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This cover is from George Benson's new album Dreams Do Come True.
Benson is performing with the Robert Farnon Orchestra. Lush arrangements and Benson is in full crooner mode. In fact this is an album of covers and is really relaxing. Great album. This link will get you the whole album.
 
One of many covers of this 60's garage song "Little Black Egg" (originally by the Nightcrawlers). This one from Owen Maercks 1978 LP "Teenage Sex Therapist" has the unusual tick tock/ ping pong intro which sounds a bit like a keyboard but apparently is a guitar, an arrangement that was borrowed a couple of years later by The Cars for their version.

 
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Chillout version of what was already a super mellow tune ("Lovin' You" - Minnie Riperton) and given a bit of an eccentric flavor by the big man mumble-singing some of the words.

 
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In 1972 I walked into Readings in Lygon St and heard this song playing. After listening to it, I bought the album. It was my introduction to Peter Frampton and his first album "Winds of Change". I couldn't believe how this person, I had never heard of could be such a great guitarist. Within a couple of years he had the biggest album of the year (and one of the best of all time) with "Frampton Comes Alive". It was in the charts for so long that it made the top 20 albums the following year. Incredible guitar playing on this song. The original is my favourite Stones song but I like Frampton's version even more than the original. Make sure you listen to his playing all the way through, the longer it plays, the better Frampton's guitar playing gets.
 
This is a bit of a crack up to hear. A group from Wollongong doing a cover of Bowie's "Rebel Rebel". It's fairly low budget stuff and I can't remember ever hearing about this group until a couple of LP reissues of their music were released in 2015. They seem to have existed from the late 70's to the mid 80's.

Sunday Painters - Rebel Rebel

 
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These two versions of "Any Way The Wind Blows" recorded at Hi Studios in Memphis are supposed to have the same backing track. Both of these artists were on the label. Erma Coffee only recorded one single there while Syl (who wrote "Any Way The Wind Blows") was already an establish act with his own record label in Chicago when he signed to Hi Records. As far as chart success and fame goes everyone on Hi records in the 1970's was a secondary act in terms of promotion to Al Green.

"Any Way The Wind Blows" is also the title of an excellent Syl Johnson documentary which is free to view on tubitv.com. It has the film clip of him performing this song on "Soul Train".

 
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My daughter played in the orchestra that performed this song in Victorian State School Spectacular in 2022. I think the singer did an amazing rendition. My daughter hated playing this song because the music she had to play was so simple.

 
My two favourite Dylan covers:

Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's a-Gonna fall


Graham Bonnet - It' all over now Baby Blue


I have a recollection that Graham Bonnet had some involvement with mentor Right Said Fred, receiving a thanks on their debut album liner notes. But that could just be my old memory playing tricks on me.

And for something completely different, David Cassidy's cover of The Association's "Cherish"
 

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