Stars On 54: If You Could Read My Mind (Lightfoot)

For the 1998 Mike Myers/Ryan Phillippe movie Studio ’54, 90’s sensations Amber, Ultra Naté and Jocelyn Enriquez came together as the supergroup ‘Stars on 54,’ to thrash ‘If You Could Read My Mind’ by Lightfoot, one more time. I think there are about 100 covers of this particular song and it’s not hard to see why. What baffles me is how such a competent composition didn’t ensure a solid career for Whatsitsfoot. I’ve never hear of him, have you?

Johnny Cash recorded his own monotone rendition shortly before he began pushing up the daisies. Rather than digging it up, let’s spin the new-ish one. If you haven’t seen the movie, it smells a little bit like this.