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unusual facts about cover song



Beans and Fatback

The two CD compilation Wray's Three Track Shack (Acadia/Evangeline Recorded Works Ltd./Universal Music, 2005) includes Beans And Fatback alongside with other "shack" recordings of 1971 (Link Wray and Mordicai Jones), but the track "Take My Hand (Precious Lord)" was replaced without credit by "Backwoods Preacher Man" (a cover song of Tony Joe White) from The Link Wray Rumble album (Polydor, 1974).

Burning Empires

A cover of "Further" by the band LifeForce was used in the video game Iji, and while not released on any CD, it was made available for public download.

Counterfeit e.p.

Released in 1989, Counterfeit is a six-song E.P. of cover songs, hence the name, implying that the songs were not written by Gore.

El Concierto Sinfónico

Like their previous live album, the album features the band's previous hits as well as cover songs of some of the artists that influenced them like Rubén Blades, El Gran Combo, and others.

Lee Eun-ju

The 2007 event was marked by a music CD released in her name, featuring remastered versions of her cover performance of The Corrs "Only When I Sleep" from The Scarlet Letter, as well as tribute performances by her friends in the entertainment industry.

Living and Dying in 3/4 Time

The album contains two cover songs: "Ballad of Spider John" written and originally performed by Willis Alan Ramsey and "God's Own Drunk" by Lord Buckley.

Patti Rothberg

During this time, two of Rothberg's songs appeared in film: a cover of "Kung Fu Fighting" in Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) and "Inside" in The Misadventures of Margaret (1998).

The Fraternity Years

As the name implies, the album collects most of the music from the many singles that Mouse and the Traps released on Fraternity Records, so the last two singles released by the band in 1969 on Bell Records are omitted, as is the novelty song "Would You Believe" and the cover of "Psychotic Reaction" by Positively 13 O'clock.

The Outsiders Album 2

Cool Jerk – which is, incidentally, one of the few covers recorded by the Go-Go's – was a popular pop and R&B hit that was released by the Capitols in July 1966, again within weeks of the release of this album.

Walter Schreifels

The album features 10 tracks on CD and 11 on vinyl, including covers of songs by Agnostic Front, CIV, and My Bloody Valentine (vinyl version only).

When You're a Boy

It begins with the Billboard Top 40 single "My Side of the Bed," includes the track "Unconditional Love" (co-written by Cyndi Lauper), and ends with a cover of "Boys Keep Swinging," the 1979 song written by David Bowie and Brian Eno.


see also

Best of the Power Rangers: Songs from the TV Series

It contains, amongst older (and rare at times) material recorded for Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo by Ron Wasserman, many new remixes and cover song variations of theme songs, and new songs recorded for the release by different artists.

Bless the Night

The CD single features the single titletrack and live prefromance of the cover song "Dschingshis Khan" by the band of same name.

Busse Woods

"39 Lashes" is also a cover song, originally appearing on Jesus Christ Superstar, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

Chan Romero

"Hippy Hippy Shake" remained a popular cover song as well as appearing in numerous movie soundtracks, among them Uncle Buck, It Takes Two and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.

Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

On March 16, it was announced that the winning song had been released in 1997 by another act and was disqualifed, since entering a cover song was (and still is) contrary to the rules.

Hot 8 Brass Band

In 2009, the band add its New Orleans style to an "Iko Iko" cover song of the Swiss band Schtärneföifi, who re-recorded their Swiss German version from 1995's Heicho - Ohni Znacht is Bed together with The Dixie Cups in New Orleans.

Irina Saari

All of the songs on Irina's debut album were written by Toni Wirtanen of Apulanta except for the cover song "Katujen kuningatar" ("Queen of the Streets").

Najoua Belyzel

During the Summer 2008 she released on the Iinternet a cover song of Marie Laforêt "Viens, Viens", but it was not meant to be a single.

Nanker Phelge

"I'm All Right" (July 1965) (sometimes credited to Phelge/McDaniel, although it is a Bo Diddley cover song. Now credited to Jagger/Richards)

Neverender

Initially, the VIP Meet and Greet and Acoustic performance were moved to the Friday, but as a fair number of fans were unable to make the new date, lead singer Claudio Sanchez announced on-stage that the Thursday would remain the same and Friday date would feature a cover song set including music by Claudio Sanchez's one-man side project The Prize Fighter Inferno.

Rapid City Muscle Car

A full big band orchestra is used on "Come Back to Me", a cover song taken from the 1965 Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

The Wonderland Tour 2005

McFly covered a snippet of American Pop Punk band Green Day's hit American Idiot and played a full cover song by The Who who they had previously worked worked with.

Time–frequency analysis for music signals

Joan Serra, Emilia Gomez, Perfecto Herrera, and Xavier Serra, "Chroma Binary Similarity and Local Alignment Applied to Cover Song Identification," August, 2008

Wide-Eyed Wonder

After assisting with the recording of Chase the Kangaroo, late singer/songwriter Mark Heard came onboard to produce two tracks for the album, including the band's first cover song, "Behind That Locked Door", written by ex-Beatle George Harrison.