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Music Appreciation

highplainsdem

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1. Love it! Iggy's cover is the best version ever of this song - better than Johnny 0'Keefe's 1958 original, better than

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2024, 03:22 PM

Aug 2024

the cover by Buddy Holly and the Crickets (with the drummer taking the lead vocal), better than Jerry Lee Lewis's cover.

Iggy, still wild and not slowing down in Denmark, June 17, 2016:

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Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One) 🎤 [View all] appalachiablue Aug 2024 OP

Love it! Iggy's cover is the best version ever of this song - better than Johnny 0'Keefe's 1958 original, better than highplainsdem Aug 2024 #1

Tx, I didn't know about the earlier versions. Still going strong, appalachiablue Aug 2024 #2

He's 77 now, was 11 when Johnny O'Keefe's original was a hit. Here's Iggy two months ago in California, full set highplainsdem Aug 2024 #3

Awesome show, great crowd. Iggy's amazing, 77 and still going. I was appalachiablue Aug 2024 #4

You should post that studio track. I love The Passenger. highplainsdem Aug 2024 #5