Today's musical moment comes from what I think was the penultimate episode of Quantum Leap. In the early days, Sam leaped into nobodies on the historical scale to help in a low level way. But as ratings dropped away, the show started getting sillier - they messed up the theme tune, they played about with weird and contradictory and trippy episode plots, they tried out recurring characters and they started having Sam leap into famous people. So in this one, he's Elvis. However, it is quite a sweet episode, and not one of the stupid ones, so it's nice to have it there at the end, before the bizarre and depressing finale.
Baby, Let's Play House from Quantum Leap, episode 'Memphis Melody'
Performed by Scott Bakula
Written by Arthur Gunter (and Elvis Presley I guess since his version is quite different from the original)
I always found the line 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man' suuuuuuuper creepy. Why the hell did John Lennon nick that for Run For Your Life? That was not a line that needed to be kept going.
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