Excellent Covers

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All I Ask Of You

 

Josh Groban featuring Kelly Clarkson (who did her best, promise!)

 

 

Patrick Wilson and Emmy Rossum

 

 

 

Steve Barton and Sarah Brightman (original London cast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_yaeZaVTOs

[N13]

All I Ask Of You

 

Patrick Wilson - Would that Patrick Wilson escorted!!!! I would be penniless!! Walking wet dream!

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Better Days, 8/21/17

I have to admit, it was hard looking for a helf-decent cover of this great song...

 

Dessa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhQw1bkk0Sw

 

Dianne Reeves (original)

 

and live...

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Burn (from Hamilton), 8/22/17

 

Lea Salonga

 

Andra Day (Mixtape)

 

Phillipa Soo (Original Broadway Cast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFOuGqBSEE

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Put Your Records On, 8/23/17

 

Curtis T Johns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaCysE6WvsY

 

Cyrus (Australia’s X-Factor winner for 2015)

Something about a cute guy playing a guitar and singing for you…

 

Afro Blue

 

Corinne Bailey Rae (original, singing it live)

Edited September 3, 2017 by LoveNDino

[N13]

Calum Scott This cover brings tears to my eyes. Worth watching the whole thing. He is adorable!

 

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Bye Bye Blackbird, 8/24/17

 

Richard Sisson and the History Boys

 

Joe Cocker

 

Peggy Lee

 

Etta James

 

Sam Lanin’s Dance Orchestra (original)

[N13]

Recognize Russell Tovey and James Corden?

 

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Maybe This Time, 8/25/17

 

Kirstin Chenoweth

 

Audra McDonald

 

Frank Sinatra

 

Liza Minnelli

 

Jill Haworth (original Broadway cast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7iJa7ic4Ws

Edited September 3, 2017 by LoveNDino

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Get Here, 8/26/17

 

Oleta Adams

 

Sam Harris

 

Omar Chakil

 

Brenda Russell (original)

[+ quoththeraven]

Another gender flip: Patti Smith singing (and rewriting the lyrics to) Bruce Springsteen's "Because the Night." Between new lyrics and old and the fact that it's Patti singing, not Bruce, the song means something different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLB3goCL3Xk

Like David Crosby's "Triad" (see above), which first appeared on a Jefferson Airplane album as sung by Grace Slick, Smith's was the first recorded version to be released.

 

10,000 Maniacs (among others) also covered it.

[Guest DeepSouthDad53]

Another gender flip: Patti Smith singing (and rewriting the lyrics to) Bruce Springsteen's "Because the Night." Between new lyrics and old and the fact that it's Patti singing, not Bruce, the song means something different.

 

 

Keen analysis and excellent taste!

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The Prayer, 8/27/17

 

Marcelito Pomoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx51YGbG7og

 

Celine Dion & Josh Groban

 

Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli

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Billie Jean, 8/28/17

 

Chris Cornell, RIP

 

Ian Brown

 

Michael Jackson (original)

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Midnight Train to Georgia (Midnight Plane to Houston), 8/30/17

 

Aretha Franklin

 

Neil Diamond

 

Gladys Knight and the Pips (1973)

 

Cissy Houston (1973)

 

Jim Weatherly (original)

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Fools - Cover by Jungkook and Rap Monster of BTS

Super soulful cover by Baek Yerin of 15&

Original, Troye Sivan

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Lady Marmalade, 9/1/17

 

All Saints

 

Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink

 

Out of the Blue

 

LaBelle

 

Eleventh Hour (original)

Edited September 2, 2017 by LoveNDino

[kewtex]

"You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" - Originated by Ray Price, most famously covered by Gladys Knight and the Pips

 

 

[N13]

Don't miss this one!

 

[N13]

He was the winner that year.

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Son of a Preacher Man, 9/3/17

 

Tom Goss

 

 

Katey Sagal & The Forest Rangers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv2E2Nc-KJc

 

Dolly Parton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEfVtgEzlTk

 

Joss Stone

 

Dusty Springfield (original)

[+ WilliamM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJdol1SXKvI

[+ WilliamM]

 

 

Ethel Merman at the Kennedy Inaugural Gala in January 1961. The producers of "Gypsy" closed the musical for a night so that Ethel Merman could take part in the gala, so this may be the definitive version -- unavailable until recently. The gale was not on TV.

Edited September 3, 2017 by WilliamM

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I Say A Little Prayer For you

 

Cast of “My Best Friend’s Wedding”

 

Calypso Rose

 

Diana King

 

Aretha Franklin

 

Dionne Warwick (original)

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It’s Too Late, 9/7/2017

 

Cris Colfer and Darren Criss

 

China Crisis

 

Gloria Estefan

 

Amy Grant

 

Carole King (original)

Edited September 7, 2017 by LoveNDino