Here’s on what’s on the show tonight:
| Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist (with link to the artists’ website, if available) | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
Solsbury Hill  |
Dust Rhinos | Second Set | Peter Gabriel |
| Diamond Dogs |
Beck | Moulin Rouge Soundtrack | David Bowie |
| Thank You |
Lizz Wright | The Orchard | Led Zeppelin |
| All Through The Night |
Girlyman | Somewhere Different Now (Live) | Cyndi Lauper |
| Someone Saved My Life Tonight |
The Ralph Sall Experience feat. Phoebe Strole & Skylar Astin | Hamlet 2 Soundtrack | Elton John |
| The Model |
The Members | Going West | Kraftwerk |
58 minutes | 
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There are two Musically Challenged bits in this show! Thanks to Paul and Steve from MusicChallenger.com for sending them in!
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Fantastic!
It must have been hard not to include "Satisfaction" again, because I think Otis absolutely nailed it. Same for Andrew strong (from the Commitments).
What interested me a lot about the Respect cover was how differently the song sounds from a male perspective. It had much more resonance for a woman like Aretha to be saying "give me some respect when i come home", rather than a guy saying it, adding that his woman "spends all his money", so she should give him some respect. This was the 60's though – I would be on couch duty for a year if i said that to my wife!
lol Wayne from the UK
here is another artist worth checking out, he has just done a concept album THE MEMPHIS ALBUM and he has a couple of Otis Redding Songs on there… DOCK OF THE BAY and I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO LONG. Steve Cropper produced and played on the album and then honoured Guy Sebastian by doing a huge concert tour here in Australia – Steve Cropper is a huge fan of Guy Sebastian!
This is a great site – thank you!
Oh, c'mon, Brian – no love for Bing Crosby's original version of "Try a Little Tenderness"?
"Doobie Brothers"? Sorry, Brian, "Willie & the Poor Boys" was by Creedence Clearwater Revival, not the Doobie Brothers.
You absolutely need to see/hear the George Hamilton version of "Dock of the Bay" from the Ed Sullivan Show. Awesomely cheesy, right down to the nehru jacket, gold medallion and the "white boy" dance moves.
I like the Rat Pack live version. "Women get weary, wearing that same shabby dress / So when she gets weary, buy her another shabby dress…."
Sgt. Joe Friday.
Up to normal standard Brian. This is my first episode listening to it as soon as it came out though.
I actually liked that Tom Jones version, at the every least it's definitely distinctive
Ryan Shaw also does a great cover that's pretty faithful to Otis
I usually like The Mighty Sparrow and his Soca Calypso sounds, but his version of "Try a Little Tenderness" didn't make it for me. I'm pretty much a purist on that song and decided after hearing Michael Bolton try it that there should be a moratorium on covering it. However, there are two exceptions: the Commitments version you mentioned and the dynamite Solomon Burke cover on "Soul Comes Home," a concert honoring Stax. His spoken "We love you, Otis" at the end choked me up the first time I heard it.
Oh, that Tom Jones cover was a shame. He should have torn up that song – instead, he sounded like he was recording a commercial for a department store.
Excellent show. I really liked that Justin Nozuka song. I still love Joan Osborne's version of "These Arms of Mine," but that version by Willie and the Poor Boys was pretty solid.
But Brian, Brian, Brian – the song that mentioned Willie and the Poor Boys was by Creedence, not the Doobie Brothers!!! It was called "Down on the Corner." I actually winced when I heard you mention the Doobie Brothers. (I guess someone else already mentioned it, but I've got to add my two cents.)
Love the Mighty Sparrow taking on "Tenderness." It's a different feel, but it's got a great swing to it.
(I hope you're saving Otis' cover of "Shake" for the Sam Cooke cover story.)
I think I've an alternate take of Toots's Hard to Handle on a disk put out by Oxford American Magazine 5th anual music issue. Also on there is a great cover of Dolly Parton with 7 bridges road, and a terrible cover of Ring of Fire with Billy Bob Thorton and Earl Scruggs. The song is ruined by Thorton's vocal.
What a scorching cover of Hard to Handle! It sent me running to itunes for the download. Toots has such a great voice.