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adler Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: June 01 2011, 14:03 I was wandering in Youtube at lunch time at my work and noticed there are a lot of Moonlight Shadow covers. Different styles: metal, trance, classical, gothical, etc... Here's a partial list of MS versions I got in one hour: Annie Haslam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buucs8wFqhE Maggie Reilly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYKtyKI1bMY The Shadows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv7SgYNA_ec Suidakra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHIQQHLJsA Epinikion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTtFrv6BX6E Pathfinder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbjCU-7hDJw Skylark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz9GJfTk7k0 Deathlike Silence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R611JK3O_8 Elite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_zPENnt5Q Woods of Infinity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQYtykCW68 Italobrothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_msSa9AFbc Trance Allstars http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wv7gBxWDyM Missing Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gpgqp8oxQ Magica http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWrHBAmWN98 Spirit corpse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6smfJpUQ70 Mago de Oz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMikx1VbGew Kokia-Magolpy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKqjl64M1U Liz Bohlmann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5in4iRl3OpE Patricia Tapia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQjF9MY7Uyk Aselin Debison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz1Bu55EgFI The Monana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoksrJPUjdA Royal Philharmonic Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUfpHiuheYU And also 2 famous versions: E-rotic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDlKbvoHDNw Groove Coverage (4 different remixes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5YqorFOp_4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0df2IDaJAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2f--5vjU-E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8oxGTHkV5U I'm not counting small band covers and remixes. There's a lot of then in Youtube. Just search these names with "moonlight shadow" and you can see other videos: Lemon3 ottantallora VOCALOID2 Zum Horst the SIMPLY M@D Cachura Varez Band Day Hospital Demo P.O.BOX Seffaf Diatonica No More Pain Infected Affection Custody Moon Luisa Lozano Vson - a-01aaab Paula Simon Stepmania Hardlanger Drop D Lucy Not forgetting the fan version with Viper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCJ6_80LnM ...and you can go endless... Roberto Back to top

3Wheeler Group: Members Posts: 828 Joined: Aug. 2007 Posted: June 01 2011, 15:05 Popular little tune ain't it another one for the MO pension Fund. -------------- We're Flying Aeroflot, We've Got Reservations. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: June 02 2011, 07:33 "Moonlight Shadow" has got so many covers because it's Mike Oldfield's greatest hit ever. Even "To France" doesn't have as many... and check out how many YouTube videos are there for "Wrekorder Wrondo". -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: June 02 2011, 07:47 I never heard of "Wreckorder Wrondo" until today! Is it a B-side? I found this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDpi-i9-Vjg -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: June 02 2011, 07:57 @ wiga: I quoted that just as an example of a not-really-well-known Mike Oldfield piece which, as such, is unlikely to get covered by anyone. It's one of his "funny" instrumental tracks from the Seventies - as the description on YouTube says, it was originally part of a 4-track vinyl release called Take Four. The 12'' was printed on white vinyl. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

sEIGu Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: Feb. 2001 Posted: Aug. 09 2013, 18:41 Finally to mention: it's sung by the fans of german soccer club Schalke 04 - not as ml, but as "lalaalllalaaa... FC Schalke!" -------------- sEIGu Back to top

Nordlicht Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: Aug. 2013 Posted: Sep. 12 2013, 14:00 There is another version of moonlight shadow: Juliane Werdings (horrible to me) german cover version "Nacht voll Schatten"   Juliane Werding was 3 weeks on number one in the German TV show "Hitparade" with her cover version "Nacht voll Schatten" (1983-10-07 until 1983-10-20). (refer to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki....parade) =) I had to live in fear for the whole October 1983 with Mrs. Werdings version in the German radio stations instead of Mikes great original song. Even today I tremble with fear whenever the first guitar chords of "Moonlight Shadow" are played in a german radio station if it would be Juliane Werding and not Maggie Reilly's great voice to come. If you want to get the "real feeling", please have a look at youtube Youtube Nacht voll Schatten But be prepared   --- Edith says: ok, I'd just seen (heard) above the "viper fan version". If you survived that "Viper" version, Mrs. Werding will sound like a nightingale. Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1351 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Sep. 21 2013, 10:04 I watched nearly all the covers above, and 99% are awful. I didn't think that the song would be that hard to cover, but the only one I can listen to more than once is The Shadows version. Back to top

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