Camp Covers of Songs that were already Camp

[Satchmo Distel]

Pet Shop Boys' "Go West" is 'camp' in the sense of having 'knowing', ironic value but so is the original. Any other examples?

[Lang Spoon]

Is the Shatner stuff “camp” or just shit?

Mike Flowers turned shit into camp shit. But then I reread the title.

[Benjm]

Pet Shop Boys' "Go West" is 'camp' in the sense of having 'knowing', ironic value but so is the original.

I dunno, if anything the Boys' version is more straightforwardly emotional than the original. It is always in their live set and generates a genuinely moving sense of aspiration and community.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

yeah, also I don't know how Camp PSB are. Neil Tennant seems to be far too cool to be properly camp.

[Jah Womble]

Generally speaking, perhaps, but that moment absolutely was. It was so overblown and ridiculous that I almost liked them for a moment.

One or more of Erasure's Abba covers might well fit here, but I'm not sure I want to revisit them to confirm it.

[wittoner]

Bowies's version of "Let's spend the night together"? Although, if anything, The Stones original was a bit camper.

[WOM]

Divine's version of Walk Like A Man is certainly campier than the Frankie Valli original, but a bit more 'manly' at the same time.

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Not sure of its campness, but A Camp - a side project of The Cardigans - covered Bowie's 'Boys Keep Swinging'. Hirsute Pursuit also covered it, but that version is incredibly uncamp.