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From: jcjeff@ihlpg.UUCP (Richard Jeffreys)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Kate Bush cover versions
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:23:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 13:23:15 1985
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> > From: nax@cornell.UUCP
> > Wonder if Kate has had cover versions -- Oh no! Now I've done it!
> 
> ...there's a supposedly very strange version of "Wuthering Heights" by Jah
> Wurzel.  Does anyone know who he is?

There is a band in England called the Wurzels, (who come from Somerset)
they sometimes do parodies of hit songs in their own style. For example, one
of their songs was a parody of Melanie's "Brand New Key" which the Wurzels
entitled, I think, "Brand New Combine Harvester". If Jah (I question the
name, as they do have very strong "West Country" accents, the name could have
easily been misinterpreted) Wurzel is from this group, then it would indeed
be a very strange cover of "Wuthering Heights"

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

Wrongo!!
Faith Brown has made her career from doing impersonations of Margaret
Thatcher, and she's very good at doing that. Though it is possible she has
impersonated KB, once or twice, she certainly did not (even nearly) make it
an "entire career" 

Pamela Stevenson ("Not The Nine O' Clock News"(BBC), but now on "Saturday
Night Live" (NBC)) has also impersonated KB a few times, but is probably 
better known (in England) for her impersonation of Toya Wilcox, (a lisping
singer/actress) on NTNOCN. Pamela Stevenson, like Faith Brown, DID NOT (even
come close to nearly) make impersonating KB an "entire career".

-- 
 [ I'm bitten by the Rock and Roll disease;
                    Oh, won't you help me make a record ?  Please ? - Fanny ]
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