You're the Boss!!!

with Elvis Presley and Ann Margaret
forgot about this song!



like Brian's version too of course

Excellent !! I forgot it too !
Thanks Kelley for the memory.

I only just discovered it isn't a Setzer song..

It was a pity this song was`nt used in Viva Las Vegas (or Love In Las Vegas as it was called here in the UK), RCA did`nt even release it untill the late 70`s.

Baby you're a genious when it comes to cookin' up some chilli sauce!!

I love the 1960 original by Jimmy Ricks and LaVern Baker, but there is something special about the mental image of Elvis and Ann Margaret cooing over each other.

You're the Boss is actually the one song I don't care for on Dirty Boogie. No matter how gorgeous Gwen Stefani is, I really don't care for her voice on this one, with its goat-like vibrato. It's an excellent song choice, Brian and the band are great, and it could certainly be performed live, just with a different duet partner. It actually could be quite fun to have Brian play off of both vixens onstage during this tune.

Not that Kelley needs any encouragement picturing a Brian sammich!

Goat Cheese-a-billy

gwen sings great

You're the Boss, as far as I can remember, has been performed only once back in 1998 or 99, not sure right now... with Gwen Stefani as special guest.

Now that the BSO has two backing singers, I don't know why this song is not played. And same with a couple of Nashvillians songs (Everybody's Up To Something & Don't Say You Love Me)... Julie Setzer always travels with Brian, so it'd be nice to have her singing the backing vocals of those wonderful songs, don't you think??

On the other hand, I think that on other songs, the vixens should have remained outside (Good Rockin' Daddy, Stray Cat Strut, Let The Good Times Roll, Sexy + 17...)

Rickabilly wrote:

I love the 1960 original by Jimmy Ricks and LaVern Baker

Oh man, that would be something to hear. Lavern Baker is awesome.