Covers of Chris Songs
 

I thought it might be an interesting thread starter if we were able to compile a list of artists who have covered songs written by Christine McVie.

I'll give one:

Stephanie Mills: "Oh Daddy"


I'd love to see more...

Eva Cassidy - Songbird
Chaka Khan - Everywhere
Annie McLoone - Spare Me A Little Of Your Love
Cyndi Lauper - You Make Loving Fun
KC & The Sunshine Band - Don't Stop

Tori Amos:Songbird

Willie Nelson-Songbird
Elton John-Don't Stop

Leo Kottke - World Turning
Natalie Cole - Oh Daddy
Rita Coolidge - Songbird


And, all the songs of hers on Tusk were covered by Camper Van Beethoven (since they covered the entire album)

Aha, maybe it was Natalie Cole that I'd heard singing Oh Daddy, not Stephanie Mills.

wow if anyone has a version of NCole on songbird... would love to hear

Chaka? For reals? If you do not lie to me, you may have made my year.

Tis true. I have it lying around somewhere, I will post it soon if someone doesn't beat me to it :)

post it! post it!

I'd also love to hear the Annie McLoone version of "Spare Me", and Cyndi Lauper's "You Make Lovin' Fun," which has to be better than Jewel's version on that awful Rumors Tribute record.

For what it's worth, I also remember some band from about five or six years ago doing "Everywhere." Heard it in a cafe in NYC. It had a kind of "electronica" feel to it. Don't know who it was...anyone?

I thought the Rumours: Legacy tribute album was pretty good, EXCEPT for:

Elton John's "Don't Stop"

and the WORST offender:

Duncan Sheik's "Songbird".

Why they just didn't use Eva Cassidy's version just boggles my mind.

The Cranberries' version of "Go Your Own Way", Matchbox 20's "Never Going Back Again" and the Goo Goo Dolls' "I Don't Want To Know" are the album's highlights for me.

Duncan Sheik's "Songbird" was almost criminal.

I usually don't care much for covers by my favorite artists, but I thought "Dreams" by that Irish band was pretty good.

The Coors - yes that was pretty good.

Even my nephew liked that one (although I think that did have something to do with Andrea Coor seemingly wearing little more than a handkerchief in the video!) :laugh:

Gail

The Corrs.

"Coors" is an American beer. :lol:

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I knew that!

Gail

I agree. Does anyone know if this was a licensing issue, or did they just choose not to use it? Eva's version is second only to the original, IMO.

I don't think they were actually aware of it until the album was nearly ready and by then it was too late.

Mick has been quoted as saying Christine loves Eva Cassidy's version.

Gail

It is definitely better than Jewel's! I can't speak for the Rumours Tribute take. :p I have a few versions; this one is listed as single vocal version, but I don't think there's much of a difference between that and the regular one. The other mix I have is an extended version.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fdpc8g

I guess I am the only one that loves D.S.'s Songbird. I think it's gorgeous.

Actually, I didn't think it was bad, either. But, overall, I hated the tibute album.

There's a much better tribute album to the band, in general, called "Fleetwood Mac: Patron Saints of Pop," where all the band's songwriters (excepting Jeremy Spencer, Bill Burnette, David Walker, David Mason, Rick Vito, and Becka Bramlett) are represented. The majority of the songs are covered by energetic indie bands. Highly recommended.

Oh, thank you, thank you! It's fun! Love the synths. And you know, beneath all of the 80s style production, it's a pretty close reading of the original song.

Anyone have other Chris covers to download?

So much love...can't wait! I'll even use emoticons to show my excitement: :blob2:

Oh god, that version makes me cry. I prefer it to the original *ducks*

Funny you should think it's 80s style -- it was recorded the same year as the original! It's from '77. :cool: It is pretty close, yeah. She got paid to sound like the original. Something like 12 bucks...

Wow! This is so interesting. Was her cover on one of those cheesy muzak records?

And, yes, I thought this was bonified 80s production.

lol, no, thankfully not. She was singing in cover bands at the time, and recorded some tracks for this little hole in the wall studio to make a few bucks. I wish I knew what they were used for or what they other songs were. :confused: It was just a single, and I don't think it was officially released until about 1988 and that was only in Japan.

We can't forget the Camper Van Beethoven's Tusk versions of Christine's songs. Even more obscure - the other Fleetwood Mac (1997) tribute album "Patron Saints of Pop." It was all random covers of various songs by a bunch of unheard of alternative rockers. There was one song by Christine on it: "Never Make Me Cry," covered by Spiroon. Anyone ever heard of him, them, it?

Most definitely. I have that cover on the Fleetwood Mac: Patron Saints of Pop cd. It's the only Chris song covered, and it's given a very tongue-in-cheek treatment. I laughed out loud when I first heard it, and this version still makes me smile.

Rosie Thomas covered Songbird on her last album.
I'll post it a bit later.
My fave Chris covers are Willie Nelson's Songbird and Jewel's You Make Loving Fun.

Status Quo covered Don't Stop on an album with that name, the first of 2 albums of covers they did in the 90s.

Ah yes Status Quo.

Didn't Christine once say (a long time ago) that Francis Rossi and Rick Parfit looked like a "couple of f*ckin ponces" :laugh:

Gail

Yes, I think she did.:D I don't remember the exact interview though. It definitely sounds like something she'd say.;)

I beleive someone on Chris' site found an interview with Status Quo who reported that they were "mortified" that she'd said that to them because they thought she was great.

the interview was reasonably recent but the comment was made sometime in the sixties.

Gail

You're right. Now I remember. I guess that interview is gone forever now. At first I thought that interview might have been from that "Hollywood poofers" interview.:laugh:

Hey, I love Chris A LOT--as everyone here knows. But I've seen/read a few homophobic statements from her that piss me off...there's that negative lesbian comment from a 1976 (?) People Magazine article, and then there's the flamboyant video producer in the Love Will Show Us How video (hardy har har)...and now this? Hey, I don't love--or even like--Status Quo, but come on. She's got to know a large number of gay men love her. And many of those gay men are pretty darn feminine.

The "ponces" quote was made a long time ago. Back in the sixties homosexual men were not "gay" they were known as "poofs" (in the UK). But back then you could get away with calling black people n*gg*rs. Times have changed (thank goodness)

I agree that the lesbian comment in People Magazine was unecessary but it honestly did not occur to me that the producer from Love Will Show us How was supposed to be gay.

I don't think that a couple of comments, the last one being more than 30 years ago, makes a case for Chris being homophobic.

Gail

Yes, all of those comments were from long, long ago, back in the 1960's, 1970's & 1980's. I don't like them either, but times were different then. Remember that picture of Chris made up like Aunt Jemima? I consider that racist & I find it embarrassing. She definitely wasn't politically correct then, but at that time nobody else was either. Times have changed. Look at Don Imus now.

By the way, that guy in the "Love Will Show Us How" video was Paul Bartel. He was gay & eventually died of AIDS.

I'd forgotten about the Aunt Jemina incident - yes that was embarassing. But as you say people were unthinkingly racist, sexist and homophobic in those days.

I think sometimes political correctness can go too far. We have local councils in England not wanting to have "Christmas lights" in case that offends muslims. It doesn't actually offend the muslim community at all but some one clearly thinks it would.

It can be taken too far but on the whole I think things are better now.

I can't speak for Christine obviously but I think the "ponces" comment was made as a reaction to their stage clothes which were a little effeminate when they are not effeminate men. So I would say she thought they were trying to look like soemthing they weren't. Just my opinion.

Gail

Which reminds me...somebody could (ok, ok, I admit, I already did) do a medley of Bad Co's "Can't Get Enough" and FMac's "Don't Stop".

My band was about halfway through "Can't Get Enough" and it was obvious that we weren't going to END the song anytime soon, so I just started singing the chorus of "Don't Stop", we ended up doing two verses and two more choruses, THEN segued back into the Bad Co. song for the end.