Jeri; interesting comment about Van Gogh's Starry Night; it got me thinking about Don McLean's "Vincent" and the idea that some songs are so beautifully performed by their original creators that they should just be left alone, and that if someone else is going to sing them they better do a damn fine job or their "reinterpretation" need sto be fresh and new and ingenious. When an insensitive someone tries to "cover' songs by unique singer-songwriters like, say, Harry Chapin, Suzanne Vega, Kate Bush, etc. often I cringe at the result. But some songwriters' work seems to survive this sort of treatment (Neil Finn, Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell)...then again I think this whole discussion is subject to, well, subjectivity!

Go forth and sing and do yer best.