Vince Taylor vs The Clash - Brand New Cadellac

[Kewpie]

Robert Elms show on BBC London Radio has a regular slot of Cover to Cover which is a discussion about original vs cover version.

Listeners can nominate a song, every Thursday 14:00-14:30 listeners ring up to the station and vote to decide definitive version.

This week's song is Brand New Cadellac.

You can listen from http://bbc.co.uk/bbclondon

 

[billybu69]

Can't find.

 

[Kewpie]

Can't find.

If you scroll down, you find the link of BBC London 94.9 on the right.

http://bbc.co.uk/bbclondon

You can listen again Robert Elms show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7kb

 

[billybu69]

Right found it here. 2hrs 5mins in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gzc4m#auto

My avatar has been there years so it's obvious i'm a huge Clash fan so bias is inevitable, but I really wanted to say Vince Taylors version was my preference, and the Clash homage merely a quality cover,and although the original does have the raw power of early rock oozing through, Joe Strummers vocal? make this track it's ace, i'm going to sit here tonight and play London Calling front to back tonight just to make sure i'm right.

There's only me and you interested in this Kewpie, where do you stand?

 

[Kewpie]

Right found it here. 2hrs 5mins in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02gzc4m#auto

My avatar has been there years so it's obvious i'm a huge Clash fan so bias is inevitable, but I really wanted to say Vince Taylors version was my preference, and the Clash homage merely a quality cover,and although the original does have the raw power of early rock oozing through, Joe Strummers vocal? make this track it's ace, i'm going to sit here tonight and play London Calling front to back tonight just to make sure i'm right.

There's only me and you interested in this Kewpie, where do you stand?

I didn't know Clash covered the song, it was the first time I heard their version.

I prefer the original because IMHO Joe Strummer's vocal somewhat lacks the urgency.

 

[billybu69]

I didn't know Clash covered the song, it was the first time I heard their version.

I prefer the original because IMHO Joe Strummer's vocal somewhat lacks the urgency.

Aah but the grit Kewpie, the grit.

 

[Kewpie]

I have to bump this thread because today Robert and Johnny Homer are following a trail of Kray Twins.

You can listen again from iPlayer (talk starts around 1:35).

*edit*
Johnny Homer mentioned Morrissey at the end (Last of the Famous International Playboys).
Sadly Robert hates Morrissey, so he played London by Ray Davis instead.

Wow, I didn't know that their parents lived in Bunhill Row EC1Y where my friends live around the corner.

 

[Famous when dead]

Great song and a regular cover at any Rockabilly event I attend.
Got to agree with Kewpie (don't tell anyone!) that the Vince version has a raw and urgent tone and triggers my 'Elvis leg' to start moving.
Kudos to the Clash though for playing a classic song to people who may not of known it.
Regards,
FWD