What's the Deal with "California Dreamin'"????
GenePontecorvo
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Major soul/funk dudes loved covering this song apparently.Eddie HazelBaby HueyLee Moses I'm just playing Lee Moses for the first time (thanks LV) and I see he's covered it.Eddie Hazel fuckin' kilt it deader than dead in my opinion.
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2 posts in and Crink brings the downer. Thanks dude!
Lee's version is pretty nice as well.
Where you dreamin' @ ???
MO TRYIN' TO GET HOME!!!
J you know I'm messin no need for "I'm sorry".
I would say the song at least lends itself to some really emotive interpretations when in the right hands. Do you dig any of the above mentioned versions or are you completley "out" on it?
I still need this "East of Underground" reissue. Vinyl still available on that?
BOBBY WOMACK
it with cover versions..
SLAPSHOT fan art?!
Yeah, EoU does a great version... I like the Eddie Hazel version too. But it's basically a cheesy song that I've heard way too much of. Some people can do wonders with the mundane though.
I dunno, maybe I've spent so much time in California that I've become unsympathetic to the message.
I'd say it's that you haven't spent enough time suffering through "such a winter's day" to be sympathetic to the message. Nor have I, but I'm just sayin'.
This song always makes me think of Faye Wong in Chung King Express.
I agree - cheesy song that I can only deal with when it's one of the few covers done by the above dudes (Hazel, EOU and Moses.) Sorry, but I can't deal with the trip that's the Baby Huey version. Color me disconnected.
One song that I cannot stand in ANY FORM is "Windmills Of Your Mind." Hate pretty much every version I have ever heard.
waaaay too show-tuney
What means this "winter"?
... and I even fuck with some show-tunes, dog!
haha, yeah - I even like other Michel Legrand stuff, like
"Umbrellas of Cherbourg" - but "Windmills ... " is just painful.
No shit. You could have changed a few names and done a post called "What's The Deal With "By The Time I Get To Phoenix"???? Both songs were just two of those standards that made the rounds.
hahaha... not.
retrololol?
haha! i knew SOI would know what's up
i was looking for a slapshot poster on google and came across the steve hanson fan art. i'm determined to put this on a t-shirt.
I agree it's a pretty corny song, but not even this version?
My father hates "California Dreamin'" and used to turn it off everytime it came on the radio. He said it reminded him of his days in the Army during Vietnam.
^ What he said.
If a song was a hit and it was good it got covered.
CD is a great song. The Mamas and the Papas may have been cheesy, but that song, even their version, is not cheesy. It is great.
Jim Webb was cheesy, but some of his songs (Wichita Lineman, BTTIGTP) are great. Ode To Billie Jo? Great great song. Walk On By (and lots of other Bachrach hits most first recorded by Dionne Warwick) great songs. Sunny, Bobby Hebb, I'm told this is great, only versions I like are by James Brown and Mingering Mike and both of those are cases of artists overcoming the material. Ain't No Sunshine When Shes Gone, there are no bad versions of this song.
Light My Fire is a funny one because there were to huge hit versions that were very different and all the covers are based on one or the other hit versions.
3 hit versions of IHITTGV. The non hit cover I like is Earl Klugh, I kid you not.
Crinky, can you name one bad version of California Dreaming? I think I like them all.
Wow, I'm totally the opposite. I'll take a second look at a not so promising LP if that song's on it. Then again, I feel like the Ray Coniff version smokes the Ashby one, so...