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uconnfan68 said:
Bruce Cockburn, “If I had a Rocket Launcher”.
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Saw a YouTube cover of that by Blackie and the Rodeo Kings that was great. Not sure where the covers thread was... this belongs.
 
We just hosted a niece and her family, including their two- and a four-year-olds, for a couple of days. What a hoot! It gives me faith in the future. This afternoon this song was going through my head. My father, a huge Billie Holliday fan, loved this version from the time he heard it.

 
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Bigboote said:
We just hosted a niece and her family, including their two- and a four-year-olds, for a couple of days. What a hoot! It gives me faith in the future. This afternoon this song was going through my head. My father, a huge Billie Holliday fan, loved this version from the time he heard it.

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I'll still take Billie's.
 
Hope said:
Somebody had to say it

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While trying to listen to this I kept pushing the translate button and nothing happened. I had to quit 20 seconds in.
 
Instead Cassandra Complex lover, try this, written when African American's were still being hung at least once a month in Texas alone.

 
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JordyG said:
I'll still take Billie's.
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There is room for all of it. Beauty is in the eye, or in this case, ear of the beholder. As Tony Williams sang , and before him Bill Kenny sang,"To Each His Own".
 
JordyG said:
I'll still take Billie's.
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I heard BST's first, so have a slight preference for it. (I think the album came out when I was about 8, and when my older sister went to college, I bought my own copy and have owned it ever since.) I do think it's cool that my father, having listened to Lady Day's version for 30 years, still liked BST's (not as much, but he still liked it). He also loved Janis Joplin's version of Summertime. Both of those modern renditions are either really creative or take many liberties with the songs, depending on your point of view.
 
I first heard the BS&T version, so it remains my favorite too.
 
Bigboote said:
I heard BST's first, so have a slight preference for it. (I think the album came out when I was about 8, and when my older sister went to college, I bought my own copy and have owned it ever since.) I do think it's cool that my father, having listened to Lady Day's version for 30 years, still liked BST's (not as much, but he still liked it). He also loved Janis Joplin's version of Summertime. Both of those modern renditions are either really creative or take many liberties with the songs, depending on your point of view.
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I really liked the first B,S, and T released in 1968. Al Kooper led a very eclectic ensemble on Child Is Father to The Man, but he left and Katz and Colomby held the gang together, picked up David Clayton Thomas to do lead vocals, and went on to record some wonderful stuff. I was a freshman in college in 1969 when B, S, and T was released, and "And When I Die" was one of the brightest of many hits they produced. I especially appreciated Eric Satie's Variations on a Theme. You Made Me So Very Happy certainly did just that for many fans. So Billie is impeccable, but B,S and T paid homage very well. as for Summertime, Billie Ella, Louie, Janis were all great, but I love Billy Preston's unique take on that wonderful Gershwin tune. As for you being 8 years old when B,S and T was released, earth years and Lectron years must not align! :D
 
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Doesn't exactly fit in with this theme, but the mention of Steve Katz and Al Kooper made me recall this rather fine effort:

 
nwhoopfan said:
I think most of Simon & Garfunkel's songs fit here. Several already, here's another.
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Well if we're gonna do Sound of Silence, better do this version.

Sound of Silence - Disturbed

 
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What's Going On - Marvin Gaye got the big publicity for this one, but to me Les McCann's version put the real heart and soul into it:

 
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