This past week, CBC Radio Two has been doing a special week on its daily feature "Under the Covers". Instead of the usual "here's an interesting cover of a older classic pop song", they've been focussing on songs that most people don't know are covers. I knew most of them already, but was surprised twice:
I was unaware that Blondie was (were?) not the first to record this:
Wow! Really ancient reggae! (And the Blondie video is really wacky, isn't it?)
And I was astonished to learn that Soft Cell were not the original artists for this:
Frankly, I prefer the original.
Sunday Sundries
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Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week. Is AI slop
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