Great songs remade

[Carlisle Blues]

Ella Fitzgerald - Blue Skies


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr6E...EB7D13DA&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=71

 

[Gummy]

Liza Pulman in Misomer Murders - Dance With The Dead

I would love for Liza Pulman to record the songs she sung in the "Misomer Murders - Dance With The Dead" episode. I thought she was awesome. Great wartime songs and beautiful voice. I can but hope she will record them someday.

If you have not seen it, I recommend you do.

Gummy

 

[SayCici]

In general, I'd so much rather hear the original song, with the exception of the Beatles. They do a couple covers that I like, erstwhile covers of Beatles songs are never great.

 

[Gummy]

In general, I'd so much rather hear the original song, with the exception of the Beatles. They do a couple covers that I like, erstwhile covers of Beatles songs are never great.

You're right I don't think I ever heard The Beatles song done better then the orginal. But sometimes I hear old songs in new performances that I like for example "Björk's - Gling Gló
", Liza Pulman's WWII songs in Midsomer Murders and "Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop - I'll Be Seeing You" but most I think the performers should have better done without.

 

[ilanacharnelle]

I think some songs are better just left alone, though I do appreciate Michael Buble's renditions of some of the old classics.
As a singer/ songwriter inspired by the music of the 1940s and 50s myself, I feel I'm better off writing my own music inspired by that era and that style than try to touch the classics.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Sometimes I laugh at the songs that are remade and by whom. I recently was listening to "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul, a song I listen to quite frequently (I'm a soul 70's fan, among other genres) and someone told me that Michael Buble remade it, and I couldn't help but laugh. I can't picture a man of that Caliber singing a Billy Paul song.

 

[HadleyH]

I wonder if Cole Porter would have liked or not this Tom Waits version of his song "It's Alright with Me"........



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RASG2JmtDeQ

 

[Carlisle Blues]

^^^

I do not know I ask myself the same about this version of I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN by THE FOUR SEASONS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH9CzRSYqxg

 

[HadleyH]

^^^

I do not know I ask myself the same about this version of I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN by THE FOUR SEASONS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH9CzRSYqxg

I like that version of "The Four Seasons" ! :eusa_clap

 

[skyvue]

The question of "remaking" a song is quite different when applied to the rock era as opposed to the 1920s, '30s, '40s, and early '50s.

Songs in those earlier years were not nearly as a strongly associated with a particular performer -- check any Billboard chart from the 1940s, and you're likely to find recordings of a given popular song by several different artists and orchestras in the Top 40.

And few of those songs were written by the performers who had the hits with them.

So a "remake" of a Bob Dylan or Beatles song is one thing; a "remake" of a Cole Porter standard is quite another. Imagine if there had been four or five versions of, say, "Paperback Writer" -- recorded by the Beatles, the Animals, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Rolling Stones, and the Dave Clark Five -- all in the Top 40 at one time. That was the situation in the pre-rock years.

 

[HadleyH]

Love both versions!!!

Since the 1960s were so like the 1920s in so many ways ( kind of ) its no wonder The Beatles remade this classic "Ain't She Sweet"

1960s Beatles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo7bdWJMYr0&feature=related



1920s Gene Austin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xpSeaxRpCc

 

[Carlisle Blues]

^^^

Yes they were see http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache...0's&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a for example

Blue Skies- Irving Berlin

Josephine Baker,Blue Skies,1921

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29BlsXcx6j4

Tanz-Orchester Dajos Béla Odeon A 45163 mx. (Be 5868) Berlin, 1927
Vocal by Rex Allen
Tanz-Orchester Dajos Béla
Odeon A 45163 mx. (Be 5868)
Berlin, 1927

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe-gFlLKiSg&feature=related

Jim Reeves - Blue skies EP 45 rpm (1962)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkjXieeVSJk

This tune was covered by many artists...

 

[rlandrews3rd]

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy recently did a tribute album to Cab Calloway: "How Big Can You Get?". They did a pretty good job!

 

[HadleyH]

Bob Dylan(1992)

"You Belong To me" ( 1952 song)

This has been recorded by almost everybody under the sun: Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin,Ringo Starr,Judy Garland....blah...blah ....blah.... of course Dylan is always Dylan doesnt give a fig and I like his own version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0aQbDXjQ5E&feature=related

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Carla Bruni - You Belong To Me with Lyrics~~~ Simple and Sultry
Charles Pasi - harmonica adds a nice touch.

From the album Comme si de rien n'était (English: As If Nothing Had Happened) but something did happen.... Released on July 11, 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=murYvyEzpUM

 

[Carlisle Blues]

Max Raabe Live - You're the cream in my coffee...Music by Ray Henderson, lyrics by Lew Brown and B. G. DeSylva.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yzXbPGhWc&feature=related




Annette Hanshaw - You're the Cream in My Coffee (1928)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk_wVO7NBMQ

 

[jaymag_87]

BBVD

Have you heard the new album of Cab Calloway songs?

I'm listening to it right now and enjoying it very much.

 

[T Smith]

Patti Austin - For Ella

 

[HadleyH]

Yeah... Foolish Behavior....

I know i posted this same song here before, which i love, with Brian Ferry, but Rod Stewart's version is excellent too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxg_J9hJuI&feature=related

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Maureen "Towering Inferno" McGovern does my all time favourite version of "The Continental"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Keqqegsd50E