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SOTW May 8!
So I went to see a rare solo show by Jane Wiedlin a few weeks ago, when she was a special guest performer with the Les Paul Trio at the Iridium Jazz Club here in New York. It was a short set, with Jane performing seven songs, including Keith Urban's number-one hit "But for the Grace of God" that she and Urban co-wrote with fellow Go-Go Charlotte Caffey, and a set-closing "Our Lips Are Sealed" with the Magnetic Field's Stephin Merritt "singing" the iconic "Hush my darling..." part Jane usually tackles. The other songs were standards including "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and Julie London's "Cry Me a River." The best song of the set, though, was a jaunty proto-feminist tune called "Thirteen Men" originally sung by Ann-Margret in 1962, a sort of response song to a chauvanistic 1950s song called "Thirteen Women" (that had the same tune). Jane's adorable voice handled the song admirably, and she really worked the humorous angle.


Here's Jane doing her version from 2006.




Here's Ann-Margret's original version of "Thirteen Men" from 1962.