Godstar
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Okay, let’s have another go - This wasn’t bad for a 1960 b side from The Crickets:
[Music] Well loved Classic songs made famous by a cover version rather than the original
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surSOwaByqs
I had the Ferry Corsten compilation mixes on permanent play in my old car driving up to Gillingham and then Withdean. Gave the whole bizarre period a sense of strange urgency.
I had the Ferry Corsten compilation mixes on permanent play in my old car driving up to Gillingham and then Withdean. Gave the whole bizarre period a sense of strange urgency.
"Alabama Song" is more widely known by The Doors version released in 1967.
However the Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill composition was first recorded in 1930 by Lotte Lenya..
https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34
https://youtu.be/DX42_3ZKv8c
However the Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill composition was first recorded in 1930 by Lotte Lenya..
https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34
https://youtu.be/DX42_3ZKv8c
Another Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill composition is Mack the Knife. It was recorded* for the 1930 film version of the play "The Threepenny Opera"
The song became a hit for Bobby Darin in 1959
https://youtu.be/zMWc4h77e2o
This is Bertolt Brecht singing his own composition
https://youtu.be/_QXJ3OXWaOY
https://youtu.be/iooViITRp9M
The song became a hit for Bobby Darin in 1959
https://youtu.be/zMWc4h77e2o
This is Bertolt Brecht singing his own composition
https://youtu.be/_QXJ3OXWaOY
https://youtu.be/iooViITRp9M
Robinjakarta
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I know which version I like, Mr Costello's more upbeat one.
Whitechapel
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The Birdy version which did much better is still a good song, but the original Skinny Love by Bon Iver is incredible.
pearl
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pearl
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I don't know who wrote this and it's far too old for YouTube
https://youtu.be/zZAlG0xokS4
https://youtu.be/7vhhTvcLoRw
https://youtu.be/zZAlG0xokS4
https://youtu.be/7vhhTvcLoRw
pearl
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I'm surprized [MENTION=33581]Tom Hark, Preston Park[/MENTION] hasn't posted this ...
https://youtu.be/ZUg8jKfClYM
https://youtu.be/ZUg8jKfClYM
"Alabama Song" is more widely known by The Doors version released in 1967.
However the Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill composition was first recorded in 1930 by Lotte Lenya..
https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34
Aah, Lotte Lenya. Pure filth when she was younger. Best rememberd for killing Bond with tetrodoroxin (albeit Fleming relented and put him on a respirator for 3 months so he could resynthesize some voltage activated sodium channels - this would actually work, astonishingly).
Except the thread was meant to be about the originals NOT the cover versions that are better known
Thread title obviously not clear given how many cover versions have been posted
But the 'Well loved Classic Songs' wouldn't have been well loved classic songs - or even slightly well known - if the cover version hadn't absolutelly spanked the original!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
The original, BTW, is a ghastly dirge and absolute pants!