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Hi Marc, we'll see how many simultaneous answers come up here.

Awhile back, a conversation drifted to certain songs that only a fool would cover, songs that have a particular version so iconic that it trumps all other attempts. Some of us (like Big Jim and I) claimed there is no such song--there is always another compelling version to be made, somewhere, somehow.

Well, that led us to a challenge...we decided to choose an "uncoverable" song, and we would see how many of us could cover it, submit them to the OurStage.com Cover Bands competition in March, and also vote here on the one we liked best.

Well, in the end, after considering songs like "Imagine" and "Stairway to Heaven" and "Bohemian Rhapsody"...somehow or other we voted for "Nowhere Man".

Most of us agreed that this is not so difficult to cover, but what the heck. So that's underway. But now we're thinking it would be an excellent exercise to choose a song by a JPF member and try the same thing. Lots could be learned and a lot of fun could be had.

I'll find the old links and pop them into this post in a moment.

Okay, here is the poll thread:

http://www.jpfolks.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/680595/page/2#Post680595

Here's the bigger, earlier poll of all songs offered up:

http://www.jpfolks.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/679683/page/3#Post679683

Yet another thread where we talked about supposedly uncoverable songs:

http://www.jpfolks.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/679156/page/3#Post679156

And the thread on which the idea happened:

http://www.jpfolks.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/678957/page/3#Post678957

It all came about when member Tom Tracy mentioned that the little British girl who sang "Imagine" should have had a song without so much darned baggage, like a big old JOHN LENNON stamp tattooed to here forehead...