01 | March | 2012 | Through the Shattered Lens

I’m surprised that this is the very first post I’ve made for “Song of the Day” that’s unfiltered blues. I’ve posted songs which have blues influence in them from blues-rock to rhythm & blues, but never just pure blues. To rectify that slight mistake I’ve picked one of my favorite blues songs from one of my favorite bluesman with Taj Mahal’s dixieland blues jazz track, “Irresistible You“.

Right from the start this song just hooks it’s upbeat blues tempo with jazz trumpets and percussion plus Taj Mahal’s raspy, lived-in vocals. Most people equate blues to dour, downbeat songs, but just one listen to “Irresistible You” should disabuse that sort of musical stereotyping. This song may sound like dixieland jazz, but it’s a blues song true and true even when the piano section show’s up later to be followed by some solo horns before it leads to the final chorus.

I’ve listened to this song for an uncounted number of times and it always reminds me of my time when I visited and vacationed in New Orleans. When down and out this song always does it’s job in picking me up and telling me everything will be alright.

Irresistible You

Your magic hands … your lovin’ eyes
Kissable lips …
Baby, mine oh mine
I’m in love … I’m in love
And I know it’s true
Tell me… who-o-o wouldn’t fall for irresistible you.

I don’t know what you got
But it’s got me and I’m hooked
Like a fish in the sea
You make eagles call from above
Make the Devil fall in love
An-a … who-o-o … irresistible you.

Ohhh, come on …
Lets walk awhile … I wanna talk …
Talk talk talk to you honey child …
You’ve been blessed …
And you’re much … too much …
There’s a wonder of a love in your touch.

Don’t ever fret …
Don’t you worry about me I’ll never regret …
How much you mean to me
I love you … I love you
My whole life through
Tell me … who-o-o w=couldn’t fall for irresistible you.

Lets twist awhile …

Don’t ever fret …
Don’t you worry about me I’ll never regret …
How much you mean to me
I love you … I love you
My whole life through
But tell me … who-o-o wouldn’t fall for irresistible you.

One of the big surprises for me film-wise in 2010 was a CG animated film that came out of left field. It wasn’t by Pixar and it didn’t come from Dreamworks Animation. No this CG film came from a little-known animation studio called Illumination Entertainment. Their very first full-length animated film would turn out to be a critical and box-office success. I’m talking about Despicable Me and while the character Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) and the three girls he adopts in the film were quite good it was Gru’s minions who stole the film from the bigger names.

In 2013 we’ll have the sequel to this film and what better way to lead off the first teaser trailer for Despicable Me 2 than get the beloved minions announce the film’s arrival.