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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    yes, good one too. That was a classic session they did together. I'll enjoy listening to this. Thank you. Had thought you would like the cigarette wisdom.
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    Never heard this original until recently, but never liked the Janis Joplin version much; too screaming. Read in a bio or heard in an interview, don't remember which, that they met in SF, I think at the Fillmore, and she told Janis, who was smoking a cigarette, to quit, or she was going to l...
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    one more and I'm done: so many renditions: Here's another informative article. https://www.americanheritage.com/searching-shenandoah The chief's daughter story is suspect for being true. Also, the part about getting the chief drunk and stealing his daughter in not in most versions. I was...
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    Thank you. What a long history! Could have come Ireland still, possibly, though wiki does not trace it further back than its U.S. history except with anecdote. I like the story of the Oneida chief Shenandoah and his daughter the best. So many different verses of it. I do like the German...
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    Yes, I did not know the origin. You are correct, I believe. This short video explains it. Originally a sailor's song. Irish immigrants crossing the Atlantic? Also,the word "Shenandoah" has several meanings derived from different Native American languages: In the Algonquin language, it...
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    Pretty cool that you got his signature. Treasured memory. I shook BB King's hand once in '71 after a performance at Kings Castle in North Lake Tahoe, Nevada, after his set, having a drink at the bar (dark something on the rocks) and a cigarette. Very memorable. Like this song and looked for...
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    Music Favorite songs (cont.)

    this one comes to mind often when doing laundry, Pretenders, "Watching the Clothes".
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    Agreed. Funny image of Pat Boone singing that! That Shaft rendition reminded me of a record my father used to play that we all used to laugh at. Not good.
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    "How blue can you get". Thought BB King was the original but here is. Popular earlier in 40's and 50's. (as in 10 dollar dinner) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Moore%27s_Three_Blazers Know this is subjective, but I do like BB's cover better than the original which is OK too.
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    I think that really scared the farm animals, though I liked the banjo farm version best. I got high anxiety now listening to that, though. :) Here's something different, pretty good cover, I think but always tough to beat original, especially when she could act too. From my favorite...
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    Are clarity and clarification synonymous?

    The first sentence is correct English, the second not. Sure sounds the same, though, easily misused, probably. I like how the German word for clarification means clearing, as in clearing up the confusion which led to the lack of clarity. (This problem does not have clarity; it needs...
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    RIP John Lodge (82), bassist and lyricist with the Moody Blues

    Moody Blues was a great group of musicians! Hugely popular in U.S.
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    Music Cover songs versus the original track, which ones are better?

    Silver Thread and Golden Needles The original. Wanda Jackson. A young Linda Ronstadt Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton
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    Leading AI systems blackmailed their human users

    As predicted in 1968. This one has probably already been posted, but here is, if not.
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    RIP Jane Goodall (91), primatologist and conservationist

    Yes, I meant no disrespect to Dr. Goodall. Thank you to Mentor for helping on that. I was going to followup too. I heard the story on the radio yesterday. After Gary Larson and "Far Side" published the joke, her foundation reacted furiously against it, but when Goodall saw it, she laughed and...
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