- Did Cat Stevens really never pick up a guitar again or sing a song until he publicly re-accepted music in recent years?
- Some of Cat's early 70's music is weird. i Mean, i like folk, but i hear his stuff and i'm trying to grasp that folky feel that i love, but i'm not getting it. Which is okay. I don't have to get it. But was he really famous and his music loved that much in the 70's?
- Have you seen recent videos of music from his Another Cup of Tea album? Such a visual disconnect between the idea of music and guitarist and the vision of Cat with the guitar and microphone... anyone else get that feeling?
- considering Amy Winehouse's jazz and Cat's folk and the other Brit's producing American music... why is it that these forms of music are finding their voice in the UK? more so than the USA? Have these musical forms died out in the USA? I'm not saying they have... just would like to learn more about this.
- Has a more recent artist redone "Wild World"? I know this song well, i suspect from the radio in my car... but I don't remember the name Cat Steven's associated with it... either because it was redone or because I wasn't paying attention.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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I suspect 'Wild World' has been covered many times. Probably the best known version (20 years old now??) is by the British reggae artist, Eddy Grant.
Growing up in the 70s in the UK, Cat Stevens was one of those people that you'd heard of rather than actually heard. I don't think he had many hits in the UK, but he was pretty well known. Not as big as Dylan etc., obviously, but pretty well known.
I know him primarily through his songs on the soundtrack to 'Harold and Maude' - which is possibly the greatest film ever made (certainly the best black comedy). Another quest for you in your friendly neighbourhood DVD store.
Hmmm, I may have been thinking of Maxi Priest. Long time ago now.
Did Eddy cover it as well? Everybody has done this song.
I learn from Wikipedia that it wasn't even a Cat Stevens original.
I also learn that one of the first and most successful versions of it was by Jimmy Cliff. I don't think I've ever heard that. Worth digging up, I should think.
aha! Froog, thanks so much for stopping by and helping out with the questions. I was at a loss as to the answers. Do share if you discover more answer during you "digging up."
Meanwhile, I'll be searching out that DVD and youtubing all these name-drops.
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