Man. He's also a painter and an actor, but as he reveals to Sue Lawley, he's writing songs again and hopes to be back in the charts soon.

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Trailer: The Girl Can't Help It

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Ian Dury - Sweet Gene Vincent

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Alma Cogan - The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (1955)

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Dean Martin - The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (1955)

The Aims Brothers - The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (1955)

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Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club 

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Trailer - The Who: Quadrophenia (1979)

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Ornette Coleman - Ramblin' (1959)

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of a 1961 album (Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation). He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. His album ''Sound Grammar'' received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music.

''Change of the Century'' is the fourth studio album by jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released on Atlantic Records in 1960, his second for the label.

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