"Funnel of Love" is a 1961 song by Wanda Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...

, written by Charlie McCoy

Charlie McCoy

Charles "Charlie" Ray McCoy is an American musician noted for his harmonica playing. In his career, McCoy has backed several notable musicians including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Astor, Elvis Presley and Ween. He has also recorded thirty-seven studio albums, including fourteen for Monument Records...

 and Kent Westberry and recorded on April 10, 1961.

The song contains a guitar solo by Roy Clark

Roy Clark

Roy Linwood Clark is an American country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969–1992. Clark has been an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and helping to popularize the genre...

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Jackson revisited the song on her 2003 album Heart Trouble with Poison Ivy and Lux Interior of The Cramps

The Cramps

The Cramps were an American rock band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy the only permanent members...

 on guitar and backing vocals.

Several artists have covered this song, including Southern Culture on the Skids

Southern Culture on the Skids

Southern Culture on the Skids, also sometimes known as SCOTS, is an American rock band that was formed in 1983 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...

, Mike Ness

Mike Ness

Mike Ness is an American guitarist, vocalist, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion, which was formed in 1978. As of Dennis Danell's death in 2000, he is now the only original member of the band...

, Demented Are Go

Demented Are Go

Demented Are Go are a Welsh psychobilly band that was formed around 1982 in Cardiff. They were one of the earliest in the initial wave of bands to mix punk rock with rockabilly, and as a result, are considered to be highly influential to the psychobilly scene....

, Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets

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 and The Fall on its 2010 record Your Future Our Clutter

Your Future Our Clutter

Your Future Our Clutter is an album by The Fall, released in the UK on April 26, 2010. It is the group's twenty-eighth studio album, and their first for independent record label Domino. The album was recorded at The Chairworks, Castleford and Elevator Studios, Liverpool...

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This song was included on the 2008 soundtrack of the film Rock N Rolla. It was also used for the closing credits of the Entourage

Entourage (TV series)

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episodes "Tequila Sunrise", Season 7, Episode 4.

Jackson covers Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

's 2006 single "Thunder On The Mountain" on her 2011 studio album "The Party Ain't Over." In it she changes the lyrics "looks like something bad's gonna happen/better roll your windows down" about an approaching tornado to "looks like the funnel of love/better roll your windows down."

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