Radio, Radio: Coverfolk For The Original Electric Hearth
I’m happy to announce that we’ve been invited to guestblog over at Breakthrough Radio, a wonderfully eclectic Internet radio station specializing in a wide swath of independent music chosen by a diverse set of DJs. I’ll be spending the week over there exploring the potential of a new forum, spreading the good word and shuffling through a veritable feast of originals and covers. I’ll also be simulcasting all entries here, so you won’t have to miss a trick.
Unfortunately, I had to write all the entires in advance, which kind of burned me out for our regular Sunday post. Happily, however, radio is a popular theme in song. Once upon a time, musicians penned songs in tribute to the DJ voices which spun out their adolescences one heartbeat at a time; long after The Buggles raised the specter of video, the radio holds a place in our memories both cultural and individual. I’ll have a great new radio-relevant cover in our first Breakthrough Radio post on Monday; in the meantime, here’s a few older, relatively folky coversongs on the topic.
- Kate Rusby: Radio Sweethearts (orig. John McCusker)
- Marc Cohn: Turn On Your Radio (orig. Harry Nillsson)
- The Wrong Trousers: Video Killed the Radio Star (orig. The Buggles)
- Handsome Hank and his Lonesome Boys: Video Killed the Radio Star (ibid.)
- Bruce Lash: Mexican Radio (orig. Wall of Voodoo)
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December 8th, 2008 at 6:46 am
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December 10th, 2008 at 2:09 am
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December 10th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Thanks for the Wrong Trousers mp3. I have been a fan of theirs for awhile but other than the YouTube video I couldn’t find this one. THANKS