# Musical collaborations that never were, but you'd like to hear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [July 20, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242 "2022-07-20T04:39:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/21 "2022-07-20T17:32:24Z")
I’ve read that Steve Winwood was “under consideration” for what was to become Robert Plant’s spot in Led Zeppelin, although I’m not at all clear on how close this came to happening or even what Winwood himself thought of the idea. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/22 "2022-07-20T17:37:33Z")
There were a lot of rumors about what would come out of the wreck of the Yardbirds. I remember having heard that Keith Moon was considered to be one of the “New Yardbirds”. In the end, we got Led Zep, the Jeff Beck Group and Renaissance. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/23 "2022-07-20T17:50:23Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Paul McCartney and John Fogerty. > > Both are phenomenal songwriters. John wrote nearly all CCR’s hits. > > Put those two together for a couple weeks and record an album. John Fogerty had three average musicians backing him up in his band, Paul had three John Fogerty’s in his band. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/24 "2022-07-20T17:50:26Z")
Elvis could have revived his career by collaboration with 1970’s musicans like Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. Elvis and Tom Jones were friends. That would be a natural duet. Elvis duets with his contemporaries was supposedly discussed and rejected by Colonel Parker. The ultimate would be a gospel song with Andraé Crouch and Elvis. That would have been incredible. Elvis recorded several Gospel albums. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/25 "2022-07-20T18:29:53Z")
> [@RAWDuke](#): > > There was a rumor about Jimi Hendrix moving to London and joining ELP. So they would have renamed themselves HELP? ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/26 "2022-07-20T18:47:44Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I would love to hear the instrumental might of The Who behind the vocal harmonics of The Beach Boys. > > Alas, this is as close as it gets… well “A quick one while he is away” is not far off from that either! For me, I know Prince found Brian Eno’s “another green world” very influential and I’d love to see what they would have cooked up together. “If I was your Girlfriend” or “the beautiful ones” must be somewhere close ---
**Author:** ![RAWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/27 "2022-07-21T03:06:16Z")
Naturally! (Although, maybe the Beatles would have objected…) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/28 "2022-07-21T04:55:36Z")
And imagine them covering The Beatles’ “Help!”. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/29 "2022-07-21T05:12:20Z")
I think Peter Frampton and Bill Nelson could’ve teamed up for some beautiful melodic guitar duets. ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/30 "2022-07-21T14:44:34Z")
> [@RAWDuke](#): > > There was a rumor about Jimi Hendrix moving to London and joining ELP. > > [https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimi-hendrix-emerson-lake-palmer/](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimi-hendrix-emerson-lake-palmer/) > > Unfortunately, Hendrix died before that could have happened. I would have liked to have seen that collaboration > [@xizor](#): > > So they would have renamed themselves HELP? Didn’t **Jimi Hendrix** , **Miles Davis** and **Tony Williams** send a telegram to **Paul McCartney** to record with them ? He reportedly never received it. ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/31 "2022-07-21T20:30:00Z")
I suppose you coud say it ‘almost’ happened with Blind Faith, now that I think about it, But Rick Grech was (sorry) a weak link; not up to the talent level of the others. Boring bass solo… he was no Jack Bruce… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/32 "2022-07-21T20:36:37Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Mozart + Beethoven, obviously. [They sort of did](https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/best-cadenzas/): > [@](#): > > [Mozart](https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/)’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466, was given its premiere in Vienna on 22 February 1785, with the composer at the piano. Sadly, [Mozart](https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/)’s own cadenza was lost. But a few years later in 1809, [Beethoven](https://www.classicfm.com/composers/beethoven/) put pen to paper and wrote his own. It’s everything you’d hope for with mashed-up Mozart lines in a style that’s pure Beethoven. It’s full of contrasts and unexpected twists and turns and a fantastic final flourish: pure musical genius. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/33 "2022-07-21T21:30:36Z")
_King Arthur_. A 12-part series of grand operas. Music by Wagner. Book by Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242/34 "2022-07-22T06:12:43Z")
Heh. I did say _any_ genre. I like it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-collaborations-that-never-were-but-youd-like-to-hear/968242.md?page=1)