But even the unadulterated tracks here are delightful: Big Daddy's With a Little Help from My Friends is also a Johnny Mathis parody in which the singer caresses those consonants in the refrain to create a delightful frisson; She's Leaving Home rockets into the funkosphere when those vocoders get going; Kenny Ball's When I'm Sixty-Four manages to sound like it is the original; while progressive rock's debt to Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite is flagged up by the moaning guitars of Cuarto Silencio.
There's even a runout groove. I'm good to you...
Show me the Alternate Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Tracklist
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4 comments:
just wanted to say that i book marked your blog sometime last year, and am still checking regularly to grab these compilations (and album art!).
really happy you stuck with the project. not all the covers are, how to say?, my cup of tea, but you've given me lots of good renditions, some really unexpected gems. (vince guaraldi's "i'm a loser" is something i've gone back to over and over again - but, if i may voice a minor criticism, i feel you tend to (perhaps unintentionally; perhaps unfairly) overlook the last 25 years of beatles covering.)
anyway, really glad you're still doing this. looking forward to a great cover of the "Blue Meanies Theme". (:
Thanks for your comments! It's true, I've got a fondness for earlier covers a lot of the time. I don't know why. Usually, though not always, I will choose a 70s cover over one from the 80s simply because it's a more radical interpretation.
But then I'm constantly being surprised while I compile these, so the situation may well be different on the next few albums.
When I've finished I'll have to publish my 'runners-up' list, because it was quite painful not to include some excellent covers simply because they didn't fit the pattern. (E.g. I thought Easy Star All-Stars' version of Lovely Rita was hilarious, but I couldn't have two of their songs in a row, so it had to go!)
Thanks again!
One of the wackiest covers of the Sgt. Pepper's title track is sung by Bill Cosby on his "Hooray For The Salvation Army Band" LP from the late '60s. For "Fixing A Hole" I always recall George Burns' cover from the Sgt. Pepper movie soundtrack, which featured some far-out covers and delightful surprises. I think this is a fun idea you've struck on here and I'm eager to hear more. -- Gary in Omaha
Thanks. Big Daddy covered the whole Sgt Pepper album in various styles, pretty cool!
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