In honor of April Fool’s Day tomorrow, let’s listen to something we call all enjoy together: covers on the goofier side of the spectrum, band parodies, and flat-out bad singing. (I’ll leave it to you to decide which is which). Tonight, on Coverville!
46 minutes | 
Featuring:
| Title | Artist | Album | Original Artist | |||
| 1 |  |
Major Happy’s Up and Coming Once Upon a Good Time Band | The Rutles | Archaeology | Rutles |   |
| 2 | |
Rendezvous | The Rutles | Archaeology | Rutles | |
| 3 |  |
You Don’t Have To Be A Prostitute | Flight Of The Conchords | I Told You I Was Freaky | Police/Reggae parody | |
| 4 |  |
Me Going to Munch You, Munch You, Munch You | Sesame Street | Born to Add: Great Rock & Roll | Barry White | |
| 5 |  |
Sowing The Seeds Of Love | The Wurzels | A Load More Bullocks | Tears For Fears | |
| 6 |  |
Bloke | Chris Franklin | Bloke | Meredith Brooks | |
| 7 |  |
Polka Power | ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic | Running With Scissors | Various 90’s bands | |
| 8 |  |
Grey Clouds | The Orb/Alan Parker | Annie Nightingale Presents Y4K | Orb | |
| 9 |  |
Return to Sender | Eilert Pilarm | Eilert Does Elvis | Elvis Presley | |
| 10 |  |
A Lover’s Concerto | Mrs. Miller | Wild Cool & Swingin’ Vol.3 | Toys | |
| 11 |  |
Yesterday | Wild Man Fischer | Pronounced Normal | Beatles | |
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This is the best Coverville I’ve heard in awhile. I hope you do this next April too 🙂
Sweet! Just in time for my Birthday!
I love Grey Clouds. That made my day.
Lol, go Australia… I saw Chris Franklin sing Bloke live about 10 years ago!!
Ah, TWO Rutles songs – when I don’t get any work done today listening to this, I’ll blame you!
From the Wiki: Discovered by Frank Zappa, with whom he recorded his first album, Fischer became an underground concert favorite… Zappa was responsible for Fischer’s initial foray into the business of music, an album called An Evening with Wild Man Fischer [in 1968, which was on Bizarre Records, a label originally part of Verve, then later Warner Brothers/Reprise], contains 36 tracks of “something not exactly musical.” Zappa and Fischer remained close — until Fischer threw a jar at Zappa’s daughter Moon Unit Zappa, barely missing her. [Rhino Records didn’t start until the early 1970s.]
I love Mrs. Miller: http://www.mrsmillersworld.com/whois_bin/WhoIs.html Downtown (#82) and A Lover’s Concerto (#95) actually charted in 1966.
Great show, as usual, and congratulations on getting a regular spot on the radio! It’s been long overdue.
Just a note on The Rutles – the Archaeology album was actually new material recorded in ’96 by three of the “original Rutles”. Ironically, one of the original four musicians from the 70s documentary (which grew out of an SNL bit) died before they did the Archaeology disc, so they did the disc with just three musicians, much like the Beatles Anthology. If you’re a Beatles fan and have never seen The Rutles: All You Need is Cash, you definitely should check it out. Hilarious. The sequel that Eric Idle basically cobbled together from b-roll footage and home movies was awful.
Wow, The Wurzals!!! I’m surprised anyone outside of the UK have heard of them!
A roommate of mine introduced me to the strange appeal of a Mrs. Miller album in the early eighties. At the time I thought, “Where the hell does one find an album like this?”
That is why I love having the Internet. All of the world’s oddities are now available anywhere I want it!
That horrible Wild Man Fischer Beatles cover brought back some bad memories of our Filipino cover band also doing poor covers of Beatles songs. They knew just how to destroy those slow love songs. Thanks for the Parodyville show, I could have done without songs 9 through 11 though. Mrs. Miller was somewhere between funny and bearable, but the other two were just painful.