Are you being fukkin serious????

 

Have you actually listened to the material. Virtually every song she covered was close to being regarded as near definitive.... not least because she used an impressive set of musicians around the Washington area led by former Duke Ellington; Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler blues/jazz guitarist Chuck Brown.

 

Certainly Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie regards her cover of Songbird as the greatest cover of a Fleetwood Mac song; Sting said the same thing about her cover of Fields Of Gold; ditto Cyndi Lauper and Time After Time and Liza Minnelli said that Eva's version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow was superior to her mum's version...

 

The tragedy for her was that in any other decade she would have become famous but the 1990s were obsessed with fit attractive females who wore few clothes and completely obliterated songs by oversinging (coughs: Mariah; Whitney; Celine....).

 

If Norah Jones can sell over 30 million records and Katie Melua sell over 10 million records in the 00s then I'm certain a vocallist superior to either would have cleaned up.

 

Still I look forward to the imminent Robert Redwood produced movie .... I just hope he casts Jewel rather than Kirsten Dunst or Michelle Williams in the lead role to make it more authentic.

 

Beautiful voice but ultimitely it was death that made her famous, she was just a small time singer in an American state and had achieved nothing significant outside of the area till Terry Wogan plugged her which posthumously kick started her career

 

She was a high quality pub/club singer who had a sob story (death) and a famous DJ make her famous

Beautiful voice but ultimitely it was death that made her famous, she was just a small time singer in an American state and had achieved nothing significant outside of the area till Terry Wogan plugged her which posthumously kick started her career

 

She was a high quality pub/club singer who had a sob story (death) and a famous DJ make her famous

 

Yeah right, because all pub/club singers have the likes of the head of Sony Records worldwide Tommy Mottola and head of A&R at Atlantiic David Foster scouting the act in person on the recommendation of the likes of Mick Fleetwood and Richard Thompson don't they.....

But at the same time, Eva Cassid was not a songwriter - or not by the sound of things anyway. She wasn't going to leave any great written music behind as a legacy, just some well-sung, well-produced covers. Musicians are nearly always enthusiastic about great covers of their work, they're usually humble about the original versions, their own worst critics, if a cover is done well they'll nearly always go out in mad, rabid support of it.

 

You really can't put her in the same bracket as Jimi endrix, Nick Drake etc.

But at the same time, Eva Cassid was not a songwriter - or not by the sound of things anyway. She wasn't going to leave any great written music behind as a legacy, just some well-sung, well-produced covers. Musicians are nearly always enthusiastic about great covers of their work, they're usually humble about the original versions, their own worst critics, if a cover is done well they'll nearly always go out in mad, rabid support of it.

 

You really can't put her in the same bracket as Jimi endrix, Nick Drake etc.

 

Yeah thats what I meant in not such good terms, she was a technically good vocalist who could sing other people's songs beautifully, maybe glorified pub singer was a little harsh but what I meant was what you just explained

 

Would she win American Idol if it existed when she was alive ? absolutely, she sang other peoples songs great but she never left any great musical legacy of her own