Yes, one version of this song is quite enough!
Link to video, please!
I’ll just leave this here. Should prove the point either way you want to make it
Jose Feliciano is probably better known for Feliz Navidad.
^^^^^
And, for a political twist:
This is a parody of the Wurzel’s song that expresses a certain political point of view.
Good god, that’s astonishing. I wonder if Melanie knows?
This led me to check out if it was listed as a cover in “second hand songs” - not that they’re an official arbiter of anything. No it isn’t, but Combine Harvester is. BTW @kayaker, there are dozens of covers of Brand New Key:
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Look what they’ve done to her song, Ma!
“Man in Black” by Johnny Cash. Since he IS the man in black.
It’s been covered by Christian punk band One Bad Pig, with an appearance by Johnny on the song. It’s also been covered in Spanish and by a female performer named Andy Allo.
Youtube’s autoplay algorithm can be a little strange.
I think the progression went:
North Carolina traditional music → Appalachian traditional → Irish traditional → Songs of the IRA.
It wierded me out considerably when it came up in my playlist.
Have you HEARD the Jimi Hendrix version of “Like A Rolling Stone”? I love Dylan’s songwriting, but his vocals are crap, and Hendrix put so so SO much soul into that version - One of the absolute great covers.
Any song written by Bob Dylan or Lou Reed can be covered. Period. Dot. Might be hard to truly improve on some of them, but it can be done.
ETA - I forgot to include …
that being said, I can’t imagine anyone other than Dylan doing Positively 4th Street.
That is AWESOME.
The original, or the version from Best Little Whorehouse in Texas? Dolly had two hit performances before Whitney even thought of being on stage!
Crap, there are the darnedest things in America. What else is there, Christian death metal bands?
It’s a bold attempt, but I think it demonstrates how uncoverable that song is. The Peppers’ version just sounds like ordinary hip-hop.
As Hank Hill said “You’re not making Christian music better, you’re making rock music worse!”
I adore Dylan, and I really like the Peppers, but this is just embarrassing.
Hey, c’mon, we got there first. We had christian punks (After The Fire), punks you could introduce to your mom (Generation X)…
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ETA I could have thrown in (amongst others) The Stranglers, The Jam and The Boomtown Rats, but it would be a chore to define them. Oh go on, then. The punks you could introduce to your granny, punks on scooters, punks who might play at a ceilidh…
Here’s his Wikipedia page
I don’t think of him as a OHW, because he was as much a musical celebrity as he was a recording artist. He was blind, he played lightning fast on nylon strings, and was a frequent guest on television doing interviews and musical duets.
His follow-up single, Hi-Heel Sneakers, reached #25 in the US.
His 1968 breakthrough album reached #2.
His jazzy performance of Star Spangled Banner during the 1968 World Series made the news. It may have been the first Major League anthem controversy.
He had two more Gold albums in 1969, and a Top 40 Xmas album in 1970.
He appeared briefly in the film Fargo as a lounge singer.
In 2018 the Detroit Tigers invited him back to play the anthem, 50 years after his World Series performance.
When you know the background of the song, the original performance becomes double awesome.
I can’t remember which version it was, or which CD I had. I know that she first wrote and sung it when she was on The Porter Waggoner Show in the 70s.
Well, “Peaches” or “Golden Brown” are not songs I would have played to my grandma (though she wouldn’t have got the subject matter of “Golden Brown”).
I had to double check that, I only knew them as the British guys who covered “Der Kommissar”, but they really seem to be a Christian new wave band. (btw., was their Falco cover also about cocaine 
?)
Of course. A bit of googling reveals that there are plenty, and not just American.