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Post by the Scribe on May 22, 2021 9:47:52 GMT
“The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss),” The Muppet Show (1980)
Linda Ronstadt singing about her love for Kermit the Frog? Yes, it’s as good as it sounds with Ronstadt belting out the Betty Everett tune years before Cher had a UK #1 with it (and we suspect Cher’s version may well have been influenced by this fantastic clip!) It’s so good it’s a shame a studio recording of this track never made it onto any Ronstadt’s albums.
Her visit to The Muppet Show also gave us some more great performances including “I’ve Got A Crush On You” sung tenderly to Kermit (she would later revisit this old standard on her album What’s New), a rather moving “When I Grow To Old To Dream” and, of course, “Blue Bayou” performed with a chorus of croaking frogs in a colorful swamp! The Ronstadt/Kermit romance would later be revisited on the 1994 album Kermit Unpigged, where the pair duet on the Everly Brothers favorite, “All I Have To Do Is Dream.”
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