Lovers who wander
Warren Gradus - later member of the Belmonts
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Think you've collected every track by Dion and completed your collection - wrong - that is unless you've collected all the cover versions of his songs.
This is our 1st attempt to do that job - it consists of other artists singing the songs he wrote or covering his hits .
Have i missed anything - almost certainly - email me updates or comments good or bad
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So what do they do with it - well converted it it from sensitive folk song to boogie - what else ! Although it has a Dimucci credit i can find very little simularity to the original?
Not being happy with having a bash at Josie the Quo went back and had a poke at the Wanderer- see below
In my view the best cover version of any Dion song. It was covered by a pick up UK folk rock group called the Bunch on the Album Rock On.
The lead vocal is by Richard Thompson . He is belived to have picked up on the song when he was playing in 1967/8 with Fairport Convention at Londons Prog/psyche club - Middle Earth - a turntable favorite there
THE WANDERER is a song written by Earnie Maresca but a big hit for D and covered by many:
Status Quo - a UK hit
performed twice in Concert in 1999 - 1 version is a stand alone Wanderer while the other is paired with That'll be the day - is this Dylan acknowleding his 1st contact with Dion when he turned up to play keyboards for Bobby Vee on the Winter Dance party tour of 1959?
As for the quality its up to Dylans usual grumbling standard!
AND MORE: Here's some more interesting covers of "A teenager in love"
1. Lou Christie: on his 1966 lp "Lou Chrisite strikes again" (Roulette Records)
2. Simone Di Maggio: on her 2002 CD "Everybody's movin' !" (Vampirella Records)
3. The Disliked: on their 1998 CD "The time I had" (Simmerdown Records)
4. Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart on their selftitled lp in 1976 (Capitol Records). Two original Monkees (Dolenz & Jones) with two of their songwriters (Boyce & Hart)
5. Frankie & The Fashions. No idea who these guys were, but they have a version on their 2002 compilation CD "Trilogy". The original version must date from the 60's.
6. Papa Winnie on his 1999 CD "Musica Piu" (Sony International)
7. Radiatiors: Punk-rock band from Dublin who made some lp's between 1976 and 1981. Their version is on the 1996 live compilation CD "Alive Alive O" (Chiswick Records)
8. Rocky Sharpe & the Replays: on their 1999 cd "Looking for an echo" (Chiswick Records)
9. T. Rex: on the 1996 compilatin CD "A wizard, a true star: Marc Bolan & T. Rex 1972-1977" (Demon Records)
10. Shelly Thunder: on her 1989 LP "Fresh out of the pack" (Mango Records)
11. J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers: on the 1998 "The last Kiss Sessions" compilation CD with 20 songs Wilson recorded in the same session as his 1964 hit "Last kiss"
Hope you can use this info.
Cheers,
Dirk Belgium
There are 2 or 3 of his demo versions in circulation
Beach Boys
Another early single Produced and arranged by Dion - on the Columbia Lable 4-42881
I've now purchased a copy of this 63 single produced by Dion . The artist went on to fame and fortune i gather in Brazil?
The surprising thing about this is how mature it is - sounds like a1 singer songwriter performance familiar to most of us from the late 60's /70's - an area of course the producer went on to excel in ?
So who provided the artistic direction the producer or the artist - neither wrote the songs - although Rankins next single was a Dimucci song - but i don't know who produced . Columbia 45 from 1963 and Dion song "Knowing I Won't go back There" b/w "There'll be no other love for Me" - Who produced?