It’s a late night here, at 12:40am on the morning of April 1st, so I’m going to get shownotes for this episode later. But you will hear some amazing stuff on tonight’s show. Songs you may not have realized were covers:
| Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | ? |
| Call Me | The Original Onions | Grill Skills | Blondie |
| Honky Tonk Woman | Godfrey Daniel | Take a Sad Song… | The Rolling Stones |
| Safety Dance | Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra | Cocktail: Shakin’ & Stirred | Men Without Hats |
| I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For | Big Daddy | Cutting Their Own Groove | U2 |
| Stairway To Heaven | The Beatnix | Stairways to Heaven | Led Zeppelin |
| Come As You Are | Iris T. and the Billy Rubin Trio | Is It Is or Is It Ain’t | Nirvana |
| Oops I Did It Again! | Shek Baker, Kurt Stockdale and Chris Messick | Supermasterpiece | Britney Spears |
36 minutes | 
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I was fooled until “Stairway to Heaven.”
a)The style is too lazily molded after “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “Twist & Shout”
b) There’s no way even the Fab 4 could have written those lyrics (pre-Sgt-Pepper, anyway). It’s like a toddler reciting Shakepeare
At first I thought that was just that one song that was an April Fools joke, but I must say I was confused once “Oops I did it Again” came on, cause that was also clearly a fake…
Turns out the *whole episode* is a fake. Good show, good show I say!
But technically, Britney Spears did cover “her” song; it was written by committee
Damn you!!! I just told everyone I work with that Safety Dance was orignally done by Englebert Humperdink!
Good idea, but didn’t get me. Since “Call Me” was written for the soundtrack to American Gigolo it stuck out pretty obviously that this was a cover.
Oh man, I wish I hadn’t procrastinated listening to this until April 15. You totally pwn3d me.
I just started to listen to Coverville (after being referred here from another podcast), and this was the first episode I listened to (this morning, on the way to work).
I have to admit, I was sucked in all the way till the last one, when I really just couldn’t believe that song was a cover of a Louis Armstrong song, though I ended up running a web search to be sure, which turned up this:
http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/10853/
I’m still catching up on a couple of other podcasts I like, so I guess I know now that I have to watch out for April 1 editions…..
You got me hook, line, and sinker. THANKS!
Well, after the Groundhog Day edition I knew not to trust you too blindly. Only just got the chance to listen to the ‘cast today, and I’m pleased to say that it was with Honky Tonk Woman that I thought, hello, something’s up here. Then all the others just confirmed it for me until Oops I Did It Again which just had me in fits!
Well done, another corker. Your show just gets better & better.
You had me fooled for at least halfway thru. . . excellent execution within an already superior podcast.
Can you do a real version of this – unknown (or under-credited) originals of famous covers, by solid artists, later blindly accepted as new works years later by the mainstream performer?
Tom Waits performing “Jersey Girl” (Springsteen made it a concert signature) for example.
Does it still count as an April Fool’s Joke when you’re fooled until listening for the second time on May 7?
Well, this specific episode is how I found out about Coverville. It was in a list of top Internet April Fools pranks. I already knew that this was a joke, but when I played it for my brother and sister-in-law, they were taken in until “Stairway to Heaven”. My brother is a huge U2 fan and was fooled by Big Daddy! The look on my sister-in-law’s face was priceless when “Stairway” first started, before she realized that it was not the original.
This episode isn’t working on your web site and it didn’t come thru Itunes…any other way to get it?
You had me until the very last song. Probably didn’t help that I was listening in June…
aw, man! my april’s fool came in october. this is awesome!