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Post by Nightfly on Apr 29, 2021 15:36:07 GMT
Just watched Frank Sidebottom's 'Panic On The Streets Of Timperley', apparently about a tree falling in Timperley during the storm of 1987- One of the highlights of my usually dull social media life was getting an unsolicited MySpace friend request from Frank Sidebottom a couple of years before his untimely death. I was honoured ! I don't want to give too much publicity to Jonathan King, but this cover of I Can't Get No Satisfaction under the pseudonym Bubblerock is worthy of a mention in the bad cover version collection. No doubt he got a slot on TOTP in January 1974 as it got into the Top 30... at no 29.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Apr 29, 2021 15:57:22 GMT
Bloody hell!
That's more like a comic parody version you'd expect from Jasper Carrot, Richard Digance or Phil Cool than a proper cover version, and it made the charts? It beggars belief!
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Post by Cartman on Apr 29, 2021 16:00:12 GMT
The only thing Jonathan King ever did that I liked was It only takes a minute under the name of 100 ton and a feather in the summer of 76
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Post by Cartman on Apr 29, 2021 16:26:28 GMT
Hated Jonathan King's wimpy version of the Tavares hit It Only Takes a Minute, recorded under one of his pseudonyms - One Hundred Ton & a Feather. Speaking of cover versions, I had a weird dream that The Nolans covered Panic by The Smiths... it was just a dream, wasn't it ? Strangely, I like Kings version much better than the original by Tavares. I strongly associate it with the fantastic summer that was 76, maybe that's the reason. Even more strangely, I think the Nolans are a kind of guilty pleasure, whereas The Smiths I can't stand at all!
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Post by Nightfly on Apr 29, 2021 16:34:05 GMT
I was probably being a bit hard on Jonathan here. Looks like he was performing his vocals live on TOTP which can never be as good as the produced single. He probably had the Johnny Pearson Orchestra backing him too rather than his regular musicians. Still, Lulu Cartwright dancing in the background - every cloud and all that...
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Post by Cartman on Apr 29, 2021 17:01:19 GMT
I saw it in a list of 'Panic' cover versions, there were 25 in the list but no doubt there's a lot more out there.
Just watched Frank Sidebottom's 'Panic On The Streets Of Timperley', apparently about a tree falling in Timperley during the storm of 1987-
There's a statue of Frank Sidebottom in Timperley which I pass daily on my delivery runs, one of the garages I go to, Timperley service station, is opposite it.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 29, 2021 17:42:09 GMT
I saw it in a list of 'Panic' cover versions, there were 25 in the list but no doubt there's a lot more out there.
Just watched Frank Sidebottom's 'Panic On The Streets Of Timperley', apparently about a tree falling in Timperley during the storm of 1987-
There's a statue of Frank Sidebottom in Timperley which I pass daily on my delivery runs, one of the garages I go to, Timperley service station, is opposite it. Frank's version was class.
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Post by Steve Austin on Apr 29, 2021 19:40:56 GMT
Sandie Shaw did a cover of The Smiths "Hand In Glove" and performed it on stage with the band. Unusual for a cover in that the band gave their blessing and backing.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jun 8, 2021 20:12:10 GMT
Be careful what you search for on Youtube for background music...
I managed 28 seconds:
Now the proper version:
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Post by Nightfly on Jun 8, 2021 20:36:09 GMT
Be careful what you search for on Youtube for background music... I managed 28 seconds: Sam. Wow - 50 seconds for me before I hit the stop button. I'm all for imaginative cover versions but this one would make Ian Curtis...well you know...
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