When I'm at a do and hear a great track, Tony (my mod mate) says "i prefer the original by ...... Say Otis Clay and "the Only Way Is up" he says "prefer the original by Yazz" (funny the first few times). Now whilst I know he's trying to wind me up, but how about a list of all those tracks that have hit the top 20 by being covered????

When I'm at a do and hear a great track, Tony (my mod mate) says "i prefer the original by ...... Say Otis Clay and "the Only Way Is up" he says "prefer the original by Yazz" (funny the first few times). Now whilst I know he's trying to wind me up, but how about a list of all those tracks that have hit the top 20 by being covered????

Tainted love 'gloria jones' Covered by soft cell

What 'Judy Street' also covered by soft cell

Tainted love 'gloria jones' Covered by soft cell

What 'Judy Street' also covered by soft cell

The originals were poo too IMO

So how do you make a silk purse out of a sows ear?

Mand

"Abs" did a version of Stop Sign (Mel Wynn) - utter pants!!

Mark C

When I'm at a do and hear a great track, Tony (my mod mate) says "i prefer the original by ...... Say Otis Clay and "the Only Way Is up" he says "prefer the original by Yazz" (funny the first few times). Now whilst I know he's trying to wind me up, but how about a list of all those tracks that have hit the top 20 by being covered????

Searchers - Some day we're gonna love again, and dozens of other 60s hits that were originally by soul acts

That thing by Fat Boy Slim

When I'm at a do and hear a great track, Tony (my mod mate) says "i prefer the original by ...... Say Otis Clay and "the Only Way Is up" he says "prefer the original by Yazz" (funny the first few times). Now whilst I know he's trying to wind me up, but how about a list of all those tracks that have hit the top 20 by being covered????

Nobody does 'Ernie the fastest milkman in the west' better than Benny Hill.... I'd die if someone did a cover... keep it pure is what I sez... BIG MICK

Fatboy Slim - Rockafella Skank and even Marilyn Manson version of Tainted Love.

This has the potential to be a good thread.

But the hour is late and I'm off to bed.

Will certainly revisit tomorrow.#

"Abs" did a version of Stop Sign (Mel Wynn) - utter pants!!

Mark C

Heard that once on a saturday morning kids programme years ago, thought i'd dreamed it, bet its rarer than mel Wynn now !

i thought it was Brian harvey ? got to have something to do with Ian levine ?

Rob

Heard that once on a saturday morning kids programme years ago, thought i'd dreamed it, bet its rarer than mel Wynn now !

i thought it was Brian harvey ? got to have something to do with Ian levine ?

Rob

ABS were indeed one of the boy bands that were produced by , said seaside svengali Ian Levine , hence the

" cover " of Mel Wynn .........

Sorry to disappoint you Roberto , but singing street cleaner , Brian Harvey , was not a part of ABS ...........

He would have been too for them when Ian discovered them ........

Malc Burton

Nobody does 'Ernie the fastest milkman in the west' better than Benny Hill.... I'd die if someone did a cover... keep it pure is what I sez... BIG MICK

Which version, the 1956 original, the 1970 TV version, the 1971 released recording or the 1992 re-recording?

Searchers - Some day we're gonna love again, and dozens of other 60s hits that were originally by soul acts

That thing by Fat Boy Slim

double cookin@???

I think it was

Which version, the 1956 original, the 1970 TV version, the 1971 released recording or the 1992 re-recording?

Whilst our eldest was growing up, so many things were sampled or re-issued.

I was always hearing him say, my mum and dads got the original...

Even when he started clubbing, he kept complaining that "that bloody northern haunts me everywhere."...

Now he's got two children and spends more time at home, he recons it's always on the telly now...

I'm sure he thinks we are behind it and doing his head in...

And as for Soft Cell, after hearing their version of "What", I stamped on mine...the only record I've ever felt compelled to destroy.

Edited June 24, 200817 yr by Rugby Soul Club

And as for Soft Cell, after hearing their version of "What", I stamped on mine...the only record I've ever felt compelled to destroy.

The only record I ever smashed , was that bloody Casino Classic with what many rumoured to be Tony Blackburn singing Doris Troys "I"ll do anything" absoloutly murdered it

Rant Over

Searchers - Some day we're gonna love again, and dozens of other 60s hits that were originally by soul acts

That thing by Fat Boy Slim

Fat boy covered Camille Yarbrough - Take yo' praise

!

Edited June 24, 200817 yr by ken

Tainted love 'gloria jones' Covered by soft cell

What 'Judy Street' also covered by soft cell

The originals were poo too IMO

So how do you make a silk purse out of a sows ear?

Mand

Personally like all four records...

Simon

Nobody does 'Ernie the fastest milkman in the west' better than Benny Hill.... I'd die if someone did a cover... keep it pure is what I sez... BIG MICK

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ! ! ! tell me it's not true... Ian Levine will be putting disco backing to it next ! ! ! aaaaaaaaarggghhhhhh.......................... my life's in tatters... we're doomed.... doomed I tell you... Benny Hill.. my hero..

look out its a northern soul breakout!!!, ,a cover of an invitations tune,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGCklaJSF0

There's A Ghost In My House by The Fall, not one of their best but I'd still rather have it than R Dean Taylor

ABS were indeed one of the boy bands that were produced by , said seaside svengali Ian Levine , hence the

" cover " of Mel Wynn .........

Sorry to disappoint you Roberto , but singing street cleaner , Brian Harvey , was not a part of ABS ...........

He would have been too for them when Ian discovered them ........

Malc Burton

Now I'm not a fan of Boy Bands (save the Temps,Tops etc) but wasn't Abs a soloist? And correct me if I'm wrong again but wasn't Abs to do with his abdomen muscles (only girls need answer that bit!!)

Mark

Edited June 24, 200817 yr by professorturnups

Now I'm not a fan of Boy Bands (save the Temps,Tops etc) but wasn't Abs a soloist? And correct me if I'm wrong again but wasn't Abs to do with his abdomen muscles (only girls need answer that bit!!)

Mark

My sincere apologies , you are quite right ( I will put it down to only having a few hours sleeps , after travelling back from a weekend in Italy ) ........

I thought that ABS was a band , and not a singer , as IL usually preferred it to be plural rather than singular , when it came to his discoveries .........

Any road up . here is the bollocks , sorry - publicity blub for ABS album , to which " Stop Sign " is credited as being Mel Wynn's Motown classic ........

Malc Burton

Abs

Abstract Theory

[RCA]

Artist: Abs

Released: 01 September 2003

Catalogue number: 82876538802

Reviewby Bren O'Callaghan

08 September 2003

Stumbling across the land they come. Famous, yet not. Successful, but newly stripped of their once-upon-an-arena-tours. Clawing their way from the freshly dug graves of former supergroups, for every Justin Timberlake there's a Mark Owen. For every Beyonce Knowles a Melanie Blatt, and as for the solo Spice Girls...look away, child. Someone should call the cleansing department and get that mess cleared up.

Which is why the appearance of Richard Abidin Breen, better known as Abs from 5ive (RIP)confirms the trend for 'most unlikely to' whilst quashing music industry jeers. This boy can sing, and despite a tendency to fall back upon laced rap patois, debut album Abstract Theory is capable of floating alone amidst a sea of chart craft.

The first solo release from this slam dunkin' funkster was "What You Got" in the summer of 2002, riding the Shaggy inspired reggae wave with a splash of Diet Lilt pop-lite. Then nothing, thanks to then label manager Simon Cowell ditching his promo duties in favour of fuelling his own ascendancy via American Idol. Yet this may have worked out pretty well, doling out a microscopic Marmite smear of Abs ooze so that pop fans don't get too bored, too soon. Did someone mention Hear'Say?

Bouncing back with "Stop Sign", a re-working of Mel Wynn's Motown Classic, Abs sounds at his best when singing of thwarted lust. He has that mucky pup thing going on - a Spar brand male Aguilera while "Turn Me Up" marries Har Mar Superstar with S Club for an enjoyably daft disco breakdown.

Forthcoming single "7 Ways" enlists the services of Brian Higgins, the Sugababes/Girls Aloud guru who teams his charge with new BMG signee Eve to create a duet of B-boy bravado; simple, na¯ve and stupidly catchy in execution. You'll be elephant-juicing in the bathroom mirror before you realise it (try it, you'll see what I mean).

Granted, there are a couple of real clunkers on here (a hi-NRG remix of the cricket theme from the telly in "Back To Limbo" holds all the sick fascination of a septic scab), but nothing that a Woolworths special offer couldn't fix.

You wannapoke fun at Abs?You're gonna have to get past me first, and I kick like a girl...

Tracklist

Stop Sign

Miss Perfect

What U Got

7 Ways

Back to the Limbo

Rain

Turn Me Up

Lovers Rock

Roll With Me

Emotional

Shame

Angel (feat. The One and Only)

Key Tracks

Stop Sign

Turn Me Up

Edited June 25, 200817 yr by Malc Burton

Tainted love 'gloria jones' Covered by soft cell

What 'Judy Street' also covered by soft cell

Can't remember where I heard this but I think Soft Cell actually wanted Frankie Valii's "The Night" as their first single but the record company ruled against this and encouraged them to release Tainted Love. Not sure if this is urban legend or actually the case though!

Can't remember where I heard this but I think Soft Cell actually wanted Frankie Valii's "The Night" as their first single but the record company ruled against this and encouraged them to release Tainted Love. Not sure if this is urban legend or actually the case though!

Nope, total crap I'm afraid.

I played Gloria Jones's "Tainted Love" when the Q-Tips (remember Paul Young) played a gig at The Warehouse in Leeds where I was the DJ and Marc Almond was the cloakroom boy. He heard it, obviously empathised with the lyrics, rushed upstairs to find out what the record was, got me to make him a cassette of it, recorded it and sold 34,000,000 records and set the world record for the longest running record ever on the Billboard U.S. Pop chart.

Strangely enough I didn't give him Judy Street's "What" but I did originally discover the record in L.A. in '76, so a bit of a double whammy I'm afraid!

Apologies to all!

Ian D

Nope, total crap I'm afraid.

I played Gloria Jones's "Tainted Love" when the Q-Tips (remember Paul Young) played a gig at The Warehouse in Leeds where I was the DJ and Marc Almond was the cloakroom boy. He heard it, obviously empathised with the lyrics, rushed upstairs to find out what the record was, got me to make him a cassette of it, recorded it and sold 34,000,000 records and set the world record for the longest running record ever on the Billboard U.S. Pop chart.

Strangely enough I didn't give him Judy Street's "What" but I did originally discover the record in L.A. in '76, so a bit of a double whammy I'm afraid!

Apologies to all!

Ian D

Warehouse in leeds ian that brings back some memories went to see MARI WILSON there with swish thats a few years ago now

Nope, total crap I'm afraid.

I played Gloria Jones's "Tainted Love" when the Q-Tips (remember Paul Young) played a gig at The Warehouse in Leeds where I was the DJ and Marc Almond was the cloakroom boy. He heard it, obviously empathised with the lyrics, rushed upstairs to find out what the record was, got me to make him a cassette of it, recorded it and sold 34,000,000 records and set the world record for the longest running record ever on the Billboard U.S. Pop chart.

Strangely enough I didn't give him Judy Street's "What" but I did originally discover the record in L.A. in '76, so a bit of a double whammy I'm afraid!

Apologies to all!

Ian D

This could be total crap as well, but i got told that Paul Young did a cover of Mel Britt and Kylie coverd Tobi Legend. (late 80s early 90s ?) Anybody no if this is true or not.

P.S. if true the versions are prob. total crap

Edited July 10, 200817 yr by davetay

Simply dREDful did - Moneys too tight to mention

Kylie did a cover of Long after tonight is all over, but think it stayed an album track.

Wigans Ovation - Skiing in the snow hasnt been mentioned has it?

And Dexy's did a superb cover of 7 Days too long, on the superb LP Searching for the young soul rebels.

Edited July 10, 200817 yr by in town Mikey

Hi Mike

Klylie did Time Will Pass You By but it missed all the things that make the Tobi Legend record so great by so far that it might as well have been Long After Tonight... it's truly awful.

Simply dREDful did - Moneys too tight to mention

Kylie did a cover of Long after tonight is all over, but think it stayed an album track.

Wigans Ovation - Skiing in the snow hasnt been mentioned has it?

And Dexy's did a superb cover of 7 Days too long, on the superb LP Searching for the young soul rebels.

Didn`t simply red cover taj mahals-whole lotta love as well?

Nope, total crap I'm afraid.

I played Gloria Jones's "Tainted Love" when the Q-Tips (remember Paul Young) played a gig at The Warehouse in Leeds where I was the DJ and Marc Almond was the cloakroom boy. He heard it, obviously empathised with the lyrics, rushed upstairs to find out what the record was, got me to make him a cassette of it, recorded it and sold 34,000,000 records and set the world record for the longest running record ever on the Billboard U.S. Pop chart.

Strangely enough I didn't give him Judy Street's "What" but I did originally discover the record in L.A. in '76, so a bit of a double whammy I'm afraid!

Apologies to all!

Ian D

Ian I was in a rock band and I kept playing northern tracks to the other guys in the band and saying we should do rock versions and included Gloria Jones's Tainted love - Nope they said having never heard it before. and I was annoyed as I really thought it had potential and wanted to record it in the studio as we had been getting a few good reviews from a dj at Piccadilly radio in Manchester who came to watch us a few times and were due to go into strawberry studios to make a 4 track acetate.

About 6 months later Soft cell hits and I get the weirdest look from my fellow band members!

Ah what might have been!

Edited July 10, 200817 yr by Ernie Andrews

Does anyone know for sure if this was chosen by PW after exposure on the scene, or has it always been some kind of underground rock classic since its 70s release?

Ed

Hi Mike

Klylie did Time Will Pass You By but it missed all the things that make the Tobi Legend record so great by so far that it might as well have been Long After Tonight... it's truly awful.

she thought it was something to do with the gay scene when she recorded it

kev

Didn`t simply red cover taj mahals-whole lotta love as well?

are everyone on a wind up here it was homer banks

double cookin@???

I think it was

have had a few pints of abbots but it was sliced tomatoes

kev

Nope, total crap I'm afraid.

I played Gloria Jones's "Tainted Love" when the Q-Tips (remember Paul Young) played a gig at The Warehouse in Leeds where I was the DJ and Marc Almond was the cloakroom boy. He heard it, obviously empathised with the lyrics, rushed upstairs to find out what the record was, got me to make him a cassette of it, recorded it and sold 34,000,000 records and set the world record for the longest running record ever on the Billboard U.S. Pop chart.

Strangely enough I didn't give him Judy Street's "What" but I did originally discover the record in L.A. in '76, so a bit of a double whammy I'm afraid!

Apologies to all!

Ian D

Ian, Heres one for the records regarding "tainted Love" and I'm on my way"going of the thread but for the history books.

In 1969/70 I thought I had every record that anyone was after or if I didn't I would find it within a week in time for the next niter.

Someone mentioned a couple of tracks they'd heard in the past around 68'sh at the Blue Note which was just up the road from the Wheel that didn't really catch on that much.

I remember Gloria Jones and Dean Parrish being mentioned and vaguley remeber the titles but because the Blue Note was playing an allround mix of soul funk etc. and ska it didn't register on my radar as normal .I also use to visit the Blue Note for short bursts passing through on my way to the Wheel and they played a right mix of sounds but at that time was going more towards the Jamaican scene.

So I never heard them myself but have it on good evidence they were played along with a lot of supposadly later discoveries.

The big difference I think was for the older crowd a new record by Gloria Jones or Dean Parrish wouldn't mean that much because their view would be it's not as good as say Determination or Heartbeat.The older crowd were moving on and they had all this stuff as new releases via Roger Eagle,imported singles to the dedicated were't no big thing quality was the key.

Regards Brian

Hi Mike

Klylie did Time Will Pass You By but it missed all the things that make the Tobi Legend record so great by so far that it might as well have been Long After Tonight... it's truly awful.

Hi Gareth, I bow to your greater knowledge of Kylie's back catalogue

I've told this story a dozen times on here, but when I was a kid, the Roly Polys did a version of 'Put Your Arms Around Me' on a Saturday evening variety show. My mother said, "Thats one of your Northern Soul songs isnt it? Go on, show your aunty how you dance".

Does anyone know for sure if this was chosen by PW after exposure on the scene, or has it always been some kind of underground rock classic since its 70s release?

Ed

Either way it's a crap rock version from a rock star...and funny how the audience don't look that interested either, wish I hadn't viewed that now

weller's made a right old mess of that one

weller's made a right old mess of that one

Too right!, I wish people on here would drop him out of sight

The only record I ever smashed , was that bloody Casino Classic with what many rumoured to be Tony Blackburn singing Doris Troys "I"ll do anything" absoloutly murdered it

Rant Over

What was Tony Blackburn's NS name? (Gareth you know). He works at my place sometimes and once when a colleague of mine was away on a shoot with him I texted the colleague telling him to call TB by his other name, and he sent me back a photo he'd taken of Tony flicking me the finger. So I guess he's not so proud of it.

What was Tony Blackburn's NS name? (Gareth you know). He works at my place sometimes and once when a colleague of mine was away on a shoot with him I texted the colleague telling him to call TB by his other name, and he sent me back a photo he'd taken of Tony flicking me the finger. So I guess he's not so proud of it.

Lenny Gamble?

Homer Bank's - A lot of love

Covered by Simply Red I think

and some Housey group charted with a cover of S.O.U.L's 'This Time Around'