Best and Worst disco cover version

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Noogies - The Chipmunk Song (1979) ...and Merry Xmas!


No animals were harmed in the making of this song
50's Original here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwe_3f2ryNo

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hmmm disco seems to improve about any song ........

Pat Boone
Charo


I am glad Pat Boone never decided to do disco ..... Wayne Newton doing disco I can handle ........................but Pat Boone ............

originally by the Bee Gees :



reminds me of Tony Orlando's DON"T LET GO





a disco cover of :

Roy Hamilton
from 1958


.......an endless chain of disco remakes !!!


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Revelacion - Don't Give A Damn (1979)

beautiful cover of:
Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien (1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88

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I think I'll have to go with Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" (best remake) and TV actor Chad Everett's "Nights On Broadway" and throw in Charo's take on Jack Jones' "The Love Boat Theme" as two of the worst I've heard.

Oh Dr Love! I like Charos version of the Love Boat!! Oh well to each his own.

[Nano]

that Charo record... bleeech! but it has some nice bass licks :)

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fantastic :

WESTSIDE STRUTTERS

WIKI:

The Man I Love " is a popular standard, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Originally part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin government satire Lady Be Good! as "The Girl I Love", the song was deleted from the show as well as from both the 1927 anti-war satire Strike Up the Band (where it first appeared as "The Man I Love") and 1928 Ziegfeld hit Rosalie after tryouts. As with many standards of the era, it has become more famous as an independent popular song than as one from a Broadway musical. Popular torch singer Helen Morgan first made the song into a big success.[1]
The best-known recording over the years of the crooner Vaughn De Leath (1894–1943) was perhaps the version of "The Man I Love" she sang with Paul Whiteman's Concert Orchestra for Columbia.[1]
Billie Holiday , Sarah Vaughan, and Lena Horne recorded versions of this song, as did Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959). On this version, Ira Gershwin commented, "I didn't realize our songs were so good until Ella sang them". Hazel O'Connor recorded a version for her Smile album in 1984.
Liza Minnelli (who is Ira Gershwin's god-daughter) performed the song in the 1977 film New York, New York.
Cher recorded the song for her album Bittersweet White Light (1973).
Diane Schuur recorded the song for her album In Tribute (1992).
Barbra Streisand recorded the song for her album Back to Broadway (1993).

PEGGY LEE

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BARBRA

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Some great tracks that never should have been "discofied"

Lots of mistakes were made in disco history, let alone the 90's wave of cover house "hits"we had to endure.
Some of my all time no-favorites . .

In the mood (Glen Miller) was savagely distorted by Arthur Barrow
Papa was a rolling stone (Temptations) got the vocoder/rap treatment by Bill Wolfer, a waste of good vinyl :-)
No woman no cry (Bob Marley) was the shameful B-side of Boney M.'s Daddy cool . . . . . . .

But there's also songs that got a good second or third chance :-)
Self Control (Laura Brannigan) is actually better than the original from Raf imho . .. .
Move on up, up, up (Curtis Mayfield) works really good in the cover by Destination, a true classic.
Shout by the Trammps needs no explanation i think :-p

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Michele Freeman - Find The Fire (1979)

cover of: Gérard Lenorman - Si tu ne me laisses pas tomber (1973) ...also produced by Don Ray .
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbn...-laisses_music

two nice songs

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not good:



Breaks cardinal rule #5 of hit making :

A song with the word "I" in the title - not good when sung as a duet .


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