From Wikipedia:
“Hard Hearted Hannah, the Vamp of Savannah” is a popular song with words by Jack Yellen, Bob Bigelow, and Charles Bates, and music by Milton Ager.[1] The song was published in June 1924 by Ager, Yellen & Bornstein, Inc., New York.[2] Hard Hearted Hannah tells in humorous fashion the story of a sadistic “vamp” or femme fatale from Savannah, Georgia.
This is certainly a unique cover of the Pachelbel warhorse:
Hiromi is simply awesome. I first heard her a couple of months ago, and I kick myself thinking I could have been listening for years.
Was letting Youtube run in the background on a music mix and came across this:
Never heard of the original song before but was curious so took a listen:
Yeah, I think the cover is better. Turns out Cannons has an EP of cover songs that I grabbed right away. Includes Dancing in the Dark (Springsteen), and Sex on Fire ( Kings of Leon).
I was unfamiliar with the song, but it seems very similar to Trouble by Lindsay Buckingham.
All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe, a great Hollies song done very well by Simply Red
A few years back I listened to every cover of And Your Bird Can Sing I could find on YouTube. About 15 or 20. This one stood out because it was a homespun acoustic duet with guitar and muted trumpet. Maybe not “great”, but wholesome and fun.
This is an exceptionally long thread, and I’ve read the first few months’ worth of posts and the last few, but if it was mentioned in between, I beg your pardon for repeating it: Warren Zevon did a really touching acoustic cover of Steve Winwood’s “Back In The High Life”:
Back In The High Life
The words you are looking for are “achingly brilliant.”
That sums up most of Zevon’s career.
I like this jazz version of Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk
I’ve had a copy of The I-10 Chronicles for ages, and Adam Duritz did a haunting version of Zevon’s “Carmelita”. It was Track One on my trusty ipod mini for years.
One of the commenters sums it up:
“The slight tremors in the vocals speak volumes of angst and vulnerability… True to Zevon’s original.”
Prompted by the “Songs that should never be covered/played by someone else” thread, I stumbled on an album of covers.
Seems my idea of classy covers are desecrations (Killdozer covering “I’m Not Lisa”, or “I Am, I Said”), but there’s one genuinely nice cover that I think just blows out of the water a lotta covers in my pig-headed opinon, being Niel Young covering Don Gibson and Chet Atkins’ “Oh Lonesome Me”, just slowing it right down, with the harmonica starting it brashly, then going plaintive, and I like it when (I think) Danny Whitten kicks in with his backing vocals. Absolutely sterling version - should be in NY’s top ten.
Number’s been covered almost 40 times!
I agree with your assessment. If you are going to do a cover, make it your own. A good fit for Neil’s voice too.
Speakin’ of Nina Simone, the does a fine version of Mood Indigo …
Last night I discovered that 8 year old girls doing covers of metal songs is a thing now. Here is but one example:
I’ve become slightly obsessed be the related groups The Happy Mondays and Black Grape (Shaun Ryder is the most important common factor). They didn’t do many covers, but The Happy Mondays did an absolutely killer version of the old John Kongos song, He’s Gonna Step On You Again:
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I understand her words better than Johnathan Davis.