Coverville: Coverville 147: Six Degrees of Coveration and a trivia giveaway

November 17, 2005

Coverville 147: Six Degrees of Coveration and a trivia giveaway

Tonight is your chance to win a copy of Eddie Spaghetti's new CD "Old No. 2", with your correct answer to a trivia question. After that, we go through Kevin Bacon's favorite part of the show, "The Six Degrees of Coveration" Wanna know more?:

Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
Tonight I'll Be Staying With You	Eddie Spaghetti	Old No. 2	Bob Dylan
Story Of My Life	Reel Big Fish	We're Not Happy 'Til You're Not Happy	Social Distortion
Ring Of Fire	Social Distortion	Social Distortion	Johnny Cash
I Won't Back Down	Johnny Cash	American III: Solitary Man	Tom Petty
I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better	Tom Petty	Full Moon Fever	The Byrds
My Back Pages	The Byrds	Younger Than Yesterday	Bob Dylan
Can't Help Falling In Love	Bob Dylan	Dylan	Elvis Presley

37 minutes |

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Comments

Here are some covers you might want to try.

http://beatallica.org/music.html

(Perhaps you would consider them parodies, since the lyrics have been changed a bit.)

Posted by: overville.com listener at November 19, 2005 6:20 PM

The Dylan cover of Can't Help is... interesting. My favorite version of this song is the one by Lick the Tins, which I used to have on vinyl.

Posted by: Andrew at November 22, 2005 12:28 PM

Brian,
This show just reconfirmed my belief that all Dylan songs sound better when sung by anyone but Dylan! (Do I have to give up my Minnesota residency for saying that?)
I really loved both the Ring of Fire cover, and Johnny covering Tom Petty.
~Sharon

Posted by: HellZiggy at November 22, 2005 5:54 PM

Hey,

I really enjoy these "Degrees of Coveration" shows. I think it would be really cool if you came up with a circular coveration show. That is, where the final artist is the artist covered first to create a full circle. I'm think Johnny Cash would be a good starter candidate as he has been around awhile and has some covers of some more recent artists. It would be interesting to see what else you could come up with to create a circle.

Posted by: Sam at November 25, 2005 8:52 PM