Fair play to the lass, she's got a great voice, she's quite probably a very nice person and she doesn't seem to crave the ridiculous celebrity lifestyle and limelight that everybody else does, but why did she have to cover probably my favourite Dells record eh? Why Joss, why?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSzXu-L4IA

 

  On 26/11/2013 at 15:52, jordirip said:

Fair play to the lass, she's got a great voice, she's quite probably a very nice person and she doesn't seem to crave the ridiculous celebrity lifestyle and limelight that everybody else does, but why did she have to cover probably my favourite Dells record eh? Why Joss, why?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSzXu-L4IA

Do you sing along when the Dells version is playing?

  On 26/11/2013 at 16:15, Winnie :-) said:

Do you sing along when the Dells version is playing?

 

Yep, I consider myself a close second to Marvin Junior...ahem....  Why do you ask?

  On 26/11/2013 at 16:25, jordirip said:

Yep, I consider myself a close second to Marvin Junior...ahem....  Why do you ask?

So do I, and I don't have a voice like Joss Stone, or MJ, she may cover them because she appreciates them, as I would if I had her talent, so fair play to the girl IMO 

  On 26/11/2013 at 16:41, Winnie :-) said:

So do I, and I don't have a voice like Joss Stone, or MJ, she may cover them because she appreciates them, as I would if I had her talent, so fair play to the girl IMO 

 

I hope she does appreciate them Win, obviously someone in her camp does, to suggest it as a cover in the first place. I just hope Robbie Williams doesn't start to appreciate the Dells as well. Joss does a decent version there to be honest but I wish some things were just left alone.

Nothing against Joss but it doesn't work for me, it sounds a bit contrived, it seems a bit forced in places (especially some of the music) and a song like this shoud flow ...like a river.

Sorry.

P.S.  I always wanted to be on Juke Box Jury

 

 

 

Edited November 26, 201311 yr by Paul

An incredible song written by Terry Callier and Larry Wade. I think it would be hard to do a bad version. It's also nice to see that Callier's work is being recognised after his death. An extremely talented songwriter as well as an artiste.

 

This is fine as far as it goes, as were her covers of 'First Taste of Hurt' and 'Super Duper Love'. Wouldn't go as far as buying them though.

duplicate (sorry)

Edited November 26, 201311 yr by Paul

  On 26/11/2013 at 16:41, Winnie :-) said:

So do I, and I don't have a voice like Joss Stone, or MJ, she may cover them because she appreciates them, as I would if I had her talent, so fair play to the girl IMO 

She probably covers them as it is an easy pay day and doesn't have the talent and would get nowhere with her own material.

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:18, Paul Mooney said:

Nothing against Joss but it doesn't work for me, it sounds a bit contrived, it seems a bit forced in places (especially some of the music) and a song like this shoud flow ...like a river.

Sorry.

P.S.  I always wanted to be on Juke Box Jury

 

 

 

 

...and to be fair it's a lot to expect because The Dells original has such amazing dynamics, vocally and musically, ranging from almost naked gentle sensitivity to powerful intensity, so I don't really expect anyone to ever get close to it.

It was just like a special experience in life that was so unique that you know it won't ever happen again.

 

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:30, chalky said:

She probably covers them as it is an easy pay day and doesn't have the talent and would get nowhere with her own material.

 

You're not quite as tactful and diplomatic as me   but very true, I don't know anyone who could write a song like that these days. The art of great songwriting has been in decline for many years.

Paul

 

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:31, Paul Mooney said:

...and to be fair it's a lot to expect because The Dells original has such amazing dynamics, vocally and musically, ranging from almost naked gentle sensitivity to powerful intensity, so I don't really expect anyone to ever get close to it.

It was just like a special experience in life that was so unique that you know it won't ever happen again.

 

 

Even Joss must have felt depressed knowing that she would never be able to come close to the Dells masterpiece. Still, a few people might get to hear the Dells' version  as a result and just think how lucky they will be to hear it for the first time.

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:36, Paul Mooney said:

You're not quite as tactful and diplomatic as me   but very true, I don't know anyone who could write a song like that these days. The art of great songwriting has been in decline for many years.

Paul

I can do tact and diplomacy Paul but I prefer to get straight to the point.....its the Yorkshire in me I think

I think the Jerry Butler/Brenda Lee Eager version is superior to The Dells. BLE takes the Marvin Junior parts and easily rivals him.

The year is 2013 and this is a cracking homage to a sublime song by a young un with the balls to give it a go. She could cop out and sing shit like gaga et al and make herself a tidy little packet along the way but she hasn't.

Fair play to her for sticking to her guns and singing what she enjoys, and maybe introducing some of the younger target audience to some of beloved tracks.

Who knows, that might spark a light that gets em looking deeper into 'The Vaults'.

Joss has a nice voice, better than some of the other conveyor belt singers on programmes like the dreaded X Factor but the emotion is just not there,when the Dells sing this tune tears start to well up as it is sung with such emotional itensity.

Like Jordi this is my fave Dells song so no one will ever do it better.

 

Cheers

Chris

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:47, garethx said:

I think the Jerry Butler/Brenda Lee Eager version is superior to The Dells. BLE takes the Marvin Junior parts and easily rivals him.

 

Hello Gareth

 

I like that version too, and it has great orchestration.

My favourite by Butler & Eager is 'Ain't Understanding Mellow', I can play it over and over and over ...(you get the idea)

I LISTENED TO AN INTERVIEW WITH HER ONCE AND SHE ADMITTED TO NOT KNOWING A LOT ABOUT SOUL MUSIC FROM THE 60'S / 70'S

 

SHAME BECAUSE SHE HAS ONE HELL OF A VOICE

 

KEV

she did a nice anne of cleves though...

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:30, chalky said:

She probably covers them as it is an easy pay day and doesn't have the talent and would get nowhere with her own material.

 

 

Not a fan, but to be fair, that talentless hack Elvis Presley never wrote a tune either, and he seemed to do quite well....   lol

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:30, chalky said:

She probably covers them as it is an easy pay day and doesn't have the talent and would get nowhere with her own material.

 

 

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:36, Paul Mooney said:

You're not quite as tactful and diplomatic as me   but very true, I don't know anyone who could write a song like that these days. The art of great songwriting has been in decline for many years.

Paul

 

Far be it for me to defend her - but the Dells didn't write it either - please compare like with like - you can't criticise her for the lack of her own material when the 'preferred' version was not written by the performers either.  Mike 

  On 26/11/2013 at 23:15, Mike Lofthouse said:

Far be it for me to defend her - but the Dells didn't write it either - please compare like with like - you can't criticise her for the lack of her own material when the 'preferred' version was not written by the performers either.  Mike 

 

Hello Mike, I obviously wasn't referring to Joss when I said "I don't know anyone who could write a song like that these days", I was picking up on Chalky's "own material" comment but thinking of new / original material (written by anyone) rather than covers.

As for the performance, I did say that I wouldn't expect anyone to get close to The Dells version because it has such great dynamics and sensitivity. It's more of a reference point than a comparison.

Joss has done better.

 

Paul

Edited November 27, 201311 yr by Paul

  On 26/11/2013 at 23:06, pikeys dog said:

Not a fan, but to be fair, that talentless hack Elvis Presley never wrote a tune either, and he seemed to do quite well....   lol

Not true I think he wrote one of his hits lol. I wouldn't call him talentless either lol

  On 26/11/2013 at 15:52, jordirip said:

Fair play to the lass, she's got a great voice, she's quite probably a very nice person and she doesn't seem to crave the ridiculous celebrity lifestyle and limelight that everybody else does, but why did she have to cover probably my favourite Dells record eh? Why Joss, why?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSzXu-L4IA

Sounds like she is competing with the awful orchestration and that bleedin rimshot or whatever it is that bangs away constantly in the background is very annoying, cannot fault her voice though

GOOSE BUMPS !!

 

 

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:30, chalky said:

She probably covers them as it is an easy pay day and doesn't have the talent and would get nowhere with her own material.

 

  On 26/11/2013 at 17:41, chalky said:

I can do tact and diplomacy Paul but I prefer to get straight to the point.....its the Yorkshire in me I think

tha reyt chalks'.................tell az it iz !!

Never heard of it before. Don't like either.  Female one slightly better.

  On 27/11/2013 at 13:50, Pete S said:

Never heard of it before. Don't like either.  Female one slightly better.

 

burn the heretic! 

  On 27/11/2013 at 13:59, sweeney said:

burn the heretic! 

 

 

sorry

  On 27/11/2013 at 14:21, Pete S said:

 

sorry

 

no need to apologise Pete. One man's meat is another man's Carstairs.

 

Edited November 27, 201311 yr by sweeney