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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #800 on: 03 June, 2020, 02:00:46 pm »
Actually, it was brave of Janis to go for Piece Of My Heart after Erma Franklin's unbeatable original.  Written by Bert Berns one of the top writers (Here Comes The Night, et al) and reputedly one of the biggest shysters in the business!

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #801 on: 03 June, 2020, 02:04:52 pm »
Erma Franklin's unbeatable original

One for the "songs I never knew were covers" thread...

Listening to Erma right now. Lovely.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #802 on: 03 June, 2020, 02:24:37 pm »
Boody teenagers, making all that noise. Probably don't get up before afternoon, either

Sina https://www.youtube.com/user/sinadrumming/videos

At this stage more of a pleasant curiosity than great, (<-- that's not fair, she's good) but given that she bashes it out on a pretty basic drumkit, worth a listen, something in her list for everyone.

I've just sat through the full 10 minutes of her take on Bat Out Of Hell. I know what you mean - very good indeed, rather than truly great, but above all else she's a lot of fun to watch, mainly because of how much she seems to be enjoying what she's doing. Which is great.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #803 on: 04 June, 2020, 05:23:51 am »
Black Dog led me to Aloyna, who is also rather pleasant  And brave to go for Joplin's A Piece of My Heart

The magic of the YouTube sidebar leads us to another singing model from the east (this time Ukraine) doing Led Zep:

https://youtu.be/PCDZwgtNxRU

Also AC/DC

https://youtu.be/f2p0xrY4CMs
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #804 on: 04 June, 2020, 11:17:36 am »
Back in Black did you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y75ZP8UFZdw


And  Thunderstruck  - which is worth playing to the end for the crowd 'reaction'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #805 on: 04 June, 2020, 04:39:10 pm »
Actually, it was brave of Janis to go for Piece Of My Heart after Erma Franklin's unbeatable original.  Written by Bert Berns one of the top writers (Here Comes The Night, et al) and reputedly one of the biggest shysters in the business!

Wasn't he also the real person behind "Medley-Russell", writer(s) of Twist and Shout, among other ditties?
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #806 on: 10 June, 2020, 05:19:08 pm »
Second release from Blackberry Smoke's Capricorn Studios CV-19 charity EP. This time with added flute as they are covering The Marshall Tucker Band.

Take The Highway

https://youtu.be/Pd-wis4z8o0

Which makes me think of flutes in rock:

Marshall Tucker Band
Jethro Tull
Focus

Any more?

Thanks to DJ Random and bootlegpedia.com the flautist playing on "Are You Experienced"  - the version from the first show from the third night of Hendrix' "3 Nights At Winterland" ["recording of dubious provenance" - Ed.] has been identified as one Virgil Gonzalez.  Let this make you all happy in these troubled times.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #807 on: 11 June, 2020, 11:24:53 pm »

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #808 on: 12 June, 2020, 10:24:23 am »
Actually, it was brave of Janis to go for Piece Of My Heart after Erma Franklin's unbeatable original.  Written by Bert Berns one of the top writers (Here Comes The Night, et al) and reputedly one of the biggest shysters in the business!

Wasn't he also the real person behind "Medley-Russell", writer(s) of Twist and Shout, among other ditties?

The very same.  Also Hang On Sloopy. and almost a whole terrific album for Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters.  Also ended up outmanoeuvring Van Morrison over the royalties from "Brown-Eyed Girl", I think.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #809 on: 12 June, 2020, 09:20:32 pm »
Laura Marling - For The Sake of the Song (Townz Van Zandt)

https://youtu.be/N-SXfoQTdTg
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #810 on: 13 June, 2020, 10:48:31 pm »
Morgan James - Oh Me Oh My (Aretha Franklin)

https://youtu.be/c5Un3qe4b1k
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #811 on: 16 June, 2020, 10:22:44 am »
12. Emily Linge is 12

Morning has broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgB1-Von_g

There's a bit of echo in the production, but a few other of her vids show that she will likely be Rather Good.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #812 on: 16 June, 2020, 10:45:01 am »
12. Emily Linge is 12

Morning has broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgB1-Von_g

There's a bit of echo in the production, but a few other of her vids show that she will likely be Rather Good.

Blimey, her Desperado is ridiculously good for a 12 year old, scratch that it's better than most adult covers of it.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #813 on: 16 June, 2020, 11:49:13 am »
Even more blimey - when she was 11 along with her brother - Time after time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsjTR7j8OA

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #814 on: 19 June, 2020, 05:25:30 pm »
Two covers of  "La chanson des vieux amants". Very different from each other but I like them both:

Alison Moyet

https://youtu.be/rWj8lv29sq8

Nara Noïan

https://youtu.be/Ku7QCAwbn-k
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #815 on: 19 June, 2020, 05:42:54 pm »
Stumbled across Mea Culpa Jazz on YouTube. Seem to be a pretty competent but not very interesting French jazz covers band. Except for this cover of "Le Vent Nous Portera" which was originally a big hit in Europe for French band Noir Désir, it sounded nothing like this though.

https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #816 on: 20 June, 2020, 12:15:02 pm »
In an attempt to fight you obscurists at your own game
First Aid Kit covering Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
Norwegian band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.

Another haunting from my yoof
NOFX "doing" Champs Elysées
This was the biggest song in Belgium.  They manage singing in Foreign much less well thoughbut.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #817 on: 20 June, 2020, 12:35:47 pm »
In an attempt to fight you obscurists at your own game
First Aid Kit covering Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
Norwegian Swedish band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.


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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #818 on: 20 June, 2020, 01:30:10 pm »
In an attempt to fight you obscurists at your own game
First Aid Kit covering Complainte pour Ste. Catherine
Norwegian band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.

Another haunting from my yoof
NOFX "doing" Champs Elysées
This was the biggest song in Belgium.  They manage singing in Foreign much less well thoughbut.

Tread softly, for when you "tread" on Kate and Anna McGarrigle you tread on my dreams.  I was prepared to be disappointed but it's really rather good.  They have the "blood harmony" of the original, if not quite the spine-tingling timbre of the McGarrigles.  A good effort!

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #819 on: 20 June, 2020, 02:38:35 pm »
Norwegian Swedish band covering French Canukistani Quebekistani song.
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Aye, t'was described to me as Norwegian (or possibly Swedish) and I cared not enough to be certain.
Until this cover was shared with me I had never realised that the McGarrigles did music in English.
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #820 on: 21 June, 2020, 12:15:50 am »
Stumbled across Mea Culpa Jazz on YouTube. Seem to be a pretty competent but not very interesting French jazz covers band. Except for this cover of "Le Vent Nous Portera" which was originally a big hit in Europe for French band Noir Désir, it sounded nothing like this though.

https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
The Noir Desir original is a fine pop song but, unfortunately, I can’t listen to it without the knowledge that the singer was a deeply unpleasant man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Cantat?wprov=sfti1

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #821 on: 21 June, 2020, 12:20:50 am »
This never gets old:
https://youtu.be/tVh_54oP4Zk

Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #822 on: 21 June, 2020, 09:38:19 am »
Stumbled across Mea Culpa Jazz on YouTube. Seem to be a pretty competent but not very interesting French jazz covers band. Except for this cover of "Le Vent Nous Portera" which was originally a big hit in Europe for French band Noir Désir, it sounded nothing like this though.

https://youtu.be/VYGLHJPfits
The Noir Desir original is a fine pop song but, unfortunately, I can’t listen to it without the knowledge that the singer was a deeply unpleasant man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Cantat?wprov=sfti1

Not a very nice man at all is he. Its amazing anyone still wants to work with him.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #823 on: 22 June, 2020, 12:47:08 pm »
Tread softly, for when you "tread" on Kate and Anna McGarrigle you tread on my dreams.  I was prepared to be disappointed but it's really rather good.  They have the "blood harmony" of the original, if not quite the spine-tingling timbre of the McGarrigles.  A good effort!

Tbh, I never realised Complainte Pour Ste Catherine was anything other than a Kirsty MacColl song:
https://youtu.be/tmmelsbp96k

Have to say, I probably prefer both the McGarrigles' original (now that I've checked it out) and the First Aid Kit version. Although Kirsty's version is worth noting for her party trick, which she does on a number of her recordings, of doing all her own harmonies - quite a skill.

That's on her excellent 1989 album Kite, which is also notable for her lovely version of the Kinks' Days:
https://youtu.be/HNJcd1pTaL0

And of course her fab version of You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby - with Johnny Marr on guitar!
https://youtu.be/oo8xJ6cJeu0

Best Kirsty MacColl cover, though, is her definitive version of A New England, which she totally owns - kind of shows up how Billy Bragg's performing skills don't quite live up to his songwriting skills:
https://youtu.be/Vnzpg5GgQCo
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Re: Great cover versions
« Reply #824 on: 22 June, 2020, 01:06:39 pm »
Even more blimey - when she was 11 along with her brother - Time after time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBsjTR7j8OA
Frighteningly she's getting better, Somewhere Only We Know, stick with it to hear the bits that, to me anyhow, sounds like her voice maturing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7DVJIQu9Fw