Best Ever Cover (Of a Song I Don’t Like)

Weekend Music

I'm sorry the name of the song is visible here, so you won't get the same shock of recognition I did when I happened across this song the other day. I almost never listen to the radio anymore, but one day last weekend I turned it on, and the regional PBS station was running a show called "The Crooners," featuring mostly singers from the '40s and '50s. This was part of a set that included Johnny Mathis and Rosemary Clooney. I started thinking it was familiar when the bass kicked in, but I think it was almost to the chorus before the truth dawned on me. By then it was too late for me to tell myself I didn't like it.

 

Of course I never actually heard the original very much, or actively paid attention to it, but one couldn't completely avoid it when it was a hit back in the '70s. Someone who knows the song better would probably recognize it at once.

I'd never heard of this group, by the way. Very engaging.

7 responses to “Best Ever Cover (Of a Song I Don’t Like)”

  1. Grumpy Ex Pat

    Yuuuch!

  2. Like Patty, Maxine and Laverne.
    The only reason I would have recognized this song is because someone sent me this. one Thanksgiving.
    AMDG

  3. Louise on the iPod

    I quite liked that.

  4. That’s truly awful, Janet. Just the sound of those disco guitars sort of gives me chills. I take it those are the names of the Andrews Sisters.

  5. Really. Makes me want to fry that turkey.
    AMDG

  6. Wonderful. I thought that was going to be Cake’s version, which achieved a fair degree of fame on its own.

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