Homer Ramone

I like this AND those covers

I actually like the Searchers’ version better than Jackie’s in this case (not so for “When You Walk in the Room”).

The only way to get a song out of your head is to replace it with another. How about this one?

The original, one of my absolute favorite records of all time:

Don’t like much after this album:

My favorite version (single mix):

The original:

You need to click SHARE, then COPY (it’s a different link)–

I was 10 and had recently moved to a neighborhood with a couple of mental hospitals nearby. I was in a tent in a neighbor’s yard for a campout, and they were trying to scare me by saying there was a “nut alarm” out because a patient had escaped. Then I heard Napoleon XIV for the first time on the transistor radio. I ran home…

The B-side

From a year or t wo before: