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July 30, 2021 20 mins

Bobby, Eddie and Mike D debate what songs we prefer when it comes to original and their most famous cover versions. Bobby talks about the only one hit-wonder to win a Grammy. "Sunny Came Home" by Shawn Colvin. It’s a song you will remember…but maybe don’t realize how successful it was. And also the controversy that happened when it won. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M M Episode three eight cover songs that might be
better than the original. Also the only one hit Wonder
ever to win Grammy's You know, there's a lot to
talk about here. I also encourage you to go back
and listen to some of the most recent interviews we've
done that we're pretty proud of. Brothers Osborne, Scott staff

(00:20):
of Creed, Parker McCollum, Chris Lane, Craig Morgan. Be sure
to subscribe to the podcast hopefully like a couple of
things Eddie and I are talking about here on vacation
this week. Obviously, so we didn't have an artist in
the house, but we did talk about this stuff and
appreciate you listening. Check it out Episode three away. Thank you.
Let's talk about cover songs that might be better than
the original. Although I do have trouble with this because

(00:40):
I think every cover is obviously based on the original
and it can't be better because it wouldn't exist with
It's yeah, you say that, but sometimes it can be better.
It's so different that maybe you like that style, it
just wouldn't exist that. In said, here's what we're gonna do.
I'm gonna play the two. We're not gonna do bet
we're gonna do Which one would you listen to? Choice? Okay,

(01:04):
because I just I struggle saying that a song is
covering it's derivative of another song is better than what
it's derivative of. With that theory, though, you can't say that,
like Jacob Dylan is not better than Bob Dylan. You
know what I mean? Like, yeah, you can humans are
different because you're doing the Yes you are, Yes, I

(01:24):
understand your analogy, but I don't agree. So we're going
to do ten covers? And which one do we personally?
If we will only get to listen to one? Okay? Alright?
Number one? All along the watch Tower by both Jimi
Hendrix and Bob Dylan. Up first, the Bob Dylan version
here you go, then must be some way out of

(01:48):
here to see, And here is the Jimi Hendrix version
iconic guitars. Right then that must be someone the way
up here. That must be some contre jump to the

(02:11):
You need to listen to one of them? Which one
are you listening to? Easy gonna at the same time one?
I clicked at a shock. I don't even like Bob Dylan,
but how good is this? Ready to crank? Up the
Jimmy Hendricks. My vibe is just more of and I
can actually understand Bob Dylan back in the day. You

(02:32):
can't yet here Michael Jimmy Hendricks. I think most people
think that the Jimmy Hendricks song I did until I
found out it was Bob Dylan, probably when I was
in college. Next up, Hurt by the original Nine inch Nails.

(02:54):
Sound to see is how the audio released sounds was
all it sounds with them. I know, I thought this
was messing up, and I just went through the producer
and everything. And then there's Johnny Cash. Hurt what he
did later, hurt myself to to see it first, to

(03:17):
see okay, on the count of three, all three of us,
do you take nine inch nails? Johnny Cash? One, two three,
Johnny Cash. I never was a big nine inch nails guy.
I respected it, but then they had us all I
want to blank you like an animal. Now. He spelt
dirty when it was on they played like at the club.
Yeah they would, and I'd be like, I'd back away

(03:37):
from everybody. I don't. I don't know guys, all right.
Next up Hallelujah, originally by Leonard Cohen. Hi Hi, Yeah

(04:06):
or Jeff Buckley. Here you go. It has to be
Jeff Buckley. Know how how is it not Jeff Buckley.
I mean I would listen to song on repeat my
sad days. I just went on you know what I
used to do? You know that part where he's like
and he holds it for like twenty two seconds. I
used to test myself every single time, like I'm gonna
beat you, Jeff Buckley. Well, let's see if we all

(04:27):
picked Jeff Buckley one, two three, Jeff Buckley sell her baby.
Danelle Towns would play this because she was opening for
me when I was doing stand up. She would come
out and play this, and she's so good and she
would do this song and the whole crow I'd be
crying yeah, and she'd be like, all right, next off
with some Joe Good Bobby. We were backstage one time
and she played it and I almost cried. All right,

(04:48):
Next up the Man Who Sold the World originally by
David Bowie, or from the Unplugged album, Here's Nirvana. I'll

(05:18):
say this then Nirvana and Plugged records on my favorite
records of all time. I'm easily gonna pick this. I
think I didn't know about the David Bowie version. Until
I started, I didn't know the end of the Meat
Puppets were. Norbanda covered a bunch of songs in the
Navanna Unplugged and that was one of them. So just
know that I'm very biased. It's one of my favorite
records ever. So I'm gonna say that, all right, David
Bowie and Nirvana one, two or three Nirvana that you

(05:41):
haven't kicked out, Joe, Lene, this is gonna be an
easy one for us, but originally by Dolly Parton, Julie, Jolly,
Jant Jo you know what, you love it. But the
White Stripes had a really good version of it, Jess.
No one's going to pick the White Stripes here. Mike might. No,

(06:04):
but it's good like there's respect to the White Stripes
because they did a good one there. Jan Jannis, respect
for hidden that high note. You know this me and
Bobby McGee's interesting because Roger Miller is singing it here.
But Chris Ristoferson wrote it, yes, did he ever release it?

(06:26):
I don't know. I thought he had said maybe saying
it afterward. I feel like it should be between Chris,
Chris Stofferson and Janice. But here's Roger Miller. Nothing. I mean,
that sounds terrible compared to the Jannis Choplin version, but
it's here's that Jannis Choplin. This was her first big

(06:50):
hit and she was already there dead when he came out.
She had that What say, Mike, I'm still looking it up. Okay,
documentary is great on Netflix, The Janis documentary. That's really good. Yeah,
he said. They talked to Christis Stops about the song
and he was like, I heard it, and I was like, damn,
it's good. And then he went to like find her
and she had already died. Nana Na Na na as

(07:14):
a as a brutal story though with her story and
people were to her. Yes, I had no idea her
and Jerry Garcia from The Grateful Day had a romantic relationship.
We've got to San Francisco for a while. I learned
that to that documentary, there's a good one. Huh what
you got my Christmas? And never put it out? He did?
That would be it? Um, you know, Roger Miller shout out,
but Dannis killed that. I've never heard that version. I

(07:37):
thought the Law and the Law run. Here's sunny, Curtis.
Here is the Clash. You know, I'm gonna go with
the Sunny Curtis version. Yeah. I liked the old school one.
I mean I would hear that in a classic agradio more.

(07:58):
Probably I love the Clash. I just like them. Oh yeah,
should I stay here? Should I go? I wouldn't sound
a big clash. I do like their music, so I'm
going with them. Yeah, punk rock roots the Clash. Yeah.
How about Mr tambourine Man originally about Bob Dylan. Mr
tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not Sleepy

(08:22):
or the Birds. That's a good matchup. It's really good.
And who was in the Birds? Was he? Believe? So? Well,
now you're Mike, will you look and see if I'm wrong?
I wouldn't bet money that he wasn't. Really, Yeah, I'm
I mean, I'm not how much money I waited you
arty see it. I don't think he was in the

(08:46):
Birds man. I was in Green Hall one time and
one of the members of the Birds was playing there
like a happy hour, and I had to well, this
was before Google on the phone, so also I took
his word for it, But then I went home and
googled it. There was is Eric Clapton The Birds. Eric
Clapton was in The Birds. Wow, way early, yeah, way
early wow for like two month birds clapped. I mean,

(09:11):
I mean you are Clapton fans. I shouldn't have bed
clapped a niche. I'm a class you know a lot
about him. Yeah, I mean I read his book. Well
there you go, But why do you questioned me? He
left them to go so low? So yes, very early.
Bob Dylan or The Birds? Bob Dylan, The Birds? You know,
I said it over and over again. I'm not really
a Bob Dylan fan, but I pike a Bob Dylan

(09:31):
A GI I think you're a Bob Dylan. Yeah. Maybe
maybe this old Bob Dylan irritates. Have you listened to
the record I gave you exactly all right, with a
little help from my friends. Are the Beatles you think?
Or Joe Cocker? Wonder Years? Wondering Years kind of probably

(09:54):
wins this. Did you see there coming out with a
new one. There's a whole new Wonder Years coming out
with Don Cheetle is the narrator. I just saw a
preview for it to be good. Yes, I'm gonna go
with Joe Cocker, even though I think it's probably sacrilege
to do that. I'm going Joe Cocker, I don't care, dude,
I don't like the Beatles version and it goes singing it,
so Joe Cocker, Joe Cocker, all right, final one respect

(10:20):
originally about otis Redding. You'll read to Franklin so we know,
we know what. Do you want to hear the backstory
about this song? Yes, I was writing was Piste. She
recorded it, and the song is originally about him going home.

(10:40):
I want to have sex after it gets off work.
That's what the song was written about. What you wrote about?
He's like, I'm just asking from my you know, that's
what That's what the song was. And it's weird when
she sings it's a different twist. You don't get that vibe.
Will you play the writing version to get mike you? Wow?

(11:05):
How can the same song have two different meanings just
based on who's singing it? He was not happy she
stold this song. I listened to a live recording of
I'm talking about it? Did you do that? Okay? I
was just starting to read the Franklin Eddie Aretha Franklin
like Aretha, Yeah, me too. I knew I didn't oh Man,

(11:26):
listen to that, and she's more believable too. You're like, after,
I believe them both. I believe them both. All right,
thank you, Eddie. Check out the Sore Losers podcast with
Eddie and Raymond on lunchbox UM just search for They
talk about sports and dude stuff sore Losers. Check out

(11:47):
Movie Mix Movie podcast with Mike So they talk about
the sore Losers too. Every podcast about sore losers. All right,
Movie mis Movie podcast, all right, thank you guys. Twenty
four years ago on June seven, The only one hit
Wonder one two Grammys? Interesting? Can you think of a

(12:10):
one hit wonder? And I'll tell you where I got
some of this from is the Retro newsletter. It's like
eighties and nineties. It's really good news letter there. I
follow um and so they talked about Fresh Prince, Sonic
the Hedgehog, but they had mentioned this, and I thought, wow,
that is really interesting. So I found some other stuff here.
But can you name the one hit wonder, Eddie that
won two Grammys ninety seven? So I'm gonna go there

(12:34):
in my head and was chumbawamba if chumba womba one
Grammys I'm walking out of it. Why wouldn't they? That
song was amazing. I get knocked down and then I
get up again. But do people want to keep I mean,
that's not it? Is it? It is not? Um Sonny
came Home by Sean. I've been heard before. It's a

(12:59):
fictional story a woman who burns down her house as
a way of conquering the demons from her past. So
that song had like a deep message to it. Grammy's
oscars they like deep, stuffy Chumbawamba, the name alone of
the band thumping. The song made it to number seven
on the Billboard, had one hundred and it one Record
of the Year and Song of the Year. So she

(13:21):
popped like boom yeah, but never really had another hit man.
She came out around the time that Lisa Lobe did
you know? And I remember kind of confusing the two
because I'm and then I did a little more sure.
Lisa wasn't before her. It was around the I would say,
like a few years, like three years around that. I
loved Lisa Loan. I know, have you seen her in
the new Geico commercial? Yes, and she looks the same

(13:44):
the reality show Stay. So three years before it was
around the same time, and I thought that Sean Colvin
was like, oh, this is the new one from Lisa
Lover or whatever. But man, yeah this that was the
Sunny Came Home was really good. When you talk about
crushes that you forgot about for me, really yeah. She
had and miss You yeah, miss you? Oh yeah, that's right,

(14:08):
and then she had stay, Mike, what do you have
there from Lisa Lobe? Pull it up? Because I don't
think listen, she's not an artist that has generationally stayed
on the radio. No, no, she's not. And she had
a lot of success for a while. What was her
reality show? I think it was called like Lisa Lobe
lobes You. Okay, I do remember that. She was like
New York. I do remember that. I only you what

(14:33):
I want to What else do you have from her?
The feeling is pulling up losers even there, even all
these radio stations in the building, they don't respect Lisa Lobe.
Let me look at Lisa Lobe on streaming here stay
I missed you? Oh she has like a kid's record too.
I guess twink twink a little star. Let's see here,

(14:56):
we're like at a record, because she'd be a good
one to get on this podcast. I'd like talk to
Loan and I don't know where she lives, probably New York.
Let me see. Yeah, I guess she did a bunch
of kids records because they're coming up as a um
a ton of her streams. Okay, hold on which one
is that one? Stay? I'm not gonna sit through all this,

(15:16):
but Mike, look at our biggest songs I do. Oh yeah, yeah,
hear me, but I do. Yeah, You'll never leave me, Bobby,
that's what the words that you've replaced it with? That? Right? Yeah,
it's good. That's a good one. Let me see I

(15:44):
have I finally found a great tits record. Obviously, Stay,
you say that's what? Oh? Do you sleep? Was awesome?
Do you sleep? Doe? Do you need? Yeah? Do you

(16:06):
eat sleep? Do you freeze me anymore? Do you sleep?
Do you count anymore? Do you sleep anymore? Nothing? No,
I don't remember that one anyway. I listen a lot
of Lisa until that whole face where I thought her
music was so good? Too is cross? Okay? Anyway, But

(16:29):
we're not talking about Lisa. You brought about Sean Cole,
which where she's from Texas, Right, she's from most in
her she did. That's how I knew her. Again. I
would always hear she was places and I was like,
Sunday Game Home. I wonder if she's gonna play that song.
But Sunny Came Home was the only one hit wonder
to win Grammys. It beat out a few other one
hit wonders. Where of all the Cowboys Gone? By Paula Cole? Yeah,

(16:52):
John Wayne, where is my chats Uh? Where is my
happy Ending? Where all the Cowboys Gone? And it was
kind of like a weird wrap thing. I went down
to the kitchen and I had some bell strap and yeah,
that's all right. And she had um hair in her arms.

(17:13):
Remember that here get pickty seven chtty somethinged, Oh take
your calling. So this was up to go and wash
the dishes? Well you hey, yeah, all right. So you

(17:38):
said that Sunny Came Home beat beat this this song.
It also beaten bought by Handsome Why wow. But that's
the whole too cool factor right there. Probably handsOn is awesome.
Um no doubts, don't speak, Come on. The song was.
They had a lot of hits, but this was the big, big,
big one for them. Um R Kelly's I believe I

(17:59):
can fly Giants. This song was so good man yeah
and lean rhymes how do I Live? And here you
are you ready for this? And then when Seann Koby
went on stage to accept her award for Song of
the Year, she was interrupted by Kanye Old Dirty Bastard

(18:19):
O d B storming the stage to complain that Wu
Tang lost a Puff Daddy earlier in the night. Okay,
please call down the music that everything everything said. Um,
I went and bought me an outfit today that close
to the line of money today. You know what I mean?
Because I figured that who Tang was gonna win. I

(18:40):
don't know how y'all said, but when they come to
the children, will tank us for the children. We teach
the children. You know what I mean. Puffy is good,
but We'll Tang is the best. Okay. I want you
all to know that this is O d BE and
I love you all. Peace. Don't clap for him. Don't
clap for the people on earth. I know, and he
didn't for Shawn Colvin. They're like, I just want this

(19:03):
big award. Where was O d V when this happened?
Like did he just walk up and said, well, we'll
stop or was he already up there. He wasn't up there. Yeah, yeah,
he wasn't like presenting the award. Man, why do people
do that? And I see people like Kanye, like, why
did they do that? Well, they both did that because
well but Kanye didn't do it for him. He did

(19:25):
it for Beyonce. Right, Okay, I would say, ego one
way or the other. They think people need to hear something. Guys,
this award shows like and people vote on it. This
isn't like life or death. And I said something very
powerful right there. Hey, hey, we're tame for the kids,
for the kids. I love you for the kids. ODV

(19:45):
though when you've got your money, Jam of course, Hey there,
hey maybe I got your money. Don't you worry Jam.
All right, there's a little fun fun nugget for you
this week on the Bobbycast. This whole epide has been
a little weird because we're on vacation, but we're strung
together a lot of interesting music talk for you, um O,

(20:07):
d B Hey and now'm good girls too, you know that? Yes,
girls too? Hey yeah baby pretty use a nice guy.
I'll give you my another. I'll go all you all yeah,
all right, thank you guys. Hey, this is Joe and
Colin from The biz Tape podcast, a podcast that serves

(20:29):
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