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I enjoy watching Tommy Lee Jones work.

Love Cajun music.
Tommy Lee can just carry a movie on his back. He makes it look effortless, easy but it isn't easy.
He has a presence that only comes with maturity & experience. A great actor, one of my favourites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9752u61LqEg

I like that closing theme very much.

Wee Wee, Art & Dotty, A first. Nice.

Here's another movie that had some giants starring in it.
Eastwood, Hackman, Freeman & Harris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccqdEhytKOk

Closing Theme, Claudia's Theme.



PS just curious, is life like it's portrayed in "Southern Comfort"
or even remotely like that. I find it hard to believe.

I love Clint Eastwood's films. I have copies of many, including The Unforgiven. (My one complaint about The Unforgiven, Clint's character performs too few heroics, in my view).

He's getting on Ed, cut him some slack.
Hey didn't Hackman give poor ol Richard Harris
some beating in that film.
I always reckoned Gene was the real deal, a real tough
character.

I didn't mention Gene, but he is also somebody I love to watch.

Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)" is an American Doo Wop song, originally released by The Penguins in 1954 on the Dootone label (Dootone 348), as the B-side to "Hey Señorita". The song became a major hit for The Crew-Cuts in 1955, reaching the Billboard charts on January 29, 1955. It peaked at #3 on the Disk Jockey chart, #8 on the Best Seller and #8 on the Juke Box chart.

The song was originally recorded as a demo at Ted Brinson's garage studio in South Los Angeles in October 1954, with producer Dootsie Williams. "Earth Angel" quickly outstripped its A-side in popularity, and reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart for three weeks in early 1955, and number eight on the pop chart. Covered many times since, the love song would prove to be the only Top 40 hit from the group.

The version of "Earth Angel" recorded by The Penguins ranked #151 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

Authorship
The song was originally credited to The Penguins' baritone singer Curtis Williams.

According to one of the most reputable sources, it was started by Jesse Belvin, and then evolved through various differently titled songs recorded by Hodge and Williams. In turn they were influenced by "Dream Girl", Belvin's #2 R&B hit as one half of Jesse and Marvin, which contained many of the same vocal inflections used in "Earth Angel". The "Will you be mine?" hook was borrowed from the #9 R&B hit of the same name by the Swallows. A very similar song, in terms of its piano introduction and chord progression, is "I Know" recorded in 1953 by The Hollywood Flames, a group in which Hodge and Williams were both members for a time. The chord changes, known as the 50s progression, are also similar to the Rodgers and Hart song, "Blue Moon", which was popular with many doo-wop groups. The coda of Earth Angel, with the repeatedly harmonized word "You-oo... you-oo... you-oo... you-oo," had previously been heard in The Dominoes' #5 R&B cover of "These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)"

Cover versions
The song became a major hit for The Crew-Cuts in 1955. Number 70529 on the Mercury Records catalog, it reached the Billboard charts on January 29, 1955. It peaked at #3 on the Disk Jockey chart, #8 on the Best Seller and #8 on the Juke Box chart. The flip side, "Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)," also charted.
At the same time, Gloria Mann's version reaching #18.
Johnny Tillotson's 1960 version reached #57.
The Crests recorded a version for their 1960 album: The Crests Sing All Biggies
Bobby Vinton covered a version in 1963
The Vogues recorded a version that reached #42 in 1969.
New Edition reached #21 with a 1986 version.
Bella Morte released a cover of Earth Angel on their newest album Bleed The Grey Sky Black (released October 10, 2006 under Metropolis Records), as well as a video for the song featuring dancing zombies.
Death Cab for Cutie recorded a version for Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack.
Tiny Tim also covered this song implementing his famed falsetto toward the end.
blink-182's Tom Delonge covered this song during The 2002 Pop Disaster Tour.
Slapstick, a defunct ska-punk band, covered this song which is on their self titled discography.
Ghoti Hook covered this song on their album, Songs We Didn't Write.
Elvis Presley covered this song in Germany in a now rare track. Released on the 1984 album A Golden Celebration.
Aaron Neville covered this song on his album Orchid In the Storm released February 18th, 2003.
Hardly Seen, a Brooklyn band, recorded a cover of this song.
The Hong Kong Filth does this song live at most of their shows
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin performed a cover of "Earth Angel" at the Bridge School Benefit 2009.
The band J.Rad from Long Island, NY does a metal version of this song.
Green Day often includes the song in a live medley which begins with their original song "King For A Day", morphing into The Isley Brothers' "Shout" and breaks into a smaller medley including, but not limited to, "Earth Angel," The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There," and Ben E. King's "Stand by Me", then back into "Shout."
Marvin Berry And The Starlighters - from the movie Back To The Future), which was recorded by The Temptations
Cultural references
In Back to the Future, Marvin Berry and the Starlighters played the song during the "Enchantment Under the Sea" high-school dance. Due to the time-travelling plot of the films, this scene was "replayed" in Back to the Future Part II.
A scene from the Family Guy season finale "Meet the Quagmires", which directly parodied the dance from Back to the Future, also featured the song and was followed, instead of Johnny B. Goode, by Never Gonna Give You Up. In the episode, "Earth Angel" is sung by Luke Adams.
In 1986's Karate Kid II, it was playing at the dance Kumiko toook Daniel-san to in Okinawa.
In the musical, "Jersey Boys", it was sung by the actor playing Tommy DeVito.
In Superman III, the song was played in the high-school reunion dance with Clark Kent and Lana Lang.
In the 1998 mini-series The Temptations, the actors portraying The Distants (a predecessor of The Temptations) perform "Earth Angel" a capella.
In the Smallville episode "Relic", set in the 60's, the song can be heard in a scene between Jor-El and Louise.
In the Stephen King novel It, in the lengthy flashback to the main characters' lives during the 1950s, Ben Hanscomb hears the song in his head every time he sees his crush, Beverly.
In one of the final scenes of the play "Paradise Park" by Charles Mee, much of the cast sings Earth Angel in its entirety.
In the Erfworld summer update 015, the Transylvitians sing, among others, a song called "Erf Angel".

Among the cover versions is the one by Bella Morte. My friend, employee and player here on A2K in the NFL pick-um game is the singer. Small world, isn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPYhOhhwCEA



I hope they get a group discount on hair gel...

The world gets smaller by the minute.

Free. The coloring etc is courtesy of some company they endorsed, available at a retail chain called Hot Topics, if you are in the market.
Interestingly, all of the band members + several of the zombies have worked for me at one time or another.
The video was from 2006. Bella Morte's members have kind of moved on. Marriage, kids, new careers. It still exists but no more cross country tours for 2 or 3 months at a time. They are all still involved in music but now on different projects.
Thanks for posting that, RH.

Good mornin' y'alls. Record heat for us today, with hours of rain. As we are in a drought situation, it almost could not rain too much today. I shall return later on. Y'all be good, hear?