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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
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Subject: Kate Bush cover versions
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Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 21:07:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  4 21:07:36 1985
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> From: nax@cornell.UUCP

> Wonder if Kate has had cover versions -- Oh no! Now I've done it!

On Pat Benetar's debut album, there is a horribly butchered version of
KB's "Wuthering Heights". (Kate's version was one of the biggest hits
ever in Europe).  Of course, almost no one in the U.S. has ever heard of
Kate Bush, and everyone knows who Pat Benetar is -- there is nothing
more annoying than when you're playing "Wuthering Heights" on "The Kick
Inside" and someone walks by and says "Hey, you like Pat Benetar too?"
(Well, there's one thing that comes close: it's when you're playing Mike
Oldfield's "Family Man" and someone comes by and says "Hey, who's this
covering Hall and Oates?")

There are some other covers I know of, but I've never heard any of them.
There's a rock version of "The Kick Inside" by Julie Covington and
there's a supposedly very strange version of "Wuthering Heights" by Jah
Wurzel.  Does anyone know who he is?

Also, there are two comedians in England, Faith Brown and Pamela
Stevenson, who nearly made their entire careers out of doing parodies of
Kate Bush songs (accompanied, of course, with parodies of her dance
routines).

Kate was once asked what her favorite cover version of one of her songs
is, and she replied "Poor Old Flea" by Madame Maria Nanky.  Now Kate has
no song entitled "Poor Old Flea", so I really wonder which song this is
a cover of.  Does anyone know who Madame Maria Nanky is?

Kate Bush has only recorded one cover herself.  The B-side to the single
for "Sat In Your Lap" is a wonderful version of Donnovan's song "Lord of
the Reedy River".  Kate and Peter Gabriel did a wonderful duet version
of Roy Harper's wonderful song "Another Day" (which was also recently
covered by This Mortal Coil), but it was only on a BBC TV show and was
never put on record (unless of course you're willing to buy bootlegs).

			"Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away"

			 Doug Alan
			  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)