Your Favorite Pop Cover of a Showtune — Page 2

"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.

Louis Armstrong's Hello, Dolly!

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