Today I bring you the latest in the intermittent "Single Song Sunday" series, in which you gets lots of versions of the same song. On a Sunday. This time round it is Tim Hardin's much-covered classic, "If I Were A Carpenter".
This is also doubling as the Christmas post. What, you may ask, have loads of versions of "If I Were A Carpenter" got to do with Christmas? Well, Jesus was raised by a carpenter, and we have managed to dig out TWELVE different versions - one for each day of Christmas. That's good enough for me.
We'll start off with the original, followed by the two hit versions by Bobby Darin and the Four Tops, before gradually descending into chaos. Country, soul, heavy rock, reggae, sax solo, Czech pop - it's all here.
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Tim Hardin
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Bobby Darin
"If I Were A Carpenter" - The Four Tops
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Johnny Cash & June Carter
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Bert Jansch
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Lee Dorsey
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Chicken Shack
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Emmylou Harris & Johnny Hallyday
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Winston Groovy
"If I Were A Carpenter" - King Curtis
"If I Were A Carpenter" - Los Buenos
"Kdybych já byl kovářem" - Petr Spálený
We'll be back between Christmas and New Year with a brief "Best of 2012". Until then, on behalf of all us at 27 Leggies Productions, let me join with some other Carpenters in wishing all our readers a very soppy Christmas.
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Enjoyed your Carpenter collection. Have you heard the version by Bob Seger from his lp "Smokin' O.P.s"? It is a very good take. Cheers and thanks for your postings!
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