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29 Jun 06 - 10:32 PM (#1772421) Subject: Origins: song periods From: thosp I hope i can get some help from you guys ----- one of the teachers at my school is asking for some songs that have been recorded in styles from blues -- R&B --rock -- hip hop etc. same song in various styles thanks thosp |
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30 Jun 06 - 09:32 PM (#1773198) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: SharonA There must be plenty, but offhand I can only think of one: "Layla" which Eric Clapton originally recorded as a rock song and, a couple of decades later, revamped as a bluesy version which he performed for the MTV "Unplugged" series. |
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30 Jun 06 - 09:34 PM (#1773199) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: Liz the Squeak 'House of the Rising Sun' started off as a folky ballad ~ try Woody Guthrie collections... it got rocked up when the Animals got hold of it in 1964. LTS |
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30 Jun 06 - 09:45 PM (#1773210) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: SharonA This thread title is confusing. Perhaps a kindly MudElf can modify it to one that will generate the responses thosp needs for his assignment. |
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30 Jun 06 - 09:59 PM (#1773220) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: thosp thanks SharonA --- i was thinking maybe a Muddy Waters song or one of Elvis' covers anyway if a MudElf cna help that would be great thosp |
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30 Jun 06 - 10:16 PM (#1773225) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: SharonA What about reggae versions of songs? |
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01 Jul 06 - 03:59 PM (#1773675) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: Roughyed A band called Frijid Pink did a heavy metal version of House of the Rising Sun in the 1970s but it might take some tracking down. How about the original Crossroads by Robert Johnson compared with the Cream version? Dirty Old Town started as a jazz song before becoming folk and then whatever you would call the Pogues version. Dylan's Hard Rains Gonna Fall rocked up by Roxy Music. Half of Led Zeppelins back catalogue started off as blues. Any help? |
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01 Jul 06 - 10:45 PM (#1773833) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: thosp thanks SharonA & Roughyed Casey (the teacher) S' project is to follow a few songs from blues 30's 40's or earlier to R&B - doo wop 50's --rock 60's whatever 70's 80's hip hop 90's --showing transions of the same song through generations -- if possible --- thanks thosp |
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01 Jul 06 - 10:48 PM (#1773834) Subject: RE: Origins: song periods From: thosp ps -- haven't been able to get to modern times! there's the rub i have no idea from the 80' to hip -hop thosp |
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02 Jul 06 - 01:16 AM (#1773867) Subject: RE: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles From: Joe Offer How about "Blue Moon"? It was a pop song, then a doo-wop classic. |
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02 Jul 06 - 07:27 AM (#1773984) Subject: RE: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles From: van lingle Elvis transformed a few to rockabilly: "That's All Right Mama" an R&B number by Arthur Crudup "Hound Dog" R&B by Big Mama Thornton "Blue Moon of Kentucky" bluegrass by Bill Monroe Van Morrison with Them did a rave up version of Big Joe Williams blues number "Baby Please Don't Go". |
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02 Jul 06 - 10:41 AM (#1774078) Subject: RE: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles From: leeneia I was just in a used book store that had a book of Stephen Foster songs for sale. (I didn't buy it.) In the introduction, the editor mentioned that in the 1940's, Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair was all over the radio in many forms - ballad, instrumental, fox trot, big band. There was some kind of conflict going on over copyrights, and since Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair was public domain, they went wild playing it. thosp, there is a good chance that you could find that very book in your library. I've seen it before. |
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02 Jul 06 - 03:12 PM (#1774183) Subject: RE: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles From: Genie Ray Charles did a, well, Ray Charles version of "Swanee River." Very r&b-soul-bluesy. UB40 did a reggae version of "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" (in which he unforgiveably changed the words "Like a river flows surely to the sea" to "Like a river flows gently to the sea" thus totally missing the point of that lyric line but I digress). "Summertime" from Porgy & Bess was an operatic aria but has been performed and recorded in just about every genre and every era's style. Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" was a slow ballad when he and Art Garfunkel sang it. Both Gladys Knight and Clay Aiken recorded it as a powerful, more rhythmic, more up-tempo Gospel-style song. Johnny Cash's version sounds little like the original. It sounds like, well, it sounds like a Johnny Cash song. Many other versions are out there too. |
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03 Jul 06 - 10:12 AM (#1774729) Subject: RE: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles From: The Fooles Troupe So give us a copy of your paper when you finish it - should be interesting reading, then... |
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03 Jul 06 - 10:46 AM (#1774749) Subject: RE: Origins:song periods-songs in various styles From: Genie 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. |