There was a VOCAL version of that?

'No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In' ......


by Don Lee Wilson (of the Ventures)

 

'On the Rebound' - Jerry Holmes

 

'The New Raunchy' - Shady Wall


aka Webb Pierce

 

I first heard this one many years ago on a Webb Pierce CD collection. It was only fairly recently that I learned it had been released as a single under another artist name.

My impression was (and is) that Webb and his mates took more than a few extra nips in the studio that night. Webb was always a very controlled singer (and I get the feeling that extended into his life as a whole). It's fun to hear him really cut loose on this!

 

'La Danse de Zorba' - Dalida

 

The first of many vocal renditions of the great original by The Vincent
Guaraldi Trio in 1962, becoming a hit in Australia:

"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" -Mel Tormé 1963.

 

'Sing, Sing, Sing' - Louis Prima and his New Orleans Gang

 

I just accidentally stumbled on to this:



The Ames Brothers / Washington Square

 

'All for You' was a 1965 single by Earl Van Dyke and the Soul Brothers which appears to have been withdrawn in the US but was issued in the UK on the Tamla Motiwn label.

A vocal version as 'Lucky Lucky Me' later turned up almost thirty years later on the 1994 Marvin Gaye "rare and unreleased" CD "Love Starved Heart"


Earl Van Dyke - All For You

 

'Plaza de Toros' - Petula Clark

 

Maurizio Graf, "An Eye for an Eye" - vocal version of the theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"

 

Good compilation of vocal versions of Morricone themes, and other themes, provided you have the stomach for melodramatic Italian pop singing.

 

In a completely different genre. Known by 99% of people as an instrumental (except for one word at the end) on their first album.

The vocal version popped up as a B-side, and was probably how the song started out : with a lyric (?).

 

It's probably much more common now with all the different reissues/expanded versions (a bit hard to follow at times) and I know there are other vocal versions (at least two). It's been a cult classic among fans, through bootlegs, etc.The thing is, for a long time, the one available OFFICIAL version of "Ride Into the Sun" was an instrumental version (on "Another View")with a missing vocal track. What a waste! This vocal version popped up as a french promo item, if I remember correctly, around 1991, sourced from an acetate, and released on a very limited Australian box set in 1993. It's the first vocal version I heard of this song.

 

Bach’s Minuet in G major (possibly not written by Bach) didn’t get lyrics until 1965.

 

'Night Train' - the Four Blazes (1952)

 

Tubeway Army - When the Machines Rock (was released as an instrumental on the finished Replicas album)

 

I remember the vocal version getting a slight bit of airplay after "The Horse" was a big hit. For me, it works better as an instrumental. I always imagined a horse running through a thunderstorm. I can hear the lightning in the brass.

 

Another one that worked better as an instrumental. The lyrics are very trite.

 

Skeeter Davis and Conway Twitty both had hits with their vocal versions, but the song didn't really need any lyrics. Floyd Cramer's instrumental original has "End of a relationship" written all over it.

 

Thelonious didn't have anything to do with the vocals, but this works:

 

I prefer this version

 

So do I, actually. I just posted the first vocal version I heard of the song, that's all.

 

'A String of Pearls' - Connee Boswell

 

'Tequila' - the Contenders