Black Hole Sun

Okay, I’m no Soundgarden fan, not that I dislike them particularly, just that I never owned or even listened to one of their records, and this is the only song they ever did I could name or recognize. Whatever… But this is a truly awesome cover version. It’s Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme singing here (and I don’t know whose arrangement or production this is but it’s a masterstroke). It comes from a (mostly wretched) compilation CD called Lounge-A-Palooza that came out back in ‘97. Eydie sounds like a bit of a lightweight here, but Steve’s voice is in fine form, his singing has mellowed with a gravity and depth that rivals Sinatra at his best. This track, IMHO, is right up there with ‘the Godlike genius of Scott Walker’…