Cover Charge is simple: A covers B, B covers C, C covers D and so on, until I loop back to where I started, Ouroboros-style.
Last time: Sparks to The Bee Gees
Well here's an interesting one. We're going so far back in the history of the brothers Gibb that today's track is credited to Barry Gibb and the Bee-Gees. It was their fifth single, and limped to #94 in the Australian chart, all the way back in 1964. To be honest though, even this was progress from just a few short years earlier, when the boys regularly entertained the crowds at the Redcliffe Speedway in Brisbane from the back of a moving flat-bed truck; the crowd would throw money, and the band's fee was anything they could gather up from that, if Wikipedia is to be believed. But anyway, here's Barry and co's take on Turn Around, Look At Me.
I don't know about you but there are parts of that, certain chord progressions, that put me in mind of This Boy by The Beatles. But this series is about covers, not aural similarities, so I'd better reveal the original, an uncredited co-write for none other than Glen Campbell, from just a few years earlier in 1961. What a voice he had.
Next time: Glen Sings...
Glen was a great singer wasn't he.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Further evidence of that in the next link in the chain too, of course.
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