A friend alerted me that Adam Lambert on American Idol sang Universal Hall Pass’s arrangement of Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” a couple weeks ago. A cover of a cover? Aha! Apparently Ryan Seacrest thought it was a version of the song by Chris Cornell. Oops. I finally checked out Adam’s version on YouTube and it was really, really bad. So bad I don’t think I should even link to it.
If you want to hear Melissa Kaplan of Universal Hall Pass’s outstanding version of “Ring of Fire”, listen to it in the playlist below of eight covers. Or download the MP3 from the Universal Hall Pass website. Melissa was the singer of one of my favorite Boston bands, Splashdown.
Photo Credit: I’m not sure who took this photo. It’s an old press photo when Melissa was in Splashdown.
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3 responses to “Universal Hall Pass’s cover of “Ring of Fire” on American Idol”
Sooz, that is a good version! I heard Mingo Saldivar do it at the Lowell Folks festival a few years ago and his version was dynamite!
A search has turned up this version in YouTube which doesn’t quite do it justice but has aspects that indicate what could be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI_jzuN7ac8
Enjoy!
Nice! Thanks for sharing that video. I’ve never heard of him.
Oh Adam, just one of a couple infamous performances he did this season. Overall the guy’s pretty decent, but his material was weak.