OT: Favorite Cover's of Classic or Iconic Songs

[Kaizen]

I Have You​

 

[Aluminny69]

Question for MSGRET and others: Do you prefer a note for note cover version, or a totally new arrangement of an old song?

In the meantime, here's a little humor for a elf declared resident punster

 

[darrell]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[TerpWomenFan]

One of my favorite R&B songs of all time. Originally done by Skylark.

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Hoops66]

Popularized first by the Yale grad Rudy Vallee who also made the Maine "Stein Song" famous(?). I'll drink to both schools, although I went to neither...I'll drink to any others as well!

 

[Bigboote]

Question for MSGRET and others: Do you prefer a note for note cover version, or a totally new arrangement of an old song?

I much prefer that it's creative, although note-for-note recreations can be wonderful. I offer two covers of Enter Sandman by Metallica from the same group. First up is the note-for-note, when the members of the Warning were nine to fourteen years old:

 

[Bigboote]

Now a recent rendition with a new approach:

 

[Aluminny69]

Mike can literally cover any song, especially Beatle songs. Love this version, with Mona Lisa Twins, who also cover many songs on the sixties.

 

[TerpWomenFan]

 

[Aluminny69]

Always loved this song. A long time before I listened to the words, and realized it was about a guy crashing his car, Who knew?

 

[Kaizen]

Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were​

 

[Kaizen]

One of Joni Mitchell best song, Summertime.

 

[Aluminny69]

And of course the Boneyard's favorite cover group, Fossils and Foxes. Most of us fit in the former category.

 

[Bigboote]

I posted Toots and the Maytals covering John Denver in the folk music thread. Here's Robert Palmer covering Toots:

 

[Aluminny69]

From the first time I heard this alternate, sultry version of the Tom Jones hit of the sixties, I fell in love with it. So did Tom Jones.

 

[MSGRET]

Question for MSGRET and others: Do you prefer a note for note cover version, or a totally new arrangement of an old song?

In the meantime, here's a little humor for a elf declared resident punster

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It can be either, a cover of a song can be sung note by note or a different arrangement, it's still a cover of the song.

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Hoops66]

"Play it Sam" sure, but Rudy Vallee was the first to sing it 11 years earlier.

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[Scud49]

Waylon Jennings covering Marshall Tucker:

 

[Aluminny69]

It can be either, a cover of a song can be sung note by note or a different arrangement, it's still a cover of the song.

True, but the question was, which do you prefer? Some people don't like alternate versions, some do. How about you, or others?

 

[CTBballfan243]

The Scottish Band December covers U2's A Sort of Home Coming

 

[Kaizen]

Debbie Boone, You Light Up My Life.

 

[Aluminny69]

"Play it Sam" sure, but Rudy Vallee was the first to sing it 11 years earlier.

How about this version of the Edith Piaf WW2 song?

 

[MSGRET]

A group of young ones that I recently discovered while surfing You Tube.

 

[CTBballfan243]

December covers the band Big Country "in a Big Country"

 

[Scud49]

Wooden Ships - The Airplane's version of the CS&N classic song: