Your Favorite Pop Cover of a Showtune- Page 2

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 10/8/16 at 6:39pm

Favourite Things by Big Brovaz

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/8/16 at 8:26pm

"Feeling Good" has completely eclipsed the show it comes from, and (like "Mack the Knife" the swinging, swaggering rendition it is known for is not in the style of the musical at all.

 

Nina Simone's version is the greatest, but I'm partial to both the Bond-influenced Michael Buble version, and even more so the apocalyptic rock version by Muse.

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Posted: 10/8/16 at 10:32pm

JM226 said: "wait. jackson 5 did Morning Glow???? need to find this"

Here you go:  https://youtu.be/YQX_qOaqAg8

Updated On: 10/9/16 at 10:32 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 10/8/16 at 10:39pm

Louis Armstrong's Hello, Dolly!

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 10/8/16 at 10:41pm

madbrian mentioned Eva Cassidy earlier. If you know nothing of her, Google her and get her music. Amazingly beautiful and sublime. Her "Over the Rainbow" is the only version that can stand toe to toe with the original. I wish Eva was still with us...

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/8/16 at 11:57pm

Bobby Darin's "Artificial Flowers" (from TENDERLOIN) cracks me up every time. "They found little Annie AAAAALLLLLL covered in ice," indeed!

Speaking of which, has anybody seen the show? Is the song supposed to be comic? I understand it's a pastiche of the sentimental ballads of the period, but it's hard to take seriously lines like "while wiring and waxing she waned". On the other hand, the glacial tempo of the song doesn't seem intentionally funny.

ETA I checked the libretto, but it gives no clue as to the feeling of the song. It is presented as a turn-of-the-20th-century pop song sung by a character trying to audition for a church choir, so I suppose he would sing it straight; but then some of the lyrics seem rather amusing. Sheldon Harnick isn't usually so vague.

Updated On: 10/10/16 at 11:57 PM

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 10/9/16 at 1:21am

Since jazz covers are being mentioned along with pop covers, i'll mention 2 from Ella Fitzgerald:

Happy Talk  

and 

It Might As Well Be Spring