The middle-aged dummies are forming a band called "Blanket"! It's a cover band. (1 Viewer)

[krista4]

I already have two lists that are all covers of only one artist each.

Who’s the other arsehole?
10 points if you can pick the artist I went with

@John Maddens Lunchbox Regarding your post last night, this is where you gave it away re Abba, unless someone would have somehow thought you were doing all Lipps Inc songs.

You are smarter than me and I still cant figure out how my post said I was doing all Abba covers lol.
Its all good, but if I did it was unintentional. I dont know how

10 points if you can pick the artist I went with

Points to Lipps Inc or Abba

1. I said I had two lists there were covers of only one artist each.
2. You identified you were one of those two people by jokingly asking who was the "other" arsehole.
3. Your one-pointers were Lipps Inc and Abba, so it had to be one of those two that was being selected for every slot.
4. Profit.

 

[krista4]

Thanks! I'm not researching what anyone else puts as the original artist, so I really appreciate any corrections. I'll update this one in the post and for tallying purposes.

I have an original-artist-identification error on my list, as well. I can send it to you via PMs, or just call it out when you post that pick.

Thanks, you can PM it to me.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

The Dreaded Marco:

Hello It's Me - Susanna Hoffs, Matthew Sweet (Todd Rundgren)

I know she has done a lot of covers, and I if I had time, I was going to see if there were 31 I could have sent in.

Hoffs and Sweet have three albums of covers together.

 

[Don Quixote]

30. Non Dirle Che Non È Così (“If You See Her, Say Hello”) - Francesco de Gregori (Bob Dylan cover)

I actually had the version from the Masked & Anonymous soundtrack more in my head, but could not find a link to it on YouTube. See that is on Spotify — @Hawks64 can either switch or not, but close enough.

I’ve still never seen the Masked & Anonymous movie, but played the heck out of the soundtrack when it came out. Probably one of my first exposures to foreign language music, which has obviously stuck. When I first thought about the concept of a favorite covers list, the soundtrack immediately came to my mind, as it has a lot of great Dylan covers.

Francesco de Gregori is apparently known in Italy as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"). He does have an album just of Bob Dylan cover songs, which has the version of this song that my YouTube link above goes to. I’m not sure if he will show up again, but, in case not, if you’ve ever wanted to hear Desolation Row sung in Italian, he’s your man.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I have seen Simple Minds live three times and Kerr just phones this in and asks the audience to sing most of it. Poser.

Yep. Not a fan.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Don Quixote:

Non Dirle Che Non È Così (“If You See Her, Say Hello”) - Francesco de Gregori (Bob Dylan cover)
Song: first vote
Cover artist: first vote
Original artist: four votes, four songs

Beautiful - the lyrics even seem great in a language I can't understand.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Common People - William Shatner (Pulp)

This should be on Dr. Dimento. It's surprisingly good.

 

[Hawks64]

30. Non Dirle Che Non È Così (“If You See Her, Say Hello”) - Francesco de Gregori (Bob Dylan cover)

I actually had the version from the Masked & Anonymous soundtrack more in my head, but could not find a link to it on YouTube. See that is on Spotify — @Hawks64 can either switch or not, but close enough.

I’ve still never seen the Masked & Anonymous movie, but played the heck out of the soundtrack when it came out. Probably one of my first exposures to foreign language music, which has obviously stuck. When I first thought about the concept of a favorite covers list, the soundtrack immediately came to my mind, as it has a lot of great Dylan covers.

Francesco de Gregori is apparently known in Italy as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"). He does have an album just of Bob Dylan cover songs, which has the version of this song that my YouTube link above goes to. I’m not sure if he will show up again, but, in case not, if you’ve ever wanted to hear Desolation Row sung in Italian, he’s your man.

Change made.

 

[simey]

simey:

You Are My Sunshine (Version 1) - Elizabeth Mitchell (The Pine Ridge Boys)

@simey , this is the same Elizabeth Mitchell that used to team up with Lisa Loeb on children's songs about 20 years ago?

Probably so. You Are My Sunshine (Version 1) is from her kid's album by the same name. I played the CD all the time for my nephews when they were little, and this song was a favorite.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I already have two lists that are all covers of only one artist each.

Who’s the other arsehole?
10 points if you can pick the artist I went with

@John Maddens Lunchbox Regarding your post last night, this is where you gave it away re Abba, unless someone would have somehow thought you were doing all Lipps Inc songs.

You are smarter than me and I still cant figure out how my post said I was doing all Abba covers lol.
Its all good, but if I did it was unintentional. I dont know how

10 points if you can pick the artist I went with

Points to Lipps Inc or Abba

1. I said I had two lists there were covers of only one artist each.
2. You identified you were one of those two people by jokingly asking who was the "other" arsehole.
3. Your one-pointers were Lipps Inc and Abba, so it had to be one of those two that was being selected for every slot.
4. Profit.

Gotcha. Sorry for the confusion, but thats my modus operandi these days

 

[simey]

Was talking to my wife about Y&R last night but she was more of a Guiding Light girl. She even pulled up a couple youtube clips to see if LuJack, Fletcher Reed, and Reva's sister Roxy were as hot as she remembered.

Lujack was hot. He was a ruffian. Fletcher was cute, but not as hot as Lujack, but his character's personality made him > than Lujack. Roxy was hot. She had nice cheek dimples. On her face, not butt.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

As everyone predicted, When in Rome’s “The Promise” is the first song with a Battle of the Bands. It’s up to you to determine “Who Wore It Best???”!

I'm going with Sturgill here - his version is so much different than the original and he makes it his own.

 

[Eephus]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

 

[Eephus]

Hard Luck Woman - Garth Brooks (Kiss)

I was always surprised this wasn't a much bigger song for KISS - great vocals by Peter.

I'm surprised any Garth is on Spotify

 

[Eephus]

I have seen Simple Minds live three times and Kerr just phones this in and asks the audience to sing most of it. Poser.

Yep. Not a fan.

We saw Simple Minds in 1985 and I thought they put on a perfunctory performance. Mrs. Eephus saw them four years earlier and said they were fantastic.

Bands have off nights and concerts that are pure magic which is part of the fun of going to shows.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

 

[Eephus]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

I'll only do it in a private karaoke room with friends. I'll choose something less foppish if I'm with strangers.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

I have seen Simple Minds live three times and Kerr just phones this in and asks the audience to sing most of it. Poser.

Yep. Not a fan.

We saw Simple Minds in 1985 and I thought they put on a perfunctory performance. Mrs. Eephus saw them four years earlier and said they were fantastic.

Bands have off nights and concerts that are pure magic which is part of the fun of going to shows.

They still out arenas now, but i have had 3 bites of the cherry and all 3 are in the bottom 10 of my live experiences.
I had bootlegs of the New Gold Dream and Sparkle in the Rain concerts and they were great.
Kerrs ambition to be Bono really messed up the vibe, but others have a much better experience than me

 

[Andy Dufresne]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

No way. Any fan of The Breakfast Club sings their heart out to this with a fist in the air John Bender style.

I'm a big Billy Idol fan but his version is blah.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

No way. Any fan of The Breakfast Club sings their heart out to this with a fist in the air John Bender style.

Its a defining song of the 80s, so no doubt.
The list of artists who passed on this is hilarious reading. They all hated the song, including Simple Minds

 

[Pip's Invitation]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

I'll only do it in a private karaoke room with friends. I'll choose something less foppish if I'm with strangers.

This distinction seems kind of tied into the FFA discussion last month of whether it's OK to order an "un-manly" beverage in public.

 

[simey]

Maybe being up since five and having that third cup of coffee to go with my Dextroamphetamine is too much stimulation. Better back up and see if want my logorrhea here to be documented and verified. Hmm. . . nope. Don’t care a lick.

My nephew takes that sometimes when he needs better focus for an exam. He said one night he mistook it for an antibiotic he was taking and he was up all night.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

No way. Any fan of The Breakfast Club sings their heart out to this with a fist in the air John Bender style.

Its a defining song of the 80s, so no doubt.
The list of artists who passed on this is hilarious reading. They all hated the song, including Simple Minds

And Bogart and Bergman didn't think much of Casablanca as they were making it.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

As everyone predicted, When in Rome’s “The Promise” is the first song with a Battle of the Bands. It’s up to you to determine “Who Wore It Best???”!

I'm going with Sturgill here - his version is so much different than the original and he makes it his own.

Both are very different from the original. Sturgill's approach seems pretty similar to what he did with In Bloom (which was in someone's Last 5 Out).

 

[Pip's Invitation]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

No way. Any fan of The Breakfast Club sings their heart out to this with a fist in the air John Bender style.

Its a defining song of the 80s, so no doubt.
The list of artists who passed on this is hilarious reading. They all hated the song, including Simple Minds

And Bogart and Bergman didn't think much of Casablanca as they were making it.

The script was still being written when they started filming. Truly a Hollywood miracle.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Hard Luck Woman - Garth Brooks (Kiss)

I was always surprised this wasn't a much bigger song for KISS - great vocals by Peter.

I'm surprised any Garth is on Spotify

It’s a KISS tribute album so maybe he has no rights to that song.

 

[Ilov80s]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

No way. Any fan of The Breakfast Club sings their heart out to this with a fist in the air John Bender style.

Its a defining song of the 80s, so no doubt.
The list of artists who passed on this is hilarious reading. They all hated the song, including Simple Minds

And Bogart and Bergman didn't think much of Casablanca as they were making it.

Happens more often than you would think that artists aren’t always aware of what’s going to be good or not. When Irving Berlin was demoing songs for Holiday Inn, almost everyone dislikes White Christmas and advised against him using it for the movie. I guess Bing Crosby was the one guy who stuck up for it.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

2 Points - Don’t You Forget About Me - Billy Idol (Simple Minds)
Original

My karaoke version is ineligible

Lol.
You may be the only person who enjoys singing this

No way. Any fan of The Breakfast Club sings their heart out to this with a fist in the air John Bender style.

Its a defining song of the 80s, so no doubt.
The list of artists who passed on this is hilarious reading. They all hated the song, including Simple Minds

And Bogart and Bergman didn't think much of Casablanca as they were making it.

Happens more often than you would think that artists aren’t always aware of what’s going to be good or not. When Irving Berlin was demoing songs for Holiday Inn, almost everyone dislikes White Christmas and advised against him using it for the movie. I guess Bing Crosby was the one guy who stuck up for it.

Foo Fighters recorded a ton of songs for In Your Honor and intended to leave Best of You on the cutting room floor (or at best relegate it to a B-side). For a double CD. The band didn't think it was anything special, but someone from the label did and talked them into not only putting it on the album, but releasing it as the first single. Next thing you know, Prince is covering it in his Super Bowl set.

Chicago recorded If You Leave Me Now, a Peter Cetera song they had rejected a few years earlier, at the very end of the sessions for Chicago X as an afterthought. Saxophonist Walter Parazaider didn't even realize the song had made the album and was released as a single until he heard it on the radio. It became their first #1.

Plenty of other stories like that abound.

 

[Charlie Steiner]

30. Folsom Prison Blues (Jimmy Dean Show version)-Roy Clark (Johnny Cash)

I linked this during the last MAD draft because I had stumbled upon it while researching for that draft, and it's on this list because it reminded me of the abundance of talent that Roy Clark had.

This performance comes from an appearance on The Jimmy Dean Show in 1964. The more I've watched this and pieced together my memories of Roy from his years on Hee-Haw, the more I see a note of sadness behind his dopey grin and bumpkin schtick. He was no less than a virtuoso but that did not translate to a commensurate level of fame and fortune. He pulls off so many tricks in this song that it's hard to keep up with all of them; the intentional butchering of lyics, 3 different ways of making the same sound from his guitar, the off-beat tapping of his feet while all of it is communicated in coordination with his facial expressions. It all reminds of me of when Robin Williams would appear on a talk show and just let his mind loose for 10 minutes. For all the success he may have had during his life, his talent merited still more.

 

[shuke]

Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower - Billy Strings (Grateful Dead) NOT ON PLAYLIST

This is one of my favorite song sequences from the Dead, and BIlly's quartet nails it. Have seen Billy about 6 times, he is such an incredible talent.

You're welcome to those only listening to Spotify, since it's about 15 minutes.

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Hello It's Me - Hoffs, Sweet

This is a straight-forward cover but I think it's lovely. I'm a huge Matthew Sweet fan and think his cover albums with Hoffs are all pretty solid.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

The more I've watched this and pieced together my memories of Roy from his years on Hee-Haw, the more I see a note of sadness behind his dopey grin and bumpkin schtick. He was no less than a virtuoso but that did not translate to a commensurate level of fame and fortune.

I think you may be seing something that just wasn't there. It always seemed to me that he valued a good time more than the rest of show biz. He always seemed like a very happy dude to me, and I've never seen anything to indicate otherwise.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Uruk-Hai:

Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On - Jerry Lee Lewis (Big Maybelle)
Song: first vote
Cover artist: first vote
Original artist: first vote

Big Maybelle's original was a bawdy jump blues of the kind that made rock & roll covers inevitable. It's so filthy no amount of lyrical coding could hide what Maybelle was singing about. The flip side was the even dirtier "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show". This is raw, roadhouse music about the kind of thing that had millions clutching their pearls (& turned millions more into parents). It blew my mind when I found out that Quincy Jones - the cleanest (in several ways) superstar producer in rock history - was on the boards for Maybelle's record.

Jerry Lee Lewis seemed to take the filth of this record as a challenge. He sped it up, messed around with the lyrics, and cut something that every punk that's come since has had to reckon with. It's also made those same punks curl up in the fetal position, because they can't do this for the first time. If Jerry Lee had died right after cutting this record, he'd still be called The Killer.

Bless their hearts.

 

[krista4]

Foo Fighters recorded a ton of songs for In Your Honor and intended to leave Best of You on the cutting room floor (or at best relegate it to a B-side). For a double CD. The band didn't think it was anything special, but someone from the label did and talked them into not only putting it on the album, but releasing it as the first single. Next thing you know, Prince is covering it in his Super Bowl set.

Chicago recorded If You Leave Me Now, a Peter Cetera song they had rejected a few years earlier, at the very end of the sessions for Chicago X as an afterthought. Saxophonist Walter Parazaider didn't even realize the song had made the album and was released as a single until he heard it on the radio. It became their first #1.

Plenty of other stories like that abound.

I hereby nominate all the songs on All Things Must Pass that George Harrison previewed for the Beatles and were rejected.

 

[rockaction]

My nephew takes that sometimes when he needs better focus for an exam.

It should be really regulated. Mine is. I need an ID and everything to get a prescription for it because the DEA is all over it. I didn't mean to imply I was doing illicit stuff. It's doctor padded.

 

[simey]

My nephew takes that sometimes when he needs better focus for an exam.

It should be really regulated. Mine is. I need an ID and everything to get a prescription for it because the DEA is all over it. I didn't mean to imply I was doing illicit stuff. It's doctor padded.

I knew you meant it was prescribed, and Evan's Adderall is prescribed too. I think it is ADHD that he has. That child could not sit still when he was little, and he was always fidgeting. More symptoms I guess arose as he grew up. My sister is a teacher, and she knows the signs, especially in her own kid. He is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill now. He doesn't like taking it, but he does if he feels he is having problems focusing. His bottle has been on his nightstand in his room at his parent's house since November. I guess he doesn't need it right now or he keeps forgetting it.

 

[rockaction]

I knew you meant it was prescribed, and Evan's Adderall is prescribed too.

Man, do I ever have the perfect lyrics to put right here, but it's a cover. Somebody might be using it, too.

 

[simey]

I don't know many Lady Gaga songs, but of the ones that I do know "Bad Romance" is my favorite. I like this cover by Halestorm. It stays pretty true to the original, which is a good thing on this tune, because all the things I like about the original are in this one, and this one has the bonus of rocking a bit more.

"You Never Even Call Me By My Name" by David Allen Coe used to be played for the last call for alcohol at the end of every night in my favorite bar in college. It wasn't a country bar, but this was the song that was played that meant you had 5 minutes to get a drink, cause closing time was coming. The song was also on the jukebox in my favorite dive oyster bar in Orlando, and it was played a lot. The song seems to bring out the rowdiness in people. Anyway, I like LeAnn's live version of it.

I haven't heard "Get Out of My Life, Woman" in a long time. I used to play this album a lot. I need to get back in touch with it.

I like this version of "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Stephen Malkmus and The Million Dollar Bashers. It's groovy.

 

[simey]

Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower - Billy Strings (Grateful Dead) NOT ON PLAYLIST

This is one of my favorite song sequences from the Dead, and BIlly's quartet nails it. Have seen Billy about 6 times, he is such an incredible talent.

Roll away the dew

That sequence of songs reminds me so much of seeing the GD live, especially Franklin's Tower. It brings back lots of memories. Billy's quartet does nail it. I hope it was an unexpected surprise for all the GD fans that happened to be in the audience that night.

 

[scorchy]

I knew you meant it was prescribed, and Evan's Adderall is prescribed too.

Man, do I ever have the perfect lyrics to put right here, but it's a cover. Somebody might be using it, too.

I checked rock, but I don't think anyone has ever covered The Hold Steady's "Ask Her for Adderall."

 

[scorchy]

You Never Even Called Me By My Name - LeAnn Rimes (David Allan Coe)

This is definitely the most straight-up karaoke cover on my list - not usually what I'm looking for but this one always makes me smile.

I feel like David Allan Coe's original has been part of my life from my earliest memories. Some of y'all had parents who listened to the Beatles or Marvin Gaye or Simon and Garfunkel - I was swaddled in classic country & western. When i was in kindergarten, I remember my dad buying a brown Ford pickup with a cassette deck. He was a budget audiophile and vinyl collector who thought tapes represented a huge sonic compromise, but he was also excited to finally be able to listen to his favorite records on the road. So he bought a nice home deck and for nights on end recorded his favorite albums onto the highest-quality blank cassettes he could find. David Allan Coe's Greatest Hits wasn't the one we listened to most in the old truck (that's another classic to be featured later) but it was easily top 5. Once I got older, I ran away from dad's music b/c I was embarrassed (see Mandrell, Barbara - I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool). Eventually I found my way back and my dad can't hear for #### anymore so he gave all his old country records.

My college experience sounds a lot like what @simey posted. Even for a goth, You Never Even Called Me By My Name was unavoidable in Gainesville. It's a tossup between it and Friends in Low Places for the song I've heard most often at karaoke, and Leann Rimes' version perfectly captures the essence - the hooting, the "let me, let me, let me" during fills, and the exuberant singalong of the last verse. It takes me back on many levels.

 

[simey]

Sturgill Simpson "The Promise" vs New Found Glory "The Promise" - I love Sturgill and that album so I'm bias, but New Found Glory's version is totally different and is good too. I'd much rather hear NFG's version if I was working out or hyped up, but when in a mellow yellow/chillin' mood, I'd want to hear Sturgill's version.

"Hello It's Me" is one of my favorite 70s tunes. I like this version by Hoffs and Sweet. It doesn't lose any of the good feeling that comes with the original. The best part about waiting in line the other night at Walgreens was this song (TR's version) came on while I was waiting.

"Eight Miles High" is much faster than the original. It's the adderall version. That guitar playing is awesome.

"Who's Lovin' You" by The Jackson 5 is great. I think it is my favorite version of the song.

I dig Paul Weller's version of the "The Bottle."

 

[simey]

My college experience sounds a lot like what @simey posted. Even for a goth, You Never Even Called Me By My Name was unavoidable in Gainesville. It's a tossup between it and Friends in Low Places for the song I've heard most often at karaoke, and Leann Rimes' version perfectly captures the essence - the hooting, the "let me, let me, let me" during fills, and the exuberant singalong of the last verse. It takes me back on many levels.

It's weird how that song seemed to appear in places that generally didn't play its genre, and it just made people wild. I remember being at the oyster bar called Lee and Ricks in Orlando, and someone played that song on the jukebox, and there was this dude that was with this rowdy group of people. I was sitting at the oyster bar with my friends, and I guess he spotted me singing to the song, and he walked over singing and picked me up and placed me on top of a table to sing with him and his friends. Sometimes ya gotta go with the flow. I have to admit I was so glad when the song was over.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

"Who's Lovin' You" by The Jackson 5 is great. I think it is my favorite version of the song.

I gave her my cookies ...and we fell out by finger paint ...

awesome!!! LOL

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Foo Fighters recorded a ton of songs for In Your Honor and intended to leave Best of You on the cutting room floor (or at best relegate it to a B-side). For a double CD. The band didn't think it was anything special, but someone from the label did and talked them into not only putting it on the album, but releasing it as the first single. Next thing you know, Prince is covering it in his Super Bowl set.

Chicago recorded If You Leave Me Now, a Peter Cetera song they had rejected a few years earlier, at the very end of the sessions for Chicago X as an afterthought. Saxophonist Walter Parazaider didn't even realize the song had made the album and was released as a single until he heard it on the radio. It became their first #1.

Plenty of other stories like that abound.

I hereby nominate all the songs on All Things Must Pass that George Harrison previewed for the Beatles and were rejected.

I’m so glad George got to show those bastards what was up.

In seriousness it worked out well for him as I like it better than at least half the Beatles records.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Foo Fighters recorded a ton of songs for In Your Honor and intended to leave Best of You on the cutting room floor (or at best relegate it to a B-side). For a double CD. The band didn't think it was anything special, but someone from the label did and talked them into not only putting it on the album, but releasing it as the first single. Next thing you know, Prince is covering it in his Super Bowl set.

Chicago recorded If You Leave Me Now, a Peter Cetera song they had rejected a few years earlier, at the very end of the sessions for Chicago X as an afterthought. Saxophonist Walter Parazaider didn't even realize the song had made the album and was released as a single until he heard it on the radio. It became their first #1.

Plenty of other stories like that abound.

I hereby nominate all the songs on All Things Must Pass that George Harrison previewed for the Beatles and were rejected.

To me that's a slightly different case, because that had more to do with Paul and John's egos than any band consensus/objective analysis that the songs weren't as good as others being considered.

I did find it disingenuous that Paul sang All Things Must Pass at the Concert for George when he was the main reason that song was left off Let It Be.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Speaking of the Beatles, when we were on a boat ride from the Magic Kingdom to our resort, we learned that the final signature on the official paperwork to break up the Beatles was signed at one of the Disney World resorts. Sure enough, here's an article about it:

Next Time You're At Disney, Why Not Stay In The Room Where John Lennon Officially Left The Beatles?

The legal implications that still tied the band together took some time to settle. But in 1974, with documents already signed by Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and McCartney, the band members awaited Lennon for the final signing that would officially end the Beatles.

But Lennon never showed. He was in Florida with his secretary-slash-lover, May Pang, per the Walt Disney World Radio Podcast. The "Fab Four" officially ended when Lennon signed documents after being tracked down by an attorney at the resort. With his signature, the Beatles had ended their journey on their "long and winding road."

May Pang recounted her stay at the Polynesian Resort with Walt Disney World Radio Podcast host Lou Mongello in 2009. Mongello asked Pang to clear up the "urban legend" concerning the end of the Beatles as a band. "Let's put it this way," said Pang, who was a companion to Lennon for over 10 years. "The Beatles as a group officially — on paper ... we have to put this down on paper with all the lawyers ... and make it official. John [Lennon] signed the agreement papers [to end the band] down in Disney World in 1974."

The Samoa long-house [at the Polynesian resort] was allegedly where Pang and Lennon resided during their vacation. With the help of Pang's memoirs, vlogger AdamTheWoo pieced together that they stayed in the bottom corner room of the Samoa that faces the Magic Kingdom. Still open to the public, you could book this living setting of history for your own Disney vacation.

We also learned that across the lake from the Polynesian at the Contemporary resort was where Richard Nixon gave his "I Am Not a Crook" speech. Nixon had been friends with Walt Disney and stayed at Disneyland and Disney World frequently during his presidency.

 

[krista4]

I feel like David Allan Coe's original has been part of my life from my earliest memories. Some of y'all had parents who listened to the Beatles or Marvin Gaye or Simon and Garfunkel - I was swaddled in classic country & western.

Haven't listened to any of the playlist yet ( work ), but I love this song and am excited to hear the cover. Like you, I didn't have the benefit of that kind of sonic swaddling growing up and this was more in line with what I heard from my grandparents.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

I knew you meant it was prescribed, and Evan's Adderall is prescribed too.

Man, do I ever have the perfect lyrics to put right here, but it's a cover. Somebody might be using it, too.

Ooo- for once I think I know this one.

 

[shuke]

Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower - Billy Strings (Grateful Dead) NOT ON PLAYLIST

This is one of my favorite song sequences from the Dead, and BIlly's quartet nails it. Have seen Billy about 6 times, he is such an incredible talent.

You're welcome to those only listening to Spotify, since it's about 15 minutes.

I forgot to mention, I flirted with a number of themes for my list, and this song would have appeared in two of them.
1. All covers of Grateful Dead songs.
2. All bluegrass covers of non-bluegrass songs