Cover me I'm going in! - Post your favorite song covers.

[smygolf]

Royal Republic cover them elf

Original

Cover

 

[muza_1]

 

[Eulipian]

 

[RexrothPigeon]

 

[muza_1]

 

[Eulipian]

The inimitable Richard Thompson covers Britney Spears and goes all 16th century at the finish.

 

[pavuol]

Lotte Kestner - Hope There's Someone

 

[Blue Shadow]

WXPN, Univ of Penna radio did the top 885 (they are are 88.5 on the dial) covers as voted by listeners. Played em in order first week of Dec. interesting.

Statistics and the list are here. https://xpn.org/885-countdown/

I nearly predicted the winner saying it would be one of the last songs played.

 

[LarsF]

kind of like this one

 

[NoFuzz]

 

[muza_1]

 

[EngineerNate]

 

[EngineerNate]

Skip to 3:20--House of the Rising Sun

Or listen to the whole thing because they're fabulous live.

Music starts at 0:54

 

[XMechanik]

 

[muza_1]

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

This is a cover by the song's writer. The first recording was in 1929 by Douglas Finell and His Royal Stompers. Piano Red, the author had a juke box hit in 1950 with this version. To be fair he released a recording of this in 1930. Piano Red, Willie Lee Perryman, was the brother of Rufus Perryman who performed as Speckled Red. Rufus's big hit was "The Dirty Dozens." Piano Red had a musical career that extended into the '60s. In the '50s he appeared as a DJ on a couple of Atlanta radio stations under the name Dr. Feelgood. He charted several tunes as Dr. Feelgood and the Interns.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

Piano Red's bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Red

 

[RHO]

 

[digitalfrost]

Hahahah this is so cool. Gamma Ray also did a nice cover of the song.

 

[Sir Sanders Zingmore]

Beautiful cover of Billy Idol's "White Wedding"