Born on this day: Cate Blanchett, Bobby Darin, George Lucas, Mark Zuckerberg
Today a few nice things happened (including Blogger's return from outer space), so I thought I'd throw together a comparison of two songs, both titled Happy.
They're not new (and frankly I don't remember them very much if at all), but they were the topic of a family discussion recently and the interesting thing about them is that they were released 2 weeks apart, one on the west coast and one on the east in 1967.
Here's the one released on the east coast (by the band Blades of Grass):
Here's the one from the west coast (by the band The Sunshine Company):
Ok, the song is a bit dated, but it's catchy. Any preference?
I'm always fascinated when someone covers another person's hit and makes a hit of it themselves (especially when people forget about the original artist. When Charice recently sang "All by Myself" on Glee, she referred to the Celine Dion hit (made sense since she's pretty young), but when I think of that song I think of Eric Carmen (although I like the Celine Dion version, too). Can you think of any songs that you preferred the second time around?
4 comments:
I'm not into music that much. It's movie remakes that annoy me. They take a classic & chew it all to bits. They (whoever they are) need to stop doing that.
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Mary, ordinarily I would agree, but I'll watch any version of a Jane Austen book they make no matter how many versions there are (and then there was that Jane Eyre post I did awhile back). I think for me it depends on the movie, and many of the remakes don't work for me, either.
Also, I realized that the beginning of my post doesn't totally make sense, time-wise. I set it up yesterday. Hence, the reference to Blogger's return to normal operating status. (Sometimes I just fire things off stream of consciousness and don't think about the timing).
I liked Toto's 1982 rendition of "Africa", but I liked Karl Wolf's 2009 version too....
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