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Elvis Costello Originals - World of Elvis Costello

Artist Song
Dusty Springfield  I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself  
The Damned  Neat Neat Neat  
Brinsley Schwarz  (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding  
Chet Baker  My Funny Valentine  
Sam & Dave  I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down  
Betty Everett  Getting Mighty Crowded  
Hank Williams  Why Don't You Love Me  
Tommy McLain  Sweet Dreams  
Loretta Lynn  Success  
The Flying Burrito Brothers  Hot Burrito,Pt. 1  
Merle Haggard  The Bottle Let Me Down (Down Every Road Version)  
George Jones  A Good Year for the Roses  
Charlie Rich  Sittin' and Thinkin'  
George Jones  Color of the Blues  
Tammy Wynette  Too Far Gone  
Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n' Roll Trio  Honey Hush  
Gram Parsons  How Much I've Lied  
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  From Head to Toe  
Ono  Walking on Thin Ice (Felix da Housecat's Tribute Mix)  
The Shirelles  Baby It's You  
Sam Cooke  Get Yourself Another Fool  
Linda Thompson & Richard Thompson  Withered and Died  
The Animals  Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood  
J.B. Lenoir  Eisenhower Blues  
Jean Redpath  She Moved Through the Fair  
Tom Waits  More Than Rain  
The Beach Boys  God Only Knows  
Johnny Hartman  They Didn't Believe Me  
Christopher Wilson & Michael Chance  Can She Excuse My Wrongs  
Charles Mingus  Weird Nightmare  
Bing Crosby  Gigi  
Kurt Weill & Lotte Lenya  6 Songs: No. 1. Lost In the Stars  
Howlin' Wolf  Hidden Charms  
The Supremes & Diana Ross  Remove This Doubt  
Bob Dylan  I Threw It All Away  
Little Willie John  Leave My Kitten Alone  
Bonnie Raitt  Everybody's Cryin' Mercy  
Dusty Springfield  I've Been Wrong Before  
Little Richard  Bama Lama Bama Loo  
The Louvin Brothers  Must You Throw Dirt In My Face  
James Carr  Pouring Water On a Drowning Man  
Ray Noble and His Orchestra & Al Bowlly  The Very Thought of You  
Jesse Winchester  Payday  
The Drifters  Please Stay  
Aretha Franklin  Runnin' Out of Fools  
'Til Tuesday  The Other End (Of the Telescope)  
Various Artists  11 Let's Misbehave  
Percy Sledge  Dark End of the Street  
Charles Mingus  Hora Decubitus  
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra  Blood Count  
Allen Toussaint  On Your Way Down  
Betty Harris  Nearer to You  
Lee Dorsey  Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further  
Lee Dorsey  Freedom for the Stallion  
Art Neville  All These Things  
Lee Dorsey  Wonder Woman  
The Carter Family  Ring Of Fire  
Buell H. Kazee  The Butcher's Boy (The Railroad Boy)  
Bing Crosby  Changing Partners  
The Velvet Underground & Nico  Femme Fatale  

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Like a force of nature, Elvis swept through pop music in a relentless quest for others’ tunes worthy of his attention, in the process altering more people’s record collections than a roomful of disc jockeys. He covers the Animals’ "Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood" like a mournful cloud, the drums pounding heavy behind his every phrase, hammering home the lyric and the burden he’s forced to bear. He transforms “Hot Burrito, No. 1,” the Gram Parsons-penned country-rock tearjerker, into a tender display of vulnerability on [i]Almost Blue[/i], renaming it "I'm Your Toy." And he ignites the afterburner under "I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down," Sam & Dave’s gravel road soul scorcher, reinventing it as a hypersonic new wave rave up. As you probe deeper, you'll be amazed at Costello’s ability to stamp his identity on virtually any page of the pop songbook.
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