Conference mr1pst::music

    There's the recent U2/Johnny Cash collaboration on the Zooropa album. 
    I never would have expected that (or *wanted* it, to be honest).
    
    Lorna
    

    
    Frank Zappa's 'The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life' CD
    chronicles an almost-happened live performance with Johnny Cash of 
    'Ring of Fire'. The band goes on to perform it anyway, to show what
    conceivably could have happened. Reggae-style.
    
    I always thought Stomu Yamash'ta's 'Go' album with Steve Winwood was a
    rather eclectic pairing of talents. Likewise, a recent performance by 
    Rick Nielsen and the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, performing Michael
    Kamen's Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra. 
    
    Peter 

    Apparently Country music Legend "Tammy Whynette" has been working with 
    "Elton John" on a new release, she will also be teaming up with "Melisa
    Ethridge", and there's another but I can't remember who it is. She
    mentioned via T.V. interview when these would be coming out but I
    didn't catch that part of it.
    
    Wow!!!!!!!!!!! This could turn out to be pretty good..
    
    Rose
    
      

    Luciano Pavarotti & Sting
    
    Edd

    
    	Bing Crosby and David Bowie
    

    I thought Paco DeLucia, a famous Flamenco guitarist, collaborating with
    jazz guitarist Al DiMeola was pretty unusual, and incredibly
    successful.
    
    Later they added John McLaughlin and toured as a trio.  On one of the
    tours, Steve Morse opened for them and joined them in the encore
    as well.
    
    	db

    Shortly before they got their recording contract, Devo did some work
    with Neil Young.  They appeared in some footage he shot for a movie
    called "Human Highway" (don't think it ever got released).
    
    Linda Ronstadt appeared as the romantic lead in a jazz opera written by
    composer Carla Bley.  The male lead was Jack Bruce.  This album is
    still in print, BTW.
    
    Steve Winwood appeared as a special guest on a salsa album by the Fania
    All-Stars, playing lead guitar.
    
    Dave Alvin of the Blasters, known for a roots/rockabilly sound,
    recorded an album using Sun Ra and his Arkestra backing him up, and
    actually played some dates with the Arkestra as a guest vocalist.
    
    When tapes of the legendary "Million Dollar Quartet" of Elvis, Johnny
    Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins were finally discovered and
    issued, it turned out that it was all gospel music.
    
    Jazz bassist Dave Holland, known for avant-garde work with folks like
    Miles Davis and Anthony Braxton, has recorded two albums with banjo
    player John Hartford.
    
    							Brian

    RE .6 Ya that's it I kept thinking White Christmas but knew that was
    right.
    	Thanks..
    

    
    How about just weird covers of songs?
    
    Sinead O'Connor - 'Someday my Prince Will Come'
    Sting - 'The Flintstones Theme' ( On Bring on the Night video )
    Tom Jones - Prince's 'Kiss'
    John Wesley Harding - 'Crystal Blue Persuasion'
    The Lemonheads - 'Mrs. Robinson' and 'Luka'
    
    	God, there could be hundreds of these . . . 
    
    Actually, didn't Tom Jones s do 'Kiss' with Art of Noise?
    
    						- Jim

Soul Asylum and Lulu doing To Sir With Love on MTV's Unplugged.  Did a great job
too...

Tim

    re .10, I've seen Tom Jones do Prince's "Purple Rain" on VH1. 
    Horrible.
    
    Lorna
    

    
    
    
    I heard on MTV the other day that Frank Sinatra is doing an 
    album with alot of rock people, like Bono and Axl Rose!!!
    
    Now *that* should be interesting - I don't know if 'ole blue
    eyes will be doing the rock tunes, or the rock dudes will be
    doing Frank's songs...
    
    Meg

    re .13, oh, god.  Bono must be getting really bored with fame.
    
    Lorna
    

    Re.12
    Yeah..But Lorna,I thought the Guitarin By Gilmor was Good.
    

    I recall a TV Christmas musical special with David Bowie and Bing 
    Crosby, bless his soul!
    
    One I'd like to see is Anita Bryant doing Jimmy Buffett's greatest 
    hits.
    
    :+)
    
    jim

    
    
    How about Megadeath doing children's classics such as.....
    
    
             Zippitydoodah
             Michael Row your Boat
             Mickey Mouse Club 
             One little, two little three little Indians
    
    
    etc.  etc.  etc.
    

    Re: .17
    
    I guess you haven't heard that heavy metal version of "Three Little
    Pigs" yet?  I forget the band, something like Green Slime...first heard
    it on a pizza joint jukebox in northern VT.
    
    							Brian

    Re -.1
    
    yeah - the band *was* called Green Jello, but they ran in to trouble
    with everyone's favorite gelatin manufacture so they had to change it
    to 'Green Jello'.  Horrid band, by the way
    
    						- Jim

    
    <ahem> - sorry, they changed it from Green Jello to Green Jelly
    								  ^
    
    	complete with the umlats over the last letter.
    
    I saw the movie 'Dazed and Confused' last night - affected me more than
    I thought, apparently ;-)
    
    						- Jim ;-)

  Actually, I suspect Bono is not remotely in Sinatra's league artistically
  -- but then I'm not particularly a fan of either, so, never mind...
  
  Sinatra is doing duets with Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, and someone
  in the rap dept. (forget) -- don't know if this is the same project as the
  one referred to, with rock singers...   - Jay

    re .21, well, you know the old saying, "I don't know anything about art
    but I know what I like"?  Well, I like Bono, and I hate Sinatra. 
    Actually, I don't see how you can compare the two artistically,
    whatever you mean by that, when their music is so different.  I've
    always hated the type of music that Sinatra records, and I hate his
    voice.  It doesn't seem to me that he's ever done anything that could
    remotely compare artistically to The Joshua Tree, but I really think
    it's just a matter of personal taste, since they're so different.
    
    Lorna
    

  Agreed, was just a knee-jerk reaction to the "Bono must be bored...".
  I too wonder how they'd manage to collaborrate.   JBC

    
    	re: Lorna - yes, to each their own.  If I could have been born
    	in another time, musicwise, I would have loved to be around
    	during the big band swing era of Sinatra's.  That foxtrot beat,
    	the horn arrangements - great stuff.  I saw Woody Hermans
    	Thundering Herd about 10 years ago at Mt Holyoke College - now
    	THAT was great music!
    
    	To me..
    

    re .24, I like some big band music, especially Glen Miller's stuff,
    such as "In The Mood."  But, I still don't like Sinatra's voice.  When
    I think of Sinatra I think more of the type of songs he had out in the
    early '60's, which I can remember and which I thought of as "easy
    listening" music.
    
    Lorna
    

    I'm a big fan of Big Band Music a la Dorsey, Miller, Ellington, etc.,
    but Frank Sinatra scores real high on the yuckomometer. 
    
    For one, I can't stand his phrasing. Always coming in behind the beat
    and playing catch-up. Secondly, I may be subject to what's possibly
    a caricature of the man, but he always strikes me as condescending
    to women...
    
    			"...I love dat dame,
    			    dig dat broad,
    			    catch dose gams..."
    
    Edd

    re. .26
    
    you're not mixing up frank sinatra with
    joe piscopo doing frank sinatra, are you?

    Like I said, I may have some of that caricature influencing me, but
    when I first saw JP doing it I remember thinking "He's *NAILED* it..."
    
    Edd

    Joe Piscopo is better.
    

    
    
    finally, something JP is better at than being a parody of a comedian
    
    

    
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    }}How about Megadeath doing children's classics such as.....
    
    
    	This is really nothing new.....I seem to recall a few members of
    Deep Purple getting together and doing a childrens LP way back in (I
    think it was) the early `70's.  The LP was called "BUTTERFLY BALL" and
    (I could be mistaken, I'm not sure but) I think Ronnie James Dio did
    some vocals on it also.
    
    	Does anybody but me remember this LP?
    
    	I remember a tune off it called "Old Blind Mole" if that helps
    trigger any memory remnants.
    
    			Old Blind Mole,
    			He don't need gas or coal,
    			Old Blind Mole,
    			He don't need me or you..Hummum de da da de de da.
    
    
    
    	-=Dave=-
    
    P.S.  I'm probably going to be humming that darn tune all day now!!
    
    
    

    re .-1
    
    that's certainly less weird than Deep Purple doing Neil Diamond's
    'Kentucky Woman'

    Re: .31
    
    I remember "Butterfly Ball".  Didn't it come out under Roger Glover's
    name?  At the time he was acquiring a rep as a producer (largely for his
    work with Nazareth).
    
    							Brian

"Weird Al" Yankovic and Wendy (n� Walter) Carlos doing a rather curious and
amusing version of "Peter and the Wolf".

				Steve

    Long ago (mid 1970s) Chet Atkins recorded an album "The Best Of Chet
    Atkins And Friends" in which he collaborated with a number of
    performers.  Most of the combinations were as expected, but a few were,
    well, *different*.  Track listing and comments follow:
    
    Terry On The Turnpike (with Boots Randolph on sax)
    Sail On Silvery Moon (with Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass)
    Sweet Georgia Brown (with the late Lenny Breau) - just the two of them
      on electric guitar; an incredible jazz duet!
    Avalon (with Les Paul) - from the album "Chester & Lester"; yes, they
      do *both* takes and include all the between track chatter. Hilarious!
    The Battle Of New Orleans/Sugarfoot Rag (with Arthur Fiedler & the
      Boston Pops Orchestra) - from the album "Chet Picks On The Pops"
    Do I Ever Cross Your Mind (with Dolly Parton) - just Chet & Dolly
      playing acoustic and singing on a tune Dolly wrote for this album; Dolly 
      herself has a giggle attack on this one!
    Frog Kissin' (with Ray Stevens) - THE weird cut of the album. 
      According to the liner notes, Ray wrote the tune, arranged it, plays
      all the keyboards, does all the background vocals and "taught (Chet)
      every note to sing".  Actually, Chet has a rather pleasant, if dry,
      singing voice.
    Twitchy (with Jerry Reed)
    Fiddlin' Around (with Johnny Gimble and Charlie McCoy)
    Poison Love (with Hank Snow)
    I'll See You In My Dreams (with the late Merle Travis)
    
    A nice album for Chet Atkins fans; sure wish I could get this one on
    CD.
    
    						--Eric--