Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart & The Mothers – Sleeping In A Jar (1975)
James Brown & Lyn Collins – This Guy /This Girl’s In Love With You (1972)
The JBs – Hot Pants Road (1972)
James Brown – The Drunk (1970)
Janet Greene – Commie Lies (1965)
Janet Greene – Termites (1965)
John G. Croff (with Al’s Dynamics) – Ballad Of America (The Boston Tea Party) (1966)
Little Marcy – When Mr. Satan Knocks At My Heart’s Door (1965)
Martin King – Working For The KGB (1987)
Ray Stevens – Hey Jude (1969)
Rev. Joe Freeman – Wake Me, Shake Me (1974)
Rick Kershaw – Man And A Mermaid (1974?)
Robert E Lee – You Can Shove It (1978?)
Seawick Holiday Lido invitation (1984)
Sherman Arnold – Burnin’ Love (1983)
Sherman Arnold – Suspicious Minds (1983) Terrible backing band, but I imagine the crowd didn’t care.
The Hitmakers – Papa No Good (1976) “He was just like a rat…in a sack of potatoes…”
The Searchlighters – Ninevah Noose (1983) In the Book of Jonah, God sends Jonah to Nineveh to warn of its destruction due to its wickedness. The Ninevites, including the king, repented, and God spared the city.
Unknown Artist (maybe a Canadian singer) – Pillow Talk (1980’s)
US Air Force Airmen of Note & The Free Design – You Be You & I’ll Be Me (1968)
A Boy Named Sue – Shel Silverstein (1968) First version.
Burning Love – Arthur Alexander (1971) First version.
I’ll Never Love This Way Again – Richard Kerr (1978) First version.
Peter Gabriel – A Wonderful Day In A One-Way World (1978)
Al Martino – Volare (1976) Another crooner of the past redoing their hit in a Disco style. It’s hard to ruin a good song, but Al Martino tries. Almost as tepid as the Bobby Vinton attempt from around the same time.
Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club – Video Killed The Radio Star (1978)
Buddy Raye – Alphabet Man (1985?) Possibly the most unique song-poem I’ve ever heard. Excepting, of course, “Gretchen’s New Dish”.
Carol Channing & Jimmy C. Newman/Hank Locklin – Louisiana Cajun Rock Band (1978)
Produced by Shelby Singleton Jr.
Carpenters – Tryin’ To Get The Feeling Again (1995)
Chris Dedrick – Begin Work (1972)
Cyndi Lauper – You Make Loving Fun (1977)
From FleetwoodMac.net: When Cyndi recorded the song, she was instructed to mimic Christine McVie to the best of her ability. She was just one of several session singers hired to re-record several big hits of the day. Clearly, some additional knob-turning was done to adjust her vocals. Also, all the trademark Lauper vocal ticks, affectations, and cartoonish-singing-through-the-nose quirkiness didn’t come until later.
A 7″ vinyl single was the only release from the session. Details about the release are unknown even to Lauper herself, who did not own her own copy until a fan gave her one in 2002. Lauper then remarked she was paid only twelve dollars for her work, to “sound like someone else.”
After Lauper’s later success, a 12″ vinyl single featuring new remixes was released in Japan in 1984 on a small independent label called Jam Spot, which was a division of Yamano Music Co. In 1989, a 3″ CD single also surfaced in Japan with the same mixes. All of these versions are considered rarities in Lauper’s catalogue.
Dee Dee Bridgewater – He’s Gone (1976) A fine, soulful cover of an amazing, almost perfect tune from Darryl Hall and John Oates.
Freddy Cannon with Ron Dante – Down On Beale Street (2016)
Gerald Nelson – Yoga Is As Yoga Does (1964?)
Gila – This Morning (1973)
Helen Reddy – I Am Woman (1971) First version. Not the version you hear on the radio, to this day.
Wikipedia: Reddy had no expectations for the track. “It clearly was not hit-single material and got no airplay at all. I used it as an opening song whenever I performed live, and it was always well received: I also noticed that the song was being singled out for mention in fan mail.” But more than a year later, the song was picked to run behind the opening credits of Stand Up and Be Counted, a lightweight Hollywood women’s lib comedy starring Jacqueline Bisset, Loretta Swit and Steve Lawrence. “The decision-makers at Capitol Records thought that, in case the film was a hit, they should release ‘I Am Woman’ as a single.” [It wasn’t.] In its initial form, the original version ran to little more than two minutes, so Reddy was asked to write an additional verse and chorus. The extra verse inserted the song’s only reference to men (“Until I make my brother understand”).
John Sebastian – Face Of Appalachia (1974)