McCartney Times

There are a number of songs that have been written about John Lennon – most are posthumous, tender tributes such as George Harrison’s “All Those Years Ago,” McCartney’s “The Song We Were Singing,” and Dylan’s “Roll on John.”Then there’s a very obscure song recorded in 1969 by a singer called Rainbo, who later came to fame as a wonderful, award winning actress, Sissy Spacek. Spacek is a good singer who used her own voice in recording the songs for her starring role in the Loretta Lynn movie bio, “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”Spacek was much younger in ’69, apparently a flower child, and this recording by her is one of those 60’s oddities that captures both the charming innocence of the time and well as the horrendous musical excesses that often would make it onto vinyl. The point of the song, it seems, is that the nude picture of Lennon and Yoko on the cover of “Two Virgins” was just too much, even for one of his staunchest fans.Set the Wayback Machine for 1969 and take in this truly odd artifact of the age.(In fairness to Sissy Spacek, the photo collage video is not good, but it was the only way to capture the audio of the song.)

Source: “John You’ve Gone Too Far This Time,” by Rainbo, or Sissy Spacek | Examiner.com