TOOBMUSIC - "EVEN WHEN YOU CRY", A REPRISE

'IRONSIDE’
“SOMETHING FOR NOTHING”

Tommy and Verna Cusack were married folksingers working out of a restaurant that could have been called the Red Lion, based on the design outside the front door.  Tommy got into trouble with a high-powered loan shark named Roy Faber who had been able to silence witnesses in the past through intimidation.

Faber owned the club where the Cusacks played and when Tommy crossed him, he made sure that not only wouldn’t he work there again, but at no other club in the Bay area.  Out of desperation, Tommy returned to his old club and despite the objections of Harris the manager, he grabbed a guitar and started playing.

The song he chose to sing is of interest to us here at Toobworld Central.  In fact we wrote about “Even When You Cry” at the beginning of October.  The song was written by Samantha Dain* and it was her one big hit before she murdered in a way to make people think she had committed suicide.

Tommy and Verna must have been friends with Samantha and it could be that they covered “Even When You Cry” in their act to keep her memory alive.  So there could be a deeper emotional reason as to why Tommy turned to that song in his lowest moments emotionally.

This episode serves, theoretically of course, as an inter-series crossover with the previous episode which used that song, “The Man Who Remembered.”

BCnU!

* For the purely conjectural biography of Samantha Dain, click here.

O'BSERVATION:
We'll see Roy Faber again during the 'Doctor Who' blogathon.  The loan shark played a pivotal moment in the life of the Third Incarnation of the Doctor.  No, really!