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Worst Covers Songs
7/27/25 | GSWarrior

Posted on 07/27/2025 8:06:43 AM PDT by GSWarrior

Post the worst covers songs you’ve ever heard


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; songs; worst
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To: GSWarrior
"Wookin' Pa Nub" by Buckwheat.

-PJ

21 posted on 07/27/2025 8:27:25 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: GSWarrior

Lenny Kravitz - American Woman


22 posted on 07/27/2025 8:27:42 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: GSWarrior

Beyoncé ~ Jolene

Please don’t give it a sample. That will only encourage her.


23 posted on 07/27/2025 8:27:57 AM PDT by rwfok (Nothing can stop what is coming. Nothing!)
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To: Sirius Lee
Bill Shatner’s cover of “Rocket MAAAn” is maybe the best cover of all times by contrast.

It only took 6 posts into the thread, and we have a clear winner

Well done! I had completely forgotten this existed.

24 posted on 07/27/2025 8:29:57 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: simpson96

That’s really bad.


25 posted on 07/27/2025 8:31:34 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

Mick Jagger and David Bowie “Dancing In the Street”


26 posted on 07/27/2025 8:31:37 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: GSWarrior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WOAxu28C0&ab_channel=infospectacle

Don Ho - Shock the Monkey


27 posted on 07/27/2025 8:31:45 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: GSWarrior
Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips by Nick Lucas (1929) had some great cover versions by Gene Goldkette and Don Voorhees. But 39 years later, another version came out which is so bad that I refuse to post a link to it. Nonetheless, it was probably the bestselling version.
28 posted on 07/27/2025 8:38:06 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: GSWarrior

Brewer and Shipley’s “One Toke Over the Line” as performed by Gale and Dale on the Lawrence Welk show, a “modern spiritual”. I’m sure they had no idea at all what “toke” meant. Makes your flesh crawl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE

For reference, the original:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNKL9onYB_8


29 posted on 07/27/2025 8:39:17 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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To: simpson96

Ha. Went to a minor league game with family last night. In the pregame time they played American Pie, with its infamous time of 8 minutes, 42 seconds. I heartily sang along, much to the chagrin of my 23 year old son


30 posted on 07/27/2025 8:41:20 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Fiji Hill

I remember my mom saw that version on TV and she loved it. My dad said nothing and I just shook my head.


31 posted on 07/27/2025 8:41:47 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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To: GSWarrior

Scotty doesn’t know.


32 posted on 07/27/2025 8:42:25 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Fresh Wind

Or maybe they knew!


33 posted on 07/27/2025 8:44:05 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

Hmmmm.


34 posted on 07/27/2025 8:45:10 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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To: Fresh Wind

Yep, I posted a link the Gale and Dale version of ‘One Toke’ a few months back. I’ll just echo Slater, from ‘Dazed & Confused’, you can’t handle that on strong acid (or any substance, or even completely straight). One of the most bizarre moments on American TV.


35 posted on 07/27/2025 8:45:13 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: Fiji Hill

Re: “Till There Was You”.
You didn’t care for Paul’s singing on that song?!
Well, different people will have different opinions and/or expectations.

I thought it was a great example of his singing skills at that point in time, when he was still young and full throated. I thought it was adorable warble, cloaked in sentiment. Something one would sing at a wedding reception or an anniversary.

But then, I didn’t know of the original, and have never compared the two. For a long while, I thought Paul had written it. At that time, he was quite capable of mastering the most flowing of melodies. I.E. the glowing classic:
“Here, There and Everywhere”. I have still never tired of hearing that song.


36 posted on 07/27/2025 8:45:37 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Fiji Hill

I liked the Beatles version. Fits in well with their early catalog.


37 posted on 07/27/2025 8:48:13 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Mick Jagger and David Bowie “Dancing In the Street”

Yes, dreadful. Think there might be other covers of that song, also dreadful. For whatever reason only Martha and the Vadnellas could sing that song.


38 posted on 07/27/2025 8:49:50 AM PDT by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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To: GSWarrior

Not necessarily the worst, but the most mutated, 🚨

https://youtu.be/qonTIZGu27w?si=Mf41jXS-MsToYCwI


39 posted on 07/27/2025 8:50:02 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: GSWarrior

Why not do the best?

Not to hijack the thread but,

Nanci Griffith doing Dylan’s ‘Boots of Spanish Leather’ comes to mind

And Bob Dylan doing Patsy Cline’s version of “You Belong to Me” written by Chilton Price.


40 posted on 07/27/2025 8:50:35 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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