Category Archives: Audio

Originals: Listen The Snow is Falling by Yoko Ono and The Plastic Ono Band (covered by Galaxie 500)

December 4, 2013Galaxie 500, OriginalsAndy Aldridge

OK, this is slap-dash research so don’t take it as gospel… Listen The Snow is Falling was first released as the b-side of John & Yoko’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over) in the US in December 1971, it got it’s first UK release on the flip of Yoko’s Mind Train in January 1971, and then as the b-side of Happy Xmas (War Is Over) in December 1972.

Listen The Snow Is Falling

My cursory scouring of YouTube suggests there is only one recording, although the version released on the CD reissue of The Wedding Album contained an intro not released on the singles.

Galaxie 500 recorded it for their final album This Is Our Music

There’s an awesome live version on Copenhagen

I’m happy that Dean & Britta have played this live – and a search of YouTube will find plenty of videos of that – but Galaxie 500′s version is frankly untouchable so it alone is sharing this page with Yoko. Don’t even try and suggest that this isn’t one of the three best cover versions ever recorded – because you’d be wrong!

Originals: Life Will Pass You By by Kaleidoscope (covered by Damon & Naomi)

November 27, 2013Damon & Naomi, OriginalsAndy Aldridge

Kaleidoscope were a psych-folk band who released four albums between 1966 and 1970. Life Will Pass You By was on their second LP A Beacon from Mars

Damon & Naomi's cover was released on their second album The Wondrous World of Damon & Naomi, in 1995. Here’s the version from the Bootleg Edition released for Record Store Day earlier this year

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Originals: The Beginning of Goodbye by Marty Robbins (covered by Cagney and Lacee)

November 20, 2013Dean Wareham, OriginalsAndy Aldridge

When I first put my database together a cursory bit of research didn’t reveal anything useful about the track “The Last Goodbye” – the sleeve told me it was by “Robbins” but I knew nothing more, so it went into my database as being “written by Robbins, originally by unknown” – in the 20 odd years since then Google got better and YouTube got made and it turns out that the song isn’t called “The Last Goodbye” at all but “The Beginning of Goodbye” although to be honest I know precious little more about the song.

This video on YouTube suggests it was recorded in 1971 but not released until much later…

Cagney and Lacee’s version, “The Last Goodbye” was released on their only album – Six Feet of Chain (which has already had one incorrectly named song in this series).

MP3: The Last Goodbye by Cagney and Lacee

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Originals: Jealous Guy by John Lennon (covered by Luna)

November 13, 2013Luna, OriginalsAndy Aldridge

So John Lennon makes his second appearance in this series – he’ll be back when we reach the Rs for 70% of a track.

Jealous Guy started out as Child of Nature, written after The Beatles attended a lecture by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and demoed at Harrison’s home in Esher in 1968.

The track never made it onto a Beatles album and was rewritten as Jealous Guy for Lennon’s Imagine.

Luna recorded the track for Noah Baumbach’s 1997 film Mr Jealousy

MP3: Jealous Guy by Luna

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Originals: I Want to Boogie With You by Lou Reed (covered by Angel Corpus Christi and Dean Wareham)

November 6, 2013Dean Wareham, OriginalsAndy Aldridge

A quick supplement to my earlier post – I was a bit lazy to have left this off, but in the light of a recent sad event it gets a bonus post of its own – I Want To Boogie With You was from Lou Reed’s 1979 album The Bells