On this episode of the Yippee-Ki-Yay Mother Podcast, an inter-generational look at the movies, we bring in special guest Lee Bonner to discuss the Tom Hanks film That Thing You Do! In addition to being an awarding-winning director of television shows like Homicide: Life on the Street, Moloney, Early Edition, Profiler and The Practice, Lee was also the bass player and chief songwriter of The Lafayettes, a Baltimore-area band that plied their trade around the same time as the fictional band in the film.
The Lafayette's single, Life's Too Short, was a major regional hit in the USA and went to number one in many European countries. However, the B-side Nobody Like You caught the interest of a certain budding beat group in Liverpool. Here's a quote from Mark Lewisohn's book The Beatles: All These Years. Vol. 1. Tune In: "The Beatles' intense drive to stay one step ahead of every rival (and they were already at least fifty clear) was taken to extremes by Paul in July/August 1962 when sleuthing songs unknown or unconsidered by others. A good find was "Nobody But You," a B-side by a group from Towson, Maryland, called the Lafayettes. Beyond a mawkish introduction, this was a strong call-and-response number in the style of Kansas City. “
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| Director/Songwriter Lee Bonner |
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