It's a Right Royal Cockney Barrel of Monkeys

Guy Richie isn't a director I'm particularly fond of. His success can be attributed to mimicking Quentin Tarantino’s whole style and filling the void left behind from the dying Britpop zeitgeist. I do enjoy a bunch of songs which were new to me from his films, though.

The Castaways' Liar, Liar is a prime example. It’s heard during the poker scene in Richie's mockney, gangster film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

The Castaways - Liar Liar

Liar Liar/Sam single, 1965

The Castaways · Liar Liar

It wasn't until finding a YouTube clip of The Castaways performing the song in the film It's a Bikini World (1967) when I realised the high pitched voice on it was a bloke and not a woman after all these years.

Other songs I've discovered in Guy Richie films:

Wanda Jackson - Funnel of Love (1960)

The Pretty Things - Rosalyn (1964)

Kim Fowley - The Trip (1965)

The Sonics - Have Love, Will Travel (1965)

Nina Simone - Take Care of Business (1965)

David Axelrod - The Mental Traveller (1968)

George Guzman - Banana Freak Out (1968)

Dusty Springfield - Spooky (1970)

Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache (1973)

Cymande - Brothers on the Slide (1974)

War - Outlaw (1982) 

E-Z Rollers - Walk This Land (Remix) (1996)

Klint - Diamond (2000)

Electrelane - Atom's Tomb (2005)

Mattiel - Count Your Blessings (2018)

Can't hate on some of Guy Richie's music inclusions, but I can shake my head in dismay at the undeserved success of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (2000) when they were nothing but inferior Brit flicks compared to Croupier (1998) and Sexy Beast (2000) during that period. Well ow ov aw-da, innit?