The Hot Chip boys take on the Doggfather! Another great cover from the band.

A cover evergreen, recently turned up on US hipster movie Juno. Although made famous by Karen & Dickie Carpenter, original version was written by Leon Russell as an ode to the life style of groupies.

Here’s a so wrong it’s right moment. In the hands of Vanessa, the message of heroin addiction gets lost, as we ponder if she’s waiting for her dad to pick her up from school. Least we forget produced by Lenny Kravitz, who always had an eye for the ladies (but really ponged of B.O.)

Photo: Jaci Berkopec (Flickr)

I was so blown away by this version, I had to get it from the horse’s mouth how it came to be. So having spent time with Camilo Lara, I rang him and asked about its origins.

“I was in the studio recording mariachis and these guys, mariachis, always drink tequila when they are playing. So we started really early doing some recording and after like six hours or so we end up with like six or seven bottles of tequila” he told me.

“So I got all the mariachis to play the song and I recorded it in one take probably. And the next day with the hangover I was like, wow, what a mistake because it is such a difficult song because it’s not the Verve song, it’s a Rolling Stones-owned song. So I was like, OK, if this is not going to happen I’m just going to keep it as a rarity. But I asked for permission from the Rolling Stones and the next day they sent me the confirmation that they were OK with me recording it. So I think it’s great… It’s a memorable anthemic song and doing it the mariachi way it adds some serenata flavor.”

Least we forget Lara is also head of EMI Mexico.