Classic Covers
…radio show

The Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show, with a look at some classic covers and their originals, in the Classic Covers radio show.

First broadcast 2 November 2020
…..on Access North West

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Classic Covers and Originals

In this Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show, we’re taking a look at eight classic cover versions and their not-so-well-known originals.

Barbara Ann was a big hit for the Beach Boys in 1966 but it was originally recorded as a doo wop song by the Regents in 1958

Jimi Hendrix had an international hit with All Along the Watchtower but it started out as a Bob Dylan album track.

Chubby Checked set the world alight with the new dance craze, the twist. The song was originally a B-side for Hank Ballard and the Midnighters.

I Fought the Law was a big hit for the Bobby Fuller Four in the 1960s and the Clash in the 1970s. It started out as a 1950s album track for the post-Buddy Holly Crickets.

PLAYLIST
Classic Covers radio show

1 Bob Dylan – All Along the Watchtower
2 Bessie Banks – Go Now
3 The Crickets – I Fought the Law
4 Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
5 The Regents – Barbara-Ann
6 The Sutherland Brothers – Sailing
7 Irma Franklin – Piece of My Heart
8 Hank Ballard and the Midnighters – The Twist

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How rock’n’roll came about, it’s transition into rock music in the mid-1960s and the array of rock genres which followed in the late 1960s and ‘70s.

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If it’s relevant to the music of the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s, I’ll be talking about it.
All this and great music, although, some you’ll recognise and some you might well be hearing for the first time.

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Classic Covers was first broadcast
on Access North West 2 November 2020

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