The Real Tuesday Weld ( aka Stephen Coates ) - Little Boxes (Little Foxes) cover 2020

Notre ami Stephen a envoyé ça aujourd'hui à une amie commune londonienne ( Régine DLH pour ne rien vous cacher ). Comme un clin d’œil, une respiration dans cette ambiance si pesante ( les renardeaux sont craquants ) ... tenez bon amis anglais, surtout avec de si pathétiques politiciens au gouvernement, vous n'êtes sans doute qu'au début de nombreux déboires .... Voici le texte qui accompagne la vidéo : 
Fox News! Lockdown turned rather wonderful in my friend Glen Duncan's garden this week with some surprise visitors who were definitely NOT social distancing :) Here they are soundtracked by our version of the Malvina Reynolds classic Little Boxes - you can sing along - just substitute F for the B in Boxes :) 
Words and music by Malvina Reynolds 
Copyright 1962 Schroder Music Company

Henry Purcell - King Arthur - Aria: What Power Art Thou (The Cold Genius)

... Petteri Salomaa (Bass-baritone) , Les Arts Florissants & William Christie .... written in 1690's ... cover by Klaus Nomi ( the cold song ) is best known ....

M & General Elektriks - Melody Nelson ( Live On French TV ) 2009

... usually , I don't really like this french TV program called " Taratata " which seems to me as a pretentious but dull rip off of BBC's Later ( the host is NOT a musician ... it's probably why ... )... but this time .... there was a kind of magical on the set ... M & Hervé Salters are geniuses on guitar & keyboard & Gainsbourg's " Melody Nelson " is such a masterpiece ...

Kevin Spacey covers John Lennon's Mind games live on stage after 9th11 2001

.... " Frank Underwood " is ALSO a very good singer ! .... very convincing ...  definitely one of my heroes !

The Analogues - Sgt. Pepper's : Live in Concert - July 10 , 2017

... amazing delivery by a lot more than a tribute band from the Netherlands .... 50 years after the album first release ... incredible sound, voices & Beatles' spririt ....  an astonishing  recreation ... ( thanks Ramon Pipin for letting us know ...)

Kirsten Dunst - Turning Japanese ( Dir : McG ) 2015

.... cover of The Vapors' hit .... fun & note for note cover .... perfect pop ?

Little Fun - Jay-Z's Girl ( Dir : John Colombo ) 2017

  .... cover of Rick Springfield's classic '80s tune "Jessie's Girl" ..... Gnarly Davidson aka CeeLo Green on this ...

Pharrell - Happy ( Woodkid Sad Remix ) 2014

A friend told me that she didn't like " Happy " by Pharrell Williams because she found it in depth very sad .... I disagreed .... now , listening to this version , I must admit she was right ......... ( & I don't usually like Woodkid  but I have to say that his recreation of this is just beautiful ...)

Tom Jones - I Wish You Would ( Audio track , 1955 Billy Boy Arnold's cover ) 2015

... classic rockin'blues song ... Chicago/Bo Diddley style ... enormous Welsh voice ... ( song also covered by Bowie on " Pin Ups " & many other version including The Yardbirds on their first single ,1964)  ..... Listen to it HERE !

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dear Prudence ( Dir : ? ) 1984

.... shot in Venice ... Robert Smith was on guitar ... they were friends then ... wonderful voice & cover ... she's an incredible singer ... underestimated of my point of view ....

Persepolis - Out of the black ( Royal Blood's cover ) Live 2015

.... special  " friends at court " ! ..... recorded live at Rock n' Skate Festival , Tarnos ( Aquitaine , 40 , France ) Sept.26th 2015 .... Milo ( guitar ) & Robin ( vox & drums ) ..... tight musicians ...  17 ...( pfffff ......  ) !

Witchi Tai To ( 6 versions of one of my all time favorite song )

The original version by the composer Jim Pepper , an American jazz saxophonist, composer & singer of Native American ancestry , well known part start at 1 mn 08 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBdaYKqMUs&index=12&list=PL1DEF5AF3749FDBA8

The acoustic version by a French wonderful guitar player , Dominique Delmas : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkn-FWITKfQ

XLent " Dance " version , by X-Press 2 , sung by Tim DeLaughter ( from The Polyphonic Spree ) ( slide show by myself ) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJyuqPf33mQ&feature=youtu.be

another beautiful jazzy/soulful /piano/voice version by Tom Grant : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jYf6WQOcxo

 a looper & bass version by Pierluigi Balducci : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnOYhxvrMlw

& for the fun , the 70 's/hippies/pop version by a singer from Montréal , Canada ,  Robert Charlebois : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQcbvrVUeA

 

Tight & funny ( Indonesian , Filipino ? ) street dancer(s ! ) .

... amazing & funny street act ! .... ( sorry for the poor Q )

Les Tikis - Soul time ( Cover Shirley Ellis ) ( Cam : Tata Powers ) 2014

special friends at court ! I'm proud to introduce to you : Les Tikis from Nice ! Over talented , sexy , funky , catchy , groovy old friends of mine .... live in Marseille at  Festival South of Nowhere last September 19 th & 20th ....

Elliott Smith - Because - Audio track ( Beatles cover ) 1999

... very similar to the original version .... beautiful in its bareness ... American Beauty OST ... close to a capella ...

Stop ! In The Name Of Njosnavelin - Supremes / Sigur Ros Mashup ( Mashed by DJ RozRoz ) 2013

... Diana Ros(s) !... nice mashup  ...  creation on it's own .... nostalgia meets melancholia ...

Beck - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime ( Written by James Warren - The Korgis 1980 ) 2004

... from the Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind OST ( Michel Gondry 2004 ) ... moving song , moving amazing movie & moving cover version by Beck (Bek David Campbell) ....

The Train Kept A-Rollin' - Four versions of the same song ( Audio & Music videos ) 1951 / 1957 / 1968 / 1974

Original version : Tiny Bradshaw ( Composer ) 1951    HERE !

 Rockab' version :  Johnny Burnette Trio   1957              HERE !

 British blues explosion :  The Yardbirds  1968         HERE !

American heavy rock :   Aerosmith    1974              HERE !

The Human League - Only After Dark ( Mick Ronson's cover ) Audio track 1980

.... from "Travelogue " ...  ( on keyboards , Martyn Ware & Ian Marsh before Heaven 17 ) ....  great song & cover version ... Sheffield sound ....( original here : http://leschicsclips.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mick-ronson-only-after-dark-dir-mark.html )

The New Mendicants - This Time ( Audio song - INXS cover ) 2013

Joe Pernice ( Scud Mountain Boys , Pernice Brothers ) Mike Belitksy ( The Sadies ) & Norman Blake ( Teenage Fanclub ) ... supergroup .... Toronto, Canada...  I always wondered  "who will cover this great song ? " ... I've got an answer ......
                                                          
                                                Listen to it HERE !