September 4, 2006
Coverville 237: I Want You Black Magic Woman
Here's what's on the show tonight:
| Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
| Our Lips Are Sealed | Fun Boy Three | Waiting | Go-Go's |
| I Want You Back | Graham Parker and the Rumour | Squeezing out Sparks | Jackson 5 |
| Lithium | The Polyphonic Spree | Wait (EP) | Nirvana |
| Black Magic Woman | El Vez | How Great Thou Art: The Greatest Hits of El Vez | Fleetwood Mac/Stray Cats |
| Barracuda | Rasputina | A Radical Recital | Heart |
| The Final Countdown | oUT oF oRDER | Website | Europe |
There's a "Podquiz" Musically Challenged in this show! Make sure to check out James' podcast, Podquiz!
Posted by bibbott at September 4, 2006 9:07 PM
Ummm....I haven't listened to yer podcast (yet) so I dunno if you mention this, but I can tell you that Santana's "original" version of Black Magic Woman was a cover of Fleetwood Mac. A great cover, I'll grant you, but a cover nonetheless......
Posted by: crilo in p-gro at September 4, 2006 10:21 PMI knew you'd LOVE "Lithium" Brian!!
I have been similarly playing this constantly since I got an advance copy of the EP last week. Awesome cover!!
I'm so glad too that you and Tina had a blast with Tim on the tour bus. He is a really nice guy.
Happy to get you together - bring on The Fragile Army!!
Posted by: Wayne from the UK at September 5, 2006 6:36 AMSorry, crilo, but you might be confusing this with Fleetwood Mac's Gold Dust Woman, a totally different gal.
Posted by: Al at September 5, 2006 12:53 PMMy mistake. Black Magic Woman was first done by Fleetwood Mac back in 1969 on their English Rose album... (covered by Santana in 1972)
Posted by: Brian Ibbott at September 5, 2006 1:25 PMS'OK. The original, great, bluesy F Mac is so unfortunately forgotten in the face of the juggernaut that was the subsequent, also great, Cali-rock F Mac; not to mention that Santana so thoroughly made the song their own when they covered it. Consequently lotsa folks misascribe BMW's origins. Maybe some time you could feature the Rezillos' (pioneering Scottish punk-pop band) cover of (the original, great, bluesy) F Mac's Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight.
You have a fine show, by the way.....
Cheers!
I would have sworn on a stack of Costello albums that "I Want You Back" was on The Real Macaw" and not "Sparks." I'll have to dig out my old (original?) CD and see. Maybe it was a bonus CD track that got moved? I don't know.
Posted by: Dan Klass at September 11, 2006 12:02 AMI would have sworn on a stack of Costello albums that "I Want You Back" was on "The Real Macaw" and not "Sparks." I'll have to dig out my old (original?) CD and see. Maybe it was a bonus CD track that got moved? I don't know.
Posted by: Dan Klass at September 11, 2006 12:02 AMI would have sworn on a stack of Costello albums that "I Want You Back" was on "The Real Macaw" and not "Sparks." I'll have to dig out my old (original?) CD and see. Maybe it was a bonus CD track that got moved? I don't know.
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Posted by: Rex Follett at October 5, 2007 12:05 PM