Episodes

Coverville 601: The John Hughes Tribute

August 11, 2009

Featuring:

1	Holiday Road Darren Hayman Great British Holiday EP’s Orig. Lindsey Buckingham	2	Turning Japanese 16 Volt Newer Wave Orig. The Vapors	3	If You Were Here Ben Lee And Spitoon In Their Eyes: ’90s Teen Bands Vs. ’80s Teen Movies Orig. Thompson Twins
4	Don’t You (Forget About Me) pacific! JCPenney Presents: Don’t You Forget About Me – The Covers (EP) Orig. Simple Minds	5	Pretty In Pink The Dresden Dolls High School Reunion – a Tribute to Those Great 80’s Films! Orig. Psychedelic Furs	6	If You Leave Rafter Guilt By Association Vol. 2 Orig. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
7	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want She & Him (500) Days of Summer Orig. The Smiths	8	Try A Little Tenderness Ernie Halter Lo-Fidelity Orig. Otis Redding	9	Danke Schoen Deluxe If Things Were To Go Wrong Orig. Wayne Newton/Bert Kaemfert
10	Can’t Help Falling In Love Lick The Tins Some Kind of Wonderful Orig. Elvis Presley	11	You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet Baby Kirsty MacColl She’s Having A Baby Orig. The Smiths

54 minutes |

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11 Comments

Dinah on August 12, 2009 at 1:17 pm

I can see this version of Turning Japanese isn't too popular according to the voting, but I also liked that it didn't sound like every other cover of it I've ever heard. Liz Phair's is one of my favorites but mainly that's probably because I really like her. Most covers of TJ sound much like hers and much like each other. Props on this choice.
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Alan on August 12, 2009 at 4:23 pm

Fun list, though I have to quibble with giving credit for the original version of Try a Littler Tenderness to Otis Redding. His is the definitive version (in my opinion at least), but I believe it was originally recorded by Frank Sinatra in the 40s.
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David on August 12, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Brian, if there is one thing I’ve learned by listening to coverville over the years (and especially today), it is that we have totally different ideas as to what is ‘good’ at times. Really, track 4 is ‘good’? If that’s the best you have of “Don’t you (forget about me)” or if that’s the best off that CD, then its time to call it quits. That just sucked! Totally ruined that song.
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Wayne From The UK on August 12, 2009 at 9:40 pm

@ David, that's really, really harsh. It's a free show and Brian works incredibly hard to bring us incredible shows. Sometimes I don't like a song, but that's just down to personal taste.

Back to the show, I thought it was great and I digged the fact you concentrated mostly on those movies that you had a more personal connection to, the 1983 to 1986 period. Home Alone, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Xmas Vacation are my faves, but I agree that musically the earlier shows had more to offer.

I do get slightly perturbed though when I listen and concentrate to the lyrics of Pretty in Pink and long again for the days of my youth when I didn't get the lyrics!

Well done Sir and RIP John.
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JR H. on August 13, 2009 at 5:48 am

I haven't listened to all the tracks yet, but here is a good attempt at compiling a Ferris Bueller soundtrack:

http://captainsdead.com/ferris-buellers-day-off-u…
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Geoff on August 13, 2009 at 8:10 am

Thanks for playing the "Lick the Tins" version of "Can't Help Falling in Love", Brian. It always cheers me up.
Loved the song by dear Kirsty MacColl as well.

The cover of Don't You Forget About Me screamed 80s at me in a fun way. I guess you had to be there.
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Wayne From The UK on August 13, 2009 at 1:02 pm

@ JR H. A pretty decent soundtrack is out there in cyberland if you go look. There is also a customer Planes, Trains and Automobiles soundtrack out there too that has all the songs and clips that Ira Newborn's soundtrack didn't have but are pivotal to the film. Yes, including the "Welcome to Marathon" rant!!
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Roger Green on August 13, 2009 at 7:15 pm

Re: Try A Little Tenderness: in my Top Pop Singles, under the Otis Redding listing, it says: "#6 hit for Ted Lewis in 1933"! Well before Sinatra. The Wikipedia has a bunch of other folks who also recorded, including "on December 8, 1932 by the Ray Noble Orchestra (with vocals by Val Rosing) followed by both Ruth Etting and Bing Crosby in 1933," though it doesn't note Ted Lewis. Here's the Ted Lewis version: http://www.archive.org/details/TedLewis-bigBand-1…
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- Big Nick on August 14, 2009 at 9:23 am
  
  Bing Crosby's version's on iTunes and it's actually really good. I haven't found any earlier version than Noble's, though.
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b.d. on August 13, 2009 at 11:44 pm

okay, i've been focused on work for the last several weeks and i'm just now coming up for air. i didn't know John Hughes had passed until i heard Brian's voice this afternoon. growing up in the 80s i saw and loved all these movies. the music was always the best parts as the music always seemed to be stuff i was listening to at the time. i was listening to the some kind of wonderful soundtrack album (yes, the big black cd's as my kids call vinyl albums) and i was thinking how much i enjoyed the 'lick the tins' cover of 'can't help falling in love.' it's next to the ub40 cover of the same song and 'the fine young cannibals' cover of 'suspicious minds.' funny how the elvis covers congregated themselves on the shelf. thanks Brian. –bd
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Greg on June 12, 2010 at 8:43 pm

The Dream Academy version of the Smiths song is definitely available on CD.
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