Bunny Lake is blown up

Sometimes when I'm looking for things to write about, out of things to post, I like to check wikipedia for today's birthdays and things that happened X years ago.

Among today's birthday boys are Jeff Beck, Colin Blunstone, Mick Fleetwood, and Arthur Brown (as in "The Crazy World of"), which sounds like a supergroup waiting to happen.

Blunstone's and Beck's bands (say that five times fast!) were both featured in cult movies from the mid 1960s. Colin (born in 1945, so he's 62 today) and the Zombies appeared in Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, which is about about a woman who reports that her daughter is missing, even though there isn't any evidence that her daugher ever existed. It's a strange premise for a movie, and I think Zombies appearance is the best thing about the film.

They perform on the television in one scene and play a few songs for the soundtrack ("Come On Time", "Just Out of Reach", and "Remember You"). The first two are the same song with different lyrics, which was one of the few Zombies songs penned by Colin Blunstone. There isn't any youtube footage of their performance, so I've ripped and uploaded the three soundtrack tunes. Anton Barbeau and the Loud Family covered "Remember You" on last year's What If It Works? album.

The Zombies (from Bunny Lake is Missing)
Come On Time
Just Out Of Reach
Remember You

Our other birthday boy in the spotlight, Jeff Beck, is 63 today, so he's one year older than Colin Blunstone and three days younger than Ray Davies. Here's a cool performance from Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up of Beck playing "Train Kept A Rollin'" with the Yardbirds (short-lived Beck, Page dual lead lineup) and smashing his guitar at the end, a la Townshend.


Blow-Up also doesn't have much of a linear narrative, but has lots of scenes of swinging London, and full frontal nudity, as well as this scene with the Yardbirds.