102 posts tagged “cover songs”

Gratuitous Picture of Yourself (Donkey) Wednesday comes complete with an unrelated cover song for your listening enjoyment.

Sorry to be so late in checking in with you this Saturday. I had some serious sleeping in to take care of and then an artery-hardening late breakfast with the husband.  Plus a shower and some lounging around.  THEN it was time to gather up some material for the post:

Sexy Saturday Salutes Willie Dixon's "I Just Want To Make Love To You."

Here at Sexy Saturday Headquarters we just love this song.  Willie Dixon wrote this classic in 1954 and Muddy Waters recorded it.  Immediately afterwards, everybody else recorded it.  I have no real explanation why I have no version by Willie himself, but I hope to in part redeem myself with this selection of covers.

 

I don't want you to:

1. cook my bread,
2. make my bed,
3. be no slave,
4. work all day,
5. be sad and blue,
6. wash my clothes,
7. keep a home,
8. be true,
9. etc.

(I don't want your money too.)

I just wanna make love to you.

However, when I listen to this song I am reminded just how sexy a little housework can be on a man.

The magic word today is "SQUEEZE."  So you know what to do. When anybody says "squeeze" ...

The Who 's "Squeeze Box" (1975)

(More info about the images is available if you clicky on the linkies.)

Al Green's " Take Me To The River "  (1974)

Take Me, I'm Yours

Squeeze

Squeeze's "Take Me I'm Yours" (1978)

Take Me, I'm Yours

And for good measure, the covers....

Take Me To the River

Talking Heads

 

Nick Cave + Stagger Lee = WIN

That is in fact a hard act to follow.  I had to dig down deep for this one so I hope you enjoy it in all its incarnations.  First the best-known version, then the songwriter's version, then a couple more for eek factor.

I am not exactly sure what this song "means" but I'm pretty sure it is appropriate for Sexy Saturday.   I find "Niki Hoeky" both perplexing and titillating.

For your consideration:

Said, golly, golly miss Molly
Everything's copesetic now
Boog-a-boo, look at you
What I'd like to do to you boy
Ooh boog-a-boo you
You ooh boog-a-boo you, little boy
Get hip to the consultation of the boolawee
             (more here)

Anybody want to weigh in on that?

Here's The Queen of Soul giving her treatment to "Niki Hoeky."

And, because everything sounds great when Bobbie Gentry sings it...

Top Artists for the week ending Sunday 24 August 2008

1		Barrence Whitfield & the Savages		23
2		Ben Harper		12
3		Paul Kelly and The Messengers		8
3		Al Green		8
5		Alex Chilton		6
5		Aretha Franklin		6
7		Sufjan Stevens		5
7		Robyn Hitchcock		5
9		Antônio Carlos Jobim		3
9		Muddy Waters		3
9		Junior Kimbrough		3
9		Ruth Brown		3

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages lay down the rock and soul.  BW & the Savages are a Boston club band who met with a bit of acclaim in England (thanks to the support of Andy Kershaw), but who never took off in the States.

Barrence is an outrageous performer who throws his whole heart and body into his animated performances.  He's like a bigger, less-queeny, Little Richard.  You can even get Barrence to play at your wedding!  Or, if you're not planning nuptuals, you might just drop by and pick up a record.

Please enjoy Barrence Whitfield and the Savages as they cover Ben Vaughn (Time Will Catch Us) and Solomon Burke (Stupidity).

 

I had heard this song as performed by Mr. Elvis Costello (yesterday's birthday person) on King of America, but until last week I'd never heard the original. 

Mose Allison is a hard-to-categorize singer/songwriter/pianist and that lack of a definite category has probably hurt his career.  Is he Be-bop?  Jazz?  Blues?  YES!  Yes, he is.

Originally from Tippo, Mississippi, Allison found early inspiration in the work of Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, and Nat King Cole.  He took his first professional music gig in 1950 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. By 1956 he had moved to New York, where he got a recording contract with Prestige, played with Stan Getz, and later entered a long stint at Atlantic Records. 

Besides being a charming performer, Allison has written songs.  Lots of songs, some of which you will recognize:

• "Everybody's Crying Mercy" (Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello)
  
• "I'm Not Talking" (The Yardbirds)
  
• "Parchman Farm" (Blue Cheer, John Mayall, Johnnie Rivers, Johnnie Winters, and everybody else)
  
• "Young Man Blues" (The Who)
  
• "Look Here" (The Clash)

"Your Mind Is On Vacation" is from 1976 and was his last record with Atlantic.

Allison is still out there kicking it. He is currently signed to Bluenote/Capitol, but I wholeheartedly suggest that you run out and purchase the compilation Allison Wonderland (1994, Rhino).

I've got the alphabet down pat, but I can't speel fer sheit!