• Track: Love Letter
• Artist: Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes
• Album: Baby Caught the Bus
• Year: 2011

Lyrics:

(Hoooo! Aye yeah, love letter)
Hoooo! Ha

I’m gonna write what I want you to do to me in a letter
(Aye yeah)
I’m gonna write it for good or for bad or for worse or for better
(Aye yeah, love letter)
I’m gonna write it for you so that you can be my lover
(Be my lover, ooh!)
Winning is yours, I’m yours, baby, now and forever
(Aye yeah, love letter)

I’m gonna write what I want
you to do to me in a letter
Be my lover, oh!

Oh, (be my lover) won’t you help me get out
(Be my lover.. love letter)

Oh, won’t you help me get out of my head
My roommate’s a lot, he’s on but you can’t forget her
(Aye yeah, love)
’cause tonight is the time that we’ve known each other better
(Aye yeah, love letter)
I’m gonna write what I want you to do to me in a letter
(Be my lover, oh!)
I’m gonna run through this high until I find a better
(Aye yeah, love letter)

Oh, (be my lover) won’t you help me get out
(Be my lover… love letter)
Oh, won’t you help me get out of my head
(I’m gonna write you a letter)
Oh, baby
(For good or for bad or for better)

Please believe me darling
(Darling I’m yours once already)
I’m yours
(Never ever forget it)
Ohh I’m gonna write you a letter
For good or for bad or for better
Winning is yours, I’m yours, baby now
(Aye yeah, love letter)

Oh, (be my lover) won’t you help me get out
(Be my lover… love letter)
Oh, won’t you help me get out of my head

Darling, I was once yours already
Never ever forget it
For good or for bad or for better
I’m gonna write you a love letter

Get It:

Get your copy of Baby Caught the Bus at Amazon here:

Love Cliques is available at Amazon, too:

Today, we’re spinning an old-school cool record that sounds like it came straight out of late 1940s America by little-known Australian artists, Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes. The music curators here at Dances with Bass Radio first heard Clairy Browne through the most inauspicious of places—a beer commercial. In 2012, Dutch brewing company Heineken released a series of commercials featuring old-school music to sell its fine lager to hipsters who were drinking too much Pabst Blue Ribbon and somehow figuring out a way to be snooty about it.

The commercial in question (see below) depicts a group of guys who walk into what appears to be a rundown honky-tonk to order a few brewskies. The shifty-looking bartender looks around, then starts pulling levers that transform the dive bar into a hopping joint with dudes in tuxedos, ladies in sparkly evening wear, and Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes filling the air with swingin’ soul. The commercial didn’t sell any Heineken to me, but it did sell one copy of Browne’s 2011 record, Baby Caught the Bus. (And whenever I do drink a Heineken, I think of Clairy Browne’s dramatic entrance. See the Heineken video below.)

Australian-born Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes formed in 2009 in Melbourne, Australia, with Clairy Brown on vocals, and Camilla McKewen,  Loretta Miller, and Ruby Jones on backing vocals. The four-piece was joined by Peter Bee on guitar, Jules Pascoe on bass, and Gabriel Strangio on keyboards. The band released Baby Caught the Bus in 2009. The album went almost entirely unnoticed until Heineken featured the song in the aforementioned commercial titled, The Switch. Interestingly, the commercial was shot in the Czech Republic (Prague, to be exact). The video featured, among other things, Browne and the band dropping down onto a mechanical rotating stage. The commercial’s success drove the album to number 66 on the iTunes charts and number 4 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart, which tracks breaking artists.

A second single from the album, I’ll Be Fine, was used in 2013 for the Australian show, Please Like Me. The show currently runs in the U.S. on Pivot. After releasing an EP, Love Cliques, in 2015, the band broke up. Browne now tours as a solo artist.

Video:

Here is the official video for Love Letter:

And here is the Heneiken commercial that first brought national attention to Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Racketts and Love Letter. The commercial is far better than the actual music video, if you ask me:

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