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Lana Del Rey Takes On Famed Jessica Rabbit Song

05/11/2015
. (Radio.com) Throwback chanteuse Lana Del Rey has always taken inspiration from the originals and last week she went one step further: she covered one of their songs.

While on the first stop of her Endless Sumer tour with Courtney Love, Del Rey added a new cover to her repertoire, one of "Why Don't You Do Right?"--a song sung by everyone from Billie Holiday to Julie London but popularized by Peggy Lee in 1942 and eventually made iconic with the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The song, which famously played in the nightclub scene with Jessica Rabbit, was right in Lana Del Rey's vocal range and sounded like it would fit perfectly into her discography when Del Rey took it on at The Woodlands, Texas. Read more here.

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