Wednesday November 18, 2020 “Lola” Lake Street Dive

“Lola” written by Ray Davies of the Kinks is such a fun song and this unexpected cover could be even more fun than the original.

Lake Street Dive came together in 2005 around upright bass player Bridget Kearney’s original song submitted to the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. I didn’t know there was such a thing. All of the band members are classically trained musicians who reference the entire Beatles catalogue as music that they love.

One critic described their music as "Sounds Like: Llewyn Davis's (fictional character in the Coen Brothers movie) favorite pop group; Motown meets the Brill Building in jazzy, soulful, woulda-been Sixties chart toppers."

And here they are with a 60’s chart topping Kinks song “Lola” which as we all know was initially banned on UK radio, not because of the topic, but because it referenced a specific brand “Coca Cola” which songwriter Ray Davies then changed to “cherry cola”

Good fun live cover by this unique band.

Stay safe and well...and girls will be boys and boys will be girls, it’s a mixed up world.

I met her in a club down in old Soho

Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like

Coca Cola

C-O-L-A Cola

She walked up to me and she asked me to dance

I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said, "Lola"

L-O-L-A Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola 

Well, I'm not the world's most physical guy

But when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine

Oh my Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Well, I'm not dumb but I can't understand

Why she walked like a woman but talked like a man

Oh my Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Well, we drank champagne and danced all night

Under electric candlelight

She picked me up and sat me on her knee

She said, "Little boy, won't you come home with me?"

Well, I'm not the world's most passionate guy

But when I looked in her eyes

Well, I almost fell for my Lola

Lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

I pushed her away

I walked to the door

I fell to the floor

I got down on my knees

Then I looked at her, and she at me

Well, that's the way that I want it to stay

And I always want it to be that way for my Lola

Lo lo lo lo Lola

Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls

It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world

Except for Lola

Lo lo lo lo Lola 

Well, I'd left home just a week before

And I'd never ever kissed a woman before

But Lola smiled and took me by the hand

She said, "Little boy, gonna make you a man"

Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man

But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man

And so is Lola

Lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola

Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola, lo lo lo lo Lola