#26
Posted: 1/30/05 at 11:40pm
the supremes covered "i guess i'll miss the man" from "pippin" in 1972.
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#27
Posted: 2/3/05 at 3:21pm
This thread inspired me to put up an entire playlist for February of showtune covers on my Internet radio station (see below). I added most of the songs discussed here (including the nails-on-a-blackboard Katie Holmes).
I've got covers of songs by artists like Sammy Davis Jr., Barry Manilow, Donny Osmond, Nell Carter, Pia Zadora, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper and Dame Edna. Also included some dance versions, foreign recordings, and other alternate versions.
If anyone has other favorite cover versions, please post. I like collecting these recordings.
I've got covers of songs by artists like Sammy Davis Jr., Barry Manilow, Donny Osmond, Nell Carter, Pia Zadora, Meat Loaf, Cyndi Lauper and Dame Edna. Also included some dance versions, foreign recordings, and other alternate versions.
If anyone has other favorite cover versions, please post. I like collecting these recordings.
Updated On: 2/3/05 at 03:21 PM
#28
Posted: 2/3/05 at 4:00pm
bmeonbway2- I totally remember Harajaku. I was browsing in a specialty shop when I saw the On My Own/Phantom cd, and it was cheap, so I bought it. To my horror it was basically a random singer on the vocals, with the vocals sped up and a generic disco beat underneath. Thank God I lost this cd.
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#29
Posted: 2/3/05 at 5:52pm
Hey, Menkenfan!
Don't forget Frank Sinatra! He covered a lot of show tunes. Specifically, Luck be a Lady, and New York, New York. He did a lot of Cole Porter too.
Don't forget Frank Sinatra! He covered a lot of show tunes. Specifically, Luck be a Lady, and New York, New York. He did a lot of Cole Porter too.
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--Phylicia Rashad
#30
Posted: 2/3/05 at 5:56pm
Blink 182 did a cover of "Phantom of the Opera". I actually kind of like it... lol *hides*
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#31
Posted: 2/3/05 at 6:18pm
they did? hmm that is very very odd i must say. Blink 182 does not = phantom.
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#32
Posted: 2/3/05 at 6:26pm
Yeah, what's up with Katie Holmes? When she was on SNL her monologue was her performing Big Spender...why do people keep giving her showtunes to sing? or anything to sing for that matter?
There defintely was a dance remix to phantom of the opera...and if I'm not mistaken, Jon Secada sang Somewhere on that west side story cd
There defintely was a dance remix to phantom of the opera...and if I'm not mistaken, Jon Secada sang Somewhere on that west side story cd
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Updated On: 2/3/05 at 06:26 PM
#33
Posted: 2/3/05 at 6:41pm
This isn't a cover cover, but it's totally fun, the Ethel Merman Disco album. It was an actual album that Ethel recorded. I got my copy at Tower Records.
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#34
Posted: 2/3/05 at 8:44pm
I've got Ethyl on the playlist, and I just added Blink 182's Phantom. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try to find a good Sinatra tune to throw in there too.
#35
Posted: 2/3/05 at 9:05pm
Oh there are SO many good Frank Sinatra covers. As was said he covered a LOT of Cole Porter. If I remember correctly he did several songs from Anything Goes, but there are so many more out there.
#36
Posted: 2/3/05 at 9:11pm
Blink 182 did phantom?!? Does anyone know where I can hear it? I cant find it 
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#37
Posted: 2/3/05 at 9:34pm
oh! there's also that band, me first and the gimmie gimmies. and they have a cd w/ showtunes that they covered. "tomorrow", "favorite things", "phantom", all the "classics."
it disturbs me when they open the number with: "when the dog bites, when the bee stings, i don't feel so f*ckin bad" and i'm just like: no.
it disturbs me when they open the number with: "when the dog bites, when the bee stings, i don't feel so f*ckin bad" and i'm just like: no.
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#38
Posted: 2/3/05 at 9:37pm
I really want to hear Katie Holmes' version of On My Own. Can someone send it to me?
#39
Posted: 2/4/05 at 9:33am
Don't forget Nina Hagen's Big Band Explosion, where she sings Let Me Entertain You and Over the Rainbow, among others. It's crazy. It's only available as a German import but very much worth it.
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#40
Posted: 2/4/05 at 12:36pm
I think the Me First and the Gimme Gimme's showtune album is actually pretty good. I've got a couple of their songs on my station (see below). I do have some Nina Hagen represented there also on a version of Let the Sunshine In.
Try this link to hear Katie.
Katie Holmes Sings
Try this link to hear Katie.
Katie Holmes Sings
Updated On: 2/4/05 at 12:36 PM
#41
Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:21pm
"oh! there's also that band, me first and the gimmie gimmies. and they have a cd w/ showtunes that they covered. "tomorrow", "favorite things", "phantom", all the "classics.""
I have that CD! The best is their cover of "Over the Rainbow"- it's one of my favorite songs of all time.
Do American Idol performances count as covers? If so, that girl singing "WHITE BOYS!!!!!" on Tuesday has got to be one of the worst I've ever heard.
I have that CD! The best is their cover of "Over the Rainbow"- it's one of my favorite songs of all time.
Do American Idol performances count as covers? If so, that girl singing "WHITE BOYS!!!!!" on Tuesday has got to be one of the worst I've ever heard.
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Wanting life but never knowing how
#42
Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:14pm
I love Me First and the Gimme Gimme's! My favorite is The Rainbow Connection.
"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman
#43
Posted: 2/4/05 at 4:19pm
Jackson 5 did "Corner of the Sky" and young Michael Jackson solo'ed on "Morning Glow"
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#44
Posted: 2/5/05 at 8:26am
Liza Minnelli did a weird disco verion of Sondheim's LOSING MY MIND with the British disco band Pet Shop Boys. The heavy keyboard and synthsizer sounds of PSB on that track makes it... shall we say, interesting!
#45
Posted: 2/5/05 at 8:39am
Menken Fan: I Just the horror of Katie Holms rendition of "On My Own" out of my head from the first time I heard it! (Many years ago.) Now, since I have no impluse control, I was forced to listen again. THE AGONY!
KEEP THIS GIRL AWAY FROM A MIKE.
KEEP THIS GIRL AWAY FROM A MIKE.
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#46
Posted: 2/5/05 at 9:09am
Katie's pretty bad, but I think the worst cover version, in both concept and execution has got to be the dance remix of Surrender from Phantom, performed by Helen Reddy. You need to hear it to believe it.
I forgot about the Liza/Pet Shop Boys "Losing My Mind. Adding it to the station today.
I forgot about the Liza/Pet Shop Boys "Losing My Mind. Adding it to the station today.
#47
Posted: 2/5/05 at 9:52am
ohhh my god. That clip of Katie Holmes singing "On My Own" just made my ears bleed all over again. I knew it was bad but I had forgotten just HOW bad. Ahhh
#48
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:03am
This is so ironic - I just heard an AWFUL rendition of 'My Strongest Suit' from Aida from the one and only Spice Girls. Needless to say... it was a catastrophe (although I admit in 1997 at the tender age of 10 I did love me some Spice Girls)!
#49
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:13am
I remember that! There was a CD of like all these pop singers doing songs from Aida. Some werent that bad but the Spice Girls...that was wrong
#50
Posted: 2/5/05 at 10:38am
Blink 182 never did a Phantom cover, to my knowledge. It was Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their showtunes album.
I listened to an entire album of punk covers of Rocky Horror.
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I listened to an entire album of punk covers of Rocky Horror.
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