I always snatch up those albums from the 60's when they had legendary jazz or classics singers do covers of pop songs. Although they are often not the singer at a career high point they are always fun to listen to.
Sometimes the artist is clearly trying to get through having to sing what they consider crap or else trying to adapt the song to his style and in the process butcher it. (Dean Martin's Hey Good Lookin' for example) But it is always wonderful to see an artist just throw themselves wholly and completely into the song.
Here is Ella selling Sunshine of Your Love....enjoy.
Posted on 03/03/2008
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This is why I love you T., your appreciation for the finer things in life like Miss Ella.
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I have newfound appreciation for the songwriting of Cream.
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I like Miss Ella and I like Cream, but never did the two meet in my mind . . . until now. Makes for a yummy combo. Thanks, T.!
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What a class act !
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I grab that kind of LP all the time also. My recent fave is Sammy Davis Jr's "Something For Everyone" on Motown, where he tackles (and I mean tackles, like to the ground) things like "In The Ghetto" and "Wichita Lineman."
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i got the dean martin doing country classics a bit ago. I love dean martin and i love country classics but they two together not so much. He does do a great version of patsy cline's "She's Got You" as "He's Got You".
i am very jealous of the sammy davis jr. record.
I wish i had some of the stuff that they used to have on the variety shows on the 60's and 70's when the host would sing the guest's song--awkward renditions of someone else's hit.
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Dean was and is highly underrated as an interpreter. There's something so crazy/cool about his country-flavored stuff, especially "(Goin' Back to) Houston." But Ella is now and forever the queen, even as she tries to get all relevant by covering something that the whippersnappers were diggin' back in the day. Awfully cool how she eventually transmutes the Cream song into a spiritual.