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The 15 worst cover songs of all time
The Evening Standard ^ | 6/27/18 | Haryy Fletcher, David Ellis

Posted on 08/06/2023 1:45:58 PM PDT by DallasBiff

15. William Shatner - Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds

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To: DallasBiff
Johnny River's remake of the Four Tops classic, "Baby, I Need Your Loving" is dorky. Sounds like he's trying to imitate Buddy Holly trying to imitate Bobby Vee.

Blue Swede's remake of BJ Thomas's "Hooked On a Feeling" (hooka-chukka! hooka chukka!) makes my ears bleed.

41 posted on 08/06/2023 3:21:28 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: DallasBiff

Why doesn’t anyone remake Su Su Sudio?

Oh yeah. Sorry.


42 posted on 08/06/2023 3:22:13 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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To: Yo-Yo
The entire Pat Boone album “In a Metal Mood.”

Omigosh, I didn’t know that existed. I listened to some snippets. That’s really horrible.

My sister and I used to keep a couple of “off” albums in our collections to spring on people at parties for devious fun, like the Brady Bunch album.

This would have been perfect.

43 posted on 08/06/2023 3:22:31 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: fidelis

Any white person covering a Motown song is usually cringe-worthy.


44 posted on 08/06/2023 3:22:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

I love the William Shatner songs and videos. You can tell he was having major fun doing those.


45 posted on 08/06/2023 3:23:54 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: DallasBiff

Jeff Beck and Billy Gibson did one hell of a cover on Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Sixteen Tons

https://youtu.be/J2aqvKY6zLc


46 posted on 08/06/2023 3:24:36 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: fidelis

This one is delightfully awful. 😄

David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8


47 posted on 08/06/2023 3:25:51 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Gibbons not Gibson.


48 posted on 08/06/2023 3:27:28 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: Psalm 73
"William Shatner - Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds"
Oh, man - that's GOLD!


49 posted on 08/06/2023 3:29:02 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: DallasBiff

https://youtu.be/x_MSi0MhM_c

Arthur Mullard butchers Grease.


50 posted on 08/06/2023 3:29:04 PM PDT by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe". https://www.thefabulous.co/s/2uHEJdj)
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To: discostu

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues?


51 posted on 08/06/2023 3:29:39 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: AlaskaErik

The Thin Lizzy version is great. Very bluesy. I alarm like Metallica’s version, which surprises me.


52 posted on 08/06/2023 3:30:26 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Poser

Definitely a great one. Put them on the map. But really it’s a tie with The Who’s.


53 posted on 08/06/2023 3:31:44 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Yo-Yo

Bad covers are a tradition with Pat Boone. For example Tutti Frutti:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-LAbMbEn4


54 posted on 08/06/2023 3:34:54 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: discostu

The entire Live at Leeds album was great. That version of Magic Bus was classic.


55 posted on 08/06/2023 3:35:08 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Poser

Yeah. Every version of that album. It just gets better when it gets longer. But the first version was a well picked set of songs.


56 posted on 08/06/2023 3:36:12 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: dfwgator

Agreed. Michael McDonald has done a few albums of them. Some are listenable but most are indeed cringeworthy.


57 posted on 08/06/2023 3:36:36 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: discostu

The Who also did a great cover of The Guess Who’s “Shakin’ All Over”. And of course “Young Man Blues” was a Mose Allison cover.


58 posted on 08/06/2023 3:36:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: discostu

The Beatles version of Money (That’s what I want) was pretty awful. The Stones didn’t do it any service either.


59 posted on 08/06/2023 3:37:49 PM PDT by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Poser

The Beatles version of Money (That’s what I want) was pretty awful.

I liked this version.

The Flying Lizards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P2qL3qkzk


60 posted on 08/06/2023 3:38:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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