Happy Birthday to the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Aron Presley. In honor of what would have been the King’s birthday, we’ve got a special Cover Story lined up with some of my favorite Elvis covers. Here’s what you’ll hear:
| Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
| Suspicious Minds | Fine Young Cannibals | Fine Young Cannibals | Elvis Presley |
| Viva Las Vegas | Plastilina Mosh | Manos Arriba!: Your Introduction to Mexico’s Electro Scene | Elvis Presley |
| Jailhouse Rock | John Mellencamp | Honeymoon In Vegas: Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Elvis Presley |
| Always On My Mind | The Pet Shop Boys | Discography: The Complete Singles Collection | Elvis Presley (originally by Brenda Lee, and also popularized by Willie Nelson) |
| I Heard It Through The Grapevine | The King | Gravelands | Marvin Gaye |
| Blue Moon Revisited (A Song for Elvis) | Cowboy Junkies | Best of Cowboy Junkies | Elvis Presley |
| Can’t Help Falling In Love | The Eels | Souljacker Pt. 2 | Elvis Presley |
| Love Me Tender | Caetano Veloso | A Foreign Sound | Elvis Presley |
| In The Ghetto | Eliert Pilarm | Eilert Is Back | Elvis Presley |
46 minutes | 
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I know he’s The King and all but to be fair, this is really covers of songs that Elvis covered – Elvis didn’t write any of these tunes. He might have been the first to perform Jailhouse Rock, but that would be it out of this list.
Who wrote Elvis’s famous tunes?
http://users.pandora.be/davidneale/elvis/originals/index.html
No Cheap Trick’s version of Don’t Be Cruel?
Really hate that PSB version 🙁 I think it a poor cover and also it stop the best christmas song being No1 in the UK, namely the Pogues Fairytale of New York.
Apart from that another great show.
Brian, I think you walk on water, but that was THE worst impression of Elvis that I have ever heard. On the flipside, the show was rockin’ as usual.
Agreed, don’t start an Elvis impersonation podcast. Otherwise great show, and thanks for the end. I was worried we weren’t going to get to hear Eliert Pilarm on this show.
OMG :O A Swedish Elvis?? I know I’ll never get those minutes back… 😉
One of these days I’ll learn…
If Brian puts music after the closing credits, “Just Say No!!!!”
Fun to hear The King included! Also on that first album is a nice, straight cover of Tim Buckley’s Song to the Siren.. (if an Elvis impersonation can ever be said to be a straight reading!) Song to the Siren was also beautifully covered by This Mortal Coil.. check it out!
Yo Zim :
Dead right about that Tim Buckley song m8.
In the FYC song, is that Jimmy Sommerville singing backup? It sure sounds like him.
Come on! We love Eliert Pilarm (because he is so bad). I knew Brian couldn’t get through an Elvis tribute show withoug playing 1 track by Eliert Pilarm. Brian has played at least 1 other track by him…it’s just as bad.
Tim
LOL! Yeah, it probably is required for an Elvis show. And hey, he’s better than Wing! 🙂
~Sharon