Coverville: Coverville 329: Requests Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into A Paper Cup

June 3, 2007

Coverville 329: Requests Are Flowing Out Like Endless Rain Into A Paper Cup

Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
At Last	Cyndi Lauper	At Last	Etta James
When You Were Mine	Cyndi Lauper	The Essential Cyndi Lauper	Prince
Moritat (Mack The Knife)	Lyle Lovett	Smile ~ Songs from the Movies	Kurt Weill
Across The Universe	Stephanie Rearick	Democracy	The Beatles
MYSTERY TRACK (Trivia Contest)	Deviations Project	Deviations Project	(You tell me - contest ends June 17)
Everybody's Gonna Be Happy	Queens of the Stone Age	Songs for the Deaf	The Kinks

45 minutes |

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Posted by bibbott at June 3, 2007 9:50 PM

Comments

Cyndi Lauper's cover of At Last (plus the album picture in the AAC feed) completely blew my pre-conceptions of Cyndi. Not one of my favourite artists, but, I am going to listen to this complete album.

My favourite cover of Mack the Knife still has to be Ella Fitzgerald's live recording from her Berlin concert. Ella lost the lyrics during the performance and improvised new ones on the spot. Fortunately the concert was being recorded. The track went on to win a Grammy.

Posted by: Ian at June 4, 2007 7:39 AM

I have to agree with you Ian re Mack tne Knife. It's my mood buster. No matter how bad the day Ella doing 'Mac the Knife' never fails to make me smile.

Posted by: rose matthews at June 4, 2007 3:01 PM

Lyle Lovett's "Moritat" was originally from the movie "Quiz Show," where it played over the closing credits. Also in that movie, Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife" played over the opening credits. Now there's an interesting thing to ruminate on -- how many movies have two different cover versions of the same song on their soundtrack? (I'm sure there are quite a few.)

Posted by: Trainman at June 5, 2007 9:26 AM

"All She Wants To Do Is Dance" by Glenn Frey?? ;) Hehe...we knew what you meant. :D

Posted by: Keefe at June 5, 2007 10:38 AM

Years of working in a big-chain-coffee-shop-that-shall-remain-nameless has forever turned me off to any version of Mack the Knife. I swear if they could pipe that song into their stores 24-7, they would do it, and the end result is I can barely listen to it anymore.

Posted by: Camille at June 6, 2007 8:42 PM

FYI - that Queens cover is off of the "Stone Age Complications" EP, not "Songs/Deaf..."

that EP also featured a Subhumanz cover, a Cramps cover, an UNKLE remix of "No One Knows" and two B-Sides, "The Bronze" and "Born To Hula"

Posted by: brian grosz at June 8, 2007 8:17 AM

FYI, the surname is "Weill" with a W and it's pronounced like the English word "vile."

Posted by: Kevin at June 19, 2007 6:32 AM