After reading Key_of_D’s post on getting $20 for playing Danny Boy, I got to thinking of some of the amazingly bad recorded versions of the song I have heard.
I have a version by Josef Locke the Irish Tenor on a CD somewhere that is so atrociously bad I wonder why it was ever commited to record in the first place. It gets my No1 vote.
Another really bad version of it is Johnny Cash’s …er…rendition.
Elvis (Presley of course) did a version that is just typical Elvis, he could be singing ‘Three blind mice’ and it would have just as much feeling.
Why do/did these people slaughter a perfectly good song by doing their versions of it?
Any others out here?
Worst I ever heard was sung by the best man at a wedding. This was a VERY classy affair:wedding in a beautiful church (St. Patrick’s, naturally) with the reception held in the banquet hall of the Emma Willard School.
You may have seen this beautiful school as the setting for The Scent Of A Woman, with Al Pacino. The bride and groom were piped across the middle of the campus by a bagpiper, and the catering was done by a certified master chef.. High class all around.
By the time the best man got up to render his musical “gift” to the happy couple, he’d had more than a few beverages. Now, this guy didn’t have a bad voice at all. In fact it was pretty good, but his sense of pitch was somewhat alcoholically impaired as he sang Danny Boy. Every verse. I had no idea that there are 47 verses to this song, or at least it seemed like there were 
. It was almost physically painful.
That’s hilarious.
I lost it during the second slide potato solo. The potatoist’s deeply serious expression, knitted brows, full beard, ragged hair flying in the wind, together with the elaborate costumes, against the absurdity of the instrument is pure genius.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I love it! “Danny Boy” is the song I hate most but this version is a joy to watch. I love the antlers mounted on the bricks and the way the singer looks at the bunch of roses. 
Very Pythonesque in it’s absurdity. A good laugh. 
Wonderful! Idiocy as it should be.
Actually, it’s a beautiful song, but like most great tunes (the Irish Washerwoman, Cooley’s, Haste to the Wedding, etc., etc.) it’s been sung/played into the ground and the cognoscenti have moved on to other pieces. However, I once heard a recording by Paul Robeson that was so beautiful it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up and I would be happy to listen to that rendition again any time.
There’s this. 
And this. 
Beats Keith Jarrett hands down 
the bass line is rockin’ on this one:
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=OFMq02Qp8Is
here is a different take on it:
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6yJmviLXg
oh my god:
Loved it! These are the ones I like. I really hate this song but when something like this or the potato slide whistle comes up I’ll listen/watch.
Is it mean to laugh at the guy with Tourette’s?
Where’s that Cher rendition someone posted recently?
Hey Pazziato,
Where the hell did you find my F***ck’n **** ST,F’n video of Danny Boy?
Hard to beat Animal, Sweedish chef, and Beaker. I watch that one now and then and it always cracks me up.
“Oh boy, oh boy, ooooh boy.”
Makes me wish for a Tonto, Tarzan, and Frankenstein version.
Absolutely hilarious" 
The singer and the guitarist isn´t that bad and the guy on the slide-potato makes as good a potato solos as anyone although his sense of pich seems to be impaired by the fact that he is playing on a POTATO!
It´s always reassuring to hear swedish sung as it should be sung - by a swedish chef.
Zoidberg did a version at Bender’s “funeral” one time. Doesn’t seem to be on youtube.