Here is a great cover of Eleanor Rigby by an obscure artist. Hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/Cp1-bAceoCo?si=OQsPyxpRoiDjWK93

Here is a great cover by a band that only existed for the movie – The Commitments. It never charted anywhere as a song but the movie was a huge hit. This is the best version of Treat Her Right I’ve ever heard.

https://youtu.be/KoLP3AArnEI?si=d66FpE0Mqe0U2Jld

Here is my ‘One Video’ for Van Morrison:

https://youtu.be/UfmkgQRmmeE?si=AKp8oWK9CF8hHXGY

Here is a great cover of a 1963 Chrystals hit – And Then He Kissed Me – done as a class exercise by a group of very talented students from Reid Kerr College in Paisley, Scotland. It is very heartening to know that there is real talent like this in the pipeline. Let’s hope they get a chance to blossom even further. Maybe the MLT should…

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While this may be a little off topic, it is a lovely song by Johnny Flynn that serves as the theme for the delightful British comedy show – Detectorists – with Toby Jones and McKenzie Crook. The title song is a gem unto itself but it is even more poignant after you watch an episode or two.

https://youtu.be/Q5LbTeti0sw?si=XVUBFa1UHy1r2MmY

And, of course, Ian & Sylvia’s classic commentary on change, The Circle Game written by Joni Mitchell. This is the best version I know of, including Judy Collins’ cover.

https://youtu.be/d5u36QnMsTQ?si=el1FbhDp2QTqAaz4

Here is a song about the … ‘cycle of changes in this changeless land’, by Ian & Sylvia from their 1966 album. Short Grass has always been one of my favorites from them.

https://youtu.be/A7ctFwYClvM?si=9-IZ9S3F17M9hL6y

Here is a lovely rendition of La Mer (original by Charles Trenet) from Tatiana Eva-Marie and the Avalon Jazz Band. The U.S. hit cover by Bobby Darrin was called “Beyond the Sea” and was a huge hit for him. The original was a huge hit for Trenet in France in 1946. Although he was the composer, he wasn’t the original singer to release a…

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Eva Cassidy did this cover of Fields of Gold which I like better than the (very excellent) original.

She was a true gem who died much too early.

https://youtu.be/9UVjjcOUJLE?si=r7GxfhbR6DhpvOmH

Yes, and it has a cover of Donovan’s Catch the Wind which the Twins have also covered.

Here is my choice. George Harrison and the members of the Traveling Wilburys, doing End of the Line.

https://youtu.be/UMVjToYOjbM?si=edZfS6f142_TMU1G

No need to shut up about The Seekers, they are my favorite band from the 60’s and then in all their reincarnations from the 90’s onward. I love Judith’s interpretation of Golden Threads and Silver Needles recorded in 2012. It is amazing that over forty years after their initial heyday, Judith’s voice didn’t lose a step and the boys were,…

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Here is an interesting Beatles cover by a well known artist; Vince Guaraldi doing “Eleanor Rigby”

Reportedly, this was the very last song that Vince Guaraldi played, at Buttefield’s Nightclub in Menlo Park, CA on February 6, 1976. He then went on break, retired to his room at the Red Cottage Inn, where he suffered a burst aortic aneurism,…

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A little late to the discussion, but here is a vid of Annamia Erickson and the Siegfried Call. She is magnificent.

https://youtu.be/ndQj63HlOFw?si=9M7trc7tDFoab9HD

Here is a link to an early Youtube by Allison Young. She seems to do all the production herself and her covers span everything from Rock to Gershwin.

https://youtu.be/hx2BbNIL_hk?si=1gms3v6ppwkLqUBR

Is there a place to suggest possible cover songs for MLT to consider.

It may be presumptuous of me but they may not have heard of some songs that might be of interest to them. A short list:

Sisters (Rosemary Clooney – from the movie White Christmas)

Sea of Heartbreak (I like the Roseanne Cash duet with Bruce Springsteen)

It Really Doesn’t…

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