Which song from another artist you wish Freddie had sung ?

Great Pretender was a great cover song from Freddie. I also like the early ones, I Can Hear Music and Going Back.

Would have liked an album dedicated to Bobby Darin. Caravan, Charade, Nature Boy, Look At Me... All songs covered by other artists, sure, but I like Darin's versions. A couple of examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbzbSoo1jcU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h281AsllvVE

Vienna by Ultravox

Wild Is The Wind

Magnum - Start Talking Love
XYZ - What Keeps me Loving You
Allies - Grand Facade
Stryper - Alive

and for a cherry on that cake:
Autograph - Turn up the radio :D (i think really his tune circa Works/AKOM)

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

Some absolutely ridiculous suggestions here. It's no wonder Queen rarely did what fans wanted them to do. Besides, Fred's covers versions rarely work ... Immigrant Song, Great Pretender are poor. Going Back is much better.[/QUOTE]

His cover of GP was brilliant. Surprised that you think its poor.

Freddie's version of Great Pretender not that poor at all. Its simple Not-his-type-of-song. The more sophisticated and layered songs - that suits him

I agree. I hope people are factoring in a Freddie version of these tracks would have 80s synth strings and bad drum loops as explored here:

http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1527350/new-peter-straker-single.aspx

Bloody hell that was a year ago.

Every other song I like.

Love that song! Peter is brilliant.

Love Is A Stranger
Praying For Time
The First Cut Is The Deepest
Man In Black

I often imagine if Freddie sang this track. I can imagine him really tearing it up.

the harmonies Queen probably woulda' done this, haha
[url]https://youtu.be/wpuHOkPeGJ8[/url]

Candy Shop - 50 CENT
OUTKAST - ROSES




Ah....nah. i can't even keep this going. His style was completely different unless he was riffing on an old standard type song.


So I'll pick one i love

Be my baby - The Ronettes
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground - THE Willie Nelson


Without the light fair or power ballads Its hard to categorize stuff he could've sung and suited well without changing the arrangement and perhaps even style drastically

I Witness - Black Sabbath
in fact a whole lot of Sabbath would've worked well. As they were somewhat of the same era and shared compositional similarities.

How about THE WRIT as well? (SABBATH) as sort of a DOTL PART II

The Great Pretender is superb ! - perfect for dear Fred.
'Black Betty' - Ram Jam. Now he would have ate this up and spat it out. In fact, it coulda been on Jazz .

I always wondered how nice it would be to hear Freddie sing, like Rod Stewart and other old star have done, classic songs like Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, My Way, We Meet Again, Can't Help Falling Love With You, etc, and maybe someone of these exist....