Sunday Night fun topic

R&R ^ | 6/22/13 | Baynative

[Baynative]

What is your favorite all time cover song? Some folks say a song can never be improved from the original presentation, but there are several cases I say disprove that theory.

[TADSLOS]

Shinedown does a decent rendition of Simple Man.

[Fiji Hill]

Patti Page recorded "Tennessee Waltz" in 1950. As far as I know, the first version was by Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys, from 1948, and it can be heard here.

[Revolting cat!]

My all-time favorite cover. Produced by John Phillips.
Genevieve Waite - Let’s go slumming on Park Avenue. Irving Berlin composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwPbMdjnA80

[Girlene]

lol

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Here is a good one

Kay Starr - Bonaparte’s Retreat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbwX2DhJrw4

[dfwgator]

“Step On” cover of (He’s Gonna Step On You Again) - Happy Mondays

[Baynative]

I'd never heard that, thanks.

I've been looking for a video clip of the original Dylan song in the movie of Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. It always hit me as a really poignant scene. Slim Pickens who was the renegade sheriff (or deputy) was shot and he went to die sitting by the river outside his home. His wife came and sat near him as they accept the end. It puts the song in perspective when you realize it was written for this scene. Here's a short clip

[Fiji Hill]

Elvis Presley covered only one song by the Eagles. Presley may have been a fine performer, and this is one of his better recordings, but in my humble opinion, the original by the Eagles was better.

Tryin' to Get to You--The Eagles

Tryin' to Get to You--Elvis Presley

[Mike Darancette]

Exactly so.

[Joe 6-pack]

Zevon covered that on his album The Wind, which he put together after he'd been diagnosed as terminal. Curiously, the jewel in the crown of that album was the song, Keep Me In Your Heart For A While, which was itself covered admirably by Liliana Rose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rweQlz1TQYg

[Girlene]

Diana Krall singing Burt Bacharach's The Look of Love. I know, I know - the performance was at the WhiteHouse (Obama), but it was a great concert.

[Fiji Hill]

Here's an interesting cover of "Let's Go Slumming":

United Nations Airman (Let's Go Slumming)--Charlie & His Orchestra (vocal by Karl Schwedler), 1943

[The Cajun]

Johnny Cash - “Hurt.”

Powerful, had to watch it twice.

[Revolting cat!]

I don’t know if it’s possible to outdo the Yardbirds “Heart Full of Soul”, but Chris Isaak gives it a good shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr8CRgMSACs

[atc23]

. . . . . Cochrane’s “Summertime Blues”. .

yes, from 'Live at Leeds" - You can't have too much volume when you play that record - I like to rattle the windows and floors on that.

[Girlene]

Seriously? :-)

[dfwgator]

“Young Man Blues” makes me want to go and break stuff.

[radioactivereb]

I really enjoy Jose Feliciano’s take on the Doors Light My Fire...

[RegulatorCountry]

My empire of dirt.

[Baynative]

...and now there's this goodie. Lyle Lovett and Al Green doing Willie Nelson's "Time Slips Away"

(pretty special, I think)