What happened to the Songs from your Era thread?

[mightyrooster]

Skinny Love - Birdy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aNzCDt2eidg

Good song. I posted the original by Bon Iver a bit further up. My kids like your version better though.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Some hits? Oh Jack...I found out he wrote this..you know I love to do my musical research..such a romantic story too..thanks for letting me know..

.I looked up Mike and he was going to be an NFL player at one stage. He was born in 1947, the same year as David Bowie.

Drumroll please...he wrote I Can't Make You Love Me...covered by the likes of George Michael & Bonnie Raitt as previously posted by me (as I have those in my collection) but Prince and Carrie Underwood also covered it.

Here is Mike singing his own version at the Bluebird Cafe for a charity gig for a hospice with Michael Mcdonald whom I've also posted in another thread (he had a hit here with I Keep Forgetting We Aren't In Love Anymore)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wkQ1pm9ktU

and here is Prince's version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ScbhUvYhY

That's a great find RWB. 4 big artists covering the one song is a helluva wrap. I like how sharing music like this, can lead to uncovering more hitherto unknown connections and clips. Reidy would be enjoying some decent royalties. I missed my vocation, should have went to Nashville and wrote some songs.

[Andrew Walker]

Good song. I posted the original by Bon Iver a bit further up. My kids like your version better though.

I like both versions. I heard Birdys version in the gym and instantly stopped what I was doing and just listened That was when I was going through family court over my Daughter The way she sung this resonated with the sadness I felt over being we where we were. It is a cover of the highest order.

[Andrew Walker]

My favourite Rolling Stones song

Paint It Black

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5wCUlPNlQuA

[mightyrooster]

I See Red - Split Enz

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vKj4upY1VYI

[mightyrooster]

Purple Rain - Prince

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8

[mightyrooster]

Orange Crush - REM

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ

[mightyrooster]

Golden Brown - The Stranglers

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GUjA67mdc

[mightyrooster]

Blue Monday - New Order

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FYH8DsU2WCk

[redwhiteblue]

That's a great find RWB. 4 big artists covering the one song is a helluva wrap. I like how sharing music like this, can lead to uncovering more hitherto unknown connections and clips. Reidy would be enjoying some decent royalties. I missed my vocation, should have went to Nashville and wrote some songs.

I remember how thrilled you were to find out that Bette Midler had covered In This Life after you had sent me Collin Raye's version (which I have on in the background now). You can easily write a song Jack as you have family members like mine who perform professionally and you know how to string a sentence together and play an instrument. You don't need to go to Nashville to do that..I'll bet you can write a half decent song by Christmas...I remember when Bruce Springsteen covered Just Like Fire Would (maybe at the concert you went to as he covered INXS' Don't Change at the one I went to) and Chris Bailey was given a royalty cheque for half a million dollars from Bruce as he'd put it on an album..and that was years ago..the royalties still keep coming..RIP Chris..

[King Salvo]

PROCOL HARUM - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

[King Salvo]

Ram Jam - Black Betty

[King Salvo]

Spandau Ballet - Gold

[King Salvo]

Blue Jeans - Skyhooks

[King Salvo]

Yellow Submarine- The Beatles