Page 1 of Cover Versions (Beware - Old Fogey Music)

I was listening to "...sing Bacharach & David" on BBC4 tonight and browsing the internet when suddenly my ears were assaulted by somebody slaughtering "What`s New Pussycat".  The culprit was crooner Mel Torme, backed by a full orchestra.  It was bad enough the orchestra was over-egging the orchestration of the song, but Mr Torme himself was happily singing the song his way - his tempo, his rhythm, his melody.  No resemblance whatsoever to the Academy-Award-Nominated for Best Song 1965 version sung by Tom Jones.  Literally all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order.

Do these old-school "I can sing it better than him" cover versions of well-known or iconic songs drive anybody else bananas?

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I think the problem with that era is often even the originals you remember are covers themselves.

Sort of related, try a bit of Richard Cheese...

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a work mate just sent me that, pretty good, their version of Run to the Hills afterwards is worth a listen as well :)

cheating, but fun none the less :)

just watching Later...with Jools Holland from Tue night, Jool and Paul Simon mention this....

it works really well, cos they haven't just turned it into a metal song, it's interesting in a kind of opposite of Johnny Cash covering NIN Hurt and other contemporary rock songs kind of way :)

This item was edited on Thursday, 21st April 2016, 20:30

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admars says...
"it works really well, cos they haven't just turned it into a metal song, it's interesting in a kind of opposite of Johnny Cash covering NIN Hurt and other contemporary rock songs kind of way :)"
I really love his version of Hurts, helped by the video, and his version of Personal Jesus is pretty good as well...

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Funnily enough downloaded the new (ish) album from Disturbed yesterday - brilliant and what a great cover of The Sound Of Silence.

Quite like a bit of Lissie - seen her a few times - really like her version of I will Always Love you.

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