Foreign Versions of American Country Classics
Here's a German version of Stand By Your Man.
It's on this mix CD of foreign covers of country songs which you should download immediately! Free music! Other highlights include A Boy Named Sue
in French, Sixteen Tons
in Portuguese, Take Me Home, Country Roads
in Romanian, and much more weirdness.
My vote for the strangest goes to the Thai version of Your Cheatin' Heart,
half of which is sung chipmunk-style, as in Alvin and the Chipmunks. Say what?! I had already heard it because it's on Volume 2 of the excellent three-disc Thai Beat A Go-Go collection
Black Superman (Muhammad Ali),
Day Tripper,
Hank Williams' Kaw-Liga,
and the craziest-awesome version of Hit the Road Jack
that you'll ever hear.
Thai Beat A Go-Go, Vol. 2
Thai Beat A Go-Go, Vol. 3
Bonus: This is not on the country covers download, but I have to share it.
It's a Hebrew version of Loretta Lynn's You're Looking at Country.
Posted by Jessie Bluejay on Monday, February 22, 2010