OT: The Song Game

[RichZ]

Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water

Jay McShann - Smoke Gets in your Eyes

Jerome Kern's widow tried to stop the Platters from recording this song, because she didn't want a black vocal group to "destroy it." Wonder what she thought of a straight jazz and blues singer doing a version of it?
But she may have been dead by then.

 

[mauconnfan]

Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes

 

[RichZ]

Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes

Kim Wilson - Gumbo Blues

 

[jayteeman]

Kim Wilson - Gumbo Blues

Jackie Wilson ... ( your love keeps lifting me) higher and higher

 

[RichZ]

Jackie Wilson ... ( your love keeps lifting me) higher and higher
A couple decades or so back, I was driving through North Carolina and listening to an oldies station on the radio. Some unintelligibly southern lady called in a request in her sickly sweet southern belle voice, and asked to hear "R&R". DJ said sure, he'd get it cued up while on commercial break, and play it "when we come back". Sat through the commercial to find out what the hell song she wanted to hear. Yep, it was Higher and Higher.

Jackie Wilson and Laverne Baker - Think Twice


I normally wouldn't use the same artist to match a word, but I couldn't resist playing this one.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Jackie Wilson and Laverne Baker - Think Twice

I normally wouldn't use the same artist to match a word, but I couldn't resist playing this one.

When I saw "think twice" this popped into my head

Randy Travis - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.

 

[RichZ]

When I saw "think twice" this popped into my head

Randy Travis - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.

Hubert Sumlin = Sometimes I'm Right

 

[jayteeman]

Hubert Sumlin = Sometimes I'm Right

Chris Stapleton - Sometimes I Cry

 

[RichZ]

Chris Stapleton - Sometimes I Cry

Irma Thomas - Cry On

Combination Song Game post and Death Storm warning!
Watch out! Irma is coming.

 

[jayteeman]

Irma Thomas - Cry On

Timmy Thomas - Why Can't we Live Together

 

[mauconnfan]

The Turtles - Happy Together

 

[RichZ]

The Turtles - Happy Together

Little Willie Littlefield - Happy Payday

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Little Willie Littlefield - Happy Payday

Johnny Otis - Willie and the Hand Jive

 

[RichZ]

Johnny Otis - Willie and the Hand Jive

Otis Redding - Your Precious Love

A more than credible cover of the original by Jerry Butler & the Impressions.

 

[mauconnfan]

Asia - Open Your Eyes

 

[Dove]

Hall and Oates - Private Eyes

 

[RichZ]

Hall and Oates - Private Eyes

Little Willie John - Fever
Yes, this is the original version, predating Peggy Lee by a couple years.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Little Willie John - Fever
Yes, this is the original version, predating Peggy Lee by a couple years.

I gotta go with the Elvis version. Elvis Presley - Fever

 

[RichZ]

I gotta go with the Elvis version. Elvis Presley - Fever

Elvis Presley - Good Rockin' tonight.

 

[jayteeman]

Elvis Presley - Good Rockin' tonight.

It's Good To Be King - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

 

[RichZ]

It's Good To Be King - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
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Gil Bernal - King Solomon's Blues

 

[mauconnfan]

Buddy Guy - Damn Rigt I've Got the Blues

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Buddy Guy - Damn Rigt I've Got the Blues

Buddy Rich - Bugle Call Rag

 

[meyers7]

Buddy Rich - Bugle Call Rag

Fake ID - Big and Rich (featuring Gretchen Wilson)

 

[mauconnfan]

Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally