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.

[Baynative]

Absolutely beautiful. That has always made the hair on my neck stand up.

[No One Special]

Found just searching youtube and is better than anything for “I had a hammer”.

More musical and with a beat, no longer a folk song:

By Gord Dowine and the Country of Miracles who I never heard of.

Got Pete Seeger beat a mile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00KfzlGbzK4

[atc23]

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

Well, that was certainly their intention . . :-)

[Fiji Hill]

Some more covers that I prefer over the originals:

Rock Around the Clock--Jack Richards (1955)

Roll Over Beethoven--The Four Chaps (1956)

Long Tall Sally--Pat Boone (1956)

[Revolting cat!]

Here’s a cartoonist and His Cheap Suit Serenaders covering Harry Roy’s “My Girl’s Pussy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUWfOU4mwo

[dfwgator]

Pat Metheny played a concert in Warsaw and surprised the crowd there by flawlessly performing a cover of a famous theme from an old Polish TV series called “Polskie Drogi”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uyv2jTZio

[Girlene]

I like it!

[Revolting cat!]

Aussie Frank Ifield recorded a whole bunch of covers and just about every time outdid the originals and other covers. “I’m Confessin’”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_WnqnfLU1c

[Fiji Hill]

Here’s a cartoonist and His Cheap Suit Serenaders covering Harry Roy’s “My Girl’s Pussy"

I just played that for the cat, who is sitting below the computer.

[The Cajun]

My empire of dirt.

Think the older we get, the more we reflect back on things, sometimes in that way.

[dead]

Some of my favorites.

Tuck & Patti doing a folk version of a couple of Jimi Hendrix tunes, with some beautiful guitar playing.

Castles Made Of Sand/Little Wing

And Chet Baker, near death, covering Elvis Costello.

Almost Blue

The Band covering Springsteen:

Atlantic City

[The Duke]

I’m going to have to go with “Never Can Say Goodbye” by Gloria Gaynor.

[Revolting cat!]

The J.Geils Band before they went high heels and disco, their first LP as good as the early Stones, the Contours “First I Look at the Purse”.

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

[Girlene]

Gloria Gaynor - Never can say goodbye An oldie and a goodie.

[Fiji Hill]

Not sure this can be considered a cover, but Lesley Gore did an interesting version of Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov's "Song of India" (1896). Here's her version, and an earlier version.

Just Let Me Cry--Lesley Gore (1963)

Song of India--Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (1921)

[kelly4c]

Please tell me why the younger crowd all think Manson’s ghoulish sounding Sweet dreams sounds better than Eurythmic’s original.

[Revolting cat!]

I’m reading a fascinating book “Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll” by Larry Birnbaum (check out the crazy prices of the hardback edition on Amazon!), which traces elements of this tune back to the early 1900, and lists many if not all covers of it. This the still the best version, I think: Johnny Burnette Trio “Train Kept A-Rollin”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufzRV3xspYA

[gonzo]

‘Don’t Blame Me’ by the Everly Brothers, first released by Rudy Vallee in 1933 ..................................................... FRegards

[Revolting cat!]

“Same Kind of Crazy” Delbert McClinton (Bekka Bramlett, yes of those famous parents, on backup vocals.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XG5mBPZFGs

[Revolting cat!]

If this isn’t the best version, I don’t know what could be:

Dinah Washington - “Cry me a River”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx6MQ7tmgSc