OT: Favored Alternate Arrangements of Songs

[Sifaka]

A Night in Tunisia

Original composed and played by Dizzy Gillespie, ~1944.

This one recorded in 1963.

 

[Sifaka]

Mid-fifties, J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding and some 6 other trombone players and great sidemen.

 

[Replicant]

Grateful Dead cover Chuck Berry's Promised Land

 

[Replicant]

Linda Ronstadt covers Chuck Berry's Back In The USA

 

[Replicant]

Eric Clapton covers Bob Marley's I Shot The Sheriff

 

[Bigboote]

I was just listening to this in the shop and thought I’d post a couple of songs by the composers. Both happen to have been hits by Roberta Flack, and both couldn’t be more different than her versions. First up percussionist Ralph MacDonald:

 

[Bigboote]

Next up are husband and wife Ewan Maccoll and Peggy Seeger with the original version of The First Time ever I Saw Your Face from the late 50’s:

 

[Littlemin]

From The Odd Couple TV show, a breathtakingly great guitar player, Roy Clark, absolutely killing it doing “Malagueña“

 

[CB360]

My Band, Wicked Game.....

 

[Bigboote]

I was watching the fifth straight day of rain and thought of Peter Gabriel's song "Here comes the flood." I've never loved the version from the Car album. This is the one from Robert Fripp's Exposure album. From what I've read, Gabriel was very dissatisfied with his version so wanted to re-record it with a more sparse arrangement, and IMO it was a very wise decision.

 

[Scud49]

Mary McCaslin doing Lennon-McCartney's beautiful "Things We Said Today":

 

[Replicant]

Bonnie Raitt covers Robert Palmer's You're Gonna Get What's Coming

 

[Replicant]

Billy Idol covers Simple Mind's Don't You Forget About Me

 

[Replicant]

Elvis Costello covers Burt Bacharach's I'll Never Fall In Love Again

 

[Replicant]

Nirvana covers David Bowie's Man Who Sold The World

 

[Bigboote]

Mary McCaslin doing Lennon-McCartney's beautiful "Things We Said Today":

I got a CD of Hard Day’s Night maybe 20 years ago after not having heard the album since I was maybe 8 or 10 years old. Being a folkie and knowing this and a couple of other versions, I was surprised it was actually a Paul song. (Same with John’s You Can’t Do That, which I thought was an old blues/R&R song.)

 

[Sifaka]

In 1959, Horace Silver from Norwalk wrote and recorded Sister Sadie. Great recording on his album Blowin' the Blues Away.

Horace Silver Quintet - Sister Sadie

Horace Silver Quintet - Sister Sadie (1959) Personnel: Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor sax), Horace Silver (piano), Gene Taylor (bass), Louis Hay...

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About five years later, Woody Herman and yet another iteration of his Thundering Herd featured Sal Nistico doing a fine hard bop version.

 

[Replicant]

The Rolling Stones cover Bob & Earl's Harlem Shuffle

 

[Scud49]

I got a CD of Hard Day’s Night maybe 20 years ago after not having heard the album since I was maybe 8 or 10 years old. Being a folkie and knowing this and a couple of other versions, I was surprised it was actually a Paul song. (Same with John’s You Can’t Do That, which I thought was an old blues/R&R song.)

I just did a search on Mary McCaslin - tragically she died a few days ago at age 75 from a rare neurological disease......

 

[Beemer]

Nirvana covers David Bowie's Man Who Sold The World

I was never a fan but I love this cover.

 

[Bigboote]

I just did a search on Mary McCaslin - tragically she died a few days ago at age 75 from a rare neurological disease......

I noticed that, too. Sounds awful.

My favorite local (DC area) singer, Grace Griffith, died a few years ago in her early 60’s of Parkinson’s. Here’s one from her:

 

[Kaizen]

Martina McBride covered Lynn Anderson's "I never promise you a rose garden", and then two of them singing together.

 

[SCNCHuskie]

From the famous Sgt. Pepper album, this song was used as a theme for the TV show Wonder Years.

If you are going to link this video you just have to show this version, which might be one of the funniest things ever put on YouTube.

Joe Cocker Misheard Lyrics with subtitles

I DO NOT OWN THIS AUDIOCOPYRIGHT Cotillion/Atlantic Records

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[Scud49]

Alex Taylor really outdid his more famous brother's James with his own version of "Highway Song":

 

[Scud49]

Waylon Jennings doing Marshall Tucker's "Can't You See":