[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/the-jerk.mp3|titles=Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters sing Tonight You Belong to Me (from the Jerk)] Tonight You Belong To Me, a hit from the 50s, is performed here by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters (and someone else on cornet, presumeably). The audio is taken from the romantic walk-on-the-beach scene of the Jerk (1979). Here is the video:
If you’d like to hear the original version of Tonight You Belong to Me, you can listen while looking at video of some guy’s phonograph speaker here or buy it on iTunes here.
Tomorrow, Steve Martin will play his banjo for thousands at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Steve may get wild and crazy somethies, but he’s dead serious when he’s on his banjo. Here he is performing The Crow (a tune of his own) on the David Letterman Show flanked by some of bluegrass’s finest:
… and here he is ripping Earl Scruggs’ Foggy Mountain Breakdown a new one on the stage of the country music Mecca, the Grand Ole Opry:
