Turn Up...That Great Song!!!

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Turn Up...That Great Song!!! 01:02:42

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This is a mix I made for FACT Magazine a few years ago.
Thought it would be a fun one to upload here. Hope ya dig it!

“About 10 or so years ago, I came across a “fake” Beatles 8-track tape on Pickwick titled The Tribe Sing And Play The Hits Of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. I remember coming across these budget “sound-a-like” tapes and records quite often at record shops and thrift stores for years. They are basically collections of cover versions of hit songs quickly recorded by random session musicians and designed to kind of trick people into buying them, thinking they are getting the “original artist.” Like, the cover would say, in real large print, “HITS OF THE ROLLING STONES,” then in real small type, “performed by The Current Event.”

Anyway, back to this “Beatles” tape… these sound-a-likes always gave me a laugh, but I was quite shocked to see that this one also included a sound-a-like version of Yoko Ono’s song “Why” from her Plastic Ono Band LP. Now this was a song I LOVE, but never in a million years would I think this song would be a candidate for a “sound-a-like”! It’s actually noisier and wilder than her version! So over the years, I have been picking up as many of these sound-a-like and early cover version LPs as I can. I’ve collected some of my favorites here for ya’ll to check out… I included a couple extra “cover versions” that blow my mind as well…these weren’t recorded as sound-a-likes, but just wild cover versions by some ‘70s high school bands, and even stuff like Hawkwind done by easy listening king James Last!

So here it is… Some of the craziest and weirdest from my collection… Easy Listening Hawkwind! High School Foreigner! Disco Pink Floyd! Fake Bowie! Fake Zeppelin! Fake Wendy Carlos! Fake Jean-Michel Jarre! And even Fake Public Image Ltd!!! And MORE!!! Thanks to my pals Steve Kenney and Greg Baise for always keeping their eyes peeled for these kinds of recordings for me! Cheers! ENJOY! AND TURN UP THAT GREAT SONG!!!”

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