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Topic: Great duets

I just want to see how many good duets, singing or guitar, we can come up with.  This one is one of my favorite twosomes, but there are many more.  What can you come up with?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE

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Re: Great duets

It's easy to forget how good Jerry Reed is with the whole Smokey and the Bandit thing. And of course Chet Atkins is no slouch either!!!!!! Thanks for the link.

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Re: Great duets

Cool topic bensonp. It's funny, that Chet / Jerry was the first one to pop in my mind. There are many, many great guitar duets featuring Clapton plus anyone, but for this post, I'll offer some sappy songs that duets seem suited for.

First one not so sappy, but I always liked it. Carly & James doing Mockingbird live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeOqD3uMIRs

This one, my wife says is "our song" - this version, not Smokey's. The soundtrack was pretty new when we met and after a topdown cruise in my '67 mustang that evening it seems appropriate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_HaoZ73wWg

And this may be the best sappy duet of all time.  Nat and Natalie Cole "Unforgettable"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53ith7bNN8w

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Re: Great duets

You do kind of forget Jerry Reed playing good guitar with Smokiee and the Bandit.  And James Taylor,  that was a good one.  Here's another wierd combo, but great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHp5JnSYHf4

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Re: Great duets

A couple i like   www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSjRggiSBrU   guitar duet

and a vocal duet www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

Not much into sappy duets tho

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Re: Great duets

I've never seen the SRV one before.  He was one of my favorites.  Good find.

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Re: Great duets

A few more classics popped into my head last night.

Satchmo and Ella - "Summertime"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSs4HkYFRMQ

Satch and BBBBB Bing - Gone Fishin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuOavb_Vy8

A strange combo Bing and Ziggy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGelQhYY85c

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Re: Great duets

I forgot ziggy was david bowie and I posted the duet with bing crosby little drummer boy so after I clicked on the link for bing and ziggy it was the same as mine lol so I removed my post no sense in having two of the same smile

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A few more classics popped into my head last night.

Satchmo and Ella - "Summertime"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSs4HkYFRMQ

Satch and BBBBB Bing - Gone Fishin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuOavb_Vy8

A strange combo Bing and Ziggy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGelQhYY85c

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Re: Great duets

One of my favorite albums is "Neck and Neck" by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler. 

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Re: Great duets

Eric Clapton & Duane Allman acoustic guitars on "Mean Old World." Great duet.

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Re: Great duets

Those are all good ones.  Zurf, I have Neck n Neck,  it is great.  How about Dylan and Baez?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ967V0jBnA

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Re: Great duets

a few duets i like are:

George Michael and elton John with " dont let the sun go down on me"

and not so much a duet but  the dubliners and the pogues with " irish rover" well it is a duet, the two singers are singing with the two bands backing.

Kenny Rogers and canny remember with "islands in he stream"

and my favourite all time duet that lots will not know is
Eric Bogle and John Munro called " a reason for it all" Eric sings the verse about a woman lying dead in her home for months and singing how there must be a reason for everything. The John sings the chorus's ( all different chorus's) singing how there is no reason it is just the way things are, then at the end the two are singing completely different verses.
It really is worth a listen to if ye can find it.
I could not find any on youtube but here are the lyrics.
http://ericbogle.net/lyrics/lyricspdf/a … ritall.pdf


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Re: Great duets

Would that be the divine Dolly Parton ? smile

upyerkilt wrote:

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Kenny Rogers and canny remember with "islands in he stream"

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Russell_Harding wrote:

Would that be the divine Dolly Parton ? smile

upyerkilt wrote:

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Kenny Rogers and canny remember with "islands in he stream"

I thought it was but if I said it was her I would have been wrong ,lol

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Re: Great duets

I just love it when a bunch of guys get together and have fun.
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Re: Great duets

if anyones heard of Jason Mraz and Colbie Calaite they do a duet called 'lucky'
its rlly pretty

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Re: Great duets

I kind of like some of the oddball duets.  People you wouldn't think would sound good togther.  They just seem to have fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxR5zh4tVCY

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Re: Great duets

Sorry, I had to add one more I found.  Now that's jammin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld_yKbkwtk0

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Re: Great duets

Bringing it back out of the closet.  Here's another great duet by two great people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMxJROHInM

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Re: Great duets

Some I like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoa04C74_k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63A__INJecI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_F7fl7F8nU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYXUU_WW … re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOTbg39-I5Q

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Re: Great duets

One of the best duets i've seen is Bryan Adams and Jason Aldean as seen on CMT Crossroads. If i ever find an album of it it will be mine. I think the generation gap and genre mix of those two was meant to be.  It is just awesome.

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Re: Great duets

Parton and Wagoner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcIj7SvDztI

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Re: Great duets

The combination of Brad Paisley and Keith Urban on Making A Band is really good. Two of today's country musics best pickers together.

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Re: Great duets

Willie and Waylon, a hard combo to beat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVM2MgJnwgc

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Re: Great duets

Oh, Waylon and Willie.  They were good together.

Here's another oldy fron Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm3K2lHH … re=related

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