Jazz vocalist Emily Saxe took a go at it on her 2007 album “Keeping You In Mind.”I like the soft-funk arrangement. But Ms. Saxe for some reason alters the melody, avoiding the high note on “foolish pride.” That diminishes the impact, I think.
I’m streaming Saxe’s version on my Vox blog; click here to listen.
This track is available as a FREE MP3. Follow this link to Download.com if you want it.
Let me share two other versions of “Walk On By” that I like:
The Brooklyn retro-groove band El Michels Affair did an update of the famous Isaac Hayes arrangement. Click here to hear it. (Downloadable from eMusic and iTunes.)
Saxophonist Stanley Turrentine released a killer version on Blue Note Records in 1966. Click here to listen.
Dionne Warwick, of course, recorded the flawless original. What I didn’t know, prior to today, is that she also recorded a German-language version (“Geh Vorbei”).
You can hear that – along with her German version of “You’ll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)” – thanks to Dionne’s biggest fan on YouTube, DibOtis.
10 comments:
Stanley Turrentine, may he rest in peace, was an awesome player.
Dionne was a great dresser...
What was that "Slaves" movie they kept showing with her and Ossie Davis?
^ I never heard of the flick either, IW.
I've been re-listening lately to Garnet Mimms "Cry Baby" album. The studio back-up was sung not by "The Enchanters" (his normal back-up singers), but by the "Sweet Inspirations" - Dionne Warwick, DeeDee Warwick and Cissy Houston (mother of Whitney).
Oh me, Oh my!
Garnet's voice is as powerful as you can get, but the ladies would not be outdone.
I love Dionne's original but for my money, give me the Isaac Hayes version off his "Hot-Buttered Soul" LP.
One must give credit to anybody who would cover Walk on By after Dionne did the original. Her act is very hard to follow. I will have to find that "Cry Baby" album. Why don't you stream some of that one, UBM?
^ I'm trying to find it, RC... believe that!
Did you happen to see the youtube clip of Dionne just having a good time with Walk On By?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEYwu3NtzdY&feature
Too fun and I would love some of those clothes.
When I started reading this post I thought immediately of Stanley Turrentine's soulful reading. One of my favorite tenor players.
My favorite version in your sidebar today, by Isaac Hayes.
Love that video; the glasses, the "you socked it to me, mamaaaaa".
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