"Hong Kong Blues" by Hoagy Carmichael

KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
"Hong Kong Blues" by Hoagy Carmichael...

"The first time I visited Ian Dury and Denise Roudette at their cold-water flat, "Catshit Mansions", they played me this record. To be honest, I didn't realize it was from the Bogart & Bacall movie "To Have & Have Not" - the version in the flick is the cleaned-up version without the "Sweet Opium" reference, which really explains the rest of the lyric. I also didn't know until much later how many great songs Hoagy Carmichael had written, and my favourite versions are mostly the ones sung by him. You can't go wrong with a 'Best Of' from this cat ! " - KV
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