So this might be a bit serpentine (Shel), but the recent death of Phil Spector - a despicable little man, made me think of this. There was this great little indie movie a while back called “Grace Of My Heart” which is a fictionalized retelling along with many embellishments, of Carole King and the music scene from the Brill Building to the Laurel Canyon years. A couple of nuggets to note - first, to get this out of the way, the Phil Spector character, remade as a kindly if not overbearing impresario is played by John Turturro. All of the other characters are easily recognizable from Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Leslie Gore, Brian Wilson etc. A fun movie with a great soundtrack made even more credible by the songwriting team of Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach. They made an excellent album, “The Sweetest Punch, “ which included the main track from this movie “God Give Me Strength.” Bill Frisell completely remade this album as a chamber jazz piece with a big band and orchestra-with featured vocals from Elvis and Cassandra Wilson - I told you this was serpentine. Last note - in the movie the song God Give Me Strength (which is lipsung by the main character played by the wonderful Illeana Douglas) was performed by a little known studio singer, Kristen Vigard - who released her version on a stereo only DVD A. Whew! & goddamn Phil Spector.