I wanted to close out my "Who Did it Better?" arc with a three-fer. It's rare that three different artists, with very different styles, cover the same song. And all three are just about perfect. OK, first up is the original, sung by the man who wrote it. How does one improve on this?
Check out those suits!
But artists are brave, and although perfection is hard to improve on, Johnny Rivers gave it a whirl. And man, did he hit it out of the park!
Anybody who can sing "Secret Agent Man" gets to take a swing at just about anything in my view.
But there was another version, this time done by a woman. Plaintive, emotional, Linda Ronstadt brought just about everything the other two did, and added something they couldn't--a touch of twang. Amazing.
So, there you have it. Three artists, three interpretations, three classics. Hard to choose, but the good news is that we don't have to! We can enjoy all three. I'll come back to Linda covering somebody else's song some other time. I have a specific one in mind. Think hard enough and you'll probably guess it. But not now...
See you tomorrow...
Pete
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