ROCK SEX: "Too Many People!" - The Hollies > The Leaves > Paul McCartney > Pet Shop Boys

< br /> ROCK Sex brings you another round robin of 'Same title, different songs'!

Too many people in you space? Too many people in your face? Too many songs trying to keep pace.

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British Invasion!

THE HOLLIES -"Too Many People" (1965)


(Strong Brian Wilson influence on this next one.)

MANFRED MANN -"Too Many People" (1968)


RONNIE BURNS -"Too Many People" (1966)


(Ronnie is actually Australian.)



Garage Rock!

LITTLE JOHN & THE MONKS -"Too Many People" (1965)


THE LEAVES -"Too Many People" (1966)




Funk!

COLD BLOOD -"Too Many People" (1970)


(Remade by Kindred.)



Boogie Rock!

PAUL & LINDA McCARTNEY -"Too Many People" (1971)


(Paul is playing all the music.)



Gospel Soul!

REVELATION -"Just Too Many People" (1975)


(Remade by Melissa Manchester.)



Alt Pop!

PET SHOP BOYS -"Too Many People" (1993)




Punk!

THE BAD SPORTS -"Too Many People" (2011)




Electro!

PRINCESS CHELSEA -"Too Many People" (2015)




There are also songs by Bobby Goldsboro, Graham Bell, Soma Holiday, Wet Wet Wet, and The Moaners.


So many people with songs called "Too Many People"! (Maybe that could be a song.)


© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" - Ray Charles > Gerry And The Pacemakers

• "Don't Bring Me Down" -The Animals, The Beatles, Neil Young, WAR, McCartney, ELO

• "I Want You!" - The Troggs, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello +

• "Games People Play" - Joe South > Beach Boys > John Lennon > The Spinners > Alan Parsons

• "Talk Talk!" - The Music Machine > Talk Talk



• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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LADIES FIRST: "Demolition Man" - Grace Jones > The Police > Sting

LADIES FIRST hips you to songs that 'she did first'.

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Grace Jones actually recorded the first version of "Demolition Man", written by Sting.

GRACE JONES -"Demolition Man" (1981)



Quickly thereafter, Sting recorded his own take on his song with his mates The Police.

THE POLICE -"Demolition Man" (1981)



A year later it was done again by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Mann is most famous for his other hit covers "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" ('64) and "Blinded By the Light" ('77).


And it gave the title to Stallone's SF action flick, DEMOLITION MAN (1993), where Sting remade it for the soundtrack.

STING -"Demolition Man" (1993)



As everything is cyclical, Wesley Snipes wouldn't have had his whole post-New Wave look if it hadn't been for Grace Jones forging the path in the first place!


© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• "Love Is The Drug" - Roxy Music > Chic > Grace Jones > Duran Duran

• "Nightclubbing" - Iggy Pop > Human League > Grace Jones > Nine Inch Nails > Oasis

• LADIES FIRST: "Kultes Klares Wasser" - Malaria! > Chicks On Speed


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: Herbie Hancock > Mongo Santamaria > Herbie Hancock

ROCK Sex is all about scratching each other's back; 'you do me, I'll do you'.

Previously I gave examples of how one song can take on new life under different artists, and also how an artist inspires another artist who re-inspires the first artist. Well, today is an example of both.

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Herbie Hanckock was a jolt of new life on the Jazz scene in the early '60s, and he scored an immediate hit from his 1962 debut album penning this hip-swaying classic:

HERBIE HANCOCK -"Watermelon Man" (1962)



Afro-Cuban percussionist MONGO SANTAMARIA was quick to pick up on the Latin Jazz tinge and expand it fully on his classic cover hit. It soon became a standard with great versions by Quincy Jones, Manfred Mann, Maynard Ferguson, and The J.B.'s to follow.

MONGO SANTAMARIA -"Watermelon Man" (1962)



Big Mama Thornton, famed for the original "Hound Dog", made this Blues stride out of it, complete with funny monologue:

BIG MAMA THORNTON -"Watermelon Man" (1970)



Herbie re-invented himself in the early '70s as an afro-futurist, blending tribal instruments with space-age electronics. In similar phoenix fashion he reforged his own classic:

HERBIE HANCOCK & THE HEADHUNTERS -"Watermelon Man" (1973)



You got my back, I got yours.


© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• Cool Funk Roots: PEREZ PRADO's Mambo

• "Oye Como Va!" - Tito Puente > Santana > Kinky


• "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - Horace Silver > Earth Wind & Fire > Steely Dan > Stevie Wonder > Madlib

• "PHYSICAL GRAFFITI" - Led Zeppelin > Branford Marsalis > Rolling Stones

• "How High The Moon" - Les Paul and Mary Ford > Sarah Vaughan > Charlie Parker > Miles Davis > John Coltrane


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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