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NEWS ABOUT: cover song

cover song stories: 5 news summaries
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Rock Legend Chuck Berry, Top-Notch Short Story Writer

"Memphis, Tennessee" shows Berry's sociological side: Klinkenborg

Nov 2, 09 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The original Chuck Berry version of “Memphis, Tennessee” isn't as well known as some others—by Johnny Rivers, say, or Buck Owens. But the real star is the tune, first released in 1959, which Verlyn Klinkenborg suspects is the “best short story in the form of a song... More »

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entertainment • music • Tennessee • rock and roll • Memphis • cover song • Chuck Berry • songwriter • short story • Johnny Rivers • Buck Owens

Boyle Unveils Rolling Stones'
'Wild Horses' as New Single

Hyped fans greet Boyle in Los Angeles

Sep 13, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first single from Susan Boyle’s much-anticipated debut album may come as a surprise: the Rolling Stones classic "Wild Horses," Perez Hilton reports. “SuBo puts her own spin on the iconic song and it sounds/feels very much her,” Hilton writes. Meanwhile, excited fans greeted Boyle... More »

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music • Rolling Stones • cover song • Susan Boyle • America's Got Talent

 Please Stop Covering 
 'Hallelujah': Leonard Cohen 

After 181 recorded versions, singer-songwriter thinks its time for a break

Jul 10, 09 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Leonard Cohen is tired of people covering “Hallelujah.” “I was reading a review of a movie called Watchmen that uses it, and the reviewer said, ‘Can we please have a moratorium on ‘Hallelujah’ in movies and television shows?’ and I kind of feel the same... More »

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music • song • Leonard Cohen • Scrubs • The West Wing • cover song • Watchmen

 Dion's AC/DC Tribute 
 'Worst Cover Ever' 

Crooner's version of You Shook Me All Night Long called 'vile'

Jun 23, 08 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Celine Dion's rendition of AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long has been voted the worst cover ever, according to Total Guitar magazine. The UK mag called the duet Dion performed with Anastacia in Las Vegas 6 years ago an "offense" against music. "The No. 1 worst cover... More »

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music • music industry • Celine Dion • music review • cover song • Anastacia

MUSIC REVIEW

 Scarlett's
 Waits Tribute:
 Unnecessary,
 But Not Bad 

Johansson revisits legendary croaker's catalog

May 14, 08 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Even the most sympathetic critics,” writes Tom Breihan for the Village Voice, have to grant that Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits tribute album, “is a fundamentally ridiculous enterprise, almost stunning in its total lack of need to exist.” That said, Breihan... More »

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music • celebrity • Scarlett Johansson • music review • Tom Waits • tribute record • cover song

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