Asking for Help from My Songcrafters Brethren - A Form of Music Trivia

[Tangled Wires]

How about something "contemporary" which would work with guitar and voice......


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEfDSP4g_U

[64Guitars]

Glen Campbell covering U2's "All I Want Is You"

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[64Guitars]

Japan covering Barbra Streisand's "Don't Rain on My Parade" from "Funny Girl"

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[64Guitars]

Lots of weird covers by Dread Zeppelin.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/dreadzeppelin

[64Guitars]

Alice Cooper covering The Beatles' "Because"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ta9KMLpiHM

[Oldrottenhead]

nick cave does in the ghetto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ChE4c_g4B0

rem does wichita lineman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QutLsCCY2yw

xtc does ella guru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y7d_TaFR18

elvis and bruce cover the big o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUDm90opRyo

[Hook]

One of my faves, Aztec  Camera doing Van Halens Jump!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COtZZmWKcRI

[T.C. Elliott]

PM Dawn doing You Got Me Floatin' (Jimi Hendrix)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EZAFFU3CfU

[Blooby]

Thank you so much, all of you.  I'm digging many of these suggestions. Please keep them coming if an unusual cover song strikes you. I think John and I may continue to do this from time to time. 64, "Stayin' Alive" was one of the tunes that put the idea in my head to try this (along with The Isley Brothers doing "Hello, It's Me.").

We used the sampler last night at a gig for this very bit of trivia between our medleys. We pitted the house against two employees. It must have gone over okay as several people asked for the 20 second snippets to be played repeatedly. I tried to make the original artist somebody well known, but some folks were still complaining that some of the songs were too obscure.

Blooby


Round 1 - Covers With Vocals
Ozzy & Dweezil Zappa do The Bee Gee's "Stayin' Alive"
Badlands does "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor
K. Gilbert does Zep's "Kashmir"
D. Yoakham does The Grateful Dead's "Truckin"   
G. Allman does "Rain" by The Beatles   
Isley Brothers do Todd Rundgren's "Hello It's Me"

Round 2 - Instrumental Covers
Soulive does "Taxman" by The Beatles   
Bluegrass "Black Dog" by Zep   
Miles Davis does "Human Nature" by M. Jackson   
Bluegrass "Tush" by ZZ Top
Zappa horn section does the solo from Zep's  "Stairway to Heaven"
Andy Timmons does "Sgt. Pepper" by The Beatles

[Geir]

"Blinded by the Light" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band (original by Bruce Springsteen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcWVL4B-4pI