The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167783   Message #4050427
Posted By: Sam L
04-May-20 - 12:14 PM
Thread Name: Frankie and Johnny musical mystery
Subject: Frankie and Johnny musical mystery
hi Mudcatters, if anyone could help me with a little mystery I’d appreciate it. I remember a fiery version of Frankie and Johnny—possibly under variant names—from a film clip, probably in a musical or film history documentary, and can’t find it again. It had the line “hold me back!” that appears in a Michelle Shocked version, but it’s not her style. I found her version anyway and it wasn’t what I’m recalling.

I’ve rematched a number of likely places I could’ve seen it. Scorsese’s film history doc, a history of rock and roll I remember seeing, and looked up versions from the wiki, pretty thoroughly I think, and searched the DigiTrad. But I’m not finding anything. Does this ring any bells? thanks