https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtpDmZpjsJE
Marcia Griffiths - Don't Let Me Down
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fesUgPrGGDk
Jessica Mitford - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:55 (four years ago) link
here's a bulgarian ye-ye cover of "the night before"
https://youtu.be/CNbgnq9VkNw
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 February 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
And Lowell Fulson does "Why Don't We Do It in the Road."
he sure does
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9RNPx2_oA
― budo jeru, Thursday, 9 July 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
trying to make a mix w/ covers of tracks from "with the beatles"
mostly i've found versions i really enjoy. here are the tracks i'm having trouble with:
all i've got to do - the moon martin and louise goffin versions are okay, but i just think they're okay.
all my loving - kinda like prince buster and rita lee versions but again, i don't think they're fine but not great. surely there's some amazing soul cover of this song i've yet to hear ?
don't bother me - i've tracked down an apparently obscure 1967 australian single by somebody named diane horder, and it's actually pretty good. but this is an odd and largely overlooked tune so was wondering if anybody had versions they liked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJppiN0P_A
little child - i could live with this version by sandro y los de fuego, actually i think it's very good, but wonder if there isn't something more appealing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2vYCXUlKRA
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
well, my thoughts might not be trustworthy because i went with moon martin and prince buster
having said that i went with gregory phillips' joe meek-style cover of "don't bother me" and jackie lynton's take on "little child"
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
thanks Kate.
incidentally i've taken upon myself to join you in the search for a suitable "what goes on" cover, and if i ever find one i like (or think is interesting) i'll be sure to post it here.
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
oh, i found one, the charles river valley boys on their 1966 record "beatle country". nice bluegrass record. i'm basically done with the project to my satisfaction, although there certainly is room for improvement in some respects. the whole listing is up on my old blogspot blog.
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
oh that's right, i remember you mentioning it another thread. yikes between that and misspelling emitt rhodes on the emitt rhodes thread i think i need to take a nap or something
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
yeah i could use a nice long nap myself
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 20 July 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
budo-- Either/Orchestra does a pretty tasty version of "Don't Bother Me" on their album "Afro-Cubism."
― SlimAndSlam, Monday, 20 July 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
i know it was mentioned upthread, but ramsey lewis' take on the white album deserves a mention. the album as a whole is kind of schmaltzy, but his 'cry baby cry' is definitely enshrined near the top of my mountain of smooth jazz greats. don't know if it was recorded while maurice white was still in the group, but it wouldn't surprise me if that's him on drums.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 20 July 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
sorry but it's a masterpiece and there's no need for qualifiers / name-calling
xp thanks slim
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 July 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
― SlimAndSlam
those scamps! totally escaped my notice, even though i love them.
had to check to see that it wasn't me who mentioned the ramsey lewis record upthread - i know i have gone to bat for it in very strong terms before (something along the lines of "There's one great LP inside the White Album, and it turns out to be this one"). Brilliant arranging work by Charles Stepney. Pretty sure Phil Upchurch is involved on this one as well.
here's the "without the beatles" collection of beatles covers i've compiled.
https://weirdthingsonbetamax.blogspot.com/2020/04/without-beatles.html
this ray brown "good day sunshine" is ridiculously axelrodded-out. i love it, i can't believe i haven't heard it before. mind you i do also _really_ love roy redmond's take on it.
i also would like to point out that the folder i found it in also had an axelrod version of "for what it's worth" credit to lou reed. this is probably not the first time someone has confused lou reed with lou rawls but it's the first time i've seen it.
the one left that i have sort of cheated on is "good morning, good morning". haven't heard a version of that i dig.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
i think the flaming lips etc. version is cool but i can see why people might not like it
re: ramsey lewis, you made those comments on the "soul funk covers of beatles tunes" thread or whatever it's called. been digging through all the beatles covers threads today, there's also this which you might find interesting:
CDR700GO!: Delete the Beatles
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
that person picked this version, which i'd never heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQp2qKsPgI
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:21 (three years ago) link
yeah i used douglas as a source for my own explorations... i definitely know the "sgt. pepper knew my father" comp, there's two cuts from it in the project, which i'm not entirely happy with but there's no goddamn way i could say no either to sonic youth's magisterial "within you without you" or the fall's "a day in the life". in any case the triffids' version doesn't grab me, i just don't think the gated reverb works in its favor.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
how do you feel about the flaming lips version ?
or this for that matter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JOBsR65QOA
"I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" is the only Lennon/McCartney song to hit #1 on the country charts
didn't know this !
v interesting + informative blog post all around
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link
haha did _not_ realize shabaka and the ancestors had essayed it since i started my project, well, that's a fucking shoo-in, easy enough!
right now i'm working my way through an axelrod-helmed record of '60s pop hits by the four king cousins that has another attempt at "good day sunshine" - the group vocals are often painfully stiff but then it goes into this bridge sort of inspired by the hocketed ending that's fairly psychedelic and mind-blowing. quality selection of material and fine production makes up for the basic lack of character in the vocals. the take on "god only knows" has elements that remind me a bit of the bioshock infinite arrangement...
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
stiff vocals redeemed by quality psychedelic production basically explains how i feel about his work on the electric prunes record
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:52 (three years ago) link
it's unfortunate because the prunes were a fucking great band before he came along... they killed it live
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
totally.
and self-correction: there are two axelrod / prunes records but i'm talking specifically about "mass in F minor" as i'm not as familiar with the other one.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 00:54 (three years ago) link
some other covers that aren't in my blog post but which i think are pretty nice:
Wat? Sanitär! do a pretty good minimal synth take on "everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey"... the Feelies' version is of course redoubtable
i do genuinely like benny goodman's take on "octopus's garden", even if i am also very partial to mike westbrook's reading. goodman's is more traditionally jovial. it also makes me happy to think that goodman's career encompassed both the work of bela bartok and ringo starr.
i'm also fond of mccoy tyner's take on "she's leaving home" - yeah, there's nothing terribly _exceptional_ about it, compared to l'infonie's mind-bending brass adaptation of the song, but there's just so much _class_ to tyner that it's hard to resist, even though nothing else on the comp it was on particularly appealed to me.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
i'm late but my thing went off because of the david axelrod mention. and yes: that ray brown cover is absolutely peak "big picture" axe. awesome awesome awesome.
also,
and self-correction: there are two axelrod / prunes records but i'm talking specifically about "mass in F minor" as i'm not as familiar with the other one.― budo jeru, Monday, July 20, 2020 5:54 PM (three days ago)
― budo jeru, Monday, July 20, 2020 5:54 PM (three days ago)
man, you gotta check out release of an oath soon! it's pretty much just an axelrod album in all but name. amazing stuff.
sorry for derail revive. here's lou rawls doing a nice axelrod-produced jazzy pop soul rendition of 'yesterday'.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 24 July 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
i did actually check it out right after i made that post and i feel it's about as good "mass" with more or less the same strengths and weaknesses. it's a fun listen for sure.
re: funky over-arranged studio productions of beatle-written tunes, here's johnny harris with "give peace a chance"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIES0wkkLA
there's also good (almost) instrumental version of "something" on the same record that is so very, very axelrod-esque and very worth checking out.
that lou rawls tune is killer, Austin
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:26 (three years ago) link
sorry i mean the song is definitely good and it's mostly an instrumental
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:46 (three years ago) link
and one last bit of west coast studio excellence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJBIzi4oPFcdon randi trio - tomorrow never knows
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 July 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle's 1987 Peel Session consisted of four Beatles covers, including 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' in German and possibly the only good version of Ringo's 'Don't Pass Me By'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE7ekvSBLSo
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
i kinda like this czech version of "don't pass me by"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cljXAMj-3g
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
ahh man, revolver jazz! the things one forgets! a coworker way back had a copy that he dangled in front of me a time or two. completely forgot it existed not long after leaving that job.
i also remember buying the johnny harris album after much hype and anticipation (when it was first reissued in the early 2000s) and thinking it was, uhm, not that noteworthy. "what was the last allegedly classic album you got and were underwhelmed by?"
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
see, i'm just hearing the johnny harris record for the first time and i'm feeling like it's super quality, god kind of an andrew oldham orchestra feel to it. what's not to like?
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
well, this fucking rocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwzko9DZ0s
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, 30 August 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
nice!
― sean gramophone, Monday, 30 August 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
Junior Parker's version of Tomorrow Never Knows has been mentioned above, but his version of Taxman is also spine-tingling.
― giraffe, Tuesday, 31 August 2021 09:58 (two years ago) link
Lemmy Kilmister·John 5·Eric Singer - back in the ussr
(nice hill to die on)
― meisenfek, Thursday, 2 September 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
There's an amazing David Axelrod-helmed cover of 'Good Day Sunshine' on this album but I can't find it streaming anywhere. I'll upload it when I get home. It's pretty trippy, and plenty rad.― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, October 9, 2018 3:08 PM
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, October 9, 2018 3:08 PM
nearly four years later and i've finally followed through—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKc4TTF8J4
ray brown — "good day sunshine" (1969)
album info.
one of the best arrangements axelrod ever did.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
this set of covers by various soul and reggae versions hits the spot.
that said, i always select the 4hero mixtape version.
https://www.discogs.com/release/1343098-Various-We-Can-Work-It-Out-Covers-Cookies-Of-Lennon-McCartney-The-Beatles
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
that ray brown version is so good!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
bloody hell, i had no idea re this album.i guess there are no digital options ?
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
i've never heard the whole album.
i ripped that from this compilation. it's been one of my holy grails for a while. cheap copies on discogs, but i have not a turntable anymore.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
sorry for derailing thread. sadlol.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
It's been mentioned a couple times upthread but I'll third or fourth the recommendations for Ramsey Lewis's Mother Nature's Son, which has some really exceptional arrangements.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
doh : i have that Axe comp.would love to hear the rest of that album of course.
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
this is the only other song i've found. supercheese. i've heard it's a really bad album besides the beatles cover. axelrod did work on some other very schmaltzy records around the same time (some of which inevitably have another beatles cover or two).
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
fair enough.makes me glad to have ripped my skinny promo cd-r of the anthology comp before it got too wrecked.i got it years before i realised who/why/where etc ...
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
all of which reminds me ..
post beatles vs library brilliance
https://www.discogs.com/master/1710161-The-Larry-Page-Orchestra-And-Chorus-John-Paul-George-Ringo
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
jimmy ponder - while my guitar gently weeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHqbfCIklw
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqVioiDldc
Cathy Berberian - Ticket to Ride
(For those that may now know, she was a mezzo-soprano who specialized in contemporary music and a composer. She was also married to Luciano Berio who several works for her.)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 06:25 (one year ago) link
Bluegrass covers of I've Just Seen a Face there are many. Ones which also incorporate hiccuping reels into the middle and end there is but one. Good harmonic invention vocally too.
Look I just like this stuff okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sc3RU6Hsv0
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 10:45 (one year ago) link
The Dillards did "I've Just Seen a Face" back in 1968, I assume that was the first one.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 12:06 (one year ago) link