1956 Winifred Atwell: The Poor People Of Paris

Another (then) popular song given the Atwell treatment of fuel injection on the high keys. It's a jolly enough romp, but being just a single tune it lacks the jumpy variety of the previous 'Let's Have Another Party' medley and it has me looking at my watch after about a minute. But just when you think you've heard all it has to offer, producer Joe Meek chips in with a bizarre drone that sounds like a theremin but is apparently someone playing a wobbly saw blade. Its effect is to add alloy wheels and a spoiler to a ramshackle Model T, and while this isn't all that aesthetically pleasing its unexpectedness does make you stop and stare in a 'what the....???' kind of way. Which I suppose is better than in a rubbernecking at a car crash kind of way.