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In Reply to: What is the worst cover version of all time? nt posted by dave c on February 19, 2007 at 16:22:47:
good, well, at least amusing:Tiny Tim and Bob Dylan: I've Got You Babe
Andy Griffith: House of the Rising Sun
Mae West: Twist and Shout
William Shatner: Lucy in the Sky
William Shatner: Mr. Tambourine Man
Sebastian Cabot: It Aint me Babe (I have a whole album of Mr. French reciting Bob Dylan songs).
Dolly Parton: Stairway to Heaven
Linda Ronstadt: Allison (well, just about anything she covers is bound to be bad).Also, check out a whole album of metal covers by Pat Boone on an album called "No More Mr. Nice Guy." It includes: Love Hurts, Smoke on the Water, Paradise City, AND A WHOLE LOT MORE!
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Clearly you need to listen to her cover of Emmy Lou Harris's Gram
Parsons lament, 'Boulder to Birmingham.' You are a flinty dude if
that does not move you. Regards,
but also a good cover up artist. Dolly managed to get away with stealing her hit "9 to 5" from some poor unknown artist who sent in a version to her manager. That artist could not prove, in her law suit, that Dolly actually received a copy from her manager, so the incredible similarities were conceivably just a coincidence. It helps to be rich and famous.
NT
but I don't have a link. The concepts of the two songs were almost identical, though the specific lyrics differed. The music was quite similar. There was no disputing that the other woman sent Dolly's manager a recording before Dolly penned her version. The issue was whether the manager shared that recording with Dolly. The manager claimed he did not so do. I suppose it is possible that Dolly got word of just the basic concept and wrote her own song, but I personally thought there was too much similarity in the music for that to be the case.
Unsubstantiated slander; against board rules too. Not to mention,
unfair and probably libelous. Regards,
absolutly beautiful.
Her relatively recent back to the roots couple of albums are very good indeed.
I don't think she has to justify herself after so many years and writing such great songs.
Coat of Many Colors on Emmylou's first album, Pieces of the Sky. By the way that album credits Boulder to Birmingham to Harris/Bill Danoff.
I almost overlooked her due to her Grand Old Opry roots but bought some LPs cause of the flashy covers. Damn glad I did. And no, it wasn't the "cans" that enticed me. Ok, but just a little.
...until you got to Linda Ronstadt - she's one of my favorites.
. . . as long as she doesn't go within a country mile of a standard. Nearly as bad as Rod Stewart. Yuck.
We certainly disagree about popular standard vocals if you think Linda Rondtadt is bad.At worst she is merely average.
Heard her singing live a few years ago I was surprised that she sounded better live than in her popular vocals recordings ... while Aaron Neville wounded worse live.
I can only think of one Rondstadt song that I thought was good enough to get into one of my many DIY Popular Standards mixes (Perfidia sung in Spanish). She seems significantly better singing songs in Spanish.
There was another song (English) that almost made the cut for one of my CDR's.
But her singing is not bad -- it's just average. Much better than Rod Stewart maiming popular vocals. Much better than the typical screaming and braying sould divas you often hear today, IMHO.
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NT
I actually love her voice, and I do like a lot of her covers, but there are some that come off pretty weird, like Costello's Allison, or her Zevon covers (maybe it's the wrong gender thing).I am also a bit perturbed by the instances where her covers are incredibly successful when the originals are SO MUCH better. Even worse is when most listeners don't even know the originals at all, like her cover of Orbison's "Blue Bayou."
...I think I heard her covers of Orbison, Costello, Zevon and the Stones (Tumbling Dice) before the originals, so I ended up in many cases preferring hers.That's what happened if you lived in So. CA in the '70s.
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