media Best weekend of the year

The good radio station is doing its all-covers weekend this weekend.

Tonight, in addition to the old chestnuts like Joe Cocker’s cover of “With a Little Help From My Friends” (which always just makes me picture John Belushi) and the oh-so-tiresome South Park version of “Come Sail Away” by Styx, and nice additions to the roster like Jackson Browne doing Warren Zevon’s “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me” (from Enjoy Every Sandwich, with Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar), I heard Joel Grey singing “White Room” by Cream.

Let me put that another way.
Joel Grey. “White Room.” Cream. It sounds so vaguely menacing from him. It’s slow and creepy and great. It’s like the moment you realize Cabaret is about Nazis.

It’s AWESOME.

iTunes is playing White Room by Joel Grey. I’ve played it 0 times. It’s from The Magic of Joel Grey.