9. Cher, “My Love” Like other legendary musical interpreters like say, Liza Minnelli, one could easily devote an entire series to bizarre Cher covers. Because of the sheer volume of viable options, choosing one…
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Leon Russell’s A Song For You: When a “Song” Becomes a “Copyright”:
There is a great chance that regardless of your demographic profile you are familiar with Leon Russell’s A Song For You, one of the really towering copyrights of the last 40 years. Aside from…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #8: Barry Manilow’s Cover of Journey’s Open Arms
8. Barry Manilow, Open Arms Readers of Stargayzing know that I am an unabashed “Fanilow”, but for every musical gem Barry has recorded, for instance Mandy or When October Goes, is something regrettable like—well—like anything recorded…
#TBT: Totally Hot! Olivia Newton-John’s A Little More Love from 1978
Some clever person created the hashtag #TBT—Throw Back Thursday, which I’ve seen quite a bit on Twitter and would appear to be a cutesy way of describing my entire life in four characters. …
Joni Mitchell’s House is a Very, Very, Very, Fine House
During my sit down interview on Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, I shared my memories of meeting Elisa Casas in 1983. We lived across the hallway from each other at N.Y.U.’s Weinstein…
Daft Punk Tribute to Disco—Sans a Female Voice
The #DaftPunk R.A.M. collection is brilliant, but curious that a tribute 2 disco & L.A. pop was created without a single woman anywhere. — David Munk (@stargayzingone) June 1, 2013 …
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #7: Edith Massey’s Cover of the Four Seasons’ Big Girls Don’t Cry
7. Edith Massey, Big Girls Don’t Cry Edith Massey—a.k.a. “The Egg Lady”—shot to fame as one of director John Waters’ muses, perhaps most memorably as an obese, egg-obsessed, toothless woman with who lives in a…
A Five Minute Phoner with Jason Gould
When I last caught up with Jason for UK magazine All About Barbra, he had released his EP, and was nearing the end of his first American tour. On the cusp of the next phase…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #6: Robert Goulet’s Version of Helen Reddy’s Cover of Paul Williams’ You and Me Against the World
6. Robert Goulet, You and Me Against the World (1976) “Robert Goulet out, Steve McQueen in!” In addition to being name checked in Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love, one of the great songs in Marvin Hamlisch…
Dolly Parton’s Unbelievable 1960s Beehive!
You will also enjoy: 12 Holiday Songs You’ve (Probably) Never Heard, Day Four: Dolly Parton’s, “Hard Candy Christmas”…
Stargayzing Mix Tape: The Most Unbelievable Cover Songs of All-Time! #4: Susan Anton’s Cover of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young
4. Susan Anton, Forever Young The willowy Susan Anton shot to fame in the late 1970s in a commercial for Muriel cigars and parlayed that exposure into a multimedia career that included TV, film, and…
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