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Dayna wrote:I can't imagine any of the Moody Blues songs being done by someone else.
I'm not one of his people, whoever they may be, but I do love many of his songs, although they are often better done by others. The Flying Burrito Brothers' version of DEOTS is a knock-out piece of white country soul, unprecedented for its time and still sounding good. GP's voice suited this one far better than it suited many of his own songs. In fact, I've not heard a bad version of DEOTS (sorry, this should be on the other thread, I know): some may be functional (The Commitments, Eve Cassidy), but they never mess it up. There are also other versions that run James Carr pretty close.Charlie wrote:Dark End of the Street stays on it, although I know there are some who speak kindly of Gram Parsons' version. Not sure we have any of Gram's people visiting this forum to speak in his defence.
Charlie wrote:Dark End of the Street stays on it
Ted wrote:... all that melismatic gospelly stuff ...
Dominic wrote: If I understand it, it's the vocal technique of using 10 notes when one will do that puts me off so much modern RnB and soul.
Adam Blake wrote:What makes modern melismata a million times worse is it is artificially induced with a recording device - the one that Cher turned into a gimmick on "Do You Believe". It is this foul box that ruined one of the great pleasures in life: urban black American pop music.
Des wrote:Not a vocoder then? Cheikha Rimmitti's final CD had something like it.
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