Bee Gees Covers
Seymour_Butz_Please
Broken Heart". A great version of the song. Anybody know any other covers
of their material?
Bob Winkler
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did it (IMHO) better. The Chambers Brothers in particular did it with alot
of soul. Janis did everything that way.
Bob
Kurt Flansburg
Animals-To Love Somebody "Love Is.. " LP
There has got to be many more.
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Harold Brown
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Steve
>Someone recently turned me on to Al Green's version of "How Can You Mend A
>Broken Heart". A great version of the song. Anybody know any other covers
>of their material?
Rita Coolidge covered "Words" in the late 70s. Nigel Olsson had a
(very) minor hit with "Only One Woman" in 1975 or so (dunno if the BGs
recorded it, but they wrote it).
>
>
BustertheK
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Both Narvel Felts and Hank Williams Jr. had hit Country singles with "To
Love Somebody".
Brett A. Pasternack
Believe it or not, Joe Pesci did three Bee Gees songs on his pre-acting
debut album, Little Joe Sure Can Sing!
In a similar (but better) mode, boxer Oscar De La Hoya recently hit
number one on the Billboard Latin chart with "Ven A Mi", a
Spanish-language version of "Run To Me".
Some other random ones:
I Started A Joke -- The Beautiful South
Words -- Bill Deal
To Love Somebody -- Rod Stewart
Bob Radil
>Someone recently turned me on to Al Green's version of "How Can You Mend A
>Broken Heart". A great version of the song. Anybody know any other covers
>of their material?
In 1970 they had a minor hit(flop) titled "I.O.I.O.". It was redone by Butch
Patrick(of the Munsters) in 1972. Now, how many of you knew that?
Bob Radil
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>Someone recently turned me on to Al Green's version of "How Can You Mend A
>Broken Heart". A great version of the song. Anybody know any other covers
>of their material?
>
to No. 1 on the country charts.
There's also Olivia Newton-John's "Come On Over" and Yvonne Elliman's "Love
Me," both of which were LP tracks on the LP "Main Course."
And Tavares did "More Than a Woman."
The Bee Gees also have written a lot of songs for other artists that they
never recorded, or only recorded as demos (some of which have been issued in
the years hence). Some examples include "Gilbert Green" for Gerry Marsden;
"Heartbreaker" for Dionne Warwick; "Islands in the Stream" for Kenny Rogers
& Dolly Parton; and "If I Can't Have You" for Yvonne Elliman.
Tim Neely
Goldmine magazine
Dennis McGee
International Hotel" LP (one of his better live albums).
Many more are mentioned in David Garcia's Bee Gees FAQ I have on my site, at
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/8678/faq_beegees.html
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ernie
1.to love somebody
2.marley purt drive
(don't forget : her husband was a bee gee !!!)
and nina simone makes to "love somebody"
to a top-5-hit in great britain
ernie
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Matthew Montchalin
|uk-girl "Lulu" did 2 great bee gee's covers of
|1.to love somebody
|2.marley purt drive
|(don't forget : her husband was a bee gee !!!)
|
|and nina simone makes to "love somebody"
|to a top-5-hit in great britain
Has anyone done Edison yet?
sa...@monmouth.com
Gram Parsons also did it with the Flying Burrito Bros., tho' it wasn't released
until after his death. Usually pops up on the now-yearly re-issued collections
of GP or FBB... I was always curious if Parsons had heard Carr's version
(released in 1969). Parsons (despite his dubious title of "father of country
rock") hated the term "country rock" and always called his music "Cosmic
American Music" and always stressed the influence of soul music on his work
(something most other "country rock" is missing). Unfortunately, he didn't
have a "classic soul" voice but Gilded Palace of Sin (first FBB album) is a lot
closer to "soul" than to "country" (altho' Sneaky Pete's steel obscures the
soul somewhat, but is hardly "Nashville Sound" steel, either...)
ernie
ernie
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Jeff Troutman
Those are good, but my favorite version is Nina Simone's.
Jeff Troutman
Matthew Montchalin
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, ernie wrote:
|> Has anyone done Edison yet?
|
I can't understand why not. Next to Melody Fair, it comes close to
being the best song on the Odessa album... Wonderful album with
lots of good songs...
John Frank
There's a recording of Dusty Springfield's version of "To Love
Somebody" done live at the BBC. It's on a CD obtainable only through
the Dusty Springfield Bulletin.
Lv70smusic
put out a Bee Gees "covers" cd about 5-10 years ago called "Soul of The Bee
Gees." As the name suggests, the covers are by "soul" (actually, in many
cases, "soul-lite") artists such as Chaka Khan, Al Green, Candi Staton,
Tavares, Dionne Warwick, etc, etc.
>Subject: Re: Bee Gees Covers
>From: John Frank jfra...@earthlink.net
>Date: 4/7/2001 2:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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PaulB
> James Carr's version of "To Love Somebody" is the best I've ever heard.
>
> Gram Parsons also did it with the Flying Burrito Bros., tho' it wasn't released
> until after his death. Usually pops up on the now-yearly re-issued collections
> of GP or FBB... I was always curious if Parsons had heard Carr's version
> (released in 1969).
I'd love to hear the James Carr version. The GP one strikes me as kind of a boozy
mess. He leaves out at least a verse and gets pretty loose with the ones he
includes. But, of the unreleased Parsons-era Burrito tracks, I guess it's my
favorite.
Paul
Kurt Flansburg
like he's trying for a "bubble-gum" type sound.
There's weird steel drum sounds in it and his vocals sound kind of like Lou
Christie without the falsetto.
The flip side "I Want Sugar All The Time" sounds like it could have been a
cover of a bubble-gum band ie. Ohio Express and pals. Actually not totally
bad.
Produced by Frank Slay for "Chicory" productions.
Sounds nothing like Eddie Munster.
Record Geek
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> Bob Radil <bobr...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > In 1970 they had a minor hit(flop) titled "I.O.I.O.". It was redone by
> Butch
> > Patrick(of the Munsters) in 1972. Now, how many of you knew that?
> ------------------
> GOOD LORD!
> Does anybody actually *have* this record? How bad is it?
>
> DianeE
>
>
Lenny Smith
>Broken Heart". A great version of the song. Anybody know any other covers
>of their material?
Two utterly amazing ones:
James Carr does a BEAUTIFUL job--ahem--*remaking* (lol!) "To Love Somebody,"
and Ozzy Osbourne (!) does a really cool version of... get this...
"Stayin' Alive"!
Lenny
BustertheK
> Unfortunately, he didn't
>have a "classic soul" voice but Gilded Palace of Sin (first FBB album) is a
>lot
>closer to "soul" than to "country" (altho' Sneaky Pete's steel obscures the
>soul somewhat, but is hardly "Nashville Sound" steel, either...)
>
Obviously Gram Parsons (and many other country singers) were influenced by
soul music, and vice versa. However, when you say Gilded Palace Of Sin is
"a lot closer to soul than to country" I respectfully suggest you are way out
to lunch.
It is a country album. (Maybe your problem is that you don't realize that real
country music always has/had plenty of "soul", in the emotional sense.)
sa...@monmouth.com
> In article <3ACF130D...@monmouth.com>, sa...@monmouth.com writes:
>
> > Unfortunately, he didn't
> >have a "classic soul" voice but Gilded Palace of Sin (first FBB album) is a
> >lot
> >closer to "soul" than to "country" (altho' Sneaky Pete's steel obscures the
> >soul somewhat, but is hardly "Nashville Sound" steel, either...)
> >
>
> Obviously Gram Parsons (and many other country singers) were influenced by
> soul music, and vice versa.
Oh, I agree with that. James Carr, Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge (hey, throw in Ray
Charles) all did "country" songs and turned them into "soul". And I don't have the
"problem" of not knowing the "soulfulness" of country music,having lots of Haggard,
Jones, Williams, Rich, etc., in my collection. I think the writer Stanley Booth
said it best about an unknown (to him) songwriter: "I don't know if he's Black or
white, but I know he's Southern."
> However, when you say Gilded Palace Of Sin is
> "a lot closer to soul than to country" I respectfully suggest you are way out
> to lunch.
That could be. But I'm having lunch with Parsons. Here's some quotes: "It's
basically a Southern soul group playing country and gospel-oriented music with a
steel guitar." Chris Hillman: "The best thing about the Burrito Bros. experience
was plugging into Gram's insight on the R&B stuff..." The 2 songs on Gilded Palace
not written by the band are by Chip Moman, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham (of Memphis,
not Nashville). And I think most of the band's compositions could be more easily
done by artists like the soul singers above than by Nashville singers of the time.
> It is a country album.
If you say so. I think you can make that argument about GP's solo stuff but Gilded
Palace, for me, is Parson's stretching for that "Cosmic American Music" that
incorporated everything. I think that's why GP rejected the label "country rock" -
because music of that type quickly lost all of those "other" influences. For me,
the best music doesn't always fit neatly into any genre. I didn't say it was a
"soul" album, only that Parson's OTHER influences are often overlooked, and that
there's more "soul" than "country" in GPS...
sa...@monmouth.com
> sa...@monmouth.com wrote:
>
> > James Carr's version of "To Love Somebody" is the best I've ever heard.
> >
> > Gram Parsons also did it with the Flying Burrito Bros., tho' it wasn't released
> > until after his death. Usually pops up on the now-yearly re-issued collections
> > of GP or FBB... I was always curious if Parsons had heard Carr's version
> > (released in 1969).
>
> I'd love to hear the James Carr version.
It's worth the price alone for the cd (I'd recommend the Razor and Tie collection).
BUT you also get some of the greatest soul songs ever.
Lenny Smith
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Agreed. The collection is The Essential James Carr, and to tie it back to
Gram Parsons and Country vs. Soul elsewhere in this thread, it also has a
KILLER version of "At The Dark End of the Street."
Lenny
sa...@monmouth.com
> Agreed. The collection is The Essential James Carr, and to tie it back to
> Gram Parsons and Country vs. Soul
I don't know if I'd call it "Country vs. Soul" as much as "Country/Soul" or,
better yet, some mathematical symbol that means "merges into"...
> elsewhere in this thread, it also has a
> KILLER version of "At The Dark End of the Street
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'd say the DEFINITIVE version, and, more importantly, I
think Dan Penn's on record as saying as much. We lost a GIANT of Soul a few
months ago when we lost James Carr...I saw him in person only a few years ago
(in a little bar in NJ) and it was the most INTENSE show I've ever seen...
.s
Saskia Bultman
Mama!" in 1968.
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Donald Valitizski
or one of his Animals formations
And I think someone did do I've Just Gotta Get A Message To You, but can't
recall right now.
Donald
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Will C
Darlene
Edwards do a kick ass "Stayin' Alive"
BigStar303
<< Eric Burdon did a Cover of To Love Somebody back in the 60's with either War
or one of his Animals formations >>
It's on "Love Is," the final album by Eric Burdon and the (new) Animals.
David Latta
> Someone recently turned me on to Al Green's version of "How Can You Mend A
> Broken Heart". A great version of the song. Anybody know any other covers
> of their material?
A 2-CD set, The Bee Gees - Brilliant From Birth, was released by Spin (an
offshoot of Festival Records in Australia) in 1998. It covers all known Bee
Gees recordings made 1963-66.
The extensive liner notes come from Australia's own Rock Brain of the Universe,
Glenn A. Baker, who mentions that there are over 4000 worldwide cover versions
of Gibb songs. "How Deep Is Your Love?" has been covered more than 400 times,
and "To Love Somebody" has been covered by more than 100 artists including
Janis Joplin, Gram Parsons and Eric Burdon and the Animals.
D
Mister Charlie
Butter.
They had a debut album that featured a wonderful cover of New York Mining
Disaster 1941.
It was slower, with a classical sounding type piano, nice harmonies.
I doubt many know of this one. Wild Butter must have broken up as soon as I
bought the LP but I have enjoyed it for 30 years.
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