ELTON JOHN - THE COVERS RECORD (IMPORT 180g LP + CD)

Elton John The Covers Record on Import 180g LP + CD

Back in the days when full-length LPs were still considered a luxury item, record labels devised a way to get people to buy them: hire an unknown singer to do a full-length album's worth of cover versions of all the latest hits. People bought these albums because it was an affordable way to amass a collection of the latest hits, and cheaper than buying the original singles.

In the late '60s Elton John was one of these "unknown singers" and although the cover albums did not afford him with much creative room (given that by contract he was not allowed to reinterpret any of the covers), they did pay the rent. An interesting glimpse at Elton before he became a pop star. Who knows if his mastery of the pop song is not in some small way owed to this early apprenticeship inside the belly of the beast.

Elton John The Covers Record Track Listing:

1.  Cottonfields (Huddie Leadbetter)
2.  Lady D’Arbanville (Cat Stevens)
3.  Natural Sinner (Andy Fairweather/Low)
4.  Spirit In The Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
5.  Travelin’ Band (John Fogerty)
6.  I Can’t Tell The Bottom From The Top (Guy Fletcher/Doug Flett)
7.  Good Morning Freedom (Cook/Greenway/Hammond /Hazelwood)
8.  Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone/Weldon Irving)
9.  Sweet honesty (Beverly Martin)
10. Day Is Done (Nick Drake)
11. Way To Blue (Nick Drake)
12. Time Has Told Me (Nick Drake)
13. In The Summertime (Ray Dorset)
14. Up Around The Bend (John Fogerty)
15. She Sold Me Magic (Lou Christie/Herbert Twyla)
16. Come And Get It (Paul McCartney)
17. Love Of The Common People (John Hurley/Ronnie Wilkins)
18. Signed Sealed Delivered (Wonder/Garrett/Wright/Hardaway)
19. It’s All In The Game (Charles Dawes/Carl Sigman)
20. Yellow River (Jeff Christie)