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World Party: What The Beatles Might Have Sounded Like Had They Been Just One Guy (Who Grew Up Listening to The Beatles)

By Devin McKinney|2013-09-13T15:22:54-07:00September 13, 2013|Beatle-inspired, Beatles tributes, concert, Covers|

Karl Wallinger c. 1991, Lennoning. DEVIN McKINNEY • Last week, my wife and I had the pleasure of seeing World Party perform at City Winery in Manhattan. World Party is Karl Wallinger, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has been making music on and off since the late ‘70s, first with The Waterboys and then on his own. For the last few years he’s been performing in America and England, usually accompanied by fiddler-mandolinist Dave Duffy and guitarist John Turnbull. He’s one of my favorite musicians ever, not just Beatles-influenced but Beatles-besotted, and I really don’t know why it’s taken me so [...]

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Ze Ramalho Covers "Another Day"

By Nancy Carr|2015-12-28T12:16:13-08:00May 2, 2013|Beatle-inspired, Covers|

Crinsk Dee Night? Courtesy of Dusty Groove America, a great soul/funk/jazz/world record store here in Chicago, I've discovered a number of Brazilian artists doing Beatles covers. One of the most interesting albums is Ze Ramalho Canta Beatles, which includes some solo songs as well, like this version of "Another Day." Ramalho's delivery has really grown on me. And its good to see this song getting some positive attention, after years of being critically dismissed. As several on this blog have remarked (most recently Annie McNeil, in the "Drugs and Differences" thread), it's striking that McCartney often writes sympathetic songs about [...]

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Beatles Reggae covers

By Ed Park|2014-07-16T20:47:36-07:00July 15, 2012|Covers|

One of the original Dullbloggers* and I met up last week to discuss recent doings on Hey Dullblog. He told me about an early Bob Marley cover of "And I Love Her" and Peter Tosh's take on "Here Comes the Sun." Check 'em out below--very nice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZj741_WNb0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW2yivTVieU *The great Eugene, whose trivia quiz from 2008 made me laugh out loud.

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Double coverage

By Ed Park|2016-02-19T21:48:29-08:00July 7, 2012|Covers|

Thanks for posting about covers, Nancy, and commenters, keep the links coming! I wasn't sure how to embed a video in a comment, so I'm putting up a fresh post. Back in high school, I became a fan of The Feelies, because they were opening for R.E.M. on the part of the tour that was passing through my town. Their debut, Crazy Rhythms, has this frenzied take on "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)": https://youtu.be/k5o1-HxaRFM * And when I saw them, they covered "She Said, She Said"--I'm not sure if they ever recorded it (maybe as a B-side?). [...]

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Double coverage

By Ed Park|2014-07-13T16:36:09-07:00September 18, 2011|Beatle-inspired, Covers, The White Album|

ED PARK • Via Douglas Wolk on Twitter: "Alvarius B. covers You Only Live Twice, arranged/recorded to sound EXACTLY like John Lennon's White Album demos." http://youtu.be/ilI2jS2WkWc [MG update July 2014--The produced track has been taken down, but I've pasted a live version below. You'll get what Ed was talking about.] http://youtu.be/OjYj9r6jL9I

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The Casey Black album

By Ed Park|2014-07-22T12:07:54-07:00January 16, 2011|Covers|

You'd think "Eleanor Rigby" would not be an ideal song to cover...but I dig my former student Casey Black's rendition: http://www.youtube.com/v/MiOy2gr0klU?fs=1&h More than once, one of Casey's originals has popped up on the ipod and I've thought: some Springsteen song I forgot? Check out this one: "The Sarge." (At the very least, he finds something to rhyme with "hippocampus.")POSTSCRIPT: Just noticed via FB that there's a stop-motion video for "The Sarge," the aforementioned Casey Black original—check it out ("hippocampus" occurs around the 1 minute mark): http://www.youtube.com/v/Cm5sex9ryfs?fs=1&h

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Covering "Julia"

By Ed Park|2014-07-07T15:36:56-07:00February 23, 2010|Covers|

From Priscilla Ahn's blog: http://youtu.be/6rmlaXwAyJY Today was a beautiful, crisp, windy day. When I looked outside there was a big morning moon hanging so delicately in the sky. It made me think of my favorite Beatles' song, "Julia". I realized I didn't have the song in my computer though, and crazy enough, The White Album isn't available to purchase on itunes! (There's something I sort of like about that though) So I decided to cover it. It only took me 30 minutes, and it was simply to satisfy the "fix" I needed to hear, sing, and play this song. You can hear [...]

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Hmmm…

By Ed Park|2014-07-05T10:46:44-07:00June 15, 2009|Beatle-inspired, Covers|

Jay-R's mashup of of L'Trimm's "Cars with the Boom," Gary Numan's "Cars," and the Beatles' "Drive My Car." Thank you, Jay-R. Interesting fun fact as of July 2014: L'Trimm's Bunny D. has been married five times (never, though, to Jay-R) and has four children from her first four marriages, which is an admirable kind of efficiency. She has published a series of children's books and is working on a clothing line. Luck and happiness to you, Bunny D.! (And Lady Tigra and, of course, Jay-R.) http://www.youtube.com/v/wfmUv2FNDjE&h

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Mae tripper

By Ed Park|2015-01-18T11:47:43-08:00January 4, 2009|Covers|

"Despite being an extremely talented playwright and acerbic comic actress, Mae West's final attempt at showbiz triumph was not to be. This album ["Mae West Way Out West"] featured West covering The Beatles, The Guess Who and Percy Sledge among others. Some of it is surprisingly listenable although it is naturally a novelty album and little else..." —Classic Television Showbiz Track Listings:Treat Him RightWhen a Man Loves a WomanYou Turn Me OnShakin All OverIf You Gotta GoLover, Please Don't FightDay TripperNervousTwist and ShoutBoom BoomMae Daytag. What are you waiting for? Mae West Way Out West is what the internet was made for! [...]

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Nothing’s gonna change my world…

By Ed Park|2014-07-02T18:10:10-07:00July 29, 2008|Covers|

Ofra Harnoy? Ofra Harnoy. ...except possibly this gaggle of Canadian string players delicately filleting offerings by our favorite band.(Via Five Bucks on By-Tor.)

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