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Reply #60 posted 04/08/18 12:42pm

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The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #61 posted 04/08/18 12:44pm

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Jamiroquai made his whole career out of this one.

The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #62 posted 04/08/18 12:46pm

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The Colors R brighter, the Bond is much tighter
No Child's a failure
Until the Blue Sailboat sails him away from his dreams
Don't Ever Lose, Don't Ever Lose
Don't Ever Lose Your Dreams
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Reply #63 posted 04/09/18 6:25am

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"Yesterday" is a set in stone classic but Marvin's cover of it blows the original away. I tear up every time I play it:

One of Marvin's greatest vocal performances IMO.

Not at all, no one can beat the original, Marvin's take is more dramatioc that it should have been.

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Reply #64 posted 04/09/18 11:35am

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214 said:

MotownSubdivision said:

"Yesterday" is a set in stone classic but Marvin's cover of it blows the original away. I tear up every time I play it:

One of Marvin's greatest vocal performances IMO.

Not at all, no one can beat the original, Marvin's take is more dramatioc that it should have been.

And it works just fine.

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Reply #65 posted 04/10/18 12:56am

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"Something" by Isaac Hayes or Musiq Soulchild

"Song for you" & "Magnificent Sanctuary Band" by Donny Hathaway

The Ignorant asserts,The learned doubts,The wise thinks.

Aristotle
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Reply #66 posted 04/10/18 12:40pm

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Deniece Williams' "It's Gonna Take a Miracle" is leagues better than the Marvellettes'.

The Royalettes. Their version was recorded in 1965. Laura Nyro remade the song in 1971. Then Deniece in 1982.

Deniece's was the first version I heard; but I must say, I have a soft spot for nostalgia and I like the original more.

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Reply #67 posted 04/10/18 12:45pm

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I always liked Chantay's version better than Gloria Gaynor's

Aye. She did a kick-@$$ job with the remake. The way the producers and musicians twisted the music to fit the changing times (18 years after the original) was absolutely outstanding.

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Reply #68 posted 04/10/18 8:59pm

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I like the New Birth version better than Perry Como's

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #69 posted 04/11/18 2:01am

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Speaking of covers, I always thought as to how brilliant Margie Joseph's rendition of The Supremes' Stop! In the Name of Love was.
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Reply #74 posted 04/12/18 5:00am

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I always liked the Staple Singers' cover of "Slippery People" much greater than The Talking Heads.
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Reply #75 posted 04/12/18 5:38am

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I always liked the Staple Singers' cover of "Slippery People" much greater than The Talking Heads.

It's a cool cover but it's more or less the same as the version on Stop Making Sense which was recorded around the same time, I wonder did either version influence the other or did they just arrive at the same place?

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