((this is possibly dumb. but screw it, i think it's cool.))
so there are basically enough covers of "take me to the river" to make a pretty respectable mix-cd. maybe about the length of one side of one mixtape.
talking heads, which is the one people usually know:
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al green, the dude who *wrote* the song, and who is the MEAN AL GREEN:
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syl johnson, who may as well have done it with the same backing tracks covered it pretty faithfully (a little throatier and fleshier) per green:
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tom jones, who is motherf*cking tom jones:
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levon helm, the crowd-pleaser, the crowd is a little corny and tolerant of a dude who sounds a little like Jimmy Buffett vamping:
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k, things start getting weird.
Uyen Linh, with the showboatin' Western-style pop cover:
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Annie Lennox, with, um, Annie Lennox:
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and, the reason i even did this, The Gizmos, who are awesome.
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forgive my dumb post full of videos and nothing else. basically, i'm just happy to get them all in the same post, so i can play them in a round and have a mixtape.
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oooh! the other side of the mixtape should be covers of michael jackson songs. or if i want to make it unlistenable, it should be a mix of the Worst Covers of All Time So Far. Laidie Marmalahhhde, i'm looking at you for ruining disco. ruining!