Two Great Food Songs
Until my friend Nishta introduced me to this song, I hadn’t listened to much Dusty Springfield beyond the inescapable “Son of a Preacher Man.” It was then that I really understood her renown as an interpreter: with warmth and wit, she teases out the song’s essential brattiness but keeps it just this side of cabaret. (Compare it with Diana Krall’s flat, oversexed version.)
This one goes out to all you freaky men with your madonna/whore complexes: Raquel Welch and Cher dress up like Vegas showgirls and threaten to “fill you full of grits.” Raquel isn’t quite Cher’s match, but she does her best.