New Sense-8-ions: Best of the Quarantunes!

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"Fire & Ice" - Pat Benatar cover by Renee & Bob

(Renee Savoy Willoughby & Bob Gilmartin, July 2020)

Kicking off the show,

that was a fabulous cover

of Pat Benatar's 1981 hit

"Fire And Ice" sung so

very nicely in isolation

by Jersey girl Renee

Savoy Willoughby,

a veteran songstress

who performs with

the Hoboken based

wedding cover band

Groove. Renee was

accompanied on

guitar by Bob Gilmartin.

Hi everyone! As you recall I'm Will Gorski,

a Chicago police officer on the science fiction

drama Sense8. A few weeks ago you met four

of my friends who were presenters for Shady's

salute to diversity. Today I'm joining the three

remaining sensates to bring you the Best of the Quarantunes - great performances by artists all

over the world recorded during this challenging

year of social distancing, hunkering down and

sheltering in place...fine entertainers like this

next act from Adelaide, South Australia. It's singer/songwriter Kat Jade and her band

featuring Michael Bates on co-lead vocals.

They perform a rendition of a Motown song

originally waxed into a hit by Marvin Gaye

and Tammi Terrell and later by Diana Ross.

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Kat, a jazz, pop and blue-eyed soul singer, was a contestant on the Australian

version of The Voice, and you are about to see and hear why. Here are Kat,

Michael and the band doing-- "Ain't No Mountain High Enough!"

"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

live cover by Kat Jade (July 2020)

Hello, I'm Wolfgang Bogdanow. If your memory is intact you know that

I am a locksmith and safe-cracker living in Berlin, Germany. I'm taking

you to England now for another song cover released by singer and

musician Amy Slattery, another collaboration with her dad Gerry.

This time the duo covers the 1974 chart-topping debut single

by the English pop glam band The Rubettes.

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Bubblegum's the word as Amy & Gerry do-- "Sugar Baby Love!"

"Sugar Baby Love" - The Rubettes

cover By Amy & Gerry Slattery (June 2020)

Back for another go round are the

delightful Romanian duo of singing sweetie Beatrice Florea and guitar

hero Andrei Cerbu. Direct from

Andrei's garage, here they are

covering the 1979 Bob Seeger

hit that went on to become a

popular music standard.

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Tom Cruise did an iconic lip sync
in Risky Business, and here are
Beatrice and Andrei with
"Old Time Rock N Roll!"

"Old Time Rock N Roll" - Bob Seger

cover by Beatrice Florea & Andrei Cerbu (July 2020)

My name is Capheus but my friends

(and enemies) call me "Van Damn"

because I am the world's biggest fan

of Jean-Claude Van Damme. As you

may remember, I am also a minibus

driver in Nairobi, Kenya. We are circumnavigating the globe in

this Quarantunes program, and I

would like to introduce Russia born
YouTube star Alyona Yarushina.

Alyona performs a cover of the
1968 hit by Janis Joplin and her band

Big Brother & the Holding Company.

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It's a song originally recorded by

Erma Franklin, a top 10 R&B hit

for Aretha's sister in late '67--

Piece Of My Heart!"

"Piece Of My Heart" - Janis Joplin/Big Brother And the Holding Company

cover by Alyona Yarushina of the Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy

Now meet another rising star, Ukrainian YouTuber Victory Vizhanska. In the

delightful iso-performance you are

about to see, Victory adopts the

style of her idol Marilyn Monroe

as she sings "I Never Met A Wolf

Who Didn't Live To Howl," a song

from the 2012/2013 American

musical drama TV series Smash.

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Watch as this charming carrot top

declares Victory over quarantine!

"I Never Met A Wolf Who Didn't Live To Howl"

 - from 2012/2013 musical drama TV series Smash - 

cover by Victory Vizhanska (July 2020)

Hello again! I'm Riley "Blue" Gunnarsdóttir, an Icelandic DJ living in London.

I'm sure you remember my series of Riley's Raves on the old blog Shady Dell

Music & Memories. I have returned and so has Anne Reburn, the talented

singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer originally from Oklahoma now

living in Los Angeles. In this shot-at-home video, Anne does her version

of "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" best known as the top 5

hit by Betty Everett in the spring of 1964. Here's Anne!

"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" - Betty Everett/Cher

cover by Anne Reburn (July 2020)

We hope you enjoyed Best of the

Quarantunes - homemade cover

performances by exciting music

makers around the world. Earlier

in the show you met Kat Jade,

a talented young singer in

Adelaide, South Australia.

To play us off, here's a

wildly popular band in

the same city that Kat

knows and works with.

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You met them earlier this year, HSCC - The Hindley Street

Country Club, and they're back with "Physical," the Olivia

Newton-John single that spent 10 weeks at number one on

the U.S. chart in late 1981 and early '82. Now for Will,

Wolfgang and Capheus, I'm Riley "Blue." So long!

"Physical" - Olivia Newton-John cover

by The Hindley Street Country Club (July 2020)