Movie Music Monday – Big Daddy

This month in 1999 that Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy opened in theaters. Recently this movie came up in a conversation my wife and I were having.

Our son Andrew will be there in October and he is at the age where he has meltdowns over things.  Those things are usually related to his safety (“No, you can’t put the screwdriver in the electrical socket!” “Buddy, you can’t hit the living room window with your monster truck!”)

There is a scene in the movie where the child that Adam Sandler wants to adopt wants to hear “the kangaroo song.”. He starts crying and yelling, “Kangaroo song! Kangaroo song!” until Sandler’s character yells, “ALRIGHT!” to stop the meltdown.  There are SO many times that we feel like Sandler’s character with Andrew!!

As difficult as Andrew can be, he can also be one of the sweetest kids!  Which ties into the cut from the Big Daddy Soundtrack featured today:  Sweet Child O Mine by Sheryl Crow.

The song, of course, was originally done by Guns N Roses.  I am obviously in the minority because I absolutely love her version of the song.  I think it is a great cover, but not everyone felt that way.

When it was released for the Big Daddy Soundtrack, it was also released as a bonus track on her third album The Globe Sessions. The website Ultimate Classic Rock actually features the song as part of their series of “Terrible Classic Rock Covers.  Taking it a step further readers of Rolling Stone Magazine named it the fourth worst cover song of all time!

That seems a little harsh to me.  I think Sheryl’s voice sounds great on her version.  The song only went to number 29 on the charts in the US, but it did earn her the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 2000. So there!