Along those lines, heres Tuck Andress doing Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror. Tuck Andress - Man in the Mirror
Jacqui Naylor does "Santa Baby" as if it was an outtake from the Led Zeppelin album Houses of the Holy:
I've posted this in similar (though not identical) threads, but Alanis Morissette turning the ridiculous Black Eyed Peas hit "My Humps" into a piano ballad was wonderful:
How about re-inventing one of the greatest dancefloor hits of the 1980s into an acoustic guitar ballad? Here's "Bizarre Love Triangle" by Frente!
Yes, not only because it pleased the audience they were relating to, and helped that audience see what the original had to say...but over the years it has grown in credibility for people who even appreciate The Beatles above all else. I would put New Grass Revival's cover of "I've Just Seen A Face" for the same reason: it opened a new audience to hear what they would have heard when the original group did it...yet, it was "the same" approach, from a different style of performer.
And all of a sudden, your grandma saw something in Those Buggy Boys that she hadn't gotten at first glance, Only downside...The British Invasion also gave us The Age Of Granny Music - thanks Paulie...
Leon Russel's Masquerade was covered by Helen Reddy, then the Carpenters. But it didn't get its definitive reading until George Benson played it on his biggest album, Breezin'.
Mad World-Gary Jules...simple wonderful version, better than the original Tears For Fears version... so refreshingly different...
A couple come to mind - Joe Cocker's A Little Help From My Friends Talking Heads' Take Me To The River
Foxes and Fossils - Helplessly Hoping I like this, and almost any cover they do live from the patio of a Pizza restaurant. Amazing live sound.
