Sunday, March 09, 2014

BAD BOB: "The Tunes They Are A-Changin'"

As if that "Better Than The Beatles" comp we recently posted wasn't enough to blow a baby-boomer's brain, now we've got 23 mind-boggling Bob Dylan covers: celebrity actors who have no business making "music" (Eddie Albert, Sebastian Cabot, Telly Savalas, and yep, The Shat himself), absurdly wimped-out easy-listening crooners and orchestras, milquetoast pop-folkies, bubblegum heartthrobs (Bobby Sherman!  Dino Desi & Billy!), punk new-wavers (Bryan Ferry, and even Da Bruddahs), and a couple outright parodies. 

Off the top of my head, I can think of some others (a Moog version of "Lay Lady Lady," Johnny Cash, and didn't Hugo Montenegro do a Dylan album?) but believe me, this is more than enough to do your head in. Something's going on here, but I really don't know what it is, Mr. Jones.

 This comes to us courtesy of MadJon, who gifted us with the "Disco Sellout" collection we posted here a few months ago.

The Tunes They Are A-Changin'

Correction: track 22 is actually "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". And if your version of "My Back Pages" was corrupted, go HERE for a replacement.


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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:44 AM, March 10, 2014

    That Okterberfest version of "Blowin in the Wind" you posted a while back was pretty epic.

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  2. Mr Fab10:46 AM, March 10, 2014

    Oh, that's right! German schlager-meister Chris Roberts did that hilarious version.

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  3. Anonymous11:04 AM, March 10, 2014

    And there's the Neil Innes parody, where he starts by saying "I've suffered for my art, now it's your turn."

    -Phil Th

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  4. Unknown4:45 AM, March 15, 2014

    Wonderful stuff! ! will be torturing - sorry treating - people with these at every opportunity..

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  5. Brett Alan8:43 PM, March 15, 2014

    Yes, Hugo Montenegro did a whole album of Dylan, called Dawn Of Dylan. I've got that. The Sebastian Cabot comes from a whole album of Dylan stuff, too, which is really awful.

    Some of the other weird stuff in my mp3 file:

    Blowin' In The Wind - Percy Faith
    If Not For You- Anita Kerr Singers
    Like A Rolling Stone - Living Voices
    Blowin' In The Wind - Stan Getz
    I'll Be Your Baby Tonight - Bob Dylan
    If You Gotta Go, Go Now - Mae West
    Blowin' In The Wind - Marlene Deitrich (in German!)
    Lay Lady Lay - Plastic Cow (this is the Moog thing you mention--heck, I may have downloaded it from here! The Plastic Cow is actually the father of Wendy Melvoin from Prince's Revolution)

    Oh, and I don't have it on mp3, but I used to have a 12-inch of Mitch Ryder doing a really strange but not bad dance version of "Like A Rolling Stone".

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  6. Mr Fab11:00 PM, March 15, 2014

    Glad to hear it Nick - you are the Grand Inquisitor of Groovy Tuneage.

    "Blowin' In The Wind" by Marlene Deitrich in German? Wow!
    Actually I'd forgotten that Mike Melvoin did "Lay Lady Lay", I remember now I was thinking of Claude Denjean.

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  7. Anonymous4:25 PM, March 17, 2014

    Claude Denjean did it on his 1971 album 'Moog'.

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  8. Brett Alan2:22 PM, March 23, 2014

    If you want to hear the Deitrich thing, send me an email at my screen name (without the space) at gmail.

    And obviously a version of "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" by Bob Dylan is not very unusual--I meant Bobby Darin!

    Two Moog versions of "Lay Lady Lay". What a time to be alive. B^)

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  9. Anonymous4:29 AM, April 29, 2014

    There's a good Dylan album of French covers:


    https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hugues-aufray-chante-dylan/id210301492

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