NEEDLES AND PINS : DO YOU LIKE THE TURTLES, JACKIE DESHANNON or THE RAMONES' VERSION BEST?

Written by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono!  NEEDLES AND PINS is a cover tune classic that's been covered by a great many, including Jackie DeShannon, The Turtles, The Ramones...

Jackie DeShannon :

The Ramones:

The Turtles:

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(424) SINGER SONGWRITER BOBBY FREEMAN : DO YOU WANNA DANCE?: COVERED BY SO MANY ARTISTS!

With a song writer like Brian Wilson in your group, why cover a tune written by someone else? Because some songs are hits, and a hit is a song that's hard to resist. It can bring in a fortune. This is the 1965 recording.

For the SUMMER FUN of it, here are a number of other covers of the same Bobby Freeman song.

First BOBBY FREEMAN'S ORIGINAL! "Release in April 1958 while Bobby was still in High School and he became a singing sensation which helped this song moved right up the charts to Billboards Top 10." Thanks to the Youtuber who posted this one!

(UPDATE JULY 2012: Sadly we must remove the historical music Bobby Freeman Video as Frank Sinatra enterprises owns the video and made claims on it... We still want everyone to know how great Bobby was and were thrilled to have found the video in the first place! But now I, Christine, making it up to you by presenting the RAMONES version! Beleive it or not, I like it as much as I like Johnny Rivers!)

WHO COULD FORGET my old friend Johnny Rivers' slow, romantic version?



Did you ever think we'd post the Ramones on this blog? Surprise! Surprise!

The great thing about this Bobby Freeman song is that you can listen to all these versions and want more!

Linking to the BBC Music bio of Bobby Freeman!