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7th Dec 2021, 1:26 PM
	ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6414 Points	ppint. wrote: and in this day of recorded music, standards can be killed. one version can so embed itself in the popular mind, that it becomes the only version - the righteous brothers' single of ''you've lost that loving feeling'' killed all others stone dead, even cilla black's, that made it into the charts before theirs was even released in the uk... zabadak wrote: Angel of the Morning is another example. Everyone thinks of the Juice Newton version from the 80s but the versions by Billie Davis and Evie Sands from the 1960s are definitive. Standards can also be "killed" in other ways as some songs considered standards for decades are now considered politically incorrect due to including lyrics that people consider offensive today. EDIT: removed accidental attribution the two classic recordings of ''angel of the morning'' are, of course, the 1968 competing versions by merrilee rush (sometimes ''and the turnabouts''), and by pat ''p. p.'' arnold (who may still've had her backing band, that went independent as ''the nice'' behind her at the time); yr hmbl srppnt. preferred ''p. p. arnold'''s version at the time, but has come to regard the two about equally highly, over the decades since. chip taylor wrote a perhaps unfair number of classic songs in his time. . . Edited by ppint. on 7th Dec 2021, 1:35 PM