Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?

Subject: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: GUEST, codatag
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:55 PM

Commercial considerations aside, who, other than yourself, would you pick to perform or record the best song you've written or can imagine writing? If you care to say so, why?

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 04:58 PM

Donald Duck. Because of his great vocal projection.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: LukeKellylives (Chris)
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 05:15 PM

As far as living musicians go, Danny O'Flaherty. He has a way of taking a song and bringing new meaning to it.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 05:37 PM

Hayseed Dixie, with John Prine as guest vocalist.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Midchuck
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 05:41 PM

Me.

I'm a much better singer than a songwriter, so I might's well work to my strong points.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 05:44 PM

I wrote a parody of Peter Kagan and the Wind with the thought "I wonder what Gordon Bok would make of this?". I wasn't there to see it but Kendall put it in Gordon's hands and he performed it to an audience weeping at the sight (in laughter, I heard).
I'd have picked him to do my song.
SINS

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: alanabit
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 05:51 PM

This one appeals to my vanity. I would have loved to hear the late Kirsty MacColl do "Johnny Petto", because it straddles the worlds of folk music lore and punk rock - both of which she knew better than I do.
I would love to hear one of the great Irish folkies do "Black Crow Hill". I mean someone like Sean Cannon. He is a great singer and a nice bloke. I think he knows better than I do how an older bloke feels about the destruction of his community. I am probably not really old or experienced enough yet to handle that sort of material well.
There is the vanity side of this thread, but I think you also raise the question of, "Who understands the song best?" It is not necessarily the writer.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 09:41 PM

And that song would be QUACK WHEN I WAS YOUNG, Jerry Rasmussen? ; > )

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Scoville
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 10:00 PM

I think it would have to be Willie Nelson. Maybe Lyle Lovett if he were leaning a little more country than he usually does.

Although it's a long cowboy ballad so I'd probably have a better shot if I gave it to Slaid Cleaves. He seems to have a thing for long ballads.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: GUEST, codatag
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 10:13 PM

For a song about what to do with regret--which has Space Age imagery and metaphors, as odd as that is--I'm currently undecided between Dave Evans and Custer LaRue. We get to change our minds.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Jim Lad
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 10:39 PM

Don MacLean for the singing & playing. Willie Nelson to count the royalties & prepare my taxes.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: number 6
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 11:03 PM

Jone Prine

Bob Wills

Richard Harris (yup, Richard Harris, one of the finest and underated vocalist I ever heard)

I could use those 3 guys since I'm an absolute disaster when it comes to singing.

biLL

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jan 07 - 11:52 PM

I'd give mine to Willy. He has demonstrated real full-spectrum adaptability.

A

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: GUEST,reggie miles
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 12:11 AM

Hmmm, it would be difficult to determine what that best song might be and therefore who, other than myself, might even be appropriate to take on the task of performing it.

After perusing some of the threads here I've been inspired to write a few. I put together one called, A Dilly Of A Tale. It was about an unfortunate experience I had with some bad dill pickles. After playing it for some elementary school students one of them commented that it sounded like something Weird Al might sing. I've since thought that there were other things that I've written that Jack Black could have fun with.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Vixen
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 09:18 AM

My dream is to hear Emmylou Harris do "I Just Ride Horses"--I had to get the melody off my guitar because I couldn't sing what was in my head--the range is too great. The way Reynaud and I perform it now, (on the rare occasions we perform it...) is he sings the lead on the verses and harmony on the chorus, and I sing the lead on the chorus. It works, but I'd still like to hear what Emmylou's voice and interpretative sensibility would do with it...

In the meantime, we're still tinkering with it...

V

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 10:40 AM

For the jewel in my crown, "She'd Rather Make Coffee Than Love" (which some of you may know as "The Starbucks Song", I'd love to have Tom Paxton do it.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 01:53 PM

I'd get Jed Marum since the stuff I write is very similar to his work although I didn't know that until a couple of years ago. I've got stuff going back to the 70s that fit right in his genre.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 02:42 PM

John McCormack every time. He was once at a soiree given by some rich socialite with a taste for amateur composition and was persuaded to sing one of her execrable compositions, to the piano accompaniment of Sergei Rachmaninov. At the end, during the polite applause, Rachmaninov turned and whispered, "You zing Good zongz WELL; but you zing Bad zongz BETTER". So, J McC every time.

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 05:46 PM

Well first it would hard finding a best song!!

I'd like Roy Bailey to do 'Who will it be next year' - he already knows the tune.

I suppose typecasting John Tams for 'The Recruited Collier's lament' is too obvious...

And Dawn French to do 'The chocolate's no for you'.

LTS

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: GUEST,RealBadNews
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 06:37 PM

For humorous fare, non other than the great Lewie Wickham!

Subject: RE: Who'd You Pick to Do Your Best Song?
From: Amergin
Date: 31 Jan 07 - 09:01 AM

Anyone but me.