Fridat Night is Music Night: Gender Transfer

[Poacher]

Flying Pickets performing Da Doo Ron Ron:

and the Crystals:

(I wanted to find the Flying Pickets version of To Know Him is to Love Him, but I'll have to be satisfied with my vinyl version on Live at the Albany Empire!)

Please excuse the even greater diversion, but did anyone else hear the R4 programme about Jimmy Scott? Still available on iPlayer here - an amazing, androgynous voice.

 

[jefmcg]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfRcgoPxTw

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnzpg5GgQCo

 

[Beebo]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfRcgoPxTw

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnzpg5GgQCo

One of those songs where the cover is so much better than the original. Bragg's version is just a dirge.

 

[Smokin Joe]

This one of my favourites from my days at World Headquarters in Newcastle, Spanky Wilson's funk-soul classic cover of Cream's Sunshine of Your Love:

Nice one.

First time I've ever heard a cover of that song.

 

[jefmcg]

One of those songs where the cover is so much better than the original. Bragg's version is just a dirge.

Still, hers was the first Bragg song I ever heard, and it was very much a gateway drug.

Cried the day she died.

 

[iandg]

Originally written for Etta James

View: https://youtu.be/kCzpT3zs_go

 

[Yellow Fang]

The Tracey Ullman cover seemed more popular than the Madness original, but to me, "My guy's mad at me," does not scan very well, and it sounds like no relationship I've heard of.

 

[Levo-Lon]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wPT3H8hmYSU

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_7_lEOaU10

 

[Deleted member 23692]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRGyPAgyquk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0

 

[GM]

 

[Dec66]

Original:

View: https://youtu.be/QbuLeQcwqvA



Definitive:

View: https://youtu.be/oo__EIXzAco



Rod Stewart and Sheryl Crow? Meh.

 

[philk56]

I think this counts

 

[Dec66]

Original:

View: https://youtu.be/3JGJXmpKGXY


Definitive:

View: https://youtu.be/6FOUqQt3Kg0


Anyone else? Meh.

 

[Dec66]

View: https://youtu.be/T6fVDAjs9f0

View: https://youtu.be/kFPGpzyLOTM

 

[Dec66]

View: https://youtu.be/UNRghlld8HU

View: https://youtu.be/cPVKbFFbPbk