But one of the greatest and funniest movies ever, Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, turns out to be a remake of a forgotten 1935 French film, Fanfare of Love (Fanfare d'Amour), later remade as a German movie in 1951, Fanfaren der Liebe. I rarely watch remakes of movies, since they're almost never as good as the original. But the best version in my opinion is the one by Gary Jules from the Donnie Darko movie soundtrack. I didn't know Mad World was an original song by Tears for Fears, when I first heard it sung on American Idol by Adam Lambert. You can stream Nina Simone's cover on Alexander Street. The English translation also featured Lotte Lenya, but the song became more well-known by folk singers like Judy Collins, which was the first version I heard. The original is from the 1930 German Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht, sung by Lotte Lenya. You can stream it on Freegal or listen on cd.Īnother Nina Simone cover which is better than the English language original is the bone-chilling Pirate Jenny. You can hear it on cd or stream it on freegal.įeeling Good was originally a song from the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd, but it can't come even a little bit close to Nina Simone's exhilarating rendition, which I heard for the first time on this reaction video. There have been so many covers of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, but my favorite, and better than the original is the version by Jeff Buckley.
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