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Covers - World of Motown

Artist Song
The Afghan Whigs  Come See About Me  
Alton Ellis  It's a Shame  
Cyndi Lauper  What's Going On  
Detroit Cobras, The  Bye Bye Baby  
Bananarama & Fun Boy Three  Really Saying Something  
Grateful Dead  Second That Emotion  
The High Numbers  Leaving Here  
The J. Geils Band  First I Look At the Purse  
Joan Osborne  Smiling Faces Sometimes  
John Lee Hooker  Money (That's What I Want)  
KC & The Sunshine Band  It's the Same Old Song (LP Version)  
Kiki Ebsen  Tears of a Clown  
Laura Nyro  The Bells  
Linda Ronstadt  Tracks of My Tears  
Lulu  Stubborn Kind of Fellow  
Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn  If This World Were Mine  
The Rance Allen Group  Just My Imagination (Just My Salvation)  
The Rascals  Too Many Fish In the Sea  
Nancy Wilson  Uptight (Everything's Alright)  
The Slits  I Heard It Through the Grapevine  
The Staple Singers  You've Got to Earn It  
Taj Mahal  I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie Honeybunch) [Bonus Track]  
Thao  You've Really Got a Hold On Me  
Iggy & The Stooges  Money (That's What I Want)  
Vanilla Fudge  Shotgun  

Comment:

The golden age of Motown was still in full effect when blues legend John Lee Hooker stepped into the studio in 1966 to cut a slinky jump-boogie cover — complete with note-bending, [i]mind[/i]-bending trombone licks — of Barrett Strong’s “Money (That's What I Want).” Two years earlier, the High Numbers recorded a mere four tracks before morphing into the Who, and their whiskey-throated, snare-hammering version of Eddie Holland’s “Leaving Here” stayed buried in the vaults for [i]decades[/i] before being unearthed for their expanded [i]Odds and Sods[/i]. And the Rance Allen Group turned the well-worn R&B-cover formula on its head: instead of rewriting a sacred track to give it a worldly luster, their version of the Temptations’ “Just My Imagination” pointed its intentions heavenward, with the lyric’s “imagination” transformed into “salvation.”
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