Arrangement and performance copyright Tyrannocaster 2025

This song by Arthur Hamilton was first featured in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It, which was mostly early rock and roll. (In fact, it was a hugely influential film in postwar England, which was starving for American music and pop stars; Jeff Beck has mentioned the movie many times in interviews.) But this is far from rock and roll; Julie London's performance with Barney Kessel on guitar is really the definition of torch music, and a bona fide classic. But the song (same version) was repurposed brilliantly in V For Vendetta (2005), which is why I've put both of those images in the icon.

My arrangement is in two sections; the first is all jazz archtop guitar while the second goes into more modern territory, though I think it still stays faithful to the original.



    Jazz