Ronnie Prophet – Eleanor Rigby (1970)
Ronnie Prophet enjoyed a brief but illustrious career as Quebec’s leading square dance MC, but his biggest success came as a country music singer, and as evidenced below, the greatest one-man show that Chet Atkins ever saw (although I gotta admit Chet’s handwriting is suspiciously similar to that of my uncle Dimitri, who borrowed the record last month). Incidentally, this is the third cover version of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ that we’ve featured here at Ponytone, which is curious considering the original probably wouldn’t crack the top 50 on my list of favorite Beatles songs. Uncle Dimitri worships it, though.
