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Thread #92623   Message #1774749
Posted By: Genie
03-Jul-06 - 10:46 AM
Thread Name: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles
Subject: RE: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles
Yeah, please do. :)

Another example I saw on PBS.   I think it was the Bob Dylan: No Direction Home film (but it might have been the Sixties documentary).   They played a ca. 1 min. clip of Dylan's "Blowing In The Wind" being done in about 17 VERY different styles from a s-l-o-w bluesy Gospel choir to Trini Lopez-style rock to bluegrass to your almost semi-classical style choir piece. Too many genres to name (plus I have a terrible time stuffing the whole panorama of music into neat genre categories).

Couple more.   Ewan McColl's folk ballad "The First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)" was tune-modified, tempo-slowed, and drastically genre-modified by Roberta Flack.
And the 1970's ballad "Killing Me Softly With His Song" was remade in the late 1990s or early 2000s by a sort of urban r&b group in a hip-hop style.