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In 2004 Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt covered it on.

Vitamin String Quartet recorded an instrumental version of the song on Dad Get Me Out of This: The String Quartet Tribute to Warren Zevon in 2003.

Chi Pig sang the Linda Ronstadt lyrics with a few changes, but kept it as being about men he had encountered.

In 1986, SNFU did a hardcore punk cover of the song on the compilation It Came from the Pit.

The two drive off together, leaving the other two co-workers at the shop surprised. She starts to drive off, before calling him over to get in. Eventually, she realizes the man fixing her car is the one for her.

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It comprises black-and-white tour footage interspersed with Clark being approached by a series of men while her car is being fixed at a full service gas station. The music video was directed by Deaton Flanigen and premiered in late 1996. Clark's version was a number one hit on the Canadian RPM country charts, and a number five hit on the country charts in the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 12, 1996. 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me' debuted at number 47 on the U.S. I started doing it live, and it worked.' Reception What a great country record that could make. She said 'and I thought, what a cool song.

Clark told Billboard magazine that she heard Linda Ronstadt's version of the song in a local gymnasium while she was exercising. It was released in September 1996 as the lead single from her second album, 1996's Just the Same. Chart performance Chart (1978)Īnother hit cover version of the song was recorded by Canadian country singer Terri Clark. It reached number 26 on the Cash Box Top 100 and number 31 in Billboard. Released as a single (on the Asylum label at the beginning of 1978, Ronstadt's version was the week's highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of January 28, 1978.

#POOR POOR PITIFUL ME WARREN ZEVON MOVIE#

Ronstadt's live version appeared on the soundtrack album to the 1978 movie FM, while the studio version was included on her platinum-plus album Greatest Hits, Volume 2. Ronstadt's interpretation was produced by Peter Asher for her multi-platinum album Simple Dreams. With Zevon's blessing, Ronstadt replaced the verse with “Well I met a boy / In the Veaux-Carres, down in Yokohama / He picked me up and he threw me down / Saying 'Please don't hurt me Mama!'.” This verse was also used in Clark's version of the song. 'The verse in “Poor Pitiful Me” was “I met a girl on the Sunset Strip,” I think, “She asked me if I’d beat her / She took me up to her hotel room / And wrecked my mojo heater.” It was really funny, and I'm saying to Jackson, “I can’t sing those words, man! That’s not who I am. Ronstadt would recall Jackson Browne had pitched 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me' to her, teaching it to her in the living room of her Malibu home. Linda Ronstadt recorded a gender-altered version of the song during 1977. 'Simple Man Simple Dream' (or ' Blue Bayou') Poor_Poor_Pitiful_Me_-_Linda_Ronstadt.jpg Alternate studio versions were included in the 2008 reissue of Warren Zevon, as well as the posthumous 2007 compilation. Live versions appeared on 1980s Stand in the Fire and 1993's Learning to Flinch. The track was later included on his greatest hits compilations A Quiet Normal Life (1986), I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (1996), and (2002). The song 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me' was produced by Browne and was featured on Zevon's eponymous 1976 album Warren Zevon with backing vocals by Lindsey Buckingham. It is reputed to be a friendly swipe at Jackson Browne Browne's own songwriting (such as 'Here Come Those Tears Again' and 'Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate' from The Pretender) could be quite depressing. The song first appeared on Zevon's 1976 self-titled solo album. In keeping with Warren Zevon's sardonic lyrical style, the song's verses deal with a suicide attempt, domestic abuse, and a brush with sadomasochism.

With sexes reversed, it was made a hit twice: first as a top-40 hit for Linda Ronstadt, then over a decade later by Terri Clark, whose version topped the Canadian country charts and reached the country top five in the U.S. ' Poor Poor Pitiful Me' is a rock song written and first recorded by American musician Warren Zevon in 1976.

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