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Cantina Band

Ok, if this song has a title, I sure can’t find it, but it can’t just be called ‘Cantina Band’ can it? That’s a terrible name for a song.

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Well, it appears the songs were just called ‘Cantina Band #1’ and ‘Cantina Band #2’. Ok, moving on, here’s DCappella with their vocal version;

Okay, a little bit more digging, and it appears the song is called ‘Mad About Me’ (#1 that is, #2 is called ‘If I Only Could Let Go and Cry.’  So here’s Josephine Alexandra with her guitar cover of ‘Mad About Me’ from Star Wars;

Apparently Lucas wanted the song to be an alien tribute to ‘Sing Sing Sing’. So let’s listen to this jazz cover by The Andrew Allen Trio, and see if we can hear any hints of the song it was inspired by;

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