O/T Cover versions

[BigLadonOS]

Possibly the greatest cover version of all time was recorded by the Animals. The song had been sung for many years by many people but it was eventually recorded by Tom Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster in 1928.

Enjoy.

[monty_rhodes]

A song that I like a great deal but may be too sentimental for some is Raul Malo's version of the Stephen Foster ballad Beautiful Dreamer. It's a song which has resonances from my childhood which may partly explain my attachment.

[BigLadonOS]

Joan Baez also did a not very good cover imo of the Jackson Browne classic Fountain of Sorrow.

My mum had an album by Jackson Browne called "Late for the sky" and the only track I really liked on it was a song called "Before the Deluge" I don't know why I liked that particular track so much but it was always the one I put on whenever I just wanted to get myself out of feeling gloomy and down. The song always put a smile on my face.

I've not really heard that much of his music other than that album so I cannot comment to much about his music.

P:S: You were right about Joan Baez version monty it's rubbish lol.

[monty_rhodes]

My mum had an album by Jackson Browne called "Late for the sky" and the only track I really liked on it was a song called "Before the Deluge" I don't know why I liked that particular track so much but it was always the one I put on whenever I just wanted to get myself out of feeling gloomy and down. The song always put a smile on my face.

I've not really heard that much of his music other than that album so I cannot comment to much about his music.

P:S: You were right about Joan Baez version monty it's rubbish lol.

Well, Fountain of Sorrow is on your mum's album. I like it but will give "Before the Deluge" a play. I'm a bit biased about Baez (!); I think she's a pain in the rrse; Social Justice Warriro, Peacenick etc, etc. I do like her composition Diamonds and Rust though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

[BigLadonOS]

Well, Fountain of Sorrow is on your mum's album. I like it but will give "Before the Deluge" a play. I'm a bit biased about Baez (!); I think she's a pain in the rrse; Social Justice Warriro, Peacenick etc, etc. I do like her composition Diamonds and Rust though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

Yea monty I have heard it but in all honesty I find it ok but nothing more.

[monty_rhodes]

Yea monty I have heard it but in all honesty I find it ok but nothing more.

That's OK. I like it but it's not on my Desert Island Discs shortlist!

[CTMilller]

Well, Fountain of Sorrow is on your mum's album. I like it but will give "Before the Deluge" a play. I'm a bit biased about Baez (!); I think she's a pain in the rrse; Social Justice Warriro, Peacenick etc, etc. I do like her composition Diamonds and Rust though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8

I'm a massive Jackson Browne fan and have been ever since I saw his set on the Old Grey Whistle Test in, I think, 1972 when his first album had just come out in the UK. (It's called simply 'Jackson Browne' but tends to be called "Saturate Before Using" because of the front cover graphics.) "Late For The Sky" was his third album released in 1974 after "Everyman".

(Sugar Tiler of these boards briefly met Browne at the time of the OGWT performance and has told me a little of those times. Sugar was a minion in Browne's record company's London office and was responsible for shepherding him between appointments.)

There are many covers of many of his songs. The one I would mention is Nico's version of "These Days". (Nico of Velvet Underground fame.) I personally think very little of it but it is often quoted as one of those tracks that is better than the original. To me it just represents a different style and the best I can say is that it's typical of that different style...

Browne and Nico had a brief fling when he was still in his *****. She was attracted to his pretty-boy looks but soon spat him out rather publicly - not very nice. In fact there isn't much that is very nice about Nico in my book - apart from her looks...

[BigLadonOS]

I'm a massive Jackson Browne fan and have been ever since I saw his set on the Old Grey Whistle Test in, I think, 1972 when his first album had just come out in the UK. (It's called simply 'Jackson Browne' but tends to be called "Saturate Before Using" because of the front cover graphics.) "Late For The Sky" was his third album released in 1974 after "Everyman".

(Sugar Tiler of these boards briefly met Browne at the time of the OGWT performance and has told me a little of those times. Sugar was a minion in Browne's record company's London office and was responsible for shepherding him between appointments.)

There are many covers of many of his songs. The one I would mention is Nico's version of "These Days". (Nico of Velvet Underground fame.) I personally think very little of it but it is often quoted as one of those tracks that is better than the original. To me it just represents a different style and the best I can say is that it's typical of that different style...

Browne and Nico had a brief fling when he was still in his *****. She was attracted to his pretty-boy looks but soon spat him out rather publicly - not very nice. In fact there isn't much that is very nice about Nico in my book - apart from her looks...

Nico's voice is terrible, I have always wondered how people could listen to her and not want to bang their heads against a brick wall.

[BigLadonOS]

Björk brought new life to Betty Hutton's version (that was also a cover of Harry (Horst) Winter's original German version) of "It's Oh So Quiet" I thought it was so funny when the music industry went nuts over this song and lauded Björk as such a great song writer lol.

[BigLadonOS]

When I first heard Evanescence's Bring Me To Life I decided to look for some more of that type of stuff because I liked it and had never heard anything like it before. I found bands like - Nightwish, Within Temptation, Blackbriar, Epica and many more. One of the songs I found was by a band called Nightqueen who did a version of Diamonds & Rust that I liked.

I quite like some Rock Opera including this one.