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Cover suggestions – rockier style
A lot of good music appeared in the 60ties as a reaction to a very lame grown up musicbase. We saw The Beatles with beat and Rolling Stones with a more blues rock style. Kinks trying out to comment what happened among people. There were other earhangers and let me name a few of the rockier tunes:
Hitch Hike – which Stones made theirs
Taking care of bussiness – ROCK – Bachman Turner Overdrive
Money Honey – Bay City Riollers 1976 – “The new Beatles”
Jeans on – David Dundas 1976
Green River, Looking out my Backdoor, Up Around the Bend – Credence Clearwater RevivalAll good tunes to perform live – me thinks.
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Nice post Leif. Particularly regarding your selection of “Hitch Hike”, from the Rolling Stones album “Out Of Our Heads”, which was their first number one album in the United States. There are many other great blues covers on that album, including “Hitch Hike”, which as you state, the Stones made theirs.
The album was recorded over six months between studios in Chicago (Chess Studios), Los Angeles and London. Six out of 12 for the US version were their own material.
Out of Our Heads became the group’s first number one on the American Billboard 200 album chart; in the UK it charted at number two. The album’s US release largely had mid-1960s soul covers and “classic rock singles” written by the band, including “The Last Time”, “Play with Fire”, and “Satisfaction”, still drew on the band’s R&B and blues roots, but were updated to “a more guitar-based, thoroughly contemporary context.”
Among the soul covers were Marvin Gaye’s “Hitch Hike”, Solomon Burke’s “Cry to Me”, and Sam Cooke’s “Good Times”. “I’m All Right” (based on a Bo Diddley sound) showed their 1965 sound at its rawest, and there are a couple of fun, though derivative, bluesy originals in “The Spider and the Fly” and “The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man.”
It was the Rolling Stones’ last UK album to rely upon rhythm and blues covers; the forthcoming “Aftermath” was entirely composed by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
A little known point of interest, Ringo Starr is credited with percussion, piano (on “Satisfaction”), organ (on “Cry to Me”), and harpsichord (on “Play with Fire”).
As for the Bay City Riollers, well it would be nice to see how Mona and Lisa handle Dusty Springfield’s huge hit from the sixties, “I Only Want to Be With You”.
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One that I just came across is the Beatles doing “Slow Down” It really rocks!
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I can’t get enough of MLT Kinks rock sounds. They’ve already done You Really Got Me, Tired of Waiting, and Lola. A rockier style suggestion from me would be another Kinks, perhaps “Till The End of The Day”.
Pretty cool guitar riffs there and some harmonies too. As Ray Davies remarks here, “let’s just hear that one more time”. I can feel Mona and Lisa’s Rickenbacker and Gretsch carving out some cool guitar magic here.
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