h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Gee thanks, you're wonderful and I love you all etc...

There's not much difference between the two, actually, is there Infie.

Quite a find, that. Enriched my life beyond estimation!

Jabs

The original - Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=707VxB-ek4Q



Sent up rotten, as very richly deserved:



http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=do0SERv-QFk


Jabs

That made my evening, Jabs.

Wonderful that Youtube means you can see both versions one after another.

I have a soft spot for Ruby Keeler, though. She's done much better work than that.

Thanks,

Infie

This is breaking the rules slightly, because they're both good.

Original - by Dylan, the words wonderful in his burgeoning imagist/symbolist poetic phase, (never better), sung well and straight. I used to sing this, and the words still threaten to fold me up each time I hear them:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ARNQ_w7vi9Y

The cover - Joan Baez turning it into a hit with the beauty of her voice:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWRnbxACH0

There's also the slight frisson of their stormy relationship.

Jabs

Orville and Keith Harris - I Wish I Could Fly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FQRDCIdxhE

That'll do nicely as a real contrast to the performances in 24, Kat. Thanks!

Jabs

This original is so lovely:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQdYoK64S4

This is the cover:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9gWQzqd6Bh0


Jabs

This is a beautiful version of Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata, played by a concert pianist, with a nice, apocryphal story:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/ZbwJarFL1c8/search/moonlightsonata

This isn't:

http://www.nme.com/video/id/U21Ts_FfRU4/search/moonlightsonata


Jabs

Holy Night Sung beautifully by the Late Pavarotti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EbQYYaGdoM


the bad version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kskj4v13B14

"The Stars are brigtly shineing" and Jesus is on your ice hockey team....YUK!!!

The worst visuals and the worst singing I've ever heard. You'd think it must be a joke if it wasn't for those terrible pictures

Deeply mentally challenged and deeply irreligious* rubbish.

Gee, thanks, Kat!

Jabs

*deeply irreligious, to see Jesus as a comic book hero.

Going back to Rolf versus Led, yes the Rolf's bad, but It takes the mickey out of an overblown song in exactly the same way Mike Flowers Pops does the dreadful Wonderwall (the absolute lowlight of the first 2 Oasis Albums)

Sits back and waits for the Zeppophiles to slap....

I'm on your side, Harpo.

The story I heard was that an Australian TV show had a regular feature in which celebrity guests performed covers of Stairway, and the Rolf Harris one became a surprise hit.

As I understand it, Rolf didn't know the song, so perhaps he was more uninhibited than other stars who tackled it. In any case the additional line:

"Ooh, it makes me wonder,
[How does it make you fellahs feel?]
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

is inspired.