A question.
With lockdown extended, how best to pass the time?
With a competition to win a glittering €25 Golden Discs voucher is how!
To enter, simply tell me below what is your favourite duet.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my wooden chair.
Lines close at 6am.
Nick says: Good luck.
Please include video links if possible.
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Has to be Kylie and Jason – Especially for you
Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé – Barcelona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Eg-mWdDLc
This can be the only winner if there is any Dog in the World
Sonny and Cher. “I got you babe”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BERd61bDY7k
Mum used to have this on prepping the dinner when was a tot. Loved it.
Haunted – Shane MacGowan and Sinead O’Connor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qucy1RLc6J4
Aaaggghh, you beat me to it.
Love that tune Cian, it is so evocative, visceral + raw.
It would have been on my list if you hadn’t got there first
I much prefer the original version with Caít O’Ríordán. Each to their own.
+ V
Actually have the original 12″ version here
Somewhere
Dustin The Turkey & Ronnie Drew – Spanish Lady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMcbQHQyno
Oh hell Nick, you really raise the bar on occasion!
Do the Everly Brothers count as a duet? If not, never mind, they are still a wonderful force of music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeRPr-zKNwI&ab_channel=1989Melbourne
Surely there is a Muppet duet Slightly.
Sorry, got distracted making dinner, and it would have made the Swedish Chef proud :)
Excellent news. He is my very favourite gourmet.
Yes!
https://youtu.be/gJWo7Z5m6e8
Gravitas and beauty – with bags of heart and good old country soul – I never tire of listening to…
Willie and Paula Nelson, “Have You Ever Seen The Rain”.
https://youtu.be/whCdxooLDpY
Gotta be Nick Cave and Kylie’s Wild Rose
A masterpiece of duetting to be sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv7NEbacamQ
Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Diamonds on the Souls of her Shoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhHGYrzj2M
The Pogues and the Dubliners – the Irish Rover
Specifically this performance, I mean what genius thought up this idea? Presume the Pogue’s manager?
Anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZXnJ4UYh40
I remember that performance – one of the few times I watched the Late Late Show. It was fun watching how they all played off each other, and I think it is the only time I saw Ronnie in a suit! :)
Great selection!
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue: Where the Wild Roses Grow.
Beauty & the Beast set to music, 2 beautiful people with beautiful voices.
Inspired by the Appalachian murder ballad “Down in the Willow Garden”.
Incidentally the first public performance of this song took place in Cork in 1995.
https://youtu.be/rXA-9mWGCXk
Otis & Carla – it takes two. https://youtu.be/9e_l7YEFGrs
Marvyn & Tami – aint no mountain high enough. https://youtu.be/IC5PL0XImjw
written by a duet – ashford + simpson – is that a double duet –
Ike and Tina – I can’t believe what you say.. https://youtu.be/NcGwjiri-6g
Too much beautiful music to pick one favourite in my world any way
I love this part of Friday – thanks nick, I may be along with others later, hope you are ok with that.
Work away, Eamonn!
Thanking you Nick
Kirsty + Billy. https://youtu.be/-v4a6NaU5Rg
new england
Christy Moore & Shane MacGowan – Spancil Hill
– Gay on the ye, yeah’s.. and the wo-hoo’s!
Live on the Late Late Ding-Dong 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqlLJXYtRWg
… & One for the folks at 5am..
– The hangover already buzzing/raging from the night before…
Shane MacGowan & Nick Cave – Wonderful World
Live at Later… with Jools Holland 2005
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWHPK71RnCk
:-J
Falling Slowly Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (Oscar winning stuff)
I never warmed to that song! It is my pleasure to know Glen, but this song just never did anything for me.
Side note, if you see footage of him on the red carpet at the Oscars and he takes his phone out of his pocket, that was my friend Ger texting him that he was on the telly. We were in Messrs Maguire (when it was still such) at the time :-D
Rather partiel to this too:
https://youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc
Howe Gelb and Lisa Germano “Sand”
Gravel gruff Howe Gelb and dusky huskstress Lisa Germano sooth with this super sonic balm
https://youtu.be/DoOdXJVR7yQ
The great Dolly Parton and the late, great Kenny Rogers, Islands in the Stream.
Recorded in 1983, this song sees two country superstars, at the top of their game, unite to record this wonderful Bee Gee’s penned song. There is a chemistry here that makes this duet work which is in no small part due to the fact that they are good friends. Islands in the Stream, a song about two lovers who commit to each other regardless of the swirling and chaotic waters of life around them.
“I can’t live without you
If the love was gone
Everything is nothing
If you got no one
And you just walk in the night
Slowly losing sight of the real thing”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQW7I62TNOw
Ireland’s Industry
https://youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc
A real spine tingler from Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, don’t give up.
+1
anything by gram & emmylou.
We’ll sweep out the ashes in the morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK5791FtJ2g
Y’ever see and/or hear this? Sang by the wonderful Swedish duo First Aid Kit… Gorgeous song.
https://youtu.be/Hi5A9OCAyIk
Never seen it before, that was indeed beautiful. Cheers Rosette
I’m playing twice.
There’s this beauty: Sincerely, L Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI1jYtrcDQE
Love any duet with those two. An incredible pairing.
This one is my favourite:
https://youtu.be/gtwUyDPXROQ
Brilliant, I used to have that on cassette! Getting nostalgic now.
Tom Petty with Stevie Nicks.
It is not however the Tom/Stevie I am submitting, it is what can only be described as a duet with the audience.
It is without doubt the best example of artist-audience working together.
Not your standard “Now you sing it/ Say my name” nonsense, Tom really does duet, in fact he is bringing backing vocals to their performance.
A masterclass in how to bring the audience into the performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p_f7Df2-oM
There’s some fantastic ones out there – from the obscure to the comical (Dancing in the Street for example)
I’m suggesting the classic from Elton and Kiki Dee – An immensely catchy tune, up tempo and very much of its time.
“Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0qW9P-uYfM
Love ❤️ that
My absolute favorite is Under Pressure – Queen and Bowie….
Why…? Whyyyyy? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?! Lovlelovelovelove….
https://youtu.be/a01QQZyl-_I
Sorry for double entry…. browser crapped out during edit and am on the naughty step for some reason or another…. Under Pressure is my duet of choice…
Gary Numan and Leo Sayer “On Broadway”
https://youtu.be/qdyq9VGh1x4
that could be a match made somewhere other than heaven
Elton John and Kiki Dee, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”
https://youtu.be/z0qW9P-uYfM
Dollar: Who Were You With In The Moonlight
https://youtu.be/FAqb9ag_Llc
Enough bleach to fix any virus.
Lockup madness – I’m playing again!
Eminem + Steve Tyler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz1DUIdT92I
A classic.
George Harrison & Paul Simon – Here comes the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEgBMTMUanU
If this Lockdown has achieved anything it has achieved this
https://www.facebook.com/543439539/videos/10158408861939540/
Jimmy Smyth and Karrie O’Sullivan
You saw them listen back to their first take here on Wednesday
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2020/04/29/a-little-old-fashioned-but-thats-all-right/
This duet is no mistake or coincidence btw; Jimmy produced Karrie’s last three singles;
but this working partnership found its perfect moment when they combined like this
and created the most coveted synergy of 1+1 = 3
Very few things collide together as beautifully as this duet
And I can honestly say I can’t wait to hear more
enjoy it again folks
have a good one, xV everyone
I Knew You Were Waiting
George Michael and Aretha Franklin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxzQJaA228
I didn’t falter
I still believed
When the valley was low it didn’t stop me
I knew you were waiting.
I knew you were waiting for me
Love it
“Well, well” said the Rocking Chair by Dean Friedman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATvdTG-7N7chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATvdTG-7N7c
It’s not a duet, but I’m going for the sympathy vote from your charming wooden chair, of whom I’m a big fan.
And I do like the song, a lot.
PS: Lucky Stars is on the same album, and IS a duet. But it’s a bit cheesy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9RVPxxcuU
https://youtu.be/KSTIsZULYmY
Meatloaf n Cher, dead ringer for love
An absolute stonker of a tune..
Before Lil Nas and Billy ray https://youtu.be/w2Ov5jzm3j8
When the world was still young
Snoop Dogg and ~Willie Nelson My Medicine https://youtu.be/kvbIAv218Cc
Something Stupid by Frank and Nancy Sinatra of course. Dedicated to all the BS commentators. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO_Wa9OAsIg
Bravo! Give this man a voucher!
I saw a better version of this video before (trying to find it – will post if I do) and I think the look Nancy gives Frank when he does his dad dancing is hilarious :)
I just realised Nancy is wearing the same dress as in her video for Bang Bang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkKDSFYvxKU&ab_channel=John1948NineD
I like this because silly woman Grace Jones got laughed at when she arrived on stage to sing with Pavarotti- in her usual expressive appearance. Grace has a two-and-a-half octaves vocal range and can hold her own with any singer.
Grace Jones & Luciano Pavarotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vMOiVsAVZk
Ooooh. I do like me a bit o’ Grace :)
First time I saw Grace Jones was when she did the opening night in the then Hot Press venue HQ… Now, The Academy.
I was early, and headed up the aisle to sit in a front row seat. I onked my butt down for a second, when my mate said, “nah, hang back a few rows”.
A few songs in to the set, Grace came down and sat on the knee of the bloke in the seat I’d sat so briefly in, throwing her arms around him as she sang Pull Up To The Bumper.
To say I gave my mate a filthy look would be an understatement :0)
^plonked
Peter + Michael
https://youtu.be/8c-pl5APO5E
Walk and don’t look back.
Steve Swann(military surplus) + Chris Bowsher (rdf)
Sould Rebel. https://youtu.be/pOtoncVDaQM
It is a bit like waiting on a bus, none for ages then your mind is full to the top
Enjoy the weekend
Wilko Johnson + Roger Daltrey
Going back home
https://youtu.be/LeoKCJNI-k4
Two legends for the price of one
https://youtu.be/vJFuVhsemVs
strawberry switchblade – since yesterday
Amy Winehouse with Paul Weller
https://youtu.be/nxJGRii1sH0
Heard it through the grapevine
You know when a song comes along and you’re in the middle of something and you just stop…
and pause…
and listen…
and drift with the song until it is over…
The last song to do that for me is the recent Irish duet from Mick Flannery and the stunningly, wonderfully husky voiced Susan O’Neil, or ‘SON’, on the sumptuous track ‘Baby Talk’.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=XvmNxpKLyRI
Truth be told, I’m not even a fan of Mick Flannery’s stuff, but am besotted by Susan’s after seeing her in a small tent doing her solo stuff at EP a few years back (she also sings with King Kong Company and Propeller Palms).
But I’d pay to see a Mick Flannery gig if I knew she’d be there for this one song :)
They are a fabulous pairing on this.
Baby Talk –
[Verse 1: SON]
I feel the tide turning
I face my body to the sea
I really like the yearning
In your heart that’s not for me
Real isn’t a feeling, baby
Nearer than to thee
[Verse 2: SON]
Don’t do that baby voice
You ought to say it like a man
I need to hear it, boy
The way you tell it to a friend
Sure I’m feeling shy but
But at least I understand
[Pre-Chorus: SON]
How heavy the wind blows back to you again
No matter how close, it never goes
[Chorus: SON]
My baby take on his devil
My baby don’t sulk and sigh
My baby don’t run from trouble
My baby don’t wonder why
[Verse 3: Mick Flannery]
Write a story for me
In your mind and let it run
Lies and tides turning
Until the both of us are done
With gods in the darkness, baby
Just before the dawn
[Verse 4: Mick Flannery]
Don’t do that baby voice
That’s pretty rich of you to say
When you have been the one who’s
Busy hiding you away
And if real isn’t a feeling, baby
No one is a fake
[Pre-Chorus: Mick Flannery]
How heavy the wind blows back to you again
No matter how close, it never goes
[Chorus: Mick Flannery & SON]
My baby take on his devil
My baby don’t sulk and sigh
My baby don’t run from trouble
My baby don’t wonder why
[Pre-Chorus: Mick Flannery & SON]
How heavy the wind blows back to you again
No matter how close, it never goes
[Chorus: Mick Flannery & SON]
My baby take on his devil
My baby don’t sulk and sigh
My baby don’t run from trouble
My baby don’t wonder why
Beautifully said! And such a stunning song, thank you!
Pour a Cognac and light up a Gitane.
Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie & Clyde
https://youtu.be/kmOMJHAlvL0
I’m going to have another go :)
Another great pairing was Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and not just for one song but a whole album, ‘Raising Sand’ in 2007….
But what song to pick :)
I narrowed it to the lively fun of Gone Gone Gone and Please Read The Letter… and on a listen just now, I’m going with Please Read The Letter.
I’d forgotten how easily it touches me as it lifts the tempo into that first chorus…
No, no…
I didn’t nearly cry, there was something in me eye :0p’
https://youtu.be/rjs0p5FWpzc
This thread needs more Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra.
Take yr pick
Some Velvet Morning
https://youtu.be/Sb-SVPJM4L4
These Boots Were Made for Walking
https://youtu.be/_jkccFwd7L8
Sand
https://youtu.be/OGnsa-CiPkk
Or Sand as performed by OP8 and Lisa Germano
https://youtu.be/DoOdXJVR7yQ
I posted this for an Elvis comp, but it still stands Chris Isaak and LeAnn Rimes – Devil in Disguise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pha-fsuPk_I
Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – Come What May from Moulin Rouge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lGP78ckF_Q
I think this really works
Elbow and John Grant – Kindling
https://youtu.be/Z1XT7Iw4b3Y
On another note, it seems Lola or American Pie is up for round two. Any suggestions?
Don’t let the sun go down on me by Elton John and George Michael, 2 powerhouses at their finest
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RsKqMNDoR4o
I put that in, but no luck :-(
Slow Train to Dawn (TheThe) with Matt Johnson and Neenah Cherry. Massively underrated duet
Con, great call, infected still stands up and shouts. that is a big tune, i con cur
Did you go to see him in the Iveagh gardens Con? Great gig.
A beautiful song! Great selection :-)
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood
‘Some Velvet Morning’
https://youtu.be/Sb-SVPJM4L4
Cool song, great video.
Posted that earlier with other Lee & Nancy but it was deleted.
Primal Scream, Kate Moss – Some Velvet Morning
https://youtu.be/iR7l__Florc
David Bowie and Bing Crosbie – Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKoX0LMNlwI
Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters – Tonight You Belong To Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyinJyWUhas
60s soul
Jimmie & Vella – Yes Or No
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2xBj1RVGI
Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill with that feast of male mateyness that is the duet from The Pearl Fishers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYt2HlBuyI
Yes, it is she, the goddess,
who comes to unite us this day.
And, faithful to my promise,
I wish to cherish you like a brother!
It is she, the goddess,
who comes to unite us this day!
Yes, let us share the same fate,
let us be united until death!
Never was bromance so lushly and romantically paened.
Frank Sinatra & Tony Bennett – Theme from “New York, New York”
Frank (aged 78) & Tony (aged 67) still sounding at the top of their game in 1993 backed by a top-notch orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1zoKpuwUxU
Tone’s Lady Is a Tramp duet with Gaga was cool too.
https://youtu.be/ZPAmDULCVrU
How about a prime slice of gothic Americana?
The Handsome Family aka husband and wife, Brett and Rennie Sparks perform Far From Any Road, the song used as the theme tune for True Detective.
https://youtu.be/ZRPpCqXYoos
PSB + Dusty Springfield – What Have I Gone to Deserve This?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg
KLF and Tammy Wynette- Justified and Ancient
https://youtu.be/rliIvMwvHqE
Holly Throsby does a good line in duets
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
https://youtu.be/VQDeYzihgck
Mark Kozelek
https://youtu.be/0c-hTwYV8Qs
Bert Jansch (banjo) & John Redbourn (guitar) instrumental duet, “Waggoner’s Lad”, from Jansch’s 1966 album “Jack Orion”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlEvW4Zl_mg
you can hear where Jimmy Page took some of his influence
wow !
Françoise Hardy with Alain Delon – Modern Style
https://youtu.be/v1NwcUuvLXo
Another great weekend of music in store for me :-) Thanks all!
+ 1
Bodger- maybe you would think of running a comp on uplifting or positive songs?
What is your goto ‘cheer me up’ type thing- just an idea but we all could do with a bit of a lift right now eh?
Share a few favourites etc.
Renee and Renato – Save your love
https://youtu.be/ToRJqvP1FA4
Okay, maybe some things should not be recovered!
On paper a most unlikely pair
Maybe impossible
Dua Lipa & Antonio Bocelli
Introduced to me by the teenager
Dedicated to all the other
Unlikely yet – maybes
Still out there
And like watching this clip, what have ye to loose
https://youtu.be/Jd6HfKGTIIY
Ara’ feic it
Ye might as well have a peak at my own summer
party piece
Think I posted it before, but you can never get enough Suzi on a doss Saturday day
https://youtu.be/iGaF4tKUl0o
The most consistent
And yet unregarded body of duets – if the above is anything to go by anyway
Belongs to The Muppets and Sesame Street
I won’t list them all, but some lad has actually gone to the trouble and put them under this YouTube link
There’s the obvious, that are as everyday now as Peters n’ Lee, Caballé & Mercury and Begley & Lynam
But two not so, possibly
Anyone my age will know John Denver’s Garden Song word for word, and recall how it is we all know it so well and so fondly, so enjoy
Also, if you like the oddball quirk, and are easily entertained with simplicity, and see the genius in comedic timing, scroll down to George Burns
If that’s not yere another long weekend in lockdownsorted
Then ye deserve to stay miserable
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqzY4MGQTGExypwQU7IvzzcqZGZEtsyx2
I am unsure if this would be classed as a duet, however here it is. I am in no doubt as to the bigness of the tune though. – it is very big indeed i feel.
Horace Andy with Massive Attack
Hymn of the big wheel
https://youtu.be/0TrishCMmpc
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, ‘Elvis Presley Blues’
https://youtu.be/x2yg5uIDfU4
‘Lori Meyers’ by NOFX with Kim Shattuck (The Muffs)
https://youtu.be/g4BAF6R5Jlc
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – Shallow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJjwHAIny4
It never did anything for me. Maybe I have a thing against Oscar winning songs?
Gary Numan and Little Boots – Are Friends Electric
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7xZ2bsr1jQ
Gary Numan & Bill Sharpe (i.e., from Shakatak) – Change Your Mind
https://youtu.be/_ukJoKWPWpY
No more cans for you tonight.
A duo of duets.
Alexandra Leaving
Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson.
https://youtu.be/jbGsEV5yvns
Although Freddie White and Trish Hickey do a sublime version also.
https://youtu.be/oAzN5dFwLzM
Stephen Fry and Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow
https://youtu.be/_8Aytn3Fcu0