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06 May 10 - 12:05 PM (#2901315) Subject: Really BAD Covers From: mousethief We have a thread for really GOOD covers. This is for their opposites. People who should have let the original stand as-is. First nominees: Donna Summers - MacArthur Park Madonna - American Pie Pearl Jam - Last Kiss |
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06 May 10 - 12:15 PM (#2901326) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Elmore Trini Lopez "If I Had a Hammer" |
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06 May 10 - 12:23 PM (#2901337) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Will Fly Terry Wogan - "The Floral Dance" |
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06 May 10 - 12:45 PM (#2901347) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: alex s Ronan Keating - Father & Son |
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06 May 10 - 04:21 PM (#2901516) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: melodeonboy Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World (Moral: Don't send boys to do men's work!) |
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06 May 10 - 04:49 PM (#2901527) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Goodnight Gracie One of the most bizzare and funny covers is a video of Debbie Reynolds singing If I Had a Hammer. She is in a cocktail dress and surrounded by chorus boys. |
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06 May 10 - 05:09 PM (#2901540) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Joe Offer I used to say terrible things about Trini Lopez, but I've mellowed a bit in my old age. He give me a certain nostalgic comfort, but I still wonder why had had to have those dishes clanging and rattling in the background. Alex included the Donna Summers cover of "MacArthur Park" on his list of bad covers, but I have to say I think the Richard Harris original of "MacArthur Park" is just as bad. The park itself, is quite nice, as urban parks go. It's a nice transition from Wilshire Boulevard to downtown Los Angeles. |
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06 May 10 - 05:43 PM (#2901560) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Joe_F "Madeira, M'Dear?", rendered *not funny* by The Limeliters. "City of New Orleans", rendered *pedestrian* by The Country Gentlemen. |
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06 May 10 - 07:10 PM (#2901633) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Rob Naylor Amy Winehouse's cover of "Valerie" Dolly Parton's "Stairway to Heaven" Madonna's "American Pie" Hillary Duff's "My Generation" Jose Feliciano's "Light My Fire" The list is endless...... |
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06 May 10 - 07:20 PM (#2901641) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Bill D Read 'em & weep - Leonard Nimoy & Bill Shatner.. |
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06 May 10 - 07:43 PM (#2901652) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: maple_leaf_boy Jessica Simpson's cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" and my rendition of "Hurt", which I haven't played in the longest time. |
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06 May 10 - 10:25 PM (#2901717) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Doug Chadwick Jose Feliciano's "Light My Fire" BAD ? Not in my book ! That's my favourite version. DC |
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06 May 10 - 10:31 PM (#2901723) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: beeliner The three worst that come to mind immediately: "I'm Walkin'" by Ricky Nelson "Mrs. Robinson" by Frank Sinatra "Whiskey in the Jar" by Thin Lizzy |
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06 May 10 - 10:31 PM (#2901725) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: The Fooles Troupe QUOTE Dolly Parton's "Stairway to Heaven" UNQUOTE Obviously you never heard Norman Gunston's version.... |
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06 May 10 - 10:48 PM (#2901742) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: The Fooles Troupe .... or come to think of it Rolf Harris... |
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06 May 10 - 10:58 PM (#2901749) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: mousethief Wash your mouth. |
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07 May 10 - 03:54 AM (#2901832) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST The Rolf Harris version is SO bad that it's good, in an "ironic" way. The Dolly Parton version is just BAD! And no, I haven't heard the Norman Gunston version. |
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07 May 10 - 03:56 AM (#2901833) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: The Fooles Troupe ... or come to think of it .... shudder ... ANYTHING that Norman Gunston did ... "I can hear the drums Fernando" "There was something in the air that night" ... that's for sure.... |
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07 May 10 - 04:37 AM (#2901846) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Sandra in Sydney for those who don't know Norman Gunston |
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07 May 10 - 04:43 AM (#2901849) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Will Fly I don't think you can really have Norman Gunston in this list, because he was a fictional satirical character in the first place - a bit like Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) over here in the UK. You have to have genuine people genuinely beating the crap out of otherwise good songs. |
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07 May 10 - 04:53 AM (#2901855) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Dave the Gnome Sorry, but the Shatner and Nimoy trump card has already been played. Mind you - Telly Savalas' 'If a picture paints a thousands words' must be up there with the greats. Heard Zeppelin's 'Whole lot of love' done by Mary J Blige the other day. I am still too shocked to put in a report on it... DeG |
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07 May 10 - 05:22 AM (#2901867) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Georgiansilver Dolly Partons "I will always love you"........ a few have tried... the odd hit but it can't compare with Dolly singing it to Burt Reynolds in 'The greatest little Whorehouse in Texas' Dolly singing to Burt. |
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07 May 10 - 05:58 AM (#2901884) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: steve in ottawa This topic came up in a radio show. Burned into my memory are: Bill Shatner's: (When I Was Seventeen) It Was a Very Good Year The Brothers Four: Revolution I like some of the Brothers Four tunes. Just goes to show you what can happen when you try to emulate a style you just don't appreciate. Big Daddy could take a new song, sing it in a 50s do-wop style and make it sound both hilarious and good at the same time. Brothers Four...nope. |
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07 May 10 - 06:52 AM (#2901914) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Rob Naylor Jose Feliciano's "Light My Fire" BAD ? Not in my book ! That's my favourite version. DC There's no accounting for taste :-) To me he just murders it...I get no impression at all that *anyone's* "lighting his fire"...nice guitar work, but NO emotion. |
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07 May 10 - 07:39 AM (#2901939) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Amergin Anything played by the Irish rebel band Athenrye......they grate on my nerves.... |
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07 May 10 - 07:41 AM (#2901940) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Amergin Oh and anyone cruel enough to cover that horribly over maudlin song "Seasons In the Sun". |
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07 May 10 - 08:08 AM (#2901963) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: The Fooles Troupe "I don't think you can really have Norman Gunston in this list, because he was a fictional satirical character in the first place" You aren't an Aussie surely, if you don't know who Garry McDonald was... if you really think that you can separate the two... :-) |
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07 May 10 - 08:29 AM (#2901978) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Dave the Gnome Is that covers of the Terry Jack's version, Amergin, or covers of the original French version (La Moribond) by Jaques Brel? I would like to hear someone do it as Brel intended - Wife's infedelity and all but as I don't speak French I am not sure it would translate any better than Jacks (NOT English translation of Jaques!) version :-) DeG |
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07 May 10 - 08:35 AM (#2901981) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: clueless don beeliner already mentioned "Mrs. Robinson" by Frank Sinatra, which gets my vote as worst cover of all time. My second-place vote would go to "Gentle on my Mind" by Dean Martin. I like a lot of Dean Martin's stuff, but he sure butchered Gentle. Don |
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07 May 10 - 09:00 AM (#2901989) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Neil D Guns N Roses are responsible for dozens of bad covers including one by Charles Manson, but the worst injustice of all is their cover of Dylan's "Knockin' on Heavens Door". Axl's vocal histrionics actually manages to strip the song of it's emotional power. |
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07 May 10 - 09:13 AM (#2901998) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: JJ Re: Terry Jack's rendition of the Jacques Brel song mentioned above. The English adaptation/translation sung by Jacks as "Seasons in the Sun" is by Rod McKuen... |
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07 May 10 - 09:22 AM (#2902002) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Dave the Gnome Was he from the Bay City Rollers? :-) |
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07 May 10 - 10:39 AM (#2902049) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,John from Kemsing Anybody who has done "Unchained Melody". Let Al Hibbler be the last word. |
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07 May 10 - 12:20 PM (#2902125) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: PHJim The Lawrence Welk Band's version of One Toke Over The Line ranks right up there. I wonder if Larry realized what "Tokin'" was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg |
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07 May 10 - 12:59 PM (#2902150) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: eddie1 Sorry folks but when it comes to REALLY BAD these guys are strictly amateurs compared with Cher singing "Bells of Rhymney"! It is on Spotify for those who tend towards the masochistic! Eddie |
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07 May 10 - 09:15 PM (#2902461) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Ref Thank you, Joe Offer. ANYBODY doing "McArthur Park" is a bad cover. Sinatra's "Mrs. Robinson" is also just horrible, as you have a great song stylist completely miscalculating. |
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08 May 10 - 05:59 PM (#2902801) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: oldhippie PHJ, Welk thought it was a new gospel number. "sweet jesus" ! |
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08 May 10 - 07:32 PM (#2902843) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: RWilhelm I love Aretha, but not doing "Elenore Rigby" |
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08 May 10 - 07:36 PM (#2902844) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Genie Well, some consider these great new "interpretations," but although I like the singers, I consider these more "butcherings" of the original songs than mere new "versions": Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow Bruddah Iz - Over The Rainbow (again) And I say that because both of them almost totally lost/destroyed the song's melody (plus Iz butchered the lyrics too). One I don't think is "awful" but IMO can't hold a candle to the way the songwriter herself sings it is Counting Crows' "Big Yellow Taxi." Then there's UB40's reggae version of Elvis's "(I) Can't Help Falling In Love (With You)." For one thing, he changes the line "Like a river flows surely to the sea, darling, so it goes; Some things are meant to be" to "... flows gently to the sea .." - thus destroying the simile. One more gawdawful rendition of a song - DK if you could call it a "cover - is Patsy Cline's lounge-singer style rendition of "Life's Mountain Railway." It's so bad it's actually funny. |
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09 May 10 - 04:54 AM (#2902969) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Rob Naylor Gotta add a couple more: Scissors Sisters version of "Comfortably Numb". 'Orrible! Ronan Keating's "Fairytale of New York" Elaine Paige's "Radio Ga Ga" Rod Stewart's cover of "Sailing" There's no end to them.............. |
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09 May 10 - 05:11 AM (#2902972) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Genie Anything covered by Danial O'Donnell |
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09 May 10 - 06:52 AM (#2902994) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST When I read the title of this thread my immediate thought was Frank Sinatra butchering Mrs Robinson. Three people have beaten me to it but it has to be said again - awful!! Roger |
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09 May 10 - 07:14 AM (#2903000) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Silas Sadly, Jaques Brell's songs are almost impossible to translate into English and keep the meaning. Port of Amsterdam is almost unrecognisable lyrically to the original (great song though) and Terry Jacks 'seasons in the sun' is a travesty. |
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09 May 10 - 11:52 AM (#2903100) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Little Hawk I can't really go for Tom Waites' version of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"...it doesn't hold up well at all against Tiny Tim's definitive rendition. |
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09 May 10 - 11:57 AM (#2903101) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Tunesmith I do hate it when "swinging" finger snapping singers do folkie type material. The way Jack Jones "swings" "Homeward Bound" is the perfect example of this sort of thing. |
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09 May 10 - 12:41 PM (#2903112) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Rapparee It is obvious from the foregoing that you have never heard ME sing -- which is just as well. |
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09 May 10 - 02:06 PM (#2903171) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Little Hawk Bloody right! ;-) I've been wondering what sort of a job Celine Dionne could do on "Highway to Hell". |
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09 May 10 - 04:39 PM (#2903272) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: SPB-Cooperator I am quite happy with my duvet cover |
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10 May 10 - 08:09 AM (#2903641) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Gail Bobby Darin's 'Beyond the Sea' is a truly awful 'swinging, finger snapping' cover. It just rips the heart out of Charles Trenet's gorgeous 'La Mer'. |
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10 May 10 - 09:12 AM (#2903670) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Tug the Cox Lee Marvin's 'Wandering Star' would win hands down.....if it wasn't actually the original. |
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10 May 10 - 11:23 AM (#2903737) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Little Hawk Come to think of it, the quilt on my bed is getting really ratty looking. Something must be done about it soon. |
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10 May 10 - 11:26 AM (#2903740) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: wysiwyg Real? Or made-up for a game? ~S~ |
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10 May 10 - 11:48 AM (#2903749) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,clontarf83 I really liked Thin Lizzie's version of whiskey in the jar!!!--ace lead guitar break in there. The most horrible cover music I recall was Irish Showbands in the 60s covering American C&W songs--too many to mention. Celtic Thunder are giving them a run for their money now, though...some pretty cheezy stuff in there... |
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10 May 10 - 01:13 PM (#2903802) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Genie How can we forget Pat Boone's cover of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti?" |
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10 May 10 - 02:25 PM (#2903866) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: alanabit By trying hard - really hard! |
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10 May 10 - 03:21 PM (#2903924) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Doug Chadwick Lee Marvin's 'Wandering Star' would win hands down.....if it wasn't actually the original. Naw..... Lee Marvin's 'Wandering Star' was ace! ...... but then again, as Rob Naylor said above, about my views on Jose Feliciano, there's no accounting for taste. Maybe it's just me that's odd. DC |
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10 May 10 - 04:06 PM (#2903982) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: ruairiobroin Jon Otway's version of I Will Survive is so bad it's fab, and he does it in a wonderfully Dylanesque voice try youtube |
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10 May 10 - 05:39 PM (#2904061) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: PoppaGator "How can we forget Pat Boone's cover of Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti?"" Amen! Especially bad because the release was blantantly calculated to rob Richard of record sales. I'm not sure, but I believe that several of the recordings that kick-started Pat Boone's career were similarly bland covers of great R&B recordings. The world would have been better off if the only available recordings of each were the original versions. |
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10 May 10 - 07:21 PM (#2904128) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: beeliner When I first heard Pat's recordings of "Ain't That a Shame" and "Tutti Frutti", I had never heard of Fats Domino nor Little Richard. Pop music was pretty much segregated then, with the exception of a few 'crossover' artists like Nat Cole, Sarah Vaughn, and the Mills Brothers. I think the record that probably did the most to break that barrier was Chuck Berry's "Maybelline". When it became an R&B hit there were several covers by white performers, all of them horrible, and Berry's original broke through, the rest being rock and roll history. Then the previously little known (to white listeners) versions of some of Pat's hits became popular retroactively. Pat and Richard have, of course, been good friends in private life for a long time. |
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11 May 10 - 08:35 AM (#2904415) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: clueless don I actually liked a Pat Boone song that I remember from the old days. It went something like Since, I lost my ba-a-by, I al-al-mo-ost lo-ost my mind or something like that. Anyone remember it? Of course, if it was a cover, the original was probably better. Don Pat Boone: I Almost Lost My Mind [link from Joe O] |
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11 May 10 - 08:04 PM (#2904861) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Genie Yes, Little Richard has for quite some time now credited Pat Boone with helping open the mainstream radio "doors" to his music and that of other black artists - albeit by way of doing a sort of 'sanitized and denatured' cover of songs like Tutti Frutti and Ain't That A Shame. White artists' covers of black r&b songs like Earth Angel; Roll (Dance) With Me, Henry; Crazy Little Mama, etc., did help popularize the genre and eventually the "race music" itself. But usually, once you heard the originals, it was hard to get as excited about the covers. |
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11 May 10 - 09:20 PM (#2904890) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: beeliner Since, I lost my ba-a-by, I al-al-mo-ost lo-ost my mind Ivory Joe Hunter, charted #1 R&B in 1950. |
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11 May 10 - 09:57 PM (#2904899) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: mousethief Genie: But usually, once you heard the originals, it was hard to get as excited about the covers. I agree almost entirely except Sh-Boom, where I like the Crew Cuts version better. Probably because I heard it first and didn't hear the Chords' version until long after. |
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11 May 10 - 10:49 PM (#2904912) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Andrew Emmet What about Mrs. Miller! Downtown http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw07CDid0JM Strangers In The Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV0MtVWIN8Y |
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11 May 10 - 11:58 PM (#2904941) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Genie Me too, Mousethief. I fell in love with and still love The Crew Cuts' version of Sh-Boom. (I had a crush on Johnny Perkins, too.) In fact I kind of prefer their version of Earth Angel to the Penguins' too - maybe because I fell in love with it before I ever heard the original. |
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12 May 10 - 12:38 AM (#2904959) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Mike B. Eddie Albert's recording of "Blowin' In The Wind" and Vanna White's of "Turn, Turn, Turn". Okay, the second one's a joke (not original) and never happened - too bad the first actually did. |
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12 May 10 - 04:58 AM (#2905042) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,Larry A couple of years ago at he Cambridge Folk Fest Jimmy Webb had the rare distinction of murdering his own songs. |
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12 May 10 - 04:40 PM (#2905543) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Genie I mean, I absolutely love Patsy Cline and her voice is to die for even when she butchers a song stylistically, but this version of Life's Mountain Railway is so lounge-singer-y that it's laughable. Especially the backup vocal group. |
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13 May 10 - 09:04 AM (#2906013) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: clueless don Thank you, Joe, for that YouTube link! I always liked that song, though I think that as a rule Pat Boone did better with songs like "Love Letters in the Sand". And thank you beeliner for the information about the original ("Ivory Joe Hunter, charted #1 R&B in 1950".) I hope I'll get a chance to hear it someday. Don |
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13 May 10 - 09:35 AM (#2906024) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Dave the Gnome I think this one is baaaad! In more than one sense. As are these ideas! But sleeping on the streets seems about the most tasteless. Until you find out that profits go to help the homeless:-) Cheers DeG |
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13 May 10 - 01:14 PM (#2906158) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Rob Naylor Jeez Mr el Gnomo, how much random web trawling do you have to do to pick up stuff like that? :-) |
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13 May 10 - 03:04 PM (#2906236) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: PoppaGator Pianist/vocalist Ivory Joe Hunter made a lot of recordings. Two of his best-known and most-often-covered are actually pretty similar, muscially as well as lyrically (to my ear, anyway): "Since I Met You Baby," and "I Almost Lost My Mind." Both great songs. I just learned from Wikipedia that "Ivory Joe" is NOT a nickname or stage name ~ it's his actual birth name. He was christened "Ivory Joe Hunter." Amazing... |
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13 May 10 - 03:18 PM (#2906251) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Fred McCormick Somebody, I think it might have been Jacqueline and Bridie, once made an atrocious recording of The Lish Young Buy a Broom, complete with string orchestra. As if that wasn't bad enough, the strings tried to punctuate the melody with a kind of percussive effect so that it came out in fits and starts. Bom bom bom, bom bom bom etc. After 4 decades I still wake up screaming at the sound of it. |
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13 May 10 - 06:24 PM (#2906385) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: PHJim What about Bob Dylan's covers of a whole raft of Christmas songs? |
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13 May 10 - 09:52 PM (#2906479) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Gurney Beyonce singing 'Fever.' Well, most people except Peggy Lee singing it. |
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14 May 10 - 02:17 AM (#2906565) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: mousethief I just learned from Wikipedia that "Ivory Joe" is NOT a nickname or stage name ~ it's his actual birth name. He was christened "Ivory Joe Hunter." Amazing... Made to be a piano player. |
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14 May 10 - 04:04 AM (#2906589) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Allen in Oz Sandra Many thanks for reminding us about Norman Gunston...the videos were priceless Allen from BMC |
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14 May 10 - 06:46 AM (#2906675) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Rob Naylor Just been told by my children that my own covers of The Indelicates' "We Hate The Kids" and Keith Donnelly's "Breakfast Blues" are respectively the worst and second worst renditions of anything they've ever heard! Though the Donnelly oe was more about the lyrics than the actual execution ("You bring me hard eggs in the morning, I never sausage misery"). So I guess that's my plan to do them at the next High Brooms Tavern Session down the pan..... |
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14 May 10 - 09:28 AM (#2906749) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: clueless don I just happened to think of the cover of the song "Hooked on a Feeling" - the cover with all of the "oogah chugahs". I thought that was pretty bad - though I suppose it could work as a "party song". Don |
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14 May 10 - 10:57 AM (#2906811) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: McGrath of Harlow Here is Lonnie Donegan's version of Over the Rainbow. Brave anyway. Actually I once heard him sing it with just a guitar, and that wasn't at all bad. Unfortunately... |
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14 May 10 - 10:59 AM (#2906814) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: mousethief I just happened to think of the cover of the song "Hooked on a Feeling" - the cover with all of the "oogah chugahs". I thought that was pretty bad - though I suppose it could work as a "party song". Yeah I always thought of that one as a novelty song. When I was in junior high school it seemed pretty cool, though. But you gotta wonder WTF inspired them to do that? Really bad acid trip or something. |
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14 May 10 - 07:03 PM (#2907153) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: GUEST,mayomick The best of the bad imo was The Bachelors singing The Sound of Silence - recorded sometime in the sixties. The Bachelors were three very devout Irish Catholic lads - at least that's the way they were marketed at the time. The lads were so holy that they couldn't bring themselves to use the word "womb" which is in one of Paul Simon's verses . They used the line "hiding in my room ,safe within my room" instead of "hiding in my room safe within my womb". I wonder what ever happened to them. |
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14 May 10 - 07:21 PM (#2907165) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: McGrath of Harlow Doesn't sound too likely. Any Catholic with worries about using the word "womb" would have serious difficulty ever saying a Hail Mary. |
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14 May 10 - 08:18 PM (#2907225) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: beeliner I just happened to think of the cover of the song "Hooked on a Feeling" - the cover with all of the "oogah chugahs". I thought that was pretty bad - though I suppose it could work as a "party song". That was by Blue Swede, and there's an 'urban legend' that there's an obscene message hidden in one of the "oogah chucka"s. |
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15 May 10 - 12:33 AM (#2907324) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: mousethief "Hiding in my room, safe within my womb" isn't in "Sounds of Silence" but in "I Am a Rock". |
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15 May 10 - 02:24 AM (#2907339) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Larry The Radio Guy Just a clarification on Seasons in the Sun. The version Terry Jacks did was NOT the way Rod McKuen translated it. He sanitized it in order to make it acceptable to "pop" radio--and absolutely butchered it. The Rod McKuen translation is pretty good, actually, and is definitely NOT a maudlin song. Listen to versions by Kingston Trio, Bud Dashiel, or Pearls Before Swine. My vote for worst cover is Terry Jacks doing Seasons in the Sun. |
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15 May 10 - 06:03 PM (#2907712) Subject: RE: Really BAD Covers From: Genie And who can forget Cher's rendition of "O Holy Night" - parodied to perfection by Paul Shafer!? |