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Thread #97013   Message #1913830
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
19-Dec-06 - 01:00 PM
Thread Name: Definitive Versions
Subject: RE: Definitive Versions
You may be right, KB. I liked their version a lot, too. Many of the older pop songs were re-done, and I liked both versions: often the newer version better. Smoke Gets In You Eyes by the Platters would be my favorite version, over earlier ones. The Hilltoppers, who are mostly ignored in the oldies collections, recorded several old songs I liked better than the originals. P.S. I love you is the best version I've heard, and I liked the Ink Spots songs they did, like If I Didn't Care. I couldn't pick a "definitive" version on some of those songs, because the interpretations were so different, and in their own way, each version was "definitive" for that style.

So, what is the definitive version of Blue Moon? :-)

Jeryy