Love 5th Dimension and think this cover of Wedding Bell Blues by Morrissey and Billie Joe Armstrong is great.
Wedding Bell Blues
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Point of order. It’s a Laura Nyro song covered (extremely well) by 5th Dimension. They recorded a few Nyro songs and seemed to be able to make them more commercially appealing without really changing them very much. They also had a decent hit with their fine version of Stoned Soul Picnic.
Well said. Laura’s original version came 3 years before The 5th Dimension’s cover, and it’s a pity that the likes of Billboard are referring to it as a 5th Dimension song in publicising Morrissey’s album.
I think I detect a hint of Autotune in Morrissey’s vocal, for what it’s worth.
Point taken about it of course being a Laura Nyro song, but it’s clear that the 5th Dimension version is what Morrissey based his on, especially with Billie Joe’s backing vocals which I think work really well. It has the same kind of euphoric swing that the 5th D version has, whereas the original was slightly more downbeat. Anyway, I love them all 🙂
You’re probably right. I can get a little sensitive at Nyro being so often overlooked.
WBB is at least a song that’s difficult to completely spoil in a cover version, unlike some of her more personal and emotional songs.
I wonder what he’ll bring to his version of ‘Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow’.
The band could do with relaxing a bit more, but his vocal here is a wonderful thing – if only he’d stick to just singing.