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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 10, 2020 14:58:32 GMT
FFS Carty! The Steps version (sic) is NOT one I'd put on this list!
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Post by Cartman on Apr 10, 2020 15:57:12 GMT
The steps version is a candidate for the What we're thinking cover versions for room 101 thread
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 10, 2020 19:36:33 GMT
The steps version is a candidate for the What we're thinking cover versions for room 101 thread Absolutely and you were right with the Bee Gees. Bloody Steps The quiz master got that wrong
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Post by Vienna on Apr 15, 2020 18:06:39 GMT
Thelma Houston - no relation of the late Whitney Houston - covered the Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' classic 'Don't Leave Me This Way' in 1976. The following year it competed with the original in the UK charts. I slightly prefer this version as she's got such a great voice. The track was later covered by the Communards in 1986, and it appears to be the most well-known version of the song.
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Post by Cartman on Apr 16, 2020 6:18:56 GMT
I liked both the Thelma Houston and Harold Melvin versions and remember them both being in the charts at the same time in early 77. I thought the Communards version was awful.
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Post by Del Boy on Apr 16, 2020 9:12:24 GMT
I liked both the Thelma Houston and Harold Melvin versions and remember them both being in the charts at the same time in early 77. I thought the Communards version was awful. The Communards version is third best on that list. I think this was a time in chart history where there were loads of covers about. 1986 I think.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 16, 2020 10:54:58 GMT
IIRC Del I think Banna (bloody) rama's Venus was a hit a few months earlier in summer '86 too.
The Communards didn't do too bad a job on it even if it's not a patch on the earlier versions , certainly a much better outing than Bronski Beat and Marc Almonds I Feel Love... hmmm,
I think 1987 went cover and re-release mad more so than '86 some good but IMHO a lot of it was bad in fact it felt like musically everything was harking back to the past too much/things had run out of ideas... Rick Astley's p*** poor cover of Nat King Cole's When I Fall in Love and Simply Red's Everytime We Say Goodbye along with (some not all) 50's rock n roll re-releases for example spring to mind!
They were almost as bad as Robson and Jerome!
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Post by Cartman on Apr 16, 2020 17:23:33 GMT
Yes, this was a period in music history which was a low point and creativity and originality were in short supply
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Post by Cartman on Apr 18, 2020 13:53:54 GMT
Controversy ahead I fear! I prefer the carpenters cover of Please Mr Postman to the original by the Beatles
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Post by Steve Austin on Apr 18, 2020 14:18:56 GMT
Controversy ahead I fear! I prefer the carpenters cover of Please Mr Postman to the original by the Beatles Who’s going to tell him?
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