Slyvs.James: Whos catalog produced better covers?
lambert
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I would go ahead and vote for Mr. Brown.While Sly and the family might have prooved more accesible to the general public's taste it seems to me that artists would at least try to incorporate some funk when trying to cover a James Brown tune.Of course how many awful versions of Cold Sweat are out there? Damn, I just can't tell!!
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At first I thought you meant who did better cover versions and I couldn't think of hardly any songs Sly covered. Then I thought you meant lp covers, obviously JB's are better.
I'm not sure if I can think of a truely great cover version of either a Sly or a JB song, though I am sure there must be some out there.
I remember liking a bootleg version of Sex Machine by Prince, I wonder if that is as good as I remember, from a Paris after party I beleive.
Dan
There are a bunch of versions of 'There Was A Time' (Gene Chandler, Jerry-O etc), Otis Redding did a great version of 'Papa's Got A Brand New Bag', and as someone mentioned before, there are a grip of 'Cold Sweat' covers (Truman Thomas, Gene Dozier etc.)
is definitely of the highest quality.
Probably Johnny Houston. Short little break on that one.
There's definately a greater number of JB covers, hence making it difficult for the memorable ones to really stand out.