Siobhan Fahey, the short blonde-haired member of Bananarama went on to form the group "Shakespears Sister" in 1988. You guys played the song "Stay" about 7 months ago and really liked the video. She had black hair in that duo/group.
Every time this video came on MTV I would get up and do the dance routine with them. 💃🏽 Absolutely love this song. This brings back Great memories. ❤️Thank you for the review.
I love both versions. They both bring some really cool sounds to the table. And I grew up to the Bananarama version, so I am partial to it, but truly enjoy the original.
The female singer of the shocking blues had a better voice than the knock of version from the singers of banana rama. He voice was more unique. The singers from the 80s sound very similar.
Great reaction! One of the best 80's songs, and successful remakes. Love the video and how the Bananarama ladies play all of the characters in the video. The woman in the devil suit is Siobhan Fahey, who also was the angel of death in the Shakespears Sister video Stay (which you have already reacted to)
Club Nouveau- Lean On Me is a great raggae style cover of the classic Bill Withers song. It was huge in the USA and went all the way to #1 in 1987. You guys will love the funky sound and love for you to react to this great cover!
I will always and forever love Bananarama. You should check out Fun Boy 3's cover of, "It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it." Fun Boy 3 was formed by Nev, Terry, and Lyn, when they left The Specials. Banarama sings alongside Tery Hall. Also, Terry cowrote "Out lips are sealed" with Jane Wiedlin from the Go Go's. FB3 did a great version of Our Lips are sealed. If you haven't checked out The Specials, you should. Two-tone Ska at its best! 💜💜💜
Did anyone else notice that 90% of the time, Jay closes his eyes and vibes to the music, when there’s a video right in front of him. Not this time. His eye were firmly glued to the screen, the whole time. LOL
Great covers: Got to Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind & Fire's cover of The Beatles classic. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Elton John's cover of another Beatles gem. Pinball Wizard - Elton John's cover of The Who classic. Come Together - Aerosmith's cover of yet another Beatles classic. Ticket to Ride - The Carpenters cover of another Beatles hit. Live and Let Die - Guns and Roses cover of the Paul McCartney and Wings rocker.
Everything Bananarama did is Great, so I love this! But also love the original by Shocking Blue too! PS- Just checked, but You Guys should also try Frankie Avalon's version of Venus... completely different sound... dreamy, and it's GREAT too! Great Reaction, You Guys!
I was so fascinated by the music video as a tween even though I didn't understand what they were singing. I never forgot it. This and Janet Jackson's Runaway are my absolute favorites.
Similar grps: You have done Expose (but they have a catalogue), The Good Girls' (Motown Group), Cover Girls, "Because of you" "Show Me" , Me and Kim "Respectable" and "Showing out" Sweet Sensation "Im hooked on you" "take it while its hot". Seduction. Teen Dream (there are fun), Stacey and kimyo. The Jets and Five Star. En Vogue, Jade, SWV etc
You can get all the way from the Specials in the 70s to Shakespeares Sister in the 90s through Bananarama. The Specials split up and started Fun Boy Three, with the Bananarama girls as their backing vocals. The girls became Bananarama and then Siobhan split off to start Shakespeares Sister with Marcella Detroit. It would be fun to have you see the progression by watching a Fun Boy Three video like "it aint what you do (its the way that you do it)". Especially as you've already seen videos by all the other groups.
Bananarama also appeared in Eurythmics video “Who’s That Girl” Siobhan Fahey would later marry Dave Stewart of Eurythmics. That is a VERY interesting 😉 video to check out.
Bananarama is a really fun all girl group. I love this remake. It’s the version I know! It’s so catchy and fun!! I was in love with Keren Woodward. She is one of the most attractive female music artists of the 80s.
This song is the standard Stock-Aitken-Waterman production sound who domain england in the mids 80. another clear example is You spinme round of Dead or Alive.
My requests are going in the opposite direction. Reacting to the originals of covers you've reacted to. You've played Celine Dion's version of Power of Love but the original was done by Jennifer Rush; Piece of My Heart was originally done by Erma Franklin (Aretha's sister). Tainted Love was originally done by Gloria Jones. Just One Look was originally done by Doris Troy. The Everly Brothers originally did When Will I Be Loved. Roy Orbison did Blue Bayou. Cyndi Lauper covered Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night.
"Bananarama" are the most successful female group of all time, even beating "The Supremes". My brother went to school with two of the women from this band and as a former music producer here in London when I was very young, I would often use the studios of Dave Stewart of the "Eurythmics" who is married to a member of this band. 😁🇬🇧
Best cover would be Creep by Post Modern Jukebox ft Haley Reinhart. Treat yourself to the best singer you've never heard. They also covered Covered Dream On with another singer Morgan James. Happy New Year.
J & Amber, you'll love their "Shy Boy", "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" and Fun Boy Three w/Bananarama "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" !!! Bananarama w/Fun Boy Three- “Really Saying Something” !!!
throw *Cruel Summer",* and *"Robert De Niro's Waiting..."* on the list 👍 Definitely think *"Shy Boy"* should be their next since it was their breakout song.
More covers for future reviews that are better than the original. I Love Rock and Roll by Joan Jett, Killing Me Softly by the Fugees and Mr Tamborine Man by the Byrds.
I like both of them equally and both versions hit #1 on Billboard Top 100 in the states. Speaking of covers, react to Poison's version of "Your Mama Don't Dance". The original was done by Loggins & Messina. David Lee Roth's version of California Girls, originally done by the Beach Boys. Thanks.😎
Since you have heard a bit of David Bowie's best..you should find the Unplugged live Nirvana version of Man Who Sold the World. But listen to Bowie first?
Smokey Robinson's "More Love" covered by Kim Carnes... I Will Always Love You" made famous by Whitney Houston was actually written and recorded by Dolly Parton in the early 70s.
Thanks for this reaction... Bananarama joined the 'Stock, Aitken and Waterman' factory that produced other names such as Dead or Alive, Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley, Divine, Hazel Dean and even some Donna Summer, to name a few. They were a 'hit making' studio from the late 80s, then it all dried up when the sound of music changed and got heavier etc. and moved direction. Still, they had some amazing songs for their time!
@@MartijnHover Wrong, the lyrics are loosly based on 'Oh Susanna' a verrrrry old folk song and the music is somewhat lifted from Banjo Song which in itself is based on a different old song (can't remember which one) and modified by Tim Rose. But you're right that the original isn't truly Shocking Blue's although Robbie van Leeuwen did give it his personal touch and made ot to the popular song as the world got to know and love.
@@laziojohnny79 What the Big Three did with "Oh Susanna" was called an "arrangement" and Robbie van Leeuwen just stole that arrangement for "Venus". A "personal touch" was what the Big Three did with Oh Susanna, not what Robbie van Leeuwen did with their song. Which was just plagiarism. In this day and age he'd be sued for it. And he'd lose. 😀
fun fact: Siobhan Fahey (on the far right when the three are lined up together) went on to form Shakespeare's Sister with Marcella Detroit. I think you reacted to 'Stay' by them.
It's so frustrating when you degrade what these artists do, by calling their works of art, "covers". Professional musicians have to purchase the rights to the lyrics, from the original songwriters. Then they use their talents to make the songs their own. They make money from the sales of their art, and the songwriters get some of that money. You obviously heard the difference between the original and this remake. Yet you take all the credit away from the remake artists, by calling it a cover. A cover is what the local band does down at the local bar. Since they don't get paid by the song, they can sound as close to the original as possible. A cover is what a good karaoke singer does, when they try to sound like the artist their singing from. Calling the work of a professional artist, a cover, is so disparaging.
I love how amber bounces and moves to this song. You have to watch them do this in 2017. The ladies are so much more beautiful and so much better and they are all in their 60s now!! I love them so much!
Love this group. Had such a crush on Keren Woodward (dark hair) when I was in high school. This was a great cover and video and was a big hit for them and a big club hit. Check out - "I Heard a Rumour", "Love in the First Degree", "Robert Deniro's Waiting", "
"LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE" by bananarama! AMBER&JORDAN (jay) you will love this 1980s song!!!! their music video for "LOVE IN THE FIRST DEGREE" is so MUCH FUN
THIS WAS A HUGE CLUB HIT-ALWAYS FILLED THE DANCE FLOOR. CHECK OUT THEIR COVER OF THE DOOBIES' LONG TRAIN RUNNING-IT'S FLAMECO STYLE! ALSO CHECK OUT THEIR FIRST HIT HE WAS REALLY SAYING SOMETHING, ROBERT DENIRO' S WAITING, NA NA HEY HEY, SHY BOY. IT AIN'T WHAT YOU DO.
Bananarama is still going strong. You should react to some of their newer stuff like "Masquerade" and "Stuff Like That" or a little bit older ones like "Love Don't Live Here", "Love Comes", "Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)" or "Move in My Direction". ❤❤❤
You should do a video to 'You Spin Me Round' by Dead or Alive. I promise it will be Jay's favourite EVER 80s record he's ever done on the channel. Also I saw an interview with Bananarama and they told Stock, Aitkin and Waterman who were their new producers that they wanted their new record to sound like You Spin Me Round by Dead or Alive which came out the year before. Please do a video to that, you will both LOVE it.
Great cover. This imo became the song that took Bananarama into the global stratosphere! It also launched the Stock/Aitken/Waterman sound that ould give us Rick Astley later. This song waa awesome to play in my all Synth band I was in back at university. There was also a male spoof version that friends and I wrote.
There's one arm movement from this video that became the thing to repeat in our own dancing. See the 4:36 and 5:14 mark (among other times)--it's like a vertical, interchanging, wave-type of motion. If you did it, inevitably, someone on the dance floor would see it and repeat it back to you. Fun stuff! Gosh, I miss those days at the clubs!
i always thought music was meant to be....musical, not sure what fun sounds like..is it a tangible i can hear? an unusual interesting beat? what exactly does fun sound like?
Just by the way , I just saw an interview of Barry Gibb. He was asked what his favorite song was and he said “To Love Somebody “. It was one of his early ones.
I loved this video so much growing up. It was the first one where it was like, girls can look at sexy, scantly clad guys too and not be ashamed of it., and have fun with it too. I was just rolling into puberty when this came out so... yeah, watched it a lot. 🤣
Duran Duran did a whole album of covers called THANK YOU which they covered artists & bands that they felt inspired them or felt like made a big contribution to their sounds. Most notably they did a cover for LOU REED's song - "Perfect Day" and Lou said he felt it was the best cover of any of his songs by any group or artist. That is a big win. They also did covers of - PUBLIC ENEMY - "911's is a Joke" - GRAND MASTER FLASH - "White Lines" - LED ZEPPELIN - "Thank You"
And the Ramones did an album of all cover songs done psychedelically called Acid Eaters. I think their version of Out Of Time is better than the Rolling Stones'.
Andrew Ridgeley from wham was with Keren for 27 years, and Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics was married to Siobhan Fahey for almost 10 years. Siobhan left and formed Shakespeare's Sister
Cover suggestions: Oleta Adams has great ones: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" with a gospel influence "New York State Of Mind" with a Jazz style David Sanborn's version of Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" with Oleta Adams on vocals Trevor Horn's version of David Bowie's "Ashes To Ashes" sung by SEAL Jimi Hendrix's "And The Wind Cries Mary" by SEAL
They also did a great cover of the Beatles’ “Help”. It was a charity single for Red Nose Day that they did with a little help from the very funny comedy duo French & Saunders. I believe there was a version with and one without F&S… not sure. They were definitely in the music video. Either way, a cracking song!
If you’re looking for a good cover version from the 80s, I’d recommend That’s the Way (I Like It) by Dead or Alive. Original was by KC & the Sunshine Band. DOA take the disco song and put a gothy spin to it.
