Wanda Jackson’s take on the Carl Perkins tune is the eponymous song that closes the credits of Ethan Coen’s new film Honey Don’t.

For my money the Queen of Rockabilly improves on Perkins’ original with her full-throated vocal and the twang of Grady Martin’s electric guitar.

It’s also more apt to close a female-forward film that’s a B-movie pastiche revolving around Margaret Qualley’s lesbian private eye Honey O’Donahue – a throwback to those ’40s femme fatales.

And in a way Jackson’s rendition IS the original because, although Perkins wrote the song, Wanda recorded it in July 1963 and he didn’t get around to that until 1955.

The Carl Perkins version appeared on the B-side of his version of Blue Suede Shoes – also written by Perkins, and released a year before Elvis had a hit with it.

Here’s Wanda ripping it up on the first version, the one that appeared on her album Two Sides Of Wanda – one side being rockabilly and the other country (and western). This one, obviously, comes from the former.

Ten years later The Beatles would include their own version on their fourth album, Beatles For Sale, in tribute to Carl Perkins, one of their idols and influences. 

It was sung by Ringo Starr, although John Lennon had previously sung it live – and Paul McCartney once said of its composer: “If there were no Carl Perkins there would be no Beatles.”

Oh and the film… well despite some pretty critical reviews, I loved it; if you’re a fan of the Coens and Tarantino (and old B-movies) you’ll be in your element. And Qualley is just magnificent.