Lol. She’s an Australian that is big in Aust, NZ and the UK for the last 30 years. Was originally a soap starlet in Neighbours and this song launched her pop career in the 80’s.Kylie Who??(now I’m really showing my age)
The Linda Ronstadt version of “When Will I Be Loved” for me beats out the Everly Brothers original.
You are right, I read it wrong. The Everlys were first.
Never thought of that. I think whoever was the recording engineer must have had a thing for echo chambers or something. If you listen to many songs from the late 50s or early 60s, they were really heavy on the reverb/echo, so much so that many times you couldn’t understand the words to save your life!
Have you ever seen the Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun”? He came on to the leading lady in a bar singing that song backed by some of his characters’ Navy buddies.Never thought of that. I think whoever was the recording engineer must have had a thing for echo chambers or something. If you listen to many songs from the late 50s or early 60s, they were really heavy on the reverb/echo, so much so that many times you couldn’t understand the words to save your life!
Okay, so I lied… THAT is my favorite cover of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”! Thanks for the link! She is cute, and I’d rather look at her than the guys from Grand Funk, but I’d still rather listen to their version of the Loco-Motion.
Just looked it up. Amazing. Celine Dion does a great cover of it as well.
I can’t say Ronstadt’s cover of Orbison’s “Blue Bayou” is better, but it is terrific and really lets you hear her voice at its peak, especially that last note where she changes pitch or register (or whatever you call it).
I like all three of those versions. I’ve never been quite sure what the song meant, though.
Sounds like Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass. They played lots of tunes upbeat jazz oriented too.One band I love that does covers is “Dirty Loops;” you can find them on YouTube. They play everything upbeat/jazz-fusion oriented. I doesn’t even matter what the song is they’re covering; they’re all great.
Example: La GaGa’s “Just Dance:”
youtube.com/watch?v=XQaWN5ODdVY
Puttin on the Ritz – Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle from Young Frankenstein
Yes, totally agree. I like both Nine Inch Nails’ version as well as Johnny Cash because they both “felt” the words in their own unique ways.
You are right!!! That’s a classic!!!Puttin on the Ritz – Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle from Young Frankenstein
Steve Earle did a good cover too.
It sounds like he’s singing about Francisco “Pancho” Villa, a Mexican revolutionary who raided the town of Columbus, NM in 1916 and was pursued, unsuccessfully, by Gen. John “Black Jack” Pershing for nine months before Pershing was recalled because WWI had begun. The song says “All the federales say they could have had him any day, they only let him slip away out of kindness, I suppose.” However, the writer, Townes Van Zandt claims it’s not historically accurate and that the story is only loosely based on the real Pancho Villa.