Show playlist for the December 5th show

Here are the songs that I played last night in a slightly foreshortened version of the show.

Sgt peppers - Kickshaw
With a little help – Joe Cocker
Lucy in the sky – Elton John
Getting better – Gomez
Fixing a hole – Hue and Cry
She’s leaving home – Billy Bragg
Mr. Kite - Frank Sidebottom
Within you without you – Big Daddy
When I’m sixty-four – Frankie Howerd
Lovely Rita – Michelle Shocked
Good Morning – Big Daddy
Sgt Peppers reprise – Bee Gees/ Peter Frampton
Day in the life - the Fall
Money – Tom Jones (Barrett Strong, Flying Lizards, Beatles)
Nobody knows you when you’re down and out – Tom Jones
( Jimmie Cox, Sam Cooke)
Slow down - Tom Jones/Jools Holland (Larry Williams /Beatles)
Baby it’s cold outside – Tom Jones/ Cerys (Esther Williams and Ricardo Monteblan)
Love to keep me warm (remix) (Written By Irving Berlin sang by Dick Powell and Alice Fay)
In the ghetto – el vez 4.30 Elvis Presley
Holidaze - Bob Rivers 3.09 Jimi Hendrix

Sgt Pepper, Jones the voice, poetry and the holiday spirit.

This week on Through The Looking Glass I will be playing the whole of the Beatles “Sgt Peppers” in cover versions, Using cover songs to expose the poetry hidden in songs that you know and love. There will be a few covers sang by Tom Jones, My featured cover artist this week. I will also throw in a few seasonally inspired covers and remixes to prepare you for the holiday onslaught.
This weekend is the 42nd anniversary of the Beatles entering the studio to start recording “Sgt Peppers Only Hearts Club Band” it took them over 4 months to record, a mammoth session for the sixties but speedy compared to today’s bands (GNR anyone). There have been at least three full cover albums of Sgt Peppers and countless versions of all the songs all over the world of music. I have compiled a playlist that covers many musical forms and interpretations; I hope that you will be suitably entertained.
To add some form of continuity within the show I will occasionally feature an artist who has a lot of cover versions in their back catalogue. This week it is Tom Jones who throughout his long career has consistently included cover versions on most of his albums. Recently he has had resurgence in England playing with bands like Portishead, Robbie Williams, Jools Holland and the Cardigans.
Remember to tune in Fridays from 6pm to 8pm Mtn time at KTAOS 101.9 or stream at KTAO.com. Thanks
Dan (the English one).

Christmas is THE cover version holiday

Every year at about this time we are bombarded with the same 20 or so songs everywhere we go. I heard jingle bells at least 8 times yesterday and it is only December 2nd. For the sake of sanity (and profit) these songs get rerecorded, remixed and rereleased every year. There are over 40 versions of Jingle Bells listed on the Second Hand Songs website and over 70 versions of White Christmas. So this year I propose a game of Christmas cover bingo. Everyone should carry a notebook and whenever you hear a Christmas song jot down the song name and who performed it. On Christmas day send me your lists (at
http://throughthelookingglassthecoversshow.blogspot.com/ )
and the person who has heard and can identify the most covers of the most songs will receive from me a gift that I received but did not want (gift to be determined based on my gift getting).