Popular songs covered in a significally different style.

Cafe Society
81

Big Band of the 30s Plays Big Music of the 70s.

“If you like the taste of a processed cheese / Served on Fiesta ware, it’s sure to please.”

No, actually, the Carpenters’ Close to You is the kind of song Hal Kemp would have been happy to play, had it been written in 1936.

I had an idea to do a sequel of '80s and ‘90s music – Lloyd Webber’s Memory would have been vastly improved upon with a Guy Lombardo treatment, or perhaps They Might Be Giants’ Ball and Chain as a Casa Loma flag-waver.

Then I realized: who gives two shits?

82

I just heard, for the first time, this decidely uptempo ska remake of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “Tears of a Clown”. Allmusic.com suggests that it is the English Beat’s version.

83

Have a listen to Frank Sinatra’s version of the later Otis Redding hit, Try a Little Tenderness. It may as well not even be the same song!

'Ol Frank also recorded MacArthur Park as an Easy Listening ballady/croony song, long before Donna Summer Disco’d it out in the late 70s.

84

Yesterday at a grocery store I heard a countryfied version of Sweet Child O’ Mine.

85

Hey now, hey now. I saw her last year and she did that version. I never could understand why Madonna’s career did so much better than hers. Up to me, things woulda been reversed.

86

Must we remember the day-glo abortion that was Mariah Carey covering “Bringing On the Heartbreak” by Def Leppard?

Or Britney Spears doing “Satisfaction,” “My Prerogative,” “The Beat Goes On,” or any other things that make me want to drive a steak knife into my ear?

87

Jimi Hedrix - All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)

Splodgenessabounds - Two Little Boys (Rolf Harris)

Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah (Tom Jones)

William Shatner - lots

But who could forget Peter Sellers Shakespearean rendition of A Hard Days Night (and other Beatles songs) list here

88

Stairway To Heaven - Dolly Parton