Music spans
2025-09-25 17:59:34.563415+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Lot of people have been passing around this version of Chappell Roan and Nancy Wilson doing Barracuda, but on Facebook one friend (Hi, Scott!) mentioned how the song is 48 years old, and still fresh. Chappell does a good version; I have a few critiques (some based on my own learning to growl, it's coming very very slowly, some might just be that the mic on the phone recording is missing some of the ringing overtones that I associate with the guitar part), but in Scott's comments this got into the weeds about other times when rock or pop stars covered music from similar eras before.
I've often commented that square dance callers using '80s songs as "modern" is the same as, in the '80s, using the Andrews Sisters as "Modern" (although I have been known to use Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" as a closer). And I have this feeling that the music of the '70s and '80s has a popularity that, okay in the '80s we enjoyed some older music, but not the way modern metalheads dig into Zep.
Anyway...
The obvious ones to me were David Lee Roth in 1985 doing Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody, a medley of songs from 1929 and 1915 and Michael Jackson in 1995 recording Smile, music from 1934 and lyrics from '56. Larry brought up (1928).
And, of course, I used the term "cover" there, but I don't think any of those are equivalent to, say, most of Pat Boone's work, in terms of relationship to the original.
What you got?