Riding into the weekend that, here in Atlanta, kicks off the Halloween festivities with the Little Five Points Parade, I present the galloping "Johnny Remember Me", best remembered in the States - if at all - as the partial source for a Bronski Beat/Marc Almond collaboration. Produced by Joe Meek for maximum creepiness with minimal instrumentation arranged by Charles Blackwell, even singer John Leyton's flat vocal can dampen the fun of the story.
What the story is is open to interpretation but there's no doubt that Johnny is unhinged by the loss of his true love. For what's it worth, I'm inclined to believe that his loss was by his own hand and that his hope to find a replacement suggests a psychopath on the loose.
So, uh... have a great weekend and it's probably wise to avoid tricks.
P.S. John's delivery of "Johnny" at 2:20 always reminds me of Julie Brown's "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun": maybe we now all know, like, who Johnny was...
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