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Don't Back the Front

Apr 19, 2024 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

Playing all ORIGINALS (or something close to originals) of songs that became famous as covers!

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8:02 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front 7" 1977
8:04 PM		The Equals Police On My Back Explosion Ling Music Group 1967 Recorded by The Clash in 1980
8:06 PM		The Nerves Hanging on the Telephone The Nerves 1976 Written by Jack Lee. Recorded by Blondie in 1978.
8:14 PM		John Kongos He's Gonna Step On You Again Kongos Rhino/Elektra 1971 Covered by Happy Mondays in 1990.
8:18 PM		Prince Buster One Step Beyond 1964 Covered by Madness in 1979
8:21 PM		Dionne Warwick Always Something There to Remind Me 1963 Covered by Naked Eyes in 1982 (among others)
8:24 PM		Linda Lyndell What a Man 1968 Covered by Salt-n-Pepa in 1993
8:27 PM		Big Mama Thornton Hound Dog 1953 Elvis in 1956, among many others.
8:38 PM		Tommy James & The Shondells I Think We're Alone Now I Think We're Alone Now Rhino 1967 Covered by Tiffany in 1987
8:41 PM		Brinsley Schwarz (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz Parlophone UK 1974 Covered by Elvis Costello in 1978
8:44 PM		Racey Kitty Smash and Grab Parlophone UK 1979 Covered by Toni Basil (as "Mickey") in 1982
8:47 PM		Katrina and the Waves Going Down to Liverpool Katrina and the Waves 1985 Covered by the Bangles, also in 1985
8:52 PM		Robert Hazard Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 1979 Recorded by Cyndi Lauper in 1983
9:03 PM		The Regents Barbara Ann 1961 Beach Boys, 1965
9:04 PM		The Four Lads Istanbul (Not Constantinople) 16 Most Requested Songs Legacy/Columbia 1953 Recorded by TMBG in 1990
9:07 PM		Earl Jean I'm Into Something Good 1964 Recorded by Herman's Hermits as their debut single in 1964
9:10 PM		The Strangeloves I Want Candy I Want Candy: The Best of the Strangeloves Legacy/Epic Associated 1965 Recorded by Bow Wow Wow in 1982
9:12 PM		Shocking Blue Venus 1969 Recorded by Bananarama in 1986
9:22 PM		Slade Cum On Feel the Noize 1973 Recorded by Quiet Riot in 1983
9:25 PM		The Crickets I Fought the Law 1960 Released by The Clash in 1979
9:29 PM		Tom Ashley and Gwen Foster Rising Sun Blues 1933 The Animals, 1964
9:31 PM		Carl Perkins Blue Suede Shoes 1955 Recorded by Elvis in 1956
9:33 PM		Barrett Strong Money (That's What I Want) 1959 Recorded by the Beatles in 1963
9:42 PM		Gershon Kingsley Popcorn Popcorn Audio Fidelity 1969 Covered by Hot Butter in 1972
9:44 PM		Tears for Fears Mad World The Hurting Mercury 1983 Recorded by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules in 2001 for Donnie Darko
9:49 PM		Kris Kristofferson Me and Bobby McGee Kristofferson Monument/Legacy 1970 Recorded by Roger Miller, Gordon Lightfoot, and Janis Joplin (1971)
9:52 PM		Fred Neil Everybody's Talkin' Fred Neil 1966 Recorded by Harry Nilsson in 1969
9:56 PM		Harry Nilsson Without You 1971 Recorded by Badfinger in 1970
10:02 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- ELECTRO DISCO TIME
10:05 PM		Yellow Magic Orchestra Tong Poo Yellow Magic Orchestra Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc. 1978
10:12 PM		Brand Image Are You Loving? Are You Loving? - Single 1983
10:21 PM		The Human League Love Action (I Believe In Love) Dare Virgin Records 1981
10:26 PM		Telex L'amour Toujours (2021 Remaster) Wonderful World (Remastered) Mute 1985
10:29 PM		New Musik The Planet Doesn't Mind Warp Sony Music UK 1982
10:34 PM		Kidorikko Metronose 流行通信簿 Captain Records 1987
10:37 PM		Gay Cat Park I'm a Vocoder Gay Cat Park 1982
10:44 PM		Bill Nelson Living In My Limousine Quit Dreaming (And Get On the Beam) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1981
10:51 PM		Giorgio Moroder Chase 1978

Chat is archived.

Hi everyone!

Hi Dana! Love this song so much

Heyyyy Dana! It's....Crazy Membership Time!

Running, PRB on my back ...

Hi Rob & Lizbot (BTW Google giving intermittent service on Spinitron)

works now tho Hmmmmm!!

Hi Alan and Lizbot and Dana K! I was having trouble a couple of times earlier today but I'm here, yay!!

The secret here is try to sign on in Facebk then switch to Google...

And hi Esoterica!

ESOTERICA!!! yay, hI!

Alan, I can't do that because I'm not on Facebook

Hi Rob from merry land of pledges 🦅! Hi Alan!

Rob: I've been trying to avoid Facebk too, but "she" finally got to me!!!!

;)

Rob: Glad U R here tho, bird migration time Yes!!

Oh, I didn't really realize there was a cover to this John Congos song. I remember the original on the radio waaaay back in the 70s and it was and still is AWESOME

i was a little while back on DBTF when I learned that a favorite song of mine was a cover.

Considered the first song to feature a sample!

This shit is hard

Dana played the original and I was like whoa who covered this?!?!

Fridee Noyt!

and now this! never knew the mondays song was a cover version

*Kongos

Buster!

I knew it was Whitney Houston's cousin, Dionne, singing, by her distinct tone!

NJ gals!

hey y'all

yes, indeed, os!

hey alan!!!

Isley Bros famous summer breeze was inspired by the qually iconic Seals and Crofts......and yeah, leard What a Man first by Salt n Pepa!

howdy, rob!

Hi Es!!

hi liz!

howdy DubNP!

Hi ESO!

great friday night tunes!!!

go, big mama!

Alan, House Wrens and Chimney Swifts have returned to my neighborhood for the summer, and Yellow-rumped Warblers are passing through

Big make out song in 8th grade

Hi all, I'm old enough that the original Thinks we're alone now is the only one I know.

And to suck at typing

Me too but just barely/mostly because I was way into oldies radio

lovely, alex!

Y'all weren't down with Tiffany

Like I was in 5th grade or so when Tiffany's version came out but I was already a big tommy James fan

me, too!

hey commie!!

Nick Lowe!

I was negative 3 when the Tiffany version came out

My parents got married that year

Hi eso!!

I like that nickname for your nickname

hey commie, thanks!

How can you be so young DanaK when your taste runs the same as all the grizzled late 70s NYC club scenesters?

I really want to listen to this but I also really need to work on my own show!!

I do need to make dinner also and that I can listen to the radio during!

nonono! well, ok

good point, alex!

ha!

@Alex, that's very flattering, I guess I'm a grizzled late 70s NYC club scenester at heart

good to hear form ya, commie!

from

Oof! I finally got back in! Spinitron server error for the past 40 minutes locked me out of the chat

This is the most annoying time to have that error!

nooooooo!

i have had that happen, too!

Totally scary also!!!!

@ ESO: Not a bad typo tho, I heard a PRB announce that the merch includes "Dino Shorts" instead o shirts LOLOL!

@Dana K / Eso - Yeah, it’s driving me nuts! Gave me that error a few times earlier in the drive, but the other times it was a quick fix of just restarting. This time that didn’t cut it. I had to log in through FB.

Lizbot: Had trouble with google, so I half sign into Facebook, give no pwd then try google, works so far..

Never knew there was an original version of Girls Wanna Have Fun!!

i know cool, right, os?

Like Cyndi's 80s cute own!

@Alan Pasicznyk - huh…dang! Wish I’d seen yr trick sooner! Im catching up on the chat now and just saw that. I really didn’t want to start using FB to get into the chat, but I had to give up on the google route tonight!

And they have a namesake 80s movie of the song

Always love to hear Brinsley Schwarz “What’s So Funny…”

When you donate during a show, does that count as cred with the programming? Cause I gave during your shows but think Jerry Gordon and Marvin Rosen deserve a shout too but I'm not in a position to give during their shows.

I definitely prefer the Robert Wyatt cover of Shipbuilding, but I don’t know if that’s the more famous one

i only ever heard (and quite enjoy) the Tiffany version.

@ Alex: All these DJ's are cool about the fact that the $$$ all goes to the same place...

hey colin, me, too!

I think shipbuilding was actually released first by Robert Wyatt. Costello wrote the lyrics and I think recorded it but everyone involved agreed that Wyatt's version was the one to release.

And it was initially written for Wyatt. It's a little confusing

It gets a little hairy when you deal with people who write songs for others

@ Alan. Thanks. I'm soothed by your answer.

i was actually just wondering, is that a sax or kazoo?

Yeah, Costello def recorded it. Another weird one is Hey Jude, since technically Wilson Pickett’s cover came out before The Beatles’ original and was very successful in the U.S.

OHHHH

Crazy here but When google doesn't work and gives Error 400, immediately click on FB, then don't sign in but hit the FB "X" and then you're good in chat...whew!!!

The They Might Be Giants version of this is well known among watchers of Tiny Toons

I wonder if there's enough material to do a show on hits written by staff songwriters who became stars....

@Alex from Media - So many Carole King songs come to mind

This is one!

ISTANBUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Hi jimbooooo!

hi jimboooooo!

@ DanaK That was a gotcha. Had to look it up, Carole King A-gain!

omg, this is a fun bunch of tunes! i'm bopping over here.

Earl Jean I'm Into Something Good is cute

And the next song after, almost thought of rapper Lil Bow Wow, lmao

....and I'm back, google tried to censor me LOLOL!!!!!!

@ Rob from merry land of pledges 🦅 - Don’t know if you’re still here, I was locked outta the chat when you were talking birds earlier here, but I there is a school down the street from me where the chimney swifts gather in murmuration-like formations and dive around the roof and it’s an entertaining way to spend the dusk!

This track is HOTTT!! 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

Ha google!!!! Censor thaaat!!!

Show has been awesome. Venus.

Thanks, DubNP!

Kind of an outlier style wise for Shocking Blue yet their biggest hit.

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...sorry, got carried away....

@Alan - Google needs to stop messing. I don’t wanna fight a browser, but I will if I need to!

@ Lizbot: Fight always!!!

this playlist has me reliving the summer of 87, but with the original versions.

love it!

So glad you're playing Slade!

yeah! slade!

Hi Josh and Andrew!

Such a fun show so far

friday night heavy jams!

hi dana!

What a fun show theme

wow have not heard slade in a while

such a fun theme

hey john! hey zach! hey andrew!

agree, zach!

howdy ESO

happy friday night!

first time i turned this program on

it's a good'un, john!

I like this Rising Sun best.

oh yeah it's cool, alex

good evening john, you tuned in at the perfect time.

@ESO i noticed, have to make more of an effort to turn this station on

it's the best, john

thanks colin

I'm finally able to log in from an alternate Google account. Ugh. Anyway, it was great to hear Shocking Blue and Slade; I know both of the originals from childhood and never particularly liked the Bananarama and Quiet Riot covers, even though I liked Bananarama

I think those versions are better too, Rob

rob from maryland2 sorry to hear google is not playing nice

rob, my coworkers don't know they are gonna be listening to bananararama tomorrow.

Dana K hell of a show

Hi Lizbot, I just logged back in. There's a place a few blocks from us where Chimney Swifts congregate in the fall on their way south. It is entertaining to watch them at dusk. The swifts I saw this week were flying around there late morning

Colin, woo hoo!!

john from FlorhamPark, yup. It's been going on for a couple of weeks for me, and not just on this station

I was lucky to grow up listening to the Flying Lizards!

Lovin the show tonight. Making nachos while listening.

rob i have a facebook account if that helps at all

I'm back with this account!

john, for better or worse, I don't have a facebook account

NO WAY!

noelle, nachos😍

Rob: Count that for better :)

Mother Popcorn

Especially this sound playing

popcorn!

Thanks everyone for the kind words! Hard to keep up with this chat!

loving the show Dana and Esoterica!

rob no problem, wonder if the powers that be will have another way for us to log in here

Like this Pop better than the cover..wow!

This tune is a swoon. Really love the Gary Jules version too.

The Hurting is such a great album

agree, Noëlle!

and hi...

hi richard!

Heya ESO!

glad you are liking this show, which I had nothing to do with sculpting for you!

i am just hanging out really digging this exceelent show!

excellent

now this one slays me!

Coming round to KK in my old age.

i love him

john, I wonder too

lol, alex, i think i came around to kk when i saw him (the beard) in some 80's mini-series

I wonder if the reason I'm liking originals better is that there's generally less production going on.

Dana & ESO: Y'all are full of Surprises Tonite Thanx!!

I was thinking that too, Alex. There are a few originals I didn't play because I thought the cover was better - Respect comes to mind

@ Colin For me when I first heard "Nobody Wins" it was like. Yup KK speaks truth.

sure thing, alan!

Three more donations to hit our goal!

One more song in the set!

Harry 😍

Sometimes I think that with a really great track, it's all just variations with different voices.....can't pick the best really..

I won the 7 inch of this for participation in in a top 100 songs countdown that year. (got all of the 5 top songs)

...tho it might be cool to electronically over lap the voices...hmmmm...

i see what you mean, alan

Alex, how cool

This has been a fun exercise. Thanks for putting it together!

Excellent show tonight!

thx! on behalf of dana

hi debbie

..Nothing like it anywhere on the dial ..

Happy Spring Drive, Eso & Dana K!! I learned so much tonight :)

Who was it on prb that did a whole show of Eisbaer covers? That was when I decided I must donate. Must go down in radio lore as a great moment!

That was Jon Solomon!

You're gonna cover up your TACO BELL knuckle tattoos?!

my friends and family are unprepared for the amount of cards i am gonna want to play once i get the playing cards.

haha

WPRB BELL

Shiftin' gears now..

YMO!

Oh this is sweet

R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto! One of his last pieces is being performed at Bang On a Can’s Long Play Festival in Brooklyn the first weekend in May

I am most likely going, but gotta figure out some logistics

I have to look into that!

TWO MORE FOLKS

Sideshow Bob has "luv" and "hat" tattooed on his hands (because Simpsons characters have only four fingers per hand).

I went to the weird VR 3D concert he recorded himself performing just before he died at The Shed in nyc and didn’t think I’d like the VR aspect, but it was actually really cool

this song makes me notice my dusty unplayed game cube.

@Dana K - it should be a really good weekend. Anna Meredith and Laurie Spiegel pieces as well

Sakamoto did one of the most baller moves I can think of as a DJ: He hated the music his favorite restaurant in NYC always played, so he curated a mix of what he wanted to hear there for them, unasked, and they were flattered and switch to his playlists! If only we could just do that!

amazing, liz!

Liz bot, I did that at a bar in my town. I keep a currently 38 hour playlist of wprb songs I thought were great/cool/so strange. Then I made a condensed 6 hr version if all the bangers, and now my neighborhood brewery plays it sometimes

@ESO - Yeah, can you imagine?! I’d LOVE to do that!

totally!

Woao, heya DJs Dana K Lizbot Esoterica and everyone! Great soundtrack for a drive home from philly

It's on Spotify if anyone wants to share it. I've been keeping wprb finds in this playlist for more than a few years

This rules

yo TAndy!

agree, yoni!

@ Tyler I do too with WPRB and with several other streams as well. It's becoming a curation problem.

tyler, 👀 i gotta a wprb find playlist as well! we need to make trade.

Hey TAndy!

liz, re: recording songs of the radio. shazam to streaming playist is the new modern radio tape? (less-static?)

Amazing song

12 donations! Three to 15!

@Tyler Blaetz - That’s awesome! And even better that it came from PRB playlists!

Oh wow- perfect follow up

liz what were the three record stores, siren was one, right?

13!! Two more!!

love this one! it's on my beach house playlist🤣

Everyone went to bed so now I can listen.

Hi Colin! I guess in a way, though even more so just recording the station stream off a computer and editing together the songs you want in Logic, but that’s a lot of work! My old taped-off-the-radio tape mixes from the 80s & 90s have a lot of songs where the front is cut off from the few seconds it took to run to my tape deck and hit record,’and the ends often cut off or faded early for station IDs or ads

@ESO - Siren was definitely the final one, and someone got that one. Tyler almost got it! I don’t know the others. It was Read and Cailyn. I know Cailyn et al were driving around dropping off the records yesterday while I was doing my show

liz,🤣my whole life: oh so thats what the beginning of that song sounds like!

Old school mixtape swap gots to happen 📼

thx for the 411! liz

Colin meet me at forest and main one day if you want to hear it live. Otherwise I'll post the links here in a moment if the platform allows

Here's the big long one:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3Hpf9dgyArdyWs1DgV4c0k?si=suadxa_2RAaZiZi-_Aacpw&pi=u-QiDx26C_QGme

@Colin - Ha! For real! I had other tape mixes I took VERY srsly once CD players became commonplace and cheap, made up of songs I taped off of CDs and tapes I already owned on my double tape-deck/CD player combo stereo, and for those I planned them out down to the second to not waste any space on the tape sides! That was THE most important part of planning for a road trip!

@Tyler B - Whoa!

@ESO - no prob!

Got dem dirty Dolby mixtapes

@ Lizbot. I have been doing the same mix thing for my european vacations. It gets so I flash back to my experiences when I hear any of the songs.

i grew up in a dolby-free house hold. i can still hear the hiss

Most of the 110 and 120 minute commercially available blank tapes were really low quality. You couldn’t usually get a good blank tape over 90 minutes in most stores, but I always wanted the maximum tape length, so I went to this small stereo equipment store in South Jersey near Cherry Hill…blanking on the name, this was back in the early 90s…but I think it was on Rte 70, and I’d stock on this high quality 120 min tapes they sold

Got dem TDK maxell certron Fuji casetttttttttttes

Just couldn't deal with the jug handles to get there Liz Bot. :)

@Alex from Media - Yeah, now I still make mixes road-trips and flights, but it doesn’t have that physical element of building the tape mix song by song and getting the segues just right, let alone the painstakingly small carefully drawn track list! Sometimes I squeezed tiny illustrations in the margins

@Jimbooo - Noice!

😍 track is amazing btw

@Valence Roffle - haha, I don’t mind Jersey barriers and traffic circles cuz South Jersey is where I learned to drive! I was just used to it and thought everywhere else was like that when I was 16!

I think the jughandle is an elegant way to turn left

@ Lizbot Uncanny how like the playlist right beside the chat with the little pictures....

@Dana K - Precisely! Jersey = class!

I have driven in so many places, but South Jersey is insane! And I grew up there mostly. LOL

@Alex from Media - 🤔, never thought of that, but yeah!

Late Nite Hi Energy Set Thanx! 👈 👉 👈 👈 👉 👈 👉 👈 👈 👉

The cloverleaf left turn...that's hotttttttt

@Valencd Roffle - I have no problem driving in Jersey or NYC, but I didn’t love driving in L.A., especially when it rained and people acted like rain meant the coming of the apocalypse and suddenly forgot how to drive!

I really like the "elegant way to turn left" concept though Dana!

Take the jug handle to the roundabout to the cloverleaf and you're there

LA drivers are peculiar

@jimboo- clover leaves are purdy from above!

I dunno Liz Bot The GW bridge at rush is not worth it.

@jimboo - now thinking of Clover department store and its logo and hiding in its spinning clothes racks as a kid

Aliens will think roadways are our "art"

In LA they don't even know where their windshield wiper switch is!

@jimboo - maybe they aren’t wrong. JG Ballard would agree with them.

*adds this banger to the beach house playlist.

I worked in Corpus Christi, one day it rained and there was a 20 car pileup, resident said "That's normal"

I cannot deal with driving in countries that drive on the left side, though. And the worst was in the Bahamas where my rental car was American, so the steering wheel was on the left, BUT they still drive on the left there as a vestige of British colonialism, so I was WAY too far left on the road

@alan P - 😬

@lizbot Clover was great.

Great show, Thank you!

@Valence Roffle - Yeah, I cannot deal with LA people in rain. I was there during a downpour and stores closed early and everyone freaked out and tried to drive home at the same time. Awful!

radio gold tonight🤩

@Steve Keane - a lotta my childhood clothes came from thrift stores, hand me downs and Clover, but I have a formative Clover traumatic memory of my mom leaving me there, briefly, when I was 6!

and always remember, Radio boss cat says more tuna!

We both enjoyed your show, Dana K and Esoterica. Thanks and good night

Night everyone!

Thanks Dana & Esoterica! Much Love to Y'all 🧡💛💚 Take care n bcnu!

Super show... havin a riot with Dana and Eso💥💥💥🎹🎹🎹

Thank you all so much!

I’m visiting family in Germany this summer and I cannot decide if I should attempt to have fun fun fun on the Autobahn or just take trains everywhere! I gotta get from Hamburg to Stuttgart! Not a short drive!

Thanks for the show y'all!

thx everyone!

Thanks Dana and Eso! Super-fun show tonight! Loved the first 2/3 theme and the last bumping hour!

Next up Music With Spaaace......................🛸 🪐

@Liz, I hate the 405. That is the king between laurel canyon and anywhere south of messes for sure. I only went there between 2 and 4 in the morning when I could. Then it's nice and super open.

NYC is a mess 24/7... lol Good Night folks!

@Valence Roffle - Ugh. Yeah, the 405 is no good. It’s like planning to drive to another city going from one part of LA to another in heavy traffic! The drive to Palm Springs Easter weekend was epically terrible too!

@Valence Roffle - At least they drive on the right side of the road in Germany, so there’s that!

G’night everyone! Happy Drive-ing/chatting!

True that! Correct side of the road!

PS... 8 & hours from Thousand Oaks to Escondido. Good grief!

THanks Dana and ESO!