Immigrant Song

[alanmck]

So it turns up in Assault on Precinct 13, Dirty Harry's school bus, Led Zeppelin, and all sorts of other places.

if i can get uploads to youtube to work, i've got two very similar versions on odd Japanese records.

Art Blakey on this (Canyon) LP



and

Takeshi Inomata smashing the skins on this JVC quad nonsense…





what's your favourite version?

[Filthy Rich]

I'd like to hear either of those versions. Or both even.

[Plainstone]

Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro do a rocking version. Seems to have been a favourite over here.

[eine]

It's 7.18 in the morning and I'm posting James Last's cover from Non-Stop Whatever, but via a YouTube of a Soviet Reel-to-reel. Surely I get an extra point?

[mr sayers]

Did Led Zeppelin not rip it off themselves like they always tended to do?

[Cacapo]

http://www.divshare.com/download/24800123-35d

A version from something called Peter Covent with added "OooohOooohOoooohOoooohs"

[Head Gardener]

[jakartajive]

I like the Led Zep version best, me.

[Viva Chiba]

...

John Carpenter's original in a downbeat and rather fatalistic electro soul stylee does it for me...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0iBcdBJ...%3D0iBcdBJ0yao

'Tune' as they used to say. Circa the 90s. Bit ironic that one of its most radical rejigs is a version of the original contemporaneous with the film.

According t'interweb this was used on some prints of the film, though I've yet to see one.