Tuesday April 27, 2021 “That Thing You Do” Billie Joe Armstrong
Let’s stay in New Jersey for another unexpected cover of “That Thing You Do” by Billie Joe Armstrong lead singer and main songwriter from the band Green Day.
The song comes from the fun movie That Thing You Do which was written, directed, produced and starred Tom Hanks but the title song was written and sung by Adam Schlesinger from among other things the band Fountains of Wayne. Important to me because Schlesinger also wrote one of my favorite songs “Stacy’s Mom” and the band Fountains of Wayne took their name from the store of the same name on route 46 in Wayne, NJ.
A store I passed hundreds of times as a young child on the way to the family summer home in northern NJ.
Much like yesterday’s song this seems an unusual choice for punk rocker Billie Joe Armstrong who recorded this with his kids, teenagers all of them, during his covid isolation. Enjoy cover number two which is a pretty faithful rendition of the original.
Stay safe and well...and unfortunately Adam Schlesinger passed away earlier this year as a result of covid complications.