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Well, this has been a rough month for March of the Covers, no idea why I had so much trouble staying on top of it. I think next year may be the last one I do, simply because I'm struggling to come up with a month's worth of covers, heck, this might wind up being the last one, we'll just have to see.
Any how, for this last one, how about The Donnas cover Bachman-Turner Overdrive on Rolling Down the Highway? From the soundtrack of Herbie Fully Loaded, a dog of a movie (they managed to release two bad Herbie movies months apart, one an ABC family movie with a great cast and crap story, and this one with a crap cast and an almost good story, the original story badly updated to modern times really). Well, at least it gave us a good soundtrack.https://youtu.be/vdVhqrY3fiU?si=WHqHM4FjIz4x9q5g
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Well, this has been a rough month for March of the Covers, no idea why I had so much trouble staying on top of it. I think next year may be the last one I do, simply because I'm struggling to come up with a month's worth of covers, heck, this might wind up being the last one, we'll just have to see.
Any how, for this last one, how about The Donnas cover Bachman-Turner Overdrive on Rolling Down the Highway? From the soundtrack of Herbie Fully Loaded, a dog of a movie (they managed to release two bad Herbie movies months apart, one an ABC family movie with a great cast and crap story, and this one with a crap cast and an almost good story, the original story badly updated to modern times really). Well, at least it gave us a good soundtrack.https://youtu.be/vdVhqrY3fiU?si=WHqHM4FjIz4x9q5g
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Ok, time for today's cover, and its actually an interesting one, Rosanne Cash's cover of Tenessee Flat Top Box? Who did the original? Her father, Johnny Cash, though she didn't know it at the time, she had recorded it at the suggestion of her husband, and assumed it was a public domain song.
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Ok, time for today's cover, and its actually an interesting one, Rosanne Cash's cover of Tenessee Flat Top Box? Who did the original? Her father, Johnny Cash, though she didn't know it at the time, she had recorded it at the suggestion of her husband, and assumed it was a public domain song.
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Whoops, was so busy on so many things yesterday that we forgot to post a song. While the movie Black Dog was crap, the soundtrack was awesome, lots of great covers on their, but today we're focusing on Rhett Akins cover of Eddie Rabbit's Drivin' My Life Away.
https://youtu.be/auePWW840Qo?si=PEuN_QJ5WMapw-sN
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Whoops, was so busy on so many things yesterday that we forgot to post a song. While the movie Black Dog was crap, the soundtrack was awesome, lots of great covers on their, but today we're focusing on Rhett Akins cover of Eddie Rabbit's Drivin' My Life Away.
https://youtu.be/auePWW840Qo?si=PEuN_QJ5WMapw-sN
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You know, the really fun part of cover songs is finding out that some of your favorite songs are covers. Move It On Over is a great George Thorogood song, something I found because my dad really loved the band, but did you know it was a cover? Yeah, the original is by Hank Williams, yes, Hank Williams the first, and a quite good country song, but I don't think I could've imagined this as a old school country song if'n I hadn't heard it.
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You know, the really fun part of cover songs is finding out that some of your favorite songs are covers. Move It On Over is a great George Thorogood song, something I found because my dad really loved the band, but did you know it was a cover? Yeah, the original is by Hank Williams, yes, Hank Williams the first, and a quite good country song, but I don't think I could've imagined this as a old school country song if'n I hadn't heard it.
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Alright, lets rock, how about some Good Times, Bad Times? Originally a Led Zepplin song, God Smack did a pretty good job covering it, no?
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Alright, lets rock, how about some Good Times, Bad Times? Originally a Led Zepplin song, God Smack did a pretty good job covering it, no?
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Ok, today's cover is going to be an easy one, more country, a country cover of a country song about driving a truck, what could be more country than that? Yep, no rock cover of a country song or country cover of a rock, nothing but pure truck driving country.
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Ok, today's cover is going to be an easy one, more country, a country cover of a country song about driving a truck, what could be more country than that? Yep, no rock cover of a country song or country cover of a rock, nothing but pure truck driving country.
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Ok, lets get up to date on the covers with Air That I Breathe by Hank Williams Jr. I'm not actually sure which version I'm familiar with, I mean I have this one in my collection, but considering who wrote it, Albert Hammond in 72 who released it on his debut album It Never Rains In California, and while I don't recognize his name, I do recognize that album title as a song I've heard, so there's a fair chance I've heard it. And then there was the Evrly Brothers cover in 73, we all know them, followed by a Hollies cover in 74 produced by Alan Parsons, yes, that Alan Parsons, there's a lot of versions I could've and prolly did hear before this version. To make things even crazier, it was covered in 98 by Simply Red, a band name that sounds familiar, though I can't say from what song.
So, yeah, lots of artists that I know and like have done this one, so which was the first I became familiar with is definitely a hard one to say, but they're all good. Kinda funny, the Wikipedia article lists other covers as well as the important ones, and this one doesn't show up any where.
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Ok, lets get up to date on the covers with Air That I Breathe by Hank Williams Jr. I'm not actually sure which version I'm familiar with, I mean I have this one in my collection, but considering who wrote it, Albert Hammond in 72 who released it on his debut album It Never Rains In California, and while I don't recognize his name, I do recognize that album title as a song I've heard, so there's a fair chance I've heard it. And then there was the Evrly Brothers cover in 73, we all know them, followed by a Hollies cover in 74 produced by Alan Parsons, yes, that Alan Parsons, there's a lot of versions I could've and prolly did hear before this version. To make things even crazier, it was covered in 98 by Simply Red, a band name that sounds familiar, though I can't say from what song.
So, yeah, lots of artists that I know and like have done this one, so which was the first I became familiar with is definitely a hard one to say, but they're all good. Kinda funny, the Wikipedia article lists other covers as well as the important ones, and this one doesn't show up any where.
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Alright, another one a day late, but better late than never. Yeah, this year is country heavy, but ain't nothing wrong with country? I ain't never seen a problem with it, and so today's is I Ain't Never, originally written by Webb Pierce and Mel Tillis in 1959, recorded by Pierce in 59, and Tillis in 72, or rather that's the recording everyone knows, he'd previously recorded it in 62. This version is a more recent one by BR5-49, a now defunct country/alt country/roackabilly/country rock band
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Alright, another one a day late, but better late than never. Yeah, this year is country heavy, but ain't nothing wrong with country? I ain't never seen a problem with it, and so today's is I Ain't Never, originally written by Webb Pierce and Mel Tillis in 1959, recorded by Pierce in 59, and Tillis in 72, or rather that's the recording everyone knows, he'd previously recorded it in 62. This version is a more recent one by BR5-49, a now defunct country/alt country/roackabilly/country rock band
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Ok, still not managing to keep up with this year's promise of a cover song a day. Catching up with yesterday, how about Walk Away? Originally written by Joe Walsh, yes, that Joe Walsh, for the hard rock band James Gang. Tesla's cover is a fairly straight cover, after all they too are a hard rock band, but its not like there's many covers of this song, which is a shame because its a great song.
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Ok, still not managing to keep up with this year's promise of a cover song a day. Catching up with yesterday, how about Walk Away? Originally written by Joe Walsh, yes, that Joe Walsh, for the hard rock band James Gang. Tesla's cover is a fairly straight cover, after all they too are a hard rock band, but its not like there's many covers of this song, which is a shame because its a great song.
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Alright, with this one, March of the Covers is back on track. And what is this? Why just Suspicious Minds, yep, the Elvis song… As a country duet. Not real fond of this, but seriously, could never have imagined this song as a country cover, so as we said up front, even if'n we don't like it, it gets on the list if it stands out, and this certainly stands out. If I had to pick a version I like, prolly Dwight Yoakam edges out Elvis for me.
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Alright, with this one, March of the Covers is back on track. And what is this? Why just Suspicious Minds, yep, the Elvis song… As a country duet. Not real fond of this, but seriously, could never have imagined this song as a country cover, so as we said up front, even if'n we don't like it, it gets on the list if it stands out, and this certainly stands out. If I had to pick a version I like, prolly Dwight Yoakam edges out Elvis for me.
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Ok, still getting the march on track, and lets go weird, cover of Oingo Boingo's Dead Man's party any one?
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Ok, still getting the march on track, and lets go weird, cover of Oingo Boingo's Dead Man's party any one?
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Ok, the march kinda stumbled, didn't it? RL has been stomping on me as my recent post showed, so lets start getting caught up with a lazy cover. Definitely lazy, no real changes to it, no change to the lyrics, even refers to himself as a girl at one point, the ultimate in lazy
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Ok, the march kinda stumbled, didn't it? RL has been stomping on me as my recent post showed, so lets start getting caught up with a lazy cover. Definitely lazy, no real changes to it, no change to the lyrics, even refers to himself as a girl at one point, the ultimate in lazy
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So what's today's song? Stand By Me, which we all know, but have you heard it by John Lennon? Yeah, I was a little surprised to hear this version, doesn't really feel like a song I can see him doing, but then again, I really don't know his catalogue all that well, so…
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Alright, could've sworn I shared this one last year, but my index says nope. The original is by Leo Sayer, and he would perform it dressed pierrot clown, and is good, but there's just something about the Three Dog Night version that makes it the definitive version in my mind. And no, this isn't the same song as the Queen song of the same name.
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Alright, could've sworn I shared this one last year, but my index says nope. The original is by Leo Sayer, and he would perform it dressed pierrot clown, and is good, but there's just something about the Three Dog Night version that makes it the definitive version in my mind. And no, this isn't the same song as the Queen song of the same name.
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Ok, and for tonight we have an unexpected cover, Stone Temple Pilots doing an acoustic rock/grunge cover of Led Zepplin's Dancing Days. Not as good as the original, but its a pretty cool cover nonetheless
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Ok, and for tonight we have an unexpected cover, Stone Temple Pilots doing an acoustic rock/grunge cover of Led Zepplin's Dancing Days. Not as good as the original, but its a pretty cool cover nonetheless
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Ok, I always love a cover where I wind up going 'what do you mean that's a cover?' Today gives us one, I'm sure many of us here remember this synth pop song, right?
Would you believe that its a cover of a 20 year old pop-soul song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David? Yeah, really, one of those how did this happen?
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Ok, I always love a cover where I wind up going 'what do you mean that's a cover?' Today gives us one, I'm sure many of us here remember this synth pop song, right?
Would you believe that its a cover of a 20 year old pop-soul song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David? Yeah, really, one of those how did this happen?
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So today's song is an interesting one, this is the version I know from the a NASCAR CD, Runnin' Wide Open, basically a compilation album full of car related songs. What I didn't know and surprised me when SXM played the original is that this is a Bruce Springsteen song. I swear, Springsteen is like Prince, his name turns up in the most unexpected places as a songwriter and/or the original recorder of songs.
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So today's song is an interesting one, this is the version I know from the a NASCAR CD, Runnin' Wide Open, basically a compilation album full of car related songs. What I didn't know and surprised me when SXM played the original is that this is a Bruce Springsteen song. I swear, Springsteen is like Prince, his name turns up in the most unexpected places as a songwriter and/or the original recorder of songs.
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Extra tired today after a 9 hour day, so lets make today's music a quicky. This is actually the version that introduced me to the song, but I have since heard the original by the Band, and like them equally, which is rather a strike against this cover, as in my mind it really doesn't do anything special, its just fine, and nothing else.
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Extra tired today after a 9 hour day, so lets make today's music a quicky. This is actually the version that introduced me to the song, but I have since heard the original by the Band, and like them equally, which is rather a strike against this cover, as in my mind it really doesn't do anything special, its just fine, and nothing else.
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Oh y'all thought I'd forgotten March of the Covers, or given up due to the lack of feedback? Perish the thought.
Not a lot to say about this song, its a neat reworking of the original song, and in fact Roberta Flack the original singer would perform it with the Fugees, although their version had Lauryn Hill on vocals originally.
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Oh y'all thought I'd forgotten March of the Covers, or given up due to the lack of feedback? Perish the thought.
Not a lot to say about this song, its a neat reworking of the original song, and in fact Roberta Flack the original singer would perform it with the Fugees, although their version had Lauryn Hill on vocals originally.
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Time for more music, right? Cause the March never ends.
Not much to say about this one, ska bands will cover just about anything, so how about Come on Eileen? Yeah, who had that on their bingo card?
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Time for more music, right? Cause the March never ends.
Not much to say about this one, ska bands will cover just about anything, so how about Come on Eileen? Yeah, who had that on their bingo card?
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Ok, here we are, day 11 and another cover for y'all. Everyone knows Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor, right? Actually hers is a cover, in fact its the third version, Prince wrote it for a band he backed, The Family, and it was on their debut album, plus naturally he recorded it. But here's a different take on it from Chris Cornell.
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Ok, here we are, day 11 and another cover for y'all. Everyone knows Nothing Compares 2 U, Sinead O'Connor, right? Actually hers is a cover, in fact its the third version, Prince wrote it for a band he backed, The Family, and it was on their debut album, plus naturally he recorded it. But here's a different take on it from Chris Cornell.
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Ok, another late one, another almost missed, and tomorrow's will likely be on the late side as I'll be working early and long. Any how, Desperados Waiting For the Train, a song I know from the Highwaymen, the country super group, but was written in 1973, and has been recorded a lot, this particular version I'm not even sure when its from.
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Ok, another late one, another almost missed, and tomorrow's will likely be on the late side as I'll be working early and long. Any how, Desperados Waiting For the Train, a song I know from the Highwaymen, the country super group, but was written in 1973, and has been recorded a lot, this particular version I'm not even sure when its from.
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Almost forgot to post today's cover, was laying in bed and remembered, so here it is, day 9. Not much to say about this one, was originally done by Bruce Springsteen, and only a couple words were changed in this, what is prolly the best known version.
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Almost forgot to post today's cover, was laying in bed and remembered, so here it is, day 9. Not much to say about this one, was originally done by Bruce Springsteen, and only a couple words were changed in this, what is prolly the best known version.
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Day 8, can we keep this up? Well, we can definitely keep rocking, with I Need A Lover, a song I associate with Pat Benatar, don't we all? However it was written and first recorded by Johnny Mellencamp on his first album in Australia, but not released until his second album in the US.. If'n that name sounds familiar, yep, its the name John Cougar Mellencamp originally went by. I've heard his version, but I still can't see anyone else but her singing it, and it was on her debut album.
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Day 8, can we keep this up? Well, we can definitely keep rocking, with I Need A Lover, a song I associate with Pat Benatar, don't we all? However it was written and first recorded by Johnny Mellencamp on his first album in Australia, but not released until his second album in the US.. If'n that name sounds familiar, yep, its the name John Cougar Mellencamp originally went by. I've heard his version, but I still can't see anyone else but her singing it, and it was on her debut album.
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Seventh day and still going strong on March of the Covers. One of the fun things is learning new things about songs you like, like https://youtu.be/a2sk5U6fMwc . The Rascals version is the one I know best, but I've heard the Dead's version a few times. What is interesting is that this is a cover of the Rascals version which is a cover of the Olympics song which doesn't use the original lyrics written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick and recorded by Lemme B Good. So does that mean we all know the same wrong words to Good Lovin'?
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Seventh day and still going strong on March of the Covers. One of the fun things is learning new things about songs you like, like https://youtu.be/a2sk5U6fMwc . The Rascals version is the one I know best, but I've heard the Dead's version a few times. What is interesting is that this is a cover of the Rascals version which is a cover of the Olympics song which doesn't use the original lyrics written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick and recorded by Lemme B Good. So does that mean we all know the same wrong words to Good Lovin'?
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Ok, perhaps today's cover is low hanging fruit, but I'm lazy sometimes, so today you get the Lemonheads cover of Mrs Robinson.
Yes, this song was used in The Graduate, or rather parts, but it wasn't written for it, it'd been written by Paul Simon before the movie, and he offered to allow them to use parts of it. In fact to keep making this odd, the film uses two different short versions of the song, and it was a replacement for two songs that Simon had written for the film, but the director didn't like. Seriously, look this up on Wikipedia, its a rather odd story.
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