Favorite/Best Karla Bonoff Cover?

[JSngry]

Personally, for me, it's "Personally" by Z.Z. Hill. "I got somethin' ta' give ya'....that the mailman....CAIN'T deli-va."

You may disagree. If so, you are wrong!

C'mon, let's duke it out!

[DukeCity]

Easily, the best Boris Karloff cover:

[kenny weir]

Personally was written by Paul Kelly, a vastly under-rated hero of southern soul.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Easily, the best Boris Karloff cover:

Wow I thought I might be the only one slisdexic enough to read just that.

[JSngry]

Personally was written by Paul Kelly, a vastly under-rated hero of southern soul.

That only proves my point!

[Joe G]

Easily, the best Boris Karloff cover:

Wow I thought I might be the only one slisdexic enough to read just that.

Nope, not the only one.

[GA Russell]

I thought this was going to be about album covers and cheesecake!

[Jazzmoose]

Can an Andrew Gold thread be far behind?

[kenny weir]

If you wanna check out Paul Kelly - and you should - the following comp (if you can find it) is the way to go: The Best of Paul Kelly: Stealin' in the Name of the Lord

It has the hit, Stealin In The Name Of The Lord, several other tunes from thge Muscle Shoals album Dirt and a whole bucnh of other groovers.

According to cduniverse, Dirt itself will be available via an Italian reissue in a couple of weeks.

His Rounder album. Gonna Stick And Stay (including Personally), is loosley based on the stripped-down demos he sent to the label spruiking tunes that ended up on discs by the likes of Irma Thomas and Johnny Adams. It's very much a new age-style accoustic soul album. Thus, hardcore soul fans hate it. Morons.

I have a handful of tracks he composed/cut for Dial on an anthology, along with several he wrote for a very good singer named Annette Snell. Mindblowing, each and every one.

To me Kelly is a huge talent and the rightful heir to the whole Sam Cooke trip.

It's a cryin' shame he was never in the right place at the right time.

[Stereojack]

His Rounder album. Gonna Stick And Stay (including Personally), is loosley based on the stripped-down demos he sent to the label spruiking tunes that ended up on discs by the likes of Irma Thomas and Johnny Adams. It's very much a new age-style accoustic soul album. Thus, hardcore soul fans hate it. Morons.

A second thumbs up for this overlooked classic! Hard to classify - sort of a "singer-songwriter" soul record. Great tunes & singing, sparse production.

Getting back to the theme of this thread - are we talking about Bonoff's covers of other people's material, or about people covering her tunes? I like her own recordings of the tunes that Linda Ronstadt made famous much better than Ronstadt's over-the-top versions.

A few years ago I had developed enough of a liking for Bonoff's albums that I began to investigate a couple of her colleagues that I had ignored for years - specifically Wendy Waldman & Andrew Gold, but alas, they didn't have it.

(edited for typo)

Edited November 30, 2006 by Stereojack

[BFrank]

This one?

[Chalupa]

Easily, the best Boris Karloff cover:

Wow I thought I might be the only one slisdexic enough to read just that.

Nope, not the only one.

Me too.

[Stereojack]

This one?

That's her first. I like these also: