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  1. 30-01-2008, 11:26 PM #1
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    Default Cover Versions of OOOH Child

    Bit of a long shot this

    Any other cover versions of the 5 stairsteps classic?

    Off the Top of my head :-

    John Blair (as part of a meadley)

    Edwin Hawkins singers

    Beth Orton did a live version

    Any others ?
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    the wondermints [ brian wilson's backing band ] on their covers album.
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    Quote Originally Posted by flytipper View Post
    the wondermints [ brian wilson's backing band ] on their covers album.
    That covers album is great...got it for christmas years ago, and finding the originals, and getting into the other artists involved has been influential on my musical taste
    "Not only that but the WHOLE COVER is UNCREASED with only 2 or 3 TINY creaselines near the opening edge about half way down!!!! In the same place (about half way down the opening edge), there is an absolutely TINY and PERFECTLY repaired split" (xxxrecords)
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoneyVotel View Post
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    great version, on the soundtrack LP for Over The Edge. Deadly film and soundtrack.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe M'geek View Post
    That covers album is great...got it for christmas years ago, and finding the originals, and getting into the other artists involved has been influential on my musical taste
    agreed - they even manage to make ABBA sound like a thing of beauty
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe M'geek View Post
    That covers album is great...got it for christmas years ago, and finding the originals, and getting into the other artists involved has been influential on my musical taste
    I did the same back in the late 1980s when I heard the first two This Mortal Coil LPs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by flytipper View Post
    agreed - they even manage to make ABBA sound like a thing of beauty
    But ABBA have always sounded like a thing of beauty.

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    Marcia Hines covers this song.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boi Bach o Bethel View Post
    Beth Orton did a live version
    She did a studio version too for a charity album. It's on 'The Other Side Of Daybreak' too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jakartajive View Post
    But ABBA have always sounded like a thing of beauty.

    I was in Poland last week and in the cab into Warsaw from the airport, SOS came on and fair took my heart away, it did. Superpop with a capital S.
    in the situation you were in,i can understand it 100%...back in the uk hearing them may be different matter for me though H..any records from warsaw mate ?
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    Nice And Smooth did a version on their first album too. Well they sampled it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jakartajive View Post
    I was in Poland last week and in the cab into Warsaw from the airport, SOS came on and fair took my heart away, it did. Superpop with a capital S.
    I don't know why I never expected to hear that from you, Hugh, but you've just climbed even further in my estimation. Agreed.
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    Not entirely convinced by Abba but SOS is a killer tune. if it was by someone else etc etc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by emperor tomato ketchup View Post
    Not entirely convinced by Abba but SOS is a killer tune. if it was by someone else etc etc.
    Dancing Queen is my favourite, brilliant record. I have a very soft spot for their The Visitors album as well. Its such a weird LP - massive upbeat pop band do an album with few choruses and plenty of verses about divorce and isolation with unexpected electronics going on. Its not exactly great but its just so odd its very difficult not to like it.
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    The Visitors is very downbeat. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room especially. Probably their most coherent LP.
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    found a version of ' ooh child ' by the 'posies' - 'big star' types on the back of their ' definite door ' single - proper good it is too !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by flytipper View Post
    in the situation you were in,i can understand it 100%...back in the uk hearing them may be different matter for me though H..any records from warsaw mate ?
    Nah, nothing this time. I was really mad busy with work. Did a presentation at Warsaw Uni, in a lovely campus near the Old Town, then went out for dinner and (several) drinks with the bods from the English department there, all of whom speak the most remarkable English, with these weird clipped RP-ish accents - like parodies of 1950s BBc voices.

    Up early the next day for the three-hour drive to Torun (the birthplace of both Copernicus and - most contentiously - gingerbread, as they never tire of telling you - along with the fact that the city is 'the Krakow of the north'. Similar gig there. Flew straight home that evening!

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    Quote Originally Posted by flytipper View Post
    found a version of ' ooh child ' by the 'posies' - 'big star' types on the back of their ' definite door ' single - proper good it is too !!
    I've seen them supporting Alex Chilton before (well, Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow and a pretty bad drummer ). Also seen them themselves a few times - always a fantastically tight and entertaining gig. The last time was at a criminally underattended Junction, which didn't dampen their spirits at all and meant they could drag the entire 'crowd' onstage for the encore. I'll have to look out for that...
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    Quote Originally Posted by BoneyVotel View Post
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    great version, on the soundtrack LP for Over The Edge. Deadly film and soundtrack.
    Great version - also on her 1977 LP 'Just a Stone's Throw Away' - 'tis the same version I assume?
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    There's lovely version by The (Motown) Spinners, from 1970.

    I think I first heard 5 Stairsteps singing this song in Boyz N The Hood.
    But then I must have seen Over The Edge before that with Valerie Carter's version over the end credits. Who knows?
    It's used to great effect in both these movies and is a wonderful song.

    Versions by Ramsey Lewis, Edwin Hawkins Singers, Dee Dee Sharp too.
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