Dolly does Queen - and the Olympics - at the same time:
Dolly Parton - We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You (Official Music Video) - YouTube
The original: The Four Seasons
It's debatable, I guess, how "really different" this is, but after several second and third thoughts, here it is. In any event, it's a nice groove, and an unexpected cover:
I already mentioned Dolly covering Queen (3 posts back), so this is more about Dolly showing off her 77-yr. old figure - I guess. Thought about putting this in a sports thread, but that definitely wouldn't fit properly. You go girl:
https://sports.yahoo.com/dolly-parton-wears-dallas-cowboys-234740617.html
Miss You, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, Another Brick in The Wall
Brazilians from Curitiba
Speaking of Dolly reminds me of her sister, who did a few interesting things in her career as well.
Gotta look up Dolly's sister. what's her name?
The harpist in the video Hop linked above, Indiara Sfair, is considered world-class. She also does some duets/duo stuff with the guitar guy, Tiago Juk. Her style seems slightly 'theatric'(?) to me, but that's just my own personal taste (which is more blues-oriented). Lots of her on the 'net, for those who want to hear more of her prominently featured, but I'll leave it for each to follow their nose for those examples.
Indiara Sfair Pushes the Creative Possibilities of the Harmonica (mymodernmet.com)
Aretha covers Question Mark
or
Queen of Soul covers Rudy Martinez
https://youtu.be/Mn3L7QRYuf4?si=Mz2Os82TQg6xNQbg
Can it get any better than this one when you only have one guitar at your disposal?
Long live Rock ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jm0aMwf6O8
Here’s an odd cover but anyone ever see the clip of Jessica Lange covering Bowie’s Life on Mars? ..I love it. It was for a show, American Horror Story. Only watched a few seasons AHS and didn’t like that one, but adored her cover. Apparently she didn’t need direction, I read somewhere she just showed up that day and did her thing. Folks liked it so much the show creator made it available on iTunes.
Here’s a link to vid: https://youtu.be/2zX0lxiM8Xo?feature=shared
I also LOVE the Fiona apple cover of the Beatles’ Across The Universe she did for the movie Pleasantville. My fave director, P.T. Anderson, directed the music vid:
https://youtu.be/CmlnO1EwCT4?si=d_OM2sNGvrtikZ6J
I’d *normally* not accept a cover of either of these already great songs, but I love them both.
Just rewatched the F. Apple cover, man it’s so good. She’s such a badass, imo. And PTAs vid is a beautiful way to encompass that song. Akin to a prayer you can watch. And a nice lift for those days when the world seems a bit divisive.
The Fiona Apple cover certainly made a splash. My son received a bit on an eyebrow raise when he proclaimed to me that it was much better than the Beatles' original.
The Jessica Lange cover was, as you said, odd. It might have sprung from someone telling Lange: "I want you to sing that song as if you are Madeline Kahn channeling Marlene Dietrich."
Back to Pleasantville: I never watched it, and I was surprised to see Jenny Lewis as part of the cast. I have only known Lewis from her singing career with Rilo Kiley and as a solo artist.
Why are you surprised to see Jenny, Buzz? She’s also a badass! She prob liked the movie’s themes. You should watch. We have similar tastes I think and it’s a beautiful film. For the time especially, I thought it was great. Is still great, imo. Not too heavy but not as cheesy as it looks.
Has a beautiful message, basically to shatter small mind sets and learn to embrace that which lie outside the norm, which has been done many times yes, but I never tire of it bc it’s a good one.
I’ll prob rewatch today. And listen to Fiona & Jenny, ha. Thnx for reminder on Rilo Kiley. Haven’t listened to either in a while but both played major parts in soundtrack of my teens /early 20s.
Ps, to your son’s credit, I’ve known musicians who felt cringey to say they like her cover as much as og. It does feel like heresy to ever declare a Beatles cover as better than theirs, esp a deep one like this.. It’d be diff if it were poppy-maxwells silver hammer or similar. But Apple held her own w this, folks have to give it to her. + I don’t think she was so bold to try for better or even as good, but as a nod to a song she loves. Glad she wasn’t intimidated to try. But what can you expect, it’s why she’s a badass.
PSS- had a roommate whose sis looked near identical to Fiona. Also know a pretty decent Lewis doppelgänger. Life must have conjured them based on playlists, ha.
I'm fascinated with this song
https://youtu.be/87a8nrANb64?si=DIW-42JuPU3F7Y-5
and this cover
https://youtu.be/OjZvIWV5TW4?si=FK2Ol7IoCD38A8YJ
because it took me so long to figure out it's the same song
I'm Blue
But it ate away in my brain til the other day when it came together
I truly love them both
I have a couple.
No question these two have plenty of soul to go around.
I'm gonna make you love me - Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones
Less soul in this one, Shaun Cassidy would have fit in.
A different respect for Otis Redding
https://youtu.be/KvC9V_lBnDQ?si=Kslxrs7NcWjtg03J
Some few of you may consider this heresy of some sort.........but I think it's a smooth, solid take. Nice drums/steel drums:
My hometown NPR station (operated by the local college) was bit off the usual path. No classical music hours or local gardener talk shows. They were pretty much alt-rock when they weren't broadcasting the NPR news programs. And, they had a weekly reggae program. I heard that song more than a few times. Top drawer!
This is a bit "too country" for my taste, but it *is* a really different (and well done) cover:
This cover is different, but not to the point of unrecognizable. Alison Brown is a gem, for sure.
Alison Brown has always been underappreciated by the world at large, but she's always surrounded by *the best* talent. I've been a fan for a long time, buuut..............I'm not always a fan of her choices of music and stylings. For me this falls into that category - but I think "that's just me". Quality rendition - and not a bad idea - but just doesn't grab me. For those few here who like bluegrass, check out virtually any of her more 'mainstream' efforts. NOT that there's anything wrong with this.
I don’t disagree about the choice. I found this video while trying to convince a friend to make a road trip to see her. Thought I would share it here while I had the link on my clipboard.
She is far more capable than than she shows in that video, but I have tickets! The venue is intimate to say the least.
I don't think I've ever seen her as a headliner, but almost certainly saw her with Alison Krauss's Union Station band (way back when), which is guys with deep ties to here. And I may have seen her as part of some conglomeration at a festival or something like that. She'll often play with "all those Nashville cats" - the usual suspects - but I expect you'll be seeing her with her usual band. An intimate venue sounds (pun acknowledged) perfect.
This may sound weird (altho maybe not to you).........but I've always thought of her as an 'intelligent' musical explorer - a thoughtful experimenter. While she's done (and does) her share of straight bluegrass, I think she's really most fond of the more progressive newgrass - my groove spot.
"'Intelligent' music explorer." I like that.
She has a reasonable eductation, collecting a couple of certificates from programs of some repute. No Berklee, but she's managed to limp along.
I *guess* a B.S. from Harvard and an MBA from UCLA qualifies as "a reasonable education". LOL. No one would question that Bela is an intelligent musical explorer. He's waaay out there on that scale. In fact he (along with a very limited number of others) pretty much defines that metric. Others' mileages may vary, but I'd put Alison maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of the way to 'wherever' he is.
Edit: to be clear, not meaning on the intelligence part, just referring to the "explorer" part. They're probably about the same place on the intelligence metric - not that I'd know.
Is the Undisputed Truth version of Papa Was a Rollin' Stone better than the Temptations? At any rate, theirs came out first, both in '72.
https://youtu.be/2s6W4FR39qQ?si=Un6bU_nInaQslij9
I ♥️ this cover of a 200+ yo piece of music I don't care what anyone says
https://youtu.be/SAuqQr5YtjY?si=F848d87_vfaCoE7h
Disco meets Beethoven.
The best thing that ever happened to disco music was when Ethel Merman put out an album of broadway show tunes to a disco beat. The genre was dead soon after. I thank her for that.
My list of classical music arrangements
This may be the best SNL monologue/performance ever I'm glad someone posted it to tik tok last year even though it's not the greatest video. Done by an extremely talented and funny guy.
https://www.tiktok.com/@thealmanac77/video/7358434865001368838
Now this is really really different indeed.