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

Posted on 06/23/2013 8:20:17 PM PDT by 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.


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To: Girlene

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


81 posted on 06/23/2013 9:45:47 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep one hand on my shoulder and the other over my mouth.)
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To: Baynative

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


82 posted on 06/23/2013 9:46:52 PM PDT by No One Special
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To: dfwgator
“Young Man Blues” makes me want to go and break stuff.

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

83 posted on 06/23/2013 9:47:37 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Baynative
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)


84 posted on 06/23/2013 9:48:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

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

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


85 posted on 06/23/2013 9:49:20 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Baynative

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


86 posted on 06/23/2013 9:50:15 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Baynative

I like it!


87 posted on 06/23/2013 9:55:18 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: Baynative

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


88 posted on 06/23/2013 9:55:25 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!
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.

89 posted on 06/23/2013 9:55:42 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: RegulatorCountry
My empire of dirt.

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

90 posted on 06/23/2013 9:56:38 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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To: Baynative
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

91 posted on 06/23/2013 9:58:31 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Baynative

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


92 posted on 06/23/2013 9:59:29 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Baynative

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


93 posted on 06/23/2013 10:02:44 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: The Duke
Gloria Gaynor - Never can say goodbye An oldie and a goodie.
94 posted on 06/23/2013 10:05:36 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: Baynative
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)

95 posted on 06/23/2013 10:07:16 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: jjr153

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


96 posted on 06/23/2013 10:07:56 PM PDT by kelly4c (http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2900389%2C41#help)
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To: Baynative

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


97 posted on 06/23/2013 10:10:27 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

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


98 posted on 06/23/2013 10:18:53 PM PDT by gonzo ( Buy more ammo, dammit! You should already have the firearms ... FRegards)
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To: Baynative

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

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


99 posted on 06/23/2013 10:20:35 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Baynative

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


100 posted on 06/23/2013 10:33:52 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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