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Great songs remade

Gummy

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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

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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

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SayCici said:
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

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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.
 
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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.
 

skyvue

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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.
 

Carlisle Blues

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^^^

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...:)
 

HadleyH

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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






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