So... Who does it better?

[Zeb_Carter]

ETA: The drummer is 9 the other range from 11 to 13. The lead guitarist is 12.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

ETA: This young lady is 13.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

ETA: This girl is 11, is American and live in Cech Republic

 

[gunhilltrain]

I've got a couple, but how can I be sure that the YouTube image appears? (Not the most techie person around.) Merely having the link is not going to work, will it?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I've got a couple, but how can I be sure that the YouTube image appears? (Not the most techie person around.) Merely having the link is not going to work, will it?

Click on the three dots next to the image icon, there will be bunch of other icons that will appear. Click on the one called media, next to the smilie face. A dialog box will appear. Paste the link in there.

Is that clear enough?

 

[gunhilltrain]

 

[gunhilltrain]

Okay, that seemed to work.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Thornton got there first, around 1952 I think (although the clip is from 1965). Elvis flipped the gender, but he also dropped many of her lyrics.

 

[gunhilltrain]

The Thornton video will work if you click on the Watch on YouTube link.

I think the above clip must be the album version.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

 

[gunhilltrain]

I assume she won?

 

[gunhilltrain]

A very young Van Morrison.

Patti Smith first covered it in 1974-75, but this has a better audio.

Hope this one works. She also flipped the gender, although the narrator of the song is talking about another woman. She also added a lot of new lyrics.

 

[lovecraft68]

I love covers, I get lost down the you tube rabbit hole with these things all the time. Here's one of my new Favs, Lead singer from Garbage with Marissa P from the Screaming females...this girl can seriously wail on that guitar.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Although is it really a cover if you're the one who wrote the song? Neil Diamond wrote this for Elvis.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I assume she won?

Don't know yet, it's still an on going thing over there in Germany. She had made it into the finals though.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I assume that must be Shirley Manson with the head covering. Hard to believe that Garbage was formed nearly thirty years ago and that Manson is now fifty-five years old. I think Bruce Springsteen wrote the song although Smith's version is better known.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Technically it's not a cover if one has written the song oneself, although Diamond didn't release his version - I think - until later.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Tom Waits is an acquired taste although this is the best live audio version I could find.

At least you can hear all of the lyrics with them, although I'm not sure what the song is about. "The Burlington Northern (the former railroad) pulling out of the world."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

This young lady won the 2020 Voice Germany.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And she is only 13 and can sing like this. She didn't win. And this was her second appearance. She was also on the 2018 Voice Kids but no one turned.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And here is how Billie Eilish reacted to Justin's version...

 

[gunhilltrain]

I admit I've never heard of Billie Eilish.

How about the young Pete Townshend versus his much older self?

His voice is a bit rough, but he's still in the game at least.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Yes, I think their name means exactly what you think it means. I think after forty years, they're still around.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Although it was written as a duo I think she does a great job.

 

[8letters]

From Wikipedia:

Queen of Hearts is a country-pop song written by Hank DeVito, the pedal steel guitarist in Emmylou Harris's backing group The Hot Band, and was first recorded by Dave Edmunds on his 1979 album Repeat When Necessary. It was released as a single and reached No. 11 in the UK and No. 12 in Ireland that year, but failed to chart substantially elsewhere in the world. The most successful version of the song was recorded by Juice Newton in 1981 – her version reached #2 in the United States and South Africa. The song also reached the top 10 in Canada, Australia, Denmark, and New Zealand.

The Juice Newton version to me sounds exactly like the Dave Edmunds version with a different vocal track.