Tunes you feel SHOULD be covered as salsa songs

[KP-salsa]

After the recent thread discussing various English language salsa songs and cover versions, it set me thinking about what songs I would choose to try to cover if I was leader of a salsa band.

At the weekend on a long drive back from London, Let's Get it On by Marvin Gaye came on the mp3 player and it struck me that this would make a perfect salsa song. It's about the right speed, has fairly simple lyrics that you can emote with and it's got a fantastic groove. For some bizarre reason, I also would like to try Don't Stop Me Now by Queen as salsa, I feel it could be a real feel good dance tune.

What non-salsa songs do the rest of you want converted?

 

[AndrewD]

Lots of hip hop gets used during my lesson’s warm ups and cool downs – many of these could be given a more authentic salsa sound (rather than just being the right BPM to dance salsa to).

I feel slightly ashamed to admit that I like listening to Beyonce’s ‘Irreplaceable’ and you can salsa to it just fine. I even went as far as trying to mash it together with some salsa using some music editing software I have. The problem is that I don’t have a very good acapella for her vocals so it sounds slightly weird. Just messing around really – I think it would take an someone like me maybe 40 hours to produce something that was almost suitable for public consumption. I would need more sophisticated software to give it a professional feel.

 

[sweavo]

I have a desire to start a project doing just this, but unfortunately musicians of suitable caliber are mostly too serious to spend time on such frivolities.

I'd like a cha-cha of Aha's Cry Wolf, which would be the funniest, most left-field thing in the world to listen to;George Michael's Faith as a Son Montuno... there were others but I remember them not...

... which is probably for the best...

 

[KP-salsa]

I have a desire to start a project doing just this, but unfortunately musicians of suitable caliber are mostly too serious to spend time on such frivolities.

I'd like a cha-cha of Aha's Cry Wolf, which would be the funniest, most left-field thing in the world to listen to;George Michael's Faith as a Son Montuno... there were others but I remember them not...

... which is probably for the best...

Well, I doubt that I'm of a suitable calibre, but I'm willing to train on percussion and can find my way around a guitar and keyboards.

If you just want bods on stage to fill out percussion, count me in.

 

[sweavo]

I have a desire to start a project doing just this, but unfortunately musicians of suitable caliber are mostly too serious to spend time on such frivolities.

I'd like a cha-cha of Aha's Cry Wolf, which would be the funniest, most left-field thing in the world to listen to;George Michael's Faith as a Son Montuno... there were others but I remember them not...

... which is probably for the best...

Well, I doubt that I'm of a suitable calibre, but I'm willing to train on percussion and can find my way around a guitar and keyboards.

If you just want bods on stage to fill out percussion, count me in.

Hmm, we'll have to find a promoter who's happy for one corner of the venue to be given over to impromptu percussion workshops, I have nearly all the toys now, and have brought them out to play a few times. I'd love to see dancers learning the basics on guiro, cowbell, maracas, bongos, conga - the trouble is if you get someone with a cowbell and no sense of rhythm it's very hard for the dancers to ignore!