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Posted this on the board before Ground Zero but needs to be heard again. It's a fine example of doing a cover and putting your own style on it while keeping the essence of the original.

Waiting In Vain by Diannne Reeves from the excellent Beautiful Life album from a few years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKof6v6UDOQ

Not actually a hippie but I was around at the time.This sounds so them but was done before by Wilbert Harrison.I believe Brian Ferry had a go too but I don't want to talk about that. Canned Heat. Lets work together.
https://youtu.be/tnPkEyP_Tzg

Gaspode wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 23, 2018 12:18 am

Posted this on the board before Ground Zero but needs to be heard again. It's a fine example of doing a cover and putting your own style on it while keeping the essence of the original.

Waiting In Vain by Diannne Reeves from the excellent Beautiful Life album from a few years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKof6v6UDOQ

I think I liked it first time you posted but that really is a fantastic cover Gassy.

Psmith wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 23, 2018 2:42 am

Not actually a hippie but I was around at the time.This sounds so them but was done before by Wilbert Harrison.I believe Brian Ferry had a go too but I don't want to talk about that. Canned Heat. Lets work together.
https://youtu.be/tnPkEyP_Tzg

Yes, I loved this when it charted in 1969 and I would have been about 11 years old.

Mind you, I also loved 'Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes' around the same time so I can't claim impeccable musical credibility from such an early age. On the other hand 'Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes' is a belting pop song and I once met one of the writers in a pub in South London.

Thinking about it, that's also not a bad reflection of my eclectic taste nearly half-a-century later (and a retained love of kitschy pop music).

I don't get sniffy about others taste in music.
To continue the hippie theme just a bit.
Joni Mitchell (the writer)performed it as did Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
But this captures the mood best,I think.
Mathews Southern Comfort
Woodstock
https://youtu.be/Kn9hi9fAwUQ

Toots and the Maytals
Take me home country roads (John Denver)
https://youtu.be/lQFKMar4x-w

Couple of decent covers there Psmith - both preferable to the originals too.

Are you Melbourne, Australia or Melbourne, Derbyshire?

I didn't realize there was one in Derbyshire.Although I did spend a week in Chesterfield years ago
It's 8.20 am here..yawn....

I wonder why he chose a Sister Sledge song ?

The Fall

Lost in music.

https://youtu.be/GuKXYeRCUzI

Gaspode wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 23, 2018 12:18 am

Posted this on the board before Ground Zero but needs to be heard again. It's a fine example of doing a cover and putting your own style on it while keeping the essence of the original.

Waiting In Vain by Diannne Reeves from the excellent Beautiful Life album from a few years ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKof6v6UDOQ

So good I was moved to buy the CD. Strangely, it's not available to download or stream (from Apple/iTunes).

Joni Mitchell wrote Woodstock. It was on the B-side of Big Yellow Taxi. She missed the festival because of a TV commitment.

Here's Greta Van Fleet having a bash at Fairport's Meet On The Ledge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2CRzXAPPEY

I think I've got this right.
"I heard it through the grapevine" was first recorded by Marvin Gaye but Gladys and her pips released her's first.
So the cover version came after the original.
I don't want to talk about CCR

I prefer Marvin

https://youtu.be/hajBdDM2qdg

Hard to separate those two.

I'd add this one which I maybe prefer of them all although The Slits are a bit marmite - I adore them:

The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

Not mad keen on the Fairport cover but OK.

The Fall are a bit like The Slits - operating outside the rules but that's one reason they're great, if a hard listen sometimes.

I like the Slits version too. I've go the album that, that is on but in my shame rarely go past Grapevine

Undie wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:51 am

Apple - Killing (in the name of)

That's excellent!

It may be to my advantage that I don't know the original though.

Reputed to be one of the first rock and roll hits. (possibly)
"Move it on over" by Hank Williams.
This is G.Thorogood.
https://youtu.be/jlV3zeWnWZY

Maximus wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 27, 2018 3:21 pm

Undie wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 27, 2018 11:51 am

Apple - Killing (in the name of)

That's excellent!

It may be to my advantage that I don't know the original though.

again, that surprises me https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ

Thanks Undi - I'd pretty much given up on contemporary music by the 90's which is probably why that passed me by - you'll notice that's where the big gaps are in my music education. Still, I listened to a lot of jazz, latin, lounge and classic singers (Sinatra and the like) so I'd argue the time was better spent.

I'd also gone through a fair amount of the early post-punk versions of a lot of 90's sound, Killing Joke and the like come to mind, and I wasn't mad on it even then.

I'd take that cover over the original, that's for sure.

I've got a soft spot for Ronnie Lane.Not just his music but it seemed like he was a nice bloke.
This is his version of Roll On Babe
https://youtu.be/M13p4HOCUko

It's no Patti Smith but then I didn't expect it to be, however this British Invasion copy american band Shadow of Knight version of Gloria ain't bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdAezc-RX-o