This is a tribute to Women in Voice. An "album of songs performed by Australian male vocalists, originally made famous by women, across the history of music".
4 August 2007: Linda from Sweden let me know that Jerry Reid, a singer from Detroit USA, has worked with Max Martin and Anders Bagge. Thanks Linda! Let's hope Jerry releases these songs!
Check out Jerry's myspace, he sings Let It Go which is a cover of Lambretta's "Bimbo" - fantastic! Link: http://www.myspace.com/jerryreid
6 April 2007: Martin from Sweden also informed me that the band Travis once released a live version of "...Baby One More Time" as a bonus track on a single. The audience laughs when they hit the high notes. Thanks Martin.
Okay the thing that disturbs me about this cover, is not the cover itself, but at the beginning of the song Travis are being interviewed by some woman who says:
"Why did you choose to do the Britney cover of that awful awful song, that you’ve made quite good? I mean very good."
Then Travis say something about the song "Hotel California" and they're in a bar and they sing "Baby One More Time", they didn't know the words and so they got Jive to fax the lyrics to them when they did it on air someone having to hold the lyrics in front of them – I think they sang it for radio first.
Anyway, apart from that woman's rude comment, the cover is quite good, but not as good as Fountains of Wayne's version (in my opinion).
According to www.last.fm: Haydon Eshun, Jomo Baxter, Jayde Delpratt, Ryan Elliott, and Nick Grant
were Ultimate Kaos - a mid-90s British boyband with R&B stylings. Link:http://www.last.fm/music/Ultimate+Kaos/+wiki
Ultimate Kaos were apparently put together by Stock Aitken Waterman.
You may remember their hit song Casanova from 1998 (written by Reggie Calloway and produced by Mike Stock and Matt Aitken) (Reggie Calloway co-wrote NSync's I'll Be Good For You).
27 September 2006: Andrea (from Italy I think) emailed and told me about German band Hot Banditoz covering Backstreet Boys I Want It That Way. Thanks Andrea!
Hot Banditoz have definitely made this song sound more 'Euro' and some lyrics are in German, it still sounds great though - that melody!
Paul Anka sings 'big band' versions of pop and rock classics. These are very different versions but Paul Anka still keeps the tunes. Apart from It's My Life, other great covers on this cd are Van Halen's Jump and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.
13 March 2007: I attended the Weird Al concert in Sydney, his concert was fantastic, he is sooo funny! And great news because he sang a small part of "The Ebay Song"! yay!
Richard Thompson is married to Linda Thompson who is also a singer and songwriter. Allexperts say that she is the Linda Thompson who co-wrote Backstreet Boys "Drowning" (Link: http://experts.about.com - Linda Thompson). However, Martin from Sweden and I think Allexperts are wrong! We think the Linda Thompson who co-wrote "Drowning" is in fact the American actress who was married to producer David Foster.
I know there are plenty of other cover versions, but I just haven't been able to get my hands on them. So, If you know some more let me know, send me an email at rebeccamaxmartinfan@hotmail.com
