Same song but ....

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 27 Jun 03 - 05:07 PM

Thanks! Nice one!

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jun 03 - 05:02 PM

Joe Cocker's version of 'With A Little Help From My Friends'

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 27 Jun 03 - 04:47 PM

O dear, Guest. Just to humour me, let's hear one of your examples!

Subject: RE: Same song but ....
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jun 03 - 04:36 PM

How many thousand examples do you want?

Do you specialise in starting banal threads?

Subject: Same song but ....
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 27 Jun 03 - 03:54 PM

Back in the late 70s and early 80s, in particular, I was actively involved in the Liverpool Folk Music Scene. One of the leading musical lights back then was Shay Black. I never thought of Shay as having a great voice or being an outstanding player but he had the "it" factor: when he sang, people listened. Somewhere along the line he started doing a slow version of "The Holy Ground". No " Fine girl you are" to be heard! I was most impressed, and I've always assumed that it was Shay who came up with the "slow" arrangement. Years later, his sister, Mary Black recorded the "slow" version. Has anybody out there got examples of successful - radical, even - revamps of well know songs?