SUtC: Continuing the theme - Big Daddy do Brooce
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Track:Born to Run/Dancing in the Dark
Here are two Big Daddy versions of Springsteen songs, from their second album, Meanwhile, Back in the States and their third, Cutting Their Own Groove.
If you're not familiar with Big Daddy, well... Let's say they had an interesting way of looking at popular music. (There's a Public Service animated spot promoting a zoo - either in Chicago or New York, i can't recall which - that my first wife saw just once on one of the "Superstations" in the 80's and we never caught again - it featured greaser animals doing a doo-wop version of Simon & Garfunkel's "At the Zoo". She was pretty sure that the art was based on designs by Bil Stout, who crested the Rhino logo.)
Anyway, here they are, in one clip because i'm lazy:
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Zingo! How about that Wall-of-Sound-meets-doo-wop arrangement on the "Born to Run" cover? Nifty! I bet Bruce himself got a kick out of that. Meanwhile, years after his heyday, Phil Spector tries to evade jail for the rest of his life - or worse. Ya never know, do ya?
You oughtta hear their "Leader of the Pack"-meets-"Deadman's Curve" arrangement of "The Living Years".
Or their Duane Eddy-meets-the-Ventures "Star Wars Theme".
Or the "Yaketty Yak" arrangement of "Help Me Make It Through the Night".
Eddie Cochrane does "Jump"?
Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis do "Ebony and Ivory"...
Four albums full - including a complete "Sgt Pepper"