Remakes - (wuz - RE: [thechat] Flashthread! - what are you listening to RIGHT NOW!)

Quackamoe quackamoe at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 26 22:22:20 CDT 2001


--- spinhead <evolt at spinhead.com> wrote:
> 
> Some remakes, though, like Elvis doing 'A Fool Such
> As I' should never have
> happened. Leave Hank Snow alone. Ooh; another dog
> (pun intended) is George
> ThoroughBad doing 'Move It On Over.' (Sorry; you
> asked about remake improvements, didn't you?)
> 
> Bad Company - Young Blood - way too fun
> Mannfred Mann - Quinn the Eskimo - Dylan's original
> was actually used by the

Did MM write any of their own stuff? I just found out
a few months ago that Bruce Springsteen wrote 'Blinded
By the Light.' For years I thought he'd done a great
cover.

> Marquis de Sade when all else failed
> Bonnie Raitt - Burning Down the House is dead even
> with the original. So
> different, but so good.
> Glenn Miller - He didn't write 'In the Mood.' It had

NOW I feel scandalized!

> Harry Nilsson - Lazy Moon (on 'A Little Touch of
> Schmilsson in the Night') -

Thought I was the only person in the world who bought
that LP!! GReat stuff. The orchestrations were by, er,
um, I forget his name, but before Nilsson he did
arrangements for Sinatra (Frank). Even my aged uncle
loved this lp from cover to cover. He was about 80.

> only other recording extant is Ollie Hardy in (I
> think) 'The Flying Deuces'

Pretty sure it wasn't FLying Deuces as Stanley wasn't
even in the film. I saw it prolly 30 years ago and
remember it as a little gem. But can't remember the
title right now. If nobody beats me to the IMDB I'll
look it up.
> 
I'm also thinking Art Garfunkel doing 'What a
Wonderful
World.' Seems he wasn't the first one to do 'I only
have eyes for you' either.
> 
Ah, what a lovely weekend to have time to think about
this stuff.

Terry



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